The 600-word custom composition of Dragon Boat Festival indicates the place.

Dragon Boat Festival is different in different places (Hebei Province)

Beiping avoids drilling wells before the Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to avoid well poisoning. On Dragon Boat Festival, street vendors also sell cherry mulberries. It is said that they eat cherry mulberries on Dragon Boat Festival, but they can't eat flies by mistake all year round. All food stores sell "five poisonous cakes", which are cakes decorated with five poisonous insect patterns. Men and women in Luanxian county are engaged and give gifts to each other on the Dragon Boat Festival. In Zhao county, the local government will hold a banquet in the south of the city, inviting the literati in the city.

(Shandong)

On the Dragon Boat Festival in zouping county, everyone gets up early and has a drink, which is said to ward off evil spirits. Rizhao Dragon Boat Festival wraps seven-color thread for children, and it will not be released until it rains for the first time after the festival, and it will be thrown into the rain. On the Dragon Boat Festival in Linqing County, boys under the age of seven wear symbols (necklaces made of wheat barns), girls wear pomegranate flowers and yellow shoes made by their mothers, and draw five kinds of poisonous insects on the vamps with a brush, indicating that they were killed by Qu Yuan's ink.

Shanxi province

On the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiezhou, both men and women wear mugwort leaves, which is called "getting rid of diseases", while young children tie hundreds of ropes around their necks. It is said that this is "tying dragons for Qu Yuan". On the Dragon Boat Festival in Jizhou, the village will offer sacrifices to the Dragon King and hang paper in the fields. The Dragon Boat Festival in Huairen County is also called "Zhumen". On the Dragon Boat Festival in Dingxiang County, students need to give holiday gifts to their teachers. Steamed dumplings in Liuanfu are made of wheat flour, which is called "white".

Shanxi(Province)

On the Dragon Boat Festival in Xing 'an League, local officials lead their subordinates to watch the game, which is called "stepping on a stone". On the Dragon Boat Festival in Xingping County, a small corn is sewn with silk and a doll is sewn under it, which is called "playing with dolls". The Dragon Boat Festival in Tongguan County is called "Town Disease".

Gansu province

Picking roses on Dragon Boat Festival in Jingning area is mainly based on honey pickling. In zhenyuan county, newlyweds are presented with fragrant fans, Luo Qi, towels, handkerchiefs and Ai Hu, and their children are invited to entertain their teachers, which is called "enjoying the festival". In Zhang Xi 'an County, the shepherd boy worships the mountain gods and accumulates the paid mountain, which is burned before the cock crows, commonly known as "burning the mountain".

Jiangsu Province

During the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiading County, everyone, rich or poor, has to buy grouper (commonly known as snakehead) to cook. Yizheng county also has a saying that "buy yellow croaker after wearing pants". On the Dragon Boat Festival in Nanjing, the family used a box of clear water, plus a little realgar and goose eye money. Everyone uses this to wash their eyes, which is called "breaking the eyes of fire". It is said that they can keep their eyes free for a year. There is night in Wujin.

(Sichuan)

Shizhu has the custom of "going out during the Dragon Boat Festival". Four people use two bamboo poles to lift the wide table covered with red carpet. On the carpet, a Taoist priest riding a tiger weaves bamboo sticks. In ancient times, there was a custom of "typing" on the Dragon Boat Festival in western Sichuan. On that day, Chengdu people bought plums and threw them in the southeast corner of the city, attracting tens of thousands of spectators.

(Xijiang Province)

Students from rural schools in Tonglu county pay tribute to their teachers on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is called "the third birthday". The doctor collects medicine at noon. It is said that all the stars of the doctor are in the sky that day.

(Jiangxi)

Jianchang Prefecture bathed in herbal water at noon to prevent scabies, and Xinchang County drank realgar cinnabar wine, which was called "opening eyes".

(Hubei)

During the Dragon Boat Festival in Huanggang County, people were greeted by Nuo in Bahe Town, with tattoos of corollas and blowing gold to ward off evil spirits. In Yichang County, the Dragon Boat Festival is particularly prosperous on May 13, 14 and 15. May 15 is also called "Daduanyang", eating zongzi and drinking Pu wine, just like the Dragon Boat Festival.

(Hunan Province)

During the Dragon Boat Festival in Youxian County, rich pregnant women drink and eat with flowers, while poor people prepare chicken wine and pray for safe production with bamboo clips in front of the dragon boat faucet. The Yuezhou government thinks it is a disaster or a disease, which is also called "sending an epidemic".

(Fujian)

Fuzhou Dragon Boat Festival is an old custom, so the daughter-in-law gives shroud, shoes and socks, zongzi and fans to her in-laws. Jianyang county takes the 5th as the medicine king's sun-drying medicine bag, and people make sauces on this day. During the Dragon Boat Festival in Shanghang County, reeds are tied by boats to play dragon-shaped games at the water's edge, which is called dragon boat race. Xianyou County presented a piece of paper to Huxiaotan after the dragon boat race to commemorate Qi Jiguang's drowning here in the 14th year of Jiajing. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, Shaowufu County.

(Guangdong)

In Conghua County, after washing hands and eyes with boiling water at noon, it is called "sending disaster". In Xinxing County, people advocate welcoming and guiding the gods to patrol the neighboring temples during the Dragon Boat Festival. Witches use water and stickers to drive away evil spirits. In Shicheng County, children fly kites on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is called "sending disasters".

(Taiwan Province Province)

Taiwan Province Province is located in the subtropical zone. In the early days, many immigrants from the mainland could not adapt to the climate here, and people who died of plague were heard from time to time. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival, a festival with the basic spirit of expelling diseases and avoiding epidemics, is particularly important.

