Customs of Dragon Boat Festival in Guangxi
Racing dragon boats, wrapping zongzi, hanging mugwort ...... Every year at the Dragon Boat Festival, traditional customs known to the people will be repeated. Yesterday, Nanning Yangmei Ancient Town, Tanluo under the Leng village and other places of the masses, have spontaneously organized a grand dragon boat races and related folk activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. The following is my compilation of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Guangxi, welcome to learn and reference, I hope to help you.
However, the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in various places in Guangxi, and present different characteristics. We will look at the old people who lived in different parts of Guangxi, and listen to them talk about how they remembered the Dragon Boat Festival.
Guilin Pingle
Sprinkle xionghuang wine in front of the house at noon
Ms. Pan, who grew up in Guilin Pingle, came to Nanning a few years ago. She told the reporter that every year at the Dragon Boat Festival, the residents of the Pingle area will also be busy with their families to pack rice dumplings. However, the dumplings they make are different from the common ones. "Sweet and savory are available, and the materials are taken from natural plants and herbs." Ms. Pan said that the sweet dumplings are commonly known as "gray water dumplings". Package sweet rice dumplings must be used locally known as "gold firewood", or will be burned into ash straw, soak the water filtered and made. "Only with these two materials, the cooked dumplings will have a golden color and be more alkaline." As for the local salty rice dumplings, they are made with peanuts, green beans, chestnuts, black sesame seeds mixed with glutinous rice and wrapped with a piece of spare ribs or a piece of pork wrapped in the middle.
Ms. Pan said, since she understood so far, the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival, every family will be hanging on their own door of mugwort leaves. The older generation said that the leaves can ward off evil spirits; now the younger generation believes that the leaves have the effect of driving away wind and dampness, which is good for health.
"In addition, at noon on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the old people will also be sprinkled with some xionghuang wine in front of and behind the house." Ms. Pan recalled that every year on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, people will purchase their own xionghuang, rice wine to make xionghuang wine. Because most of the ancestors live on the mountain, the mountain snakes and insects, in order to prevent the snakes and insects into the house, the local people used to be in the Dragon Boat Festival on this day will be soaked in xionghuang wine around the house spraying a circle, this custom has been passed down to the present day.
Tanluo Xiaoleng
River lanterns on the footbridge, a whole day of revelry
In Xiaoleng village, the Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat races have been carried out for hundreds of years, in addition to a number of other unique local festivities.
Auntie Lu married in Xiaoleng Village when she was young and has been living there for more than 30 years. She said that the first thing you need to learn to live in Xiaoleng Village is the skill that every Xiaoleng woman needs to master, which is to make river lanterns. Every year at the Dragon Boat Festival, after the dragon boat races, families would get into boats and set off river lanterns in the river. "The river lanterns are made of blue, red, and cyan colored paper and folded into quadrangular shapes with candles in the middle. After lighting the candles at night, the lanterns are carefully placed on the water, which is called lighting the river lanterns."
Aunt Lu said that before the Dragon Boat Festival, women from every alley in the village sat together to make river lanterns, about two to three hundred lanterns for each alley, and at night, the river was dotted with stars, which was very beautiful. The people of Xiaoleng village believe that their ancestors lived by the water, and the river lanterns can pray for them and keep them safe.
In addition, on the night of the Dragon Boat Festival, the people of Xiaoleng village will gather in an open space and invite the Taoist priest to do the work on the pre-built Tianqiao, which is commonly known locally as the "Sky Bridge". In fact, the "footbridge" is to build a pyramid-like structure with some tables, the villagers around the "footbridge" to beat the gongs and drums, lively and extraordinary.
Yongcheng neighborhood
retrieve the "Dragon Boat Water" to cook rice and boil medicine to bathe
The old Nanning farmers living in the Bianyang Street, living in the neighborhood along the Yongjiang River, the childhood of Dragon Boat Festival have the impression that the Dragon Boat Festival is the first time in the history of the city, and that it is the first time in the history of the city that the people of Yongcheng have the opportunity to enjoy the Dragon Boat Festival. The impression of the Dragon Boat Festival is to go to the Yong River early in the morning on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival to take the "dragon boat water" (also known as "dragon boat water"), and then used to cook, boiled medicine, bathing. However, few young people continue this custom nowadays.
