Jiangxi Dragon Boat Festival what are the customs

Jiangxi Dragon Boat Festival: eat zongzi, hanging moxa leaves calamus, plug Artemisia, Pei incense bag, dragon boat race.

1, eat zongzi

Over the Dragon Boat Festival, how can there be less zongzi. Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi is Jiangxi inherited customs for thousands of years, although eating zongzi around the fashionable, but Jiangxi zongzi has its unique flavor. Zongzi, also known as "corner corn", "simple dumplings", around the angular, wrapped in glutinous rice cooked food. Jiangxi zongzi to alkaline water zongzi, followed by red bean brown, salted meat and oil and salt zongzi.

2, hanging moxa leaves calamus

"Hands holding the moxa flag invites a hundred blessings, the door hanging bushels of sword chopping thousands of evil". The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, almost every family's front door is hung with green moxa calamus. Mugwort, also known as Artemisia absinthium and Mugwort, has the effect of repelling insects and sterilizing bacteria. People will be iris (or tied together with moxa leaves) hanging in the portal, there will also be iris and moxa leaves leaning on or inserted in front of the door. Folk will use it to drive away evil spirits.

3, insert artemisia

According to tradition, every Dragon Boat Festival, the lintel of every house should be inserted on the wormwood, which is said to ward off evil spirits. The artemisia should be tied up with a red cloth, and some people also add a peach branch, the breeze blows, the air is full of fragrance.

4, wear scented sachets

Duanwu Festival children to wear scented sachets, legend has it that the evil spirits to drive away the plague. Scented sachets for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, small and lovely, has become a common crafts. In some cities in southern China, young men and women also use scented pouches to express strong love.

5, dragon boat racing

In many places in Jiangxi will be dragon boat race, which is also the most lively time. In Nanchang, the old days every year on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Nanchang to organize a large-scale dragon boat race, paddling dragon boat to win the "dragon standard". On that day, 10,000 people gathered in the southern suburbs of Nanchang, near Shi Jiayao (now the location of the Xianghu Lake), held a powerful dragon boat race.