The fifth day of May is the Dragon Boat Festival. This folk festival that has been passed down for thousands of years has always been rich and romantic: eating rice dumplings, racing dragon boats, planting mugwort, bathing in orchid soup, worshiping Qu Yuan, wearing five-color threads, drinking realgar wine... Although the Dragon Boat Festival customs vary from place to place. , but the lively situation is the same. No wonder some people say that the Dragon Boat Festival is really a festival full of rituals. Next, I will introduce a few customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. Friends who are interested can take a look. 1. Eating Zongzi
When it comes to Dragon Boat Festival, everyone will definitely think of eating Zongzi. As the representative food of the Dragon Boat Festival, rice dumplings are said to be thrown into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from biting Qu Yuan's body; secondly, the edges of the rice dumplings are like a knife, which can eradicate diseases and disasters. After thousands of years of inheritance and development, most of the current rice dumplings are wrapped in Ruo leaves and made with glutinous rice and yellow rice. Different regions have different methods, such as sweet rice dumplings with different flavors and meat rice dumplings with different ingredients. Eating rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival not only carries the feelings of home and country, but also contains the deep true feelings of family and friends gathering together. Zongzi is known as one of the traditional foods with the deepest historical and cultural heritage in China. 2. Eating eggs and garlic
It is a custom to eat boiled eggs with garlic on the Dragon Boat Festival. Some places believe that eating boiled eggs with garlic on the Dragon Boat Festival can ward off evil spirits. The celebrations of the Dragon Boat Festival are different in different regions. People in Henan, Zhejiang and other places eat boiled eggs with garlic on the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival. They believe that eating boiled eggs with garlic on the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival can ward off evil spirits. There is a proverb among the people: "If you don't eat garlic during the Dragon Boat Festival, ghosts will come out of the door." Eating garlic during the Dragon Boat Festival is said to avoid the "five poisons", ward off evil spirits and drive away plague.
According to the old Nanjing rules, at noon of the Dragon Boat Festival, every family must put a whole head of garlic in a pot and cook it for the children to eat. . If a child eats roasted garlic, he will not suffer from dysentery in summer and will not have worms in his abdomen. Every family must eat amaranth, which is said to prevent abdominal pain in summer. On the Dragon Boat Festival in rural areas of Henan, Zhejiang and other provinces, housewives get up very early and cook garlic and eggs prepared in advance for breakfast for the family. In some places, a few pieces of mugwort leaves are added when cooking garlic and eggs. Eat garlic, eggs, and fried steamed buns for breakfast. This eating method is said to avoid the "five poisons" and is good for health. 3. With sachets
Children wear sachets during the Dragon Boat Festival. Legend has it that they are meant to ward off evil spirits and repel plague. The sachets are usually filled with some fragrant Chinese herbal medicines that can provide fragrance, repel insects, ward off plague, and prevent diseases. function. It is actually used for embellishment and decoration. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, and is wrapped with silk cloth, which overflows with fragrance. Five-color silk strings are then tied into ropes and made into various shapes to form a string. They are colorful, exquisite and cute. When I was a child, my mother would wear a sachet for me on the Dragon Boat Festival. I cherished it at that time and would put it under my pillow every day when I went to bed. 4. Tie five-color silk thread
In traditional Chinese culture, the five colors "green, red, white, black, and yellow" that symbolize the five directions and five elements are regarded as auspicious colors. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, children should tie five-color silk threads on their wrists and ankles to protect their health.
Therefore, in the early morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the first important thing that adults do after getting up is to tie five-colored threads on their children's wrists, ankles, and necks. When tying the thread, children are prohibited from speaking. The five-colored thread cannot be broken or discarded at will. It can only be thrown into the river during the first heavy rain in summer or when taking a bath for the first time. It is said that children wearing five-colored thread can avoid harm from poisonous insects such as snakes and scorpions; throwing it into the river means that the river water will wash away plagues and diseases, so that the children can be safe and healthy. 5. Hanging calamus with moxa leaves
Folk proverb says: "Put willows during the Qingming Festival and moxa during the Dragon Boat Festival." During the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard planting mugwort and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the courtyard, inserts calamus and moxa sticks in the eyebrows of the door, and hangs them in the hall. They also use calamus, mugwort leaves, pomegranate flowers, garlic, and dragon boat flowers to make human or tiger shapes, which are called mugwort people and mugwort tigers. They are also made into garlands and ornaments, which are beautiful and fragrant. Women rush to wear them to drive away miasma.
Ai, also known as mugwort and mugwort. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils. The peculiar aroma it produces can repel mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants, and purify the air. Calamus is a perennial aquatic herb. Its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oil, which is a medicine that can refresh the mind, strengthen bones, eliminate stagnation, and kill insects and bacteria. It can be seen that the ancients used mugwort and calamus to prevent diseases to a certain extent. The Dragon Boat Festival is also a "health festival" passed down from ancient times. On this day, people sweep the courtyard, hang mugwort branches, hanging calamus, sprinkle realgar water, and drink realgar wine to stimulate turbidity, remove decay, and kill bacteria and prevent diseases.
The above is what I know about the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. Friends, what else do you know? Leave a message in the comment area.