What tourist attractions are there in Hunan Province during the Dragon Boat Festival

Hunan is named "Hunan" because most of the area is south of Dongting Lake. So what are the tourist attractions in Hunan? Here are Let’s take a look

What are the tourist attractions in Hunan Province?

You can have a rice dumpling feast when visiting Zhangjiajie

In order to prepare for the "double festival" of Dragon Boat Festival and Children's Day "Holiday eco-tourism article, Zhangjiajie's major scenic spots have focused on the tourism theme of "fresh air, clean water, and green food" and have already vigorously promoted "Zhangjiajie Landform" natural ecological tours and popular science tours in the surrounding short-term tourist source markets. In order to play a good role in the parent-child tourism brand of Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to packaging some special parent-child tourism products, various scenic spots in Zhangjiajie will also launch auxiliary products such as rice dumpling banquets and folk cultural performances to enrich the connotation of Dragon Boat Festival holiday tourism. Some scenic spots (spots) in Zhangjiajie have also launched a free admission policy for students. For example, the 5D experience hall in the Zhangjiajie Dijie Geopark Museum will be open to primary and secondary school students free of charge during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday. The high-altitude slide in Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon is also a place where children want to "do it again" after riding it.

As a new force in Hunan tourism, Hunan Environmental International Travel Service, which has recently entered Hunan, has launched the in-depth tour activity of "Love in Zhangjiajie, Fall in Love with the Landscape and Romantic Five-Day Tour". Guests do not need to rush to catch up with time, but take advantage of 5 days to visit Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Yuanjiajie, Grand Canyon, Phoenix and other projects. "We did not set a price for this project, but customized it according to the customer's requirements." said Jin Bo, general manager of Hunan Environment International Travel Service.

Hongshilin participates in the real-person CS challenge

The "June 1st Family Real-life CS Challenge" in the Xiangxi Hongshilin Ecological Tourism Zone will be officially launched on May 31, and this event will last until On June 2, during the event, children under 16 years old can enjoy free tickets to the Red Stone Forest and Furong Town scenic spots, but only one person per family is exempt. Hongshilin Ecological Tourism Zone is located in Hongshilin Town, Guzhang County, covering an area of ??about 30 square kilometers. It is located at the middle point of the golden tourist corridor from Zhangjiajie to Fenghuang. It has mountains, rivers and villages. It can be said to be "long and unitary water conditions, thousands of years of original nostalgia" , Hundreds of millions of years of ancient sea love." Among them, the Red Stone Forest National Geological Park is the only red carbonate rock forest in the world formed in the Cambrian period. The surface landscape is very rich. Natural canyons, caves, stone forests, molten pools, stone pillars, stone walls and other original garden landscapes are dotted all over the place. They are scarce and Charming, it provides a variety of entertainment venues and leisure spaces for the live CS challenge. The scenic express train from Changsha to Hongshilin has been officially opened to traffic in May, and there is a direct train to the scenic spot every Saturday.

Go to the "Wolf Formation" in Hongjiang Ancient Town

This year's Children's Day falls during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. The interactive time-travel tour launched by Hongjiang Ancient Mall is also available for families with children. Opportunities for parent-child interaction. Among them, the "Bravely Wolf Pack" parent-child game places children in a "wolf pack" played by several adults. After successfully completing the tasks specified in the game, you can get special souvenirs. The game seems to stage a "Wolf Totem", which is thrilling and exciting, but also full of fun. A person in charge of Hongjiang Ancient Mall surnamed Liu said that the interactive activities were designed based on the Hongjiang business culture, and he hoped to give some inspiration to tourists and pass on the business culture through interaction. It is reported that the ancient shopping mall of Hongjiang still retains the precious essence of business culture such as "the transformation of fish and dragon", "beauty inside", "circle on the outside and square on the inside", and this first "Wolf Totem" series of interactive games has also given Hongjiang ancient business road A new interpretation of culture. In addition, visitors can also watch an original performance - "Yuanjiang Haozi".

