1, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi and dragon boat racing customs, is to commemorate the history of China's great poet Qu Yuan, is also because of this liberation has been the Dragon Boat Festival named "Poet's Day". Qu Ping (about 339 BC ~ about 278 BC) word Yuan, usually called Qu Yuan, and since the cloud name Zhengze, the word Lingjun, Han nationality, the end of the Warring States period of the State of Chu Danyang (today's zigui, hubei province) people, Chu King Xiongtong's son of the descendants of Qu Yuan. Although Qu Yuan was loyal to King Huai of Chu, he was repeatedly ostracized, and after the death of King Huai, he was exiled for listening to the slanderous words of King Hai Xiang, and finally threw himself into the Miluo River and died. In China's history, the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the Qu Yuan said more than 1500 years of history. According to legend, after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, the local people heard about it and immediately rowed their boats to rescue him, but they never saw Qu Yuan's body until they reached the Dongting Lake. At that time, it was a rainy day, and the boats on the lake gathered together by the pavilion on the shore. When people learned that it was to salvage the wise minister Qu Daifu, once again braved the rain, scrambling to row into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to send their condolences, people swing boat on the river, and then gradually developed into a dragon boat race. The people are afraid of the river fish eat his body, they have to go home to bring the rice ball into the river, so as to avoid fish and shrimp spoiled Qu Yuan's body, and later became the custom of eating rice dumplings.

2, Dragon Boat Festival customs are:

(1) Dragon Boat Race: Dragon Boat Race is an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, it is the earliest when the ancient Yue people sacrificed to the God of the water or the God of the Dragon, a sacrificial activity, whose origins may have begun at the end of primitive society. Has been passed down for more than two thousand years. History records that the dragon boat race is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan and the rise. From this, we can see that dragon boat racing is not only a kind of sports and recreational activities, but also reflects the spirit of patriotism and collectivism in people's hearts.

(2) Pei Xiangbao: Dragon Boat Festival children Pei Xiangbao, legend has the meaning of the evil spirits to drive away the plague, is actually used for the lapel head embellishment decoration. The scented 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. In some southern cities in China, young men and women also use scented bags to express strong love.

(3) Hanging Ai: In the Dragon Boat Festival, people inserted Ai and calamus as one of the important content. Households have to sweep the courtyard, with calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. And with calamus, moxa, durian, garlic, dragon boat flower, made in the shape of a man or a tiger, known as moxa, moxa tiger; made of wreaths, ornaments, beautiful and fragrant, women compete to wear, to drive away miasma.

(4) hanging Zhong Kui statue: Zhong Kui to 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, steal Yang Guifei's scent bag and Minghuang's jade flute, around the temple and run. The big ghost was wearing a blue robe and hat, caught the little ghost, gouged out its eyes, swallowed.

(5) Points of Xionghuang wine: Xionghuang is also a kind of medicine, said to be able to kill a hundred poisons. Therefore, during the Dragon Boat Festival, ancient people would soak andrographis in wine and smear it on children's ears, nose, brain, wrists and ankles, etc. It is said that this practice can keep mosquitoes, snakes, scorpions, centipedes, geckos, spiders, etc., from getting into their bodies.