Mention of the "Dragon Boat Festival", people often think of eating zongzi, drink xionghuang wine, to avoid the five poisons, dragon boat racing and other customs. In fact, there are many other Dragon Boat Festival customs. The following is the introduction of several lesser-known "Dragon Boat Customs".

1, the Dragon Boat Festival shooting willow

It is the northern people of the Dragon Boat Festival, a competitive sport, rumored to have appeared in the Liao. Liao, Jin, Qing dynasty history of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Khitan race, the Jurchen race and later the eight banners of the generals and soldiers galloped to shoot the willow, playing polo games of the heritage.

The horse shooting willow, held in the early morning of the Dragon Boat Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival is held in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival. Rites of passage": "Jin because of Liao custom, heavy five days of willow to the ground about a few inches, cut its skin and white. First to a man galloped ahead of the horse, then galloped back to the featherless horizontal tufts of arrows shot. Both broken willow, but also to the hand to pick up and relax to go on, broken and can not pick up to go on the second, each shot must be sent to the drum to help its gas". To the Ming Dynasty, the birds stored in the gourd shot. This festival competition has become a habit, until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

2, Dragon Boat Festival fan

Ancient. According to the "Tang will be" is contained, Zhenguan eighteen years (644) Dragon Boat Festival, Tang Taizong Li Shimin had personally written fan to the important ministers Changsun Wuji and Yang Shidao. And said: "May the old custom, must be used to play congratulations, this I give Jun fly white fan two, the common people move the breeze, to increase virtue." Here Tang Taizong said that the fan for the old custom, visible Dragon Boat Festival fan custom has been a long time.

Summer summer, the fan is the most commonly used cool supplies, the Dragon Boat Festival, the summer gradually, the gift of the fan at the time. And Tang Taizong said, "the common people move the breeze" in the "breeze" two words, and implies "Qinghui weathering" meaning. Visible Tang Taizong's "Dragon Boat Festival fan" elegant and rich in connotation. However, the custom of giving a fan, not from Tang Taizong, just because of his demonstration and star effect to make it popular, become a Dragon Boat Festival trend of culture, and then formed a Dragon Boat Festival customs, folk customs "Dragon Boat Festival fan" gradually derived from "ward off evil spirits, cool "and other meanings, from elegant, literary to popular, practical.

3, the Dragon Boat Festival fighting grass

In ancient times, "fighting grass" is circulating in our country folk entertainment customs. Every spring and summer, the wind and sunshine, the grass grows and flies, men and women, especially children and women have to meet in the countryside to play fight grass, is a pleasing and cultural flavor of the leisure activities.

According to the Southern Dynasty's Security Department's "Jing Chu Years and Seasons", "On the fifth day of the fifth month, the four people and step on the grass, and there is a game of grass fighting". The Northern Song lyricist Yan Shu's "Broken Formation Zi" says, "I wonder if last night's spring dream was good, but this morning's grass-fighting game is a win, and a smile is born from both faces", and the Qing Dynasty painter Chen Hongshou's "Grass-fighting Picture" depicts the grass-fighting game in a vivid way.

The grass fight has two kinds:

The "martial arts fight" is roughly the following: the game The two sides first each picked a certain toughness of the grass (mostly for the grass), and then cross each other into the "ten" shape and each with the strength of the pull, in order to continue to be the winner. This kind of human pull and grass by the strength of the pull to determine the winners and losers of the fight grass, known as the "martial arts". It's a bit like the popular game of "pulling out the roots".

"Wenduo" is the name of the flowers and grasses, the girls picked the grass, in the form of fighting each other's names, who picked the grass more, the level of fighting is high, stick to the end, who will win. Therefore, to play this game, you should have a certain degree of literary training and botanical knowledge.

The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is an important traditional Dragon Boat Festival in our country, and every holiday custom is built on the soil of life, containing the people's code of conduct and life expectations.