Dragon Boat Festival is the beginning of midsummer, and "end" means "beginning". At this time, the sun shines directly, everything is thriving, and then the grain matures and becomes a plate of Chinese food.
After the harvest, people first throw the grain into the mountains and rivers, "covered with green leaves and wrapped in colored silk." Beautiful and graceful, free from dust. It is a kind of grateful sacrifice, thanks to the gift of nature and the nurturing of all things by the earth. The Dragon Boat Festival has gradually become one of the four traditional festivals in China, which are equally famous as the Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival.
Be prepared for danger in times of peace is the wisdom handed down by our ancestors. It is this sense of hardship that made our ancestors understand that people should be kind to nature and adapt to the weather, so there are four seasons. Ancestors tell us how to spend the present, live a good life and pass it on from generation to generation in festivals. Therefore, the blessing of the Dragon Boat Festival is not happiness, but "Dragon Boat Festival health".
Dragon Boat Festival custom:
1, eat zongzi. Zongzi is a traditional festival food in China. It appeared as a food for offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, and became a festival food for the Dragon Boat Festival in the Jin Dynasty. According to folklore, eating zongzi is to commemorate Qu Yuan who threw himself into the river.
2. Dragon boat race. Legend has it that dragon boat rowing is used to disperse the fish in the river and prevent the fish from eating Qu Yuan's body. Modern dragon boat races usually build boats into the shape of dragons, draw dragon patterns, and hold competitions every year to show respect for dragons and show that they are descendants of dragons.
Step on the dew. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, people lead their children to the place where wormwood grows in the wild, gently touch the dewdrop on wormwood with their hands, and wipe their eyes and face first.