The Dragon Boat Festival is a folk festival that combines worship of gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and protection from evil, celebrating entertainment and eating. Customs are mainly dragon boat racing, dragon festival, picking herbs, hanging mugwort, playing the afternoon water, wash the herbal water, worship God ancestor, dip the dragon boat water, eat dragon boat rice, eat zongzi, paper dragon, paper kite, hitching the five-color silk thread, wear a scented bag, and so on.

Limited to limited space, I will pick four Dragon Boat Festival customs: dragon boat racing, hanging wormwood, eating rice dumplings, with scented bags, share it in detail.

1, dragon boat racing

Dragon boat racing is one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in China, the Dragon Boat Festival is one of the most important festivals and folk activities, in the southern region of China is widespread in the north of the city near the river and lake there are dragon boat racing customs, and most of them are paddling the dry dragon boat dance dragon boat form.

About the origin of dragon boat racing, there are a variety of sayings, there are sacrifices to Cao E, sacrifices to Qu Yuan, sacrifices to the god of the water or the dragon god and other rituals, its origin can be traced back to the Warring States period. Dragon boat racing has been introduced to neighboring countries such as Japan, Vietnam and the United Kingdom, is the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games official competition. The origin of dragon boat racing at the Dragon Boat Festival is to honor Qu Yuan. The dragon boat is used to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish do not eat Qu Yuan's body.

2, hanging mugwort

In the countryside there is a proverb, called "Qingming Festival, willow, Dragon Boat Festival plug Ai", so every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, families must do one thing for the festival, is to plug the Ai leaves and calamus, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Festival of Calamus", "Ai Festival". The festival is also known as the "Calamus Festival" and "Ai Festival". Clean up the courtyard, insert moxa leaves and calamus on the lintel, or hang them in the house, which can prevent mosquitoes and insects, and ward off diseases and evil spirits. Also use mugwort, calamus, garlic, durian flowers, dragon boat flowers, etc., made of incense bags, worn on the body, can drive away miasma. After drying, mugwort can be soaked and fumigated to disinfect and relieve itching, its benefits are too many. Partners, now your family still have the custom of inserting mugwort?

3, food dumplings

Every year the Dragon Boat Festival is everyone racing dragon boats, in honor of Qu Yuan, eat dumplings day. In general, the dumplings are made of glutinous rice wrapped in zongzi leaves, is the most traditional Han celebration of the Dragon Boat Festival food. Zongzi has a deep sedimentation in Chinese history and culture, and its spread far and wide. The custom of eating zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival has prevailed in China for thousands of years.

The zongzi is a very popular and traditional food in China, and the main ingredient of the zongzi is glutinous rice. Eating more rice dumplings can effectively strengthen the stomach and eliminate food, tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi. For some people with weak spleen and stomach and indigestion has a very good auxiliary treatment and improve the role.

4, Pei Xiangbao

Pei Xiangbao is one of the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, the bag is usually filled with a number of aromatic herbs to open up the mind, there is a fragrance, insect repellent, to avoid the plague, the efficacy of disease prevention. Duan Yang to four-color line tie arm, and wear scented sachets, small and exquisite can be seen, has become a common crafts. Dragon Boat Festival children wear scented sachets, legend has the meaning of evil spirits to drive away the plague. In some cities in the south, young men and women also use scented pouches to express strong love.

The above is my understanding of the 4 on the Dragon Boat Festival customs, partners you still know what it? Leave a message in the comments section.