What are the special activities of the Dragon Boat Festival and what are the forms of celebration
Dragon Boat Festival is held every year.The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, in order to celebrate the arrival of this day, we will rest on statutory holidays and carry out some folk activities.The celebration of the Dragon Boat Festival is divided into entertainment activities, eating activities, and exorcism activities.The special activities include dragon boat racing, kite flying, eating rice dumplings, drinking realgar wine, hanging wormwood, tying five-color silk threads, wearing damselflies, painting foreheads, hiding the Dragon Boat Festival., to avoid the five poisons, fighting grass and so on.
Each festival has its own special celebrations, but because of the different scales of the festivals, the types of celebrations are also somewhat different.For a grand festival like the Dragon Boat Festival, there are more than ten kinds of celebration activities, such as eating rice dumplings, racing dragon boats, and tying five-color silk threads.
What special events will be held on the Dragon Boat Festival
1.Entertainment:More than a thousand years ago, people believed that the Dragon Boat Festival and the arrival of midsummer were related to a certain extent, so whenever in early May During the Dragon Boat Festival, people will hold a series of entertainment activities to celebrate, such as flying kites, fighting grass, playing polo, dancing Zhongkui and so on.In addition, the original purpose of the Dragon Boat Festival is to worship the dragon totem, so people also have the entertainment of dragon boat racing.
2.Eating activities:Throughout the past and present at home and abroad, whenever festivals come, we must change our eating habits.During the Dragon Boat Festival, people"s characteristic dietary activities refer to eating rice dumplings, drinking realgar wine, drinking cinnabar wine, drinking Pu wine, eating Wuhuang, eating cakes, eating fried dumplings, etc.Among them, the first famous and popular diets were rice dumplings and realgar wine..According to legend, eating zongzi is to commemorate Qu Yuan who threw himself into the river to die for his country, and drinking realgar wine is to ward off evil spirits.
3.Exorcism activities:Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival is not only to sacrifice dragon totems and commemorate historical celebrities, but also to exorcise evil spirits and avoid evil.Therefore, there are also some exorcism activities with characteristics of the Dragon Boat Festival.The Dragon Boat Festival exorcism activities include hanging wormwood, hanging calamus, washing herbal water, tying five-color silk threads, playing noon water, casting Yang Sui, soaking dragon boat water, wearing damselfly, pasting noon time symbols, painting foreheads, Dai Atractylodes, hiding the Dragon Boat Festival, Avoid five poisons, drink realgar wine, etc.
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