Dragon Boat Festival customs

Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival China's folk over the Dragon Boat Festival is more solemn, the celebration of a variety of activities, the more common activities are the following forms: Dragon Boat Race: Dragon Boat Race, is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Legend has it that it originated in the ancient Chu people could not bear to see the wise minister Qu Yuan threw himself into the river to die, and many people rowed boats to catch up to save. They scrambled and lost sight of him when they chased him to Dongting Lake.

After that, every year on May 5, rowing a dragon boat to commemorate it.

After that, every year on May 5, the dragon boat is rowed to commemorate this event.

The practice of racing, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu. In fact, "dragon boat racing" as early as the Warring States period.

In the sound of drums, rowing carved into the shape of a dragon canoe, do the race game, to entertain the gods and people, is the ritual half-religious, half-entertainment programs. Later, the dragon boat race in addition to commemorate the Qu Yuan, people around the world also paid a different meaning.

Zhejiang and Jiangsu areas rowing dragon boat, and commemorate the local birth of modern female democratic revolutionaries Qiu Jin significance. Night on the dragon boat, lights and colors, shuttle, water and underwater, the scene is moving, interesting.

Miao people in Guizhou in the lunar calendar May 25-28 held "Dragon Boat Festival" to celebrate the victory of rice-planting and wishing a good harvest. The Dai compatriots in Yunnan are racing dragon boats on the Water Festival in honor of the ancient heroes of the rock red nest.

Different ethnic groups, different regions, paddle dragon boat legend is different. Until today in the south of the many near the rivers, lakes and seas of the region, the annual Dragon Boat Festival will be held in their own characteristics of dragon boat racing activities.

In the twenty-ninth year of the Qing Dynasty (1736), Taiwan began to hold dragon boat races. At that time, Chiang Yuan-jun, the governor of Taiwan, hosted a friendly race at the Half Moon Pond of Fahua Temple in Tainan City.

Now Taiwan holds dragon boat races on May 5 every year. In Hong Kong, races are also held.

In addition, dragon boat rowing has been introduced to neighboring countries such as Japan, Vietnam and the United Kingdom. 1980, dragon boat racing is included in China's national sports competitions, and held annually "Qu Yuan Cup" dragon boat race.

June 16, 1991 (the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar), in Qu Yuan's second hometown of Yueyang City, Hunan Province, China, held the first International Dragon Boat Festival. Before the race, the "Dragon Head Festival" was held, which preserved the traditional rituals and injected new modern elements.

The "dragon head" was carried into the Qu Zi Ancestral Hall, and after the athletes "reddened" the dragon head (with a red sash), the officiating priest read out the rituals and "enlightened" the dragon head (i.e., lighted it up). After that, the officiating priest reads out the sacrificial text and "opens the light" (i.e., lights the dragon). Then, participate in the sacrifice of the dragon of all personnel three bows, the dragon is carried to the Buro River, running to the Dragon Boat Race.

The race, trade fairs and celebrations were attended by more than 600,000 people, which was an unprecedented event. Since then, Hunan has been organizing the International Dragon Boat Festival on a regular basis.

The Dragon Boat Race will be passed down to the world. Duanwu food dumplings Duanwu Festival to eat dumplings, which is another traditional custom of the Chinese people.

Zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube dumplings". It has a long history and many different styles.

According to records, as early as in the Spring and Autumn Period, with Zizania leaves (wild rice leaves) wrapped in millet into a horn-shaped, called "corner corn"; with a bamboo tube filled with rice sealed and baked, called "tube dumplings". At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked in millet, because the water contains alkali, with Mushroom leaves wrapped in millet into a quadrangular shape, cooked, became the Guangdong alkaline water rice dumplings.

In the Jin Dynasty, zongzi was officially designated as Dragon Boat Festival food. At this time, the package of raw materials in addition to glutinous rice, but also add the Chinese medicine Yizhi Ren, cooked zongzi called "Yizhi Zong".

Zhou Zhou, "Yueyang Terroir Records" recorded: "Commonly wrapped in millet with Aizome leaves, ...... boiled, and rotten, on the fifth of May to the summer solstice mouthful of, a dumpling, a millet." North and South Dynasties period, the emergence of miscellaneous rice dumplings.

Rice mixed with animal and poultry meat, chestnuts, jujubes, adzuki beans, etc., more varieties. Zongzi also used as a gift for interaction.

