What are the activities of the Dragon Boat Festival What are the folk activities of the Dragon Boat Festival?

1, Dragon Boat Race

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is related to the ancient poet Qu Yuan, when Qu Yuan threw himself into the river in grief, the local people rowed to salvage but ultimately did not find the body. Later, in order to commemorate Qu Yuan there is a Dragon Boat Festival custom, the race steak dragon boat has a long history, is a multi-person collective paddling competition. Dragon boat race is divided into several sections such as please dragon, sacrifice dragon god, swim dragon and collect dragon.

2, eat zongzi

People because they could not salvage the body of Qu Yuan, worried that the river shrimp in the river will eat his body, so the rice ball into the river to feed the fish and shrimp. Hence the later custom of eating zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival.

3, tethered five-color thread

Traditional customs, with red, green, yellow, white and black thread rolled into a colorful rope, tied to the arms of small children or on the neck, since the fifth of May, has been tied up to the Tanabata "seven mother" birthday, only to be dismantled along with the burning of gold kozo. There is also a saying that in the first rainy day after the Dragon Boat Festival, the colorful thread cut down and thrown in the rain, meaning that the river will be the plague, disease, said to be able to go to the evil spirit, hustle and bustle, will bring a year of good luck.

4, drink xionghuang wine

Xionghuang wine has the effect of insect repellent and detoxification, drink more can also be beauty. Drinking Xionghuang wine on the Dragon Boat Festival is meant to drive away diseases. People dipped into the wine and then dipped in calamus aiphone sprinkled wall corners, doors, windows, under the bed, etc., and then coated with wine children's ears, nose, navel, to drive away poisonous insects. These activities, from the health point of view, or scientific reasoning. Andrographis plus water and wine sprinkled indoors can be sterilized, drinking bushel sprinkles are also quite beneficial.

5, hanging mugwort and calamus

Plugging mugwort and calamus as one of the important elements of the Dragon Boat Festival. This is because of the important medicinal plants, and can make moxa velvet cure, moxibustion points, and can drive insects. May Ai contains the most Ai oil, (at this time is the peak growth period) so the efficacy of the best, people are also scrambling to pick Ai. Often hang a few plants of mugwort in front of the house, due to the special flavor of mugwort, people use it to drive away diseases, mosquito prevention, to ward off evil spirits.