Boiling salted duck eggs and garlic is our most common custom.
In some places, branches and gourds are hung on the doors of every household. It is said that the moral of gourd is blessing, and gourd can also gather wealth to avoid evil spirits.
4, tie five-color silk thread, in most places, on the Dragon Boat Festival, adults and children should wear five-color silk thread on their hands.
5, wearing sachets, sachets are generally filled with some Chinese herbal medicines with aromatic enlightenment, which have the effects of fragrance, insect repellent, plague prevention and disease prevention, and are hung around the neck.
6. As the saying goes, "May there be nails on the Dragon Boat Festival, and scorpions don't bite babies". Dyeing nails during the Dragon Boat Festival can get rid of the erosion of various toxins. This custom is not universal, but exists in some places.
7. Dragon boat race is popular in some southern areas, and it has become a cultural heritage until now.
8. According to the records of Daxing County, Kangxi, on the Dragon Boat Festival, girls have to "wear an amulet and hairpin flowers", so it is also called "Daughter's Day".
9. On the Dragon Boat Festival, some customs in the south of the Yangtze River burn Atractylodes macrocephala, Angelica dahurica and rue in the house, and then light mosquito-repellent incense to make it smoke to ward off evil spirits and detoxify.
10. Hanging wormwood on the door can repel mosquitoes.
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1, eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival. Eating zongzi is the most important thing in the Dragon Boat Festival. On the eve of Dragon Boat Festival, sister-in-law and mother-in-law sit around the hall, or on the bouncing stone road, several small rattan chairs are surrounded together, with green leaves everywhere and glutinous rice crystal clear. In the evening, the fragrance came, and neighbors were invited to send bowls to each other to exchange skills. It tastes salty. How does it look?
2, playing grass games. The so-called fighting grass, one is to answer the names of flowers and plants, as recorded in A Dream of Red Mansions: "This one says' I have Guanyin willow' and that one says' I have Luohansong'; That one says "I have a gentleman's bamboo" and this one says "I have a canna. . 。” If the answer is repeated, who will win in the end?
3. Wear long life. Longevity thread is woven in five colors: red, yellow, blue, white and black. This longevity thread is usually woven very long to express people's desire for health and longevity. At the same time, the five colors also represent the gods of the five parties, including the willingness to pray to the gods.