There are many custom activities in the Dragon Boat Festival, such as fetching water for dragons and beards in the morning, inserting mugwort branches at the door, picking vegetables on the mountain, eating zongzi balls, making zongzi and racing dragon boats.
Take water from the dragon in the morning-because it is said that May 5 is the birthday of the dragon, and the water sprayed from the faucet on this day can cure diseases. Therefore, on this morning, people go outside to get water from pits, ditches and streams and put it in their own tanks for the whole family to eat and drink, praying for peace for one year.
Put wormwood at the door-because wormwood can ward off evil spirits, putting wormwood at the door on this day can keep you safe.
Picking green on the mountain-because this day is the time when the dragon looks up and sprays water on the grass on the ground, people pick some herbs on the mountain, such as asparagus, Ophiopogon japonicus, honeysuckle and wild grapes. , more valuable than before. It is also meaningful for others to go up the mountain to pick up greenery and breathe more natural and fresh air.
Eat Zongzi-There is a well-known local proverb called "Don't eat May Zongzi, don't let it go". Broken fur is old cotton-padded clothes. This day is the fifth day of May. Just after the cold of late spring, the earth began to pick up. After this day, in summer, the temperature naturally becomes higher and cotton-padded clothes are no longer worn. Everyone should wrap zongzi with potato powder and yellow branch juice, which means that the cold weather has passed and the warm summer has come after eating.
Eat Zongzi Ball-Zongzi Ball is a kind of food made of mushrooms, peanuts, pork and sweet noodle sauce, both sweet and salty, wrapped in bamboo leaves into a hexagonal fist-sized jiaozi. Its origin comes from the Central Plains. It is a custom food for the people in the water town of Central Plains to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan.
Dragon boat race--memories from qu yuan. Water towns along the Yangtze River organize dragon boat races around the Dragon Boat Festival.
Today, grandma also made zongzi. I took out two leaves of Zongzi, one big and one small, and folded a corner like my grandmother. I put a little soaked glutinous rice on the folded trumpet, stuffed a large piece of fat pork and covered it with glutinous rice. I began to feel a little smug, thinking: Simple jiaozi can't stop my cleverness. However, when I covered the rice leaves again, the glutinous rice did not listen to me like a naughty child and jumped out one by one. I'm running around like an ant on hot bricks. Fortunately, grandma "relieved" me-I dropped some glutinous rice a little bit, and I was relieved, and a heavy stone was put down in my heart. After many twists and turns, I finally reached the last step-tying a brown rope. Zongzi is delicious only if it is tightly wrapped, so I took a brown rope and tied it round and round before giving it to grandma. Only then did I know that wrapping zongzi is a craft, and it is not easy to wrap it.
I feel that people commemorate Qu Yuan's great patriotic spirit through various colorful activities, and the traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival has been formed over time. It contains the deep feelings of the people of the motherland and carries the splendid culture of the Chinese nation. It originated in China and developed in China. We should protect it, pass it on and let people all over the world know that the Dragon Boat Festival is our own festival.
