What are the customs of Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival?

Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of wearing sachets, hanging calamus, wearing poisonous clothes and washing blue soup.

1, wear a sachet. On the Dragon Boat Festival, the custom in Suzhou is to wear sachets. Wuzhong customs have always competed beauty and cleverness. In the past, embroidered sachets were a very important red women's article. On the eve of Dragon Boat Festival, the sisters-in-law of boudoir women should make preparations early, design novel ornaments on their sachets and skillfully add embroidery.

2. Hang calamus. There is a saying in Acorus calamus that the sharp leaves of Acorus calamus are compared to swords; Tie a garlic on it and call it a hammer. The general idea is to prevent GREAT GHOST boy from entering the house. The bought calamus needs to be wrapped in a small piece of red paper according to the practice of old Suzhou Ning, and then hung at the door with a rope. It's easy now. Just tie it with a red plastic rope and hang it at the door.

3, wear five poison suits. There is a very important custom in Suzhou's Dragon Boat Festival, that is, children under seven years old are dressed in "five poison clothes" printed with tiger patterns, and at the same time, sachets filled with wormwood, calamus and other plants are hung and tiger-headed shoes are put on. Because the Dragon Boat Festival usually falls in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Suzhou is about to enter the rainy season. The weather is hot and humid, mosquitoes breed, people are prone to prickly heat and boils, and children have poor resistance. Wearing these clothes and accessories for them is mainly to hope that the children will not be infected, which means that the children are healthy.

4, blue soup bath. Like wearing a five-poison suit, washing blue soup is also a custom that symbolizes health. During the Dragon Boat Festival, people will use dozens of flowers and herbs, such as wormwood and calamus, and bathe in soup after soaking. After washing, it is said that mosquitoes can't invade. This custom is found all over the country, but only in Jiangnan is it called "orchid soup bath", which embodies the more exquisite cultural characteristics of calamus, wormwood, wild awn and garlic in Jiangnan.