2. Hang calamus. On the Dragon Boat Festival in Nanning, people often tie the leaves of Chinese herbal medicines such as Acorus calamus, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Garlic and Dragon Boat Flower into a bunch and hang them by the door. Some places also have the custom of burning pomelo peel, citrus peel, atractylodes rhizome, angelica dahurica and tobacco leaves. The custom of drinking calamus wine comes from the coastal areas in the south of China. Usually, Acorus calamus is chopped before the festival, mixed with realgar and soaked in festive wine.
3. Take back "Dragon Boat Water" for cooking, boiling medicine and bathing.
4. In the old society, all the neighbors who lived near Yongjiang as children had the impression that they went to Yongjiang to get "Dragon Boat Water" (also called "Dragon Boat Water" by some residents) in the early morning of Dragon Boat Festival, and then used it for cooking, decocting medicine and bathing. However, few young people continue this custom today. Many old Nanning people are still used to buying some herbs on the Dragon Boat Festival, boiling them in water at home, and then bathing with the whole family. Every Dragon Boat Festival, there are so many vendors selling herbs in various farmers' markets, vegetable markets and streets. Most of the leaves and stems they sell are fresh wormwood, calamus, honeysuckle, wild chrysanthemum, willow leaves, eucalyptus leaves, nine-section maple, live hemp, willow branches, wild mint, mulberry leaves and other plants. It is believed that such a "medicated bath" can relieve summer heat and relieve pain, dispel wind and clear heat, and can be used on children to remove dampness and prevent miliaria.
5. Eat zongzi and brew bitter gourd on the Dragon Boat Festival in Nanning. Nanning people's favorite zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a kind of zongzi called "cold zongzi" or "alkaline zongzi". People in Nanning pay great attention to making cold dumplings. For example, it is required that the bamboo leaves wrapped in jiaozi are wide and hairless, fragrant and cool, and the shape of cold jiaozi will generally be wrapped into a slender or triangular shape. There are even some customs, which burn straw into ashes and soak it in water, and then use this to soak glutinous rice and make dumplings. When eating cold zongzi, people like to dip in honey or sugar, mainly sweet. Of course, people in Guangxi will also eat salty dumplings made of glutinous rice, slender or triangular ones during the Dragon Boat Festival.
6. The Dragon Boat Festival in Nanning is indispensable for brewing bitter gourd. Cut the bitter gourd into small pieces, hollow out the naan inside, then put the stuffing made of glutinous rice, pork and leek into the hollowed-out bitter gourd, and then steam it in a pot. Some families have many designs. Besides brewing bitter gourd, tofu and pepper also have different ways to eat.