Story Legend

1, in honor of Qu Yuan. During the Warring States period of the State of Chu (now Hubei) poet Qu Yuan in the day to hold the stone jump Miluo River to kill themselves, the rulers in order to establish the loyalty of the ruler and patriotism labeled the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.

2, in honor of Wu Zixu. This person is loyal, because the villain was framed by the Fu Chai gave his death, his death Fu Chai also ordered his body into the leather, in the fifth day of May thrown into the river. After Wu Zixu's wrongful death, the present Dragon Boat Festival came into being in order to honor him.

3. Cao E, a filial daughter, drowned her father in the river and could not find his body for several days. So on the fifth day of the fifth month, she jumped into the river herself, and after a few days, Cao E floated up with her father's body in her arms. Such behavior touched the local people, and in order to commemorate Cao E's filial piety, today's Dragon Boat Festival was created.

Customs

1, eat dumplings. Eating zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival has been y rooted in people's hearts and is a kind of ritualistic existence. And now the dumplings have become food eaters competing for food, in addition to the traditional honey dates, bean paste, the southern people love to eat meat dumplings have also conquered the taste buds of the masses.

2, Pei Xiangbao. Dragon Boat Festival children wear scented pouches, legend has the meaning of the evil spirits to drive away the plague, scented pouches within the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, small and lovely, has become a common crafts.

3, hanging Ai. In the Dragon Boat Festival, people put the plug Ai and calamus as one of the important content. Households have to sweep the courtyard, with calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. And with calamus, moxa, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flower, made in the shape of a man or a tiger, known as moxa, moxa tiger; made of wreaths, ornaments, beautiful and fragrant, women vied with each other to wear to drive away miasma.

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