Outline of hometown custom Dragon Boat Festival

The outline of the Dragon Boat Festival is as follows:

The main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, picking herbs, hanging wormwood, calamus, offering sacrifices to ancestors, flying kites, drinking Pu wine, realgar wine, cinnabar wine, playing polo, jumping Zhong Kui and mowing grass, among which dragon boat racing and eating zongzi are the most important and symbolic customs.

Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China, with various forms and rich contents. There may be some differences in holiday customs in different regions. The main customs are dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, picking herbs, hanging wormwood and calamus, offering sacrifices to ancestors, flying kites, drinking Pu wine, realgar wine, cinnabar wine, playing polo, jumping Zhong Kui and fighting grass. ?

Among many customs, dragon boat racing and eating zongzi are the most important and symbolic. The origin of eating zongzi and dragon boat racing is related to Qu Yuan. After Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, people rowed behind him, trying to salvage Qu Yuan's body, but without success. Therefore, in order to prevent fish and shrimp from hurting Qu Yuan's health, people put glutinous rice into the river with bamboo tubes, and then slowly developed, which became two customs: eating zongzi and racing dragon boats.

The origin of Dragon Boat Festival:

Dragon Boat Festival is held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. Various folk activities, such as offering sacrifices, entertainment and health care, all originate from the seasonal custom of expelling toxin and evil spirits, including offering sacrifices to Qu Yuan, commemorating Wu Zixu, inserting mugwort leaves, hanging calamus, drinking realgar wine, eating zongzi and racing dragon boats to eliminate the five poisons.

According to the historian Biography of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng, Qu Yuan was a minister of Chu Huaiwang in the Spring and Autumn Period. He advocated the use of talents, empowerment, and prosperity, and advocated joint resistance to Qin, which was strongly opposed by others. Qu Yuan was forced to leave his post, was driven out of the capital and exiled to the Yuan and Xiang river basins. During his exile, he wrote immortal poems such as Li Sao, Tian Wen and Tian Wen, which have a unique style and far-reaching influence (therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Poet's Day).

In 278 BC, Qin Jun conquered Kyoto of Chu. Seeing that his motherland was invaded, Qu Yuan was heartbroken, but he was always reluctant to give up his motherland. On May 5th, after writing his masterpiece Huai Sha, he died in Miluo River and wrote a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life.

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were so sad that they flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished for his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other foods prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river, saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs were full and would not bite the doctor. People followed suit after seeing it. An old doctor took an altar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that he would stun the dragon water beast with medicine so as not to hurt Dr. Qu.