What customs are there on Dragon Boat Festival?

The Dragon Boat Festival, is a collection of praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and food as one of the folk festival, the origin of the ancient people choose "flying dragon in the day" on a lucky day to worship the dragon ancestor, pray for good luck, Na Xiang, ward off evil spirits and disasters.The main customs are dragon boat racing, dragon sacrifice, picking herbs, hanging mugwort grass, playing noon water, washing herbal water, worship, soak dragon water, eat rice, eat zongzi, put paper dragon, put kites, tied to the five color silk line, wear sachets and so on.Dragon-boat raking is very popular in the coastal areas of southern China. After it was spread abroad, it was deeply loved by people all over the world and became an international competition.Dragon Boat Festival eating Zongzi custom, since ancient times in China throughout the popular, has become the Chinese nation's biggest influence, the most extensive coverage of one of the folk eating customs.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It not only clearly records the rich and colorful social life and cultural content of our ancestors, but also accumulates profound historical and cultural connotation.Every Dragon Boat Festival, a variety of activities to celebrate the festival in the country, festival flavor rich, lively happy.As the song: "May 5, is the Duanyang;Eat zongzi, hang sachets;The door inserted ai, sweet full hall;The launch of the dragon boat was joyful."

The Dragon Boat Festival customs are rich and colorful, and there are differences in the content or details of customs due to different regional cultures across the country.These festivals revolve around the dragon worship, blessing, and other forms of disaster, showing people's wishes to welcome good fortune, ward off evil spirits and remove disasters.The traditional festival ceremony and related custom activities are the important content of the festival elements.During the Dragon Boat Festival, a variety of traditional folk customs activities can not only enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the people, but also well inherit and carry forward traditional culture.