The Dragon Boat Festival is very much characterized by the content of warding off evil spirits and dispelling diseases and preventing epidemics, such as hanging mugwort, water at noon, dipping in the water of the Dragon Boat, tying the five-colored silk threads to ward off evil spirits, as well as washing the herbal water and fumigating Cangzhu to dispel diseases and prevent epidemics, and so on.

Duanwu Festival (the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar), also known as the Duanyang Festival, Dragon Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zheng Yang Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Tianzhong Festival, and so on, is a traditional Chinese folk festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a festival created by the ancient ancestors of Baiyue for ancestor worship. Because of the legend that Qu Yuan, a poet of the Chu State during the Warring States Period, jumped into the Miluo River on May 5 to kill himself, people later also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.

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1, zongzi: Dragon Boat Festival food zongzong is China's traditional customs, zongzi shape a lot of different varieties, there are generally triangular, quadrangular, pointed triangular, square, rectangular and other shapes. Because of the different flavors around China, there are mainly sweet, salty two.

2, xionghuang wine: Dragon Boat Festival drinking xionghuang wine custom, once upon a time in the Yangtze River Basin region is extremely popular. Ground into powdered xionghuang soaked white or yellow wine. Xionghuang can be used as an antidote, insecticide.

3, five yellow: Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other areas of the Dragon Boat Festival to eat "five yellow" custom. Five yellow, refers to the yellow fish, cucumber, eel, duck egg yolk, yellow wine. There are other sayings, salted duck eggs can be replaced with soybeans.