Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival:

1, eat zongzi: Dragon Boat 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.

2, hanging mugwort: folk proverb: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival plug Ai". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people put the insertion of moxa and calamus as one of the important content. Households have to sweep the courtyard, to calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall.

Duanwu Festival food:

1, salted duck eggs: as the saying goes: "to eat salted eggs dumplings, before the cold sent." Because after the Dragon Boat Festival heralded the arrival of the hot summer, plant and animal life activities into the peak stage, coupled with the humid climate, pests and bacteria are active, prone to numerous diseases. Eating salted duck eggs at the Dragon Boat Festival can dispel toxins and help keep the body healthy.

2, Ai buns: many places over the Dragon Boat Festival also use rice flour or flour fermentation and Artemisia with steamed buns. Ai contains a variety of volatile oils, has an aromatic odor, can be insecticidal, on a variety of bacteria and some skin fungi have inhibitory effect, so the ancient Dragon Boat Festival in addition to the disease to drive away the plague, regardless of whether the food or with, Ai are essential.