Dragon Boat Festival in addition to eating dumplings and what other traditional customs?

Duanwu Festival customs China's folk over the Dragon Boat Festival is more grand, the celebration of the activities are also very rich, from the morning dawn began, has lasted until the end of the noon. More common activities are the following forms: 1, dragon boat race Dragon boat race, is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Legend has it that the origins of the ancient Chu people because they could not bear to see the wise minister Qu Yuan threw himself into the river to die, many people rowing boats to catch up to save. They scrambled to catch up and lost sight of the boat when it reached Dongting Lake. After that, every year on May 5 to row a dragon boat to commemorate the. The practice of racing, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu. In fact, "dragon boat racing" as early as in the Warring States period. In the sound of drums in the rush to row carved into a dragon canoe, do racing games to entertain the gods and people, is the ritual of semi-religious, half-entertainment programs. Later, the dragon boat race in addition to commemorate the Qu Yuan, people around the world also paid a different meaning. Zhejiang and Jiangsu areas rowing dragon boat, both to commemorate the significance of the local birth of modern female democratic revolutionaries Qiu Jin. Night on the dragon boat, lights and colors, back and forth, water and underwater, the scene is moving, interesting. Miao people in Guizhou in the lunar calendar May 25-28 held "Dragon Boat Festival" to celebrate the victory of rice-planting and wishing a good harvest. Yunnan Dai compatriots in the Water Festival Dragon Boat Race, to commemorate the ancient hero rock red nest. Different ethnic groups, different regions, paddle dragon boat legend is different. Until today in the south of the many near the rivers, lakes and seas of the region, the annual Dragon Boat Festival will be held in their own characteristics of the Dragon Boat Race activities. In the 29th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1736), Taiwan began to hold dragon boat races. At that time, Chiang Yuan-jun, the governor of Taiwan, presided over a friendly race at the Half Moon Pond of Fahua Temple in Tainan City. Nowadays, dragon boat races are held in Taiwan every year on May 5th. In Hong Kong, races are also held. In addition, rowing dragon boat has been introduced to neighboring countries such as Japan, Vietnam and the United Kingdom. 1980, dragon boat racing was included in China's national sports competitions, and held annually "Qu Yuan Cup" Dragon Boat Race. 1991 June 16 (the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese lunar calendar), in the second hometown of Qu Yuan in China's Hunan city of Yueyang, held the first International Dragon Boat Festival. Prior to the race, the "Dragon Head Festival" was held, which preserved traditional rituals and injected new modern elements. The "dragon head" was carried into the Qu Zi Ancestral Hall, where the athletes "reddened" the dragon head (draped with a red sash), the officiating priest read out the sacrificial text, and the dragon head was "enlightened" (i.e., lighted). Then, participate in the sacrifice of the dragon all three bow, the dragon is carried to the Miluo River, running to the Dragon Boat Race. More than 600,000 people participated in the race, fair and celebration, which was an unprecedented event. Since then, Hunan has been organizing the International Dragon Boat Festival on a regular basis. The dragon boat race will be passed down to the world. 2, Dragon Boat Festival food dumplings Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, which is another traditional custom of the Chinese people. Zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube dumplings". It has a long history, with a variety of patterns. According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn period, with Mizushu leaves (wild rice leaves) wrapped in millet into a horn-shaped, called "corner of millet"; bamboo tube with rice sealed and baked, called "tube zong". The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked in millet, because the water contains alkali, with Mushroom leaves wrapped in millet into a quadrangular shape, cooked, became the Guangdong alkaline water dumplings. Jin Dynasty, zongzi was officially designated as the Dragon Boat Festival food. At this time, the package zongzi raw materials in addition to glutinous rice, but also add the Chinese medicine Yi Zhi Ren, cooked zongzi called "Yi Zhi Zong". Zhou Zhou, "Yueyang customs and local records" recorded: "Commonly wrapped in millet with Aizome