1. How to write an essay on the unforgettable Calabash Festival
The Calabash Festival is called "Apeng Alonni" in Lahu language. It is the most solemn festival of the Lahu people in Lancang County. It is held every year on the fifteenth day of the tenth lunar month. At that time, all villages will hold singing and dancing carnivals. Men will play the gourd and lead the dance, and men and women will dance the "Gake" dance; women will beat the elephant drum and dance; young men and women will perform folk song duets; and sports and game performances will be held, such as swinging. Swing, water carrying, spinning top, and crossbow shooting competitions. The old people met by the firepit, drinking wine and singing the creation epic "Mupa Mipa". A pair of gourds is placed in the center of the singing and dancing venue, symbolizing the ancestors of the Lahu people, so that everyone can show respect to them and keep the kindness of their ancestors in their hearts at all times.
Calabash Festival
Introduction Meaning Every year on October 15th of the lunar calendar, it is the "Calabash Festival" of the Lahu people, which is called "Apeng Alonni" in Lahu language. On this day every year, the Lahu people, dressed in brilliant national costumes, sing and dance, bring home-brewed wine and glutinous rice cakes, kill pigs and chickens, and gather in the square of each village to start the annual celebration. Young people and old people played the Lusheng, and the girls performed a cheerful group dance. The dance fully expressed the four seasons. People started from plowing the fields and sowing seeds at the beginning, and danced to the joy of the harvest at the end, thanking God for blessings. Thank you for the sunshine and rain, the good weather and the good years without disease or disaster. At night, bonfires are lit, accompanied by melodious music and low wooden drums. The old people recount their life experiences, from the mother's hard birth and difficult growth process to getting married, leaving their parents, raising their own children, and ending in youth. Then, the eyes are full of vicissitudes of life, one by one sad, poignant stories are slowly told in the moonlight with the old man's singing. Under the watery moonlight, listen to the hoarse voice, the jumping firelight, the sound of wooden drums, It seems that the river of life is slowly flowing around me, and the youth that is gone forever seems to be flowing and surrounding me again under the moonlight. In this way, for the next three days and three nights, the Lahu people danced and sang non-stop. If you are thirsty, stop and drink some rice wine; if you are hungry, eat a mouthful of rice cake, then continue dancing and singing; if you are tired or sleepy, take a rest, and others will continue, singing in their elegant or hoarse voices. The joys and sorrows of life use their young or old bodies to express their love for the "gourd", the Holy Spirit who brings them life. Legend
Performance at the Gourd Festival
According to the legends in the Lahu creation epics "Mu Pami Pa" and "Shuo Dian Lu Dian", the ancestors of the Lahu people are gods. "Ersha" was cultivated from gourds on the 15th day of the 10th lunar month. Therefore, the Lahu people believe that they are the descendants of the gourd, and regard the gourd as the incarnation of their ancestors and the mascot of the entire nation. The belief in gourds reflects the Lahu people's long-term close relationship with nature and their struggle for survival in the mountainous area. The Calabash Festival has rich ethnic characteristics and rich and colorful activities. It is a festive occasion for national singing and dancing and contains rich historical and cultural content. Lancang County *** organizes various cultural and sports activities, science and technology and commercial material exchange activities every year to combine traditional ethnic festivals with economic development and further enhance the social influence and popularity of the Calabash Festival. [1] Origin
Celebrating the Calabash Festival 2. Composition of the Calabash Festival
In the traditional culture of the Lahu people, gourds are regarded as a symbol of the survival and reproduction of the Lahu people. The mother body is a symbol of the beautiful home and happy life of the Lahu people.
Starting from 2006, the Lahu people’s “Calabash Festival” has been adjusted from October 15, 16, and 17 of the lunar calendar to April 8, 9, and 10 of the Gregorian calendar. To reflect the spirit of the times and good wishes of gourds budding, all things flourishing, and prosperity in spring. It symbolizes the Lahu people's spiritual pursuit of walking out of the gourd and running like the sun and their good wishes for good fortune and happiness.
During the festival, a series of activities called "Celebrating the Gourd Festival" will be held at Lahu Square in Lancang Lahu Autonomous County. In the evening, our family came to Lahu Square and prepared to watch the show with excitement.
At the welcome ceremony: Lahu people played the Lusheng, scattered rice flowers, and sang the song "Happy Lahu". Washing hands and tying threads are performed; gongs and drums of all ethnic groups sing in unison, and lights dance in the sky, pushing the grand and warm atmosphere to the climax.