However, many old Nanning still used to buy some herbs on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, go home and boil the water, and then give the whole family a bath. "When we were young, we were always like this, and now we have sons and grandchildren, and we want them to follow this custom." Yongning Street, an aunt told reporters that because of this custom, every Dragon Boat Festival, various farmers markets, vegetable markets and the streets and alleys, there will be so many vendors selling herbs. They sell, mostly fresh mugwort, calamus, silver vine, wild chrysanthemums, willow leaves, eucalyptus leaves, nine sections of maple, live hemp, willow branches, wild mint, and mulberry leaves and other plant leaves and stems, we believe that such a "herbal bath" can be relieved of the summer heat and pain, wind, heat, and can be used in the body of the child to go to the humidity, to prevent prickly heat.
Percolor Jingxi
May 5 to buy herbs
Ms. Leng has been settled in Nanning for many years, her hometown is in the Baise City, Jingxi County. She told the reporter that in recent years, the Dragon Boat Festival in Jingxi County has developed into a large-scale festival, and many people go there to buy herbs from far away.
Ms. Leng said, in her memory, every year, the Dragon Boat Festival, hometown has a different scene. One of the Zhuang people around Jingxi, in addition to doing "cow horn" dumplings to commemorate Qu Yuan, the day there is a very lively customary street day - to catch the medicine market. On this day, the people from all directions picking a load of Chinese herbs converge on the dike. In the county town alone, medicine stalls are set up all over the market and nearby streets. Thousands of men and women, young and old, were in the market for medicine, and the scene was crowded with people, and there was a great deal of noise.
"When we were young, we used to follow our elders to the medicine market, so we can recognize a lot of medicinal herbs." Ms. Leng said, the local Dragon Boat Festival to catch the custom of medicine market has continued for hundreds of thousands of years, so every Dragon Boat Festival, Jingxi County near and far village medicine farmers, as well as the surrounding Debaos, Napo, Tandong, Tianyang, Right River District, Tian, and Daxin and even Yunnan, Vietnam and other places of the folk doctor and the masses, but also will be self-collected from their own species of various herbs, or a variety of medicinal animals, minerals, etc. transported to the Jingxi for sale, the bazaar, you can see a lot of The market, you can see a lot of rare and exotic herbs.
"With the change of times, now the medicine market has long been no longer simply buy and sell herbs, but developed into a folk medicine exchange conference, as well as folk medicine exchange a big stage." Ms. Leng said.
Customs of Dragon Boat Festival in Yulin, Guangxi
The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, and is a major folk festival of the year, second only to the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival. Yulin people over the Dragon Boat Festival customs are generally the same as the country, but there are also more unique places. The main customs are hanging calamus, hanging incense buns, wrapping zongzi, brewing bitter gourd tofu, sacrificing to gods and ancestors and racing dragon boats.
"Hanging Calamus
From the first day, people hang a bunch of calamus in all the doorways of their homes, especially the main entrance, in fact, a tie of calamus in the package of calamus, ai branches, peach leaves, which are three are with the role of driving away the evil spirits of the auspicious, and has been hung until the end of the Dragon Boat Festival to take it down.
"Hanging incense package
Ancient people believe that children are young and weak, easy to attract evil, so, the Dragon Boat Festival this day are to their children hung on the incense package, incense package is made of red cloth or flower cloth by careful sewing, filled with mugwort leaves, the fragrance is strong, so it is called incense package.
"Packing dumplings
Packing dumplings is another main content of the Dragon Boat Festival. However, in the old tradition of Yulin, zongzi have nothing to do with Qu Yuan. The Jin Dynasty Zhou Chu "land and customs records": "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival cooking wassail corn, end, the beginning of also, said the first five days of May also." That is to say that the first five days of May Dragon Boat Festival wrapped dumplings. Yulin Dragon Boat Festival dumplings and the Spring Festival dumplings, used to worship gods and ancestors, Dragon Boat Festival will not throw the dumplings down the river, but also not to set up an altar near the river to sacrifice Qu Yuan. Therefore, Yulin people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, the component of commemorating Qu Yuan is not very large.
There are two kinds of zongzi, one is the "meat zongzi", that is, the common ordinary rice zongzi; the other is the "gray water zongzi", this kind of zongzi glutinous rice, beforehand, soaked in grass ash water, made out of the zongzi crystal clear, with sugar juice, sweet, smooth and crispy, excellent flavor!
