The Dragon Boat Festival this day there are many customs and activities, such as the morning to take the dragon's beard water, inserted in the door of Ai Zhi, on the mountain to pick the green, food dumplings ball, dumplings, dragon boat racing activities.
Morning to take the dragon's beard water - because the legend says that May 5 is the dragon's birthday, this day the dragon head sprayed water can cure. Therefore, people go outside in the morning on this day to take water from pits, ditches, streams and rivers, and put it in their own water tanks for the whole family to eat and drink, and pray for a year of peace.
Plugging in Ai on the door--Because Ai can keep away evils, plugging in Ai on the door on this day can ensure peace.
Pick up the mountain to pick green - because this day is the dragon's head to erupt the dragon's beard water in the earth grass time, people go up to the mountains to pick some herbs, such as asparagus, maitake, honeysuckle, mountain grapes, etc. to the family standby, all more valuable than the previous day. In addition, it is also very meaningful to go to the mountains to pick their own more fresh air in the nature.
Eating rice dumplings - local famous proverb called [not eat May rice dumplings, broken fur not willing to put]. Broken fur is the old cotton clothes, this day is the fifth day of May, just after the spring cold, the earth began to warm, after this day, into the summer, the temperature is naturally high, no longer wear cotton clothes. Everyone has to use potato flour with yellow sticks juice stirred into the dumplings, said after eating the cold days past the warm summer is coming.
Eating dumplings ball - dumplings ball is a kind of food with mushrooms, peanut kernels, pork, sweet bean paste made of food, one side of the sweet side of the salty, wrapped in bamboo leaves into a hexagonal fist-sized package of dumplings. Its origin is transmitted from the Central Plains. It is a kind of customary food for the people in the water town of the Central Plains to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan.
Dragon boat racing - from the nostalgia for Qu Yuan. Water towns along the river organize dragon boat races around the Dragon Boat Festival.
Today, grandma's family also wrapped up zongzi. I learned from my grandmother's appearance to take out two large and small rice dumpling leaves, like my grandmother's appearance to fold out a corner, and then in the folded corner of the cylinder into a bit of soaked glutinous rice, stuffed with a large piece of fat pork, but also with glutinous rice covered tightly. I began to be a little complacent, thinking: simple package dumplings can not be difficult to smart me. But when I put the rice dumpling leaves cover, glutinous rice is like a naughty child does not listen to my command, one after another are jumped out. I was anxious like ants on the hot pot around, fortunately the grandmother for me "to solve the siege" - some of the glutinous rice off a little bit, I just breathed a sigh of relief, the heart of a heavy stone put down. I went through some small setbacks, finally came to the last step - tie brown rope. The dumplings must be tightly wrapped to be tasty, so I took over the brown rope and tied the dumplings round and round before handing them over to my grandmother. It was then that I realized that wrapping rice dumplings is a handicraft, and it's not easy to wrap them up.
I feel that people through a variety of colorful activities to commemorate this great patriotic spirit of Qu Yuan, over time the formation of the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. Containing the deep emotions of the people of the motherland, carrying the splendid culture of the Chinese nation, it originated in China, the development of China, we want to protect it, pass it on, so that people around the world know that the Dragon Boat Festival is our Chinese
The Dragon Boat Festival is held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, and is also known as the Duan Yang Festival, the Festival of the Day of the Dragon Boat, May Festival, Festival of the Ai Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Festival of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Festival of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Festival of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Festival of the Dragon Boat Festival. Although the name is different, but the people around the custom of the festival is the same. Dragon Boat Festival is our country more than two thousand years of old customs, every day, every family is hanging Zhong Kui statue, hanging moxa calamus, dragon boat races, eat zongzi, drink xionghuang wine, swim a hundred diseases, Pei Xiangbao, ready to sacrifice sweet.
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"The first cake, the second dumplings, the first three screws, the first four peaches, the first five inserted Ai ... ... "Whenever I recite these childhood songs, I think of the Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown.
