A ? How do Koreans celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival? What is the custom?

The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. It is said that about 15 years ago, the Dragon Boat Festival culture was introduced to the Korean peninsula, and the Silla era was designated as a national folk festival. Koryo period became one of the nine national festivals. By the middle of the Korean dynasty, Dragon Boat Festival was officially identified as one of the three major festivals alongside Lunar New Year's Day and Mid-Autumn Festival.

Nevertheless, the cultural content of the Dragon Boat Festival on the Korean Peninsula is quite different from that in China. In North Korea, there is a custom for women to wash their hair and bathe with water boiled with calamus leaves, and put the roots of calamus into hairpins and get red rouge on their heads. It is said that this can drive away the plague in order to avoid evil spirits. Dragon Boat Festival is also a day for Korean men's wrestling competitions and women's swings. On this day, many Pyongyang citizens will come to Mudanfeng Park for a picnic, or barbecue fragrant beef, or drink refreshing ordinary Jiang beer and enjoy it; There are also many people who go to the banks of the Datong River to sing and dance, and enjoy themselves. The favorite folk song is "Love, My Love": "Dragon Boat Festival, spring is infinite, like a dream, love at first sight ...". The melody is beautiful and the rhythm is slow, showing the romance and lingering of the Korean Dragon Boat Festival. In addition, Koreans are used to making folding fans and round fans and giving them to relatives and friends.

North Korea and South Korea don't eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. A few years ago, a report sent back by Gong Yidong, a reporter of Xinhua News Agency in Pyongyang, wrote: "Although there are no zongzi to eat, there are still countless delicious foods on the Dragon Boat Festival, among which the most distinctive ones are Ai cake, burdock cake, dog tongue grass cake, soup, rice dumplings and cherry scented tea. Burdock cake and Hedyotis diffusa cake are rice cakes made of burdock and Hedyotis diffusa respectively, which are refreshing and delicious, and sweet when eaten in the mouth. The soup is a cool drink made by grinding raw materials such as plum meat, tsaoko, and paten incense into powder, boiling them in honey, and then melting them in cold water. After drinking it, there is a feeling of' sobering up'. " In addition, traditional Korean cold noodles, wheel cakes and medicinal cakes are also essential. It is said that North Korea and South Korea don't eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival, which is due to the fact that the climate of the Korean peninsula can't grow wide reed leaves in history. In addition, Koreans don't tie the red line during the Dragon Boat Festival to ward off evil spirits and drive away diseases.

In South Korea, the most distinctive feature of the Dragon Boat Festival is the "gangneung danoje festival", which has developed into a large-scale comprehensive activity integrating sacrifice, folk art, folk sports, temple fairs and sightseeing. On November 24th, 25, gangneung danoje festival was successfully applied for the World Heritage. But in any case, the Dragon Boat Festival between North Korea and South Korea is inseparable from the Dragon Boat Festival in China.