The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the lunar calendar May 5th every year. It is the traditional festival originated from China to memorize the poet quyuan.

The customs during the Dragon Boat Festival:

Eating the rice dumplings (Zongzi)

Eating rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival is the traditional customs in China. The dumpling fillings are varied from north China and South China. North China love to eat the zongzi with sweet fillings, such as jujube, red bean paste and so on, but south China prefer the salty fillings zongzi, such as meat, yolk and so on.

Dragon boat racing

Dragon Boat Racing is the traditional activities on the Dragon Boat Festival, in the past, there will be held a variety of sacrifices, commemorative ceremony before the dragon boat racing, which are generally incense candy, burning paper money, for chicken, rice, meat, fruit, rice dumplings and so on. Nowadays the superstitious phenomenon is rarely to see.

Embroidered colored lines

In Chinese traditional culture, the five colors "green, red, white, black, yellow" is regarded as auspicious color. On the Dragon Boat Festival this day, the children will wear the colored silk in the wrist ankle, to pray for the security and health. When tie the colored line, children are forbidden to speak. Five-color line can not be arbitrarily broken or discarded, only in the summer when the first heavy rain or the first bath, can throw into the river.