The custom of Zigui Dragon Boat Festival

One of the customs of Dragon Boat Festival: the smell of zongzi?

Zongzi is a kind of food, but it is a kind of culture in Zigui. Quxiang people are very particular about making zongzi. They choose good glutinous rice and broad Polygonum leaves, wrap the zongzi in an angular way, and then wrap it with thin five-color silk thread. The most special thing is to put a red date in the middle of glutinous rice. The angular shape symbolizes Qu Yuan's upright and upright character. Snow-white glutinous rice symbolizes Qu Yuan's poor life. That red date is not only Qu Yuan's deep affection for Chu, but also the nostalgia of the villagers for Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan's hometown still has a song "Zongzi Song": angular, caring. A white suit, half my life. During the Dragon Boat Festival, people help the old and bring the young to the river early. They threw the wrapped and cooked zongzi into the river to call Qu Yuan's soul back to his hometown. ?

The second custom of Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Race?

Rowing dragon boats everywhere, Zigui is very different. For thousands of years, dragon boat rowing has been the largest mass rally in Zigui, Quxiang. In addition to the spectacular scene and fierce competition, the Zigui Dragon Boat Race is special in that it has to swim across the river before the race. Dragon boats of different colors slowly walk around the river, and in the canyon, the soul-stirring "Soul-Evocation Song" rings: My brother, go back and relax, listen to me, hehe! The sky can't go up, there are dark clouds in Wan Li, and the ground can't go down. It's all very tight ... I just wish my doctor would come back to his hometown soon, and I don't have to ask about food and clothing. Chu is a good place ...?

The third custom of Dragon Boat Festival: "Sao altar" poetry meeting?

In Lepingli, the birthplace of the poet Qu Yuan, the "Sao altar" that began in the Ming and Qing Dynasties continues to this day. Sao Tan Poetry Society is a folk poetry organization, with the theme of mourning Qu Yuan and eulogizing the era, and its members are mainly farmers who love poetry. It is known as "the first peasant poetry society in China". ?

Every year, during the Dragon Boat Festival in May when Ai Zongxiang is fragrant, there is always a poetry meeting in Lepingli. The peasant poets of Sao Tan Poetry Society gathered in Quyuan Temple to sing their own poems with the local accent of Quyuan's hometown and pay tribute to Quyuan with their Sao poems. This cultural custom has been handed down from generation to generation and has become a unique humanistic tradition and landscape in Leping. ?

The fourth custom of Dragon Boat Festival: public sacrifice to Qu Yuan?

Since the Southern and Northern Dynasties in Zigui, there has been a history of official organization of the Dragon Boat Festival sacrifice to Qu Yuan, which is called "public sacrifice" to distinguish it from folk sacrifice. In the melodious and mournful sound of gongs and drums, priests read hymns praising Qu Yuan's virtues, and people kowtowed and burned incense to Qu Yuan's memorial tablet in turn, praying for good weather and abundant crops. ?

In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival custom also hangs mugwort leaves and calamus to eliminate diseases and ward off evil spirits. Drink realgar wine to protect yourself from insects and snakes; Hanging a clock to make a statue, eliminating disasters and taking refuge; Write spells to ward off evil spirits; Hang your wallet, tie five-color silk thread, be safe and so on.