When I was young, during the Dragon Boat Festival, several friends made an appointment in advance to get up early in the morning to go to the hillside to stroke Artemisia argyi. Every time it was not yet dawn, they shouted to each other, picked up bamboo baskets or small baskets and ran up the hillside. By the time the adults got up the Kang, we had already run home with bamboo baskets or small baskets full of Artemisia argyi. The adults divided the wormwood into handfuls and put them at every door of the house, and my mother had to paste the small gourds cut out with colored paper on the door. And tie a circle of colorful thread on each of our brothers and sisters' wrists. This is the case with Dragon Boat Festival every year.
When we asked my mother why she fastened this beautiful coil for our brother and sister, my mother said, "to ward off evil spirits and warm disasters." when she asked why there was a gourd affixed by Artemisia annua at the door, my mother said: once upon a time, there was a man named Huang Chao. One day, he decided to slaughter a village, but remembered that there was a man in that village who had saved his life, so he came to the village, found his savior, and asked him to hang a gourd at his door and put a handful of Artemisia as a mark. He went back and told his men that the family could not kill the gourd hanging at the door. After Huang Nest left, his savior told all the families in the village to put a handful of Artemisia on the gourd at the door. When the people of the Yellow Nest came, they saw a handful of wormwood hanging gourds in front of every house in the village. according to the instructions of the Yellow Nest, these people had to leave the village, so the people in the village avoided the scourge of blood washing. From then on, every year on the morning of the five festivals, a handful of Artemisia argyi was placed at every door and hung with a gourd. In order to drive away disasters and take refuge, welcome good luck. Now it is a new society and the world is peaceful, but this custom still continues. Mother's words made us understand the meaning of putting wormwood on the five gourds. At that time, we thought Huang Chao was a demon and a bad guy. Later, after reading some history in junior high school, we learned that Huang Chao was the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Tang Dynasty. At the beginning of the uprising, Huang Chao and his army loved the people like their sons, so they got the laudatory name of leading the local general. later, Huang Chao became emperor and designated the country Daqi. Since then, Huang Chao and his insurgents deteriorated and began to kill like robbers, rob men and women, fight with open fire, and act wantonly. Under the rule of Huang Chao, people were unable to carry out basic farming operations, so there was a scene of thousands of miles away in a considerable part of the area. In 884 AD, Huang Chao was killed by his subordinates when he was betrayed by his relatives. In less than a decade from the uprising in 775 to the killing of Huang Chao, 8 million people are said to have died under the butcher's knife of Huang Chao and his insurgents. American Literature Reading Network
From then on, I began to rejoice that I was born in a new society without the risk of being innocent in troubled times. One of our favorite words when writing composition is: we were born under the red flag and grew up under the red flag. I am proud to say this, for it is a sign of blessings. At that time, it was not as rich in materials as it is now. Wuguang sold gourds all over the street, and there were many designs. At that time, when my grandmother and my mother were free and had large colored paper, they would draw a big gourd to hang on the door. When they were not free and had no big colored paper, they would cut a small gourd and stick it on the door with scissors. Although life was not rich at that time, the beauty of the festival, the peace and peace, and the strong affection were contained in the Artemisia argyi, the small paper gourd and the colorful bracelet.
Five years ago, we came to Luanping because of our work. Although Luanping is very close to Fengning, the method of the Dragon Boat Festival is different. Here, Artemisia argyi hangs gourds on the first day of the fifth lunar month, not the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. When I first came, I didn't know the difference. When I saw the wormwood and gourd at the door of the first day of junior high school, I was very surprised. When asked, I still went my own way and passed the fifth day of junior high school. In this way, on the first day of May, it was inadvertently ignored. Until one morning, when pushing the door, a fragrance of Artemisia suddenly came into the room and looked down. There was a handful of Artemisia in front of the building. Who put Artemisia for my door? It seems that today is the first day of May. We forgot, but others did not forget that while they were kind enough to welcome luck to their families, they also did not forget to put Artemisia argyi on my family. My family and I are very touched. But this kind of moving complex has not stopped. In the past few years, a handful of Artemisia has been placed on the doorstep of our house on the first day of May every year. But I don't know who this kind-hearted man is. One day last year, I chatted with teacher Cui. She said: on May Day, she and Mr. Liu were climbing a mountain. Mr. Liu handed a hand of Artemisia to his wife and said that it was for our family and told Mingyao family. At this time, I realized: it turned out that the wormwood on the first day of May every year was put by our neighbor Mr. Liu. After that, when I went to the street to buy gourds, I also bought two, one for my own family and one for my neighbor. Last year, I bought two big gourds to hang in the first year of junior high school. When I opened the door in the morning of the first day of junior high school, I also put a piece of Artemisia argyi on the door. this time, there was a small and delicate red gourd on it. As soon as I saw the same thing at the opposite door, I knew it must have been done by Mr. and Mrs. Liu again.
On the first day of May this year, when I pushed the door, Ai Xiang floated in again. I quickly took out the two little red gourds I bought two days ago and handed them to my son, who hung them on my house and the neighbor's big red blessing.
This represents an auspicious little gourd and a handful of wormwood, sending good wishes and blessings. When I commute to here every day, I feel festive and auspicious. The mood suddenly brightened up.
Dragon Boat Festival fragrant Artemisia, small gourd, represents not only the peace charm and traditional festivals, it is sincere love, good wishes, as well as the true feelings of the world that will never grow old.
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