What changes have taken place in the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival?

1, Dragon Boat Festival, is a folk festival that integrates offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. It not only clearly recorded the rich and colorful social life and cultural contents of our ancestors, but also accumulated profound historical and cultural connotations. The customs mainly include dragon boat rowing, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, washing herbal water, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, soaking in dragon boat water, eating dragon boat rice, eating zongzi, putting paper dragons, putting paper kites, tying colorful silk threads and wearing sachets.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Black Dragon rises to the center of the south for seven nights, just as I ching said, "the flying dragon is in the sky". The ancients held some festive activities, especially dragon-related activities, such as dragon boat racing, to worship the dragon ancestors on the auspicious day of "Flying Dragons to Heaven", or to do some activities to pray for good luck and ward off evil spirits. Dragon Boat Festival is a "dragon festival", and dragon and dragon boat culture run through the historical inheritance of Dragon Boat Festival.

3. Traditional festival ceremonies and related customs and activities are important contents of festival elements. Performing various traditional folk activities during the Dragon Boat Festival can not only enrich people's spiritual and cultural life, but also inherit and carry forward traditional culture.