Specialties
▎ Stuffed Bitter Melon, Stuffed Bean Curd
The specialties of the Dragon Boat Festival in Yulin are Stuffed Bitter Melon and Stuffed Bean Curd. Stuffed bitter gourd is stuffed with pork, green onion and glutinous rice, why rice? Because in the old society, the poor families in May will not be able to make ends meet, last year's late rice eaten up, this year's early rice and not into the summer, is the most hungry time. Dragon Boat Festival will be brewing rice to the bitter gourd, is "May bitter gourd belly with rice", signs of poor people in May have rice to eat, the days are good.
"Dragon Boat Race
Dragon Boat Race is the climax of the Dragon Boat Festival. Before the Republic of China, the Nanliu River was more than ten feet deep and the water surface was wide, and the Dragon Boat Race at the Dragon Boat Festival was prevalent.
Customs of Dragon Boat Festival in Guangxi
Over the Dragon Boat Festival, this custom has continued in China for more than 2000 years. Every to the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar this day, all over the country according to its traditional customs of the festival, Guangxi people are no exception. Guangxi people over the Dragon Boat Festival, to commemorate the Qu Yuan and inherited traditional customs are racing dragon boats, eat zongzi, prepare livestock sweet; and in the Qu Yuan legend has not been widely spread before the Dragon Boat Festival customs are inherited on the evil day of the taboos to health care, to avoid the epidemic, and health care, to avoid the epidemic, and the main embodiment of the hanging of the moxa leaves calamus, Pei scented sacs to avoid the evil spirits, as well as wash the Chinese herbal baths, soak and drink herbal wine and xionghuang wine.
Dragon Boat Racing
As the most characteristic custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, dragon boat racing has a long history. Folklore has it that at that time, the Chu people could not bear to see the death of the wise minister Qu Yuan, so there were many people rowing boats to catch up with him to save him. They scrambled, chased to Dongting Lake when no trace, so every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar will row a dragon boat to commemorate, and by rowing a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river, so as to avoid the fish ate Qu Yuan's remains. Today, the dragon boat race has become a popular traditional competitive sports, every year the Dragon Boat Festival, Guangxi, all over the activities of the dragon boat race, when the riverside riverside, a sea of people, lively.
Its dragon boat is divided into two kinds. One of them is divided into two layers, the upper layer of children dressed up in a variety of historical, fairy characters, the lower layer contains drummers, gongs and drums, sitting on both sides of the rowing sailors, this dragon boat is quite a show color. The other is a small dragon boat for competition. Competition, the small dragon boat around the big dragon boat spinning, to be thrown down on the big dragon boat objects, small dragon boat sailors will go into the water to scramble. One of the money and duck two things the most difficult to grab, because the money into the water that is sunk, and ducks will be swimming around to avoid.
Nanning City's dragon boat racing activities since the liberation of the Yong River has been held this year, the first time to move to the South Lake Park, the race to the South Lake Bridge as the starting point, Bihu Road for the end, the total length of 600 m. June 20, 51 male and female fleet in this competition.
Eat zongzi
Dragon Boat Festival, Guangxi people of all ethnic groups have the custom of eating zongzi, zongzi practice also has its own instructions. In Nanning more than seven years of living in Chen Da-ma ancestral Hubei Xiantao City, she told reporters, in the old country, every year, every family boiled glutinous rice or steamed zongzi, in addition to the family to taste, but also part of the zongzi into the river, in order to sacrifice to Qu Yuan. People in order to prevent the fish will be eaten by the dumplings, the bamboo tube containing glutinous rice thrown into the river, and then gradually with the convenience of simple rice dumplings wrapped in rice leaves instead of bamboo tubes. The people of Guangxi have also inherited this custom.
Hanging moxa leaves calamus, soak drinking herbs
Wine in previous years, the reporter lived in the courtyard, upstairs and downstairs there are a lot of people will be calamus, moxa leaves, garlic, longboat flowers and other herbal leaves tied into a bunch, hanging in the door. Asked to know that this is also one of the traditional customs of Guangxi people over the Dragon Boat Festival, in addition, some people will also be these herbs bubble wine to drink.
Herbal Bath
Wei Jiachang, who lives in Nanning City, Nanning City, North District of the South Railway Mechanical Section, is the old Nanning, he said that when he was a child to the Dragon Boat Festival, his mother will go to the market to buy a handful of herbal medicine back to the boil water to give themselves a bath, said that after the wash, they will not be sores long prickly heat. Now they have a child, every year to the child to wash. Mr. Wei said, this Dragon Boat Festival "herbal bath" in Guangxi has been passed down for a long time, not only Nanning, many places have this custom.
