Fujian 1
The Dragon Boat Festival customs in Fujian mainly include cooking zongzi to wash your body, smoking yellow cigarettes, sending fish, dancing, dragon boat racing, tying colorful silk thread, soaking bluegrass, collecting herbs as afternoon tea, worshipping ancestors, catching ducks on the water, eating peaches, zongzi, frying piles, eating bowls of safe swallows and so on. Fuzhou Dragon Boat Festival is an old custom, so the daughter-in-law gives shroud, shoes and socks, zongzi and fans to her in-laws. In Jianyang County, 5th is the King Day of Sun-drying capsules, and people make sauces on this day. During the Dragon Boat Festival in Shanghang County, the boat was tied with reeds and a dragon-shaped play was performed at the water's edge, which was called dragon boat race. After the Dragon Boat Race in Xianyou County, paper was presented at Huxiao Beach to commemorate Qi Jiguang's drowning here during Jiajing period. Before Shao Wufu's Dragon Boat Festival, women used crimson yarn as a bag. Five-color velvet is the winning surface, and the colored thread is tied. The girl hung upside down on her back and was called "Dou Niang".
2. Jiangsu
In addition to dragon boat rowing, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangsu also includes zongzi, realgar wine and Huang Wu banquet, while the holiday decorations include maps of five poisons, pictures of calamus and mugwort leaves, statues of Zhong Kui, colorful lines wrapped around arms, silk jiaozi, clothes of five poisons and sachets. In Jiangnan, there is also a unique custom of expelling drugs and avoiding evil spirits-eliminating red mouth and white tongue; Portraits of Zhong Kui and Guandi are hung in the hall, like bottles in front, calamus and mugwort leaves inserted, and calamus and mugwort leaves wrapped in red paper are inserted on the left and right sides of the portal; Write the following words in red paper and stick them outside the door, all of which mean to ward off evil spirits. There is a saying in Yizheng County, "When pants, buy yellow croaker". On the Dragon Boat Festival in Nanjing, families use a box of clear water, plus a little realgar and goose eye money. The whole family washes their eyes with this kind of water, which is called "breaking the eyes of fire". It is said that it can protect them from eye diseases for a year. There is a dragon boat show in Wujin at night. In the evening, small lanterns are hung around the dragon boat, and flutes and drums sing harmoniously. During the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiading County, people, rich or poor, have to buy stone fish (commonly known as mandarin fish) to cook.
3. Guangdong
Guangdong has a long history of celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival, which has been a lively, grand and festive festival in Guangdong since ancient times. There are many customs of Guangdong Dragon Boat Festival, mainly including picking dragon boats, eating zongzi, inserting wormwood, making the finishing point, worshipping gods and ancestors, praying for disaster relief, drinking water at noon, inserting wormwood, holding dragon boats, eating dragon boat meals, gathering lunches, flying kites, washing herbal water and soaking in dragon boat water. Guangdong people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with rich customs. There are many river networks in the south, and water sports activities have a long history.
4. Hainan
In the Dragon Boat Festival in Hainan, in addition to making dumplings and eating zongzi, there are also traditional customs such as washing dragon boat water, racing dragon boat, eliminating the five poisons and offering sacrifices to ancestors. "Yazhou Zhi" records that "Dragon Boat Festival in May, there is a dragon boat race in Baoping. Worship the ancestors for the Pope, in order to feed back the legacy. Also collected reed flowers, herbs and wormwood, soaked in water to bathe the gods. Or fold the door to prevent the epidemic. On that day, all the men and women went out to watch the game. Children fly kites at various angles. Luo Le rushed to raise Li Fu and Li San and gathered thousands of people to kill each other, calling it kite fighting, although the government could not ban it. " It can be seen that in history, people in Guyazhou area had extremely rich celebrations before and after the Dragon Boat Festival.
