The practice of clay zongzi

The steps of making zongzi are as follows:

First, make zongye with green mud and glutinous rice with white mud.

Then wrap glutinous rice with zongzi leaves.

Then use red soil to make a thread, which is used to tie zongzi.

Finally, follow the above steps and do a few more steps.

Other customs of Dragon Boat Festival

There are many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, and the contents or details of the customs are different due to different regions. The customs mainly include: picking dragon boats, eating zongzi, hanging wormwood and calamus, having dinner, bathing in the Dragon Boat Festival (soaking orchids), flying kites and swinging. In addition to these common customs, there are some customs unique to the Dragon Boat Festival in different regions, such as tying a hundred scorpions, giving incense fans, drying ginger for a hundred days, hanging kudzu vine, painting forehead, wearing sachets, wearing longevity thread, tying five-color thread, collecting herbs and making tea, laying eggs, playing ball, hiding from the Dragon Boat Festival, wearing damselflies, sticking up a map of five poisons, Youlong, boating and so on. There are also customs of special festival foods in different regions, such as eating Huang Wu, wormwood cakes, mugwort, making cakes, frying piles, tea eggs, ruling cakes, drinking calamus wine and realgar wine, and drinking afternoon tea. ?

Dragon boat festival blessing

As for the blessing message of the Dragon Boat Festival, most folklore experts believe that only after the Dragon Boat Festival can historical figures such as Qu Yuan be attached to the festival to give sacrifices or other meanings, which are only part of the Dragon Boat Festival. The original intention of Dragon Boat Festival is a happy festival. In daily life, the word "Ankang" is generally used to bless the elderly. The "Dragon Boat Festival is good for health", which is not recorded in the literature, has only spread in recent years. From ancient times to the present, the Dragon Boat Festival has been circulating for at least 2000 years, but there is no relevant record of the Dragon Boat Festival in the literature for more than 2000 years, which shows that the ancients did not quite agree with this festival information. Many ancient poems talk about celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival with joy, wishing "Happy Dragon Boat Festival" is a tradition.