Characteristics of Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is characterized by exorcism, disease prevention, such as hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boat water, tying five-color silk thread to exorcise evil spirits, washing herbal water, smoking Atractylodes lancea for disease prevention and so on.

Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Yulan Festival and Tianzhong Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China.

Dragon Boat Festival is a festival founded by the ancestors of Baiyue in ancient times to worship their ancestors. According to legend, Qu Yuan, a Chu poet in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on May 5th. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.

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1, Zongzi: Eating Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in China. There are many shapes and varieties of zongzi, such as regular triangle, regular quadrangle, pointed triangle, square, long and so on. Due to the different flavors in different parts of China, there are mainly two kinds: sweet and salty.

2. Realgar wine: The custom of drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in the Yangtze River basin. White wine or yellow wine brewed from ground realgar. Realgar can be used as an antidote and insecticide.

3. Huang Wu: Jiangsu and Zhejiang have the custom of eating "Huang Wu" during the Dragon Boat Festival. Huang Wu refers to yellow croaker, cucumber, eel, duck egg yolk and realgar wine. There are other sayings that salted duck eggs can be replaced by soybeans.