The main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival What are the main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival?

The Dragon Boat Festival is a day rich in customs, and the Dragon Boat Race and food dumplings are the two main rituals of the Dragon Boat Festival, the two main rituals, are related to the dragon, in China has been inherited for a long time. Below I have organized a few customs, take a look.

1, Dragon Boat Racing

This is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, the earliest is the ancient southern Wu Yue ancestors sacrificed to the dragon ancestor of a form of sacrificial activities, the southern ancestor of the use of the boat is very common, will also be in the boat painted on the dragon as a totem or protection of the gods of the tribe. Dragon boat racing is now not only a folk customary activities, but also a formal sports competitions, in many ethnic minority areas are still very popular.

2,Food dumplings

Duanwu Festival to eat zongzi, which is another traditional custom of the Chinese people, zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube brown ". "The beginning of the record" has this record: the Han Dynasty, Jianwu years, Changsha people dream of a person at night, claiming to be the three coccyx dafu (Qu Yuan's official name), said to him: "you sacrifice things, are stolen by the river dragon, the future can be used to wrap moxa leaves, will be the five-color silk thread bundled up, the dragon is most afraid of these two things." So, people will be "Mushroom leaves wrapped in millet", made of "corn", passed down from generation to generation, and gradually developed into China's Dragon Boat Festival food.

3, stick five poisons

Duanwu Festival is at the time of the summer heat, a variety of poisonous insects scramble to come, in the medical conditions are relatively backward in ancient times, the hot weather is also prone to cause epidemics, so the Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of sticking five poisons.

The five poisons are scorpions, snakes, geckos, centipedes, toads, these five kinds of poisonous insects, sticking the five poisons is to use yellow paper to draw five kinds of poisonous insects, paste on the wall, and then use the needle to the five poisons on the picture, meaning that is to drive away the five poisons.

Five poisonous portraits drawn by specialists, and then gradually evolved into the printing press printing, needle prick five poisons also evolved into the five poisonous Zhang Tianshi hand held up a gourd to subdue the five poisons. Although the posting of the five poisons is somewhat superstitious, such a small activity is the best way to make people feel the atmosphere of the festival.

4, tie colorful rope

In ancient times, people superstitious Dragon Boat Festival is the most inauspicious day of the year, the most poisonous days. Therefore, on the Dragon Boat Festival, people would use five kinds of colorful threads, namely green, white, red, black and yellow, to weave the colorful ropes and put them on children's wrists, in order to ward off evil spirits, expel the plague, and turn misfortune into good luck.

5, smoked Cangzhu

May of the lunar calendar, the South often rain, coupled with the climate began to turn hot, flies, mosquitoes and other small insects appear to greatly increase the frequency of some of the spread of disease has also entered the peak period, the Dragon Boat Festival, another custom has also been produced, that is, smoked Cangzhu.

In some parts of the country, smudging is not just an activity that takes place at home, but one that everyone can participate in.

Smoking Cangzhu is not just about smoking the herb. In the southern region, the pharmacy will be Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, mugwort and other pure herbs for the preparation made of "fumigant" for sale, and this fumigant is characterized by the ability to repel mosquitoes and flies, so that the daily environment to become cleaner, according to the actual use of fumigant consumers said that the effect of this product is quite good, especially in some relatively more damp old houses, the utility is even more obvious, "at least for a long time, no mosquito bites."

However, in the use of fumigants to close the doors and windows, people naturally can not stay in the room, this dense smoke will call people can not open their eyes and can not breathe, smoked when leaving is the best solution, but at the same time must pay attention to do a good job of fire prevention measures.

Of course, there are some areas are smoked alone Cangzhu, but the overall effect is also to freshen the air and expel mosquitoes, with the southern region of the matching type of product, the difference is not great.

In short, a hundred miles of different winds, thousands of miles of different customs, about the Dragon Boat Festival customs, there are many, welcome in the comments section to add the exchange.