1. Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival: Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is another traditional custom of China people. Zongzi, also known as "corn millet" and "tube zongzi". It has a long history and various patterns. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, every family eats zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan. Zongzi is usually wrapped the day before, cooked at night and eaten in the morning. Jiaozi is mainly made of tender reed leaves which are rich in ponds, and bamboo leaves are also useful in some areas, collectively called zongye.
2, wearing sachets: Dragon Boat Festival children wear sachets, which is said to have the meaning of avoiding evil spirits and driving away epidemics. It is actually used to decorate the head. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, which is wrapped in silk and fragrant, and then tied with five-color silk thread to make cables of various shapes.
3. Hanging Ai: A folk proverb says, "Willows are inserted in Qingming Festival, and Ai is inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every household should sweep the courtyard, put calamus and moxa sticks in the eyebrows of the door and hang them in the main room.
4, wall clock: Zhong Kui catching ghosts is the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. In the Jianghuai area, bells and statues are hung in every household to ward off evil spirits.
5, order realgar wine: Realgar is also a medicinal material, which is said to kill all poisons. Therefore, during the Dragon Boat Festival, Shaanxi people will soak realgar in wine and put realgar wine on children's ears, nose, forehead, wrists and ankles. It is said that this practice can keep mosquitoes, snakes, scorpions, centipedes, geckos and spiders away from the body.
6. Hanging the purse is a five-color silk thread: Ying Shao's "Customs Pass" records: "On May 5, the five-color silk thread tied the arm, named the long-lived thread, one life to sacrifice soldiers, one color thread, one Zhu Suo, and soldiers and ghosts, which made people not ill."