What are the traditional activities of Dragon Boat Festival?

Traditional activities of the Dragon Boat Festival include dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, wearing sachets and hanging calamus leaves.

1, Dragon Boat Race

Dragon boat race is the main custom of Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, people who originated in the ancient State of Chu were reluctant to part with the death of the sage Qu Yuan, and many people rowed boats to save people. They rushed to catch up with each other and disappeared at Dongting Lake. Since then, on May 5th every year, people row dragon boats in memory of Qu Yuan.

2. Eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is another traditional custom of China people. Zongzi, also known as "millet" and "Zongzi". It has a long history and various patterns. At the beginning of May every year, every household in China should soak glutinous rice, wash the leaves of zongzi and wrap zongzi, with more varieties of colors.

From the perspective of stuffing, there are many dates in the north, such as jiaozi; There are many kinds of fillings in the south, such as red bean paste, fresh meat, ham and egg yolk, among which Zhejiang Jiaxing Zongzi is the representative. The custom of eating zongzi has been popular in China for thousands of years and spread to South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

3. Wear sachets

Children wear sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to mean to ward off evil spirits and plague. Actually, it is used to decorate the inner head. 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.

Step 4 hang calamus

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.

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The source of the dragon boat festival

1, Qu Yuan

According to the first legend, after the death of Qu Yuan, the people of Chu were very sad. They flocked to the Miluo River to pay their respects to Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished for his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other foods prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river, saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs were full and would not bite the doctor.

People followed suit after seeing it. An old doctor took an altar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that he would stun the dragon water beast with medicine so as not to hurt Dr. Qu. Later, people were afraid that rice balls would be eaten by dragons, so they came up with the idea of wrapping rice with neem leaves and then wrapping it with colored silk to make it develop into brown seeds. Since then, on the fifth day of May every year, there has been the custom of dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine in memory of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

2. Wu Zixu

The second legend of the Dragon Boat Festival, which spread in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, commemorates Wu Zixu in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC). Wu Zixu, a famous Chu national, and his father and brother were all killed by the King of Chu. Later, Zixu abandoned the dark and went to Wu to help Wu to crusade against Chu, and Chucheng was invaded in the Fifth World War. At that time, King Chu Ping was already dead. Zixu dug a grave and whipped 300 bodies to avenge his father's murder.

After the death of the King of Wu, his son Fu Cha succeeded to the throne. Wu Jun's morale was high and he won every battle. Gou Jian, the King of Yue, invited him to make peace, and Fu Cha agreed. Wu Zixu suggested the complete elimination of Yue State, but Fu Cha did not listen. Minister Wu was bribed by the State of Yue and slandered Wu Zixu. Fu Cha listened to rumors and gave Wu Zixu a sword, so Wu Zixu died.

Wu Zixu, a loyal minister, is dead. Before he died, he said to his neighbors, "After I die, I will gouge out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of Jason Wu, watching the Vietnamese army enter the city and destroy Wu." Then he killed himself. Hearing this, Fu Cha was furious, and ordered that the body of the professional traverse to the child be thrown into the river on May 5th, so it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also to commemorate the day of Wu Zixu.

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