The custom of Dragon Boat Festival all over the country
[Hebei Province]
Beiping avoids drilling well water during the Dragon Boat Festival, and often pre-draws it before the festival, which is said to avoid well poison. Street vendors also sell cherry mulberries on the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that they eat cherry mulberries on the Dragon Boat Festival, but they don't eat flies by mistake all year round. "Five Poison Cakes", which are cakes decorated with five poisonous insect patterns, are sold in various food shops. Luanxian county has engaged men and women in-laws to give gifts to each other on the Dragon Boat Festival. On the Dragon Boat Festival in Zhao County, the local government will hold a party in the south of the city, inviting the literati in the city to feast and compose poems, which is called "stepping on the willow".
[Shandong Province]
On the Dragon Boat Festival in zouping county, everyone needs a drink when getting up early, which is said to ward off evil spirits. Rizhao Dragon Boat Festival wraps seven colors of thread around children, and it has to be worn until the first rain after the festival before it is untied and thrown into the rain. At the Dragon Boat Festival in Linqing County, boys under the age of seven wear symbols (necklaces made of wheat barnyard grass), girls wear pomegranate flowers, and they also wear yellow shoes made by their mothers themselves, and five kinds of poisonous insects are painted on the vamps with brush strokes. It means killing five kinds of poisonous insects with Qu Yuan's ink. Jimo washes his face with dew on the morning of Dragon Boat Festival.
[Shanxi Province]
On the Dragon Boat Festival in Xiezhou, men and women wear mugwort leaves, which is called "getting rid of diseases", while young children tie hundreds of ropes around their necks. It is said that this is "tying dragons for Qu Yuan". During the Dragon Boat Festival in Xizhou, villages offer sacrifices to the Dragon King and hang paper in the fields. The Dragon Boat Festival in Huairen County is also known as "Zhumen". On the Dragon Boat Festival in Dingxiang County, students are required to give gifts to teachers. Lu 'an House steamed dumplings with wheat flour, called "white dumplings", and presented them to each other together with zongzi.
[Shaanxi Province]
On the Dragon Boat Festival in Xing 'an Prefecture, local officials led their families to watch the race, which was called "Treading the Stone". At the Dragon Boat Festival in Xingping County, a small horn millet was sewn with silk, and a small doll was sewn below, which was called "playing with dolls". Tongguan County's Dragon Boat Festival is called "town disease" with Pu 'ai and paper cows sticking to the door.
[Gansu Province]
Picking roses during the Dragon Boat Festival in Jingning Prefecture is based on honey pickling. Zhenyuan County presented the newlyweds with fragrant fans, Luo Qi, towel handkerchief and Ai Hu during the Dragon Boat Festival. Children also invite their fathers and brothers to feast their teachers, which is called "Enjoying the Festival". At the Dragon Boat Festival in Zhangxian County, the shepherd boy worships the mountain gods. Accumulated salary hill, burned before the cock crows, commonly known as "burning mountains".
[Jiangsu Province]
In Jiading County, no matter rich or poor, you must buy grouper (commonly known as bighead carp) for cooking. Yizheng county also has a common saying "when pants, buy yellow croaker". On the Dragon Boat Festival in Nanjing, each family uses a box of clear water, and adds a little realgar and goose eye money. All the family members use this water to wash their eyes, which is called "breaking the eye of fire". It is said that they can be protected from eye diseases for one year. There is a dragon boat show in Wujin at night. At night, small lanterns are hung around the dragon boat to compete, and there are flutes and drums singing in harmony.
[Sichuan Province]
Shizhu has the custom of "going out for the Dragon Boat Festival". Four people use two bamboo poles to lift a generous table with a red carpet. A Taoist priest riding a tiger is woven with bamboo sticks on the carpet. Beating gongs and drums, marching in the street. In the old days, there was a custom of "typing" on the Dragon Boat Festival in western Sichuan. On that day, everyone in Chengdu bought plums and threw them up and down in the southeast corner of the city, attracting tens of thousands of viewers. In the 21 ST year of Guangxu (1895), this custom stopped because of the sudden conflict between throwing Li and foreign missionaries. Leshan, Xinjin and other places also hold grand commodity fairs during the Dragon Boat Festival.
[Xijiang Province]
Students in rural schools in Tonglu County have a gift to their teachers during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is called "Yi Si". Physicians collect medicines at noon, and it is said that the heavenly doctor is in the sky on this day.
[Jiangxi Province]
Jianchang Prefecture bathes in herbal water at noon to prevent scabies. Xinchang County drinks it in realgar and cinnabar wine, which is called "eyes opening".
[Hubei Province]
In Bahe Town, Huanggang County, Nuo people are greeted at the Dragon Boat Festival, and their crowns are tattooed. Yichang County competes in the Dragon Boat Festival, but it is especially prosperous on May 13th, 14th and 15th. On May 15th, also known as "Daduanyang", people eat zongzi and drink Pu wine, just like the Dragon Boat Festival.
[Hunan Province]
During the Dragon Boat Festival in Youxian County, pregnant women whose families are rich use flowers to eat and drink, while the poor prepare chicken wine, and bamboo clips are used to give money to the dragon head to pray for safe production. The Yuezhou government thought that the race was a disaster and a disease. Also known as "sending plague", it is used as a straw boat to flood.
[Fujian Province]
The Dragon Boat Festival is an old custom in Fuzhou, so the daughter-in-law presents her in-laws with shroud, shoes and socks, dumplings and fans every day. Jianyang county takes the 5th as the medicine king's day of drying medicine capsules, and people all make sauces on this day. During the Dragon Boat Festival in Shanghang County, reeds were tied with boats to make a dragon-shaped play on the waterfront, which was called a race. After the Dragon Boat Festival race in Xianyou County, a paper was presented at Huxiaotan to commemorate Qi Jiguang's drowning here in the year of Jiajing. Before the Dragon Boat Festival in Shaowufu, women used crimson yarn as a capsule. Five-color velvet is used as the winning side, and colored thread is tied to the hairpin. The young girl hangs on her back and is called "Dou Niang".
[Guangdong Province]
After washing your hands and eyes with burning water at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival in Conghua County, it is called "sending disaster". On the Dragon Boat Festival in Xinxing County, people advocate the tour of welcoming and guiding idols from their neighboring temples. Wizards also use dharma water and stickers to expel evil spirits. During the Dragon Boat Festival in Shicheng County, children fly kites, which is called "letting off disasters".
(Taiwan Province Province)
Taiwan Province is located in the subtropical zone. Many immigrants from the mainland in the early days could not adapt to the climate here, and people who died of the plague were often heard. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival, a festival with the basic spirit of driving away diseases and avoiding epidemics, is particularly important.