When is the Dragon Boat Festival in 2022?
The Dragon Boat Festival in 2022 is on June 3, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and Friday. Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Tianzhong Festival, originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena in ancient times and evolved from Dragon Boat Festival. In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs are integrated, and festival customs are rich in content.
Dragon Boat Festival holiday time in 2022: Friday, June 3, 2022-Sunday, June 5, 2022, without adjustment.
Traditional customs of Dragon Boat Festival
1, eat zongzi
For children who love to eat, the Dragon Boat Festival means eating zongzi. When Xiao Ai was a child, he always heard adults say that Zongzi was eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival because when Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, people threw a lot of rice balls, eggs and other foods into the river to prevent fish in the river from hurting his health. Later, it developed into the custom of wrapping rice with reed leaves to make zongzi.
Now, there are more varieties of zongzi fillings. Most of the north is sweet, such as jujube glutinous rice balls and bean paste glutinous rice balls; In the south, salty rice dumplings are the main products, such as fresh meat rice dumplings, ham rice dumplings and egg yolk rice dumplings. Zhejiang Jiaxing Zongzi is the most famous. Now the custom of eating zongzi has spread to our neighbors Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia.
2. Dragon Boat Race
Dragon boat race is the most common custom of Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, Chu people could not bear to die in Qu Yuan and rowed dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river. Now, the dragon boat race has more significance than commemorating Qu Yuan.
3. Wear sachets
The ancients usually put sachets on their children during the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that it can ward off evil spirits and drive away epidemics, but it is not common now. There are cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine in the sachet, and silk cloth is wrapped outside, which is full of fragrance and hangs on the children's skirts, which is particularly delicate and lovely.
Step 4 insert moxa sticks
As the saying goes, "willow inserted in Qingming Festival, wormwood inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". The "Artemisia argyi" here refers to Artemisia argyi, whose stems and leaves contain volatile essential oil, and its unique fragrance can repel mosquitoes and insects. Dragon Boat Festival has also been a solar term for disease prevention since ancient times, because it coincides with the summer solstice and the intersection of cold and heat, and every household will clean the door, insert moxa sticks on the door and disinfect it.