By the Tang Dynasty, rice dumplings, rice, has been "white as jade", the shape of its conical, diamond-shaped. Japanese literature recorded in the "Tang dumplings".

Song Dynasty, there are "candied rice dumplings", that is, fruit into the dumplings. The poet Su Dongpo wrote a poem, "I see prunes in the dumplings".

At this time also appeared with dumplings piled up into buildings, pavilions, wooden cars, cows and horses for the advertisement, indicating that the Song Dynasty to eat rice dumplings has been very fashionable. Yuan, Ming period, zongzi parcel material has been changed from the ZongZi leaf for Ruo leaf, and later appeared with reed leaf package zongzi, additional material has appeared bean paste, pork, pine nuts, dates, walnuts and so on, varieties are more colorful.

Until today, the beginning of May each year, the Chinese people have to dip the glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves, package zongzi, its more colorful varieties. From the filling point of view, the north more packages of small jujube Beijing jujube dumplings; the south has bean paste, fresh meat, ham, egg yolk and other fillings, which is represented by the Zhejiang Jiaxing zongzi.

The custom of eating rice dumplings, for thousands of years, in China prevailed, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries. Perfume Sacs: Dragon Boat Festival children wear perfume sacs, legend has it that the meaning of the evil spirits to drive away the plague, is actually used for the lapel head embellishment decorations.

The scented capsule inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then the five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, shape ***, exquisite and lovely. Suspension of moxa iris: folk proverb: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival moxa".

In the Dragon Boat Festival, people put the plug Ai and calamus as one of the important content. Every family sweeps the court, to calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall.

And with calamus, moxa, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flowers, made of human or tiger-shaped, known as Ai, Ai tiger; made of garlands, jewelry, beautiful and fragrant, women compete to wear, to drive away miasma. Ai, also known as family Ai, Artemisia absinthium.

Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oil. It produces a peculiar aroma, can drive flies, insects and ants, purify the air.

In Chinese medicine, moxa is used as a medicine to regulate qi and blood, warm the uterus, and dispel cold and dampness. The leaves are processed into "moxa velvet", which is an important herb for moxibustion.

Calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oils, which is a refreshing, bone-healthy and sterilizing drug. It can be seen that the ancients inserted Ai and calamus is a certain role in disease prevention.

The Dragon Boat Festival is also passed down from ancient times, "Health Festival", people in this day to clean the courtyard, hanging ai, hanging calamus, sprinkle andrographis water, drink andrographis wine, and stir up turbid in addition to the corrosion, sterilization and disease prevention. These activities also reflect the fine tradition of the Chinese nation.

The Dragon Boat Festival on the mountains to collect medicine, is our country's national **** the same custom.

What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival?

Customs

China's folk over the Dragon Boat Festival is more grand, the celebration of the activities are also very rich, from the morning dawn began, and lasted until noon before the end. More common activities are the following forms:

1, dragon boat race

Dragon boat race, is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Legend has it that the origins of the ancient Chu people because they could not bear to see the wise minister Qu Yuan threw himself into the river to die, many people rowing boats to catch up to save. They scrambled, chased to Dongting Lake when they disappeared. After that, they rowed dragon boats on May 5 every year to commemorate it. The dragon boat was used to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. The practice of racing, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu.

2, Dragon Boat Festival food dumplings

Dragon Boat Festival to eat dumplings, which is another traditional custom of the Chinese people.

3, Pei Xiangbao

Dragon Boat Festival children Pei Xiangbao, legend has it that the meaning of the evil spirits to drive away the plague, in fact, is used for lapel head embellishment decoration.

4, hanging moxa leaves calamus

The folk proverb says: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival moxa". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people put the insertion of moxa and calamus as one of the important content. Every family sweeps the court, to calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. And with calamus, moxa, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flower, made of human or tiger-shaped, known as Ai man, Ai tiger; made of wreaths, ornaments, beautiful and fragrant, women vied with each other to wear, to drive away miasma.

5, hanging Zhong Kui statue

Zhong Kui catch ghosts, is the Dragon Boat Festival custom.

What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival

Qu Yuan, Dragon Boat Festival was born because of him.

Legend has it that Qu Yuan was banished to Hunan by King Xiang of Chu. Originally, he had the ambition to save the country and the people, but instead, he was ostracized by the treacherous ministers, and he was simply furious.

