Dragon Boat Festival: a search for the "roots" of the journey

"The fifth day of the fifth month to the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival fragrance", another year Dragon Boat Festival. Every year on this day, people eat rice dumplings, rowing dragon boats, inserted wormwood, wear incense buns, dumplings, eat "five yellow", smoked "five poisons", with all kinds of methods to pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits. On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, the 9th National Games "Colorful Guizhou" Dragon Boat Series and the 4th Zunyi "Honglei" Cup Dragon Boat Race were held on the bank of the beautiful Xiangjiang River, which attracted countless citizens to watch. The fierce races made us once again have a deep feeling for the traditional Dragon Boat Festival.

To this day, are you still looking forward to the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese festival? How much do you know about the old customs of the Dragon Boat Festival? In Zunyi local old generation, how to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival? How will our post-80s and post-90s celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in a new and innovative way? In the face of the crazy "invasion" of Western festivals, many people began to ignore their own national culture, and this year, the state will be specially set up for traditional holidays holiday date, invariably let people begin to re-attention to traditional festivals.

Annual Dragon Boat Festival, year after year to eat dumplings, Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional culture of the roots of the journey, this journey, how do we inherit? How to promote? In order to make each festival more meaningful, more touching the heart?

Going to the Xiangjiang River for a Dragon Boat Race

"Look, the Xiangjiang River is having a Dragon Boat Race again." June 2, the ninth National Games colorful Guizhou Dragon Boat Series activities and Zunyi City, the fourth Dragon Boat Race in the Xiangjiang River kicked off. The starting point of the race is located in the park barrage, the end point is located in the Shilong Bridge, the course is 500 meters long, although the weather is not beautiful, but still can not affect the 16 teams with the river competitive spirit. Standing on both sides of the public watching the game from time to time to take out the camera to take pictures, in the most intense game from time to time for the players shouting and cheering, the scene is very spectacular.

"Once the Dragon Boat Festival, our family must come to the Xiangjiang River to watch the Dragon Boat Race, which has become our family's habit." Ms. Cai, who stood by the river and watched the race, said excitedly that the Dragon Boat Race was preceded by the activity of spreading rice dumplings to pay tribute to Qu Yuan, which commemorates our ancestors and once again allows us to be educated about the significance of the Dragon Boat Festival. "This is not, in order to let the children understand the Dragon Boat Festival, before at home to prepare enough homework." Standing beside Ms. Cai watched with great interest the little son said cheerfully, he knows that the dragon boat race is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, originated in ancient times, Chu people because they could not afford to die in the river Qu Yuan, a wise minister, many people rowing boats to catch up with the rescue of the historical story. "This is the fourth Dragon Boat Race held in Zunyi! It's quite a lively event every year at Dragon Boat Festival!" Zunyi City, deputy director of the Bureau of Culture and Sports Xiao Yihe told reporters that every year will organize Zunyi more than ten counties and municipalities of the team for the Dragon Boat Race, before the river began to be cleaned up, the team members are also undergoing intense training. "In Zunyi's most representative mother river - Xiangjiang River on the dragon boat, but also on the traditional festival of Dragon Boat Festival a celebration, and this file of traditional projects, more beneficial to render the atmosphere of the festival, to bring people and traditional festivals closer to the distance." It is understood that in the next time, Yuqing County, Suiyang County will be carried out one after another Dragon Boat Race, the inheritance of national traditional sports activities.

Continuing the tradition of the old Zunyi people's Dragon Boat Festival

As early as half a month before the Dragon Boat Festival, living in the neighborhood of Tim Yang, Wang Laotai family for the Dragon Boat Festival to do all the preparations. "Our family every year to make their own salt eggs, the family of adults and children will play together to eat salt eggs game." Mrs. Wang said with a smile, this is a family tradition, from the grandparents since the generation, this year made thirty salt eggs, Dragon Boat Festival day, their 'three grandchildren will rush to be red paper dyed red salt eggs.

Mrs. Wang recalled that when she was small, she only thought it was fun, in fact, the custom of eating salt eggs has a profound meaning. Eggshells painted red, with colorful net bag, hanging in the neck of the child, meaning that blessing the child, good luck and peace. One year over the Dragon Boat Festival, the family gathered friends and relatives, their two uncles betting on the race to eat salt eggs, to see who ate more who won. In Mrs. Wang's mind, this is a blessing that only comes with the New Year, so she especially looks forward to the Dragon Boat Festival. Now living conditions are better, but the custom of making salt eggs at home has not been lost, and the Dragon Boat Festival has naturally become a must-have tradition at home.