There are many places to watch dragon boat races

The first mass dragon boat race in Hunan Province will hold preliminaries this year in Yuanling, Huaihua, Zixing, Chenzhou, Miluo, Yueyang and other places, and the finals will be held in Miluo . On May 31st, 15 dragon boat teams from Chenzhou, Hengyang and Yongzhou will compete fiercely at the Dongjiang Bay Water Sports Center. After watching the event, you can also visit the clear Dongjiang Lake; if you have time, you can climb up the Dongjiang Lake. On Monkey Island, children will definitely be amused by the groups of monkeys that block the way and "rob" on the island, making them want to go back. Dragon boat racing in Yuanling has a history of thousands of years, and the local tent camp is becoming more and more famous, which can satisfy the curiosity of children. After the opening of the expressway, it is very convenient to drive to Yuanling.

Where is the best place to travel during the Dragon Boat Festival? What are the must-see tourist attractions?

1. Beijing: Palace Museum, Temple of Heaven Park, Summer Palace, Badaling Great Wall.

2. Tianjin: Tianjin Ancient Culture Street Tourist Area (Jinmen Hometown), Tianjin Panshan Scenic Area.

3. Hebei: Shanhaiguan Scenic Area in Qinhuangdao City, Baiyangdian Scenic Area in Anxin, Baoding City, Chengde Summer Resort and surrounding temple scenic spots.

4. Shanxi: Yungang Grottoes in Datong City, Mount Wutai Scenic Area in Xinzhou City.

5. Liaoning: Shenyang Botanical Garden, Dalian Laohutan Ocean Park. Ocean Polar Museum.

6. Jilin: Changchun Puppet Manchukuo Palace Museum, Changbai Mountain Scenic Area.

7. Heilongjiang: Harbin Sun Island Park.

8. Shanghai: Shanghai Oriental Pearl Radio and Television Tower, Shanghai Wildlife Park.

9. Jiangsu: Nanjing Zhongshan Scenic Area-Zhongshan Cemetery Scenic Area, CCTV Wuxi Film and Television Base Three Kingdoms Water Margin Scenic Area, Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden, Suzhou Zhouzhuang Ancient Town Scenic Area.

10. Zhejiang: West Lake Scenic Area in Hangzhou City, Yandang Mountain Scenic Area in Wenzhou City, Putuo Mountain Scenic Area in Zhoushan City.

11. Anhui: Huangshan Scenic Area in Huangshan City, Jiuhua Mountain Scenic Area in Chizhou City.

12. Fujian: Gulangyu Scenic Area in Xiamen City, Wuyishan Scenic Area in Nanping City.

13. Jiangxi: Jiujiang City Lushan Scenic Tourist Area, Ji’an City Jinggangshan Scenic Tourist Area.

14. Shandong: Yantai City Penglai Pavilion Tourist Area, Jining City Qufu Ming Ancient City (Three Kongs) Tourist Area, Tai'an City Taishan Scenic Area.

15. Henan: Songshan Shaolin Scenic Area in Dengfeng City, Longmen Grottoes Scenic Area in Luoyang City, and Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area in Jiaozuo City.

16. Hunan: Nanyue Hengshan Tourist Area in Hengyang City and Wulingyuan Tourist Area in Zhangjiajie.

Tourist Attractions in Hunan Province Introduction to Tourist Attractions in Hunan Province

1. Wulingyuan, with beautiful and spectacular scenery, is located in Hunan Province, central China, with an area of ??more than 26,000 hectares. It is the most unique landscape in the scenic area. There are more than 3,000 pointed sandstone pillars and sandstone peaks, most of which are more than 200 meters high. Between the peaks, ravines and canyons are crisscrossed, and streams, ponds and waterfalls can be seen everywhere. There are more than 40 stone caves and two naturally formed huge stone bridges in the scenic area. In addition to its stunning natural landscape, the area is notable for harboring a large number of endangered plant and animal species.

2. Nanyue Hengshan is one of the five famous mountains in my country. It is located in Hengyang City, Hunan Province. It has 72 peaks, one after another, and is majestic. It is known as "China's Longest Mountain", "The Five Most Beautiful Mountains" and "Civilized Olympic Zone". It is now a national key scenic spot, a national civilized scenic tourist area demonstration site and a national AAA-tourist area.

