What do Cantonese people sacrifice at the Dragon Boat Festival?

1. The main customs of Guangdong Dragon Boat Festival are hanging kudzu vine, roasting dragon boat, soaking in dragon boat water, eating wormwood, eating grey water brown, spicy willow, hanging cattail, burning moxa sticks, offering sacrifices to river gods, grabbing green flowers, cooking afternoon tea, drinking afternoon water, going back to one's mother's house, worshiping dragon mother and drying ginger for a hundred days. These are all unique customs in Guangdong. In addition, some customs, such as hanging wormwood and sprinkling realgar wine, are the same customs of China Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival was originally created by ancient ancestors to worship the ancestors of dragons and pray for evil spirits. Qu Yuan, a Chu poet in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on May 5th, so later generations also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.

3. According to statistics, the Dragon Boat Festival is called the largest of all traditional festivals in China, reaching more than 20, such as Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Double Ninth Festival.

4. The custom of dragon boat race has spread abroad, and it has become a popular sports and entertainment project in the United States, Germany, Britain and other countries, with increasing influence.