Packing rice dumplings, making scented sachets, preparing five-color rope, fighting eggs and other wonderful and rich activities.
Duanwu Festival and folk cultural activities are inseparable, every year before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, Taizhou City, will be held around the unique local characteristics of folk cultural performances. In Taixing Drum Tower Square to organize "close to the Dragon Boat Festival" folk cultural performances. Dragon boat racing, swinging boats, donkey drums, dragon dance, stick puppets, stilts, flower Dan and other programs, with Taixing characteristics of folk culture interpretation of the best, but also to create a happy, peaceful, civilized atmosphere of the festival.
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Duanwu Festival to eat zongzi, which is another traditional custom of the Chinese people. Zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube dumplings". It has a long history, a variety of patterns. The morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, families eat zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan, usually the day before the zongzi package, cooked at night, eaten in the morning. Zongzi package is mainly with the river and pond side of the abundance of young reed leaves, some areas are also used bamboo leaves, collectively known as zongzi leaves. The traditional form of zongzi for the triangle, generally named according to the flesh, wrapped glutinous rice called rice zongzi, rice mixed with small beans called small beans zongzi, mixed with jujube called jujube zongzi, collectively known as glutinous rice zongzi. Jujube rice dumplings harmonic for "early in", so eat the most date rice dumplings, meaning that the children ate in the study can be early in the Scholar. In the past, the readers to participate in the day of the imperial examinations, the morning to eat jujube rice dumplings, so far, secondary school, university entrance exams in the morning, some parents have to do jujube rice dumplings to the candidates to eat.