blue tube drink is the custom in Ji'nan area. Picking fresh lotus leaves just out of the water, pierce the heart of the leaf to make it interlinked with the stem, then suck the wine from the stem, drink the lotus stem, and enter the entrance of the wine stream, and become a Dragon Boat Festival and even the summer summer.
historical records: in ancient times, when the lotus flowers were in full bloom in Daming Lake, some officials and literati often came to the lake to avoid summer heat. They cut the great lotus leaves in the lake, filled the beautiful wine, and prick the center part of the lotus leaf with the hairpin to make it interlinked with the hollow lotus stem. Drink wine from the end of the stem, "wine mixed with lotus fragrance, fragrant cold is better than water".
five poisonous cakes
five poisonous cakes are the special food of the northern Dragon Boat Festival. In the early summer, it is the time that the poison is active, so the ancient people will eat the "five poison cake" to eliminate the disease, and pray for health. The five poison cake is actually a rose cake. It is only covered with cakes printed on scorpions, toads, spiders, centipede, and snakes. There are apricot, jujube paste, mung bean paste, sesame stuffing. 3 the traditional custom of ancient times believed that May 5th was the evil day in the evil moon. Therefore, the activities of Dragon Boat Festival are mainly exorcism and evils. As a traditional festival sprang up in the south, how did the Shandong people live in the northern part of the Dragon Boat Festival? Hospitality gentleman consulted relevant folklore experts, look together!
insert Artemisia
the proverb says: "Qingming inserts the willow, the Dragon Boat Festival is inserted." Dragon Boat Festival, Shandong area will generally insert Artemisia argyi in the doorway. The odour produced by Artemisia argyi can drive flies, insects and ants to purify the air. In addition to inserting Artemisia argyi, parts of Jiaodong are also planted with peach branches, while in Linyi, branches are inserted on the gates to drive away evil spirits.