Every Dragon Boat Festival, online celebrity Zongzi began to stir up again, but Sichuanese had their own "Zongzi Street". In the early 1990s, several old residents at Ma 'an East Road 13 in Chengdu, relying on their own good skills, sold their own handmade zongzi at the gate of the community every Dragon Boat Festival, gradually continuing the traditional characteristics.

2. Insert calamus and Folium Artemisiae Argyi

"Willows inserted in Qingming Festival, wormwood inserted in Dragon Boat Festival" is a long-standing folk saying. Usually, during the Dragon Boat Festival, Sichuanese will take wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents and take them as examples to be included in the necessary items of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Send an umbrella to your son-in-law.

It is said that in rural areas of old Sichuan, the custom of "sending umbrellas" is still popular during the Dragon Boat Festival. The general content is that the son-in-law will prepare nine zongzi, nine salted eggs and two bottles of wine on the first Dragon Boat Festival after marriage, and take his wife to his father-in-law's house for the holidays. When the son-in-law comes home from dinner, he will receive an umbrella from his father-in-law/mother-in-law. Whether it is sunny or rainy, he will go home with an umbrella, which means he will take care of his new wife.

Because in traditional Chinese characters, "umbrella" is the most used word, which means that many children are blessed and people are prosperous.

4, point realgar, with sachets

During the Dragon Boat Festival, it is a custom to dip realgar wine in children's foreheads, and sometimes the word "Wang" is painted on children's foreheads. Of course, there are duck eggs wrapped in five-color silk thread and sachets filled with realgar, atractylodes rhizome, clove and other traditional Chinese medicines. Today's sachet has gradually become a kind of culture and art that represents the folk custom of the Dragon Boat Festival.

5. Dragon Boat Race

Dragon boat race is one of the traditional activities of Sichuan Dragon Boat Festival, which began in the Han Dynasty, especially in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the river is noisy with gongs and drums, and the riverbank is crowded with spectators. But later, the Jinjiang River bed rose and the water level dropped. The dragon boat race in Chengdu stopped and the race moved to Xinjin and Jintang.

Step 6 sprinkle plums

During the Republic of China, there was a rare custom in Sichuan-spreading plums. It is said that it is a plum-sprinkling conference, but it is actually an opportunity for young men and women to take this opportunity to come out and play. Every year, the Dragon Boat Festival is the ripe season for peaches and plums. Plums are inexpensive and have a certain hardness, so they are very suitable as "hidden weapons" for mutual sneak attack.