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Is it appropriate to visit for the first time during Dragon Boat Festival? How is it celebrated in Shandong and Shanxi?
Published: 2026/01/16   Author: luxi   Source: network
The traditional culture of Chinese festivals has undergone changes, and these changes have led to development. The unification of inheritance and change is a distinctive feature of Chinese festivals. Is it appropriate to visit for the first time on the Dragon Boat Festival? Huayi Network has prepared content about the Dragon Boat Festival. Let's take a look together.

Is it appropriate to visit for the first time on the Dragon Boat Festival 

It is appropriate to visit for the first time on the Dragon Boat Festival.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a statutory holiday, and most people can get three days of rest. For busy modern people, the three-day holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival is an ideal time to visit. Not only will the other party's parents be at home resting, but it is also easier for you to adjust your schedule; moreover, both sides can get enough rest, and the mood will be relatively pleasant, making it easier to communicate, so it is a good time for the first visit.

How do Shandong and Shanxi provinces celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival

[Shandong]
1. In Rizhao, on the Dragon Boat Festival, children are tied with five-color threads.
2. In Zouping County, Shandong, everyone gets up early and drinks a cup of alcohol, which is said to help avoid evil.
3. In Linqing County, on the Dragon Boat Festival, boys under seven years old wear a talisman (a necklace made of wheat stalks), while girls wear pomegranate flowers. They also wear yellow cloth shoes made by their mothers, and the shoes are painted with five kinds of poisonous insects using a brush. In Jimo, people wash their faces with dew in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival.
[Shanxi]
1. Eating zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) is a traditional custom of people in both urban and rural areas of Shanxi Province. The habit of wrapping zongzi usually takes place the day before the Dragon Boat Festival. Traditional zongzi are filled with millet, red dates, wrapped in reed leaves, and served with sugar when eaten.
2. Drinking realgar wine is also an important custom in Shanxi during the Dragon Boat Festival, mainly used for disease prevention and detoxification.
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