Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Duan Yang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, Wuzhi Festival, Ai Festival, Duanwu, Chongwu, Wuzhi, Summer Festival Duanwu Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, five-day festival, Ai Festival, Duanwu, heavy afternoon, afternoon, summer festival, was originally a summer festival to drive away the plague. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of the Han Chinese people in China, the essential activities of this day gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus ` Artemisia absinthium, moxa leaves, lavender Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, and drink xionghuang wine. It is said that eating rice dumplings and dragon boat racing, is to commemorate Qu Yuan, so after the liberation of the Dragon Boat Festival was named "Poet's Day" to commemorate Qu Yuan. The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar for the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Duanwu, heavy Wu, Wuzhi, Summer Festival. Although the name is different, but people around the custom of the festival is the same. Dragon Boat Festival is our country more than two thousand years of old customs, every day, every family is hanging Zhong Kui statue, hanging moxa calamus, dragon boat races, eat zongzi, drink xionghuang wine, swim a hundred diseases, Pei Xiangbao, ready to sacrifice sweet.

The Dragon Boat Festival this day there are many customs and activities, such as the morning to take the dragon beard water, inserted Ai Zhi in the door, on the mountain to pick the green, food dumplings ball, dumplings, dragon boat race activities.

Morning to take the dragon's beard water - because the legend says that May 5 is the dragon's birthday, this day the dragon head sprayed water can cure. Therefore, people go outside in the morning on this day to take water from pits, ditches, streams and rivers, and put it in their own water tanks for the whole family to eat and drink, and pray for a year of peace.

Plugging in Ai on the door--Because Ai can keep away evils, plugging in Ai on the door on this day can ensure peace.

Pick up the mountain to pick green - because this day is the dragon's head to erupt the dragon's beard water in the earth grass time, people go up to the mountains to pick some herbs, such as asparagus, maitake, honeysuckle, mountain grapes, etc. to the family standby, all more valuable than the previous day. In addition, it is also very meaningful to go to the mountains to pick their own more fresh air in the nature.

Eating rice dumplings - local famous proverb called [not eat May rice dumplings, broken fur not willing to put]. Broken fur is the old cotton clothes, this day is the fifth day of May, just after the spring cold, the earth began to warm, after this day, into the summer, the temperature is naturally high, no longer wear cotton clothes. Everyone has to use potato flour with yellow sticks juice stirred into the dumplings, said after eating the cold days past the warm summer is coming.

Eating dumplings ball - dumplings ball is a kind of food with mushrooms, peanut kernels, pork, sweet bean paste made of food, one side of the sweet side of the salty, wrapped in bamboo leaves into a hexagonal fist-sized package of dumplings. Its origin is transmitted from the Central Plains. It is a kind of customary food for the people in the water town of the Central Plains to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan.

Dragon Boat Racing - from the remembrance of Qu Yuan. Water towns along the river organize dragon boat races around the Dragon Boat Festival.