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Dragon Boat Festival as a child: In my childhood memory, except for the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival is the most lively. Because my parents were very busy at work, I often stayed in the country with my grandmother when I was a child. I will never forget the Dragon Boat Festival at that time. Like the usual Chinese New Year holidays, the night before the Dragon Boat Festival, my grandmother always told me to sit by the bed and tell me some holiday rules, such as "Don't talk nonsense", "Don't steal cold dumplings", "Don't play with friends" and "Don't play with water" ... I always nodded frequently. Grandma told me to go to bed early so that I could have a good spirit tomorrow. In the morning, I got up early, got dressed and ran to the kitchen. By this time, my grandmother had taken care of everything in the kitchen. Several bundles of cinnamon leaves and cinnamon ropes were tied to the stove, and the white and tender glutinous rice lay quietly in a small wooden bucket filled with water, like glittering pearls. There are several small plates on the stove, which contain various materials: peanuts, red bean paste, meat and red pond. So, I sat at the table eating breakfast while watching my grandmother busy. There are stoves on both sides in the country. They are both used for boiling water and cooking. My grandmother put the washed duck eggs into the cauldron, scooped a few spoonfuls of water from another hot pot with a wooden spoon, and then carefully put a spoonful of salt into the cauldron. Then she added some dead branches to the stove, sat next to me and began to weave collaterals for me. Grandma's hands are as rough as bark because of long-term work, but they are dexterous. Divide three times five by two and weave a red rope. At this time, when the eggs were ripe, grandma picked up the biggest one, dipped it in red paper and dyed it red. Then she wiped it clean with a dry cloth, put it in the accessory and hung it around my neck. Then, grandma put melon seeds, candy and peanuts in my pocket. I am often very happy, because I can watch the dragon boat race with my friends. Grandma always sends me to the gate and tells me to come back early to eat zongzi. I always disappear in an instant. At this time, all my friends are almost here. The elder sister next door took the lead and led our children to the river to watch the dragon boat race. Because the river is small, there are only two dragon boats. Each dragon boat has 13 people, 12 people rowing, 1 people playing drums and shouting slogans, "One, two, hey yo, one, two, come on", 12 dark-skinned boys rowed neatly, and the two dragon boats chased each other forward. But what will the child know to look at? We just want to have some fun. Girls usually get bored after watching it for a while, so they sit aside and share snacks. Boys, on the other hand, always like chasing dragon boats along the shore. Because of the manpower of rowing, almost every boy has traces of splashing water. The gong rang, probably because the boat was at the end, and just after eating, I stood up and went home happily hand in hand with my friends. The sun slowly climbed into the sky, and the fragrance of laurel leaves was already floating in grandma's kitchen. I quickly jumped into the kitchen to pick up a big cooked zongzi. Generally, I will sit on the threshold and eat zongzi cleanly. Occasionally, I will leave some glutinous rice for the chickens. I also find it fun to watch the big rooster's gluttony ... Although my mother always wraps zongzi and weaves collaterals for me every Dragon Boat Festival, although my mother's craftsmanship is not worse than my grandmother's, I always feel that something is missing. When I was young, I really missed the Dragon Boat Festival! Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival: I haven't been back to my hometown for the holidays for many years. I really miss the delicious triangular zongzi. There are many customs in my hometown, but I don't remember much. This is a baisuozi. Grandma twists five-color silk threads into a string every year, which is very long. When I got up the next morning, my arms were already tied. Needless to say, grandma came to me first. Stickers There are stickers on the doorframes every year. Some are folded with monochrome yellow paper, and some are woven with five-color paper. Grandma once taught me how to fold, and now I have forgotten all about it. I wonder if there is such a custom in other places: there are also hundreds of seeds buried in the ground. At that time, grandma said that the seeds buried in the ground would turn into flower snakes to ensure a bumper harvest in one year. Although I am naughty, I never dig those "snakes" for fear that they will come out and bite people. Later, I learned that it was a story made up by the old man to coax the children and be afraid of breaking the "superstition". I really can't remember other customs, but I can't forget the hundreds of zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival every year. It's not easy to wrap zongzi. Be sure to fold the leaves of zongzi, otherwise it will "show the stuffing" Although it is difficult to wrap, there are many kinds: rice wrapped in red dates, millet wrapped in candied dates and rice wrapped in zongzi. It takes a long time to cook zongzi in a big pot. I often have to wait for my mouth to water, but grandma still won't give it to me. Cooking is too difficult. The newly cooked zongzi is not delicious. Once, I didn't wait until I was full before I realized that my tongue was blistered. Immediately put these delicious zongzi into a basin full of cold water to cool down, and I have already eaten them. Many days later, there will always be zongzi for three meals a day. The zongzi sold in the street is not very delicious, either the rice is hard or the rice is not fragrant and tastes tasteless. What is this called zongzi? It's just a rice cake The delicious zongzi reminds me of my thoughts, and the sweet shouting reminds me of my thoughts.