China Dragon Boat Festival

China Dragon Boat Festival has a long history.Divide big Dragon Boat Festival and small Dragon Boat Festival.The Little Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and the Great Dragon Boat Festival is on the 15th day of the fifth lunar month.The word "terminal" has the initial meaning, "Dragon Boat Festival" is the first five in May.The Dragon Boat Festival is also called the "Dragon Boat Festival", "Poets' Day" and "Lantern Festival".Speaking of these festivals, there is a sad and beautiful story!During the Warring States Period, the patriotic poet Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into a river.People rushed to save Qu Yuan.Salvage for a long time later, people did not see the body of Qu Yuan, went home to take rice ball thrown into the river, do not let the river fish, shrimp, crabs, lots and so on Qu Yuan's body to eat, so there is now eating zongzi, dragon boat racing.

The most important custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is eating zongzi.Zongzi is usually made of yellow and glutinous rice.Soak yellow or glutinous rice and bamboo leaves in a pot for a day and a night.Then wrap the zongzi with leaves into a triangle, and put jujube or peanuts on each corner, so as not to let the rice overflow.Zongzi wrapped, together with the eggs into the cauldron, slow fire all afternoon.Zongzi boiled after opening the pot, fragrant, bamboo leaf fragrance, zongzi fragrance, ceremony into the egg, people can not help but eat a few more.

The Dragon Boat Festival has another tradition;Use mugwort cotyledon to repel mosquitoes.In the past, medical treatment was underdeveloped, and some weak and disabled people would die after being bitten by mosquitoes. Putting the wormwood leaf on the door had the effect of warding off evil spirits.People also tie many colorful brooms on Dragon Boat Festival.The brooms are made of twine.People use various dyes to dye hemp into colorful threads.Tied into a 1 cm long broom, and then some small shell dyed into a variety of colors, there is a small hole in the middle, the colorful line to wear the small shell together, tied to the children's hands and feet, to show good luck.

Chinese folk customs have a long history and are traditional customs.We should respect it and protect it.Let the ancient traditional culture into the harmony of the nation, to contribute to the economic take-off.