What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival? What are the eating customs?
Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, and it is also one of the grand festivals.Therefore, when the Dragon Boat Festival comes, the people will celebrate it.Generally, the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include racing dragon boats, weaving colorful ropes, hanging wormwood, etc., and eating customs include eating zongzi, drinking realgar wine and so on.
Dragon Boat Festival originated from people"s worship of celestial phenomena and dragon totem in ancient times.It is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, so it is also called Duanyang Festival, Dragon Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc.It is one of the four traditional festivals in China.Not only the state will declare a statutory holiday, but the people will also celebrate it.Therefore, there are many unique customs and cultures on the Dragon Boat Festival, including entertainment activities and food customs.
What are the folk customs of the Dragon Boat Festival
1.Entertainment:The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the grandest festivals, so we inevitably have to carry out a series of entertainment activities on this day First, it is to celebrate festivals; second, it is also to pray for good fortune and disaster relief; third, it is to commemorate Qu Yuan and others.The entertainment activities of the Dragon Boat Festival mainly include racing dragon boats, weaving colorful ropes, hanging wormwood and calamus, washing herbal water, playing water at noon, casting Yang Sui, immersing in dragon boat water, wearing damselfly, pasting noon time symbols, painting foreheads, daisies Cangzhu, avoid Dragon Boat Festival, avoid five poisons, pick tea to make tea, dance Zhongkui, fight grass, play polo and so on.
2.Dietary customs:When major festivals or anniversaries come, people have to change their diets and even eat some special foods, and the Dragon Boat Festival is no exception.On the Dragon Boat Festival, people eat rice dumplings, drink realgar wine, eat cakes, eat fried dumplings and eat five yellows, of which five yellows include yellow croaker, cucumber, yellow mountain, duck egg yolk and rice wine.In addition, in some special areas, there are customs such as eating glutinous rice and Hedaigo soup.
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