The Dragon Boat Festival day, in front of their homes to hang wormwood, hanging calamus, is the habit of many Zunyi people. Having just bought fresh mugwort and calamus, teacher Wang Wenxi couldn't wait to hang them in front of his door. "As the saying goes, mugwort and calamus can seclude evil and drive away miasma, hang them to bless the family with good health and not to get sick, specially picked the freshest ones." Mr. Wang said, two years ago the Dragon Boat Festival, daughter Ling Ling just skin allergies, the home of the mugwort, mint, Tsubaki tree fruit, coriander stalks and so on together to burn some water to wash, both to ward off evil spirits in addition to the disease, but also should be the Dragon Boat Festival customs. Daughter also said that these things burned out of the water is perfume, soak a perfume bath, who can have this blessing? Legend has it that as long as the grass picked on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, you can eliminate all the diseases, it is really not true at all.

In addition to eating salt eggs and hanging mugwort, the most important thing is to eat dumplings. Although now in the supermarket, food market are ready-made ready-made dumplings to sell, but for the family living in Zunyi County, Liu Yi grandfather family: over the Dragon Boat Festival, or to eat their own hands to wrap the real. Buy rice dumplings, glutinous rice, red beans, mung beans, red dates, pork, Dragon Boat Festival day, Grandpa Liu's daughter, grandchildren, siblings came, early in the morning, the group together hands, children on the side of the curious to learn to pack, the adults turned the pattern package out of the rhombus, triangles, the shape of the square. To the pot of steam, freshly baked rice dumplings out of the pot, was divided up. The family was happy and ate with great relish. "As soon as we eat the zongzi, we are reminded of the story of Qu Yuan, which is a nostalgic remembrance of our ancestors and has become the best traditional Chinese festival to unite the family." Grandpa Liu said that on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the family will be quite lively, and his old companion will also do a good job of using colorful silk thread sewing incense packets, which will be sent to the family's loved ones to wear, blessing peace.

Over the past two days, you will find in Zunyi City, the major food markets are full of people buying dumplings skin, eating dumplings has become a Zunyi people over the Dragon Boat Festival of a major custom, the purpose is to want to let their children in the festival day to eat comfortably. It is said that eating dumplings will bring good luck and make a fortune, and families gathering together to chop, roll, wrap and eat dumplings portends a good omen for the family. "The Dragon Boat Festival in my mind is associated with a series of activities such as eating salted eggs, eating dumplings, hanging scented buns, hanging mugwort, and waking up early to go to the river to wash your face with dew." Wang Wei, a 70-year-old civil servant, told reporters that these local Dragon Boat Festival customs, which he has experienced since he was a child, are of great significance to him. This year, the family also bought a special Xionghuang wine, which is meant to drive away evil spirits and detoxify the body, "Drinking wine, eating dumplings and zongzi, and talking about the history of the Dragon Boat Festival with friends and relatives is really rare."

Traditional PK new style: 80, 90 after the holiday travel, texting, writing microblogging

Do you know the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a pair of rice crackers. The first time I've seen this, I've seen a lot of people who are not interested in it. What will you do to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival? In fact, many of the 80s and 90s are no strangers to the Dragon Boat Festival, and most of them agree that the Dragon Boat Festival is an important traditional festival. For and Dragon Boat Festival related folk activities, Zunyi City, the fifth middle school of Huang Yun as a family: childhood impression is particularly deep, every Dragon Boat Festival mom will give their own netting, hanging duck eggs. I would deliberately hang the duck eggs to the door of the house, want to let all the children see their duck eggs, and sometimes the duck eggs are cracked, but I still can not take off. The Dragon Boat Festival has a very deep impression on myself.

"Even though I don't know how to make dumplings, I can have a happy Dragon Boat Festival just the same." Li Xiaoxiao, an 80-year-old mother who is a wife, said that taking advantage of this year's three-day Dragon Boat Festival vacation, the family drove to the countryside to travel, and the Dragon Boat Festival has become the best time for the family to relax and leisure. "In fact, the Dragon Boat Festival is supposed to be a time for family reunion, it is not necessary to stay at home to watch the Dragon Boat Festival party, it is not necessary to follow the traditional way to go, my understanding of the Dragon Boat Festival, the most important thing is to be happy and happy and happy, which is the significance of the festival!"

