What are the characteristics of Dragon Boat Festival?

The Dragon Boat Festival has the following characteristics: painting door symbols, hanging mugwort leaves, drinking realgar wine, eating zongzi, racing dragon boats and so on.

On May 5th, it was Duanyang. The door is full of incense. Eat zongzi and sprinkle sugar. Dragon boat sails happily. "This song is the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional folk festival in China, also known as Duanyang Festival and Double Ninth Festival.

On the Dragon Boat Festival, people make paper-cuts with the images of "Five Poisons" (referring to scorpions, centipedes, poisonous snakes, toads and geckos) as symbols of doors. It is said that this is done to drive away the "five poisons" and prevent the plague. In the morning, people stick branches of mugwort on the door, or weave "Ai Hu" with mugwort, insert them in the center of the lintel or wear them on the body to ward off evil spirits and protect health. Before breakfast on the Dragon Boat Festival, people should drink a cup of realgar wine first, and then wrap zongzi with glutinous rice and red dates. Drinking realgar wine can kill insects and ward off evil spirits

Some places want to eat "Huang Wu" during the Dragon Boat Festival: yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck egg yolk, zongzi wrapped in soybean paste and realgar wine. No matter where you are, you should draw the word "king" on your child's forehead with realgar and wear colorful sachets.

Dragon boat racing and eating zongzi are the main activities of the Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, these folk activities are to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan more than 2,200 years ago. After Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, people rowed boats from all directions to save Qu Yuan. They threw zongzi into the river to feed fish and shrimp to prevent them from eating Qu Yuan's body. This is a folklore about rowing dragon boats and eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival.