[Hebei Province]
Beijing is jealous of the Dragon Boat Festival wells, and often draws water in advance of the festival, which is said to be to avoid poisoned wells. Marketplace vendors also in the Dragon Boat Festival selling cherries and mulberries, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival ate cherries and mulberries, can be the whole year without flies. Furnace food store to sell "five poisonous cakes", that is, five kinds of poisonous insects decorated with patterns for the cake. Luan County has been hired by the male and female in-laws salty at the Dragon Boat Festival gifts to each other. Zhao County Dragon Boat Festival, the local government will hold a party to the south of the city, inviting the city of scholars to feast and poetry, known as the "step willow".
[Shandong Province]
Zouping County Dragon Boat Festival, each person needs to drink a cup of wine in the morning, and legend has it that it can avoid evil spirits. Rizhao Dragon Boat Festival for children wrapped in seven-color line, has to wear to the first rain after the festival before unraveling thrown in the rain. Linqing County Dragon Boat Festival, boys under seven years of age with a charm (necklaces made of wheat), girls with pomegranate flowers, but also to wear their mother's hand-made yellow in the shoes, shoes with brushes drawn on the surface of the five kinds of poisonous insects. The meaning is to kill the five kinds of poisonous insects by means of Qu Yuan's ink. Imo washes his face with dew on the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival.
[Shanxi Province]
Duanwu, Xiezhou, men and women wear moxa leaves, known as "to get rid of the disease", and young children are tied to a hundred cords around their necks, which is said to be "for the Qu Yuan to tie the dragon". Xi'an County Dragon Boat Festival, the village sacrificed to the Dragon King, and hanging paper in the field. Huairen County Dragon Boat Festival is also known as "Zhu Men". At the Dragon Boat Festival in Dingxiang County, students were required to give gifts to teachers. Lu'an Province to wheat flour steamed dough, known as "white dough", and zongzi together to give each other.
[Shaanxi Province]
In Xing'an Prefecture, at the Dragon Boat Festival, the local officials led their subordinates to watch the ferry race, which was called "Treading Stone". Xingping County, the Dragon Boat Festival with silk sewn small corn, and then sewn underneath a small doll, known as "play dolls". In Tongguan County, the door of the Dragon Boat Festival is covered with a sticker and a paper cow, which is called "Zhen Disease".
[Gansu Province]
Jingning State Dragon Boat Festival pick roses pickled in honey for syrup. Zhenyuan County Dragon Boat Festival to the newlyweds incense fan, Luo Qi, scarf, Ai Hu. Sons and daughters and invite their fathers and brothers to feast on the master, known as "enjoy the festival". Zhangxian County Dragon Boat Festival, shepherd children worship mountain gods. Accumulation of salary mound, burned before the cock crows, commonly known as "burning high mountains.
[Jiangsu Province]
Jiading County Dragon Boat Festival, rich or poor, must buy stone head fish (commonly known as koji) cooking. Yizheng County also has "when the pants, buy yellowtail" proverb. Nanjing Dragon Boat Festival, each family is a box of water, add a little andrographis, googly-eyed money two, the size of the family are using this water to wash their eyes, known as the "broken fire eye", it is said to protect a year without eye disease. Wujin night dragon boat theater, the night on all sides of the dragon boat hanging on the small lights racing, and there are xiao drums and singing.
[Sichuan Province]
Shizhu "out of the Dragon Boat Lo" custom. A large square table covered with a red carpet is lifted by four people with two bamboo poles. Carpet with bamboo gabions braided a Taoist priest riding a tiger. Drums and gongs are beaten, and a street parade is held. In the old days, there was also the custom of "typing" at the Dragon Boat Festival in western Sichuan. On this day, Chengdu people buy plums, in the southeast corner of the city under the city tower, up and down to throw, gather tens of thousands of observers. The custom was stopped in 1895 because of a conflict between the plum throwers and foreign missionaries. Leshan, Xinjin and other places in the Dragon Boat Race, but also held a grand commodity fair.
[Xijiang Province]
Tonglu County township schoolchildren, the Dragon Boat Festival with the gift to the teacher, called the "clothes". Medical practitioners are at noon to collect medicine, according to legend, this day, the sky doctor star in the sky.
[Jiangxi Province]
Jianchang Province, Wu Festival with a hundred grass water bath to prevent scabies, Xinchang County, Xionghuang, Dansha drink wine, called the "open eyes".
