Wenling Dragon Boat Festival Customs

Suspended Zhong Kui statue: Zhong Kui catch ghosts, is the Dragon Boat Festival customs. In the Jianghuai area, the family is hanging Zhong Kui statue, used to suppress the house to drive away evil spirits. Tang Minghuang Kaiyuan, from the Lixan martial arts back to the palace, malaria, dreaming of two ghosts, a small, small, small ghosts wearing red crotchless pants, stealing Yang Guifei's scent bag and Minghuang's jade flute, around the temple and run. The big ghost is wearing a blue robe and hat, caught the little ghost, gouge out its eyes, swallowed. Ming Huang asked, the big ghost said: my surname Zhong Kui, that is, the martial arts not first, would like to remove the demons for His Majesty, Ming Huang woke up, malaria cured, and then made the painter Wu Daozi, according to what I saw in the dream painted Zhong Kui to catch the ghosts of the portrait, through the order of the world in the end of the day, all posted to drive away the evil spirits.

Hanging calamus leaves: in the Dragon Boat Festival, families are to calamus, leaves, pomegranate, garlic, wormwood, dragon boat flowers, made into a human figure known as Ai people. Ai leaves hanging in the hall, cut for the tiger or cut color for the tiger, stick to Ai leaves, women scrambling to wear to seclude the evil and drive away miasma. Calamus as a sword, inserted in the lintel, has the divine effect of driving away demons and ghosts.

Dragon Boat Race: At that time, the people of Chu could not bear the death of Qu Yuan, a wise minister, so many people rowed their boats to catch up with him to save him. They scrambled, chased to Dongting Lake when no trace, is the origin of the dragon boat race, after the fifth of May every year to commemorate the rowing of dragon boats. Rowing dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish do not eat the body of Qu Yuan. Racing habits, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu. In the 29th year of the Qianlong reign in the Qing Dynasty, Taiwan began to have dragon boat races, and at that time, Taiwan's governor, Mr. Chiang Yuan-jun, hosted a friendly race at the Half Moon Pond of the Fahua Temple in Tainan City. Now Taiwan holds dragon boat races on May 5 every year. Hong Kong has a race, and recently the British have followed the example of our people, organizing their own team, the competition.

Eat rice dumplings: Jing Chu people, on May 5 to cook glutinous rice or steamed rice dumplings cake into the river to worship Qu Yuan, for fear of fish eat, so the bamboo tube containing glutinous rice thrown down, and then gradually use rice dumplings wrapped in rice leaves instead of bamboo tubes.

Drinking Xionghuang wine: Xionghuang is a mineral, containing arsenic trisulfide components, mixed with wine. That is, into the andrographis wine, used to expel insects to solve the five poisons, children coated in the forehead. Ear, nose, hands, feet and heart. And sprinkle the walls to ask, in order to law of all poisons. The story of "The Legend of the White Snake" has been passed down in the folklore, that is, to solve the poison of snakes and vipers with androgynous wine, and to show the original shape of the white snake. This kind of practice is very popular among people in the Yangtze River basin area.

You hundred diseases: the Dragon Boat Festival custom prevalent in Guizhou. Men, women and children to the field to play, wearing new clothes, at noon around one, the road on the mountain or under the tree crowded crowd, holding flowers and plants, very happy. Home at night will be boiled flowers and plants and water to take a bath, the elderly known as the "tour of the hundred diseases" and "wash the hundred diseases", do not go out to tour the hundred diseases and wash the hundred diseases of the people, the year will not get lucky.

Pe scented pouch: Dragon Boat Festival children Pei scented pouch, not only to ward off evil spirits to drive away the plague, but also a lapel head embellishment of the wind. Incense capsule inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, delicate and eye-catching.