Today is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which is a traditional festival in China-Dragon Boat Festival. This Dragon Boat Festival has a history. It is said that there was once a great patriotic poet named Qu Yuan. Because of his opposition to compromise, he advocated the alliance with Qin, and was attacked and framed by the powerful ministers of Chu State, and was successively relegated to exile by the King of Cups and Wang. After Qu Yuan left Du Ying, he roamed the Yangtze River, looking haggard, with long hair and living a wandering life. ? He doesn't know why the world is so black and white, loyal and treacherous, beautiful and ugly. He couldn't help his anger. He shouted and chanted, and at the same time raised his pen and wrote a wonderful "Nine Questions" on the stone wall. Knowing that he could not reconcile with reality, he finally threw himself into the river and ended his miserable life. All the local people respect and love Qu Yuan very much. They were afraid that his body would be eaten by fish, so they threw something wrapped in brown leaves to feed the fish so that they wouldn't eat Qu Yuan. Since then, Qu Yuan has been commemorated in this way every year. Today is the day to commemorate Qu Yuan. I smelled the thick fragrance of brown seeds early in the morning, so I washed the seto fish quickly and couldn't wait to sit down by the bed and eat the brown seeds with relish. I thought: Why should a loyal minister like Qu Yuan be exiled and attacked and framed by bad people? Why don't those traitors consider whether the country will be annexed by others? One day, the country will be planted in their hands. The bad king didn't know that Qu Yuan was a loyal minister. It's really stupid Although I feel wronged for Qu Yuan, it doesn't affect my appetite for palm seeds at all. I will learn from Qu Yuan in the future, and I must be a person who can contribute to the motherland. This year's Dragon Boat Festival will be celebrated with zongzi! Today, my sister is teaching me to make zongzi! Look at that. . . . . . You must be prepared to make zongzi. It turned out that my sister was going to soak glutinous rice for 3 hours and bought Zongye at the same time, which surprised me. I put rice in the leaves, but it spilled all over the table. I was very angry. My sister said to me, "You should make the leaves into triangles and then put the rice in them!" " "So, I did it again according to the steps my sister said, and pressed it on the rice, huh? What's in the middle of that plate next to you? It turned out to be minced meat! I dug a small hole in the middle of the glutinous rice, rounded the meat, stuffed it into the glutinous rice, and let it join the ranks of glutinous rice. How can I seal it? I saw my sister and understood everything. I pressed the turned leaves down and tied them tightly with a rope. It worked! I packed a lot according to the previous method. Now it's time to cook. First, boil the water, and then put down the zongzi. After a while, the zongzi is cooked. The four of us sat at the table and ate zongzi. I untied the rope and tried to pick the leaves, but they burned when I touched them. Sister saw it and smiled. I blew and blew and blew away the heat. I carefully opened the leaves and ate the delicious zongzi made by myself-white and fat glutinous rice, and the fresh meat stuffing was wrapped in fresh juice, which was not oily or greasy, but also very chewy. It feels so good! In this way, the Dragon Boat Festival passed, eating my own dumplings in my mouth and thinking about the poem written by Du Fu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty: Palace clothes are also famous, and the Dragon Boat Festival is an honor. The fragrant silk is spun into fine kudzu vine, and the soft wind blows as white as new snow. From heaven, rain and dew, just in the heat, wearing it is very cool. The length of the clothes in the palace is all combined with the mind, and I will bear the hospitality of the emperor all my life. This is really a happy Dragon Boat Festival! A light rain in early summer dispelled the summer heat, and the freshly cut grass smelled fragrant, replacing the withered spring flowers. When the eldest daughter came back from vacation, she told Jiao that jiaozi cooked by her mother was the best. I didn't expect an American-born daughter to remember this tradition in China. I was even more surprised to hear her talk about Dr. Qu and Li Sao, and felt sorry for his experience. When my daughters were young, it was really difficult for them to eat Chinese food, learn Chinese and understand the traditional culture of China. The eldest daughter still remembers the joke of asking for hamburgers in a restaurant in China when she was a child. No matter how hard their parents tried, the weekly Chinese school did not persist, and their daughters could only use some of the simplest Chinese. However, as they grew older, they became sensible and began to identify with China culture. The eldest daughter went to college, but she took Chinese classes at school. She often asks her mother about Chinese knowledge on the phone. She tried to talk in Chinese without our warning when she got home, but she was older than when she was a child. Well, if I know now, why not make more efforts? Having lived in North America for more than 20 years, I often forget these lunar festivals and have no time to clean up these complicated meals. Daughter seldom thinks of zongzi. Seeing that I will graduate from college soon, I will only go home less and less, and I will never have a chance to eat my mother's