3. Yueyang Tower is located on the bank of Dongting Lake in Hunan Province and on the city wall of the west gate of Yueyang City. The Yueyang Tower is as famous as the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang and the Tengwang Pavilion in Nanchang, and is also known as the "three famous towers" in the Yangtze River Basin of China. Climb the tower and overlook Dongting Lake. The water surface is vast and vast, and the water and sky are the same color. It is known as "water is under the sky in Dongting, and water is under the sky in Yueyang".

4. _shan Scenic Area, located in Xinning County, Hunan Province, includes six scenic areas: Tianyi Lane, Pepper Peak, Fuyi River, Bajiao Village, Zixiadong and Tianshengqiao, and 18 scenic areas. There are more than 500 important scenic spots that have been discovered and named, including three major caves and a virgin forest, with a total area of ??108 square kilometers. It is a typical Danxia landform and is a rare environmentally friendly natural landscape area.

5. Dongjiang Lake Scenic Tourist Area is located in Zixing City in southeastern Hunan Province. It is a national-level place where natural landscapes and cultural landscapes complement each other, integrating mountains, water, lakes, dams, islands, temples, caves, villages, drifts, waterfalls, fog, forests, gardens, rocks, hot springs, hunting, and water entertainment. Scenic spots and tourist resorts.

6. Tianmen Mountain is the earliest famous mountain recorded in history in Zhangjiajie, with an altitude of 1518.6 meters. It stands majestically on the edge of Zhangjiajie city, only 8 kilometers away from the city. It is like a natural painted screen in Zhangjiajie and has become the most beautiful mountain in Zhangjiajie. One of the most representative natural landscapes.

For a long time, Tianmen Mountain has not only attracted people’s attention with its magical and unique geological features and extremely beautiful natural scenery, but also has been famous for its profound cultural connotation and colorful cultural attractions. It is respected as the cultural soul and spirit of Zhangjiajie. The soul of the mountain is known as the first sacred mountain in western Hunan.

7. Zhangjiajie Scenic Area, Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is my country’s first national forest park approved by the State Planning Commission entrusted by the State Council in 1982. Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is famous for its peaks, its valleys, and its tranquility. The forest is beautiful, with 3,000 stone peaks rising up from the ground, with different shapes, deep canyons and gurgling streams between the peaks and forests. In spring, the mountain flowers are blooming and the flowers are fragrant; in summer, there is a cool breeze, which is the best place to escape the heat; in autumn, red leaves are all over the mountains and mountain fruits are hanging on the branches; in winter, the mountains are covered with snow and the mountains are covered with white snow. The park has a pleasant climate and diverse scenery all year round, making it an ideal travel, vacation and leisure destination for people.

The four most popular places to visit during the Dragon Boat Festival

Introduction: The Dragon Boat Festival is China’s first festival selected as a world intangible cultural heritage. The Dragon Boat Festival is jointly declared by Hubei, Hunan and Jiangsu provinces. The system includes four parts, namely "Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival Customs" in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, "Qu Yuan's Hometown Dragon Boat Festival Customs" in Zigui County, Hubei Province, and Huangshi Dragon Boat Festival. The "Xisai Shenzhou Festival" in the city and the "Dragon Boat Festival Customs by the Miluo River" in Miluo City, Hunan. Therefore, the most worthwhile places to travel during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday should be Suzhou, Zigui, Miluo and Huangshi.

Qu Yuan’s hometown---Zigui

Zigui County is located in Yichang City, Hubei Province, China, at the throat of Sichuan and Hubei, on both sides of the Xiling Gorge of the Yangtze River. Zigui County was established in the Western Han Dynasty. Zigui is the first county in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area and the hometown of Qu Yuan. The name of Zigui County comes from "Shui Jing Zhu", "Qu Yuan had a wise sister who came back after hearing that Yuan was exiled, so she was named Sister Gui". "Zi" evolved from "sister".

"Who said the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival? It has been rumored forever that it is Qu Yuan." The people of Quxiang have a strong Dragon Boat Festival complex. Zigui Dragon Boat Festival folk customs have a long history and have their own unique cultural space and forms of expression. In Zigui, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanyang. The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the Little Dragon Boat Festival, the fifteenth day of the fifth month is the Big Dragon Boat Festival, and the twenty-fifth day of the fifth month is the Duanyang Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival is held three times, mainly to commemorate Qu Yuan, a doctor of Sanlu of the Chu State during the Warring States Period who was born in Lepingli, Zigui.

