Dragon Boat Festival is one of the biggest traditional festivals in China.
Many nicknames of the Dragon Boat Festival indirectly explain the differences in the origin of the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. That's what happened. There are at least four or five theories about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: in memory of Qu Yuan; Wuyue's national totem sacrifice theory: From the three generations of summer solstice festival; Evil month and evil day drive away, and so on. So far, the most influential view on the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. In the field of folk culture, China people associate dragon boat racing and eating zongzi with Qu Yuan. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan jumped into the river, the local people injured him and died, so they sailed to save him because of the custom of racing. He also said that people often put food into the water to offer sacrifices to Qu Yuan, but most of the food was eaten by dragons. Later, due to Qu Yuan's suggestion, they wrapped rice in neem leaves, wrapped it in colored silk, and later made it look like zongzi.
The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival mainly include: eating zongzi, inserting wormwood or calamus on the door to exorcise evil spirits, tying a long life line, drinking realgar wine or disinfection, and racing dragon boats. Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival was very popular in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Zongzi is also a holiday gift. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Zongzi was very famous and was often sold in the market. Now, we still have to eat some zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival. Xiaozongzi seems to have become a traditional symbol of China, occupying a certain position in people's minds.
The zongzi made in our hometown is the famous Ding 'an Zongzi in Hainan, which contains salted egg yolk and meat, and it tastes good. Grandma is an expert in making zongzi. Every holiday, she always makes dumplings for us, but this time, because my mother is too busy, grandma didn't go back to her hometown to make dumplings. These days, grandma has prepared a lot of leaves and made a lot of zongzi for her friends. I hope someone will say "wow" when they receive it.
Although today is a holiday, we should have gone to soak in the dragon water, but my mother said, "Today is a holiday, so let's not join in the fun." Therefore, I still do my homework at home and take dance classes as usual. I think today is both a lively day and an ordinary day.
Dragon Boat Festival is a grand folk festival in China. Zongzi, tea eggs and wormwood are all features of the Dragon Boat Festival.
When I was a child, I was excited about the Dragon Boat Festival one week in advance, because I could eat delicious zongzi. At that time, life was monotonous and bitter, and I couldn't eat anything at all. Speaking of zongzi, it is not only delicious, but also interesting in the process of making zongzi. Every year when the Dragon Boat Festival arrives, my mother goes to cook a pot of glutinous rice the first night, and I wrap it with my mother the next morning. The green leaves of zongzi are wrapped with glutinous rice and jujube, and then boiled in a large pot for 3 or 4 hours. After that, my mother soaked the zongzi in two prepared barrels, cooled it, carefully pushed aside the bamboo leaves and bit it on the white and tender glutinous rice, and the purple dates emerged.
On the eve of Dragon Boat Festival, every household sticks mugwort leaves collected on the mountain on the door, saying that it is to ward off evil spirits. Our children just follow the trend and don't understand the meaning. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, my mother got up and wrapped colorful silk thread around our wrists and ankles, and will wear it all the time. It is said that we can drive away diseases and evil spirits. In fact, in my heart, these colorful silk threads are substitutes for those exquisite bracelets in my heart. Some people also spend some money to buy sachets for their children to carry with them. My mother made it herself with a small piece of cloth, which was stuffed with cotton and herbs. Even so, we are very happy. Memories of childhood holidays are happy, and the festive atmosphere is stronger than now.
On the night of Dragon Boat Festival, my family went to Wangjiang Pavilion by bus. It's not dark yet, and a dim light fills the sky, as if it were a scene in the shadow. The sky is like an oiled lamp, and the red light gradually fades. I saw the light jump like a rabbit sinking, very subtle, but fast and irreversible.
After a while, the curtain fell, the city was brightly lit and the sky became colorful. The water is gurgling, and several lights are jumping on the water like trembling elves. There are more and more people.
