What are the customs of Zhongshan Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival is a famous traditional festival in China, and traditional activities such as dragon boat racing come from it.

Zhongshan, a city located in the lower reaches of Beijiang River, features the Dragon Boat Festival every year.

If you are interested in Zhongshan culture, let's take a look at the customs of Zhongshan Dragon Boat Festival.

Zhongshan Dragon Boat Festival custom 1:

The most popular dragon boat races in Shi Qi are places near the river, such as Zhangxi, Xia Nan, Ji Bian, Yuanfeng, Xichang, Shangji, Dadun, Qitou and Houxing. Every year at the end of April, every township chooses auspicious days. After worshipping the dragon boat in ancestral temples and temples, the oldest old people in the village lead the masses to bury last year's dragon boat in the dragon boat dock, take it out, wash it, repair it and oil it. Then, the venerable people in the village used Luyou leaves as dragon boats to clean themselves, put a dragon tail in the dragon boat, and put flowers and red flowers on the dragon tail to carry out the dragon boat launching ceremony. Nearly 80 young and strong men in the village will row dragon boats to the river to practice, which is called "Dragon Out". On May 5th, the dragon boats in towns and villages in Shi Qi will compete in Qijiang and win the gold medal. The winner will get Dazhao shochu and a big roast pig. That night, there was a "dragon boat meal" in the countryside. People who participate in and contribute to the dragon boat race can eat dragon boat rice. After eating the dragon boat meal, after a sacrificial ceremony, the dragon boat is buried in the dragon boat pier in the river, which is called "dragon picking".

Zhongshan Dragon Boat Festival Customs II:

Featured Zongzi The Zongzi in Zhongshan is very distinctive. Reed bean zongzi is round and thick as an arm. Because Zhongshan people prefer to improve and learn, they are especially good at cooking food that suits their tastes. Ancient villagers thought that there were many reeds in the countryside, and that this wild plant of Liliaceae had no other use, so it might as well be used as an experiment in jiaozi. Sure enough, the taste of reed bean leaves blends into zongzi and has a unique flavor. Therefore, Ludou Zongzi, which has long been a hometown feature. Hundreds of years later, in the tea market of hotels and restaurants, every year in April and May of the lunar calendar, cut pieces of reed bean brown are still reserved for tea customers, and even decorated and publicized in front of the hotel. Colored paper flutters and a large number of reed bean zongzi are sold.

Deer bean dumplings, ingredients are also sweet and salty. Sweet ones are lotus seed paste, red bean paste, chestnut paste and jujube paste; Salty bacon, roast chicken, egg yolk, scallops, mushrooms, mung beans and barbecued pork.

Typical practice: wash glutinous rice, mix well with a little refined salt and raw oil, put in roast pork and salted egg yolk, and bind it with round grass; Zongzi is cylindrical with flat ends staggered, with a general diameter of 12 cm and a length of 30 cm. First, boil the water, add the zongzi, simmer for 4 hours, add some boiling water in the middle and soak in the soup for 4 hours. The taste is fragrant, greasy and slippery.

It is said that the roast pork it uses, with a small amount of spiced powder, has a stronger flavor. Some housewives put some calamus in the water of jiaozi soaked in boiled reeds to enhance the "fragrance". Teahouses, cake shops and vendors have made reed jiaozi to sell to consumers and gift givers.

Ludou Zongzi has been exported to Hong Kong and Macao, but Hong Kong and Macao call it Zhongshan Ludou Zongzi. Hong Kong and Macao people think that Zhongshan people make good use of deer beans, and they can create unique food.

Overview of Dragon Boat Festival:

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also called Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival and May Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival for the Han people in China to commemorate Qu Yuan. It spread to all parts of China around Qu Yuan, an outstanding and independent doctor of Chu. Folk culture never tires of it, and Qu Yuan's celebrity is well known, bearing the noble feelings of the Chinese nation. However, there are exceptions. The Dragon Boat Festival in Wu Dong always commemorates Wu Zixu, who was thrown into the great river on May 5th, instead of Qu Yuan. Moreover, the custom of holding tribal totem sacrifice on this day in wuyue is much earlier than in the Spring and Autumn Period. On the Dragon Boat Festival, there are customs of eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus, wormwood, wormwood leaves, smoked atractylodes rhizome, angelica dahurica and drinking realgar wine. "Dragon Boat Festival" is one of the national legal holidays and is listed in the world intangible cultural heritage list.