Eating dumplings, dragon boat racing... What else is the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival?

  Newspaper (Reporter Li Tianji) will celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival on June 25. In addition to eating dumplings and dragon boat racing, what are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival? Starting today, reporters from the Beijing Youth Daily will introduce some traditional Dragon Boat Festival customs.

  Among the many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, the most famous are eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats. These two customs are to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan. At the same time, people in many places still hang wormwood, calamus, drink realgar wine, tie five-color threads, and wear sachets during the Dragon Boat Festival.

  The Dragon Boat Festival is the first festival after the summer. The temperature rises, which is a period of frequent diseases. Due to the special fragrance of wormwood, people use it to drive diseases and prevent mosquitoes. Realgar liquor has the effect of sterilizing, deworming and detoxifying the five poisons. Realgar brewing wine can dispel poison and relieve itching; children under the age of drinking, adults apply realgar liquor on their foreheads, ears, nose, hands, feet and heart, etc., intended to disinfect Disease prevention, insects do not sting. Sprinkling realgar wine on the corners, bottom of the bed, etc., can also play a role in deworming and cleaning the environment. The multicolored ropes originated in the Han Dynasty are woven with silk threads of five colors, such as green, white, red, black, and yellow. They are tied on the arms to ensure safety and health; they are hung on the necks of children to avoid evil. Life fate". The sachets filled with Chinese herbal medicines such as patchouli, cornel, cinnamon, amomum, borneol, camphor, etc. are worn on the chest, waist, umbilicus, etc., and have the functions of fragrance, anthelmintic, blast prevention, disease prevention.

  In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival also has the custom of wall clock Kui portraits, which often have the meaning of praying for wealth, warding off diseases, and protecting homes. As the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, Professor Yang Feng, a master of printmaking, a professor of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, a doctoral tutor, and a member of the Printmaking Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association, created a print on the subject of Zhong Kui, hoping to express his firm belief in the victory against the epidemic. Pay attention to the public number: "Bo Chuang Calligraphy and Painting", or WeChat scan the QR code on the right to purchase.