Duanwu Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month on the lunar calendar.

The traditional Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include racing dragon boats, sacrificing to dragons, picking herbs, hanging mugwort, playing the afternoon water, washing herbal water, worshipping the gods and ancestors, dipping in the water of the dragon boat, eating rice in the dragon boat, eating zongzi, releasing paper dragons, releasing paper kites, tying the five-colored threads, wearing a scented capsule, and so on.

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duan Yang Festival, the Festival of the Dragon Boat Festival, is rumored to be the great poet of ancient China, one of the world's four great cultural celebrities, Qu Yuan, cast the Buro River martyrdom day. For more than 2,000 years, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar has become a traditional festival in honor of Qu Yuan.

Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival

1, eat zongzi

Zongzi incense, incense kitchen. The fragrance of mugwort leaves, incense. The peach branch is inserted on the gate, and the wheat is yellow when you go out. The sunrise is here, the sunrise is there, the sunrise is everywhere. This is the old popularity of a description of the Dragon Boat Festival ballad, in general, people around the Dragon Boat Festival customs are similar, and Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, throughout the ages, all over China are the same.

2, pickpocket dragon boat

Pickpocket dragon boat has a long history, passed down from ancient times, is a traditional Chinese folk water sports and recreation programs, more than in the festivals held, is a multi-person collective paddle race. Passed out of foreign countries, loved by people from all over the world and formed an international competition. Qu Yuan's hometown of zigui in Hubei province, there are also rituals to worship Qu Yuan circulated.