1, Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Daughter's Day". In the Ming Dynasty, Shensuo's Miscellaneous Notes on Ten Thousand Parts recorded: "May Daughter's Day should be a purse of the Dragon Boat Festival, wearing wormwood, and the five poisonous symbols. The folk custom in Wanding is from the first day of May to the fifth day of May (Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of May). Dress up your little daughter and try your best to show her beauty. Married daughters will also return to their parents' homes. That's why it's called Daughter's Day.
2. It is not only the custom of going back to her mother's house during the Dragon Boat Festival in Ming Dynasty. From the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, the married daughter had to "return home" on the Dragon Boat Festival, that is, the wife went back to her mother's house, and her husband had to pick her up on the sixth day of May. It is impossible to pick her up empty-handed, so I have to bring gifts to my parents-in-law.
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In modern times, the attention paid to returning to the mother's house during the Dragon Boat Festival is slightly different from the east, the west, the north and the south.
Guangzhou attaches great importance to the Dragon Boat Festival, and the old custom is to send the festival from the second day to the fourth day of the fifth lunar month. Young "new hugs" (daughters-in-law) use a "full box" of 64, which contains zongzi, pork, raw chicken, fruit, wine and so on. Celebrate festivals with their elders. Girls and children hang sachets, usually from their newlyweds. On the one hand, they show the virtues of their newly married wives, on the other hand, they show their skills, commonly known as "new skills."
In Zigui, Hubei, there is a saying that the Dragon Boat Festival is bigger than the year before, and girls go back to their parents' homes. The Dragon Boat Festival is even more grand than the Spring Festival. Married women have to take their husbands and children back to their parents' homes to see them. They either walk, sit in sedan chairs, ride horses, or go back to their parents' home by boat to reunite with them for the Dragon Boat Festival. Parents of the daughter's family should prepare food and drinks and invite relatives and friends to spend a happy day together.
In old Beijing, married women must go back to their parents' homes to visit relatives during the Dragon Boat Festival. When visiting relatives and friends, they wear colored silk thread on their arms and Red Velvet flowers on their chests. A skilled daughter-in-law will also weave colorful zongzi (the inner shell is made of hard paper, the size is generally about 2 cm, and the outside is wrapped in colorful silk threads), and wear it to pray for longevity.