The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival

Hanging a clock and making a statue: Zhong Kui catches ghosts, which is the custom of Dragon Boat Festival. In the Jianghuai area, bells and statues are hung in every household to ward off evil spirits.

Dragon Boat Race: At that time, Chu people were reluctant to part with the death of Saint Qu Yuan, so many people rowed boats to save them. This is the origin of dragon boat race, and then rowed dragon boats every May 5 to commemorate it. Rowing a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body. The habit of competition prevailed in wuyue and Chu.

You Zhou Tournament began in Taiwan Province Province in the 29th year of Qing Qianlong, when Jiang, then the magistrate of Taiwan Province Province, held a friendly match in Hexi Half Moon Pool in Tainan City. At present, boat races are held in Taiwan Province Province on May 5th every year, and there are boat races in Hong Kong. Recently, the British have followed our example and organized ghost teams to hold competitions.

According to Wen Yiduo, a famous patriotic scholar in modern times, the Dragon Boat Festival was originally a totem festival held by Wuyue people, and the dragon boat race was a semi-religious ceremony. Semi-entertaining programs. "

Four or five thousand years ago, people living in water tribes in primitive totem society were threatened by snakes, insects, diseases and floods. In order to resist these natural disasters, they worship the imaginary powerful dragon as their ancestor and protector (totem), and build the boat into the shape of a dragon and draw a dragon pattern, and hold a competition every year on the Dragon Boat Festival. In order to show respect for the dragon, he also said that he is a descendant of the dragon, a descendant of the dragon.

Eating zongzi: On May 5th, people in Jingchu cooked glutinous rice or steamed zongzi cakes and threw them into the river as sacrifices to Qu Yuan, so they threw the glutinous rice in bamboo tubes for fear of being eaten by fish. Later, they gradually replaced the bamboo tube with rice wrapped in zongzi leaves.

Drink realgar wine: Realgar is a mineral containing arsenic trioxide, which is mixed with wine for drinking. That is to say, the realgar wine with repellent and detoxification is applied to the child's head and forehead. Ears, nose, hands, feet and heart. Sprinkle the wall and ask, attack the law with poison. The story of "Legend of the White Snake" circulated among the people is to cure the snake's poison with realgar wine, and now the true colors of the white snake are revealed. This kind of learning is very popular among people in the Yangtze River valley.

Wandering all diseases: it is a popular custom of Dragon Boat Festival in Guizhou. Men, women and children go out to play and wear new clothes. At noon 1 o, the roads, mountains and trees are crowded with people, holding flowers and plants, and they are happy. Go home at night to cook flowers and take a bath. Old people call it "a tour of all diseases" and "a wash of all diseases". People who don't go out for a walk and don't wash all their illnesses will not be lucky all year round.

Wearing sachets: Children wear sachets during the Dragon Boat Festival, which not only means to ward off evil spirits and drive away epidemics, but also has decorative styles on the front. Cinnabar is hidden in a sachet. Realgar. Aromatherapy medicine, wrapped in silk, is full of fragrance, and then tied into a rope with five-color silk strings to make a series of different shapes, all kinds of exquisite and dazzling.