Painting eggs on Dragon Boat Festival is one of the traditional folk activities in China. Usually a few days before the Dragon Boat Festival, people will soak duck eggs, eggs or goose eggs in light salt water before painting. Pay attention to the following points when painting eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival:

First, choose good eggs.

Choose a complete egg with uniform size without cracks as the painting object to ensure a more beautiful painting effect.

Second, paint.

Carefully color the surface of the egg, and you can choose painting tools of different colors or shapes. You can also choose different items such as brushes, pencils and needles to create different pattern effects.

Third, pay attention to the temperature and time of baking

After the drawing is completed, it is baked according to a fixed procedure. Then slowly bake on a small fire, paying attention to the control of time and temperature.

Fourth, add herbal texture.

You can consider adding herbal texture in the process of painting, which can increase the layering and three-dimensional sense of the picture.

Fifth, be patient.

Painting eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival requires patience and care, and requires constant trial and practice.

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Dragon Boat Festival is a folk festival that integrates offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The customs mainly include dragon boat rowing, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, washing herbal water, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, soaking in dragon boat water, eating dragon boat rice, eating zongzi, putting paper dragons, putting paper kites, tying colorful silk threads and wearing sachets. As one of the four traditional festivals in China, it not only clearly records the colorful social life and cultural content of our ancestors, but also accumulates profound historical and cultural connotations.

Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Black Dragon rises to the center of the south for seven nights, just as I ching said, "the flying dragon is in the sky". The ancients worshipped the dragon ancestors on the auspicious day of "Flying Dragon to Heaven" and held some festive activities, especially those corresponding to "Dragon", such as rowing dragon boats, or taking this auspicious day to do some activities to pray for good luck and ward off evil spirits. Dragon Boat Festival is a "dragon festival", and dragon and dragon boat culture run through the historical inheritance of Dragon Boat Festival.