as follows:

1, Dragon Boat Racing, Dragon Boat Racing is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Legend has it that it originated in ancient times, the people of Chu could not bear to see the wise minister Qu Yuan throw himself into the river to die, and many people rowed after him to save him. They scrambled to catch up and disappeared when they chased him to Dongting Lake. After that, they rowed dragon boats on May 5 every year to commemorate it. People used the dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. The practice of dragon boat racing was prevalent in Wu, Yue and Chu.

2, eat zongzi, zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube zongzi". It has a long history, a variety of patterns. The morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, families eat zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan, usually the day before the zongzi package, cooked at night, eaten in the morning. Jujube dumplings resonate with the "early in", so eat the most date dumplings, intended to read the children ate can be early in the scholar.

In the past, the readers to participate in the day of the imperial examinations, the morning to eat jujube rice dumplings, to date, secondary school, university entrance exams in the morning, parents also want to do jujube rice dumplings to the candidates to eat, wishing the candidates to get into a good school.

3, Pei Xiangbao, legend has the meaning of the evil spirits to drive away the plague (in ancient times, people thought that they were sick because of the demons and monsters on the body), is actually used for lapel head embellishment decoration. Incense capsule inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then the five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, small and lovely.

4. Since ancient times, Dragon Boat Festival has been characterized by festive activities such as rowing dragon boats and eating rice dumplings. Since 2008, the Dragon Boat Festival has been listed as a national holiday, and in May 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; in September 2009, UNESCO formally considered and approved the inclusion of the Dragon Boat Festival in the world's intangible cultural heritage, making it China's first festival to be selected as part of the world's intangible heritage.

5, the Dragon Boat Festival is the Chinese Han people to commemorate the traditional festival of Qu Yuan, in order to center around the talented, the legacy of the Chu state doctor Qu Yuan and start, spread to all parts of China, folk culture **** enjoy, Qu Yuan's name is known to all, after the Chinese nation's high and pure feelings.

But there are exceptions, the Dragon Boat Festival around the East Wu traditionally does not commemorate Qu Yuan, but to commemorate the 5th of May was thrown into the river Wu Zixu, and the Wu-Yue region to the Dragon Boat Race on this day to hold a tribal totem sacrifice is the custom is earlier than the Spring and Autumn Period for a long time.