The Dragon Boat Festival Is the traditional festival in China, will put three days a small holiday, let everybody a reunion. But a lot of friends, the plan will go out to play, relax. If you have time, it is better to go home with the family had a dragon boat. In Changsha the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival has its own characteristics. Fast with small make up about Changsha dragon boat festival.

The 5th day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, is China's traditional dragon boat festival. The Dragon Boat Festival, also called duanyangjie, afternoon day festival, May Festival, AI Festival, end five, afternoon, afternoon, the summer festival, although the names are different, people around the custom of the feast is a little difference, but people pay more attention to the Dragon Boat Festival is the same. Changsha the Dragon Boat Festival, and most of the local customs are roughly the same, but also has its own characteristics in some aspects.

Dragon-boat Racing

The dragon boat race, is the main area of the Dragon Boat Festival Customs in Hunan. It originated in the ancient Chu people were reluctant to Xian Chen Qu Yuan to throw the river to die, many people to catch up with the rescue boat. They fall over each other, Zhuizhi Dongting Lake has not a trace. After this, the year May 5th rowing as a major event to commemorate Qu Yuan, is intended by dragon boat River to disperse the fish, eat fish so as not to the body of Qu Yuan. Now the dragon boat race has been included in the national sports games, and will be held every year "Qu Yuan Cup" dragon boat race, Hunan International Dragon Boat Festival held every year during the Dragon Boat Festival regularly, let dragon headed in the world.

And eat Zongzi

Every Dragon Boat Festival, every family will buy 2 to 3 pounds of rice, in which add alkali, red dates or mung bean, pull a few rope, with several chairs, everyone sitting in the doorway zongzi. This time, the craft, dumplings and the girl, aunt always neighbors a boast, but not rice dumplings will hide in the side to watch and learn, ready to wait until the new year of the Dragon Boat Festival to show their skills. The rice dumplings wrapped in cooked, the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, every household will put their own dumplings for neighbors to taste, their own dumplings generally can not eat, eat all the others sent home dumplings, and eat it is exceptionally fragrant. Now many varieties of dumplings, it is also easy to buy zongzi, custom is slowly lost, we all miss the childhood more fragrant dumplings.

Do Salted Duck Egg

DIY Salted Duck Egg is often seen in the Dragon Boat festival. Adults to buy back the first fresh duck's egg with salt water for a period of time, and then placed on yellow mud, until the day of the Dragon Boat Festival when eating out, the egg yolk was salted golden yellow, to Salted Duck Egg outflow oil is the most popular. But the egg yolk good Salted Duck Egg general protein more salty, we often will eat one egg quietly, the rest of the protein has become a patent of frugal parents.

Wearing a sachet

The Dragon Boat Festival sachet children, legendary evil flooding blast, is actually used to flap head ornament decoration. Sachet with cinnabar, realgar, spice, silk cloth, fragrant, and colored silk thread to string buckle into the cable, for a variety of different shapes, forming a bunch of every hue, exquisite and lovely.