What else does the Dragon Boat Festival do in traditional customs besides eating zongzi??

The tradition of the Dragon Boat Festival in China is to wrap zongzi and eat zongzi; Race the dragon boat to see the dragon boat; used zongzi to throw into the big river to feed the fish to commemorate Qu Yuan; There are also drinking realgar wine and spilling realgar wine in front of and behind the house, which is said to be to prevent snakes. Nowadays, the custom of eating zongzi still exists, but there are very few dragon boats.

Dragon Boat Festival has always been a festival that everyone attaches great importance to, and on this day the Chinese also have a lot of customs, from the early morning has been busy, everyone knows that eating zongzi, not to this day zongzi leaves fragrant, and sweet zongzi or salty zongzi is also a dispute for a long time, I don't know which one you like? However, the Dragon Boat Festival is far more than eating zongzi, and I will share a few other customs with you.

A dragon boat race every year to this day began to gong and drum noisy, my hometown will row the dragon boat every year, to this day the whole family on the battlefield,Everyone was crowded on both sides of the river, and there were snack sellers who kept passing through the crowd, and when the various teams were assembled, the scene was even more livelyWith the sound of drums, the people on the dragon boat began to rivet, and after a while, there was a trend of dragon boats winning the first, and the scene became more lively, this is my memory of the township dragon boat, everyone was very happy on this day, and everyone had a happy smile on their faces.

2. Wormwood wormwood has always been known as a thing to ward off evil spirits in the folkOn this day, many people will buy some wormwood and put it on the door, with the good intention of warding off evil spiritsEvery year my mother buys wormwood, and wormwood is also a very good thing, and after the day, you can boil water and sprinkle it in the yard, and you can also avoid mosquito bites.

3. Catching ducks There are many places where there is a custom of catching ducks, and ducks will be placed by the lake in advance, and there are not many of them, and a group of people gather around the shoreWhen it starts, everyone goes into the water, and whoever catches the duck goes to whoever catches itBut what everyone cares about is not the duck, but the luck of the duck, it is said that the person who caught the duck can have a year of good luck, so everyone is very willing to participate?

In addition to these customs, there are many more, different places are different forms of expression, our hometown will eat mung bean cake on such days, and when I grew up, I began to understand the meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival, and suddenly understood Qu Yuan's mood of jumping into the sea at that time.

There are also dragon boats, with five-line ropes, with sachets, as well as sticking wormwood, sticking charms, and some places, people will also drink some wine and eat all kinds of zongzi.

Hang mugwort leaves, and you can race dragon boats, bring sachets, put paper kites, tie five-color silk threads, avoid five poisons, etc., this is all about the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival.

In addition to eating zongzi, we will also race dragon boats, wear sachets, put some wormwood on our door, and drink some realgar wine, and then hang the statue of Zhong Kui in every house to drive away evil spirits.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in our country, on this day we all know that we can eat zongzi, in fact, in addition to eating zongzi, there are many other customs, such as dragon boat racing, hanging mugwort leaves and calamus, drinking realgar wine, hanging bell statues, wearing sachets ......

Everyone knows that eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival has many little-known customs in addition to this custom.

First of all, the well-known dragon boat racing is also a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are dragon boat races and mountain movements in many places. Earlier, dragon boat racing during the Dragon Boat Festival was a custom for water town trainers.

Later, it is said that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River and died, the people of Chu were very sad, so they rowed a dragon boat to save him, and later there was the custom of dragon boat racing during the Dragon Boat Festival, and some places even had to hold the front to continue such activities for several days.

Secondly, hang mugwort leaves and calamus. There is a folk saying that the willows are inserted during the Qingming Festival, and the wormwood is inserted during the Dragon Boat Festival. In the Dragon Boat Festival, almost every household will hang calamus and mugwort leaves by the door, the purpose of this is to ward off evil spirits and insects, because the aroma of mugwort leaves can get rid of mosquitoes.

In some places, calamus is inserted in the door, and there are also sayings about exorcism and evil spirits. In ancient times, many people thought that this month was unlucky, because there were many epidemics and plagues in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, so the ancients would insert mugwort leaves and calamus on the door, thinking that this could repel insects and ward off evil spirits.

In addition, there is also a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to drink realgar wine. In many film and television dramas, we can learn about the custom of drinking realgar wine on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival. Everyone thinks that after drinking realgar wine, all diseases can stay away from us.

As for children, sometimes they will apply realgar wine to their faces and bodies, because realgar itself can be disinfected and sterilized, and it is not actually recommended if you drink it.

In addition, everyone will also wear sachets for children on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar, incense medicine ......The outside is silk cloth, which smells fragrant and is made into a variety of shapes, which is very beautiful. Such sachets are worn on the body, not only as a decoration for silver sheds, but most importantly, they believe that they can ward off insects and evil spirits.

The above are those customs on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to the above, there are others, and I will not introduce them to you one by one.

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.

Dragon boat racing, five-color rope, hanging wormwood, putting paper kites, jumping Zhong Kui, playing polo are some of the customs of Wang Jing during the Dragon Boat Festival, and some places will eat dumplings in Qingling Zen on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival.

In addition, there are dragon boat rowing, lion dance, giving money to children, making sachets, and smearing some water on children's foreheads, and there are many customs.

They will also eat five yellows, need to bring sachets, will take a bath on this day, people often have to carry colorful ropes in their hands, and will hang moxa sticks in front of their homes.