Qu Yuan often sang sad poems while walking along the Miluo River, and the fisherman's father on the river asked him, "Aren't you a doctor of Chu? How did you get to this point?" Qu Yuan replied, "The world is turbid, I am alone clear, the world is drunk, I am alone awake." The fisherman's father asked, "Since everyone else is dirty and drunk, why do you need to be pure and sober?" Qu Yuan replied, "How can I be white and blinded by the dust of the world?"

Finally, Qu Yuan did not want to live with the current, and on the fifth day of the fifth month in 278 BC, he jumped into the Miluo River with a stone in his arms and committed suicide. From that year to the second year, every year on the fifth day of May people put zongzi into the river to commemorate Qu Yuan, which is still today we have the Dragon Boat Festival.

After Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu grieved abnormally and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fishermen rowed up their boats and salvaged his real body back and forth on the river.

A fisherman took out the rice balls prepared for Qu Yuan, eggs and other food, "flop, flop" thrown into the river, said that the fish, lobsters and crabs eat enough, they will not go to bite the body of Dr. Qu. The people have to follow this example.

An old doctor brought a altar of yellow wine poured into the river, said to be the drug stunned dragon water beasts, so as not to harm the Qu doctor. Later, for fear that the rice ball for the dragon eat, people came up with a neem leaf wrapped rice, wrapped in colorful silk, developed into a brown.

Later, on the fifth day of May every year, there is a dragon boat race, eat zongzi, drink xionghuang wine custom; in order to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

In addition to eating rice dumplings, dragon boat, the Dragon Boat Festival is also a multi-ethnic national epidemic prevention and relief, to avoid the plague and drive away the poison, praying for health and longevity of the festival. Specifically, there are the following eight things: 1. Racing dragon boats and washing water in Yongchu.

Yongchu water is the water where the dragon boat races, and it is considered to be good and living water, so it is often customary to drink Yongchu water and bathe in Yongchu water, and there is a common saying of "washing Yongchu water in the May festival". 2. Eat rice dumplings.

The main ingredient of the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings: glutinous rice, the seeds of the herbaceous plant glutinous rice. Taste sweet, warm, into the spleen, stomach, lung meridian; with the benefit of the lung gas, tonifying the middle and beneficial gas, spleen and stomach, stopping the effect of false sweat.

(Glutinous rice has astringent effect, for frequent urination, night sweating has a better therapeutic effect.) Indications: Weakness of the spleen and stomach, tiredness, fatigue, less food, diarrhea; qi deficiency and spontaneous sweating.

Bamboo leaves are sweet, light and cold. Indications: fever, thirst, pharyngitis, stomatitis, swollen and painful gums, sores on the mouth and tongue caused by heart fire weaving, scanty and reddish-yellow urine.

It can also be used to remove heat: for heat ulcers and heat, distraction and insomnia, children crying at night. The other ingredients can be chosen at will, there are jujube, hazelnut, coix seed, peanut, lotus seed, fructus thickening.

. Also have nourishing health care. 3, hanging scented sachets.

Many places in China have the custom of hanging scented sachets on Dragon Boat Festival, is also a way to prevent infectious diseases. Homemade Dragon Boat Festival scented sachets used in traditional Chinese medicine are Cangzhu, Huo Xiang, Cornus officinalis, Ai Ye, cinnamon, sand nuts, Angelica dahurica, two grams of each flavor, in addition to adding 1 gram of cloves.

These herbs are finely ground, then placed in a dense cloth bag and sewn together. You can wear it on your chest, waistline or navel, or hang the sachet at the door, indoors or in the car.

These herbs, Chinese medicine believes that there are wind and cold, spleen and stomach, gas and pain, through the nine orifices of the function, so as to play a role in preventing disease. 4, hanging moxa leaves calamus.

Proverb: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival plug Ai". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people put the insertion of moxa and calamus as one of the important contents.

Every family sweeps the court, to calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. In Chinese medicine, moxa is used as medicine, which has the function of regulating qi and blood, warming the uterus, and dispelling cold and dampness.

Calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oils, is to lift the spirit of the mind, healthy bones and eliminate stagnation, insecticidal and sterilization drugs. 5, drink andrographis.

Wine medical history of the origins of the "Qingjia Records" recorded: "research andrographis end, crumbled bushel root, and wine to drink, known as the andrographis wine. China's folk "early Dragon Boat Festival, late Mid-Autumn Festival," said that the chen belongs to the dragon, chen is the time when the dragons rain, in the Dragon Boat Festival morning Xionghuang wine banquets, is the people look forward to the emergence of wind and rain, a good year of grain harvest."

