50 words about the custom of Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon boat picking is an important activity of Dragon Boat Festival, a ritual of ancient dragon totem sacrifice and a kind of heritage. According to the first excavation report of Hemudu site, as early as 7000 years ago, ancient ancestors had carved wooden boats out of a single piece of wood and rowed them with wooden paddles.

2. Eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival

Zongzi, or "Zongzi Zan", is commonly known as Zongzi. Its main materials are glutinous rice and stuffing, and it is wrapped with Indocalamus leaves (or Hiragi leaves) into various shapes, such as sharp corners and quadrangles. Zongzi has a long history, originally as a tribute to ancestors and gods. After being introduced to the north, it is made of millet (produced in the north), which is called "corn millet".

3. Fly a kite.

A kite is an aircraft that sticks paper or silk to a bamboo frame and pulls a long line on it. It can be put into the sky under the action of wind, and it belongs to an aircraft that only uses aerodynamic force. In southern China, children flying kites during the Dragon Boat Festival is called "flying disaster".

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Local customs of Dragon Boat Festival:

Jiangsu Province

In addition to rowing dragon boats, Jiangsu Dragon Boat Festival customs mainly include zongzi, realgar wine, Huangwu banquet, etc. The festival is decorated with five poison pictures, Acorus calamus leaves, Zhong Kui statues, colorful arms, silk zongzi, five poison clothes, tiger's head shoes and sachets. There is a dragon boat show in Wujin at night. In the evening, small lanterns are hung around the dragon boat, and flutes and drums sing harmoniously.

Zhejiang Province

Dragon Boat Festival is a special festival with a long history, rich content and diverse cultural customs. Generally speaking, ancestor worship, dragon boat race, eating zongzi, offering sacrifices to dragon heads, lighting dzi beads, wearing red flowers, hanging calamus leaves, tying colored silk, drinking realgar wine, eating Huang Wu, wearing sachets and collecting herbs are common customs, but the contents or details of customs vary from place to place.

In Beiping, Hebei Province, it is forbidden to drill well water during the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is often pre-pumped before the festival. It is said that it is to avoid well poisoning. On Dragon Boat Festival, street vendors also sell cherry mulberries. It is said that they eat cherry mulberries on Dragon Boat Festival, but they can't eat flies by mistake all year round. "Five Poison Cakes", which are cakes decorated with five poisonous insect patterns, are sold in various food stores.

It is said that drilling well water is avoided in Beiping Dragon Boat Festival, and it is often pre-pumped before the festival, in order to avoid well poisoning. On Dragon Boat Festival, street vendors also sell cherry mulberries. It is said that they eat cherry mulberries on Dragon Boat Festival, but they can't eat flies by mistake all year round. "Five Poison Cakes", which are cakes decorated with five poisonous insect patterns, are sold in various food stores.

Shandong (province)

During the Dragon Boat Festival in zouping county, everyone needs to drink a glass of wine in the morning, which is said to ward off evil spirits. Rizhao Dragon Boat Festival wraps five-color thread for children. On the Dragon Boat Festival in Linqing County, boys under seven wear symbols (necklaces made of wheat barnyard grass), girls wear pomegranate flowers and yellow cloth shoes made by their mothers, and draw five kinds of poisonous insects on the vamps with a brush. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, Jimo washes his face with dew.