What to give to your parents during the Dragon Boat Festival? The Dragon Boat Festival gifts vary from region to region.

What should I give to my parents when I go back to their hometown for Dragon Boat Festival? In ancient China, there was a custom of returning to one’s parents’ home during the Dragon Boat Festival. When the husband went to pick up his wife, he must bring gifts for his father-in-law and mother-in-law. Next, let’s take a look at what gifts people buy when they go back to their parents’ home during the Dragon Boat Festival in different regions.

What to give to my parents on Dragon Boat Festival

Beijing area

In Beijing, daughters who have become nuns must dress themselves up beautifully when they return to their parents' home. When visiting relatives, they would tie colorful silk threads on their arms and wear red velvet flowers on their chests. The skillful daughters-in-law can also weave colorful rice dumplings. Some of the colorful rice dumplings contain Chinese herbal medicine, which has the meaning of blessing birthdays, preventing diseases, avoiding plagues and poisons, and hoping for good luck and beauty. They are given to parents to pray for blessings and longevity.

Hubei Province

In Hubei region, there is a saying among the people that "Dragon Boat Festival is more important than New Year's Day, and girls return to their parents' homes." Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is even more grand than the Spring Festival. Not only do people buy new clothes and shoes for their parents, but they also prepare a variety of Dragon Boat Festival delicacies. An indispensable custom is to boil the duck eggs, peel them, and then cut them into different colors before returning to her parents' home.

Guangdong

People in Guangdong attach great importance to the Dragon Boat Festival. According to the old custom, people send gifts to the festival from the second to the fourth day of the fifth lunar month. Generally, when returning to one's parents' home, one must use six or four "full boxes" filled with rice dumplings, pork, raw chicken, eggs, fruits, wine, etc. to congratulate the elders. A new bride who has just gotten married must weave hanging bags and sachets with five-colored silk threads in advance and give them to her underage children at her parents' home. On the one hand, it reflects the new bride's virtue, and on the other hand, it reflects her craftsmanship, commonly known as "new bride's craftsmanship."