The preparation of xionghuang wine is very simple, for adults to drink, then take a trace after the water fly treatment of xionghuang fine powder, the current Pharmacopoeia provisions within the taking amount of 0.05 grams to 0.1 grams into a small bowl or a small cup, and then add 15 milliliters to 20 milliliters of white wine, with chopsticks will be stirred to dissolve, and then will be the upper with a slight reddish-yellow liquor poured into the quantitative white wine, the bottom of the bowl or the bottom of the cup of the precipitate is discarded! The sediment at the bottom of the bowl or cup is discarded, drinking about 15 milliliters. 6, cooking garlic.

Garlic is a kind of Chinese medicine, taste pungent and sweet, can kill poison sterilization, cooked food can clear gastrointestinal toxins, dredge the blood. The morning of the Duanyang Festival, the custom in most parts of the country is to cook new garlic to dredge the blood, disinfection and sterilization.

7, roll and eat chicken, duck and goose eggs. All over the country are popular.

The morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Northeast is a boiled chicken, duck and goose eggs by the elders on the children's belly rolling, and then peeled to let the children eat, it is said that this can be done to avoid children's stomach aches, is actually a festive playful child games. 8, drive five poisons.

The five poisons are scorpions, centipedes, snakes, shrimp salamanders, geckos, five kinds of poisonous insects. "Duan Yang Festival, the weather is hot; five poisonous wake up, not peaceful.

What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival?

The more common activities are the following forms: 1, Dragon Boat Race Dragon Boat Race, is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. 2, Dragon Boat Festival food dumplings Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, which is another traditional custom of the Chinese people. Zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube zongzi". 3, Pei Xiangbao Dragon Boat Festival children Pei Xiangbao, legend has the meaning of the evil spirits to drive away the plague, the actual is used for lapel head embellishment. Scented pouch with cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then the five-color silk thread string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, shape ***, exquisite and lovely. In some southern cities in China, young men and women also use scented pouches to express love. 4, hanging moxa calamus folk proverb: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival plug moxa". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people put the insertion of moxa and calamus as one of the important content. Family are sweeping the court, to calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. And with calamus, moxa, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flower, made of human or tiger-shaped, known as Ai man, Ai tiger; made of wreaths, ornaments, beautiful and fragrant, women compete to wear, to drive away miasma. Mugwort, also known as family mugwort, Artemisia absinthium. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oil. It produces a peculiar aroma that can repel mosquitoes and flies, insects and ants, and purify the air. In Chinese medicine, moxa is used as medicine, which has the functions of regulating qi and blood, warming the uterus, and dispelling cold and dampness. The leaves of moxa are processed into "moxa velvet", which is an important herb for moxibustion. Acorus calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oils, which is a drug for refreshing the mind, strengthening the bones and eliminating stagnation, and killing worms and sterilizing bacteria. It can be seen that the ancient people inserted wormwood and calamus is a certain role in disease prevention. Dragon Boat Festival is also passed down from ancient times, "Health Festival", people in this day to clean the courtyard, hanging moxa sticks, hanging calamus, sprinkle xionghuang water, drink xionghuang wine, stirring up turbidity in addition to corrosion, sterilization and disease prevention. These activities also reflect the fine tradition of the Chinese nation. Dragon Boat Festival on the mountains to collect medicine, is China's various nationalities *** with the custom. 5, hanging Zhong Kui like Zhong Kui to catch ghosts, is the Dragon Boat Festival custom. In the Jianghuai area, families are hanging Zhong Kui statue, used to suppress the house to drive away evil spirits. Tang Minghuang Kaiyuan, from the Lixan martial arts back to the palace, malaria big hair, dreaming of two ghosts, a small, small, small ghosts wearing red crotchless pants, steal Yang Guifei's scent bag and Minghuang's jade flute, around the temple and run. The big ghost is wearing a blue robe and hat, caught the little ghost, gouge out its eyes, swallowed. Ming Huang asked, the big ghost said: my surname Zhong Kui, that is, the martial arts not first, willing to remove the demons for His Majesty, Ming Huang woke up, malaria cured, and then made the painter Wu Daozi, according to what I saw in the dream was painted into the Zhong Kui ghost-catching portraits, through the world in the end of the Dragon Boat Festival, all posted to drive away the evil spirits. 6, hanging purse and tethered multicolored silk should be Shao, "Customs" recorded: "May 5, to the multicolored silk tie arm, the name of the Long life wisp, a renewed life wisp, a life to avoid soldiers Zeng, a five-color wisp, a Zhu Suo, to avoid soldiers and ghosts, life is not sick plague". Ancient China worship five colors, to five colors for good luck color. Therefore, early in the morning of the festival, the family adults get up the first big thing is in the child's wrist, ankle, neck tie five-color line. When tying the thread, children are forbidden to speak. The five-color line can not be arbitrarily broken or discarded, only in the first summer rain or the first bath, thrown into the river. It is said that children wearing the five-colored threads can avoid the harm of snakes and scorpions; throwing them into the river means letting the river wash away plagues and diseases, so that children can stay healthy. Chen Shilian's "The Record of the Years and Seasons", cited in "The Record of the Years and Seasons", mentions that "on the fifth day of the month, red and white coloring was used to make a capsule with colorful threads, and the threads were twisted to make it look like a flower, which was then carried or nailed to the door, to avoid the red mouths and white tongues, which is also known as the "twitching money". As well as another "clam powder bell": "the fifth day of the end of the clam powder in the silk, adorned with sheep, such as a number of beads. So that the children to bring to absorb sweat." The contents of these portable bags changed several times, from the sweat of the mussel powder, to drive away evil spirits, copper, andrographis powder, the development of the spice-filled scented bags, the production is also becoming more and more sophisticated, become the Dragon Boat Festival unique folk art.