[Hubei Province]
Huanggang County Dragon Boat Festival Bahe town to meet Nuo people, flower crown body, sounding gold by epidemic. Yichang County Dragon Boat Festival, but in May 13, 14, 15 three days of the special. May 15, also known as the "big Danyang", eating rice dumplings, drinking bus wine, routine with the Dragon Boat Festival.
[Hunan Province]
You County Dragon Boat Festival, pregnant women, rich people with flower money wine and food, poor people prepared chicken wine, bamboo clip kozo money, for the dragon boat in front of the dragon's head to pray for a safe birth. In Yuezhou Prefecture, people race to avoid disasters and illnesses. They also make straw boats to flood the water, which is called "sending the plague".
[Fujian Province]
Fuzhou Dragon Boat Festival old custom, the daughter-in-law is the day to life clothes, shoes and socks, dumplings, fans into the in-laws. Jianyang County to five days for the medicine king sunshine medicine capsule day, people are on this day for sauce. Shanghang County Dragon Boat Festival with a small boat bound reeds as a dragon play on the waterfront, known as the race. Xianyou County Dragon Boat Festival after the race, offering paper in the Hu Xiaotan, to commemorate the Jiajing Dec. Qi Jiguang drowned soldiers in this. Shaowu Province before the Dragon Boat Festival, women to Jiang Jiang yarn for the bag Sheng Fu. And the five-color velvet as a square victory, associated with colorful threads, tied to the hairpin. Young girls are hanging on the back, known as "Dou Niang".
[Guangdong Province]
Conghua County Dragon Boat Festival at noon to burn water hand-washing eyes, sprinkled in the road, known as the "send disaster". Xinxing County Dragon Boat Festival, people from their neighboring temples to welcome the guide statue of the gods on patrol. Witches and water, stickers to expel the evil mortal charm. Shicheng County Dragon Boat Festival, children flying kites, known as "put the disaster".
(Taiwan Province)
Taiwan is located in the subtropical, early immigrants from the mainland were unable to adapt to the climate here, died of miasma plague epidemic, heard from time to time. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival, a festival whose basic spirit is to expel diseases and avoid epidemics, has become particularly important.
The Dragon Boat Festival customs of the former Qing Dynasty can be represented by the account in the appendix of Wang Yingzeng's Re-establishment of Fengshan County Records (1764), Volume 3: Early in the morning of May 5, a bunch of rice stalks were burned and smoked towards the corner of the room, and kozo money was sent to the side of the road on the day of the sending of mosquitoes. The lintel hanging bushes and inserting grass and tares, said to avoid mosquitoes and gnats; banyan a branch, said old and healthy. Each other to watermelon, corn feed each other. Good thing in the shallow estuary, with money or cloth for the standard, three skin fishing general scramble to take, the winner of the gong cheers, the number of day fight dragon boat. Afternoon for the little children knot five pick strands, men tied to the left wrist, women tied to the right wrist, the name of the day God refining.
There is another folk saying that the insertion of Ai, banyan can make the body strong. As the saying goes, "insert banyan more courageous dragon, inserted Ai more courageous and healthy". Private school students, as a rule, send red envelopes to their teachers as a thank-you gift for the festival, and the teachers return the gift with a fan.
Suzuki Kiyoichiro's "Taiwan's old customary crown wedding funeral rituals in the middle of the year" (1934) records that the mourning period of the family, the Dragon Boat Festival, do not pack rice dumplings, but by friends and relatives to give, known as the "send festival". Mourning family to sugar as a return gift. And farmers called "Fukin" gold paper to come in bamboo poles, inserted between, it is said to be able to prevent harm and a good harvest. Some places in the Dragon Boat Festival have made "salty tea" custom, is to use salt to pickle perilla leaves and pomegranate leaves, said to be a medicinal tea, clear all the poisonous gas.
Jiadong Township, Pingtung County, during the Japanese rule era, also had the custom of fighting stone battles on the Dragon Boat Festival. Stone wars have been passed down in the Jiadong area for hundreds of years, and every year, a few days before the Dragon Boat Festival, crowds of people are ready to fight a hard battle with their fists and palms. The Stone War is organized like an army, with a chief of staff and other positions, with the village as the unit. It is organized like an army, with a chief of staff and other positions. The men are on the "front line" throwing stones. The women were in the rear, transporting the stones. When the fighting is intense, casualties are frequent. The victorious side was allowed to go to the defeated village to eat and drink. The defeated villagers fled. If they are captured by the other side, they are punished by being forced to take off their pants and humiliated in public. This strange custom is said to guarantee good luck for the whole year, and so the Jadon people enjoy it. However, because of the heavy casualties caused by the Ishi Battle, and because of repeated prohibitions by the local government, the custom declined towards the end of the Japanese colonial period.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, it is also customary for families to play "Wushisui". Wushisui refers to the well water at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that the water is used to make tea and wine, especially fragrant, and even raw drink has a miraculous effect of healing. There is a proverb that says: "Wash the eyes at noon (eyes), Ming to if Wu drongo", and said "noon water drink a mouth, better tonic to eat for three years". The most legendary noon water comes from the sword well on the anvil hill in Dajia Town. Legend has it that the well was the place where Zheng Chenggong inserted his sword and prayed for the spring, and since it is also rumored that the Anvil Mountain is rich in all kinds of medicinal herbs, the efficacy of the sword well's noon water has been fabled to be magical. Every year, the Dragon Boat Festival, the sword well next to the people who fight no lunchtime water is always crowded with a dense wind. It is said that the Dragon Boat Festival at noon to the well to look carefully, you can also see the shadow of Zheng Chenggong. And see the shadow of the sword people, this year must be no disaster.
Dragon boat paddling, Taiwan is known as "grill dragon boat". According to the "Folklore Taiwan" Volume 6 on the record, the Japanese colonial era Shilin Dragon Boat Dragon Boat custom is as follows: since the beginning of May together, the first to the waterfront "welcome the water god". Noon on the fifth day of the month, that is, sounding the gongs and drums, carrying the dragon boat to the riverbank, the way there are residents burn incense and worship. As the saying goes: "May 5th. Dragon boat drums, full of streets. Welcome, known as the "dragon boat". Race through the dragon, but also in the first ten "send water God", and held a "thank you river" ceremony.
Tainan, Taichung, the head of the store, since the middle of the Qing Dynasty, there has been after the beginning of spring, wearing wood to wake up the custom of pangolin. After the restoration of the Qing Dynasty, this custom was fixed to be held on Tuanshi Festival every year. In the Qing Dynasty, Toudian was the most prosperous area in Taichung, and it was said that this was because the local area was located in the Pangshanjia Cave. Therefore, local residents would put on their wooden clogs and step heavily on the ground back and forth every year during the Dragon Boat Festival in order to wake up the pangolin with a loud noise. Currently, this custom has been changed to a fun competition. Four people form a team and wear two long wooden clogs nailed together to compete. The sound of the clogs has awakened nostalgia among the residents of Plow Shop.
In terms of holiday food customs, it is commonly rumored in Taiwan that eating peaches, eggplants and kidney beans at the Dragon Boat Festival can be healthy and long. As the saying goes: "Eat eggplant eat to will shake, eat beans eat to old old". Taiwan-style zongzi method is divided into two kinds of north and south. The northern method is rice leakage soaked in water, drained and fried in oil, and June into the five-spice powder, pepper, soy sauce and other seasonings. The rice will be steamed and then wrapped in bamboo leaves to fill, and once again make people taste. There are also people who prefer to use oil to stir-fry the rice grains until half-cooked, wrapped in real filling and then steamed. In the southern part of the country, pure white glutinous rice is soaked with meat filling, wrapped in green bamboo leaves and boiled until cooked. Because of the difference in production methods, the flavors of the dumplings in the north and south are also different. The zongzi in the north have a strong five-spice pepper flavor, while the meat zongzi in the south have a light bamboo leaf, each with its own characteristics. The ingredients include pork, mushrooms, shrimp, peanuts, salted egg yolks, red onions, chestnuts and dried oysters, which can be added according to one's preference.
The Hakka people in the Miaoli area also eat eggplant, long beans, peaches and plums during the Dragon Boat Festival. However, the meaning of these foods is different from that of the southern people. Eating seeds is certainly to take the meaning of its long, eat plums to symbolize the reproduction of offspring, and some people also believe that it can prevent heatstroke. Eating long beans is to avoid being bitten by snakes (because they are shaped like snakes). Eat eggplant to prevent mosquito bites (eggplant Hakka called "hanging vegetables", and "bite", the local pronunciation is "short a ㄠ", to take its harmony).
The Hakka people wrapped zongzi also divided into alkaline zongzi and salty zongzi. Alkaline rice dumplings are especially used for rituals. The Hakka people have to prepare four copies of livestock for the Dragon Boat Festival, one to pay homage to the God of the land, one to pay homage to the Master of Ten Thousand Goodnesses, and one to pay homage to the nearby temples. The alkaline rice dumplings are one of the indispensable offerings. The savory rice dumplings are divided into two types: rice dumplings and rice kuey teow dumplings, which are used purely to satisfy cravings.
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