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In China, there are fifty-six national flowers in full bloom. Different regions and different nationalities have their own unique folk customs. Different kinds of holidays, different clothes, different food, different people... There are many traditional festivals in our big China: Mid-Autumn festival, Dragon Boat Festival, double ninth festival, Lantern Festival, qingming festival... On so many festivals, my favorite is the Dragon Boat Festival. The word "Dragon Boat Festival" is a remarkable word, its name is a household name, and the legend associated with it is unknown, no one knows.
There are a lot of customs about the Dragon Boat Festival: eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, planting mugwort... My favorite is eating zongzi, of course!
The fifth day of may is the Dragon Boat Festival. Early in the day, the streets and lanes are filled with fresh zongzi. On this day, people eat zongzi, so whether it"s a store or an ordinary family, it is always ready to make zongzi, and prepare glutinous rice and stuffing. This is not, the early morning zongzi is like a conjuring bag, cooked. At this time the anxious I look at the steaming zongzi would be noisy to eat, and the father will patiently coax to say: "first wait a moment, use cool water to pull again to eat." Finally can eat, I can"t wait to strip away leaves, the beautiful, the sticky reed exposed, bite is really see a smooth, three two after eating, I usually eat, who made it so sweet and delicious!
There is a popular folk story behind the sweet dumplings: legend has it that in ancient times, there was a patriotic poet called qu yuan. He has great knowledge and outstanding talent. But the court was despised by the untouchable, and no one appreciated his talent. Not only that, the court was corrupt and incompetent. Qu yuan could not bear the corruption of the court and jumped into the miluo river to himself. His story has been handed down from generation to generation. In order to commemorate him, people made zongzi in the river to prevent the fish from eating qu yuan"s body in the river.
The Dragon Boat Festival comes from the story of qu yuan, a patriotic poet qu yuan out a good idea to rich countries qiangming, but not adopted by the king, he was kicked out of the palace. Qu yuan was so angry that he jumped into the miluo river. The local fisherman learned that he rowed a boat to the miluo river to the miluo river. Later, the bamboo tube was changed to zongzi, and the boat was changed to the dragon boat to commemorate qu yuan. Our family is very impressed with qu yuan, so we celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival every year.
The traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is eating zongzi. Our family has a really good zongzi -- my mother. Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, our whole family can eat delicious dumplings. Momma always said: the rice dumplings with reeds are the most fragrant. Therefore, every year, the mother of the Dragon Boat Festival USES the leaves of the reed to make zongzi. Before making zongzi, she prepared herself: boil the leaves of the reeds in the water and wash them separately. When the reed leaves were cold, she began to make zongzi. Her first three leaf, this three leaves into a cone, then put a date first, and then put on inside glutinous rice, middle to clip a few dates, the last thread tied leaves, a rice dumplings wrapped. Her dumplings are fat and big, like the old Buddha sleeping. After the dumplings have finished, mom put them in a pressure cooker for 40 minutes, then another three or four hours to make it taste and then eat it! My mother"s dumplings are very fragrant, so that when I see the zongzi, I will eat them. So, when eating zongzi, I always eat a lot!
The Dragon Boat Festival besides the need to eat zongzi, also the dragon boat!
I like watching dragon boat RACES the most, and dozens of mariners, with their OARS, struggling to make their way to the drum, beat the drum and beat the drum. "Come on, come on! The outside cheerleaders were enthusiastic, thundering and cheering, and the sailors were forced to row harder. The scene of the dragon boat race was spectacular and enthusiastic.
Eating zongzi and racing dragon boat racing, the two traditional customs jointly knit together a hot and noisy Dragon Boat Festival.
Dragon boat festival, often known as tuen ng festival or duan wu festival, is a traditional chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the chinese calendar. it is also known as the double fifth.[citation needed] it has since been celebrated, in various ways, in other parts of east asia as well, most notably korea.
The exact origins of duan wu are unclear, but one traditional view holds that the festival memorializes the chinese poet qu yuan of the warring states period. he committed suicide by drowning himself in a river because he was disgusted by the corruption of the chu government. the local people, knowing him to be a good man, decided to throw food into the river to feed the fishes to prevent them from eating qu"s body. they also sat on dragon boats, and tried to scare the fishes away by the thundering sound of drums aboard the boat and the fierce looking dragon-head in the front of the boat.
In the early years of the chinese republic, duan wu was also celebrated as "poets" day", due to qu yuan"s status as china"s first poet of personal renown.
Today, people eat zongzi (the food originally intended to feed the fishes) and race dragon boats in memory of qu"s dramatic death.
The lunar may fifth day of the Dragon Boat Festival, is China"s more than two thousand years old customs, on this day, families are the doors, hanging moxa calamus, dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, drink realgar wine, swim all ills, sweet bursa.
The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the warring states period, when there was a man called qu yuan, who was a loyal minister. When the king of chu listened to the words of the rape officer, he took the exile of qu yuan. In exile, qu yuan heard that the capital of the state of chu was occupied by the enemy. On the fifth day of may, he came to the miluo river, held a stone and plunged into the miluo river. The people who went abroad heard the news of qu yuan"s investment in the river. They rowed boats in tears, and threw them into the river to feed the fish, hoping that the fish would not harm qu yuan"s body. This is the origin of the zongzi in May.
The dragon boat race was a man of chu because he couldn"t bear to die, so a lot of people rowed to the rescue. They were scrambling to find their way to dongting lake, the origin of the dragon boat race, and the dragon boat was on May 5 each year. And the zongzi is the people not to bear the loyal minister to be eaten by the fish and shrimp, so the rice and other food are made into zongzi into the river, in order to protect the body of qu yuan.
The kids still have to hang the sachets. The children of the Dragon Boat Festival, the child, not only has the intention of avoiding evil spirits, but also has the style of the front. Sweet bursa, cinnabar, realgar, xiang, outsourcing to wire cloth, fragrance 4 excessive, again the five-color silk string into a rope buckle, for a variety of different shapes, form a series, variety, and exquisite.
The Dragon Boat Festival has the habit of hanging moxa leaf, calamus: during the Dragon Boat Festival, every family to calamus, folium artemisiae argyi, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flower, made into humanoid called ai. Hang the leaves in the hall and cut them into a tiger or a ribbon, and stick it with the leaves of the mugwort. Using calamus as a sword and inserting it into the lintel, it has the magical effect of exorcism.
Dragon Boat Festival is a lot of activities, this is the traditional festival of our Chinese nation, we are better to inherit!