Simple and beautiful Dragon Boat Festival drawing steps are as follows:

Material preparation: white paper, black outlining pen, color markers.

1, draw the basic outline of the dragon boat and dumplings. The shape of the dragon boat is an inverted crescent shape, draw three inverted arcs on the crescent shape in turn, which is the prototype of the three dumplings.

2. Add expressions to the dumplings. In the outline of the dumplings first draw the clothes, only the left and right sides of the three curves, and then for the three different dumplings to draw a different expression.

3. Draw small hands and oars. Draw the first dumpling with waving hands, just a few lines and a few circles. The remaining two dumplings have oars in their hands, which need to go through the crescent-shaped boat.

4, additional background. Draw a horizontal line at the back of the dumplings, a few rounded arcs on the horizontal line, you can overlap the arcs to represent the rolling mountains. Draw the sun in the upper left corner of the painting, and clouds to the right of the sun, taking care to maintain a certain distance from the mountains.

5. Paint the colors. Paint the sun, the clouds, the mountains, the dragon boat and the dumplings in the appropriate colors. The bottom should be painted with blue color, it represents the river, you can embellish some white waves on the river. This completes a vivid and beautiful picture of rice dumplings paddling dragon boat.

Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival:

1, Dragon Boat Racing

Dragon boat racing is one of the most representative customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. This activity originated from an ancient Chinese legend.

It is said that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, people rowing to rescue him, in order to prevent fish and shrimp to eat Qu Yuan's body, have been sprinkled into the river rice. Later, the tradition evolved into a folk racing competition and became an important ceremonial activity of the Dragon Boat Festival.

2, wearing mugwort

In the Dragon Boat Festival, people also have a custom that has been passed down for a long time, that is, wearing mugwort. According to folklore, after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the people wrapped the mugwort into bundles and tied them at the door and ankles in his honor.

3, eating dumplings

Duanwu Festival of course, dumplings, which is the most classic featured food of this festival. Zongzi is made of glutinous rice and a variety of fillings wrapped in zongzi leaves steamed and become, different regions have different packages and flavors. Traditional zongzi have a variety of flavors, including salty, sweet, salty and sweet.