What activities are there during Taiyuan Dragon Boat Festival? Introduction to Taiyuan Dragon Boat Festival customs

1. On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the first custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to make and eat rice dumplings. Taiyuan, like all parts of the country, also has the custom of eating rice dumplings. Zongzi is made of glutinous rice or yellow rice, red dates, adzuki beans, etc. wrapped in reed leaves and tied with horse lotus. Taiyuan rice dumplings are a representative variety of northern rice dumplings. The rice dumplings are larger in size and are oblique square or triangular in shape. Taiyuan rice dumplings are mostly filled with red dates and bean paste, and a few also use preserved fruit as filling.

2. Tie Baisuo is also called "Dragon Boat Festival Suo" and "Longevity Suo". The custom of tying Baisuo has been formed in the Han Dynasty. Han Yingshao's "Customs and Customs" said: "At noon, tie your arms with colorful silk to avoid ghosts and soldiers and prevent people from getting sick." In ancient China, five colors were worshiped and regarded as auspicious colors. , use green, red, yellow, black, white and other colorful silk threads to make thin ropes and tie them around the arms, ankles and neck to drive away plague, eliminate evil spirits, stop bad spirits, and seek good luck.

3. When the Dragon Boat Festival comes, grandma and grandma are busy making purses for their children. There are bags for cereals, camphor balls, cinnabar, realgar, and spices. Coupled with clues made of five-color silk threads, it is worn on the child's chest or around the neck. It is small and exquisite, and is fragrant. It is said that it has the meaning of warding off evil spirits and driving away plague. The picture below is a bellyband worn by infants and young children. It has tigers and snakes on it, and the words "Monk Zhang and Monk Li, take care of anything on me" written on it. The older people looked more friendly.