Dragon Boat Festival custom essay 180 words.

The most important custom of Dragon Boat Festival is to eat zongzi. Zongzi is usually made of yellow rice and glutinous rice. Soak rice dumplings wrapped in yellow rice or glutinous rice and bamboo leaves in a pot for one day and one night. Then wrap the zongzi into triangles with leaves, and put dates or peanuts at each corner to prevent the rice from overflowing. Jiaozi wrapped it, put it in a cauldron, add eggs and cook it with slow fire all afternoon. Zongzi is ripe, and the fragrance is overflowing when it is boiled. The fragrance of bamboo leaves and zongzi seeped into the eggs, making people want to eat more.

There is also the tradition of Dragon Boat Festival; Use mugwort leaves to repel mosquitoes. In the past, medical care was underdeveloped, and some people with weak health were bitten by mosquitoes and would die. Sticking mugwort leaves on the door can ward off evil spirits. People also tie many colorful brooms on the Dragon Boat Festival. The broom is made of twine. People use various dyes to dye hemp into colorful threads. Tie it into a broom with a length of 1 cm, and then dye some small fruit shells in various colors, with a small hole in the middle. Tie the small shells together with colorful threads and tie them to the children's hands and feet to show good luck.

China folk custom has a long history, not superstition, but traditional custom. We should respect it and protect it. Let the ancient traditional culture become national harmony and contribute to economic development.