1, eat rice dumplings

(1) Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings, which is the traditional custom of the Chinese people since ancient times. It has a long history, and there are many different patterns.

(2) According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn period, with the Mizushu leaves (wild rice leaves) wrapped in millet into a horn-shaped, called the "corner of the millet"; with a bamboo tube filled with rice sealed and baked, called the "tube dumplings". The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked in millet, because the water contains alkali, with Mushroom leaves wrapped in millet into a quadrangular shape, cooked, became the Guangdong alkaline water rice dumplings.

(3) Jin Dynasty, dumplings were officially designated as the Dragon Boat Festival food. Then Zhou Chu, "Yueyang customs and soil records" recorded: "Commonly wrapped in millet with Aizome leaves, ...... boiled, and rotten, on the fifth of May to the summer solstice to eat, a zong, a millet." North and South Dynasty period, the emergence of mixed rice dumplings. Rice mixed with animal and poultry meat, chestnuts, jujubes, adzuki beans, etc., more varieties. Zongzi also used as a gift for interaction.

2, put the paper kite

(1) in southern China, the Dragon Boat Festival, children put the paper kite known as "put the disaster".

(2) paper kites, in the gabion and other skeleton glued with paper or silk, pulling the long line tied to it, taking advantage of the wind can be released into the sky, belonging to a kind of purely aerodynamic flying machine.

(3) According to legend, Mo Zhai made the wooden bird from wood and developed it for three years. Later, Lu Ban used bamboo and improved the material of Mo Zhai's kite. It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that Cai Lun improved the art of papermaking that kites began to be made of paper, so they were called "paper kites".

3. Tethering five-color silk thread

(1) In traditional Chinese culture, the five colors of "green, red, white, black and yellow", which symbolize the five elements of the five directions, are regarded as auspicious colors. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, children tie five-colored threads around their wrists and ankles to ward off evil spirits. The five-color threads cannot be broken or discarded arbitrarily, and can only be thrown into the river during the first heavy summer rain or the first bath.

(2) It is said that children wearing the five-color thread can avoid the harm of snake and scorpion-type poisonous insects; throwing it into the river means letting the river wash away the plague and diseases, which is said to remove evil spirits and make trouble.