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What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival? Why can Dragon Boat Festival only say "Ankang"

&Emsp: it's about to Dragon Boat Festival. We all know that it's rice dumplings. Seeing that people send blessing messages only say that Dragon Boat Festival is healthy rather than happy, why? Let's have a look~

&What customs do you not know about Dragon Boat Festival?

&Today is Dragon Boat Festival. Compared with previous festivals, Dragon Boat Festival pays more attention to tradition and folk customs. Are you sure you know the following little knowledge about Dragon Boat Festival?

&Emsp; 1. Eating zongzi;

&For children who like eating, Dragon Boat Festival means eating zongzi. When I was a little girl, I always heard that when Qu Yuan threw rice dumplings into the river, the common people threw many rice balls, eggs and other foods into the river in order not to let the fish in the river hurt his body. Later, it developed into the custom of making rice dumplings with rice dumplings such as reed leaves.

&Emsp; 2. Dragon boat racing;

&It is the most common custom of Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, Chu people were reluctant to die when Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, and they used dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river. Now, dragon boat racing not only commemorates Qu Yuan, but also derives more significance.

&For example, Miao people in Guizhou hold the "Dragon Boat Festival" from May 25 to 28 of the lunar calendar to celebrate the success of transplanting seedlings and wish a good harvest. Dai people in Yunnan race dragon boats at the water splashing festival to commemorate the ancient hero Yan hongwo. In 1980, dragon boat racing was also included in China's national sports events, and the "Quyuan Cup" dragon boat race was held every year.

&Emsp; & emsp; 3;

&The ancients usually wear sachets for children on Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that they have the function of avoiding evil and expelling plague, which is not common now. There are cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine in the sachet. The sachet is covered with silk cloth. It is fragrant and fragrant. It is hanging on the lapel of children's clothes. It is exquisite and lovely.

&Emsp; & emsp; 4. Insert & emsp; & emsp;

&Emsp; & emsp; as the saying goes: 'insert willows in the Qingming Festival and AI in the Dragon Boat Festival'. Here 'AI' refers to Artemisia argyi. Its stems and leaves have volatile essential oil. Its unique fragrance can repel mosquitoes and insects. Since ancient times, Dragon Boat Festival has also been the solar term for disease elimination and epidemic prevention. Because it is the summer solstice, when the heat and cold meet, every family will clean the door, insert the moxa sticks on the door, sterilize and disinfect.

&Emsp; & emsp; 5;

&In ancient China, red, yellow, white, green and black were the auspicious colors. Every year, in the early morning of Dragon Boat Festival, the first thing adults do when they get up is to tie five colored threads on their children's wrists, ankles and necks. It's said that the five color line can't be discarded casually. It can only be thrown into the river during the first heavy rain or the first bath in summer, which means that the river will wash away the disease. It is said that children wearing five colored thread can avoid the damage of poisonous insects like snakes and scorpions, and always keep healthy.

&Emsp; & emsp; 6;

&On the Dragon Boat Festival, there is a custom of drinking realgar wine and painting Realgar on children in the south, in order to get lucky and drive away disease. Realgar is a kind of mineral, the main component is arsenic sulfide, but it is poisonous. Drinking realgar wine is only made by adding a small amount of realgar to white wine or yellow rice wine. Now, there are few such customs in cities. The only thing that little love remembers is that the white lady shows her original shape by drinking realgar wine by mistake.

&Emsp & emsp; 7. Eat five poison cake

&Emsp & emsp; little AI found out after chatting with his friends that the original five venom cake was a unique seasonal food of the North Dragon Boat Festival. In fact, it was just a rose cake, which was stamped with the images of scorpion, toad, spider, centipede and snake, and was covered on the surface of the rose cake as a sign. Because early summer is the time when poisons are active, the ancients eat "five poisons cake" to eliminate diseases and strengthen themselves, and pray for health.

&Emsp; 8. Avoiding Dragon Boat Festival;

&Emsp; & emsp; refers to taking a newly married or married daughter home to celebrate the festival, which is short for 'hiding afternoon', also known as' hiding end five '. As the custom goes, may and may 5 are the bad months and bad days. We need to avoid all kinds of things, because there is a custom of picking up girls to hide from the Dragon Boat Festival.

&Emsp; emsp; 9. Mucilain Decoction;

&Emsp & emsp; orchid is not orchid, but perianth of Compositae. It has fragrance and can be boiled and bathed. Later, people usually take a bath with herbs such as Jianpu and AI. In Hunan, Guangxi and other places, the whole family, regardless of the age of men, women and children, wash. This custom still exists today. It is said that it can cure skin diseases and eliminate evil spirits.

&Emsp; & emsp; 10. Qu Yuan didn't even have the surname Qu? & emsp; & emsp;

&In fact, Qu Yuan's surname is mi (pronounced mi). Qu Yuan's' Qu 'is not his surname, but his surname. The surname is the family name, while the surname is the branch of the surname. Originally, the surname is a relatively stable title, but later some large branches also became surnames, so the role of surname came out.

&Emsp; & emsp; 11. Bright and blind rice dumplings & emsp; & emsp;

&Emsp; & emsp; the heavy taste rice dumplings are really bright and blind. Please take them away! Candy rice dumplings; hot pickled pepper meat rice dumplings; grid rice dumplings; small dumplings; rice dumplings with condensed milk (from left to right above)

&Emsp; & emsp; 12. Remember the realgar wine that let Bai Suzhen show its original shape;

&Emsp & emsp; realgar wine is a kind of white wine or yellow wine made of realgar ground into powder, which can be used as antidote and insecticide. No wonder the white lady with strong magic power can't resist it. But because realgar has the power of corrosion, it must be made by doctors and follow the ancient method to drink realgar wine.

&Emsp; & emsp; 13, 'five yellow' & emsp; & emsp; on the table of Dragon Boat Festival;

&What is the five yellow on the table of Dragon Boat Festival? Five yellow refers to: Eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted egg yolk and yellow wine. In the tradition of Jiangnan people, the Dragon Boat Festival should eat five yellow!

&Not everyone can eat Zongzi?

&Emsp; & emsp; not everyone can eat Zongzi? Are you one of those who can eat Zongzi? People with cardiovascular disease, the elderly, children, gastrointestinal disease and diabetes should not eat more. Don't eat too much rice dumplings!

&Under the erosion of modern civilization, young people have become more and more indifferent to traditional festivals such as Dragon Boat Festival.