The 10 folk activities of Dragon Boat Festival include dragon boat racing, hanging moxa and calamus, eating rice dumplings, bolting five-color silk thread, wearing scented buns, releasing paper kites, hanging Zhong Kui statue, drinking xiong huang wine, eating pancakes, eating pancakes, etc.

1, dragon boat racing

It can be said that the Dragon Boat Festival is the most important event in the day of the festival.

1, Dragon Boat Racing

Dragon Boat Racing can be said to be the Dragon Boat Festival in the day of the main event in the main event. Before the dragon boat race, we should first invite the dragon to make sacrifices to the gods. After sacrificing to the gods, the dragon's head and tail will be placed, and only after that can the racing and dragon boat racing officially begin. Sacrificing to the gods actually expresses the good wishes for the coming year, hoping that the next year will have good weather, good crops, and peace in the family without any strange incidents, and that everything will be as it should be.

2, hanging mugwort and calamus

There is a folk proverb that says: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival hanging mugwort". The day of the Dragon Boat Festival to hang the wormwood and calamus is one of the important elements of the day. Ghosts and monsters back off. Mugwort and calamus produce a peculiar aroma that disperses rushing ants, purifies the air, and also kills insects and sterilizes bacteria. So at that time, the ancients were very smart to hang the mugwort and calamus in front of their homes.

3, food dumplings

Duanwu Festival to eat dumplings is an essential activity of the day, a variety of dumplings, triangular dumplings, small dumplings, large dumplings, and salty dumplings, sweet dumplings, white dumplings and so on. With Mizushu leaves wrapped with good glutinous rice, glutinous rice inside also wrapped with chestnuts, red beans, soybeans and red beans and meat, put on the steam for a while out of the pot when simply fragrant. Every year, the Dragon Boat Festival, my family will pack rice dumplings, a variety of rice dumplings, simply put the rice dumplings as a meal.

4, bolted five-color thread

The silk thread consists of green, red, white, black, yellow five-color composition, that time we called the auspicious five-color line. Tie it on your arm or wrist, that my mom told me is used to drive away evil spirits. When you wear it, you can't break it, you can't throw it away, and you can't exchange the one you've worn with others. Then when you take a bath at night, you can take it off and throw it into the river.

5, wear incense packets

Then our incense packets were given to us by some old people in the village and were not made by our own family. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the old man would bring a few scented bags for us to wear. I remember that kind of incense bag has a very strange flavor, but still smells quite fragrant, now it seems, should be used to repel insects, but I did not know, only know that everyone with, then I have to bring. Now there are two incense bags inside my house, but it is estimated that it has not been able to achieve the effect of mosquito repellent, just stay there as a souvenir.

6, put the paper kite

Put the paper kite, that is, in the gabion and other skeleton paste on the paper or silk, pulling the long line tied to the top, taking advantage of the wind can be put up in the sky, belonging to a purely aerodynamic flying machine. In the cities around the southern part of China, kite flying is also a custom during the Dragon Boat Festival. During the Dragon Boat Festival, children flying kites are called "letting off calamities", and kites are paper kites.

7, hanging Zhong Kui statue

Zhong Kui catch ghosts, is the Dragon Boat Festival custom. In the Jianghuai area, the family is hanging Zhong Kui statue, used to suppress the house to drive away evil spirits. Tang Minghuang Kaiyuan, from the Lixan martial arts back to the palace, malaria, dreaming of two ghosts, a small, small, small ghosts wearing red crotchless pants, steal Yang Guifei's scent bag and Minghuang's jade flute, around the temple and run.

8, drink xionghuang wine

Duanwu Festival on this day, most parts of our country have the custom of drinking xionghuang wine, as for children, the elders will be xionghuang wine coated in its face or body. In fact, andrographis is a toxic mineral, external use can be disinfected and sterilized, it is not appropriate to advocate direct drinking.

9, eat pancakes

In the Wenzhou area, the Dragon Boat Festival families also eat pancakes custom. Pancake is the use of fine white flour into a paste, in a large and flat iron skillet, baked into a sheet shaped like a full moon, as thin as silk translucent cake, and then mung bean sprouts, leeks, shredded meat, shredded eggs, mushrooms and other fillings, rolled into a cylinder, a bite, you can taste a variety of flavors.

10, eat fried heap

Jinjiang, Fujian area, the Dragon Boat Festival, every family will eat "fried heap". The so-called fried heap, is with flour, rice flour or sweet potato flour and other ingredients into a thick paste, under the frying pan fried into a large area. Legend has it that in ancient times, it was the rainy season in southern Fujian before the Dragon Boat Festival, and the rain was continuous, and the folk said that the God of Heaven had pierced a hole and had to "mend the sky". Dragon Boat Festival ate "fried piles" after the rain will stop, people say that the sky mended. This food custom from this.