Duanwu Festival mainly do something with the Dragon Boat Festival customs related to things:

1, eat zongzi

Anciently, in order to worship the river Qu Yuan, Jingchu people on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month will cook glutinous rice or steam zongzi cake into the river for fear of the fish ate, the people came up with zongzong leaves wrapped in rice, outside the wrapped with colorful silk. Later, eat zongzi became the Dragon Boat Festival custom. Rice dumplings made of rice, yellow rice, jujube, commonly known as "two rice dumplings".

2, hanging mugwort

Duanwu Festival day, people will be in front of the courtyard and eaves hanging mugwort or calamus, mosquitoes are afraid of the flavor, can play the effect of mosquito repellent.

Because the leaves of calamus are shaped like a sword, the ancients called it "water sword", said it can "cut down a thousand evil". People will carve the calamus into "little man", "small gourd" and other shapes, hanging in the children's neck, for good luck. It is also hung on the lintel of the door to drive away demons and ghosts.

3, dragon boat racing

Legend has it that the people of Chu used dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. Wang Zuoshi said, the ancients race dragon boat at the end of the set the fish mark, duck mark, iron mark, who got the 3 mark will be awarded the first runner-up. In order to allow participants to see the finish line from a distance, the ancients would also use brocade on the 3 mark with a bow.

4, eat five poisonous cakes

Duanwu Festival near the summer solstice, the weather is getting hot, bacteria breeding, people are prone to heat stroke, the ancients were eating five poisonous cakes to eliminate disease and strengthen the body. It is said that eating the five poisonous cakes can strengthen the resistance and eliminate the insects.

5, fighting grass

Anciently, people to the Dragon Boat Festival, will go to the countryside in the company of medicine, medicine on the way to fight grass to play, and gradually formed a custom. Participate in the game of the two will hold the grass relative to stand, hands each holding a grass or flower stems at both ends. After the game began, the two grass hook, both sides of the grass to pull their own direction, whose grass or flower stems were pulled by the other side who lost.

6, collect five poisons

Duanwu Festival, the girl should be in front of the chest don't "Zengzi", it is said that this colorful silk thread sewing, look similar to the dumplings with the appearance of the cloth can drive away evil. Boys hang a gourd on the neck, inside the collection of "five poisons" pattern, meaning that the "collection" of five poisons.

7, paste gourd flowers

Because the gourd is the "fortune" of the harmony. In ancient times, people will use red burlap cut into a gourd, including the "five poisons" pattern, known as the "gourd flowers", May 1 posted, May 5 at noon to take off and throw away, known as the "throw disaster "

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8, point xionghuang wine

In the Dragon Boat Festival, there is also a bit of xionghuang wine custom, will put the wine in the boy's forehead to write the word "king", in the girl's head point five points, people think, so that mosquitoes and flies will be cracked by the xionghuang wine, to ward off evil spirits and avoid harm.