What is the custom of Dragon Boat Festival?

The custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to row dragon boats, hang wormwood and calamus, fly kites, tie colorful silk threads and eat zongzi. As an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival is divided into inviting dragons, dragon festival, Youlong and gathering dragons, which means to pray for good weather and all the best.

The content of the Dragon Boat Festival custom is rich and colorful, and the content or details of the custom are different in different parts of the country due to different regional cultures. These festivals and customs revolve around the Dragon Boat Festival, Blessing Festival, Fighting Disaster Festival and other forms, and place people's desire to welcome good luck, ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters.

Traditional festival ceremonies and related custom activities are important contents of festival elements. Performing various traditional folk activities during the Dragon Boat Festival can not only enrich people's spiritual and cultural life, but also inherit and carry forward traditional culture.

The legend of Dragon Boat Festival:

1, in memory of the dutiful daughter Cao E said:

The third legend of Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the filial daughter Cao E who saved her drowning father in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 23-220). Cao E was a native of Shangyu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Her father drowned in the river and didn't see her body for several days. At that time, Cao E, the filial daughter, was only fourteen years old, crying day and night by the river.

17 days later, he also threw himself into the river on May 5, and fished out his father's body five days later. This was passed down as a myth, and then to the governor of the county government, who made it a monument for disciple Han Danchun to make a eulogy. Therefore, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate the filial daughter Cao E.

2. Commemorative meson push off:

Jiezitui is the protagonist of the Cold Food Festival and the legend of the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day, but some people think that the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is related to Jiezitui. According to Cao Qin written by Cai Yong in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the sages.