What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival? Besides eating zongzi and racing dragon boats.

Every year, after entering the awn seed, the temperature keeps rising. With the surge of heat wave, the busy farming season is coming, and the Dragon Boat Festival is followed by a strong smell of zongzi. There are many customs in the Dragon Boat Festival, besides eating zongzi and dragon boat racing, there are also customs of eating boiled eggs and garlic. What other customs do you know? Interested friends come and have a look.

1, Eating eggs and garlic It is a custom to eat garlic and boil eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival. Some places think that eating garlic and boiled eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival can ward off evil spirits. According to the old rules in Nanjing, at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival, every household should put the whole garlic in a pot and cook it for their children. A child eats one alone, because it is homophonic and poisonous. The child ate burnt garlic, so he didn't have diarrhea in summer and there were no bugs in his stomach. Every Dragon Boat Festival, housewives in rural areas of Henan, Zhejiang and other provinces get up early and make garlic and eggs for breakfast. In some places, put some mugwort leaves when cooking garlic and eggs. Eating garlic and eggs for breakfast is said to avoid the "five poisons" and is good for health.

2, with sachets Dragon Boat Festival children wear sachets, it is said that there is the meaning of avoiding evil and expelling the plague. The sachet is usually filled with some fragrant Chinese herbal medicines, which have the functions of fragrance, insect repellent, plague prevention and disease prevention. Actually, it is used for interior decoration. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, and the fragrance is overflowing, and then tied into a rope with five-color silk thread to make a string of different shapes, all kinds of exquisite and lovely. When I was a child, my mother would wear sachets for me on the Dragon Boat Festival. At that time, I cherished it and put it under my pillow when I slept every day.

3. In the traditional culture of China, the five colors "green, red, white, black and yellow" symbolizing the five elements are regarded as auspicious colors. On the Dragon Boat Festival, children should tie colorful silk threads on their wrists and ankles to protect their health.

Therefore, in the early morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the first important thing for adults after getting up is to tie five-color lines on their wrists, ankles and necks. Children are not allowed to talk when tying the thread. The five-color line cannot be broken or discarded at will, and can only be thrown into the river during the first heavy rain in summer or the first bath. It is said that children wearing five-color thread can avoid the harm of snakes and scorpions; Throwing it into the river is to let the river wash away plagues and diseases and make children safe and healthy.

4. The folk proverb of hanging wormwood leaves and calamus says: "Insert willow in Qingming Festival and wormwood in Dragon Boat Festival." On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the court, puts calamus and moxa sticks between their eyebrows and hangs them in the class. Acorus calamus, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Liu Hua, Garlic and Dragon Boat Flower are made into human or tiger shapes, which are called Ai Ren and Ai Hu. It is made into garlands and decorations, beautiful and fragrant, and women compete to wear it to ward off evil spirits. The ancients inserted wormwood leaves and calamus to prevent diseases. Dragon Boat Festival is also a "health festival" handed down from ancient times. On this day, people clean the courtyard, hang mugwort branches and calamus, shake the turbidity, remove rot, sterilize and prevent diseases.

5. Bathing in blue soup at noon is an ancient custom recorded in Da Dai Li. But the so-called orchids here are not orchids, but flying grasses of Compositae, which are fragrant and can be boiled and drunk and bathed. "Nine Songs in the Cloud" also has the sentence "Bathing orchid soup will make you fragrant".

Therefore, the most primitive Dragon Boat Festival in ancient times is also called "Bathing Orchid Festival". Wormwood, cattail, impatiens and magnolia are commonly used in Guangdong. In Hunan, Guangxi and other places, cypress leaves, anemone roots, wormwood, cattail leaves and peach leaves are boiled into liquid medicine to take a bath, and the whole family washes them regardless of gender. This custom still exists today, and it is said that it can treat skin diseases and eliminate evil spirits.

The above is my understanding of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. What else do you know, my friend? Please leave a message in the comments section.