The Dragon Boat Festival is a very popular festival among the Chinese people. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. It is a traditional Chinese custom for more than 2,000 years. Due to the vast area and many ethnic groups, there are many different stories and legends, and there are also different customs in different places. Its contents mainly include:
1. Make and eat zongzi, that is, use zong leaves (Zhongbai leaves) to wrap glutinous rice, candied dates, peanuts, bean paste and other fillings into water chestnut-shaped, ox horn-shaped, or steam them in bamboo tubes, with various patterns, sweet and delicious
2. Dragon boat racing, dragon boat competition is more popular in southern China, that is, while beating drums, while rowing a canoe in the shape of a dragon, in Yueyang, Hunan, dragon boat competitions are held every year.
3. Drink realgar wine. In some areas, it is popular to drink this wine during the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that it can expel insects and detoxify. Children apply the wine on their foreheads and palms to expel evil and detoxify.
Iwill also prepared rice dumplings and salted duck eggs for everyone on this day to celebrate health and well-being!