During the Dragon Boat Festival in Zigui, rice dumplings and dada are essential foods on the table. When the locals make rice dumplings, they put a red date inside the rice dumplings and sing a unique "Zongzi Song": "It has edges and corners, it has a heart and a liver; it is innocent, it has been suffering for half a life" to commemorate it. Qu Yuan died after being wronged. In places where glutinous rice is not produced in high mountains, large, soft cakes are steamed from wheat flour ground from freshly harvested wheat to replace rice dumplings.

Quxiang people grind realgar into powder and pour it into wine to make realgar wine, which becomes a special drink during the Dragon Boat Festival. In addition to drinking part of it, you should also apply some on the child's forehead and behind the ears to prevent mosquito bites.

Zigui people also make some small ornaments during the Dragon Boat Festival. Put mugwort, realgar, old garlic stalks, Sichuan peppercorns, peppers, ginkgo, walnuts, melon seeds or five Chinese medicinal materials into a small cloth bag made in advance, and wrap it with colorful thread to become a small and beautiful sachet. Worn on the chest, it is not only used as decoration, but also to ward off evil spirits and prevent diseases.

In the early morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, when the dew is still wet, people go up the mountain to harvest mugwort, tie it with colorful ribbons when they return home, and hang them on both sides of the gate to ward off evil spirits and expel wind. In addition to harvesting mugwort for festivals on the same day, whenever you feel any pain or itching throughout the year, you can pick a few branches with garlic stalks, boil them in water, wash the affected area or soak your feet to relieve itching and dispel wind. Anti-inflammatory.

Among the people in Zigui, married daughters will return to their natal homes on this day to reunite with their natal families and enjoy family happiness. Not only does the daughter want to return to her parents' home, but the elderly and children also have their own activities.

The old man wears a wreath of mugwort leaves around his neck and sits comfortably in front of a basin filled with the fragrance of mugwort. His son or wife squats in front of the old man, slowly pouring water on the old man's feet and holding the mugwort leaves. Massage gently on the old man's feet. Soaking the feet of the elderly during the Dragon Boat Festival is a form of filial piety in Qu Yuan's hometown.

At midnight, families gather together, relatives and friends gather together, and at the same time they celebrate the summer harvest. One or more families host the event, inviting villagers and neighbors to entertain themselves, dance the local Jiandong Flower Drum Opera, sing folk songs, and perform wind and percussion ensembles. Often staying up all night. At this point, the Dragon Boat Festival is over.

Zigui Dragon Boat Festival is one of the living witnesses of China’s ancient Chu culture and Chinese Dragon Boat Festival customs. It vividly promotes and disseminates the spiritual character of Qu Yuan, one of the world’s four major cultural celebrities, and the traditional spirit of Chinese culture. Traditional ancestor worship and hero worship are humanized and entertaining, strengthen family affection, nostalgia and national feelings, strengthen the cohesion of social groups and nations, and promote the traditional Chinese national cultural identity.

Zigui tourist attractions include: Quyuan Temple, Jiuwan River, Sixi, Phoenix Mountain, and Lianzi Cliff.

Huangshi, the birthplace of Chinese bronze culture

Huangshi is located in the southeast of Hubei Province, on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The city was established in August 1950. It is one of the first two provincial municipalities established in Hubei Province after the founding of New China. It is the sub-central city of Wuhan City Circle, an important raw material industrial base in central China, and an open city along the Yangtze River approved by the State Council. Huangshi is one of the birthplaces of Chinese bronze culture and the cradle of modern Chinese national industry. Huangshi City has a profound industrial culture and a good industrial foundation. It is known as the "Hometown of Bronze", "Cradle of Steel", "Hometown of Cement" and "New Garment City".