Dragon Boat Festival Stories and Legends
About the Dragon Boat Festival`s `origin, in fact, has always been different. Some people regard it as a memorial to the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, who threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month. Some say that in ancient times, this festival was a day of disinfecting and avoiding epidemics.
According to the literature, as well as many of the Dragon Boat Festival customs that have been passed down through the generations, May is regarded as a "poisonous month", "evil month", the fifth day of the fifth month is the first of the nine poisons, so the day has been passed down a lot of exorcism, disinfection and epidemic prevention special! Therefore, many special customs have been passed down on this day to drive away evil spirits, sterilize and avoid epidemics, such as inserting bushels of mugwort leaves, drinking xionghuang wine, and sacrificing five plague messengers.
Later on, the meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival changed. People in order to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit and noble personality, this has been passed down the original meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival to forget, some of the original may not be to commemorate the Qu Yuan rowing the dragon boat and wrapping zongzi and other customs, linked to his body.
Nowadays, most people only remember the Dragon Boat Festival as being related to Qu Yuan, and some of the new generation of young people don't have much of an impression of Qu Yuan's story. All they know is that it's a festival for eating dumplings, that's all.
On the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race, in fact, now is not the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race is everywhere. From driving away evil spirits to avoid epidemics, to commemorate Qu Yuan, the meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival has changed a lot.
The original meaning of the festival, year after year of social change in the gradual "eaten".
Today, the festival has become a festival of Chinese food. From the old corn, zongzi production to today's variety of colorful package zongzi. Many places have incorporated their own local culinary specialties into the zongzi.
In fact, the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to race dragon boats. The written record of dragon boat racing began 500 years ago in the Liang Dynasty with Wu Jun's "Continuing Qi Harmonious Records". Later, written accounts of dragon boat racing can be found in many records. Among the thousands of existing Chinese records, there are 227 records of dragon boat races.
Dragon Boat Racing at Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Race said, including "the mass of boats set off, rushed to the Prime Minister to save Qu Yuan." and "a shouting and drumming," and "a shouting and drumming," the Dragon Boat Race said. And "a shouting drums and music to scare off the dragon." These are all reminiscent of Qu Yuan. These are all reminiscent of Qu Yuan.
Every year at the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chinese in the south and north of the Yangtze River as well as the Chinese in the South China Sea area organize dragon boat races and advocate the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race.
Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival of the Zhuang People in Guangxi
Every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the Zhuang people in most areas celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. This day Zhuang people with glutinous rice wrapped into a variety of zongzi, boiled and eaten by themselves, some places will be some into the river, in order to pay tribute to the poet Qu Yuan's spirit. Some places have a variety of provisions, for example: this day do not eat meat, only eat cold dumplings, expressed on the Qu Yuan's clear filial piety; some places do not shave their heads that month to show filial piety and so on. Some of the Xionghuang wine sprayed around the house, said it can ward off evil spirits; some drink Xionghuang wine, or bath with Xionghuang wine, said to eliminate disasters; some areas with mugwort, maple leaves or thatched grass inserted in the doorway, said it can drive away evil spirits and so on. And the Zhuang people near the riverside hold dragon boat races, in which they use long bamboo rafts as dragon boats and race on the river.
And part of the Zhuang living in the Wenshan area in the Dragon Boat Festival day is to kill chickens, ducks, fish, etc. to pay tribute to the great Qu Daifu, as if to pay tribute to their own ancestors as offerings. This custom has lasted for more than two thousand years, until now the Zhuang people are still in deep remembrance of the country, for the nation and the sacrifice of Qu Daifu.
According to Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian", Qu Yuan was a minister of King Huai of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. He advocated the promotion of the virtuous, the rich and the strong, and strongly advocated the unification of Qi against the Qin, but was strongly opposed by the Chu aristocrats such as Zilan, Qu Yuan was dismissed from his post, kicked out of the capital city, and was also exiled to the Yuan and Xiang basins. In the process of his exile, he wrote the immortal poems of "Li Sao", "Heavenly Question", "Nine Songs", etc., which had a far-reaching influence on the future generations.
