The Manchu people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in May to bring good luck and ward off disasters. In addition, during the Dragon Boat Festival in May, the Manchu people also pay attention to planting mugwort on the eaves to prevent diseases, and go to the countryside to walk in the dew.

It is said that washing your face, hair and clothes with the dew on this day can prevent boils and eye diseases.

In the early morning of the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, every Naxi family eats glutinous rice with sugared dates and drinks realgar wine.

In front of the door, there are white poles, three kudzu and two barley ears.

During festivals, medicine stalls are also set up in the market, selling all kinds of precious medicinal materials.

Women embroider small sachets, small purses, dolls, fan covers, pen covers and other handicrafts.

The Shui people have the custom of being vegetarian.

It is said that the distant ancestors of the Shui people moved from Jiangxi to the Sandu area of ??Guizhou, where they cultivated wasteland and established a family.

In the autumn of a certain year, the four sons of Yuanzu came to visit. When Yuanzu went upstairs to get meat to entertain them, he accidentally slipped and fell to his death.

From then on, the Shui people were only allowed to eat vegetarian food from the first day of the Duan Festival, and could not eat meat until the end of the Duan Festival.

The Dai Zongbao Festival is popular in parts of today's Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province.

It is held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

During the festival, unmarried young men and women dressed in costumes sing love songs in a circle under the trees near the village.

Then, the young man throws the rice dumpling bag to the girl he likes. If the girl is also interested, he picks up the rice dumpling bag and they go to a nearby secluded place to fall in love until sunset.

The Pumi people's Zhuanshan meeting is also known as "Rouyan Cave".

It is popular in the Pumi people's residential area in Ninglang Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province today.

It is held every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

The local Pumi people regard Lion Rock as a goddess and the highest protector. They believe that she can control reproduction and fertility and bring happiness and peace to the world.

The Duyang Festival of the Yi ethnic group is popular in Leibo, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province and along the Jinsha River.

The time is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

On the festival day, calamus and mugwort leaves are hung in front of every house, children wipe their faces with realgar wine, and young men and women make rice dumplings, bring wine and pork, and go to the beautiful mountain lawns for wrestling and horse racing.

, bullfighting, sheep fighting, dancing and other entertainment activities.

Miao Dragon Boat Festival, the Miao people living in Taijiang, Shidong, Songtao and other places in Guizhou have the custom of "Dragon Boat Festival" on the fifth day of May.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, men, women, and children of the Miao family all put on their favorite holiday costumes and flocked to the Qingshui River.

Immediately a colorful embankment of people was built in the Qingshui River.

Young girls, with their hair in high buns and dazzling silver headdresses, necklaces, earrings, and rings, dazzled in the sun, like blossoming silver flowers blooming on the causeway.

The happy people played the Lusheng, sang melodious songs, and danced joyfully.

Laughter and singing have been rushing into the blue sky.

Dong bath orchid, the Dong people living in Guizhou and Hunan, on the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, women will go to the mountains to collect herbs, and go home to make fragrant soup to wash their bodies and hair.

'After washing, the housewife walked up to the bamboo building and respectfully wrapped the rice dumplings (zongzi).

When making rice dumplings, it is forbidden for adult men to go upstairs.

On the festival day, every family offers Cao Pu wine in front of their ancestors’ tablets and rice dumplings on their grandmother’s tablets.

Women wrap Cao Pu leaves around their children's heads and draw the word "王" on their foreheads with realgar wine.

Inside and outside the house, water boiled with chili peppers and kapu is sprayed, and realgar garlic oil is made and sprinkled on the dishes to be eaten.

Dong people who live along rivers and lakes have the custom of rowing and racing dragon boats, while those who live in mountainous areas have the custom of digging grass in the mountains.

The Yi people collect and sell medicines. The Yi people living in Xiaoliangshan area have the custom of collecting and selling medicines during the Dragon Boat Festival.

"In the festive season, men and women are busy collecting medicinal herbs." It means that during the Dragon Boat Festival, rainwater pours down and grass grows. Most Chinese herbal medicines have deep roots and luxuriant leaves, and enter the stage of ready medicine.

People carry medicine hoes on their shoulders and medicine baskets on their backs in small groups, walking through high mountains, deep valleys, and riversides, tasting all kinds of herbs and concentrating on collecting them.

Shui Nationality Horse Racing, Shui Nationality holds horse racing activities during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Horse racing events are held on dedicated horse trails.

Before the horse racing, each village will select a few respected old people to wear brand-new gowns and felt hats, and ride on horses covered in red and colorful colors to walk along the horse track first, which is called "clearing the way", which means good luck.

Before the competition, the riders perform superb riding skills such as leaping horses in the air to adjust the joyful atmosphere on the field before starting the competition.

The traditional horse racing of the Shui tribe is not based on speed, but on the endurance of the horse and the superb riding skills of the rider.

The Buyi people playing snails is a custom that the aristocratic Buyi people have during the Dragon Boat Festival.

The lattice is usually made of bronze wood or horn.

The shape of the snail is quite like a funnel, with a round top and a pointed bottom. The round top of the top is 2 to 4 centimeters thick, making it easy to whip and rotate.

The snails vary in size and are extremely finely crafted.