Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, such as the trickle of water originated in ancient times, so far, has a history of thousands of years, is the crystallization of labourers' sweat and wisdom, carrying the Chinese people how many long charm.
I remember when I was a child, when the Dragon Boat Festival approached, people selling zongzi leaves first appeared in the streets and alleys of my hometown. Or, you will see people in groups of three or five in front of every household, surrounded by a cauldron filled with glutinous rice, holding conical zongzi leaves in his left hand, scooping glutinous rice with a small porcelain spoon in his right hand, and hammering glutinous rice wrapped in rice dumplings with a chopstick. In this way, the glutinous rice was added at the same time, and then carefully tied up with straw tightly wrapped in glutinous rice. At this point, the package of zongzi is done. Whenever I stand by quietly watching the whole operation process, at this time, my heart will gush with a trace of green surprise: Dragon Boat Festival is coming, not only can eat zongzi, but also may have new clothes to wear.
The palace clothes are also famous, and the Dragon Boat Festival was honored. In the poem du Fu, the great poet du Fu, the reason for wearing new clothes on the Dragon Boat Festival can be seen slightly: the Dragon Boat Festival wore new clothes as early as the Tang Dynasty; and after the Dragon Boat Festival, it will enter the hot summer and have to change into well-fitting clothes in order to spend a cool summer.
Like the appearance of zongzi, prefer the taste of zongzi. The conical zongzi, dressed in blue zongzi leaves, is also tied with straw, like a carefully bandaged emerald. If you slowly peel off the cyan coat, what comes into view is glutinous rice dumplings that are as white as a girl's skin. The white, slippery, exquisitely carved appearance often makes people who meet for the first time stare, and then they can't help but use their lips to get close to the impeccable skin and give them a kiss. Slowly, the sweetness of glutinous rice gradually swept into my heart from the tip of the tongue. So, you will be in that sweet moment, wander in the extremely cozy
If the Dragon Boat Festival is only for the purpose of tasting zongzi, it will lose its due charm. It is, isn't it? In fact, the Dragon Boat Festival, like the Mid-Autumn Festival, is a poetic folk festival. Dragon Boat Festival on this day, men and women, young and old, dressed in neat clothes and filled with flower-like smiles, expose the joy brought by the Dragon Boat Festival.
In my hometown, traveling with all kinds of diseases is a major folk custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. In order to make a living, walking through the world of mortals every day, working diligently, spilling sweat, and playing symphonies of pots and pans in the curl of smoke, no matter how busy they are, or those who do not like outdoor activities, on the Dragon Boat Festival day, you have to go out to climb the mountain. Otherwise, if he still lives indoors, he will be jokingly called the toad hiding from the Dragon Boat Festival. Many people will make this quip, but they don't know the reason for it. According to the "Emperor Beijing scenery Lue" records, in the Ming Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival this day, regard the Dragon Boat Festival as the heavy five, that is, the day when the five poisons are exhausted. People will go outdoors and climb to the top of the wooded hills to avoid poison. The colored thread is lightly wrapped with red jade, and the small charm is diagonally hung with green cloud temples, which is Su Shi's description of the Dragon Boat Festival. Women in the Song Dynasty wore a charm to exorcise evil spirits and avoid poisons in their hair to ensure permanent peace. Nowadays, in their hometown, clever women can also be seen wandering along the paths on the outskirts of the city with small cloth monkeys or purse children carefully sewn with silk thread on their backs. From this, we can know how much people attach importance to the Dragon Boat Festival. What's more, they will catch toads that are ugly but full of treasure, with heat-clearing, detoxification, detumescence and pain, and squeeze out their venom, then mix them with calamus and realgar wine and apply them to their ears and noses to avoid poison.
With his family, Ren Xin gossiping and chatting, enjoying the fragrance diffused by the Dragon Boat Festival, walking along the long pedestrian street covered with bluestone slabs, looking through the bustling market-like tourists, it is often seen that rows and rows of flowers, grass roots and tree roots are all herbal medicines. On the other hand, I would walk to the stall and squat slowly, pretending to be an expert, chatting with the stall owner while fiddling with the green plants that seemed to have just been pulled out of the soil. If you see the excited flowers and trees, you will deliberately press the price very low, but pretend to really want to buy it, and bargain with the stall owner. The return price was far from what the stall owner wanted, and the business certainly failed to close a deal. When he left, he pretended to be reluctant to part, but his heart was full of fragrant flowers and trees.
The streets of the Dragon Boat Festival have a bit more smell of the village, and less smell of car exhaust in many cities. Like this kind of breath, this is the taste of nature, as if to return to the truth of the world, return to nature. As a result, the imprints of ancestral survival, scene after scene, through, came into view: slash-and-burn cultivation, only for reproduction; Shennong tasted all kinds of herbs, and since then human beings have formed an inextricable bond with vegetation. If we say that each folk festival has its own unique meaning, I think the significance of Dragon Boat Festival is not just to ward off evil spirits. Thinking about the source of drinking water, constantly washing and grinding to produce evergreen survival wisdom should be the deep meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival. For example, mountaineering, people who are willing to climb will remember the difficulty of their ancestors who once lived in the mountains. Unlike us who celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, we follow the army of wandering all kinds of diseases, climbing Dongshan, climbing Fish Mountain, and playing Qiyuan Cave, which is a bit more enjoyable, but less sentimental of the literati and Mohist.
When we were young, when we put on new clothes and had breakfast, we would mention strings of zongzi and eat them while climbing the mountain. In the memory of Dongshan, although there are temples, there are no monks living there. Usually, except for the students on holiday, not many people visit the mountains; only during the Dragon Boat Festival, men, women and children from all over the city will go to Dongshan to visit all kinds of diseases.
Dongshan stands by the fields at the east gate. It may be that the soil on the mountain is suitable for the growth of trees. By contrast, the trees on Dongshan are more luxuriant than the other mountains that surround the city. On the mountain, holly, fir, pine and other evergreen trees are in the majority. For this reason, in spring, summer, autumn and winter, Dongshan attracts men, women and children in their hometown with its dense forest, lush green and proudly standing heroic posture. Especially when it comes to the Dragon Boat Festival, people who go hiking in Dongshan can be found everywhere. Climbing up the winding and winding stone steps, the first thing that can dilate the pupils rapidly is an artificially carved stone dragon. I have had it since I became sensible. There is no inscription on it, and it is impossible to infer when it was built. However, the color has gradually darkened the stone dragon, it seems that engraved with the vicissitudes of life, it must have been some time.
Despite the fact that they all travel to the Dragon Boat Festival, they choose a different perspective. Usually like poetry and song Fu, everywhere, will come close, explore, try to dig out something they want: or touch the stone carving, or carefully look at an inscription. At the end, I looked at the misty mountains in the distance, carrying heavy feelings, and did not immerse myself in the Yulan festival. The wine of calamus is beautiful and respectful. In the atmosphere of Ye Li Oriole, I will never give up. And those who like to take pictures often face a scenic spot or pose to enjoy the moment of delight in the click and flicker of lights. The children disobeyed the adults and ran all over the mountain like birds that had just come out of the cage. The most refreshing thing is that those who are good at singing folk songs put their feelings into the folk songs reverberating in the mountains. If the girls on this side of the mountain sing:
Duanyang comes in May.
I want a mahogany bed for Lang.
You can hang the mosquito net.
Does Tian Chang Di Jiu (Eternal Dumpling) look like a mandarin duck?
The boys on the other side of the hill will seize the opportunity to respond:
Duanyang comes in May.
Send my sister a flower bed.
Then hang up the mosquito net.
Fly into the bridal chamber with wings.
Looking back on my childhood, I climbed Dongshan on the Dragon Boat Festival, did not know how to appreciate the strange flowers and Hsinchu in the mountains, the magnificent and beautiful pine trees, and the trickling clean and delicate weeds, but they only knew how to wear the cloth shoes made by my mother and trample on the mountain path paved with soft grass. Sometimes, he will shuttle through the boxing hole, touch the stalactite, look around, shout, and get a panoramic view of what he likes to see and enjoy it day by day. Tired, will go out of the hole, choose a Hengke sheltered, tall and green tree, lean on it and sit down, let the umbrella-like branches and leaves cover a nap. Close your eyes and listen to the rustle of the midsummer wind through the woods. Occasionally, in the sound of the mountain, he would pick up a leaf falling from the tree, smell the peculiar smell of the vegetation family close to his nose, and then put it between the upper and lower lips and blow it gently, sometimes it would make a beaded and mellow sound, no less than the folk songs on the other side.
At this time, the breeze blossomed the innocence of childhood in freshness. I used the charm of the Dragon Boat Festival to read the book of my hometown, which is full of soil, profound culture, long history and simple folklore: in the early morning, the green willows along the river were covered with the birdcages of old men who came out for a walk. During the day, young people throw down their work and support their dying parents for a walk, which is a unique scenery of their hometown; while when night falls, the old town, the little girl with a thick and long mosquito incense on her back, walks down the streets with tender cries like a nightingale floating in the sky of summer night; it is late at night, and the mother calls her children playing outside to go home to sleep, which is also a familiar ballad.
In my eyes, Dongshan not only attracts us when our classmates were young during the Dragon Boat Festival, but also, in peacetime, is the preferred place for us to relax or recite. I once remember that when we were still studying in No. 3 Middle School in front of Dongshan, before morning reading, we climbed the rocks soaked by morning dew, walked the wet mountain road, met the morning light, and inhaled the fresh oxygen spit out by the plants and trees on Dongshan. The sound of reading and the singing of birds in the mountains are hopeful music before the Dragon Boat Festival. After the Dragon Boat Festival and the end of the high school entrance examination, we will meet again in Dongshan, stroking the bark of old trees, kneading the green grass, blowing dandelions, and sowing the seeds of hope like white umbrellas in any corner of the mountain. When we have fun, we will sing together and let the song reverberate in the sky on the top of the mountain, so as to continue the unfinished charm of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Dragon Boat Festival, can also taste the joy of family reunion. I still remember that one year when I was a child, I was worried and became a prelude to the Dragon Boat Festival. My father, who has been on a business trip for nearly a month, has not yet returned home. In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, when there is no landline or mobile phone, looking forward to going home for the sake of living has become the theme of the Dragon Boat Festival in my family. Watching the neighbors busy: the children hung Acorus and Artemisia annua on the wooden door; the adults fished out the rice dumplings cooked the night before last and distributed them to the children, but my family had no time to think about these things. The heart of the family is full of concern for their father. Until three o'clock in the afternoon, my father came back from the provincial capital with a belt fish that I had never eaten before. Vaguely remember, that belt fish is very delicious. Nowadays, during the Dragon Boat Festival, not only like to eat zongzi, but also like to eat belt fish. In my opinion, eating belt fish is filled with a charm that only I can feel, just like dragon boat racing.
Although the green years have been a ray of distant cold fragrance, but at that time, the Dragon Boat Festival, but a long time, always giving people the silence of a thousand sails without words. That year, with my classmates, I came to the town in southeastern Guizhou far away from the Dragon Boat Festival to watch the dragon boat race. Zhenyuan is a national historical and cultural city inhabited by Miao and Dong compatriots, famous for its ancient buildings Qinglong Cave and Bibo rippling, clear and beautiful Wuyang River. The people here are bold and simple, full of the unique wild beauty of ethnic minority areas. Like here such as misty rain Jiangnan scenery, simple and unique folk customs, especially like nothing more than Zhenyuan Dragon Boat Festival racing performance.
That morning, after eating gray zongzi mixed with cereal ash and glutinous rice and wrapped in bacon sausages, we came to the crowded river. Only onlookers gathered on both sides of the river, including tall, burly, fair-skinned, yellow-haired and blue-eyed foreigners. At the beginning of the race, I only saw about a dozen crew members sitting neatly on the dragon boat woven with bamboo. With a bang of gunshots, the five dragon boats of each group forged ahead like five dragons. At this time, the sound of gongs and drums of commanders, the cheering of onlookers, and the paddling sound of bamboo poles filled the eardrum, reflected the eyes and stirred the heartstrings. After watching the dragon boat race, my classmates and I came to the two yellow-haired and blue-eyed foreigners with the bookish nature of Fang Kui and the courage to communicate with them in English. Let me first say in English: welcome to China. Nice to meet you. Can I communicate with you in English? Next, there was a short and exciting English communication. Although I often rank among the best in exams since learning English, it is the first time that I have put what I have learned into practice and communicated with foreigners in English. After about five minutes of English communication, we said goodbye to the two Austrians, reluctantly.
After many years, having entered the age of 40, I have had dozens of Dragon Boat Festival. However, what I still remember is the Dragon Boat Festival, in which I watched the dragon boat race and communicated with foreigners in English.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, what most people worry about is rain. However, I have a special fondness for the Dragon Boat Festival on a rainy day: in front of me, water curtain-like rain falls from the sky, splashing water spray like white lotus on the ground; under my feet, there are slates or rocks covered with Rain Water; near, like green trees that have just been washed; in the distance, mountains shrouded in misty rain There are also those who walk along the mountain path in the rain with umbrellas and rolled trousers, which has become a unique and beautiful scenery of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Cooking smoke rises quietly in the fragrant charm of the Dragon Boat Festival, and midsummer sings about the fiery red years in passion: the vast wilderness, the winding mountain path leads to a quiet place, passing the birds shaking its wings; the notes of the setting sun stirred up a calm and meaningful flush at the foot of the hill beside the field, turning the crops into rows of green staff. The longing contained in the Dragon Boat Festival is insipid, elegant and elegant day after day, year after year.
The twilight is sinking and drooping, and the noisy hilltops are like the ebb sea converted to serenity. The Dragon Boat Festival slowly pulled down the curtain with the deep chanting of the Master in the Dongshan Temple. The folk custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, which has been nourished and grown in sweat, is in harmony with the hard-won stillness in the long romantic dreams of the Chinese people.
Author: I am lucky and happy
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