The Taoist priests and villagers in the Xisai Mountain area of ??Huangshi City celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival at the Xisai Shenzhou Festival. The main activities include a series of ceremonies and activities such as sacrifices, parades, and launching the Shenzhou into the water. The Xisai Shenzhou Society has a history of more than 3,000 years. In the process of inheritance from generation to generation, strict and regular program content and ritual requirements have been formed. One month before the Dragon Boat Festival every year, which is the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, they will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for building the Shenzhou. From the eighth day of April to the fifth day of May, folk craftsmen who build boats come to Shenzhou Palace to build the hulls of the boats. The dragon-shaped boat is 7 meters long, 2 meters wide and 5 meters high. It has magnificent and exquisite buildings and pavilions. Except for a small amount of wood, the entire boat is mainly filled with thatch and rapeseed straw and wrapped in red cloth. Except for the main frame, the cabin is entirely made of bamboo and paper. In addition to the hull, there are also 108 gods who can exorcise demons and eliminate disasters. The "King of Loyalty and Filial Piety" sitting upright in the main cabin of Shenzhou is Dr. Qu Yuan. From the opening ceremony of the dragon boat construction and the building of the Shenzhou, to the Taoist priests presiding over the ceremony to consecrate the Shenzhou on the fifth day of May, to the official Shenzhou meeting from May 15th to 18th, the entire event lasted 40 days, which is the current domestic Dragon Boat Festival time A long prayer and memorial service.

During the official festival, local people sang Chu opera day and night, and people from all over the country came to make wishes and pray for the Shenzhou. At 8 o'clock in the morning on the 16th day of the fifth lunar month, Shenzhou goes out for a parade. Every household has to hang calamus and mugwort leaves at the door, set up an incense table at the door, burn incense candles, and place wine, tea, rice, fruits and other offerings. Every time they arrive at a house, the villagers will set off whips to greet them, scatter tea and rice, and offer sacrifices. On the night of the 17th day of the fifth lunar month, 48 ever-lasting lanterns were lit for the Shenzhou, and a vigil was held all night long. On the morning of May 18th in the lunar calendar, the Shenzhou came out of the palace. The Taoist priests and all the members of the Shenzhou Society jointly opened the way for the Shenzhou. 16 young and strong men carried the Shenzhou and respectfully sent it into the river. The water allowed the water to carry the dragon boat down the river and into the east. ocean. At this time, many fishing boats on the river placed incense and set up cases on the bows, fired firecrackers, and circled the Shenzhou three times to show off. On the embankment where the Shenzhou boarded the river, thousands of villagers clasped their hands and knelt down to worship the Shenzhou, praying that the Shenzhou would take away diseases, plagues, and disasters, and pray for good luck, happiness, and health in the new year. The Shenzhou Club is a traditional cultural activity of the Han nationality that is organized voluntarily and voluntarily by the people, with the core themes of expelling plague, eradicating evil, dispelling disasters, curing diseases, and seeking safety, health, and longevity. Compared with the traditional eating of rice dumplings and hanging calamus and mugwort leaves, the Xisai Shenzhou Festival in Huangshi, Hubei Province has a unique charm.

Huangshi City has a superior geographical location and beautiful natural environment. Huangshi City District is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with the city in the mountains and the water in the city. It is surrounded by mountains and water, and has a beautiful environment. It has many "three mountains and two lakes" (Dongfang Mountain, Xisai Mountain, Xiaolei Mountain, Cihu Lake, and Xiandao Lake). A scenic spot integrating natural landscape and human history. Huangshi is known as "half city with mountains and half city with lake".

China's Famous Dragon Boat City - Miluo

Miluo, referred to as Luocheng, belongs to Yueyang City, located in the northeast of Hunan Province, close to the east bank of Dongting Lake and the lower reaches of the Miluo River . Because there are Milu River and Luo River in the territory, its downstream is named Miluo River. Because of its famous city, it is "a famous dragon boat city in China". The Miluo River is the place where the writer Qu Yuan sank during the Warring States Period. There are now Quzi Temple, Qu Yuan's Tomb and other historic buildings commemorating Qu Yuan.

The Miluo River originates from Xiushui County, Jiangxi Province, passes through Pingjiang and Miluo and enters Dongting. The total length is only 253.2 kilometers.