leaves, ...... cooked, and rotten, in the fifth of May to the summer solstice to eat, a zong, a millet." North and South Dynasty period, the emergence of mixed rice dumplings. Rice mixed with animal and poultry meat, chestnuts, jujubes, adzuki beans, etc., more varieties. Zongzi also used as a gift for interaction. To the Tang Dynasty, rice dumplings with rice, has been "white as jade", the shape of its conical, diamond-shaped. Japanese literature recorded in the "Tang dumplings". Song Dynasty, there has been "candied rice dumplings", that is, fruit into the dumplings. The poet Su Dongpo has "in the dumplings see prunes" poem. At this time also appeared with zongzi piled up into buildings, pavilions, wooden cars, cows and horses for the advertisement, indicating that the Song Dynasty to eat zongzi has been very fashionable. Yuan, Ming period, zongzi parcel material has changed from zongmu leaf for Ruo leaf, and later appeared with reed leaf package zongzi, additional material has appeared bean paste, pork, pine nuts, jujube, walnuts and so on, varieties are more colorful. Dragon Boat Festival in the morning families eat zongzi to commemorate the Qu Yuan, generally the day before the zongzi package, cooked at night, eaten in the morning. Packed dumplings are mainly with the river and pond side of the abundance of young reed leaves, there are also bamboo leaves, collectively known as zongzi leaves. Zongzi traditional form for the triangle, generally named according to the flesh, wrapped in glutinous rice called rice zongzi, rice mixed with small beans called small bean zongzi, mixed with jujube called jujube zongzi; jujube zongzi resonance for the "early in the", so eat jujube zongzi of the most, intended to study the children eat can be early in the Scholar. In the past, the readers to participate in the day of the Imperial Examination, the morning to eat jujube rice dumplings, to date, secondary school, university entrance exams in the morning, parents also want to do jujube rice dumplings to the candidates to eat. Cooking rice dumplings in the pot must be boiled eggs, conditions and then cook some duck eggs, goose eggs, ate sweet rice dumplings dipped in sugar, and then eat eggs dipped in salt "pressure top". It is said to eat May end of the pot of boiled eggs in the main summer dumplings do not give birth to sores; dumplings pot of boiled duck eggs, goose eggs placed in the midday sunshine for a while and then eat, the whole summer without a headache. Until today, at the beginning of May every year, the Chinese people have to dip glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves, package zongzi, its color varieties are more varied. From the filling point of view, the north more packages of small jujube Beijing jujube dumplings; the south has bean paste, fresh meat, ham, egg yolk and other fillings, which is represented by Zhejiang Jiaxing zongzi. Eat zongzi custom, for thousands of years, in China prevailed, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries. 3, Pei incense sacs Dragon Boat Festival children Pei incense sacs, the legend has the meaning of the evil spirits to drive away the plague, is actually used for the lapel head embellishment decorations. 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. ★ In some southern cities in China, young men and women also use scented bags to express their love. 4, hanging moxa leaves calamus folk proverb: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival plug Ai". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people to plug the moxa and calamus as one of the important content. Every house is cleaned, to calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. And with calamus, moxa, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flower, made of human or tiger-shaped, known as Ai man, Ai tiger; made of wreaths, ornaments, beautiful and fragrant, women compete to wear, to drive away miasma. Mugwort, also known as family mugwort, Artemisia absinthium. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oil. It produces a peculiar aroma that can repel mosquitoes and flies, insects and ants, and purify the air. In Chinese medicine, moxa is used as medicine, which has the functions of regulating qi and blood, warming the uterus, and dispelling cold and dampness. The leaves of moxa are processed into "moxa velvet", which is an important herb for moxibustion. Calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oils, which are medicines for refreshing the mind, strengthening the bones and eliminating stagnation, and killing worms and sterilizing bacteria. It can be seen that the ancients inserted wormwood and calamus is a certain role in disease prevention. Dragon Boat Festival is also passed down from ancient times, "Health Festival", people in this day to clean the courtyard, hanging moxa sticks, hanging calamus, sprinkle xionghuang water, drink xionghuang wine, stirring up turbidity in addition to corrosion, sterilization and disease prevention. These activities also reflect the fine tradition of the Chinese nation. Dragon Boat Festival on the mountains to collect medicine, is the countries of China's national **** the same custom. 