What are the traditional games of Dragon Boat Festival?

In the traditional customs of Dragon Boat Festival, there are traditional games such as mowing grass, playing polo and flying kites. Among them, fighting grass is a folk game originated from collecting herbs. At noon, the children went out to find some exotic flowers and herbs to compete with each other in order to find novel or varied herbs to win.

What are the traditional games of Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival and Tianzhong Festival, is one of the four traditional festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some regions in the world also celebrate it. In ancient times, there were not only traditional customs to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, but also traditional games for children to play.

Among them, flying kites is a custom in southern China, and children flying kites on the Dragon Boat Festival is called flying disaster. A kite is an aircraft that sticks paper or silk to a bamboo frame and pulls a long line on it. It can be put into the sky under the action of wind, and it belongs to an aircraft that only uses aerodynamic force. There is no custom of dragon boat racing in northern China, but they shoot willows and play polo during the Dragon Boat Festival, which obviously comes from the competitive legacy of nomadic people in the north.