What are the customs in your hometown during the Dragon Boat Festival?

On this Dragon Boat Festival, people get up in twos and threes to pick mugwort and apricot branches on the mountain, and when they come back, they will tie the colored gourds they bought in advance to the apricot tree technology and insert them on the gate. This is that every household in the Dragon Boat Festival inserts apricot branches and hangs colored gourds on the gate. The streets and alleys are covered with colorful gourds, which is very festive. Hulu and Fulu are homophonic, which has the meaning of gathering blessings. The folk tradition recognizes Hulu as auspicious and avoids evil spirits. The S-image of Hulu, the boundary between Yin and Yang, means avoiding evil, prospering people and families. Legend has it that a dutiful son and his mother went to the market. When my mother was tired, the dutiful son was carrying his mother behind his back. A group of bandits were about to rob the village. They were moved by the filial son&;s behavior. The gangster asked his men to give him a gourd, saying that hanging it on the gate on May 5 would save your family from disaster. When the dutiful son went back, he told his neighbors that all the villagers who hung the gourd were safe. Since then, he has had the custom of hanging the gourd every May 5. There is also the custom of tying colorful threads to children&;s hands and necks in the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, with men left and women right. The five colors symbolize the five elements. Jin Mu is full of fire, water and soil, and the five elements are sacred in the southeast and northwest, ensuring children&;s safe, long-lived and healthy growth. The colorful thread of children&;s hands or ankles should not be broken and discarded casually, but should be thrown into the river and washed away in rainy days, which means taking away all disasters and the children will grow up safely and happily from then on. In the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, it is a custom to wash your face with newly picked Folium Artemisiae Argyi. It is said that you can use the aroma of Folium Artemisiae Argyi to repel mosquitoes, ants and midges, and you will not be bitten by mosquitoes when you go to the wild. Then eat zongzi, eggs and realgar wine and sprinkle them around the yard, saying that they can drive snakes into the yard. There are many snakes in summer. The custom of Dragon Boat Festival is more to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, and evolved into some folk customs. China has applied for the World Intangible Cultural Heritage for the Dragon Boat Festival.


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