5, hanging Zhong Kui statue Zhong Kui ghost hunting, is the Dragon Boat Festival custom. 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 LIXIL Mountain martial arts back to the palace, malaria big hair, dreaming of two ghosts, a small, small, small ghosts wearing red crotchless pants, steal 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 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, so the painter Wu Daozi, according to what I saw in the dream painted Zhong Kui to catch ghosts of the portrait, the order of the world in the end of the Dragon Boat Festival, all posted to drive away the evil spirits. Legend has it that Zhong Kui for the Tang Dynasty, to Chang'an to take the examination for the Scholar, because of its appearance is not good to be abolished, indignation and touch the temple steps and died. Later, he sent a dream to Emperor Ming of Tang, determined to wipe out the world's devils. At that time, the palace was haunted by ghosts and evil, Tang Ming Huang called the great painter Wu Daozi according to what he saw in the dream, painting "Zhong Kui catch ghosts". And this painting will be hung in the back of the door to drive away demons and evil, the palace was then peaceful. Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty named Zhong Kui as the "Great God of Exorcism", so Zhong Kui statue traveled all over the world, cut off the ghosts and demons, and made great achievements, and then myths and legends by the Jade Emperor as "Exorcism Emperor". People hang Zhong Kui statue in the Dragon Boat Festival, used to suppress ghosts and evil spirits, and seek family peace. 6, hanging bags and tethered colorful silk Ying Shao "Customs" recorded: "May 5, to the colorful silk tie arm, the name of the long-life wisp, a renewed life wisp, a life of the Bing Zeng, a five-color wisp, a Zhu Suo, and ghosts from the soldiers, the life of the plague does not get sick". Ancient China worship five colors, to five colors for good luck. Therefore, early in the morning of the festival, the family adults get up the first big thing is in the child's wrist, ankle, neck tie five-color line. When tying the thread, children are forbidden to speak. The five-color line can not be arbitrarily broken or discarded, only in the first summer rain or the first bath, thrown into the river. It is said that children wearing the five-colored threads can avoid harm from poisonous insects of the snake and scorpion type; throwing them into the river means letting the river wash away plagues and diseases, and children can thus keep well. Meng Yuanlao's "Tokyo Dreaming Records" Volume VIII records: Dragon Boat Festival objects, Bai Suo, moxa, silver-like drums, flowers and cleverly painted fans, fragrant candy, dumplings small, white dough. Perilla, calamus, papaya, and all velvet cut, with incense and medicine, with plum red box wrapped. Since the first of May and the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, selling peaches, willow, sunflower, cattail leaves, Fudao Ai. The next day, every family spread at the door, with five-color water ball, tea and wine offerings. The next day, every family spreads out the flowers in front of the door and makes offerings of five-colored water balls and tea and wine. The people of the public and the general public enjoy the feast. Chen Shiliang's "The Years and Seasons", cited in "Miscellaneous Records of the Years and Seasons", mentions a kind of "Duanwu made in red and white color like a capsule, threaded with colorful threads, and twitching them in the shape of a flower, which was brought or nailed to the door, to avoid the red mouth and white tongue, and was also called twitching money". As well as another "mussel powder bell": "the fifth day of the end of the mussel powder in the silk, decorated with sheep, such as a number of beads. So that the children to bring to absorb sweat." The contents of these portable bags changed several times, from the sweat of the mussel powder, to drive away evil spirits, coins, andrography powder to ward off insects, the development of spices filled with scented capsules, the production is also becoming more and more sophisticated, become the Dragon Boat Festival unique folk art