After the leader finished his speech, the folk song and dance performance began. There were lively songs and dances, plus fireworks in the sky.
It was even more lively on and off the court, and the audience was really in for a treat. Among so many lively and prosperous ethnic songs and dances, the program that attracts me the most and still appears in my mind is "Shu Hair Tune", a folk song of the Wa ethnic group.
This song and dance tells the story of a girl combing her hair under a tree, and a Wa boy came over to watch the girl combing her hair. Then, they fell in love, recreating the love process between Ava men and women. . When they found their happy destination, all the Ava people blessed them.
After watching this lively show, I couldn’t help but think: What a great spiritual wealth our Lahu nation has! This performance was even more exciting than previous Lahu Festival performances! I am looking forward to the next more grand performance. 3. The essay about the Gourd Festival should be no less than 600 words
Today, my mother and I are going back to my grandma’s house. I often hear my grandma say on the phone that their candied haws are delicious and thin. The sweet wind and red hawthorns made me want to eat them more and more. I happened to be going to my grandma’s house today, so I decided to have a good meal of candied haws there! When the car reached a mountain ridge, I suddenly heard someone shouting: "Buy candied haws! Fresh and delicious candied haws!" At this time, my mother smiled and said, "Grandma's house is coming soon, do you want to buy candied haws on a stick?" "Yes! "I said excitedly.
So my mother asked my father to stop the car, walked out, and walked to a stall not far away to buy a bunch of candied haws. Then I got back to the car and gave me the candied haws, and then asked my father to drive. Then I ate the candied haws in big mouthfuls. My mother would tell me to eat slowly from time to time so as not to choke.
After a long time, we arrived at grandma’s house. At noon, grandma is going out to sell candied haws.
She just ate a few bites of lunch and was about to go out. I didn’t want to play at home, so I followed my grandma to sell candied haws. I thought I was going to sell candied haws first, but grandma walked to a hill and entered a hawthorn forest. There were many hawthorns in the hawthorn forest. Grandma stretched out her hand and grabbed a handful.
Grandma went to the crabapple forest and the sugarcane forest again. After preparing the materials, we went to sell candied haws.
When we arrived at the mountain, it was almost dusk. At this time, a customer came and asked for candied haws on a stick. Grandma started cooking immediately.
Grandma first boils the sugar in a copper pot. When the sugar can be pulled out into silk threads, grandma will give up the sugar industry. The candy wind that grandma throws out is thin and golden, like a halo in a cornucopia, and like golden threads. Everyone praises the candied haws made by grandma, even me who tasted it.
Because grandma said: "Making candied haws on a stick requires ten thousand years of hard work. Customers love to buy and the business is good!" From then on, this sentence became grandma's secret recipe for making candied haws! I love eating candied haws, but I love those people who work hard and actually make candied haws even more! Especially people like grandma are the people I admire the most. 4. Observation of the Gourd Festival Diary 200 words
Grandpa took back two gourd seedlings from the neighbor’s house and planted them in flower pots on the balcony, so I watched the growth of the gourds every day. After about ten days, the seedling grew longer, and grandpa quickly built a scaffolding for it. The little gourd seedlings crawled everywhere along this scaffolding.
On the first day, I went to see the gourd seedlings again today, and found that many parts of the seedlings were covered with flowers, and some had even bloomed. The small yellow flowers were a bit like pumpkin flowers, so beautiful!
The next day, today I saw dozens of fluffy things the size of plum pits growing on the gourd vine. Grandpa told me that it is the fruit of gourd.
Four days later, today I saw that thing the size of a plum core turned green.
Six days later, today I saw the little green gourd slowly getting bigger.
In ten days, the small gourd has become as big as a small peach.
On the thirteenth day, the little peach was divided into two parts, the upper part was smaller and the lower part was larger. They are all oval-shaped, just like the wine flask in Jigong's hand.
On July 18, the gourd finally took shape and matured. Just like my toy gourd, the hair also fell out. Grandpa took it off and gave it to me as a toy.
Please adopt it if it helps 5. Calabash composition
It is an annual herbaceous plant with creeping stems, heart-shaped leaves, alternate, and white flowers in summer and autumn. The shape of the fruit varies depending on the species. It is said that it is divided into gourds, gourds, gourds (ladle gourds) and flat gourds.
