Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival of various ethnic groups

Manchu Dragon Boat Festival

Manchu May 5 is to Xinfu disaster avoidance. On the fifth day of the fifth month, the Manchu people emphasize the insertion of wormwood on the eaves of the house in order to prevent diseases, and also emphasize the countryside to step on the dew, and it is said that the dew of the day to wash the face, the head and the service, you can avoid the birth of sores, eye disease.

The Water Tribe Duanwu Festival

The Water Tribe has the custom of eating vegetarian. From the first day of the Duanwu Festival, only vegetarians are allowed to eat until the end of the Duanwu Festival, when they are allowed to eat meat.

Naxi Dragon Boat Festival

Naxi people in the early morning of the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, families should eat sugar dates sticky rice, drink Xionghuang wine. In front of the door, they insert a white penny, three kudzu bushes and two ears of barley. Elders will tie five-colored cotton threads around children under the age of fifteen, which is called "renewal thread". Boys wear it around their left wrist and girls around their right. Renewal of life line need to wear a month's time, until the last day of the Torch Festival on June 27th to be unwound and burned.

Dai Zongbao Festival

Festival, unmarried young men and women dressed in full costume, in the village side of the tree in a circle singing love songs. Then, the young man threw the rice dumplings to the girl they are interested in, if the girl is also interested in, pick up the rice dumplings, both to the nearby secluded place to talk about love, to the sunset in the western sky before leaving.

Tibetan flower festival

Time in the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the festival period of two days, also known as the daughter of the festival. According to legend, a long time ago, the local barren, is a lotus Chi girl taught people to plant, taught people to pick flowers to cure. Later, the girl fell to her death on the fifth day of the fifth month when she was picking flowers on the mountain. In order to commemorate her, people gradually formed the Flower Picking Festival. The main activities of the festival are water grabbing, flower picking and blessing. The morning of the festival, people have to grab the spring water to wash their bodies and drink, and it is said that on this day, the sun does not shine on the spring water bath can get good luck and drink to get rid of diseases.

Yi Duyang Festival

The Yi people call the Dragon Boat Festival the Duyang Festival, and the Yi language pronounces "Du" as "Du", so the festival is called "Duyang Festival". On this day of the festival, all the irises and mugwort leaves are hung in front of the door of every house, and the children should wipe their faces with the yellow wine, and the young men and women should also wrap up the dumplings, bring the wine and Pei Pei meat, and go to the beautiful mountain lawn for wrestling, horseback running, bullfighting, sheep fighting, dancing and other recreational activities.