How do Sichuan people live the Dragon Boat Festival?

1, eat zongzi

Every Dragon Boat Festival, the network of the major red zongzi and began to speculate, but the Sichuan people have their own "zongzi a street". In the early 1990s, by the Chengdu Ma'an East Road, No. 13 courtyard a few old residents with their own good craftsmanship, every Dragon Boat Festival in front of the district to sell their own handmade dumplings gradually extended to the traditional characteristics.

2, plug calamus leaves

"Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival plug Ai" is a folk saying for a long time, usually in the Dragon Boat Festival, the Sichuan people will be plugged into the Ai and calamus as an important part of one of the examples of the Dragon Boat Festival necessary items.

3, to the son-in-law umbrella

It is said that in the past in the old Sichuan countryside, the Dragon Boat Festival is also popular in the custom of "send umbrella". The general content is the son-in-law in the first Dragon Boat Festival after marriage, to prepare nine dumplings, nine salt eggs, two bottles of wine, with his wife to his father-in-law's home for the festival. After the meal, the son-in-law will go home and receive an umbrella from his father-in-law/mother-in-law, and no matter how sunny or rainy it is, he should go home with an umbrella, which contains the meaning of shelter, and hope that the in-laws will take care of the new daughter-in-law.

Because in traditional Chinese characters, "umbrella" is the character that has the most people in it, implying that many children will be born and the family will prosper.

4, point xionghuang, with incense bag

Duanwu, the custom of the xionghuang wine dipped and smeared on the forehead of small children, and sometimes in the children's forehead, "Wang" word, of course, but also wear five-color silk threads wrapped around the duck eggs and filled with xionghuang, Cangzhu, Cloves and other traditional Chinese medicines, with cotton cloth, silk thread sewing incense bag, today's incense bag, has gradually become a representative of the Dragon Boat Festival folk cultural artifacts.

5, dragon boat racing

Dragon boat racing is one of the traditional activities of the Dragon Boat Festival in Sichuan, began in Han, especially in the late Qing Dynasty, the early years of the Republic of China as a feast. Every Dragon Boat Festival, the river gongs and drums, the river bank is full of people watching the race. But later the Jinjiang River bed rise, the water level is lowered, Chengdu city of dragon boat racing stopped, racing activities moved to Xinjin, Jintang and other places to carry out.

6, scattered plums

Republic of China period, Sichuan has a rare custom - scattered plums. Said to spread the plum conference, in fact, is also the young men and women take the opportunity to come out to spread the time. Every Dragon Boat Festival, it is the season of peach and plum fruit ripe, plums are not expensive, and have a certain hardness, is very suitable for each other as a sneak attack on the "hidden weapon".