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Does anyone know of any special Dragon Boat Festival customs in Fuzhou?
Fuzhou folk called the Dragon Boat Festival for five days or May Festival. From the first day of May on the lunar calendar, every family will bunch of bushels hanging on the door to "ward off evil spirits", to the children to hold a bag of incense. To the first five of this day, families eat zongzi, bath calamus soup, drink andrographis wine, and take andrographis rolled paper as a tube, burning in the house wall bed tent, commonly known as put yellow smoke. Children are smeared with andrographis wine coated ears and nose, it is said to avoid poisonous gas. These days, in the West Lake, Taijiang and Minjiang River downstream of the townships held a grand dragon boat racing activities. The above customs are more or less the same as those of the rest of the country. However, Fuzhou has the legend of "fishing for white dragons", which is different from hanging Qu Yuan. Legend has it that when Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, Yu Shan, the king of East Vietnam, rebelled against the Han Dynasty, and beforehand, he built a platform on the river south of Fuzhou to fish for white dragons to win the support of the Min-Yue ethnic group, which was later developed into an annual dragon boat race. It is said that Yu Shan ordered people to carve a white dragon out of wood and float it on the Tai River, so that the athletes from the tribes along the river could capture it in their boats. The oars used by the tribes, some painted fish, some painted shrimp, are water symbols. Later, Yu Shan's fight against the Han failed, but the custom of fishing for white dragons was preserved and gradually transformed into dragon boat racing. Today, in Shenzhou, in the competing dragon boats, there are still many are white horses, frogs, tigers, lions, etc. as the boat head logo.
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