Loong Boat Festival has many customs, and there are differences in the content or details of customs due to different regions. The customs mainly include: picking dragon boats, eating Zongzi, hanging wormwood and calamus, gathering for lunch, Dragon Boat Festival bathing (bathing orchids), putting paper kites, swinging, etc.

On the whole, the customs of people across the country to celebrate Loong Boat Festival are much the same, while eating Zongzi on Loong Boat Festival has been the same throughout China since ancient times. Ancient zongzi had already appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn period, initially used to worship ancestors and gods; In the Jin Dynasty, it became the food for the Dragon Boat Festival.

Festive cuisine

As for the blessing words of the Loong Boat Festival, most folklorists believe that Qu Yuan and other historical figures were attached to the festival after the Dragon Boat Festival. These meanings are only part of the Loong Boat Festival. The Loong Boat Festival was originally established as a happy festival.

The term 'Ankang' is commonly used in daily life to bless the elderly. "Loong Boat Festival is safe and healthy", which is not recorded in the literature and has only been spread in recent years.

Dragon Boat Festival Blessings