Which nationality is the custom of Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Miao festival.

In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the Han people have the custom of dragon boat race on the Dragon Boat Festival. Miao people living in Guizhou also have the custom of dragon boat race on the Dragon Boat Festival in the fifth lunar month. The Dragon Boat Festival of the Han nationality is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, while the Dragon Boat Festival of the Miao nationality is on the 24th to 27th of the fifth lunar month.

The Miao language of Dragon Boat Festival is called "Zhaweng" (meaning to row a dragon boat), and it is also called "Louweng" (meaning to eat dragon meat). Dragon Boat Festival is generally held on Qingshui River, which passes through Kaili, also known as Longtou River. Every year in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the Miao people who live here will spend the Dragon Boat Festival here.

The Miao family still retains unique and excellent traditional customs. First, before the dragon boat race, you must finish transplanting rice seedlings and do your farm work well, otherwise you will be looked down upon in the race.

Second, because of some contradictions in daily relations, people who participate in the competition must shake hands and unite as soon as they get on the dragon boat; Third, the organizers released a fat live duck at the finish line for sailors who arrived at the finish line to chase and catch. This scene is very interesting.

folklore

About the origin of Camus Dragon Boat Festival, there are two folk legends circulating in southeastern Guizhou. There is a legend that the Dragon King, who represents the rain in the sky, once took a wrong step in the rain, and the time of the rain went against God's will. God was so angry that Lei Gong cut the Dragon King into pieces and threw it into the river. From then on, in the event of drought, the Miao people built dragon boats and rowed along the Qingshui River, symbolizing the resurrection of the Dragon King hacked to death by Lei Gong and raining on the earth as usual.

This is an ancient custom of dragon boat racing for rain. Another legend says that two men, father and son, were fishing in the river, and the son was caught by the dragon king as a pillow. In a rage, my father set fire to the Dragon Palace, cut the dragon into several pieces and floated in the river. Let's check the dragon meat and share it.

But after eating meat, it was completely dark in kuya for nine days, regardless of day and night. One day, a woman took her children to the river to wash clothes. The child beat the river with a wooden stick and kept imitating the sound of drums. It will be dawn soon. In the future, the Miao people near this river will celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival and play drums for dragon boat races.