Write a composition, to folk customs, write the Dragon Boat Festival

China's folk over the Dragon Boat Festival is more grand, the celebration of the activities are also a variety of activities, the more common activities are the following forms:

Dragon boat race:

Dragon boat race, the Dragon Boat Festival is the main custom. Legend has it that it originated in ancient times, the people of Chu because they couldn't bear to see the wise minister Qu Yuan throw himself into the river to die, and many people chased after the boat to save it. They scrambled and chased to Dongting Lake when they disappeared. After that, they rowed dragon boats on May 5 every year to commemorate it. The dragon boat was used to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. The practice of racing, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu.

In fact, "dragon boat racing" as early as the Warring States period. In the sound of drums, rowing a canoe carved into the shape of a dragon, to do racing games, to entertain the gods and people, is a half-religious, half-entertainment program in the rituals.

Later, in addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, people around the world also put a different symbolism.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas of the dragon boat, both to commemorate the local birth of the modern female democratic revolutionaries Qiu Jin meaning. Night on the dragon boat, lights and colors, back and forth, water and underwater, the scene is moving, interesting. Miao people in Guizhou in the lunar calendar May 25-28 held "Dragon Boat Festival" to celebrate the victory of rice-planting and wishing a good harvest. Yunnan Dai compatriots in the Water Festival Dragon Boat Race, in honor of the ancient heroes of the rock red nest. Different ethnic groups, different regions, paddle dragon boat legend is different. Until today in the south of the many near the rivers, lakes and seas of the region, the annual Dragon Boat Festival will be held in their own characteristics of the Dragon Boat Race activities.

Qing dynasty Qianlong twenty-ninth year (1736), Taiwan began to hold dragon boat racing. At that time, Taiwan's governor, Chiang Yuan-jun, hosted a friendly race at the Half Moon Pond of Fahua Temple in Tainan City. Nowadays, dragon boat races are held in Taiwan every year on May 5th. In Hong Kong, races are also held.

In addition, rowing dragon boat has been introduced to neighboring countries such as Japan, Vietnam and the United Kingdom. 1980, dragon boat racing is included in China's national sports competitions, and held annually, "Qu Yuan Cup" Dragon Boat Race. 1991 June 16 (the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar), in the second hometown of the Qu Yuan in Hunan City, China, Yueyang City, the first international dragon boat festival. International Dragon Boat Festival. Prior to the race, the "Dragon Head Festival" was held, which preserved the traditional rituals and injected new modern elements. The "dragon head" was carried into the Qu Zi Ancestral Hall, where the athletes "reddened" the dragon head (draped with a red sash), the officiating priest read out the sacrificial text, and the dragon head was "opened" (i.e. lighted). Then, participate in the sacrifice of the dragon of all personnel three bows, the dragon is carried to the Buro River, running to the dragon boat race. More than 600,000 people participated in the race, fair and celebration, which was an unprecedented event. After that, Hunan will regularly organize the International Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon boat racing will be prevalent in the world.

Duanwu food dumplings

Duanwu Festival to eat dumplings, which is another traditional custom of the Chinese people. Zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube dumplings". It has a long history, a variety of patterns.

According to records, as early as in the Spring and Autumn period, with Zizania leaves (wild rice leaves) wrapped in millet into a horn-shaped, called "corner of millet"; bamboo tube with rice sealed and baked, called "tube dumplings". The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked in millet, because the water contains alkali, with Mushroom leaves wrapped in millet into a quadrangular shape, cooked, became the Guangdong alkaline water rice dumplings.

Jin Dynasty, dumplings were officially designated as Dragon Boat Festival food. At this time, the package of raw materials in addition to glutinous rice, but also add the Chinese medicine Yi Zhi Ren, cooked zongzi called "Yi Zhi Zong". Zhou Zhou, "Yueyang customs and local records" recorded: "Commonly wrapped in millet with Aizome leaves, ...... cooked, and rotten, in the fifth of May to the summer solstice to eat, a zong, a millet." North and South Dynasty period, the emergence of mixed rice dumplings. Rice mixed with animal and poultry meat, chestnuts, jujubes, adzuki beans, etc., more varieties. Zongzi also used as a gift for interaction.

The Tang Dynasty, rice dumplings, has been "white as jade", the shape of the cone, diamond-shaped. Japanese literature recorded in the "Tang dumplings". Song Dynasty, there has been "candied rice dumplings", that is, fruit into the dumplings. The poet Su Dongpo has "in the dumplings see prunes" poem. At this time also appeared with zongzi piled up into buildings, pavilions, wooden cars, cows and horses for the advertisement, indicating that the Song Dynasty to eat zongzi has been very fashionable. Yuan, Ming period, zongzi parcel material has changed from zongmu leaf for Ruo leaf, and later appeared with reed leaf package zongzi, additional material has appeared bean paste, pork, pine nuts, jujube, walnuts and so on, varieties are more colorful.