Although it is not as wide and long as the Yangtze River and the Mississippi River, nor as ancient and splendid as the Yellow River and the Nile River, with Qu Yuan's astonishing leap on this river in 278 BC, May and Zaifu have continued to grow year after year. During the Dragon Boat Festival, people have been repeating the story of "using dragon boats to salvage the soul of Qu Zi" here. With the drumbeat of dragon boat races, the river has been heard all over the country, both inside and outside the Great Wall, and in foreign countries. Miluo River has become a unique river among the many rivers in the world.

The Dragon Boat Festival on the banks of the Miluo River generally begins on the first day of the fifth lunar month and ends on the 15th day of the fifth lunar month. The entire festival has a long history, a wide range of people, rich diversity, rich culture, and fanaticism. participatory and far-reaching impact. The Dragon Boat Festival customs along the Miluo River include hosting a feast, eating rice dumplings, planting mugwort and hanging calamus, drinking realgar wine, and dragon boat racing. They also include carving dragon heads, stealing sacred trees, singing praises, launching dragon boats into the water, making dragon heads red, going to temples, offering sacrifices to dragons, and Qu and others all have mysterious rituals and unique cultural connotations, and they have also left many Dragon Boat Festival folk songs such as "It would be better to have a year of desolate fields than to lose a May boat". Watching dragon boats, returning to one's parents' home, saying goodbye to the Dragon Boat Festival, planting mugwort leaves, and drinking realgar wine have rich local meanings. Moreover, the above-mentioned customs and cultural scenes have been recorded in scattered written records since the Han Dynasty, such as Yan Yanzhi's "Ji Qu Yuanwen" in 424 AD, Wu Jun's "Xu Qi Xie Ji" and "Jingchu Shishi" written by Wu Jun in the early sixth century AD. There are descriptions in "Book of Sui Dynasty" and "Geographical Records of Sui Dynasty".

For thousands of years, people along the Miluo River have shown their importance and enthusiasm for the Dragon Boat Festival. On the Dragon Boat Festival, children have to wear new clothes, adults and elders have to put on the most solemn costumes, and girls and wives have to wear colorful clothes. During the dragon boat race in the morning, men, women and children from all over the country rushed to the venue in droves. In the middle of the river, the gongs and drums were noisy, and the trumpets were vibrating in all directions; on the bank, the shouts were shaking the earth, and the songs and laughter were thundering. It can be said that every nerve and cell of the participants is mobilized. People are completely immersed in the fierce competition and fanaticism of the race, and their hearts beat for their own side. At noon, there was a big banquet, drinking and chatting and laughing. In the afternoon, old operas were sung, firecrackers were set off, and the sound of gongs and drums, cheers, and frolics made it a mess. Throughout the festival, people reveled in the joy.

Miluo is rich in tourism resources. The main attractions include Miluo River, Quzi Temple, Shending Mountain, Bajing Cave, Ren Bishi’s former residence, the gate of Quzi Temple in Miluo River International Dragon Boat Race, Quzi Park, Pude View.

The thousand-year-old Quzi Temple is a national key cultural relic protection unit and a national youth patriotism education base. Quzi Temple Miluo River Scenic Area is a national key scenic spot and an important attraction on the golden line of Xiangchu cultural tourism.

Ren Bishi Memorial Hall is a national 4A-level scenic spot, a national key cultural relics protection unit, a national patriotism education base, and a national red tourism classic scenic spot.

Oriental Water Capital----Suzhou

Suzhou, also known as Wu in ancient times and Suzhou in short, is also known as Gusu, Pingjiang, etc., located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, in the middle of the Yangtze River Delta, east It faces Shanghai, Jiaxing to the south, Taihu Lake to the west, and the Yangtze River to the north. Suzhou is one of the first 24 national historical and cultural cities in China and the birthplace of Wu culture. Suzhou gardens are representatives of Chinese private gardens and are listed as a World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO.

