What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival 40

I know that I eat zongzi, insert mugwort leaves, race dragon boats, drink realgar wine, and weave colorful ropes.

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include: picking dragon boats, eating dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, putting paper kites, tying five-color silk threads, and playing water at noon.

1. Pick up dragon boats.

Dragon boat rowing is an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is the festival of the ancient dragon totem sacrifice, which is a relic also. Dragon boat has a long history and is a multi-person collective paddling competition. The dragon boat race is divided into several sections, such as inviting the dragon, worshiping the dragon god, swimming the dragon and collecting the dragon.

Before the dragon boat race, a grand sacrificial ceremony is generally held, and the first imperial grandson group wants to invite the dragon and sacrifice to the gods. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, it is necessary to choose an auspicious day to get out of the water, and after sacrificing to the gods, install the dragon head and dragon tail, and then prepare for the race.

2. Dragon Boat Festival dumplings.

Zongzi, that is, "Zongzi", commonly known as Zongzi, the main material is glutinous rice, filling, wrapped with hoop leaves (or Hiiragi leaves), with various shapes, sharp corners, four corners, etc. Zongzi has a long history, and was originally used to worship the ancestral gods. After it was introduced to the north, it used millet (millet produced in the north) to make zongzi, which was called "horn millet".

The custom of eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival has been prevalent in China for thousands of years, and has become one of the most influential and wide-ranging folk food customs of the Chinese nation, and has spread to Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

3. Put paper kites.

Paper kites, pasted with paper or silk on the skeleton such as bamboo strips, pulled on the long thread tied to it, and can be put into the sky while the wind is blowing, belongs to a kind of aircraft that simply uses aerodynamics. In southern China, the Dragon Boat Festival children's paper kites are called "release".

4. Tie five-color silk threads.

In traditional Chinese culture, the five colors that symbolize the five elements of the five directions are considered auspicious colors: green, red, white, black, and yellow. The Dragon Boat Festival is tied with five-colored silk threads, which was a very popular festival. Passed on to later generations, it has developed into many kinds of beautiful ornaments such as longevity, longevity locks, sachets, etc., and the production has become increasingly exquisite, becoming a unique folk art of the Dragon Boat Festival.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, children are required to tie five-colored silk threads on their wrists and ankles to ward off evil spirits.

5. Hit the water at noon.

Noon water is the water that is drawn from the well at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival "hitting the water at noon" is a traditional custom that prevails in the southern coastal area. At noon on the heavy noon day, the yang is added to the yang, so the "noon water" is called "extreme yang water", "lombok water" and "positive yang water".

On the fifth day of May every year, there is a custom of dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, and drinking realgar wine; In order to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

There is an interesting legend here. In 340 B.C., Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and a doctor of the state of Chu, faced with the pain of losing his country, on May 5, he threw a big stone into the Miluo River with a big stone in his arms, and in order not to make the fish and shrimp damage his body, people used bamboo tubes to put rice into the river. Later, in order to express the reverence and nostalgia for Qu Yuan, every day, people will use bamboo tubes to pack rice, throw into the river to pay tribute, this is the origin of the earliest zongzi in our country - "tube zongzi".

Why did you use mugwort leaves, reed leaves, and lotus leaves to wrap zongzi later? There is such a record in the "Beginner's Record": During the Jianwu period of the Han Dynasty, the people of Changsha dreamed of a person at night, claiming to be the doctor of Sanlu (Qu Yuan's official name), and said to him:

The things you sacrificed were all stolen by the dragon in the river, and you can wrap it with mugwort leaves in the future and tie up the five-colored silk threads, which the dragon is most afraid of. Therefore, people will use "mushroom leaves wrapped in millet" to make "horn millet", which has been passed down from generation to generation, and gradually developed into the Dragon Boat Festival food in our country.

Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, after eating the nine dumplings in the palace during the Dragon Boat Festival, Long Yan was overjoyed, full of praise, and happily wrote a poem: "The flowers at four o'clock are coincidental, and the nine dumplings compete for the new." ”

Jiuzi zongzi is a kind of zongzi, that is, nine zongzi are connected into a string, there are big and small, the big one is on the top, the small one is below, the shape is different, it is very good-looking, and it is tied with nine colors of silk thread, colorful. Jiuzi dumplings are mostly used as gifts for relatives and friends, such as mothers to married daughters, mothers-in-law to newlywed daughters-in-law, etc. Because "zongzi" is homophonic to "neutron", there is a saying among the people that you can get a son by eating "zongzi".

The Qing Dynasty poet Wu Manyun also wrote a poem praising Jiuzi Zong: "Wrapped in a tube of rice in spring, the nine sons' colorful wisps are heavily pierced, the green mushrooms fade away and the clouds are white, and the cook is laughing and saying that the kitchen lady is reloose." ”

There are many customs in the Dragon Boat Festival, such as dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, eating five yellow and so on.

Dragon Boat Festival is a very popular grand festival among the Chinese. Nowadays, the Dragon Boat Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday. This year's Dragon Boat Festival is a 3-day holiday, and many people will go out to travel, in addition to visiting the local famous mountains and scenic spots, they should also follow the local customs to spend the local Dragon Boat Festival.

As the saying goes, eat, drink and have fun, let's put food first.

1. Eat zongzi China is so big, zongzi all over the country have their own tastes, Xi'an honey cold zongzi, Nanning meat zongzi, bean paste zongzi, ham zongzi .......Eat different flavors of zongzi along the way.

2. Eat yellow eel In the Jianghan Plain, yellow eels must be eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival. The yellow eel in the Dragon Boat Festival is round and plump, the meat is tender and delicious, and the nutrition is rich, which not only tastes excellent, but also has a nourishing function. Therefore, there is a folk saying that "Dragon Boat Festival Yellow Eel Race Ginseng".

3. Eat fried dumplings In the Jinjiang area of Fujian, every household has to eat "fried dumplings" during the Dragon Boat Festival. The so-called fried pile is made with flour, rice flour or sweet potato flour and other ingredients to form a thick paste, and fried into a large slice in an oil pan. Legend has it that in ancient times, the southern Fujian area was the rainy season before the Dragon Boat Festival, and the rain continued continuously.

After eating "fried dumplings" during the Dragon Boat Festival, the rain stopped, and people said that the sky was made up. Since then, Fujian cuisine has spread.

4. Eating pancakes In Wenzhou, families still have the custom of eating pancakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. The pancake is made of flour into a paste, in a large and flat iron frying pan, baked into a translucent cake shaped like a full moon and as thin as silk silk, and then stuffed with mung bean sprouts, leeks, shredded meat, shredded eggs, shiitake mushrooms, etc., rolled into a cylindrical shape, one bite off, you can taste a variety of flavors.

5. Eat cake The Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival of the Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin, and the most representative food on this day is the fragrant cake. Cake is a rice cake made by placing mugwort and glutinous rice in a large wooden trough hewn from a single wood and beating it with a long-handled wooden pipe. This food is very ethnic and can add to the festive atmosphere.

Those who are lucky enough to travel to Yanbian can eat the local authentic Xian nationality cakes, which are definitely not the taste of those cottages sold in the commercial streets.

6. Eat tea eggs In the Nanchang area of Jiangxi, the Dragon Boat Festival should be eaten with boiled tea eggs and salted eggs. Eggs include eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs. The eggshells are painted red, packed in colorful mesh bags, and hung around the children's necks, which means that they wish the children good luck and safety.

Meaning, don't patronize your own food, in addition to eating eggs, there is also a custom of giving eggs. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Mother-in-law's Day", and the daughter and son-in-law send eggs to their parents' home, implying that the family life is auspicious and complete, harmonious and beautiful. For the prospective son-in-law, "sending Duanyang" is the most important gift that the man sends to the woman's family before the wedding.

When the man gives him a round egg, he implicitly expresses that he "wants to be a member of the big family (Yuan)", and if the woman accepts, it means that he accepts the future family member. The custom of sending eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival has continued for more than 2,000 years, and the son-in-law can not buy a few catties of eggs to his mother-in-law in the vegetable market.