Till today, the beginning of May every year, the Chinese people have to dip glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves, package zongzi, its color varieties are more varied. From the filling point of view, the north more packages of small jujube Beijing jujube zong; the south has bean paste, fresh meat, ham, egg yolk and other fillings, which is represented by Zhejiang Jiaxing zongzi. Eat zongzi custom, for thousands of years, in China prevailed, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

Pei scented bag:

Duanwu Festival children Pei scented bag, the legend has to ward off evil spirits to drive away the plague, is actually used for lapel head embellishment decoration. The scented capsule inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then the five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, exquisite and lovely.

Suspension of calamus:

Folk proverb: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival inserted Ai". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people put the insertion of moxa and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the court, with calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. And with calamus, moxa, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flower, made of human or tiger-shaped, known as Ai man, Ai tiger; made of wreaths, ornaments, beautiful and fragrant, women compete to wear, to drive away miasma.

Ai, also known as Ai, Artemisia absinthium. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oil. It produces a peculiar aroma, can drive flies, insects and ants, purify the air. In Chinese medicine, moxa is used as a medicine to regulate qi and blood, warm the uterus, and dispel cold and dampness. The leaves of moxa are processed into "moxa velvet", which is an important herb for moxibustion.

Calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, and its long, narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oils, which are medicines for refreshing the mind, strengthening the bones and eliminating stagnation, and killing worms and sterilizing bacteria.

See, the ancients inserted the wormwood and calamus is a certain role in disease prevention. Dragon Boat Festival is also passed down from ancient times, "Health Festival", people in this day to clean the courtyard, hanging Ai Zhi, hanging calamus, sprinkle andrographis water, drink andrographis wine, and stir up turbid in addition to the corrosion, sterilization and disease prevention. These activities also reflect the fine tradition of the Chinese nation. Dragon Boat Festival on the mountains to pick medicine, is the countries of China's national **** with the same customs.

And essay

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in our country, whenever this time, every family has wrapped up the dumplings, ready to eat a lot that day. There is also a Dragon Boat Festival children's song: "May 5, is the Dragon Boat Festival, inserted Ai leaves, wear scented bags, eat rice dumplings, sprinkle sugar, the dragon boat down to the water joyful". How is it, this children's song is good, right?

This is the song that my grandmother taught me at the Dragon Boat Festival. I remember my father often told me about his childhood, in his story, the Dragon Boat Festival for him is a curious and full of expectations of the festival: in the early summer of the festival night, peeling a dumpling, the house smells, everyone gathered around, the children pestered adults to tell the familiar but never tire of hearing the story: more than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Chinese war, in the lunar calendar on the fifth day of the fifth month, there is a On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, a patriotic poet who was worried about his country saw his country facing the danger of death, and the ambition of his heart could not be realized, he was grief-stricken and embraced a stone and threw it into the Miluo River, which is rolling waves, and he is Qu Yuan; the fishermen rowed a boat and searched all over the world for their beloved Qu Yuan, and in order to let the fish in the water not to eat Qu Yuan's body, they wrapped the glutinous rice in the fragrant bamboo leaves, and threw it into the river. ...... Whenever the story was told, the adults would always point to the sky and say, "Look, the brightest star in the sky is Qu Yuan in disguise." And the little children would then raise their heads and look away into the deep sky, searching for that brightest star.

The way we celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiujiang is: early in the morning, everyone goes to buy moxa leaves and calamus to hang at the door, and then paste red paper. My grandmother will also pack dumplings, the dumplings are made of beans, chestnuts and pork. They are delicious to eat!

My impression of the Dragon Boat Festival

I was born in Chengdu is only eighty kilometers away from a small village, where I belong to the hilly area, from childhood to adulthood, I have the impression that our Dragon Boat Festival must drink xionghuang wine (in the first year will be the traditional Chinese medicine xionghuang immersed in a bottle of wine to the second year of the Dragon Boat Festival can be used to drink), the children will also be rubbed a little bit of xionghuang wine on the forehead. At the same time in the day at noon to cook and eat duck eggs at home, I remember when I was a child every year we have to eat 2, because my family conditions are not good, usually very few opportunities to eat to the egg, then I quite like to have this festival, because not only can eat duck eggs, but also to eat rice dumplings, although from childhood to adulthood I have not seen my mother packaged rice dumplings, but our siblings have never eaten less than once a year, every year to eat Grandma to send.

