The Dragon Boat Festival is a day lunar festival, celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month (end of May or early June).
People have careers in boats shaped dragons. The races are an "attempt" to save poet Chu Yuan (340 - 277BC), who committed suicide by tying a stone to his body and jump in the river. People throw bamboo leaves stuffed with rice cooked in water to attract fish to the body of the poet.
This ritual created the custom of eating tzungtzu- rice balls with meat, peanuts and other deposits wrapped in bamboo leaves during the Dragon Boat Festival.
The fifth lunar month is known as "the month of poison," so many rituals of the festival are bound to ward off evil and disease. People cling herbs in their doors and windows to chase the infectious insects away.They potions nutritional drinks, flavored medical bags wear around their necks and write spells to banish the disease.
Another tradition of the party is standing egg. People believe they will be lucky during the year if they can make an egg upright at noon Dragon Boat Day.
- September 24, 2016
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