Hanging a broom on the door during the Dragon Boat Festival means driving away "broom stars" and bad luck. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, every family eats zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan. Zongzi is usually wrapped the day before, cooked at night and eaten in the morning. Hanging wormwood at the door means blessing. The moral of eating peaches on Dragon Boat Festival is that they are round and sweet.
Dragon Boat Festival custom:
The content of Dragon Boat Festival custom is rich and colorful. These customs revolve around the Dragon Boat Festival, praying for blessings, fighting disasters and other forms, pinning people's wishes to welcome good luck, ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters. There are many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, with various forms and rich contents, and the celebrations are lively.
The Dragon Boat Festival has integrated many kinds of folk customs in its historical development and evolution. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in customs content or details across the country. The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival mainly include dragon boat picking, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood and calamus, ancestor worship, washing herbal water, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boats, eating zongzi, flying kites, tying colorful silk thread, smoking Atractylodes lancea and wearing sachets.