The custom of the Dragon Boat Festival in the pre-Qin period can be represented by the description in Appendix III of Wang Yingzeng's Rebuilding the Records of Fengshan County (1764): On the morning of May 5, a pile of rice straw was burned, smoked in the corner, sent to the roadside with money, and delivered to mosquitoes the next day. Aipu and rice stalks are hung on the lintel, which means that mosquitoes can be avoided; A branch of banyan tree is called old health. Watermelon and corn millet eat each other. In the shallow part of Haikou, good people fight for it with money or cloth, and the winner sings gongs and cheers, and fights dragon boats that day. In the afternoon, they tied colorful ribbons for young children. Men tied wrists and women tied wrists, which is famous for the Sun God Company.

There is also a folk saying that planting figs and flowers can make people strong. As the saying goes, Buron is brave in planting figs, but braver in planting figs than in health. As usual, students in private schools will give red envelopes to their teachers as a thank you at the Dragon Boat Festival, and the teachers will give them a fan as a return gift.

According to Taiwan Province Province's Mid-year Old Custom Crown Wedding Funeral (1934), families who mourn during the Dragon Boat Festival don't pack zongzi, but are presented by relatives and friends, which is called "sending the festival". When they lost their family, sugar was treated as a gift. Farmers put gold paper called "Fujin" on bamboo poles and put it in the middle. It is said that it can prevent injuries and get a bumper harvest. In some places, it is called "Fujin" during the Dragon Boat Festival.

In Jiadong Town, Pingtung County, during the Japanese occupation period, there was also the custom of fighting stone battles during the Dragon Boat Festival. Stone war has been circulating in Jiadong area for hundreds of years. A few days before the Dragon Boat Festival every year, people are gearing up for a tough battle. Stone wars are organized in villages, and like the army, there are posts such as chief of staff. Men throw stones at the "front line" and women carry stones at the rear. It often causes casualties. The winner can go to the defeated village to eat and drink. The defeated villagers escaped. If you are unfortunately captured by the other side, you will be forced to take off your pants and be humiliated in public. This strange custom is said to ensure good luck throughout the year, so people in Jiadong can never get tired of watching it. However, because stone wars often caused serious casualties, local governments repeatedly banned them and gradually declined at the end of Japanese occupation.

On the Dragon Boat Festival, every household also has the custom of drinking "afternoon water". Noon water refers to the well water pumped at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that afternoon water is very mellow for making tea and wine, and raw water even has miraculous effects for treating diseases. There is a proverb: "Wash your eyes at noon, they will shine like black flies", and say, "Take a sip of water at noon and take tonic for three years." From then on, it is said that Qijian Mountain is rich in all kinds of pills and herbs, so the effect of water at noon in Jianjing is legendary. Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, people who fight for water at noon next to Jianjing are always crowded. It is said that if you look at this well carefully at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival, you can also see the shadow of Zheng Chenggong. Those who see the sword shadow will certainly not have a disaster this year.

Dragon boat rowing is called "Dragon Boat" in Taiwan Province Province. According to "Folk Taiwan Province Province" No.6, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival in Shilin during the Japanese occupation period was as follows: From the beginning of May, people went to the water's edge to "greet the water gods". At noon on the fifth day, people beat gongs and drums, carried dragon boats to the river, and residents burned incense all the way to worship. As the saying goes, "May 5th. Dragon boat drums are everywhere.

Since the middle of Qing Dynasty, Nantuntou Store in Taichung has had the custom of wearing wooden shoes to wake pangolins after spring. After the recovery, this custom has been held on the Dragon Boat Festival every year. Lidian was the most prosperous area in Taichung in the Qing Dynasty. It is said that the local people had to wear clogs and step on the ground again every Dragon Boat Festival in order to wake pangolins with a loud noise.

In terms of holiday food customs, it is said in Taiwan Province Province that eating peaches, eggplant and kidney beans during the Dragon Boat Festival can lead to a long and healthy life. As the saying goes, "Eating eggplant will make you tremble, but eating beans will make you old." There are two ways to make table dumplings: North and South. In the north, rice is soaked in water, drained, fried in oil, and seasoned with spiced powder, pepper and soy sauce. After the rice is steamed, wrap it in bamboo leaves and stuff it. Steamed food wrapped in real stuffing. The practice in the south is to soak pure white glutinous rice with meat stuffing, wrap it with green bamboo leaves and cook it until it is cooked thoroughly. Due to different production methods, jiaozi in the north and south also has different flavors. Dumplings in the north have a strong pepper flavor, while meat dumplings in the south have a faint bamboo leaf flavor, each with its own characteristics. The ingredients are pork, mushrooms, shrimp, peanuts, salted egg yolk, red onions and so on.

Hakka people in Miaoli also eat eggplant, long beans and peaches and plums during the Dragon Boat Festival, but the meaning of these foods is different from that of southerners. Eating plums symbolizes the reproduction of future generations. Some people think that eating long beans can prevent heatstroke. Eat long beans to avoid being bitten by snakes (because long beans are shaped like snakes). Eating eggplant can prevent mosquito bites (eggplant is called "hanging vegetables" in Hakka, but "biting")

Hakka dumplings are also divided into alkaline dumplings and salty dumplings. Alkaline jiaozi is especially used for sacrifice. Hakka people should prepare four sacrifices for the Dragon Boat Festival, one for the land Lord, one for Wanshan Lord and one for the nearby temple. Alkaline jiaozi is an essential sacrifice. Salted dumplings are divided into zongzi and dumplings, which are pure.