Needless to say, most people come here for the purpose of setting off river lights. We bought some lotus-like river lanterns, lit them, squeezed through the bustling crowd and stood by the river. The red river lantern seems to light a blessing. It seems to ignite people's confidence that they are eager to rebuild their homes in the disaster areas; It seems to ignite the hope of life. River lanterns flow to the lower reaches of the river in an orderly way like boats, like the eyes of Wangjiangge. Look! The stars in the water are still shining, guiding the river lamp and accompanying it.
It is also a great pleasure to put the lanterns in the cage. The lights of Kongming lanterns, like stars, send the best wishes, the warmest hopes and the truest determination to the people in the disaster areas!
China Heart, Dragon Boat Festival. In order to send warmth to the people in the disaster areas, major enterprises have also bought zongzi, salted eggs and preserved eggs to send love. When I saw the smiling faces of those disaster areas on TV and had an unforgettable Dragon Boat Festival, I was also very hungry and comforted.
China Heart, Dragon Boat Festival. Let's connect with the disaster area!
Time flies, and the annual Dragon Boat Festival is coming again. I think of the story my mother once told me about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, the past when my grandmother and I made zongzi together every year, and the happy scene when the whole family got together to eat zongzi every year.
I once heard my mother say that "Dragon Boat Festival" is to commemorate the great national poet Qu Yuan. It is said that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the people were afraid that the fish in the river would eat his body, so they went home and threw rice balls into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from ruining Qu Yuan's body. Later, eating zongzi became a custom.
I still remember that on the morning of Dragon Boat Festival last year, my grandmother brought a large pot of reed leaves, washed rice and soaked meat to prepare jiaozi. First, grandma stacked four or five reed leaves together, then rolled them into a cone, then put rice and meat in a spoon, and then folded the reed leaves around, just like magic. Soon a standard "triangle" appeared in front of my eyes, and finally tied them tightly with thread. After watching grandma wrap a zongzi, I couldn't wait to pick up five reed leaves and start wrapping them well. However, after these reed leaves are folded flat, it seems that they are deliberately against me. They are never rolled into a cone, either too big or too small, and I sweat with anxiety. Grandma came to my side and gave me careful and patient guidance. After several twists and turns, I finally wrapped a grotesque zongzi. I made five zongzi in a row, and I was so tired that I gasped. I finally learned to make zongzi. In the evening, I sat at the table early, and the smell of zongzi came from the kitchen. Suddenly, my father came out of the kitchen with steaming zongzi. It's especially delicious to eat dumplings wrapped in your own bag. My father often taught me that "every grain of Chinese food is hard", and today I was suddenly enlightened. Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, the happy scene of a family getting together to eat zongzi will reappear in my mind.
Dragon Boat Festival, an unforgettable festival for me!
Dragon Boat Festival is well known in China. In fact, he has other names, such as Duanyang and Chongwu. ...
I remember when I was a child, after the Dragon Boat Festival, I always got up early in the morning, stood in the yard to exercise my muscles, and then hung an unknown plant on my ear. This plant has a suffocating fragrance, which was swept away unconsciously, leaving only a breeze in my mind.
At that time, I was still young I don't know what this plant is for, but I heard it from my grandparents. It is a kind of herb that can ward off evil spirits, and it is essential on the day of Dragon Boat Festival.
Don't trust me either. When I went out that afternoon, I saw plants hanging in every household. The doors and windows, the huts and the whole town are filled with this fragrance, which is refreshing.
At noon, our children are very happy because we can eat duck eggs.
Don't think that duck eggs are nothing, you should remember that it was the Dragon Boat Festival.
Yes, the duck eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival are very special.
These duck eggs are cooked with the herbs I mentioned above. The smell of herbs and duck eggs themselves are not attractive. Moreover, duck eggs have all turned blue and yellow because of the soaking of herbs, which makes people stunned.
