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According to folk beliefs, eating foods like rice wine on this day will help the body stay healthy and prevent disease.
The Duanwu Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival or the Insect Killing Festival, takes place in the fifth lunar month - a time when the weather is hot and humid, making it easy for diseases to break out. According to folk beliefs, eating foods such as rice wine on this day will help keep the body healthy and prevent diseases.
The Duanwu Festival is also an occasion for people to launch campaigns to catch insects and destroy pests that harm crops, contributing to protecting crops and the living environment.
Duanwu Festival takes place on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, exactly at noon. Duan means beginning, and Ngo means noon, when yang energy is at its peak.
The 2024 Duanwu Festival will fall on Monday, June 10. On this day, people celebrate the Duanwu Festival with the hope of destroying pests that harm crops and praying for a bountiful harvest, as well as destroying pests that cause diseases to humans and livestock.
According to folk belief, eating fruit and rice wine on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month is a way to kill insects. This ritual involves rinsing the mouth three times to clean out the insects, drinking a bowl of rice wine to get the insects drunk, and eating fruit to kill the insects.
In some places, people have the custom of eating ash cakes, sweet rice balls, and lotus seeds to kill insects and diseases in their bodies. Many people also bathe in coriander leaves to prevent diseases and kill insects.
In many coastal areas, on the Duanwu Festival, people wait for the right hour of Ngo to go swimming in the sea to pray for peace and health because according to folk beliefs, this is the day of the strongest yang energy of the year, and the hour of Ngo is the hour of the strongest yang energy of the day. With the same concept, many people pick herbs at this time because they believe that this is when the medicinal properties of the plants are at their highest.
The Duanwu Festival usually comes after the harvest season. Therefore, the offerings on this day are also relatively rich with many types of agricultural products.
Depending on the customs of each region, the offerings have different items, but basically the Doan Ngo Festival offering tray includes:
- Incense, flowers, votive paper
- Water
- Rice wine
- Fruits such as plum, lychee, sapodilla, banana, watermelon...
- Ash cake
- Duck meat
- Sticky rice and sweet soup
If the Northern people's Doan Ngo Tet offering tray has banh gio, the Southern people have banh ú, and the Central people have duck meat.
The Duanwu Festival is an occasion when people usually eat at home with their families. Early in the morning of the Duanwu Festival, people often eat banh gio, lotus seed sweet soup, fruits and sticky rice wine to kill insects and diseases in the body. Many people drink sticky rice wine right after waking up.
TH (according to VTC News)