The knowledge of the Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu Festival knowledge is as follows:

A, the Dragon Boat Festival origin

Duanwu Festival, also known as the Bathing Orchid Festival, for the first five days of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, began in the Spring and Autumn period of the Warring States period in China, so far there have been more than 2,000 years of history. May is midsummer, it's the first day of the afternoon, it is the high Shunyang good weather, so the fifth day of May is also known as the "Duanyang Festival".

Second, the Dragon Boat Festival customs

1, dragon boat race. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu mourned abnormally and flocked to the Miluo River to memorialize him. Fishermen rowed up boats, back and forth on the river to salvage, chased to the Dongting Lake is no trace. This was also a way of dispersing the fish in the river by rowing the dragon boat, so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body.

2, eat zongzi. Zongzi, also known as corn and tube zongzi, is a must eat the Dragon Boat Festival food. At the beginning of May every year, the Chinese people's families have to dip glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves, package zongzi, a variety of colors and varieties.

3, drink Xionghuang wine. In the Dragon Boat Festival and after the festival, the climate is hot, flies and insects, poisonous gas rise, disease is easy to sprout. Ancient people found that drinking xionghuang wine can detoxify and clear the heat, for this Dragon Boat Festival to drink xionghuang wine on the prevalence of the open.

4, hanging mugwort or calamus. Proverbs say: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival plug wormwood". People will take advantage of the special flavor and function of mugwort or calamus, hanging a few plants in front of the house, in order to be used to drive away insects, mosquito prevention.

5, wear a scented bag. Fragrance capsule inside the cinnabar, andrographis and other spices, wrapped in silk cloth, and then braided into a variety of shapes with five-color silk thread, knotted into a string, fragrant, exquisite and lovely, both decorative and expelling mosquitoes and insects, loved by the children.