Dragon Boat Festival customs

The Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, Wuzhi Festival, Ai Festival, Duanwu, Chongwu, Wuzhi, Summer Festival, was originally a summer festival to drive out the plague. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of the Han Chinese people in China, this day essential activities gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus ` Artemisia annua, moxa leaves, lavender Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, and drink xionghuang wine. It is said that eating rice dumplings and dragon boat races, is to commemorate Qu Yuan, so after liberation had the Dragon Boat Festival named "Poet's Day" to commemorate Qu Yuan. As for hanging calamus, moxa leaves, fumigate Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, drink Xionghuang wine, it is said to be in order to avoid evil spirits. The "Chinese Dragon Boat Festival" is one of the national legal holidays and is included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List. A large number of poems, lyrics, songs and fugues have been written about this festival throughout the ages.

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Dragon Boat Festival customs

[Hebei Province] Dragon Boat Festival customs around the country Beiping taboo Dragon Boat Festival well water, often pre-drawing before the festival, it is said to be to avoid well poisoning.

Market vendors also sell cherries and mulberries at the Dragon Boat Festival, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival, eat cherries and mulberries, can not eat flies throughout the year. The stove food store to sell "five poisonous cakes", that is, five kinds of poisonous insects decorated with patterns of cakes.

Luan County has been hired by the male and female in-laws salty at the Dragon Boat Festival gifts to each other. Zhao County Dragon Boat Festival, the local government will hold a party to the south of the city, inviting the city of scholars to feast and poetry, known as "step on the willow".

[Shandong Province] Zouping County Dragon Boat Festival, each person needs to get up early to drink a cup of wine, legend has it that you can avoid evil. Rizhao Dragon Boat Festival to children wrapped in seven-color line, has to wear to the festival after the first rain before unraveling thrown in the rain.

Linqing County Dragon Boat Festival, boys under seven years of age with a charm (necklaces made of wheat), girls with pomegranate flowers, but also to wear their mother's hand-made yellow in the shoes, shoes with brushes painted on the surface of five kinds of poisonous insects. The meaning is to kill five kinds of poisonous insects by borrowing Qu Yuan's ink.

Jimo in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival to wash their faces with dew. [Shanxi Province] Xiezhou Dragon Boat Festival, men and women wear mugwort leaves, known as the "go to the disease", the youngest child is tied to the neck of a hundred rope, which is said to be "for Qu Yuan to tie the dragon".

The sermon state Dragon Boat Festival, the village sacrificed to the Dragon King, and hanging paper in the field. Huairen County Dragon Boat Festival is also known as "Zhu Men".

Dingxiang County Dragon Boat Festival, students need to give gifts to teachers. Lu'an Province to wheat flour steamed dough, known as "white dough", and zongzi together to give each other.

