Dragon boat festival food custom
Unlike most areas in Shandong where rice dumplings are wrapped with reed leaves, in Yimeng Mountain and Rizhao, people wrap rice dumplings with a kind of Bole leaves on the hillside. Its shape is a bit like a palm, but it is bigger than the palm. Every year around Tomb-Sweeping Day, people collect them and dry them, which are used to wrap zongzi and steam steamed bread.
At noon, there is also the custom of eating mugwort leaves and boiling eggs all over Shandong. Eating Ai eggs is an important custom for the Dragon Boat Festival in old Jinan. They believe that eating an egg boiled with wormwood leaves on the Dragon Boat Festival can keep fit and get rid of diseases, and make you healthy for a year. This custom has continued in Jinan to this day. In addition to zongzi and eggs, there are also cold cakes, ruling cakes, rose cakes, wisteria cakes and so on.
Artemisia argyi?
On the day of Dragon Boat Festival, mugwort is commonly inserted at the door in all areas of Shandong. In addition to Artemisia argyi, peach branches are also inserted in some areas of Jiaodong, while cypress branches are inserted in the gate of Linyi area to ward off evil spirits. ?
With a poison bag?
On the Dragon Boat Festival, children should bring a "Five Poisons Bag" with embroidered five poisons (snake, scorpion, centipede, gecko, toad), which means fighting poison with poison to ensure health. Mom or grandma will put a warm egg in her pocket, or roll it on her belly a few times, and say something like "no stomach pain for a year" while doing it.
Wearing a sachet?
"The sachet is worn on the lapel, and the doll is cute." Wearing sachets for children is a popular custom in Jinan Dragon Boat Festival. The sachet is embroidered with cotton fabric and silk thread. In addition to realgar and Rhizoma Atractylodis, the sachet also contains spices made of herbs, which are worn on the body to repel insects and filth.