The Dragon Boat Festival customs are:
1, Dragon Boat Racing
Dragon Boat Racing, is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Legend has it that it originated in ancient times when the people of Chu could not bear to see the wise minister Qu Yuan throw himself into the river to die, and many people rowed boats to catch up to save him. They scrambled and chased to Dongting Lake when they disappeared. After that, they rowed dragon boats on May 5 every year to commemorate it. The dragon boat was used to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. The custom of racing was prevalent in Wu, Yue and Chu.
2, Dragon Boat Festival food dumplings
Duanwu Festival to eat zongzi, which is another traditional custom of the Chinese people. Zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube dumplings". It has a long history, a variety of patterns. The morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, families eat zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan, usually the day before the zongzi package, boiled at night, eaten in the morning. Zongzi package is mainly with the river and pond side of the abundance of young reed leaves, some areas are also used bamboo leaves, collectively known as zongzi leaves. The traditional form of zongzi for the triangle, generally named according to the flesh, wrapped glutinous rice called rice zongzi, rice mixed with small beans called small beans zongzi, mixed with jujube called jujube zongzi, collectively known as glutinous rice zongzi. Jujube rice dumplings harmonic for "early in", so eat the most date rice dumplings, meaning that the children ate in the study can be early in the Scholar. In the past, the readers to participate in the day of the imperial examinations, the morning to eat jujube rice dumplings, to date, secondary school, university entrance exams in the morning, some parents have to do jujube rice dumplings to the candidates to eat.
3, Pei scented bag
Duanwu Festival children Pei scented bag, the legend has the meaning of the evil spirits to drive away the plague, is actually used for the lapel head embellishment decoration. Incense capsule inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then the 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. In some southern cities in China, young men and women also use scented bags to express strong love.
4, hanging Ai
Proverb: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival plug Ai". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people take the insertion of moxa and calamus as one of the important contents. 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 of human or tiger-shaped, known as Ai man, Ai tiger; made of wreaths, ornaments, beautiful and fragrant, women compete to wear, to drive away miasma. Dragon Boat Festival is also passed down from ancient times, "Health Festival", people in this day to clean the courtyard, hanging moxa sticks, hanging calamus, sprinkle andrographis water, drink andrographis wine, stirring up turbidity in addition to corrosion, sterilization and prevention of disease. These activities also reflect the fine tradition of the Chinese nation. Dragon Boat Festival on the mountains to pick medicine, is China's various nationalities **** the same custom.
5, hanging Zhong Kui statue
Zhong Kui catch ghosts, is the Dragon Boat Festival custom. In the Jianghuai area, the family is hanging Zhong Kui statue, used to suppress the house to drive away evil spirits. Tang Minghuang Kaiyuan, from the Lixan martial arts back to the palace, malaria, dreaming of two ghosts, a small, small, small ghosts wearing red crotchless pants, stealing Yang Guifei's scent bag and Minghuang's jade flute, around the temple and run. The big ghost is wearing a blue robe and hat, caught the little ghost, gouge out its eyes, swallowed. Ming Emperor asked, the big ghost said: my surname Zhong Kui, that is, the martial arts not first, would like to remove the demons for His Majesty, Ming Emperor woke up, malaria cured, so make the painter Wu Daozi, according to what I saw in the dream painted Zhong Kui to catch the ghosts of the portrait, the order of the world in the end of the Dragon Boat Festival, all posted to drive away the evil spirits.
6, hanging purse and bolted five-color silk thread
Ying Shao "Customs" recorded: "May 5, to five-color silk tie arm, the name of the long-life wisp, a renewal of life wisp, a Pai Bing Bing Zeng, a five-color wisp, a Zhu Suo, Pai Bing and the ghosts, the fate of the people are not sick plague.
Ancient China revered the five colors, to five colors for the auspicious color. Therefore, early in the morning of the festival, the adults in each family get up the first thing is in the child's wrists, ankles, neck tethered to the five-color line. When tying the thread, children are forbidden to speak. The five-color line can not be arbitrarily broken or discarded, only in the first summer rain or the first bath, thrown into the river. It is said that children wearing the five-color thread can avoid the harm of snake and scorpion-type poisonous insects; throwing it into the river means letting the river wash away the plague and diseases, and children can thus preserve their health and well-being.
Meng Yuanlao's "Tokyo Dreaming Records," Volume VIII recorded: Dragon Boat Festival objects, hundred of rope, mugwort, silver-like drums, flowers and cleverly painted fans, incense candy, dumplings small, white balls. Perilla, calamus, papaya, and all velvet cut, to incense and medicine, with plum red box wrapped. Since the first of May and the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, selling peaches, willow, sunflower, cattail leaves, Fudao Ai. The next day, every family spread at the door, with five-color water ball, tea and wine offerings. The next day, all the houses spread out the flowers on the doorsteps and offered them with five-colored water balls, tea and wine.
Chen Yuanliang's "Years and Seasons," citing "Miscellaneous Records of Years and Seasons," mentions a kind of "Duanwu to red and white coloring such as a capsule, with colorful threads, twitching to make the shape of a flower, or with or nailed to the door, in order to avoid the red mouth and white tongue, and is also called twitching money". As well as another "mussel powder bells": "the fifth day of the end of the mussel powder in the silk, decorated with sheep, such as a number of beads. So that the children to bring to absorb sweat." The contents of these portable bags have changed several times, from the clam powder to absorb sweat, to drive away evil spirits, copper coins, andrographis powder to ward off insects, developed into a spice-filled scented pouches, the production is also becoming more and more sophisticated, and became the Dragon Boat Festival unique folk art.
Similarly, there is drinking xionghuang wine: this custom, in the Yangtze River Basin area of the family is very popular. Swimming in a hundred diseases: this custom, prevalent in the Guizhou region of the Dragon Boat Festival.
7, point xionghuang wine
Xionghuang is also a kind of medicine, said to be able to kill a hundred poison. Therefore, during the Dragon Boat Festival, Shaanxi people will soak Xionghuang in wine and smear it on children's ears, noses, brains, wrists and ankles, etc. It is said that this practice can keep mosquitoes, snakes, scorpions, centipedes, geckos and spiders away from their bodies.
Duanwu Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Duanyang Festival, the May Festival, the Festival of the Five Days ...... In the Spring and Autumn period before the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to dispel diseases and prevent epidemics, after the patriotic poet Qu Yuan martyred on this day and evolved into the Chinese Han people to pay homage to Qu Yuan as well as remembering the Chinese nation's high and pure feelings of the festival, along the line of the present, Qu Yuan's name for hundreds of years, the patriotic spirit has also spread to all parts of China. But there are exceptions, the Dragon Boat Festival around the East Wu traditionally does not commemorate Qu Yuan, but to commemorate the 5th of May was thrown into the river Wu Zixu, and Wu and Yue region to the Dragon Boat Race and the custom of tribal totem rituals held on this day is even earlier than the Spring and Autumn Period long time. Dragon Boat Festival have eat zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, artemisia, mugwort, smoked atractylodes, angelica, drink xionghuang wine and other customs. "The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the national holidays and has been included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List.