What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival besides eating zongzi?

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Eat zongzi, race dragon boats, hang wormwood, drink realgar wine...Different local customs will be different, but the general direction will not be wrong.

Hang wormwood, hang Dragon Boat Festival lanterns, and have colored ropes on your hands.

Hanging mugwort leaves and calamus, every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, calamus and mugwort leaves will be inserted on the door, used to drive away miasma and ward off evil spirits, [hanging colorful rope] The custom of tying colorful ropes during the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, and people used colorful thin ropes to weave colorful ropes, various colors. In addition to the custom of eating zongzi, there is also the custom of eating five yellows, which is the food represented by the "five yellows" according to different places.

Zongzi, a steamed food made from glutinous rice wrapped in zongzi leaves, is one of the traditional Chinese festival foods. As one of the traditional foods with the deepest historical and cultural accumulation in China, zongzi has spread far and wide. The custom of eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival has been prevalent in China for thousands of years, and has even spread to East Asian countries.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a folk festival that integrates worshipping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The customs mainly include model dragon boating, dragon sacrifice, herb picking, hanging wormwood, playing noon water, washing herbal water, worshipping gods and ancestors, soaking dragon orange round boat water, eating dragon boat rice, eating zongzi, putting paper dragons, putting paper kites, tying five-color silk threads, wearing sachets and so on.

The Dragon Boat Festival also has dragon boat rowing, hanging wormwood and calamus, tying five-color silk threads, avoiding five poisons, drinking pu wine, realgar wine, cinnabar wine and so on.

Dragon boat racing has a long history, has been spread for more than 2,000 years, is a traditional Chinese folk water sports and entertainment project, in Qu Yuan's hometown of Zigui, Hubei, there are also rituals to worship Qu Yuan.

In the Dragon Boat Festival, arrange all kinds of flowers and plants that can drive away evil spirits, and it will be a long time. The earliest is like hanging wormwood on the door, "Jing Chu Years Chronicles": "Cai wormwood is a person, hanging on the door, with poisonous gas." "This is because mugwort is an important medicinal plant, and it can also be used to make mugwort to cure diseases, moxibustion points, and insect repellent.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, children tie five-colored silk threads on their wrists and ankles to ward off evil spirits. Therefore, in the early morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the first thing that adults do after getting up is to tie five-colored threads on the children's wrists, ankles, and necks.

Folks believe that May is the time when the five poisons (scorpions, snakes, centipedes, geckos, and toads) are infested, and the folks should use various methods to prevent the harm of the five poisons. Generally, the five poisons are pasted in the house, the five poisons are printed on red paper, and then five needles are pricked on the five poisons, that is, the poison is stabbed to death and can no longer run rampant.

The Dragon Boat Festival, which is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, is one of the four traditional festivals in China. According to the record of "Jing Chu Years Chronicles", because of the midsummer climbing, Shunyang is above, May is midsummer, and its first noon day is the day of ascending Shunyang's good weather, so the fifth day of the fifth month of May is also called "Duanyang Festival"; In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as "Zhengyang Festival, Dragon Day Festival, Midday Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Yulan Festival, Tianzhong Festival and so on."

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival mainly include eating zongzi and dragon boat racing. The custom of eating zongzi has been prevalent in China for thousands of years; Dragon boat racing is very popular in the southern coastal area of China, and after it is spread abroad, it is deeply loved by people from all over the world and has formed an international competition.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, and was originally a festival for the tribes who worshiped the dragon totem in the ancient Baiyue region to hold totem sacrifices. Because Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu during the Warring States Period, committed suicide by bouldering and jumping into the Miluo River on the Dragon Boat Festival, he was loyal to the monarch and patriotic, and later took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.

When the Dragon Boat Festival comes, both adults and children will be very happy, because during the Dragon Boat Festival, we can not only eat zongzi, but also hang sachets, sprinkle male rice wine, and watch dragon boat racing.

First, hang sachets and sprinkle realgar wine. If the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, then hanging incense or sachets during the Dragon Boat Festival is an experience of Qu Yuan's spirit. We have studied Qu Yuan's "Lisao" in high school, in the text we have a further understanding of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, through the study of the text, we know that wearing a sachet in the Dragon Boat Festival is a commemoration of Qu Yuan's spirit, so many years after Qu Yuan's death, everyone will miss Qu Yuan during the Dragon Boat Festival and wear a sachet.

In addition, during the Dragon Boat Festival, there is a bit of the custom of realgar wine, realgar is a kind of medicinal material, I heard that it can kill a hundred poisons, so during the Dragon Boat Festival, the ancients will also soak realgar in wine, and smear rice wine on children's ears, noses, wrists, etc., it is said that this can drive mosquitoes, snakes, centipedes, spiders, etc.

Second, hang a portrait of Zhong Kui. Zhong Kui is a ghost hunting fairy, Kui ghost hunting is also the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, in the Jianghuai region, during the Dragon Boat Festival, every family will hang the portrait of Zhong Kui, used to drive away evil spirits, and there is no such custom in the northern region.

Third, dragon boat racing. Dragon boat racing can be described as a traditional project of the Dragon Boat Festival, dragon boat racing activities will be held in many places during the Dragon Boat Festival, the legend is that because of the great patriotic poet, Qu Yuan was in the river, there were many people rowing boats to save him, everyone rushed to save Qu Yuan, but in the end they were not able to save Qu Yuan, so whenever the Dragon Boat Festival came, everyone used the dragon boat race to express the commemoration of Qu Yuan, and this way of dragon boat racing is also to hope that the captain can see the water, Remove the fish and shrimp from the water to prevent them from eating Qu Yuan's body. With the development of the times and the change of people's ideological consciousness, now dragon boat racing is not only a way to remember Qu Yuan, many places will take dragon boat racing as a sport and competition, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone will rush to the river ** dragon boat racing this activity, in the commemoration of Qu Yuan at the same time, but also to get some happiness.

To sum up, I think there is a custom in the Dragon Boat Festival in addition to eating zongzi.

In addition to eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, there are also customs such as eating five yellows, racing dragon boats, wearing five-color rope bracelets, wearing incense sachets, and Mulan soup.

There are also customs such as dragon boat rowing and eating five flowers, wearing sachets, praying for blessings and wearing colorful ropes, all of which have a very long history.

I can also row a dragon boat, as well as hang wormwood and colorful ropes. Singing, drinking realgar wine, these activities are left by our ancestors, and we must abide by them.

Dragon Boat Race, Tie colorful ropes, drink realgar wine, insert wormwood, make wormwood sachets, and go green, these are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival.