Customs of Dragon Boat Festival 20 words

Eating rice dumplings, racing dragon boats, driving away five poisons, drinking Xionghuang wine, hanging calamus leaves and tying five-colored silk threads

Eating rice dumplings: People in Jing Chu have been eating rice dumplings since May. Dragon Boat Race, drive away the five poisons, drink xionghuang wine, hanging moxa leaves calamus, hitching five-color silk thread

Eating rice dumplings: Jing Chu people in the fifth of May to cook glutinous rice or steamed rice dumplings cake into the river, in order to worship Qu Yuan, for fear of the fish ate, so the bamboo tube filled with glutinous rice thrown down, and then gradually use rice dumplings wrapped in rice leaves instead of bamboo tubes.

Dragon boat race, is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Legend has it that in ancient times, the people of Chu could not bear to see the wise minister Qu Yuan throw himself into the river to die, rowing boats to catch up with the rescue. They scrambled and chased to Dongting Lake when they disappeared. After that, they rowed dragon boats on May 5 every year to commemorate it. The dragon boat is used to disperse the fish in the river so that the fish will not eat Qu Yuan's body. The custom of racing is prevalent in Wu, Yue and Chu.

The ancients called snakes, scorpions, geckos, centipedes and toads the five poisons. The folk ballad says: "Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is hot, the five poisons wake up, no peace." Every Dragon Boat Festival, people use colorful paper to cut the five poisons into paper cuttings, or pasted on the door, window, wall, kang, or tied to the children's arms to avoid the poisons.