What day is the Dragon Boat Festival in 2017? It is a traditional festival in China, and now it is one of the national legal holidays. It has been listed in the world intangible cultural heritage list, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, May Festival, etc. Since Qu Yuan, the poet, died on the day of Dragon Boat Festival, it has become a day for the Chinese people to commemorate Qu Yuan.
What day is the Dragon Boat Festival in 2017? Holiday arrangement of the Dragon Boat Festival in 2017
The holidays of Dragon Boat Festival in 2017 are May 28, May 29 and May 30 (Tuesday)
What's the custom of Dragon Boat Festival? Six traditional customs of Dragon Boat Festival
Mu Lan Decoction
Dragon Boat Festival bathing orchid soup is an ancient custom recorded in dadaili. But the orchid here doesn't mean orchid. It's Peilan of Compositae. It's fragrant and can be boiled and bathed. Can also fry Pu, AI and other herbs bath. In Guangdong, we use AI, PU, Fengxian, Magnolia and other flowers and plants; in Hunan, Guangxi and other places, we use cypress leaves, dafenggen, AI, PU, peach leaves, etc. to boil into liquid medicine bath. It is said that it can cure skin diseases and eliminate evil spirits.
Drinking Pu wine, realgar wine and cinnabar wine
Drink Pu wine, realgar and cinnabar wine, sprinkle with wine. In Binyang, Guangxi, there are medicine kits for sale at Dragon Boat Festival, including realgar, Zhulei, Baizi, peach kernel, Pu Pian, AI ye, etc. after people dip into wine, they dip Acorus calamus and AI Peng in the corner of the wall, doors and windows, under the bed, etc., and then dip wine on the ear, nose and navel of children to drive away poisonous insects and seek their safety. In addition, some areas also use realgar wine to draw the word "King" on the forehead of children, so that children bear the mark of tiger, so as to use tiger to ward off evil spirits.
Picking and making herbal tea
Some areas in the North like to pick tender leaves and steam them to make tea. In Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, people go to the countryside to collect herbs and make herbal tea. It's also good for health.
Hang herbs
Some places hang wormwood, calamus (Pujian), pomegranate and garlic at the gate of Dragon Boat Festival. Usually, the wormwood, banyan and calamus are bound into a bunch with red paper, and then inserted or hung on the door. Because the head of five auspicious in Acorus calamus is a symbol of expelling the ominous sword. Because the growing season and shape are regarded as feeling the "hundred Yin Qi", the leaves are sword shaped, which can be inserted in the door to avoid evil.
Dragon Boat Racing
When rowing dragon boats, there are many dragon boat songs that sing for fun. For example, when the dragon boat was rowed in Zigui, Hubei Province, there was a complete singing voice, which was composed of local folk songs and bugles. The singing voice was magnificent and exciting, that is, the style of "bowing to each other and holding hands together". Another example is the Dragon Boat Song of Nanxiong County in Guangdong Province, which is sung from April when the dragon boat is launched to the end of the Dragon Boat Festival, with a wide range of performance contents.
Jumping Zhong Kui
Jump Zhong Kui, Nao Zhong Kui: since the Jin Dynasty, it has been an important part of the Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival. In some places, Zhong Kui's paintings are hung at home. In the Qing Dynasty, most of the residents in the areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the south of the Yangtze River hung Zhong Kui map in the gate or hall in the May of the lunar calendar in order to expel evils, eliminate evils and attract blessings.