Wuwei grass
Hometown in Hu Gong mountain. The grass and trees on the mountain are verdant, and the fruits and melons are fragrant; under the mountain, the green water is surrounded by fertile fields. In a lush loquat tree side, has a neat red brick green tile. A quiet and harmonious countryside village, this is my hometown, but also the hometown of the Ming Dynasty scholar Ke Qian. Every year when the Dragon Boat Festival comes, we will put on the basket and sister together to go to the mountains to pick mugwort, and with pomegranate leaves, Gardenia and so on together as "five flavors of grass". On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, every house would have mugwort on its door, which was said to keep evil spirits away. Of course, in our opinion, as long as the smell away from the fresh and strange fragrance of the mugwort, for us is a happy thing, so every year we are scrambling to the mountains, picking a large piece of mugwort, but also picking a large piece of happiness.
Of course, my mom would cook us a lot of duck eggs with the "five flavors of grass", and it was said that the children ate them without coughing. As for us kids, we would always show off with the colorful woolen bags full of duck eggs knitted by our clever sister. After lunch, my mother would use the "five flavors of grass" boiled duck egg water to give us a bath, really fragrant and comfortable, the whole summer are not prickly heat it ......
Dumplings and dragon boat races
In our memories, the Dragon Boat Festival to give people the impression of In addition to play is to eat. During the Dragon Boat Festival, we can not only eat fragrant duck eggs, there are also memorable dumplings?
Packing dumplings is also one of the Dragon Boat Festival's reserved programs. Mom and aunts will always buy a lot of rice dumpling leaves, water less soaked, washed and yards. The filling of the dumplings is usually glutinous rice, with green beans, red dates, etc., cooked. Then in the mother and aunt of a dexterous busy, we children will be like a greedy cat around the steamer, waiting for the moment of the zongzi out of the cage of the arrival of ......
Grew up to read the book only to know, the custom of wrapping the zongzi and the history of our patriotic poet Qu Yuan related to it? It is said that after Qu Yuan jumped into the Miluo River, the masses in order to not let the fish in the water to bite the poet's body they made a lot of dumplings, thrown into the water. So that the fish would have something to eat and would not hurt the poet. So, in order to protect and commemorate the great patriotic poet, later there is a more lively "dragon boat race".
We don't have dragon boat races in our village, but in Huangshi every year there is such a bustling scene:
On the banks of the Mulan River, people gather around the shore early, and the gongs and drums vibrate with firecrackers blasting. The water, several neat dragon boat team, brightly colored clothes fluttering in the wind, the boys are passionate and eager to try. With the sound of a gong, each team competing for the start, we work together, striving to be the first. At this moment, the sound of drums, firecrackers people's shouts ...... together into a lively and extraordinary picture.
The 2008 Dragon Boat Festival
When we step into 2008, all of us are full of expectations. We will usher in the Olympic Games and our great motherland will welcome visitors from all directions. However, on May 12, the Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, the magnitude of the earthquake disaster, tens of thousands of compatriots were killed in the disaster. But soon all the Chinese people stood up: the People's Liberation Army entered the disaster area to rescue, volunteers also rushed to help, people from all directions to extend a helping hand to give a love ...... We are all of one heart and one mind, we will be able to achieve the final victory!
The 2008 Dragon Boat Festival, we will no longer only commemorate the great patriotic poet, we will remember all the compatriots killed in the disaster; we will pick more "five flavors of grass", distributed to friends in the disaster area; we will pack more zongzi, dedicated to those who are brave to save the uncles and aunts; we will be the Dragon Boat Race to be more We will make the Dragon Boat Race more vivid and wonderful - we Chinese are brave, fearless, hospitable and selfless! We will usher in the Olympic Games with a brave attitude, so that people all over the world will say: Chinese people, good job!
Duanwu is a beautiful and simple festival, for people who love life, it is not only to commemorate more should be an attitude to life. We have had many beautiful and moving Dragon Boat Festival, but the 2008 Dragon Boat Festival is destined to be different! Let us look forward to, look forward to our Dragon Boat Festival, look forward to our Olympic Games, look forward to our hard-working and courageous Chinese people to create a beautiful and brilliant day!