cooking again. Naturally, she will try her best to meet her requirements. Fortunately, these timely goods can be bought in China stores. I brought my bag back and talked to my daughter about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, the tradition of making zongzi, wrapping sachets and rowing dragon boats, and taught her to handle these materials. A bunch of dried bamboo leaves should be washed first, and then soaked in boiling water overnight. Although it will be easier to cook, the fragrance will be lighter. The hard stems on the leaves should be cut off one by one to avoid puncturing the leaves and leaking rice. A large pot full of glutinous rice, soak in warm water for a long time. If it is slender glutinous rice, it can be used directly without soaking, but it is not as sweet as round rice. The ingredients in it are a little troublesome. The youngest daughter likes sweets, while the eldest daughter likes salty ones. We took the golden mean and chose peeled mung beans, chestnuts, bacon and salted duck egg yolk. Choose lean bacon and put less egg yolk. I'm afraid that cholesterol is too high and health is more important. Mung beans are mixed with glutinous rice without soy sauce and salt, and only bacon and egg yolk are put in the middle. In this way, the gravy in the middle is salty, and the angular ones can be dipped in sugar, which can be sweet and salty. A jiaozi can eat it twice and become a lazy person. When the things were ready, the daughters worked together and even helped to play. jiaozi came out in different sizes and shapes, some long and some flat, some triangular and some cylindrical. However, although young, it is still much more delicious than the zongzi I wrapped for the first time. That was forty years ago. My family invited an aunt from the south. The day before the Dragon Boat Festival, she bought reed leaves and glutinous rice with great interest and came back to make zongzi. That kind of fresh leaves can be used after washing. She deftly put two reed leaves together with her fingers, folded them into a round triangle, put the soaked glutinous rice in, tamped them with pointed chopsticks, folded them in half, and tied them around her waist with knots, making an angular zongzi. I looked interesting and came forward to help. Who knows that reed leaves are thin and short, so they can't fiddle with each other. With a finger movement, the glutinous rice swished out. Before I got angry, the reed leaves got angry and cut my little hand. I pursed my lips and looked straight at wait for a while. My aunt was very patient and taught me for a long time to wrap it. Although a rope was used, it was wrapped around the left and tied to the right as if afraid of its escape, and it has always been a zongzi. The next day, two handfuls of mugwort leaves were hung at the door, several cups of realgar wine were poured on the table, and the family sat down to eat zongzi. My mother told us the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival. The monarch is weak, there is no sun, right and wrong are indistinguishable, and the wise suffer. Mom said, sometimes sad, sometimes sigh. But at an early age, I didn't understand the truth, and I was only fascinated by the small sachet my aunt bought. Those sachets are strung from big to small, the big ones are less than two inches, and the small ones are shaped like thumbs and water chestnuts. It is filled with vanilla sprayed with wine, and covered with colorful flowers and silk thread, which has a faint fragrance. Aunt said to carry it with you and hang it at home to ward off evil spirits. I can't put it down. I learned to do it by imitating the pattern. First, I folded it out with an old newspaper. If there is no silk thread, I will wrap it with white cotton thread. Wrapped, torn, and repeated several times, although there was no color, it was finally wrapped. Unfortunately, a small sachet can't drive away evil spirits. A big red storm followed, and the whole family never had a chance to get together for the holidays. The world is full of smoke, who still has leisure to make zongzi, who still believes that sachets can eliminate disasters and avoid disasters, and who dares to engage in capitalism to commemorate Qu Yuan! At that time, if he was still alive, there should be another ghost in the Miluo River. The earth rotates, the sun and the moon cycle, and I travel across the ocean, from the city to the countryside, from the countryside to the capital, and settle in a foreign country. One Dragon Boat Festival shortly after marriage, my husband suddenly mentioned zongzi. On a whim, I wanted to show off the chef's skills, so I bought materials in China. However, it is hard to find out when to start working. Those zongzi leaves that have traveled across the ocean are much more difficult than fresh ones. Both reed leaves and bamboo leaves refuse to yield easily, and it is still easy to break after soaking for a long time. It took a lot of effort to cook a pot of zongzi, but my husband didn't appreciate it and praised the delicious zongzi in his hometown. Since homesickness is hard to comfort and difficult to solve, why should I bother myself? I haven't tried it for a long time. That year, I took my children back to China to visit relatives and happened to meet the Dragon Boat Festival. I chat with my mother, sister-in-law and sisters, and package jiaozi. Very warm, harmonious and sweet. Like when I was a child, my daughter came to join in the fun and fell in love with those colorful sachets. Mom said that this preference is probably her inheritance, because she also