What are the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival?

1, wearing a scented capsule bai Dragon Boat Festival children wear scented capsule du, the legend has to ward off evil spirits to drive away the plague of zhi meaning, is actually used for lapel point dao embellishment decoration. 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.

2, hanging mugwort in the Dragon Boat Festival, people put the plug and calamus as one of the important content. Households have to clean the courtyard, to calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall.

3, dragon boat racing dragon boat racing originated in ancient times, Qu Yuan threw himself into the river to die, many people rowing boats to catch up to save. They scrambled to chase to Dongting Lake when they disappeared. After that, every year on May 5, dragon boat to commemorate. The dragon boat is used to disperse the fish in the river so that the fish will not eat Qu Yuan's body.

4, long life wisp long life wisp is a Dragon Boat Festival accessories, with five-color silk thread knotted into a hand rope, can be hung at the door, hanging in the bed net, or wear on the child's neck, tied to the arm, you can avoid disaster in addition to the disease, prolong life.

5, andrographis wine in the Dragon Boat Festival, people will be soaked in wine, in the child's ears, nose, brain, wrists, ankles, etc. smeared with andrographis wine, it is said that this practice can make mosquitoes, snakes, scorpions, centipedes, geckos, spiders, toads and other do not get on the body.

6, eat zongzi Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, which is another traditional custom of the Chinese people. Zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube dumplings". The morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, families eat zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan, usually the day before the zongzi package, cooked at night, eaten in the morning.