How many days before the Dragon Boat Festival in 2022? What are the common folk activities of Dragon Boat Festival?

How many days before the Dragon Boat Festival in 2022? Lunar calendar: May 5, 2022

Gregorian calendar: Friday June 3, 2022

Today is March 2022 1, 93 days before the Dragon Boat Festival in 2022.

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, is a folk festival that integrates offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some GJ and regions in the world also celebrate it. In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first list of GJ intangible cultural heritage; Since 2008, it has been listed as a GJ statutory holiday. In September, 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible heritage. What are the common folk activities in the Dragon Boat Festival? Balongzhou

The ancient Yue people took dragons as totems. In order to show their dragon identity, they not only have the custom of tattooing, but also hold a grand totem festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. There is a race game similar to today's, which is the origin of the race custom. Dragon boat picking is an important activity of Dragon Boat Festival, a ritual of ancient dragon totem sacrifice and a kind of heritage. Dragon boat was originally carved into the shape of Jackie Chan by canoe, and later developed into a dragon boat made of wood.

Hanging wormwood and calamus

On the Dragon Boat Festival, all kinds of flowers and plants that can drive away evil spirits and diseases have long been arranged. People regard wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents of the Dragon Boat Festival. Such as wormwood hanging on the door, "Jingchu Years": picking wormwood as a person, hanging on the door, there is poison gas. This is because mugwort is an important medicinal plant, and it can also be used for treating diseases, moxibustion at acupoints and expelling insects. Artemisia argyi in May contains the most oil, so it has the best effect, and people are scrambling to pick it. Several mugwort plants are often hung at home. Because of its special fragrance, people use it to ward off evil spirits, prevent mosquitoes and ward off evil spirits.

The legend that wormwood can exorcise evil spirits has been circulating for a long time, mainly because it has the function of medicine. For example, Zonggu's Chronicles of Jingchu said: Before the cock crows, people who pick wormwood look like people, take it and use moxibustion to collect it, which is very effective. That is, the day when Ai was taken in human form and hung on the door, it could poison gas.

Eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival.

Zongzi, commonly known as Zongzi, is mainly made of glutinous rice and stuffing, wrapped in bamboo leaves, and has various shapes, such as sharp corners and quadrangles. Because of the different eating habits in different places, zongzi has formed a north-south flavor; In terms of taste, zongzi can be divided into salty zongzi and sweet zongzi. The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has been popular in China for thousands of years, and it has become one of the most influential and extensive folk food customs of the Chinese nation, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

Herbal cleaning water

Herbal water, that is, Mulan soup recorded in ancient books, washing herbal water at noon can cure skin diseases and eliminate evil spirits. Noon is the day with the most Chinese herbal medicines in a year, and there are medicines everywhere. During the Dragon Boat Festival, many places in China have the custom of collecting herbs, boiling herbs and soaking in water, and the medicinal properties of the Dragon Boat Festival herbs play a vital role in it. In Guangdong, children use wormwood wheat medicine or wormwood, cattail, impatiens, magnolia and other flowers to boil and wash, while teenagers and adult men take a bath on the river and beach, which is called dragon boat washing water to wash away bad luck and bring good luck. In Hunan, Guangxi and other places, cypress leaves, anemone roots, wormwood, calamus, peach leaves, etc. are boiled into liquid medicine for bathing, regardless of gender, age and family.

Tie five-color silk thread

In the traditional culture of China, blue, red, white, black and yellow, which symbolize the five elements, are considered as auspicious colors. On the Dragon Boat Festival, children should tie colorful silk threads on their wrists and ankles to ward off evil spirits. Traditionally, thick red, green, yellow, white and black silk threads are twisted into colored ropes and tied around children's arms or necks. From May 5th, they were untied and burned together with the golden bamboo slips, until the birthday of Qi Niang on Qixi. There is also a saying that on the first rainy day after the Dragon Boat Festival, cutting colorful threads and throwing them in the rain means that the river will wash away plagues and diseases, which means that it can ward off evil spirits and bring good luck for a year.