What are the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in the north?

Born in the north of me, since I vaguely remember, my grandmother whenever the Dragon Boat Festival will give me to prepare dumplings, tea eggs, red bibs.

Remember when I was a child, in the North there are no rice dumpling leaves, may be the countryside is not planted (because of the rural food, rarely buy the material ) Grandma used the corn leaves, the corn leaves have to go to look for, because the May May does not grow corn, and what there is is early corn.

And then glutinous rice is the New Year's fair grandma bought to save, in the mixing of some rice to do out.

In retrospect, although the raw materials were not as good as those of today, the taste of childhood is always better than that of today. （

In addition to the dumplings, this day grandma will give me boiled tea eggs, when eggs are scarce ah, don't mention how much I miss it, tea is a big green tea is now what we call flower tea, put a little bit of tea and then put on the big salt (now dolls may not know what the big salt looks like), and then boiled on a few (cousin's own...
). cousins all bring their own eggs, haha), the family has many children, my aunt is also a neighboring village, cousins add up to 8 cousins, haha, do not mention how much fun that day, grabbing tea eggs, the picture is very beautiful.

In addition to eating the above, my grandmother also gave me wearing bibs, when I was a child I liked, red very nice, there is a small animal on it (and then take a grandpa to prepare a small stick, find yourself an iron ring, this is not the little Nezha), according to my grandmother said that this preventing evil , and then now there is no more, in my upper After I started junior high school, my grandmother got old and I got older, so I didn't have to wear a bib anymore. (Look at the picture below, there is a picture of no one, with my childhood passes almost, haha)

Later after junior high school , if the holiday catch Dragon Boat Festival, my mother will give me a red rope , strictly speaking need to be five-color thread woven together, wear on the wrist or ankle above, also is a red rope , strictly speaking need to be five-color thread woven together, wear on the wrist or ankle above. , also to ward off evil spirits.

Now that I've grown up, every Dragon Boat Festival, as long as not particularly busy, I will home to eat a meal with my parents, my mother will be wrapped rice dumplings and boiled tea eggs in advance, and say some things when I was a child, and the picture is very beautiful.

While there are many types of dumplings and tea eggs now, you can't always eat the flavor of your childhood. When I write this, I suddenly miss my childhood, I missed being with my grandmother behind my butt and grabbing the tea eggs scene, and I missed the hidden dumplings that I had to wear to the hospital. Wearing a bib and holding a stick to pretend to be Nezha.

And now we have a little master and princess, mom upgraded to grandma, basically in the city with the baby, every time to the Dragon Boat Festival, mom will be the same as grandma to prepare the material of the package of rice dumplings and boiled tea eggs, the two dolls followed the mother to run around, chattering with me back then. The scene is the same, this may be the custom of inheritance it.