The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Zixing City include eating rice dumplings, wearing sachets, hanging mugwort leaves, and dragon boat racing.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a special day for Chinese people to commemorate Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet from the Warring States Period, and to express their lovesickness. This festival is the accumulation of history and the inheritance of culture. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, people in Zixing also became lively, busy worshiping Qu Yuan, making rice dumplings, rowing dragon boats, planting moxa leaves, and immersing themselves in the festive atmosphere.

Zixing has always had the traditional custom of making rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival. As the representative food of the Dragon Boat Festival, rice dumplings are said to be thrown into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from biting Qu Yuan's body. Another reason is that the edges of the rice dumplings are like a knife, which can eradicate diseases and disasters. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, glutinous rice is good for qi, strengthening the spleen, appetizing and digesting food. Eating rice dumplings can clear away heat and relieve troubles, and help the spleen and appetite.