When I was a child, my hands were small, and I wanted to get more duck eggs, but I couldn't get a few, so I always knitted a complex with wool, then put it in one by one and hung it on my chest. Of course, this is not beautiful! But at that time, it was our children's favorite decoration, and duck eggs hung for a long time. As soon as we were happy, we took out the duck eggs in the collateral and ate them.
Children are very careful when eating duck eggs. Nothing is broken except the short position. After eating the egg yolk protein inside, wash it with water. In the evening, I got into the bamboo forest, caught some fireflies, put them in the eggshell, covered them with a thin layer and sealed them. Fireflies are shining in it, very brilliant!
Now that I have grown up, the bamboo forest has disappeared, and there will probably be no more Dragon Boat Festival when I was a child!
On the fifth day of May every year, every family gets together to eat zongzi, make zongzi and watch the dragon boat race.
On the fifth day of May this year, our family also got together. Grandma and I make zongzi in the kitchen. Father and uncles play mahjong together to fight the landlord. While my mother and menstruation are chatting together, only my grandmother and I have a good time in the kitchen.
However, we had a good time in the kitchen. Grandma and I are wrapping jiaozi in a competition, which is better than anyone else, faster and more exquisite. Only by doing these three things can we be truly outstanding and truly winners. Let's wash the leaves of Zongzi together, and then wash the glutinous rice. After cleaning, we will pour some soy sauce, a little sugar and yellow wine into the glutinous rice, which takes two hours.
When the soy sauce, sugar and yellow rice wine are completely integrated into the glutinous rice, take the leaves of zongzi and fold them into a boat shape, with edges at one end and boundless at the other. Spread a layer of glutinous rice on the side of the boat, and then put the meat. I put a piece of pork belly on glutinous rice, then add glutinous rice to the meat, and finally cover the boundless part of the boat on it, and then bend the extra part and tie it tightly with thread. Grandma and I wrapped up one love after another, jiaozi.
Finally, we packed up. I counted mine and grandma's, and found that grandma was one less than me. I jumped three feet with sudden joy. At this time, grandma came over and said to me, it's not important to win or lose the game, it's important that you take part. You can't be proud if you win. Only a calm person can be a real winner.
Grandma's words are deeply hidden in my heart, which has benefited me a lot.
I looked forward to the Dragon Boat Festival when I was very young. The tempting zongzi is mouth-watering. The long rice grains are cooked yellow and covered with red bean paste or dates. The rice is a little transparent, but also presents some reddish colors, and the corners of the mouth are stubbornly upturned, which is very cute. The leaves wrapped in zongzi are covered with water and soaked with a little rice fragrance. Bite it down and put it on the zongzi. It smells like rice. Take another bite and you'll see a dark red filling. The stuffing is sweet, and with rice, this sweetness is not greasy; The sweetness of red dates or red bean paste is blended into rice, which also has a special taste.
I often eat a moustache, and my mother laughs at me as a "big-faced cat". I didn't mind, just smiled, licked my rice with my tongue, wiped my mouth with my hand, and went to grandma.
Grandma will look at me with a smile, slowly move to the bed and take out some sachets from the sewing basket beside the pillow. At that time, my grandmother had only one grandson, and I loved her very much, so every year five or six grandmothers made sachets. These sachets are all kinds, but as far as I can remember, nothing seems to be the same. Grandma was very skilled at that time and could make many kinds of tricks. There are deer, tigers, snakes and geckos; And the sun, the moon and the stars; There are also some flowers and hearts. No matter what he does, it seems that something is wrong. Although it is not vivid, it is by no means worse than the one bought by the roadside.
Although I didn't like the smell of sachet very much, it was undoubtedly my best decoration at that time. As a result, our country is full of virtues, just like hype. Sally looked at me and laughed at me for bragging. I don't care what she said, I still "admire myself" and ran to my mother to play.
