The main customs of the Guangdong Dragon Boat Festival What are the main customs of the Guangdong Dragon Boat Festival?

Lingnan culture is an important part of Chinese culture, and Guangdong is the center of Lingnan culture, eat zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging wormwood, the national Dragon Boat Festival are so over. So what is the Dragon Boat Festival like in Guangdong, here's a look with me~

? Guangdong Dragon Boat Festival customs?

? A dragon boat water?

In Jiangnan, South China, every year, "Dragon Boat Festival" before and after a month of a large precipitation process, known as "Dragon Boat Water". Of course, since the folklore of the claim, there are many different conceptual versions of nature. Some people say: rowing dragon boat in heavy rain is an auspicious omen "dragon boat water". Let's leave it aside here. Guangzhou people, no matter what, are very much about the "intention", every now and then, the locals will take their own children to the riverside, so that the children's small hands and feet are "immersed in" Dragon Boat water, Dragon Boat water has the effect of warding off evil spirits, "wash! "Dragon boat water can make small children healthy, fast and high growth. And in the South Building built opposite the waterfront embankment, there will be a lot of water play in the public "wash dragon boat water", a custom.

? Second, "while the scene" and "fighting standard"?

Guangdong dragon boat paddling in two main forms, one is the dragon boat paddling, called "while the scene" or "should be". Nearly 100 dragon boats from brother villages and cousin villages come together from all directions to bond. Only performance skills, not ranked, held in turn in the townships, from the first day of May to May 20, almost every day there is a "scene"; the first Zhucun Jing, the second Haizhu Datang Jing, the third Chepi Jing, the first four Miaotou Jing, the first five Shipai, Hound Jing, which has been inherited in Guangzhou for many years of custom. Every year on the first day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, dragon boats from XX district, XX district, XX district, XX district villages will go to Zhucun to "respond to the scene" to play. Zhu village people in the first day of the fifth lunar month for the "recruitment of King",

Dragon boats from various villages have come to "Ying Jing", there are brother villages, old cousins village, friendly villages, deep chung up and down a time of colorful dragons flying, a hundred boats compete for the flow of the day, more than nearly a hundred boats in the bead creek water! The day of nearly a hundred dragon boats in the Zhuxi water parade, so that the masses on both sides of the river to feast their eyes. Another form of fighting dragon boat, the race to win the standard, also known as "fighting standard".

? Third, eat "gray water rice dumplings"?

Grey water rice dumplings is a traditional method of Huizhou rice dumplings, loved by the local people. Gray water rice dumplings are made from a plant called mosquito scare burned into ash made of gray water. Mosquito scare with the production of gray water dumplings, there is a local saying: a liter of ash a liter of rice. In other words, one liter of mosquito scare ash can soak one liter of glutinous rice to make gray water rice dumplings. To burn one liter of mosquito scare ash, about 30 kilograms of mosquito scare is needed. It can be seen that the production of traditional gray water rice dumplings is still quite tedious. After cooking, the rice dumplings of grey water rice dumplings are light yellow in color and look very attractive, tough and fragrant, which makes people love to eat.

? Fourth, back to the mother's home?

Guangzhou old custom in the second to fourth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar will be sent to the festival. Young "new hold" (daughter-in-law), with "full box" six or four, holding to zongzi, pork, chicken, eggs, fruit, wine, etc. back to the bride's home to the elders to congratulate the festival. The girls and children hang incense packets, hanging packets woven with five-color silk thread, usually sent by the new daughter-in-law, on the one hand, reflecting the new daughter-in-law's virtue, on the other hand, reflecting the new daughter-in-law's craftsmanship, commonly known as the "new embrace of craftsmanship". Incense bag containing sandalwood, star anise, pepper, Liu Juan, and so on.

? V. Sacrifice to the river god, robbing the green?

Before the start of the dragon boat race, all the teams will burn incense and light candles, firecrackers, with a whole burnt pig to worship the river god. After the worship, the participants in the dragon boat race to eat the roast pig, eat before releasing the dragon boat into the water, and then there will be a very unique link - "grab green". The so-called "grabbing the green" is to put a bamboo pole with a bunch of leaves in the center of the river, and each team sends one person to grab it. This is a ritual for good luck.

? Sixth, wash the dragon's beard water?

Folk legend has it that the fifth day of the fifth month is the birthday of the dragon, and the water sprayed out by the dragon on this day is called dragon's beard water, which can cure diseases and make people strong. Therefore, in the past, Chaoshan people in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival went outside to the pits, ditches, streams and rivers to get water, placed in their own water tanks for the whole family to eat and drink. Nowadays, every Dragon Boat Festival men prefer to swim in the rivers and lakes, women take the water to wash their hair; at home is the housewife ready to put into the mugwort water for the whole family to wash their faces. In all these cases, it is to "wash the dragon's beard water" to pray for cleanliness and peace, good health.

? Seven, inserting the mugwort flower bath (eat) medicinal soup?

The other main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival in Chaoshan is to insert mugwort flowers to bathe (eat) medicinal soup. On this day, each family door to insert the mugwort (or in some places is scorched mugwort), "mugwort tiger shape to ward off evil and filth," to drive away the plague and evil spirits. In addition, this day is called "holy day", the most effective medicine. The Chao people have the custom of eating "five-fruit soup" for breakfast. The "Five Fruit Soup" is made of lotus seeds, corn, white fruits, soybeans, and huayama. The mother-in-law of the foreign family on the Dragon Boat Festival day must be used to take a bath with mugwort water to remove rheumatism and so on.

Guangdong is worthy of being the center of Lingnan culture, not only in the food to do a unique, in the customs and habits also retained a lot, it is really desirable.