Jinzhong Dragon Boat Festival customs and information

Duanwu Festival, the original name of the "Dragon Boat Festival", "Taiping Yuban, the record of wind and soil": "Midsummer end of the five, end, the beginning." Also known as "Duan Yang", "heavy five", commonly known as "May end". Dragon Boat Festival originated in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, more than two thousand years of history, is the traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The city has a long history and deep cultural heritage, the Dragon Boat Festival culture is also inherited "flavorful".

Duanwu Festival is to commemorate the warring states era Chu poet Qu Yuan and passed down to the present day. Liu Junli, former vice president of the Jinzhong City Historical Research Institute and an expert on Jinzhong folklore, said that in addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, there are also commemorations of Wu Zixu and Cao E, a filial daughter, and other sayings.

He introduced, Jinzhong folk "four big festivals, eight small festivals", the Dragon Boat Festival as the "four big festivals" in the "summer festival", people attach great importance to, in addition to eating rice dumplings, hanging wormwood, wearing scented sachets, wrapping silk wisps. In addition to eating zongzi, hanging wormwood, wearing scented bags, wrapped in silk and other customs, there are their own regional characteristics, such as the people of Jinzhong in the reform and opening up has been eating zongzi wrapped in yellow rice, reform and opening up to speed up the circulation of goods and products, and then gradually popular to eat zongzi wrapped in glutinous rice (i.e., glutinous rice).

According to Liu Junli testified that the zongzi wrapped into a hanging quadrangle, it is possible that the origin of a plant called zongzi grass growing in Jinzhong.

Liu Junli said, in its birthplace Yuji District Zhangqing Township Hao Village, can be seen everywhere in this zongzi grass, fruit such as soybean size, for the hanging angle quadrangular, break open the zongzi grass fruit, which contains a rice grain-shaped white objects, young when eaten in the mouth is sweet, when it gets old, it became black. Ancient people may be inspired by the zongzi grass form and invented the zongzi.

Qu Yuan has long faded with the rolling waves, but the long river of history has been flowing with Qu Yuan's blood, and with the Dragon Boat Festival has been passed on for a long time.