Let s write an article about the Dragon Boat Festival

Two days ago, my child's school sent a beautifully packaged gift box of zongzi, and I knew that the Dragon Boat Festival was coming.

Nowadays, people are so happy, every festival, there is no shortage of what they want to eat. When we were young, except for the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, there were usually no festivals at all. After the festival, I remembered what festival was yesterday.

There is a habit of eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is difficult for our family to eat zongzi. In my memory, my mother wrapped zongzi twice and ate it. We went to the well behind the grandmother's house in advance, or cut a handful of zongzi leaves from the well in front of the Zhou family's house opposite.

Zongye grows in damp places, accompanied by long green stone calamus. The leaves were washed at the well and brought back, my mother brought out the soaked glutinous rice and red beans, and we sisters gathered around to make the dumplings. The rice dumplings are wrapped and tied tightly with washed straw and boiled in a large pot.

After the zongzi were cooked, the first thing that came to mind was to serve 4 to grandma. Our family has never killed New Year's pigs, so we have never eaten bacon zongzi.

We also know that Duanyang has to row dragon boats and catch ducks in Leshan and Wutong Bridge, where there are big rivers. Because we were far away from home, we had never seen the big rivers and dragon boats.

In addition to eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, there are also customs such as hanging mugwort leaves, hanging incense bags to ward off evil spirits, and drinking realgar wine to get rid of poison. There is no shortage of wormwood in the countryside, and you can pull a few wormwood plants back and hang them at the door of the hall in front of the house. Many children have cloth bags and sachets, and the colors and varieties are not the same.

At that time, there was no grain wine, and the red wine was bitter and piercing. The father was a barefoot doctor, and the medical station had alcohol and realgar. He will mix realgar wine himself to drink.

The smell of wine is strong and intoxicating. ”

In rural areas, there is also a saying that newlywed women go back to their parents' house to get an umbrella for the first time during the Dragon Boat Festival. After the Dragon Boat Festival, when the new daughter-in-law goes out, people will ask you if you have gone back to your mother's house to get an umbrella. At that time, the umbrella was a wooden frame, large and heavy, which could support a home.

In our rural areas in southern Sichuan, there is still the habit of eating steamed buns and plums. There are plum trees in every household. At my mother-in-law's house, I can buy 10 meat buns for two yuan, and carry a few catties of crispy and sweet plums to the festival.

In those days, the business of selling steamed buns on the street was quite good, and I had to tell the boss in advance how many meat buns I wanted. On the morning of the fifth day of the new year, I went to get it by myself.

Steamed buns have to be bought with money, and there is no shortage of glutinous rice at home, so it is cost-effective to make your own zongzi and eat during the Dragon Boat Festival.

With the improvement of living standards, the Dragon Boat Festival is filled with a strong fragrance of zongzi. There are those who sell zongzi leaves, glutinous rice, and red beans in the market, and there are a variety of zongzi of various flavors in the supermarket, and there is no shortage of anything. It doesn't matter if you buy your own bag or buy a ready-made one.

As a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the Dragon Boat Festival also reflects the atmosphere of family reunion, happiness, happiness and health.