How do people in the north over the Dragon Boat Festival?

North over the Dragon Boat Festival situation:

1, northern dumplings

The dumplings in the north is sweet, dumplings, the main raw material is glutinous rice with red dates or jujubes, some also use bean paste or dried fruit, in order to increase the sweetness of some will also be added to the sugar. The dumplings come in small and large sizes, but are usually no smaller than a little girl's fist and are shaped like a diagonal quadrangle or triangle.

2, the north: wear five poison copper

Northern Dragon Boat Festival have to wear Zhong Kui dispel five poison copper in order to ward off evil spirits of the custom, but is now gradually replaced by the custom of children wearing five poison belly band. In some places, it is popular for aunts and uncles to send it, and in some places, it is popular for grandmothers or grandmothers to send it.

The five poisons bibs are bright red in color and embroidered with five kinds of poisons: centipede, scorpion, toad, rat and snake, which are said to ward off poisons and evil spirits. Five-color silk thread is also a way for people to ward off evil spirits at the Dragon Boat Festival. Various colors of silk threads, such as red, yellow, blue and green, are braided together and worn on the wrists and ankles, which is beautiful and delicate.

3, the north: "tread willow"

Anciently, the Dragon Boat Festival in Zhao County, Hebei Province, the local government will be held in the south of the city party, invited the city of scholars to drink and poetry, known as "tread willow". Now, the custom of reciting poems at the Dragon Boat Festival still exists, but it lacks the elegance of going outside the city to drink and write poems.