liked these gadgets when she was a child. I bought some flowers and silk thread, found some hard notes, and taught my daughter according to my childhood memories. I hung up a few strings of colorful ones, but I always felt something was wrong. On second thought, there is no vanilla. Although that fragrance can't ward off evil spirits, it still makes people feel relaxed and happy. A sachet without fragrance is only superficial and has no soul. A few years ago, my mother was seriously ill, and I hurried back to see her, just in time for the Dragon Boat Festival. When busy, no one is in the mood to make zongzi for this occasion. Although relatives and friends sent some, they always felt that they lacked warm affection. In the street, I saw an old lady selling sachets, picking them one by one on bamboo branches and swaying gently in the breeze. Gorgeous colors are full of local flavor, and there are long-lost herbs everywhere. It happened that there was an emergency. I wanted to bring some strings to my mother in the hospital bed after I finished my work, but I didn't expect it to be so bad. When I came back, I had already left. Since then, I have never seen my mother again, and the sachet I didn't buy turned out to be an unforgettable regret. Although the daughters didn't learn the craft of wrapping sachets, they added a habit of delicious zongzi. They just remembered the Dragon Boat Festival and made a package. After years of practice, practice makes perfect, so they don't feel too much trouble. I talked and laughed with my daughters and made a big pot of zongzi. The dumplings were cooked, and the daughters ate happily, but the sachet was completely forgotten, and even the grandmother in memory was indifferent. I wonder if my daughters will remember this festival in the future. They can make some zongzi and tell their descendants the traditional story of China. Maybe I expect too much from them, but although the years fly and the past is drifting away, I live in a foreign country and my personnel are completely different. The zongzi, which is full of the traditional culture and history of my hometown, and the sachet that exudes a faint homesickness complex will never disappear from my heart. Dragon Boat Festival is coming, and the red pomegranate flowers are full of mountain villages. The poet ate two dumplings, and the executive was on the mugwort. The old customs store medicine, and winning the body also refers to the boat. After this, it was time for the sun to set, and the family was ready to eat and drink. He drank the wine happily. This poem describes the living habits of Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, during the Dragon Boat Festival. The author ate zongzi, inserted moxa sticks, stored medicine and made a prescription, praying that nothing would happen this year. It also reflects the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangnan. Dragon Boat Festival culture, as one of the ancient cultural festivals in China, is a household name both in the north and south of the great river and inside and outside the Great Wall. I didn't know anything about the Dragon Boat Festival before, but I don't know why. It was not until I read the book Our Festival during the winter vacation that I realized that the Dragon Boat Festival has profound cultural connotations. From this book, we know that Dragon Boat Festival is the most famous festival in China: Dragon Boat Festival, Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Summer Festival, Tianzhong Festival, May Festival and Poet's Day. There are many sources of the Dragon Boat Festival, including more than 20 kinds to commemorate Qu Yuan, Long and Wu Yuan. Among them, the most popular one is to commemorate Qu Yuan. It is said that in 278 BC, Qin Jun attacked Kyoto of Chu. Seeing that his country was invaded, Qu Yuan threw a stone into the Miluo River and died. After the death of Qu Yuan, the people of Chu were very sad and flocked to the river every year to pay their respects to Qu Yuan. Therefore, on the fifth day of May every year, there are customs of dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, drinking realgar wine and hanging wormwood. Among them, the dragon boat race is the most distinctive and fierce scene, like Qu Yuan's strong patriotic spirit, which has inspired us for thousands of years. Due to this profound cultural heritage, the Dragon Boat Festival has now become one of the main traditional festivals of our Chinese nation. Today, she still has a strong vitality. In Deqing, on this day, calamus and wormwood are hung at the door of every household, which is said to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters. Jiaozi is naturally indispensable to every household. Jiaozi with fragrant bamboo leaves is our children's favorite. Jujube brown, ham brown and red bean brown are all mouth watering! In some places, people still wear sachets, and girls use these colorful sachets as decorations, which not only make the fragrance curl, but also make themselves more beautiful and moving. Walking in the street will naturally attract many boys' lingering eyes. Occasionally, I read on the Internet that last year, South Korea planned to declare the Dragon Boat Festival as their country's heritage to the United Nations. I was very surprised. I think this is a shame for us in China. Dragon Boat Festival belongs to China people. How do other countries declare? This may be related to some people like foreigners' festivals! I think we should take action to protect and carry forward our own traditional culture in China and do our part!