What are the customs of Jiangsu Dragon Boat Festival?

Hello, the characteristics and customs of Jiangsu Dragon Boat Festival include eating twelve reds, drinking realgar wine, dragon boat racing, hanging mugwort leaves and wearing sachets. These are all things that Jiangsu people have to do during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Eat twelve red

There must be twelve reds in the menu of the people's luncheon in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, which also means that every month in twelve months of the year is very prosperous: roast chicken, braised pork, chopped old goose, roasted yellow croaker, stir-fried long fish, stir-fried shrimp, stir-fried amaranth, stir-fried broad bean petals, mixed cucumber, mixed bean jelly and salted duck eggs ... It is colorful. In the past, no matter how poor people were, they had to cook a yellow croaker on the Dragon Boat Festival.

Drinking realgar wine

In the old days, the custom of Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangsu Province was to drink realgar wine as usual. Jiangnan has the folk custom of eating "Huang Wu" during the Dragon Boat Festival. "Huang Wu" refers to eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted egg yolk and realgar wine.

Dragon Boat Racing

The earliest birthplace of dragon boat race in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province is Xumen Tanghe River, which is today's Xujianghe River. Shao, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, once lamented that "in May, the river was angry and the water was joyous". By the Qing Dynasty, Suzhou Dragon Boat Race had become very popular and there were many places. "Dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat, dragon boat.

Hanging mugwort leaf

On the Dragon Boat Festival, people in Yangzhou often hang mugwort leaves in the hall, cut them into the shape of a tiger or cut them into the shape of a tiger, and paste them with mugwort leaves. Women compete to wear them to drive away evil spirits. Using calamus as a sword and inserting it on the lintel has the magical effect of exorcising ghosts.

What are the characteristics and customs of Jiangsu Dragon Boat Festival?

Wear a sachet

The customs of Wuzhong, Jiangsu Province have always paid attention to beauty and cleverness. In ancient times, embroidered sachets were very important needlework. On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, the sisters-in-law of boudoir women should make early preparations, design novel decorations on their sachets, and skillfully add embroidery, including zodiac, lion, Pisces, intestines, flowers and plants, rare birds, Swiss beasts, vegetables, melons and fruits, etc. There are triangle, angle, chicken heart, diamond, barrel, crescent, fan and so on. Embroidered with flowers, grass, insects, birds and arhat money. And the style is extremely exquisite, or tied into a rope with five-color silk thread, made into a string of various shapes, various shapes, exquisite and lovely. Sachet bags are mostly made of cotton cloth and silk, with exquisite craftsmanship, which requires cutting, embroidery, patching, pasting and winding. In the boudoir, all kinds of means show their talents and compete skillfully. Once finished, they will be taken out to exchange views and give gifts to each other.