The legend says that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the local people hurt his death, they drove the boat to rescue, because there is a race custom; also said that people often put food into the water to sacrifice Qu Yuan, but more for the dragon eat, and then because of the tip of the Qu Yuan with neem leaves wrapped rice, wrapped around the outside of the colorful silk, made of zongzi like later.
The main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival: eat zongzi in the door or calamus to drive away evil spirits, tie the long-life wisp, drink xionghuang wine or disinfectant, dragon boat racing and so on. Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, in the Wei and Jin Dynasties has been very popular.
Expanded Information:
Mr. Wen Yiduo wrote in his book Duanwu Festival of the Dragon Boat Festival
that the festival is the most important festival in China. p>Mr. Wen Yiduo in the "Dragon Boat Festival Examination" and "Dragon Boat Festival History Education" thesis that: the ancient Baiyue nation is a dragon as a totem, in order to show that they are the identity of the "dragon child", in order to consolidate their own right to be protected.The two most important activities of the Dragon Boat Festival are eating rice dumplings and racing, all related to the dragon. The dumplings are thrown into the river water to honor the dragon god, while the dragon boat is used for the competition.
They not only have the custom of "breaking the hair and writing the body" to "look like a dragon", but also hold a grand totem festival on May 5 every year; one of the activities is to carve the canoe into the shape of a dragon in the sound of the drums in the rush, on the water for the dragon. One of the activities is to race the canoe carved in the shape of a dragon on the water in the sound of rapid drums to offer sacrifices to the Dragon God, but also for their own fun, which is the origin of the custom of dragon boat racing.
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