Dragon Boat Festival five red which five red

Duanwu Festival to eat "five red" refers to the five red dishes, with "to ward off evil spirits and avoid the summer heat" meaning, the traditional five red food amaranth, roast duck, duck eggs, lobster, eel; five red in different places are different, there is no specific food requirements, as long as you can get together five red. As long as you can get together five red.

Duanwu Festival customs:

1, grill dragon boat

Grill dragon boat is an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, is an ancient dragon totem festival rituals, people through the sacrifice of the dragon, praying for blessings, wind and rain, to the evil spirits, busting the disaster, all the best.

2, hanging mugwort and calamus

In the Dragon Boat Festival to arrange a variety of flowers and plants that can drive away evil spirits and diseases, the source is also a long time. People to insert the mugwort and calamus as one of the important contents of the Dragon Boat Festival.

3, the Dragon Boat Festival food dumplings

Duanwu food dumplings, is the Chinese people since ancient times, the traditional customs, for thousands of years in China, has become the Chinese nation's most influential, the widest coverage of one of the folk dietary practices, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia countries.

4, put the paper kite

Paper kite, in the bamboo gabions and other skeleton glued with paper or silk, pulling the long line tied to the top, taking advantage of the wind can be put up in the sky, belonging to a purely aerodynamic flying machine. In the south of China, the Dragon Boat Festival, children put paper kites called "put the calamity".

5, wash herbal water

Herbal water, that is, the ancient records of the Mu Lan Tang, Dragon Boat Festival wash herbal water can cure skin diseases, go to the evil.

6, tethered five-color thread

Traditional Chinese culture, symbolizing the five parties and five elements of the five colors "green, red, white, black, yellow" is considered auspicious. It was once a popular custom to tie arms with five-colored threads at the Dragon Boat Festival.

7, playing the afternoon water

Duanwu Festival "playing the afternoon water" is a traditional custom prevalent in the southern coastal areas. Ancient people regarded the day of the Dragon Boat Festival as a day to play up the water at noon as a big lucky water.

8, dip the dragon boat water

Duanwu before and after the strong precipitation, people call the dragon boat water, Duanyang water, hair of the dragon water, dragon water, etc., that this water is auspicious water, has the role of warding off evil spirits.

9, Pei Dou Niang

Old Duanwu Festival women's headdresses, mostly found in Jiangnan. Some areas are also known as Jianren. This object is said to have originated from the ancient step rock, said that the Ai people of a different form.

10, sticking the midday charm

Old Guangdong some places have sticking "midday charm" custom. After lunch, every family stick "noon time charm". Rune written in vermilion above the "May 5, noon book" and other words, and then hung on the door coated with vermilion used to avoid evil spirits.