You can go back to your parents’ home during the Dragon Boat Festival.

In the Beijing area, daughters who become monks must dress themselves up to look as beautiful as possible when they return to their parents’ home. Moreover, when visiting relatives, they wear colorful silk threads on their arms and red velvet flowers on their chests. Daughters-in-law with skillful hands can also weave colorful rice dumplings. Some colorful rice dumplings are filled with Chinese herbal medicines, which have the connotation of blessing birthdays, preventing epidemics and diseases, avoiding plague and toxins, and hoping for good luck and good fortune. They are given to parents to pray for longevity.

In Hubei, there is a folk saying that "Dragon Boat Festival is getting older than the New Year, and girls go back to their parents' homes." Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is even more grand than the Spring Festival. Not only do we need to buy new clothes and new shoes for our parents, but we also prepare a variety of Dragon Boat Festival delicacies. An indispensable custom is to boil the duck eggs before returning to your parents' home, peel off the shells, then change them into different colors and take them to your parents' home.

People in Guangdong attach great importance to the Dragon Boat Festival. The old custom is to celebrate the festival from the second to the fourth day of the fifth lunar month. Generally, when you go back to your parents' home, you must use six or four "full boxes" with rice dumplings, pork, raw chicken, eggs, fruits, wine, etc. to send back to your parents' home to congratulate the elders on the festival.

The newly married daughter-in-law must weave bags and sachets with five-color silk threads in advance and send them to her parents’ home for their underage children. The daughter-in-law's craftsmanship is commonly known as "new hugging craftsmanship".

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The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

Commemorating Qu Yuan: This theory first came from "Xu Qi Xie Ji" by Wu Jun of the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties and "Xu Qi Xie Ji" by Zong Mao of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Records of the Years of Jingchu. "Jidu is deeply saddened by thousands of years of injustice, but the loyal soul can be restored once it is gone. The country is dead and the body is dead. What is there now, only Lisao is left in the world." (Zhang Lei's "He Dragon Boat Festival"). Qu Yuan, the official of Sanlu of Chu State, advocated uniting Qi to resist Qin. He was demoted for slander and exiled to the Yuan and Xiang River basins.

During his exile, Qu Yuan was concerned about the country and the people. He wrote "Heavenly Questions", wrote "Nine Songs", chanted "Li Sao", created the "Chu Ci" style, and pioneered "Vanilla Beauty".

Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Poet's Day. The Kyoto of the Chu State was captured. Qu Yuan's heart felt like a knife piercing his heart, and he could not abandon his homeland. On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Qu Yuan wrote "Huaisha" and threw himself into the river angrily and died.

When the people of Chu State heard the news, they were extremely sad and rushed to the Miluo River to pay their respects to Qu Yuan. The fishermen rowed their boats and fished for his true body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out the rice balls, eggs and other food prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river "plop, plop", saying that when the fish, lobsters and crabs were full, they would not bite Dr. Qu's body.

People followed suit after seeing it. Then it developed into the Dragon Boat Festival customs of making rice dumplings and boiled eggs. People rowed dragon boats to drive away the dragons so as not to damage Qu Yuan's body.