Dragon boat festival custom
1, roast dragon boat
Dragon boat rowing is a multi-person collective rowing competition, an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, a ceremony of ancient dragon totem and a heritage. It is an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is still very popular in the southern coastal areas of China. After it was spread abroad, it was deeply loved by people all over the world and formed an international competition.
There are dragon boats and phoenix boats on the Dragon Boat Festival. Phoenix boats originated from ancient black boats, and in some places there are dragon and phoenix boats. Boasting dragon boat is a form of dragon worship in folk belief, that is, using the power of dragon to pray for good luck and ward off evil spirits.
2. Hang wormwood and calamus
On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the courtyard, inserts calamus and moxa sticks in their eyebrows and hangs them in the hall. It is believed that wormwood also has the function of exorcising evil spirits and attracting happiness. During the Dragon Boat Festival, hanging wormwood on the door has become a habit and a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival.
There is a custom of hanging wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival all over the north and south. In the south, heaven and earth are regarded as pure yang, healthy qi and auspicious days to drive away evil spirits and diseases, while in some places in the north, evil moons and evil days are regarded as evil spirits and drugs.
3. Worship God and ancestors
Sacrificing to God and ancestors is one of the important customs of Dragon Boat Festival. "Heaven and earth are the foundation of life; Ancestors are the foundation of class. " Heaven and earth are the foundation of life, ancestors are the foundation of life, and ancestor worship is the custom of inheriting filial piety. According to the folk concept, a person's ancestors, like heaven, earth and god, should be seriously worshipped. Because the ancestors' "spirit in heaven" always cares about and watches over future generations, earthly people should pray and repay their protection and blessing through sacrifices.
Step 4 Pick "Dragon Boat Festival"
Choosing "Dragon Boat Festival Bear" means that during the Dragon Boat Festival in the past, the "hairy-footed son-in-law" (Ningbo people called the engaged future son-in-law "hairy-footed son-in-law") had to pick a heavy gift and carry a Redmi basket to the woman's house, which was called "Dragon Boat Festival Bear".
5. Fly a kite.
Flying kites during the Dragon Boat Festival is also a custom in southern China. During the Dragon Boat Festival, children flying kites is called "disaster relief". Kites are paper kites. It is a toy. Paste paper or silk on a bamboo pole and other skeletons, and pull a long line tied to it, so that it can be lowered into the sky under the action of the wind. Belongs to an aircraft that only uses aerodynamic force.
Dragon boat festival diet
1, eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival
Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom. Zongzi, commonly known as Zongzi, is mainly made of glutinous rice and stuffing, wrapped in bamboo leaves (or Hiragi leaves and bamboo leaves), with various shapes, such as sharp corners and squares. It has a long history and was originally used to worship ancestors. After being introduced to the north, it is made of millet (produced in the north), which is called "corn millet". Because of the different eating habits in different places, zongzi has formed a north-south flavor; In terms of taste, zongzi can be divided into salty zongzi and sweet zongzi.
Step 2 Eat Huang Wu
Huang Wu refers to yellow croaker, cucumber, eel, duck egg yolk, and realgar wine (realgar wine is toxic, and ordinary rice wine is generally used instead of realgar wine). Eating Huang Wu is a folk custom of Han nationality, which is popular in Jiangnan and other places. In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, people in the south of the Yangtze River call it May Yellow Moon, which is named because there are five kinds of food with "yellow" sounds on the market.