"Dragon Boat Festival, know is to pay tribute to Qu Yuan, is to eat dumplings it!" A group of young people told reporters, for the Dragon Boat Festival, only know is a traditional festival, but for that profound history, but can not complete the beginning and end, plus the Dragon Boat Festival, many customs, but also know a little. "But we have our own way and more people to enjoy the atmosphere of the festival together, on the microblogging, write blessings. Send short messages, send blessings, call, say blessings." A 90 handsome talked about this Dragon Boat Festival, they received dozens of text messages from friends and family, in their own On, also wrote: the sun is round, the moon is round, the whole family, "Zong" reunion; Luk source, the source of wealth, the blessing of "Zong" full of round; the heart wishes, love wishes, everything! "The wish of the heart, the wish of the heart, the wish of the heart, the wish of the heart, everything is as one wishes. I wish you all happy "zong" even, happiness "zong" sticky, health "zong" Tim Tim! The text is sent to all the "fans". For him, the modern way of communication, can also make the Dragon Boat Festival atmosphere is very strong, respect for tradition, but also in the tradition of creating a novel way to celebrate the festival, meaning more than form, the transmission of a blessing, a thought, which is the most critical.

Return to traditional culture, to seize the roots of the nation

After seeing the different attitudes of the two generations for the Dragon Boat Festival, you will question why young people for the tradition will be very so "indifferent"? Zunyi City Historical Research Society President Zeng Xiangmou, President, believes that "traditional festivals, is a journey to understand the roots of traditional culture." In fact, young people have such a mentality is not surprising, for a long time in history, due to economic reasons and political factors, the spiritual connotation behind the traditional festivals have been ignored, the objective of the spirit of the spiritual fault, some of the inheritance of the spirit of the rich cultural connotations of the opera, the story has disappeared one after the other, not only young people do not pay attention to, a lot of people a little bit older, the Dragon Boat Festival's impression of the traditional food, rowing a dragon boat these superficial Many older people's impression of the Dragon Boat Festival also stays in traditional food and dragon boat rowing, which are superficial folk activities. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, will also recite poetry, now for young people, the Dragon Boat Festival custom only dumplings, duck eggs, these iconic symbols are still there, the lack of things that can take root.

When we see a lot of people around us in the crazy foreign "Christmas", "Valentine's Day", "Halloween" time; when we gradually ignore their own traditional festivals; when we are not the same as the other day, we are not the same as the other day. When the traditional festivals; when we are asked to "Qu Yuan" who is hanging wormwood, eating rice dumplings is why but do not know how to answer the time; when last year, South Korea will be our heritage of thousands of years of Dragon Boat Festival forcibly attributed to them; this year, all the traditional festivals have set up a holiday to emphasize the time, you will sigh our national culture is not valued? The first thing you need to do is to take a look at your own culture, and you'll be able to see it.

"Now the country began to promote the national traditional festivals, pay attention to folk customs and habits, in the Dragon Boat Festival carried out in the Dragon Boat Racing, is a kind of traditional culture and sports projects to dig and carry forward." Xiao Yihe, deputy director of the Zunyi Municipal Bureau of Culture and Sports, said that folklore starts from folklore, and dragon boat racing is not only able to unite people's strength, but the profound cultural connotation is reflected in the spiritual admiration for the great poet Qu Yuan. Through positive and healthy folk activities, do not forget the history, remember the predecessor, can arouse the young generation of the importance of traditional festivals, the spirit of traditional culture y into their hearts.

"The return of traditional culture is a long journey, a journey to find the roots." President Zeng Xiangmu said, behind every traditional festival, there is always a long history story, all revealing a deep cultural heritage and healthy life aspirations, forgetting the culture is forgetting our roots. In fact, Qu Yuan's Dragon Boat Festival is not just a cultural connotation, but also a Chinese brand that distinguishes Valentine's Day, April Fool's Day, Christmas and other festivals from each other. The core value of Qu Yuan is patriotism, and the Dragon Boat Festival is the patriotic festival of China's agrarian era. Although today people may not think much about this aspect when celebrating the festival. But this layer of patriotic added value is tightly integrated into it, as long as the festival, will be subtle into our body, only we do not realize it.

All peoples have their own national culture, we can respect each other, we can learn the essence of other countries' festivals, "beauty and ****, and different", rather than blindly.