The Dragon Boat Festival in Zhanjiang, also known as the May Festival, usually begins on the first day of May. On the first day of May, you eat peaches, wash your face in water with mugwort leaves in the morning, and take a bath with mugwort leaves mixed with other herbs at night.
On the fifth day, we killed chickens, ducks and ancestors, ate zongzi, bathed in boiling water with mugwort leaves at night, and held a dragon boat race.
Zhanjiang folk have the custom of boiling water and bathing with wormwood and other herbs during the growing season of the Dragon Boat Festival to eliminate diseases and toxins.
These herbs are mainly wormwood, calamus, bamboo leaves, citronella, grapefruit leaves, peach leaves, wild ginger and some unknown ones.
In the old days, people in Zhanjiang used the leaves of Eriocheir sinensis to prick, instead of weaving zongzi (commonly known as "zongzi") in the shape of mother duck, pen container, pot cover, olives and pillows, and making zongzi with corn or glutinous rice (the zongzi in Leizhou is big and called big zongzi). The East China Sea Zongzi is big and long, so it is called Jiaotong University Zongzi.
According to the word "Miao" in the annotation of Haikang County Records, "Miao is born in fields and hedges, and is everywhere. Only those born in the sand are one or two feet tall and cannot become wood. Songkhla is more than ten feet tall, but it is also a waste. "
Zhanjiang Mid-Autumn Festival is old. In some coastal villages in Zhanjiang, Mid-Autumn Festival also has activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors. Generally, the elderly at home will bring cooked pork, chickens and ducks, moon cakes, fruits and other tributes at noon.
Go to the temple or ancestral temple near your home for sacrificial activities, and then take the food back to share with your family to express people's prayers for health, peace, adequate food and clothing, and all the best.