5. Guangxi
Guangxi Dragon Boat Festival folk activities mainly include dragon dance, lion dance, waist drum and other folk cultural performances. In southern Guangxi, such as Ningming, Chongzuo, Longzhou and other places, the Dragon Boat Festival should be wrapped in cool brown, which is called "grey water zongzi". Before making zongzi, cut off some branches and leaves of neem and other trees on the mountain, pile them on the flat ground when the sun is half dry, and then put the ash in a bamboo container and filter it with clear water. Finally, soak the prepared glutinous rice in the filtered brown water. After soaking, glutinous rice will reveal a unique fragrance of plant ash in its original fragrance, and the wrapped glutinous rice balls are mostly yellowish or brownish yellow after being cooked.
6.zhejiang province
Dragon Boat Festival is a special festival with a long history, rich content and diverse cultural customs. Generally speaking, it is a common custom to worship ancestors, race dragon boats, eat zongzi, offer sacrifices to dragon heads, order dzi beads, wear red flowers, hang calamus and mugwort leaves, tie colored silk, drink realgar wine, eat Huang Wu, wear sachets and collect herbs. In addition, Wuyi and Quzhou in Jinhua have the custom of eating garlic during the Dragon Boat Festival. On the Dragon Boat Festival in Jinhua, there is still the custom of marrying a woman as her parents to "bear the Dragon Boat Festival". My daughter prepares a load of zongzi, and every five zongzi are tied into a small bundle, and two small bundles are tied as gifts for her parents. At the same time, there are incidental gifts such as pork. The content or details of customs vary from place to place. Ningbo's "Dragon Boat Festival Bear" is mainly fish, goose and wine. , packed in baskets, ranging from four colors to twelve colors; Relatives also feed each other, which is called "sending festivals".
7. Jiangxi
During the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangxi, there are customs such as eating zongzi, drinking realgar wine, hanging calamus, wormwood, wormwood leaves, making damselflies (a kind of headdress), weaving colored ropes, wearing sachets, drawing foreheads, wearing colored ropes and racing dragon boats. Jianchang prefecture in Jiangxi province bathed in herbal water at noon to prevent scabies, and Xinchang county drank realgar cinnabar wine, which was called "opening eyes".
8.anhui province
The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Anhui mainly include stepping on a hundred herbs, going home, racing dragon boats, wrapping zongzi in the city, making farm cakes, inserting cattails and hanging mugwort leaves, drinking realgar wine, hanging sachets, wearing colored silk zongzi and beating a hundred herbs. There are generally two ways to fight a hundred herbs: one is to test the name of the grass and answer each other with the name of the roadside grass. One is to test the toughness of grass and win with toughness. On the Dragon Boat Festival, people in the city generally eat zongzi, while people in the countryside eat "big leaf cakes".
9.hunan
The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival along the Miluo River in Hunan mainly include holding family banquets, eating zongzi, hanging calamus with moxa sticks, drinking realgar wine, dragon boat racing, watching dragon boats, returning to parents' homes, saying goodbye to the Dragon Boat Festival, and other customs with unique cultural connotations, such as singing praises, launching dragon boats, worshipping temples and so on. The government of Yuezhou, Hunan Province, considered the game a disaster and a disease. Also known as "sending plague", when the grass boat comes to flood. On the Dragon Boat Festival in Youxian County, Hunan Province, wealthy pregnant women eat and drink with flowers, poor people prepare chicken wine, and collect money with bamboo clips in front of the dragon boat faucet to pray for safe production.
Yunnan 10
The customs of Yunnan Dragon Boat Festival include welcoming the gods, offering coins, offering the first sacrifice, offering Asian sacrifices, drinking blessings and receiving gifts, and watching meteors. There are also programs such as wearing Hanfu, reading poems, performing Yue Opera, and shooting ceremonies. Local people in Pu 'er, Yunnan don't eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival, but take medicine roots.
Dragon Boat Festival is always busy. Before the festival, people rushed to buy palm leaves, calamus, mugwort leaves and madder ... Tradition is a wonderful force, so every generation voluntarily celebrates the Dragon Boat Festival and completes these customs year after year. In order to carry forward the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, dig deep into the cultural and spiritual connotation of traditional festivals, and let young friends know about traditional festivals, love traditional festivals and inherit cultural customs.