In addition to "three yellows", the Dragon Boat Festival also includes "Huang Wu", and Huang Wu refers to eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck eggs and realgar wine. Huang Wu is eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival mainly to ward off evil spirits and relieve summer heat.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and mosquitoes and flies breed. Therefore, people also call the Dragon Boat Festival in May "Health Month". Dragon Boat Festival has become a great festival for the whole people to prevent diseases, avoid epidemics and drive away drugs, and pray for health and longevity.
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The content of the Dragon Boat Festival custom is rich and colorful, and the content or details of the custom are different in different parts of the country due to different regional cultures. These festivals and customs revolve around the Dragon Boat Festival, Blessing Festival, Fighting Disaster Festival and other forms, and place people's desire to welcome good luck, ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters.
The customs mainly include dragon boat race, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, washing herbal water, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, soaking in dragon boat water, eating zongzi, putting paper dragons, putting paper kites, tying colorful silk threads, wearing sachets and so on.
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