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"Every year we sell ai ye during the festival period," says a middle-aged man selling vegetables downtown.
"All the buyers are older people, and sometimes young people ask me what ai ye is used for."
Apart from ai ye, Chinese people traditionally display pictures of Zhong Kui, the fierce exorcist god who grabs and eats ghosts and evil spirits.
They may also display at their front door pictures of the Five Poisons - centipede, snake, scorpion, toad and lizard, the so-called auspicious animals that ward off poison and evil.
Threads of the five colors - white, blue, yellow, red and green - are traditionally wrapped around children's wrists to ward off evil and illness in this period. Sometimes children were bathed in herbs.
Packets of herbs in colorfully stitched sachets were worn by young and old.
Colorful herb sachets are sold today.
Except for the zongzi, the traditions are fading rapidly. Previous [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Next
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