Customs of Dragon Boat Festival in Sanyangchuan, Tianshui, Gansu Province

Gansu Tianshui Sanyangchuan Dragon Boat Festival customs are:

Drinking: On the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone needs a glass of wine to get up early, which is said to ward off evil spirits.

Wrap the seven-color thread: The children wrap it with seven-color thread in Rizhao Dragon Boat Festival, and wear it until it rains for the first time after the festival, then untie it and throw it in the rain. Boys under seven wear symbols (necklaces made of wheat barnyard grass), girls wear pomegranate flowers and yellow shoes made by their mothers.

Draw five kinds of poisonous insects: draw five kinds of poisonous insects on the upper with a brush. It means killing five kinds of poisonous insects with Qu Yuan's ink. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, Jimo washes his face with dew.

Festival introduction: Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, Wuri Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon Festival, Noon Festival and Summer Festival. It was originally a summer festival to drive away the plague. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of Han nationality in China. The essential activities of this day gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood and wormwood leaves, smoking Atractylodes rhizome and angelica dahurica, and drinking realgar wine.