I. Dragon Boat Festival Customs:

1, wear a scented bag

Duanwu Festival, the weather is more humid, people are prone to illness. On this day, every child has to wear a scented bag, which contains some Chinese medicines and emits a special fragrance. If the child wears this scented bag, those poisonous insects will not bite the child. Many Chinese would hang a kind of scented grass called moxa leaves on their doors during the Dragon Boat Festival, so that the poisonous insects would not crawl into the house after smelling the smell of the moxa leaves.

2, eat zongzi

Every year on the Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese families will wrap zongzi and eat them. The zongzi are triangular in shape, with bamboo leaves on the outside and glutinous rice and fillings on the inside. This custom has been passed down for more than 2,000 years, and legend has it that it is in honor of one of China's patriots, Qu Yuan. He jumped into the river for the sake of his country, and people wrapped the dumplings and threw them in the river for the fish in the river to eat, so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body.

Two, the Dragon Boat Festival Introduction:

Wu Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tianzhong Festival, originated from the worship of natural celestial phenomena, evolved from the ancient times of the sacrifice of the dragon. Mid-summer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong seven lodges flying in the south of the sky, in the year's most "in" position, that is, as the "I Ching? Qian Gua" the fifth cross the lines of the day: "flying dragon in the sky". Its origin covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects of the content, contains a profound and rich cultural connotation, in the development of the inheritance of a variety of folklore as a whole, the festival is rich in customary content.