The Han folk custom of the Dragon Boat Festival in Suzhou City is different from other regions in that it commemorates Wu Zixu, a famous general of the Wu Kingdom during the Spring and Autumn Period. The Dragon Boat Festival commemorating Wu Zixu is the most grand annual folk festival in Suzhou. It has a set of folk activities that are adapted to the local natural climate conditions, daily production and living habits, and economic and cultural characteristics. There are traditional projects such as making rice dumplings, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus, wearing sachets, and hanging Zhongkui statues to ward off ghosts. In 2009, Suzhou's Dragon Boat Festival customs were included in the "World Intangible Cultural Heritage" as one of the four important inheritance sites of the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival customs in Wudi, Suzhou:

Drink realgar wine. The predecessor of Dragon Boat Festival realgar wine should be calamus wine. The calamus leaf is shaped like a sword, so it is called "Pu Jian", and because it grows close to water, it is also named "Water Sword". The made calamus wine has the characteristics of warm nature and pungent taste. It is beneficial to the lungs and stomach and can prolong life. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Calamus wine cures thirty-six winds and twelve paralysis, unblocks blood vessels, cures bone fistulas, and can improve the hearing and eyesight after long-term use."

Hang sachets and insert mugwort leaves. The sachet is also called a sachet, a sachet, a purse, and it is also called a drapery or a smelly bag.

The history of its production and wearing can be traced back to at least the Warring States Period. In Qu Yuan's "Li Sao" there is "Hujiangli and Pizhixi, Ren Qiulan thought it was admirable".

Eat rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival. It is the most important thing for people in Suzhou. Every time on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, deep in the alleys of Suzhou, the red doors are ajar, and the mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law are sitting around in the hall, or on the roadside of Danshi, small rattan chairs are gathered around. , full of green Ruo leaves, the glistening of glutinous rice, the fragrance wafts in the evening, and good neighbors bring bowls to each other, and exchange each other's craftsmanship, the taste is salty and how it looks, this is a rare thing in modern life With its ancient style, it is a gourmet food that Suzhou people talk about. "Recalling my days in Suzhou, I was often familiar with the summer solstice feast. The bamboo in the fragrant rice dumpling tube was tender, and the goose was crispy and fresh."

Dragon boat racing. Suzhou is the birthplace of the Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat race. "The Origin of Things" records: "The boat race originated from Goujian, and today's dragon boat is also the same." Zhao Ye's "Wuyue Chunqiu" of the Han Dynasty also believed that the origin of the dragon boat "started from Goujian, and was the loyal work of Zixu."

The earliest origin of Suzhou dragon boat racing is the "Xumentang River", which is today's Xujiang River. Shao Changheng, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, wrote: "In May, the Xu River is angry, and the water is filled with joy and joy." By the Qing Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Races in Suzhou were very popular and took place in many places. "Dragon boats can be found at Chang and Xu gates, at the South and North Hao and at the waterfront of Fengqiao West Road."

Suzhou has always been famous for its dragon boat races. It is famous all over the world for its beautiful landscapes and elegant gardens. It is known as "the gardens in the south of the Yangtze River are the best in the world, and the gardens in Suzhou are the best in the south of the Yangtze River". It is also known as the "Oriental Water Capital" because of its ancient water town characteristics of small bridges and flowing water.

What are the fun tourist attractions in Hunan? Introduction to the fun tourist attractions in Hunan

1. Wuxi Stele Forest. Wuxi Stele Forest is located on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River in the southwest of Qiyang City, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province. The Cangya stone wall here, close to the Xiangjiang River, is majestic and abrupt, stretching for 78 meters. The highest point is more than 30 meters of land, which is a natural place for carving inscriptions on the cliff. Therefore, the Wuxi Open-air Cliff Massage is the first of its kind in South China and a shining cultural pearl in China.

2. Jiangkou Niaozhou Nature Reserve. Jiangkou Niaozhou Nature Reserve is located in Jiangkou Town, Hengnan County, Hengyang City, Hunan Province. Jiangkou Bird Island is located in the lower reaches of Lei River, surrounded by water. Jiangkou Bird Island consists of three islands.

3. Zijiang Tourist Resort in Lengshuijiang City. Lengshuijiang Zijiang Tourist Resort is located at the centralized wharf of Zijiang Tourist Resort (formerly Dawanli Pump House) in Lengshuijiang City, Loudi City, Hunan Province. The resort is a natural ecological scenic spot with 13 kilometers of water along the Zijiang River that integrates water entertainment activities, restaurants, hotels, bars, tea rooms, and popular science education!