What is the relationship between the Dragon Boat Festival and the Zhuang? This we have to start from Zhuangqiao. First of all, Qu Yuan and Zhuang Qiao are both Baiyue people, the ancestors of our today's Zhuang people. In 299 B.C., Zhuang Qiao was considered Zhuang Qiao's accomplice because he did not cede the eastern land to Qi, and Qu Yuan was resigned from his post and exiled because he opposed Chu's cession of the eastern land to Qi and was angered by King Haxiang of Chu. Although there is no direct connection between Zhuang and Qu Yuan in the historical records, judging from the fact that Zhuang accepted King Hahixiang's offer of peace after Qu Yuan's death, Zhuang was influenced by Qu Yuan's ideas. In the twenty-first year of King Haxiang of Chu (278 B.C.), the capital of Chu was captured by the Qin, and Qu Yuan, in grief and anger, threw himself into the Bioluo River to die for his country. Because of Qu Yuan's patriotism, he was moved to return to the state of Chu, and was willing to accept King Haxiang of Chu's recruitment, and swore to defend the state of Chu to the death.
After the Battle of Chusha, Chuang Chuan was against the autonomy of Chu, and became an enemy of Chu. Qu Yuan was a native of Chu, and missed the unity of the previous situation. In his later years, Qu Yuan was displaced in the Yuan and Xiang valleys, devoting his whole heart to the country. But in the end, what he got in return was a divided country and a broken family. Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit y touched the patriotic heart of Zhuang Zhuang and his desire to save the country. That's why after Qu Yuan's martyrdom, Zhuangqiao accepted King Haxiang's offer of peace.
According to historical records, King Haxiang of Chu, 19 years (276 BC), when the middle and late Warring States period, Zhuang Qiao arrived in the Dianchi region, in Zhuang Qiao and Qin to fight for the Chuba, Qianzhong County, the road was cut off by the Qin, only to return to the home of Dianchi with the crowd, the extermination of the state of the Yelang, and then the king of Yunnan, the establishment of the state of Yunnan, began its rule over the Dianchi region of the history of the state.
In the second year of Yuanfeng of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty (109 BC), Emperor Wu of Han conquered the state of Dian and set up Yizhou County. Later, due to the repeated infighting within the state of Dian, the last king of Dian was killed. The Jurchen State won the victory over the Dian State, and most of the people of the Dian State became the spoils of war or prisoners of war, and were - forced to move southward, part of them arrived in the area of western Guangxi, and some of them arrived in the area of Wenshan, Yunnan and other areas, and merged or lived together with the local indigenous people, and became the ancestor of the present Zhuang people.
Now the Dragon Boat Festival has been incorporated into the World Intangible Cultural Heritage by the United Nations, as the descendants of the Baiyue people, while feeling gratified, we have a heavier responsibility to carry forward and inherit the Dragon Boat Festival culture and Baiyue culture, so that future generations of the Zhuang people have to remember all that our ancestors have left us!
Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Nanning, Guangxi
As early as in the Records of the Historical Memorial Meng Changjun biography of the record, as late as in the Warring States period, the northern central plains on May 5 as a "bad day". Eastern Han Dynasty, "Customs anonymous text" also has "May cover the house, people bald" "May to the official, to the late not to move" and so on. Although most of these documents on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month fragmented, if these fragments are put together, carefully studied, can be seen behind the Dragon Boat Festival taboo information.
The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the middle of summer, the ancients believe that this is the beginning of the year, the yin gas began to sink, the yang gas began to rise at the junction point. During this period, the temperature rises, snakes and insects multiply, disease and plague, so people called "bad month". The custom of the Dragon Boat Festival has been handed down for thousands of years, and the purpose of "warding off evil spirits" and "praying" for these purposes has been closely related.
Xionghuang wine scented pouch medicine market
In order to get rid of the body's dampness and heat, to avoid ants and flies in the house sins, insects, folk handed down the Dragon Boat Festival customs, many of which are related to Chinese herbs. One of the most famous when the Dragon Boat Festival drink Xionghuang wine custom, because a section of Xu Xian and the white snake lady's touching love legend and is well known. The biggest effect of Xionghuang is to drive away the snakes and insects that come out in midsummer.
However, the custom of drinking Xionghuang wine at the Dragon Boat Festival is mainly popular in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions. In Guangxi, every Dragon Boat Festival, people around the world will be wormwood, calamus and other herbs wrapped in red paper into a sword or a small person, hanging in the door, to play a role in warding off evil spirits.
