The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, and in 2022 it falls on Friday, June 3 of the solar calendar. Do you know what the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are? Here take a look at you.
1. playing the noon water
Wusi water, that is, at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival day in the well to play up the water. Hit the noon water that is the Dragon Boat Festival day between 11:00 and 13:00 in the well to play water. Heavy noon day of noon, Yang on the Yang, so “noon water” has “extremely Yang water”, “dragon eye water”, “positive Yang water “the name. The ancients regarded the noon water as the most auspicious water, the noon of this day, the noon of the Dragon Boat Day at noon to drive away the best, with the effect of warding off evil, purify the body, remove obstacles.
2. duanwu food zong
Duanwu food zong, is a traditional Chinese custom since ancient times. Zongzi, a type of rice cake, rice cake is used to worship the gods during the New Year festival tribute, making rice cake to worship the gods during the New Year festival is an ancient traditional custom. There are many different kinds of rice, different festivals will do different kinds of rice, rice dumplings is the Dragon Boat Festival tribute to the gods. The main material of zong is rice, filling and Ruo leaves (or Shuusu leaves), etc., and its patterns are many. Due to the different dietary habits around, zong formed the North and South flavor; from the taste, zong have salty zong and sweet zong two categories.
3. dragon boat
Dragon boat rowing is a traditional custom of Dragon Boat Festival. It is said to have originated in ancient times when the people of Chu could not bear to let the wise minister Qu Yuan die in the river, and many people rowed boats to chase after him to save him. They scrambled to Dongting Lake, but no trace of them. After that, people rowed dragon boats on May 5 every year to commemorate the death. The dragon boat is used to disperse the fish in the river so that the fish will not eat Qu Yuan’s body.
4. standing egg
Stand egg, Chinese festival food custom, refers to the Dragon Boat Festival day at 12:00 noon, because it is the pole of the collection of Yang and righteousness, so it is believed that the eggs that are not easy to stand up can be erected on the ground at this time.