[Shaanxi Province] Xing'an Prefecture Dragon Boat Festival, the local officials led the bureaucrats to watch the race, known as "Treadstone". Xingping County, the Dragon Boat Festival with silk sewing small corn, and then sewed underneath a small doll, known as "play dolls".

Tongguan County, the Dragon Boat Festival to bushels of wormwood, paper cow paste door, known as the "town of disease. [Gansu Province] Jingning State Dragon Boat Festival picking roses pickled in honey for syrup.

Zhenyuan County Dragon Boat Festival to the newlyweds incense fan, Luo Qi, scarf, Ai Hu. Sons and daughters and invite their fathers and brothers to feast on the master, known as "enjoy the festival".

Zhangxian Dragon Boat Festival, shepherd children worship mountain gods. Accumulation of salary mound, burned before the cock crows, commonly known as "burned high mountains.

[Jiangsu Province] Jiading County Dragon Boat Festival, rich or poor, must buy stone head fish (commonly known as koji) cooking. Yizheng County also has "when the pants, buy yellowtail" proverb.

Nanjing Dragon Boat Festival, each family is a box of water, add a little andrographis, googly-eyed money two, the size of the family are using this water to wash their eyes, known as the "broken fire eye", it is said to ensure that there is no eye disease for a year. Wujin night dragon boat theater, the night on all sides of the dragon boat hanging on the small lights racing, and there are xiao drums and singing.

[Sichuan Province] Shizhi "out of the Dragon Boat Lo" custom. By four people with two bamboo poles to lift a large square table with a red carpet.

The blanket with bamboo gabions woven a Taoist priest riding a tiger. Drums and gongs, street ***.

In the old days, there was also the custom of "typing children" at the Dragon Boat Festival. On this day, Chengdu people buy plums, in the southeast corner of the city under the city tower, up and down to throw, gather tens of thousands of viewers.

Guangxu twenty-one years (1895) because of the throwing plums and foreign missionaries in Hengchu, this custom thus stopped. Leshan, Xinjin and other places in the Dragon Boat Race, but also held a grand commodity fair.

[Xijiang Province] Tonglu County township schoolchildren, the Dragon Boat Festival with gifts to the teacher, called "clothes". Medical practitioners collect medicines at noon, which is said to be the day when the star of the Heavenly Doctor is in the sky.

〔Jiangxi Province〕 Jianchang Province afternoon with the water bath, to prevent scabies, Xinchang County to Xionghuang, Dansha wine drink, called "open eyes". [Hubei Province] Huanggang County Dragon Boat Festival Bahe town to meet the Nuo people, flower crown body, sounding gold by epidemic.

Yichang County Dragon Boat Race, but in May 13, 14, 15 three days of the special. May 15, also known as the "Danyang", food dumplings, drink bus wine, routine with the Dragon Boat Festival.

[Hunan Province] You County Dragon Boat Festival, pregnant women, rich people with flower money wine and food, poor people prepared chicken wine, bamboo clip kozo money, for the dragon boat in front of the dragon's head to pray for a safe birth. In Yuezhou Prefecture, the race is thought to be for the avoidance of disasters and illnesses.

Also made of straw boat flooding, known as "send the plague". [Fujian Province] Fuzhou Dragon Boat Festival old custom, the daughter-in-law so the day to the birthday suit, shoes and socks, dumplings, fans into the in-laws.

Jianyang County to five days for the King of medicine sunshine capsule day, people are on this day for the sauce. Shanghang County Dragon Boat Festival with a small boat bound reeds as a dragon play on the waterfront, known as the race.

Xianyou County, after the Dragon Boat Festival, offer paper in the Hu Xiaotan, to commemorate the Jiajing Dec. Qi Jiguang drowning soldiers in this. Before the Dragon Boat Festival in Shaowu Province, women use the reddish-red yarn as a bag to hold charms.

And the five-color velvet as a square victory, linked to the colorful thread, tied to the hairpin. *** then hanging on the back, called "Dou Niang".

[Guangdong Province] from Hua County Dragon Boat Festival at noon to burn water hand-washing eyes, sprinkled in the road, known as "send disaster". Xinxing County Dragon Boat Festival, people from their neighboring temples to welcome the guide statue of God on patrol.

The witches and water, stickers to expel the evil mortal charm. Shicheng County Dragon Boat Festival, children flying kites, known as "put the disaster".