Before fruiting, it is difficult to distinguish from seeds, vines, leaves and flower shapes. Gourd, also known as flat cattail, is commonly known as night flower because its flowers bloom at night and close in the morning. Its fruit is slender and cylindrical, with light green skin and white flesh. When young, it can be used as a vegetable. We can often see this vegetable in the vegetable market.
Most people have eaten it, it is extremely common and common. The middle of the fruit is thin, like two balls connected together, with a smooth surface. It is called a gourd.
Its shape resembles the Arabic numeral "8", and the shell can be used for medicinal purposes or as a container and ornamental. Nowadays, people rarely see it used as a container, but from the words "wine gourd", "vinegar gourd", "treasure gourd" and "what medicine is sold in the gourd", it can be seen that in the past it was mainly used as a container used.
Nowadays, people mainly use it to make various handicrafts or toys. Artists carve or draw various patterns and shapes on the gourd and then match it with different colors to make a beautiful handicraft or toy. This kind of handicraft can often be seen in stores now.
As the times change, its uses are also changing in different ways. The pear-shaped fruit is called gourd, also known as gourd.
When the fruit matures, the shell is cut in half and the pulp is removed to form a scoop. It can be found in the dictionary that the scoop originally refers to a scooping utensil made of gourds cut in half, called a gourd scoop. Later, it was also made of wood or metal. Now this type of utensil is collectively called a scoop.
Because its uses are getting smaller and smaller, people rarely grow this kind of gourd. Although its use as a scoop is no longer great, its new uses are being discovered again. People have tried to use it to make handicrafts. In the future, people will definitely find various exquisite handicrafts made with it, maybe in your home. There will also be one.
There is also a kind of gourd that is relatively rare. It is smaller in size, with roots about the same size as an apple, and is oblate in shape, which is called a flat gourd. It can be used both as a toy and as a container. I heard from my father that people use it to store grasshoppers.
When the flat gourd is mature, pick it off, make a round hole around the pedicle, use the cut pedicle part as a cover, drill some ventilation holes in the flat gourd, and then put the grasshopper in Go in, close the lid, and put the gourd under the quilt, so that the grasshopper can spend the winter. It's very fun. You can also try it if you are interested. 6. A 200-word composition about gourds
Planting gourds
Grandpa planted several gourds in the corner of the garden.
Within a few days, the slender gourd vine was covered with green leaves, and a few small white flowers bloomed. After the flowers faded, the vine was covered with small gourds. Look: the round gourds Round head, big belly, thin waist, how cute!
One day, I saw a lot of aphids crawling on the leaves, oops! What to do? I hurriedly went to tell my grandpa. Grandpa calmly took the potion and sprayed it gently on the leaves. After a while, those nasty aphids rolled off the leaves one by one as if they were drunk and twisted on the ground. After moving a few times, they all lay motionless on the ground.
Under Grandpa’s careful care, the little gourd grew bigger and bigger, as if it were two balls, one large and one small, stuck together. Keep shaking and shaking in the wind.
Grandpa also told me: "When the gourd is young, it can be used as a vegetable for us. When it is old, we can use it as a wine bottle. Some people carve it into various handicrafts for us." People appreciate and collect them.
I never thought that gourds have so many uses. 7. A composition on growing gourds
A few months ago, my classmate gave me some gourd seeds. , I was so excited that I couldn’t wait to plant the seeds as soon as I got home. I watered and fertilized them every day, hoping that they would grow up quickly and produce small gourds.
One week, two weeks, three weeks, but it still didn't sprout. I gradually lost interest in it and moved it outside the kitchen window. I stopped watering and fertilizing it every day, and I stopped visiting it every day. , I thought, Oh! If the seedlings appear early after such a long time, they must be dead. On the final day of the exam, the classmate asked me: "Have the gourds sprouted?" ", I replied: "He always doesn't come out, so I don't care about it now. "
The classmate then said: "Gourds germinate very slowly, so you have to be patient. Go home and take a good look at your gourd seedlings! "As soon as I got home, I couldn't wait to run to the kitchen and found a few thin green seedlings emerging from the soil. From that day on, I watered and fertilized them carefully every day. After a week, he It was more than a foot tall, and there were four or five peach-shaped leaves on it, which were tender and green. Soon after, it had grown to be more than two feet tall, and the leaves were getting bigger and bigger. I found many small yellow beards crawling out of its stems, turning around and around the pole, like propellers.
Although the gourd seedlings have not yet bloomed, they have not produced any fruit. I believe that soon, he will bear a big and chubby little gourd.
I will take good care of my baby gourd like my mother.