Why do you want to eat tea eggs on Dragon Boat Festival?

Eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival represents people's good wishes, which can ward off evil spirits and avoid summer heat, and is beneficial to people's health. In fact, eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival is for good luck, praying that people will not get sick for a year, and on the other hand, improving their lives.

The Dragon Boat Festival in the northeast is to roll the cooked chicken, duck and goose eggs on the children's stomachs early in the morning, and then peel them for the children to eat. Mom and grandma will also say things like "no stomachache for a year". On this day, the married aunt will also send boiled eggs and a year's blessing to her nephew.

Dragon boat festival custom

1, Dragon Boat Race

Dragon boat race is an important activity of Dragon Boat Festival. At first, it was a sacrificial activity of the ancient Yue people to worship the water god or the dragon god, and its origin may have begun at the end of primitive society. It has been circulating for more than two thousand years.

2. Wear sachets

Children wear sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to mean to ward off evil spirits and plague. Actually, it is used to decorate the inner head. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar, and fragrant medicine. It is wrapped in silk, and the fragrance is overflowing. Then it is tied into a rope with five-color silk threads, and made into various shapes of strings, which are small and lovely. In some cities in southern China, young men and women also use sachets to express their deep love.

Step 3 hang wormwood

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. Acorus calamus, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Liu Hua, Garlic and Dragon Boat Flower are made into human or tiger shapes, which are called Ai Ren and Ai Hu. It is made into garlands and decorations, beautiful and fragrant, and women compete to wear it to ward off evil spirits.