(Taiwan Province) Taiwan is located in the subtropics, the early immigrants from the mainland are unable to adapt to the climate here, died of miasma plague epidemic, heard from time to time. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival, the basic spirit of the festival to drive away diseases and epidemics, is particularly important.

The Dragon Boat Festival customs of the former Qing Dynasty can be represented by Wang Yingzeng's account in the appendix of Volume 3 of Fengshan County Records (17 ***): Early in the morning of the 5th of May, a bunch of rice stalks were burned and smoked towards the corner of the room, and kozo money was sent to the roadside, which was called "Mosquito Sending." The lintel of the door was hung with pandanus and ailanthus, and the door was inserted with a few pandas. The lintel hangs bushes and ai and inserted grass and tares, said to avoid mosquitoes and gnats; banyan a branch, said the old and more healthy.

Each other to watermelon, corn feed. Good thing in the shallow estuary, with money or cloth for the standard, three skin fishing general scramble to take, the winner of the gong cheers, the number of day fight dragon boat.

午为小儿女结五采缕，男系左腕，女系右腕，名日神炼。 Another folk saying, that inserted Ai, banyan can make the body strong.

As the saying goes, "insert banyan more brave dragon, insert Ai more brave and healthy". As a rule, students in private schools send red packets to their teachers as a token of appreciation on Duanshi Day, and the teachers return the favor with a fan.

Kiyoichiro Suzuki's "Taiwan's old habits of crown wedding funeral festival in the middle of the year" (1934) records that the mourning period of the family, the Dragon Boat Festival, do not pack rice dumplings, but by friends and relatives to give, known as the "send festival". The funeral home to sugar as a return gift.

And farmers called "Fukin" gold paper to come in the bamboo poles, inserted between, it is said to be able to prevent harm and a good harvest. Some places in the Dragon Boat Festival have the custom of making "salty tea", that is, salt to pickle perilla leaves and pomegranate leaves, said to be a medicinal tea, clear all the poisonous gas.

Jia Dong Township, Pingtung County, during the Japanese rule era, there is also the custom of fighting in the Dragon Boat Festival on the day of the stone war. Stone fighting has been passed down for hundreds of years in the Jiadong area, and every year, a few days before the Dragon Boat Festival, the people have their fists rubbing their hands in preparation for a tough battle.

Stone war to the village as a unit, organized as an army, and has a chief of staff and other positions.

Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival?

China's folk over the Dragon Boat Festival is more grand, the celebration is also very rich in activities, starting from dawn in the morning, and lasted until noon before the end. The more common activities are the following forms: 1, dragon boat race Dragon boat race, is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Legend has it that the origins of the ancient Chu people because they could not bear to see the wise minister Qu Yuan threw himself into the river to die, many people rowing boats to catch up to save. They scrambled to catch up and lost sight of the boat when it reached Dongting Lake. After that, they rowed dragon boats on May 5 every year to commemorate it. The dragon boat is used to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish will not eat Qu Yuan's body. Racing habits, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu. 2, Dragon Boat Festival food dumplings Dragon Boat Festival to eat dumplings, which is another traditional custom of the Chinese people. 3、Pei incense sacs Dragon Boat Festival children wear incense sacs, the legend has to ward off evil spirits to drive away the plague, is actually used for lapel head embellishments and decorations. 4, hanging moxa leaves calamus folk proverb: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival inserted moxa". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people put in the moxa and calamus as one of the important content. Every house is cleaned, to calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. And with calamus, moxa, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flower, made of human or tiger-shaped, known as Ai, Ai Tiger; made of wreaths, ornaments, beautiful and fragrant, women vied with each other to wear, to drive away miasma. 5, hanging Zhong Kui Zhong Kui to catch ghosts, is the Dragon Boat Festival custom.

What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival

The main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival:

1, eat zongzi

In ancient times, in order to worship Qu Yuan, Jingchu, the people of the fifth day of the fifth lunar month will be cooked glutinous rice or steamed zongzi cake into the river, for fear of fish eat, people came up with zongzi leaves wrapped in rice, outside the wrapped with colorful silk. Later, eat zongzi became the Dragon Boat Festival custom. Rice dumplings made of rice, yellow rice, jujube, commonly known as "two rice dumplings".

2, hanging mugwort

Dragon Boat Festival day, people will be in front of the courtyard door and eaves hanging mugwort or calamus, mosquitoes are afraid of this flavor, can play the effect of mosquito repellent.