In addition, adults also like to use cangzhu, patchouli, cornelian cherry and other herbs made of all kinds of green and flowery sachets, to the children buckle in the chest, or eucalyptus leaves, wild mint, silver vine and other herbs boiled in the water to give children a bath, a variety of gestures have a younger generation of prayer for the good health of the good wishes.
Around the Dragon Boat Festival, Nanning people can buy these related herbs in the market, or go home to hang, or boil water to bathe, such a custom, is one of the common customary features of the Dragon Boat Festival in Guangxi.
The "dragon" culture of the paddy rice nation
As the most important traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, the dragon boat race is an unavoidable part of the conversation about the Dragon Boat Festival. This custom, according to legend, originated in ancient times when Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet of the state of Chu, threw himself into the river to die, and people spontaneously rowed to rescue him. In the end, the people who could not save the life of Qu Yuan, began in the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar to row a dragon boat to commemorate the activities of Qu Yuan.
Legends are legends, historical records still have their testability. The custom of dragon boat racing has been formed as early as the Warring States period. At that time, the ancients, in the sound of drums in the rush rowing carved into the shape of the dragon canoe, racing games, entertaining the gods and people. This is a half-religious, half-entertainment program in a sacrificial ceremony. Dragon boat racing game is familiar with the water invented by the southerners, and then gradually spread to the north.
The dragon in the legend is able to call the wind and rain of the gods, is the cultural worship totem of the southern rice farmers. When people pray for good weather, they often pray to the dragon. In the rural fields of Guangxi, some small waterwheels are called dragon wagons, and water snakes are also called dragon snakes. The life of the rice-cultivating peoples is closely related to the symbolism of the dragon. So the dragon boat race has developed to today, is not a purely competitive sport, behind it there are people's prayers for a better life, as well as the cultural connotation of unity, collaboration and progress.
Nanning people Dragon Boat Festival also has a custom is to use the "dragon boat flower" bath, that is, the collection of tarragon, calamus, lemongrass and other herbs to boil water bath. If in the past, Nanning people will also be in the Dragon Boat Festival in the early morning to the Yongjiang River to take the "dragon boat water," also known as the "dragon boat water," used to cook, boiled medicine.
The Dragon Boat Festival
Glutinous rice is regarded as the best of all rice, and in ancient times it was mostly used in rituals. The dumplings, which have been passed down as offerings, are highly valued in the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. Nanning's favorite Dragon Boat Festival zongzi, is a kind of zongzi called "cool zongzi" or "alkaline water zongzi" zongzi.
Nanning people package cool rice dumplings have a lot to pay attention to, such as the requirements of wrapping the dumplings of the bamboo leaf broad hairless and fragrant cool, cool rice dumplings in the shape of the general will be wrapped up into a long thin shape or triangular. There are even some customs, is the straw burned into ash to soak water, take this water soak glutinous rice after wrapped into dumplings. When the dumplings are eaten, people like to dip them in honey or white sugar, which is basically the main sweet flavor.
Wang Zengqi in his own article - "Dragon Boat Festival duck eggs" in the introduction, said the Dragon Boat Festival lunch to eat "twelve red", in which the salted duck eggs ranked one. One is to say that this red dish can pray for the future of the days of red, and the second is that people believe that red items can ward off evil spirits and avoid the summer heat.
It can be seen that the traditional festivals handed down folk customs have their own say, regardless of their respective meanings, all the changes are not the same, is full of people's expectations of the future of a better life and aspirations.
Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Guilin, Guangxi
Guilin Dragon Boat Customs: Dragon Boat Race
In the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the Li River pier set up a road of green dragons, yellow dragons, double dragons playing pearls of color door, red, orange, yellow, green, green, blue, purple, seven-color ball flying in the air, the river is a happy atmosphere. The Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race takes place on the Li River.
Guilin since ancient times, there are ten years a big steak, five years a small steak race dragon boat custom. Every e year a dragon boat event, but also in the first day of the first month, each village, each street should be held "open drum" ceremony. "Open drum" on this day, the youth are concentrated in the village, the street in front of the temple, began to sound the cannon, ringing the rowing drum, banging the rowing gong, singing the dragon boat song, the lively sound of the neighboring villages attracted men, women and children come to visit, congratulations. The opening of the drum is a signal to row the dragon boat, each dragon boat brothers also congratulate each other to enhance friendship.
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