Now things have changed. I spent a golden childhood and grew up slowly. My cousin is seven years old and my grandmother has been dead for a long time. The custom of Dragon Boat Festival in our family is only "eating zongzi". Without the blessing of grandma's sachet, I still grow up safely, day after day. But sometimes my heart is empty, the closer I get to the Dragon Boat Festival, the more so.
Miss my dear ornament-grandma's love sachet.
More than two thousand years ago, Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet, sighed at the Guluo River and threw himself into the torrent. More than two thousand years later, the fifth day of May became a traditional festival-Dragon Boat Festival. People make zongzi, row dragon boats and boil eggs to commemorate this great patriotic poet in various ways.
It's Dragon Boat Festival again, and I really want to experience this atmosphere, so let grandma teach me how to make zongzi.
To make zongzi, you should first wash the leaves and soak them in hot water. Then prepare dates, eggs, meat and so on. For the stuffing, cook the delicious stuffing you like and you can start working. First, fold the long leaves, enclose them, make a nest, put prepared glutinous rice and japonica rice in the middle, and wrap the edges and corners. Then put jiaozi in rice, knead it into a ball, and finally make the jiaozi wrapped in bamboo leaves into four corners.
The kung fu of making zongzi is in the last process. Whether your zongzi is wrapped well depends on whether the four corners are symmetrical or not. When I first started learning, I always twisted the four corners into a ball, either six corners or a ball.
Grandma looked at my "masterpiece" more than once and smiled: "This, can this be called Zongzi? Where did you tie the string? "
I'm dizzy! The four corners of emotional zongzi are convenient to hang with thin lines. Why are there no round zongzi in this world?
Put the wrapped zongzi into the pot and cook it with high fire. After about 1 hour, simmer for 30 minutes.
In the process of cooking zongzi, I am always eager to open the lid to see the situation. Because the smell of zongzi floated out of the pot, it made my mouth water.
The waiting time is always very long. When the steaming zongzi was finally "liberated" from the pot, I danced with joy. Put it in a bowl and peel it off with chopsticks, and you can see the golden and soft "zong meat" inside. Take a bite. It's so delicious that I almost bit off all the chopsticks.
This year's Dragon Boat Festival, I learned how to make zongzi and tasted the fruits of labor, which were not sweet.
My hometown is yongxin county, Jiangxi province, a small county at the foot of Jinggangshan, which is a beautiful place. Every Dragon Boat Festival, people are as happy as New Year. Every family sticks dogwood on their doors, cleans their houses and sprinkles lime on ditches and grass.
Adults will cook a lot of duck eggs and dye the eggshells red with pigment. The children put the duck eggs in a small cloth bag and hung them around their necks to "touch the eggs" with other children. The child whose duck egg was broken was eliminated, and the other child went to find someone else to touch it until the egg was broken.
A few days before the Dragon Boat Festival, adults soaked glutinous rice and went to the mountain to pick a bamboo leaf as big as an adult's palm. Locals call this kind of bamboo leaf "Ruoye". After picking, soak the bamboo leaves in clear water to make them soft and clean. At this time, the whole family is together, making zongzi and chatting. Tangyuan is varied: some dumplings are full of glutinous rice, which is original; Some zongzi are sweet with peanuts and red dates. Some zongzi are preserved with meat or egg yolk.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, villagers will cook delicious fried blood duck, rice fruit and rice flour meat made from tender buds of mugwort leaves. What surprises me most is rice flour meat, because rice flour meat can't be preserved for a few days with salt, but it can be preserved for a month without salt during the Dragon Boat Festival. It's amazing! So at this time, every household should buy a lot of meat, dip it in rice flour, make it into rice flour meat, eat a little on the Dragon Boat Festival, and put the rest outside to dry and save it for later. Also, during the Dragon Boat Festival, men, women and children in their hometown will put a little realgar powder into rice wine to make realgar wine, and put it on children's foreheads, which is said to exorcise evil spirits.
The Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown is full of flavor. I can't help but drool when I think of smelling the fragrance of zongzi! I like the Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown.