Xinchang county's unique folk customs, please, thank you.

Dragon Boat Festival in Xinchang County, Zhejiang Province, also known as Duanyang, Chongwu or Chongwu. Folk traditional festivals. The fifth day of the fifth lunar month. According to legend, more than 2000 years ago, Chu poet Qu Yuan threw himself into the river. In order to commemorate him, later generations designated this day as a festival, and there are also customs such as eating zongzi and racing dragon boats in various places. Xinchang Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of letting Aipu in, drinking realgar wine, eating soup packets and making sachets. In order to commemorate this festival, we specially edited this group of articles about the customs of Dragon Boat Festival in Xinchang with regional characteristics for readers. The Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown is in a remote mountain village in Shuangcai Township. Neighbors are usually very busy at work, but they are not vague about festivals handed down from generation to generation. May 5th, Dragon Boat Festival. On the morning of the first day of May, someone went to the canal at the head of the village to cut the calamus, cut a short piece from the end of the calamus, strung it on it to make a sword, and inserted it obliquely on the knocker with mugwort. Before noon that day, Acorus calamus and Artemisia argyi would be inserted on the doors of every household, which became the symbolic landscape of the Dragon Boat Festival in the small mountain village. At noon, the old people in the village will put a pinch of realgar in a bowl full of shochu, and then spray the realgar wine in their mouth on the corner, saying that it can drive snakes and repel insects. Drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival is actually just a sip, not much, more like a pious ceremony. Others will dip their fingers in realgar and draw a "king" on the door. Some lively and naughty children will also ask adults to put some realgar on their foreheads. At this time, adults are often willing to do so. Sometimes they simply put a "king" on their foreheads, praying for avoiding disasters and bringing peace to their children. On the Dragon Boat Festival, children in the village can ask their new wives for sachets, which is the custom of celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival in their hometown. At the beginning of this year, the newly married daughter-in-law in the village will make a bunch of sachets in advance and distribute them to the children in the neighborhood during the Dragon Boat Festival to show off their needlework skills and get on well with their neighbors. If there are not many new wives married to the village this year, the unmarried aunts in the village will also make some sachets and distribute them to the little nephews and nieces. My hometown is in the mountains, and there is no gentle stream. There is naturally no such grand activity as dragon boat race on the Dragon Boat Festival. You don't eat zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival. The custom in your hometown is to eat rice cakes and zongzi only during the Spring Festival. On the Dragon Boat Festival, young housewives not only sweep the yard, but also start to wrap some soup packets for the family to enjoy and steam some soup packets for the elderly in the village. The Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown is not as lively as visiting relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, but it also looks simple and interesting. Dragon Boat Festival custom Xinchang every Dragon Boat Festival, there is also the custom of children wearing five-color lines on their left arms. In the past, every family made their own Zhang Tianshi statue and put it on the threshold; Or human mugwort, bamboo as a sword, placed in front of the door, all take the meaning of avoiding evil. There are also cinnabar symbols, gossip or pictures of Zhong Kui catching ghosts posted on the lintel or door. On this day, Xinchang custom not only eats the Dragon Boat Festival wonton, but also eats zongzi. There are also people who drink realgar wine in rural areas. This custom is related to the story of Xu Xian, the white snake: It is said that the white snake changed from a white snake to a white snake and married Xu Xian. Fahai regarded the white snake as a demon and secretly instructed Xu Xianqiang to persuade the white snake to drink realgar wine at noon to show its true colors. So realgar can ward off evil spirits. In addition, Xinchang and other places also have the customs of "giving birth" and "sending fans". If a family marries a daughter-in-law during the year, they will get married on the Dragon Boat Festival. In addition to giving her an auspicious wedding day, the man also gave her gifts such as sugar longan. In case of the first Dragon Boat Festival after the daughter's marriage, parents and brothers will send fans, towels and wheat cakes to her husband's family. Fans are graded according to gender, mostly delicate thin banana fans, which are given to daughters and mother-in-law; My father-in-law and uncle sent a big banana fan to show the difference. During the Dragon Boat Festival, wormwood is a perennial herb of Compositae, with erect stems and a particularly strong fragrance. The treatment of wormwood has been recorded in China for a long time. Folium Artemisiae Argyi contains a large amount of volatile oil, which can kill and inhibit tuberculosis, typhoid fever, Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella flexneri, adenovirus and influenza virus. "In summer, twist the collected Folium Artemisiae Argyi into a rope, or make it into a stick to dry, and light cigarettes when there are many mosquitoes and flies, which can not only disinfect the house, but also drive away mosquitoes and flies and maintain indoor hygiene. Acorus calamus, also known as water hyacinth and cattail, is a perennial aquatic herb, which is divided into two kinds: Acorus calamus and Acorus gramineus. The straight leaves of Acorus calamus are like Zhong Kui's sword. According to folklore, when Zhong Kui held a sword to slay evil spirits in the world, Acorus calamus was regarded as an exorcism. Even today, people still use it to treat dysentery. The ancients used calamus to soak wine, which was astringent and fragrant. Acorus calamus is also an elegant ornamental plant and ornament. The ancients often praised orchids, chrysanthemums, daffodils and calamus as "elegant flowers and plants". Putting mugwort leaves on Dragon Boat Festival is not only a folk custom, but also has the scientific significance of eliminating disasters and diseases and paying attention to hygiene. Dragon Boat Festival and sachet Every Dragon Boat Festival, especially women and children, they all wear sachets. Tracing back to the origin of sachets, as early as the pre-Qin period, women wore ornaments made of five-color lines on their heads, and in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they became sachets. In the Tang Dynasty, sachets filled with spices appeared. The main raw materials of sachet are realgar, mugwort leaf and smoked grass. Their functions were deified in ancient times. In the Book of God, Nezha's red belly can ward off evil spirits. There is a record in Bao Puzi: "The Yellow Emperor wants to climb the Garden Mountain, and there are many snakes in it. Guang Chengzi taught him to wear realgar, and all his snakes went. Later, this record was used by Berhard, an American, in his Dictionary of Cultural Symbols in China, which recorded: "There was a great plague in the Huangdi tribe. I heard that Guang's medical skill is very good, so I sent someone to ask how to cure the plague. Guangchengzi wrapped it in realgar and let them wear it. As a result, the disease was cured. "This statement also has scientific truth, which shows that sachets existed in ancient China. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the climate is hot, mosquitoes and flies fly, poisonous gas rises, and epidemics germinate. The ancients believed that people who ate whole grains suffered from various diseases, and the diseases entered through the mouth, mostly due to evil and miscellaneous gas, which was inhaled through the nose and mouth. In the long-term struggle against various diseases, people found that drinking realgar wine and wearing sachets can exorcise evil spirits and detoxify. " "Jia Qinglu" records: "Study realgar powder and Pugen, and drink them with wine, which is called realgar wine. "That is, add realgar to the wine. Realgar, orange-red, can be used as medicine to solve the virus. Realgar wine is the wine of Dragon Boat Festival. In the past, almost all the realgar wine in some places was brewed at home, but most of it was drunk by men, and some women who could drink it also drank some. Children can't drink it, so adults soak their hands in wine to make their children's faces, ears, hands and feet foam. Later, people added Artemisia argyi leaves, smoked grass and other raw materials to realgar to make sachets for women and children to wear. The sachet has medicinal flavor, and it can be inhaled through the nose and mouth, so that the meridians can be unblocked, pathogenic factors can be eliminated and the body can be strengthened, thus achieving the effect of eliminating diseases and strengthening the body. Realgar, Folium Artemisiae Argyi and smoked grass all emit a strange fragrance, while snakes and insects smell it away, which not only reduces the source of infection, but also plays a role in killing germs, eliminating sweat and odor and refreshing the mind.

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