What are the customs and activities of Dragon Boat Festival?

1. Eating zongzi: Eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in China. According to historical records, eating zongzi originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was gradually handed down to commemorate Qu Yuan, a doctor of Chu State. To this day, at the beginning of May every year, people in China have to soak glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves and wrap zongzi, with more varieties of colors.

2. Hanging wormwood chrysanthemum: A folk proverb says, "Insert willow in Qingming Festival and wormwood in Dragon Boat Festival". On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard wormwood and chrysanthemum as one of the important contents. "Holding Aiqi in your hand is a blessing, and hanging a sword under the door is a thousand evils." Hanging wormwood and calamus at the entrance of the Dragon Boat Festival is like putting a spell on it, which can benefit and avoid harm. During the Dragon Boat Festival, wormwood is usually tied into a bunch and inserted on the lintel, or one wormwood is inserted at each end of the lintel. Wormwood represents a hundred blessings, and inserting it at the door represents a hundred blessings, which can make the owner healthy.

3. Dragon boat race; Dragon boat race is one of the customs of China Dragon Boat Festival, and it is also one of the most important festivals and folk activities. It widely exists in the south of China, and there are also dragon boat races in cities near rivers, lakes and seas in the north, and most of them are held in the form of dragon boat rowing and dragon boat dancing.

4, Mulan soup: Dragon Boat Festival bath is called Lantang bath. Also called Mulan soup. Taking a bath in the Dragon Boat Festival is to cook soup with herbs such as Artemisia argyi, Acorus calamus and Eupatorium odoratum. The whole family takes a bath during the Dragon Boat Festival (preferably at noon). Taking a bath with orchid soup is a good hygienic habit. As for the orchid used in the orchid soup, it is actually not the orchid now, but the Chinese herbal medicine flying grass commonly used by doctors today. Bathing with herbs such as Eupatorium odoratum, Chrysanthemum morifolium, and Folium Artemisiae Argyi during the Dragon Boat Festival can dispel pathogenic factors, prevent malnutrition and relieve itching, treat and prevent various infectious diseases, and enhance the body's resistance.

5, tie five-color silk thread: It is said that children wearing five-color silk 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.