What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival

1, Dragon Boat Festival customs: dragon boat racing, dragon boat racing, is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Legend has it that it originated in ancient times, the people of Chu because they could not bear to see the wise minister Qu Yuan threw himself into the river to die, many people rowed boats to catch up with the rescue. They scrambled to catch up and lost sight of the boat when they chased it to Dongting Lake. After that, they rowed dragon boats on May 5 every year to commemorate it. The dragon boat was used to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. The practice of racing, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu.

In fact, "dragon boat racing" as early as the Warring States period. In the sound of drums, rowing carved into a dragon canoe, do racing games, to entertain the gods and people, is the ritual half-religious, half-entertainment program. Later, in addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, the dragon boat race, people in different parts of the world also put a different meaning.

2, Dragon Boat Festival customs: Pei Xiangbao, Dragon Boat Festival children Pei Xiangbao, the legend has the meaning of the evil spirits to drive away the plague, is actually used for the lapel head embellishment decoration. The scented capsule inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then the five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, exquisite and lovely.

3, Dragon Boat Festival custom: write a spell, the ancients believe that the fifth of May for the evil month, the evil day, so the Dragon Boat Festival this day must be hung indoors to ward off evil spirits and ghosts of the charm. And there are some strict rituals, for example, must be written in the Dragon Boat Festival sunrise or noon, writing materials with raw Zhu, inkstone, writing mouth must be put on the saltpeter and so on.

4, Dragon Boat Festival customs: Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings, Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings is a traditional custom in China, but in Chenzhou Su Xian District on the Au on the ancient village has a special custom of eating rice dumplings. Au on the rice dumplings belong to the local original with therapeutic effect of the delicacies, is by the mountain wild rice tree leaves, choose the son of firewood leaves, just thorn tender head, maple tree tender leaves, more than ten kinds of edible leaves will be washed and mashed, filtering squeezed juice, and then soaked in glutinous rice, which is put in the barbecued pork, salted egg yolk and other fillings, steaming out, the fragrance of the four overflowing, non-greasy, but also has the stomach and digestion, to remove the wind and remove dampness, the effectiveness of the cool and detoxification.

5, Dragon Boat Festival custom: plug Ai, as the saying goes: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat plug Ai". Here, "Ai" refers to wormwood, its stems and leaves have volatile essential oils, unique flavor can drive mosquitoes and insects. Since ancient times, the Dragon Boat Festival has also been a festival to dispel diseases and prevent epidemics, because it coincides with the summer solstice, when heat and cold meet, and families would clean their doors on this day and put moxa sticks on the doors to sterilize them.

6, Dragon Boat Festival custom: tie five-color line, ancient China has always been red, yellow, white, green, black five-color for good luck. Every year, the Dragon Boat Festival early in the morning, adults get up the first thing is in the child's wrist, ankle, neck tie five-color line. Legend has it that the five-colored threads cannot be thrown away casually, and can only be thrown into the river during the first heavy summer rain or the first bath, meaning that the river will wash away the disease. It is said that children wearing the five-color thread can avoid the harm of snake and scorpion-type venomous insects and always keep well.