Before sunrise on the Dragon Boat Festival, people go to rivers and wells to wash their faces with cold water to get rid of bad luck, and then go to the mountains in groups to collect mugwort. Because mugwort has the effect of removing insects and decontamination, people put mugwort on doors to avoid the plague god. Women also hang purses containing mugwort on children's bodies and insert them into their buns. In order to resist the coming of the plague god, people also put peach branches and small paper gourds stacked on their doors to ward off evil spirits, also called paper seals. According to legend, Lu Dongbin once secretly told the world that using gourds to store medicine during the Dragon Boat Festival can cure the five poisons. On this day, children also tie colorful strings on their wrists and ankles, commonly known as "life-extending strings". Its function is also to remove viruses. By noon, people would abandon these items of clothing on the roadside. Rolling eggs is also an important custom during the Dragon Boat Festival. This morning, the old woman was going to put a hard-boiled egg on her little grandson's belly and roll it back and forth a few times while muttering: "The baby eats the egg, and the disaster star gets out." Legend has it that after Qu Yuan died, the people of Chu State were extremely sad and flocked to the Miluo River to pay their respects to Qu Yuan. The fishermen rowed their boats and fished for his true body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other food prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river "plop, plop", saying that when the fish, lobsters and crabs were full, they would not bite Dr. Qu's body. People followed suit after seeing it. An old doctor took a jar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying it was to stun dragons and water animals so as not to harm Doctor Qu. Later, for fear that the rice balls would be eaten by dragons, people came up with the idea of ??wrapping the rice with neem leaves and wrapping it with colored silk, which developed into rice dumplings.

Since then, on the fifth day of May every year, there has been the custom of dragon boat racing, eating rice dumplings, and drinking realgar wine to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.