Jinhua also maintains the custom of Dragon Boat Festival and Lantern Festival.
According to legend, this festival commemorates Qu Yuan, a Chu man in the Warring States Period, and there are related customs, such as dragon boat racing and eating jiaozi. In Jinhua, there are some unique customs. Jinhua arrived at the Dragon Boat Festival, and no matter where you were, you were forced not to go home. This day is the day when my daughter goes back to her parents' home to see her mother. The gift sent to parents' home is a load of zongzi (or some gifts), commonly known as "carrying the Dragon Boat Festival", which can be carried from the first day to the fourth day. Dialect "four" and "hi" are homophonic, and mothers like their daughters to come to the fourth grade. As the saying goes, "it will be sunny on the third day, and it will be sunny on the fourth day, before the Dragon Boat Festival." After lunch on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the Dragon Boat Festival is over. Now the Dragon Boat Festival is more like a day to honor elders, and younger generations often send mung bean cakes or various nutrients to elders on this day.
In fact, it can be said that the Dragon Boat Festival in Jinhua is not like before. The Dragon Boat Festival in Jinhua is incomplete. A few days before the Dragon Boat Festival, every household should hang calamus and wormwood on their doors, stoves and beds, thinking that calamus and wormwood can ward off evil spirits. There are also popular unique customs such as hanging incense bags, pushing the Dragon Boat Festival boat to drive away the five ghosts, and "expelling mosquitoes and insects", which are now gone.