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50 words about the custom of Dragon Boat Festival

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include making zongzi, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus, wearing sachets, hanging the statue of Zhong Kui to exorcise ghosts, fighting grass games, wearing dragon tails, and holding public sacrifices in Wu Zixu, all of which are traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival.

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1, eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival. Eating zongzi is the most important thing in the Dragon Boat Festival. On the eve of Dragon Boat Festival, eldest sister-in-law and mother-in-law sat around the hall, or on the edge of the bouncing stone road, surrounded by several small rattan chairs, with green leaves everywhere and glutinous rice crystal clear. In the evening, the fragrance came, inviting neighbors to send bowls to each other and learn skills. It tastes salty. How does it look?

2, playing grass games. The so-called fighting grass, one is to answer the names of flowers and plants, as recorded in A Dream of Red Mansions: "This one says' I have Guanyin willow' and that one says' I have Luohansong'; That one says' I have a gentleman's bamboo', and this one says' I have a canna …' If the answer is repeated, who will win in the end?

3. Wear long life. Longevity thread is woven in five colors: red, yellow, blue, white and black. This kind of longevity thread is usually woven very long to express people's desire for health and longevity. At the same time, the five colors also represent the gods of the five parties, including the willingness to pray to the gods.