Because calamus leaves are shaped like a sword, the ancients called "water sword", said it can "cut a thousand evil". People will carve the calamus into "little man", "zucchini" and other shapes, hanging in the children's neck, for good luck. It is also hung on the lintel of the door to drive away demons and ghosts.

3, Dragon Boat Race

Legend has it that the people of Chu borrowed the dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish do not eat Qu Yuan's body. Wang Zuoshi said, the ancients race dragon boat at the end of the set the fish mark, duck mark, iron mark, who got the three mark will be awarded the first runner-up. In order to allow participants to see the end from a distance, the ancients will also be on the 3 mark with brocade bow.

4, eat five poisonous cakes

Dragon Boat Festival near the summer solstice, the weather is getting hot, bacteria breeding, people are prone to heat stroke disease, the ancients then eat five poisonous cakes to eliminate disease and strengthen the body.

5, fight grass

In ancient times, people to the Dragon Boat Festival, will go to the countryside in the company of medicine, medicine on the way to fight grass to play, and gradually formed a custom. Participate in the game of the two will hold the grass relative to stand, hands each holding a grass or flower stems at both ends. After the start of the game, the two grass hook, both sides of the grass to pull their own direction, whose grass or flower stems were pulled by the other side who lost.

6, collect five poisons

Dragon Boat Festival, the girl should be in the chest don't "Zengzi", it is said that this colorful silk thread sewing, look similar to the dumplings with the cloth can drive away evil. Boys hang a gourd on the neck, the inside into the "five poisons" pattern, meaning that the "collection" of five poisons.

7, paste the gourd flowers

Because the gourd is the "fortune" resonance. In ancient times, people would use red burlap cut into a gourd, including the "five poisons" pattern, known as the "gourd flowers", May 1 stickers, May 5 at noon to take off and throw away, known as the "throw disaster! ".

8, point xionghuang wine

In the Dragon Boat Festival also has a bit of xionghuang wine custom, will put the wine in the boy's forehead to write the word "king", in the girl's head point five points, people think, so mosquitoes and flies will be cracked by the xionghuang wine to drive away evil spirits and avoid harm.

Dragon Boat Festival customs

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month for the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Duanwu, heavy Wu, Wuzhi, Summer Festival. Although the name is different, but the people around the custom of the festival is the same. Dragon Boat Festival is our country more than two thousand years of old customs, every day, every family is hanging Zhong Kui statue, hanging moxa calamus, dragon boat races, eat zongzi, drink xionghuang wine, swim a hundred diseases, Pei Xiangbao, ready to sacrifice sweet.

Hanging moxa calamus: in the Dragon Boat Festival, families are to calamus, moxa, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flowers, made in human form known as moxa people. Ai leaves hanging in the hall, cut for the tiger shape or cut color for the tiger, stick to Ai leaves, women scramble to wear to seclude evil drive miasma. Calamus as a sword, inserted in the lintel, there are demons and ghosts of the divine effect.

Dragon Boat Race: At that time, the Chu people couldn't bear to see the death of the wise minister Qu Yuan, so there were many people rowing boats to catch up with the rescue. They scrambled, chased to Dongting Lake when the trail, is the origin of the dragon boat race, after the fifth of May every year to commemorate the rowing of dragon boats. Rowing dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish do not eat the body of Qu Yuan. Racing habits, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu. In the 29th year of the Qianlong reign in the Qing Dynasty, Taiwan began to have dragon boat races, and at that time, Taiwan's governor, Mr. Chiang Yuan-jun, hosted a friendly race at the Half Moon Pond of the Fahua Temple in Tainan City. Now Taiwan holds dragon boat races on May 5 every year. Hong Kong has a race, and recently the British have followed the example of our people, organizing the Ghostbusters team, the competition.

Eat zongzi: Jing Chu people, on May 5, cook glutinous rice or steam zongzi cake into the river, to worship Qu Yuan, for fear of fish eat, so the bamboo tube loaded with glutinous rice thrown down, and then gradually use zongzi leaves instead of bamboo tube.

Drinking Xionghuang wine: this custom, in the Yangtze River Basin region of the family is very prevalent.

Swimming for a hundred diseases: this custom, prevalent in Guizhou region of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Pei Xiangbao: Dragon Boat Festival children Pei Xiangbao, not only to ward off evil spirits to drive away the plague, but also a lapel head embellishment of the wind. Incense capsule inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, shape ***, exquisite eye-catching