What do Chengdu people pay attention to during the Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival is the first traditional festival in China that has been included in the world intangible cultural heritage. It, together with the Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, is called the four traditional festivals of the Han nationality in China, and it still has a very strong traditional cultural atmosphere.

Speaking of Dragon Boat Festival, what traditional customs do you think of? Is it delicious zongzi or interesting dragon boat race? Do you know what are the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Chengdu? Listen to Bian Xiao tell you quickly!

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Children wearing sachets on Dragon Boat Festival means keeping safe, which is a blessing from adults to children. Generally, the sachet of Dragon Boat Festival will be filled with calamus leaves and realgar, so the sachet can not only bless accidents, but also ward off evil spirits and epidemics, and has the effects of dispelling wind and cold, avoiding filth and bringing fragrance, awakening consciousness and preventing colds and rhinitis.

Insert Acorus calamus and Folium Artemisiae Argyi for medicated bath.

Acorus calamus is a perennial aquatic herb. Its long and narrow leaves contain volatile aromatic oil, which is a good medicine for refreshing, strengthening bones, eliminating food stagnation, killing insects and sterilizing. Artemisia argyi, also known as Artemisia argyi and Artemisia argyi. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils. During the Dragon Boat Festival, Acorus calamus and Folium Artemisiae Argyi were hung on both sides of the door of the old Chengdu people. Its unique fragrance can repel mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants and purify the air. Boil the dried calamus leaves with water to bathe the dolls at home, which can avoid mosquito bites.

Point realgar wine

At the end of the Dragon Boat Festival, it was early summer, and insects began to move frequently, especially in Chengdu, where the climate was humid and living conditions were poor in the past, and centipedes and other insects often appeared in the house. Therefore, Chengdu people mix realgar with realgar, and then dip the wine in their hands and point it on the children's forehead and ears, so that mosquitoes will not bite.

braised Congo eel

Every Dragon Boat Festival, old Chengdu people eat eel in addition to zongzi. Why do they eat braised eels? Because there are the most eels in Chengdu at this time. Children like to use amaranth bibimbap and mix it into a red "Redmi". I wonder if it has a good appetite.

Sprinkle plums

During the Republic of China, there was a rare custom in Chengdu-spreading plums. On that day, Chengdu people bought plums and threw them in the southeast corner of the city, attracting tens of thousands of spectators. It is said that it is a plum-sprinkling conference, but it is actually an opportunity for young men and women to take this opportunity to come out and play. Plums are inexpensive and have a certain hardness, so they are very suitable as "hidden weapons" for mutual sneak attack. There is a wall next to the eastern suburb. Boys are fighting under the gate, girls are standing on the wall talking and laughing, and they can find time to join in.

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