Take stock of the traditional culture of Dragon Boat Festival. What is the traditional culture of Dragon Boat Festival?

1, eating zongzi, people all over the country have the custom of eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, which has a history of hundreds of years and has become a part of China traditional culture. The ancient zongzi was also called corn millet and tube zongzi. Horn millet is named after the angular shape of zongzi and glutinous rice inside; Drum-shaped zongzi is to cook the original zongzi with rice stored in bamboo tubes. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Zhou wrote an article recording local customs: "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, cooking millet." It is also recorded in Wu Jun's Theory of Continuation of Qi and Harmony in the Southern Dynasties that after Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, the people of the State of Chu used bamboo tubes to throw rice into the water every year during the Dragon Boat Festival.

2, boiled eggs, in Jiaodong area, in addition to eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, there is another must-eat egg. As for the folk custom of eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival, there is also a folk legend: It is said that a long time ago, there was a god of plague in the sky, and every year on the Dragon Boat Festival, he always sneaked into the folk to spread the epidemic. Most of the victims are children, ranging from fever and anorexia to bedridden. Mothers are very distressed about this, so they go to Nu Wa Niangniang Temple to burn incense and kowtow, begging her to eliminate disasters and bless future generations.

Dragon boat race is the main custom of Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, people who originated in the ancient State of Chu were reluctant to part with the death of the sage Qu Yuan, and many people rowed boats to save people. They rushed to catch up with each other and disappeared at Dongting Lake. After that, I will row a dragon boat on May 5th every year to commemorate it. Rowing a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body. The habit of competition prevailed in wuyue and Chu.

At the same time, the action of sculling can make both sides of the body get good exercise. "Pulling back, pushing forward and paddling in rowing is a very good exercise for the muscles of the upper body, which improves the muscle quality and the ability to work together."

4, Mulan soup, bathing orchid soup at noon is an ancient custom recorded in "Da Dai Li". But the orchid in this paper is not an orchid, but a compositae plant, Eupatorium odoratum, which has a fragrant smell and can be cooked and bathed. "Nine Songs in the Cloud" also has the sentence "Bathing orchid soup will make you fragrant". Later, herbs such as cattail and wormwood were usually fried for bathing. In Guangdong, use wormwood, cattail, impatiens, magnolia and other flowers and plants; In Hunan, Guangxi and other places, cypress leaves, anemone roots, wormwood, cattail and peach leaves are used for bathing. Regardless of men, women and children, the whole family washes. This custom still exists today. It is said that it can cure skin diseases and ward off evil spirits.

5. It is a traditional custom to bring a gourd during the Dragon Boat Festival. Children and adults wear a gourd, which not only means to ward off evil spirits and drive away epidemics, but also has the wind of embellishment. Wearing the gourd of "Fulu" in traditional culture can turn hostility into friendship and enhance the atmosphere of happiness.