Remember that my family just finished building the house that year, because the family's savings all used up, but also owed a lot of debt, parents had to start from the savings, that year, my mother-in-law also went to my sister-in-law's home for the holidays, I think certainly can not eat, and the results of the neighbor's aunt sent a few special to our siblings, and since then I have always eaten a hundred rice dumplings and duck eggs are not tired of, and even now, I love to eat these two kinds of food! The condition is good, I also work, have the ability to buy their favorite things to eat. That is, last year, a friend of mine in Suzhou got married and went to her home to really see the first package of rice dumplings. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to afford it, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to make it work for me.

Another time, it was on my birthday, I was alone in the field, I want to eat rice dumplings that day, I went to the supermarket to buy a few rice dumplings and duck eggs, at the same time please my classmates to eat, they also laughed at me and said that there is such a birthday people ah, sorry for their own, and also said that I'm petty, do not invite them to eat a big meal. And today is also my birthday, I can not eat to the dumplings, although there are too many delicious food, as well as gifts, but, from the heart I still want to eat a dumpling. But there is no will invite me to eat, so I specifically went to buy dumplings last night, as their own birthday breakfast

The first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year to the third day, the ancient name of the C履端, the New Year's Day, now known as the Spring Festival, the people of Fuzhou called the "do the year", is the most solemn of the year, the longest vacation of the civil festivals. At dawn, families open their doors, burn incense and fire cannons to welcome the New Year. This festival tradition has many taboos, say the first word, do the first thing, are concerned about good luck, in order to hope for a year of peace. At the beginning of the New Year, the first sentence to say "congratulations", "fortune", "peace" and other auspicious words, the other side also reported the corresponding good words. On that day, they do not sweep the floor, do not fetch water, do not carry burdens, do not chop firewood, do not wash clothes, do not take a bath, do not get a haircut, and do not say unlucky words. When the whole family woke up, they put on new clothes or wore clothes of the best texture. For breakfast, some eat tai ping ping (thread noodles, chicken and duck eggs) to wish for peace and longevity; some eat nian gao (brown sugar rice cake) to wish for a good year; some elderly people eat vegetarian to pray for a year of peace for the children and grandchildren of the family. On the first day of the year, the younger generation pays New Year's greetings to the elders, who give them New Year's money or candies and oranges.

The first day of the year do not go out, the second and third day of the year, people can visit friends and relatives, congratulate each other on the New Year. As the Qing Dynasty Wu Jijun said in "Fuzhou year bamboo stick lyrics": "Clan new clothes tend to people in front of the courtesy of modest joy; road meet **** bowed, fortune congratulations on the New Year." This is the landscape of Fuzhou Xinzheng in ancient times. People with married daughters should organize spring wine and invite their daughters, son-in-laws and grandchildren back to their parents' home for a feast and reunion. The women of the water boat family (? The women of the water boat family, wearing red flowers on their heads, blue shirts and green pants, and green shoes with cloth soles, boarded the shore in pairs and went from house to house, singing poems to celebrate the New Year in Fuzhou: "Auntie and sister-in-law celebrate the New Year with red umbrella lamps hanging in front of the hall; good? Good kuey teow sends the slaves to go, the golden character boards stand in front of the door." "After the old year, it's a new year, business is booming and you'll make a lot of money; congratulations and peace of mind, send the slave to the door. I'll send you a gift." This is called the "Chiu-mei Poem", which is also a congratulatory poem. It is also a New Year's greeting, which is a poem for good luck. It is also a New Year's greeting to show good luck. During the Spring Festival, Fuzhou streets and alleys, decorated with lanterns, fire trees and silver flowers, laughter, everywhere showing a festive atmosphere.

After the founding of the Chinese People's Republic of China, the party and government leaders at all levels before or during the festival, with gifts to the military martyrs, retired cadres and old labor models, such as the House of New Year's greetings. All relevant departments organize Spring Festival tours, carnivals and cultural evenings for all walks of life. Those old customs with superstitious colors gradually disappeared. In the early nineties, most homes were installed with telephones, and generally relatives and friends used the telephone to pay New Year's greetings to each other, reducing holiday traffic congestion.

Early in the morning on the fourth day, every household, burning incense "to receive God", to meet the stove king back to see things. All walks of life on vacation, firecrackers, stores open for business, factories start work, the authorities began to work. After the nineties, the practice time for adjustment, is now the first eight to work. Some service industries, the Spring Festival is still in business.