China Traditional Culture Festival ~ Speech

The patriotic poet Qu Yuan put forward a good idea of enriching the country and strengthening the people. However, due to the corruption of the society at that time, his strategy was not adopted by the king, but was hit, driven out of the capital, and finally exiled to the Northern Han Dynasty. Qu Yuan was born honest and frank, unwilling to compromise. He saw through the world of mortals and jumped into the Miluo River to defend justice with his death. The local fishermen were very sad when they learned about it. He rowed the boat, scattered rice with a bamboo tube to the Miluo River to feed the fish, and saved Qu Yuan's body. Later, people changed the rice in the bamboo tube into jiaozi and the rowing boat into dragon boat race, which gradually formed a ceremony. From now on, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival. People will eat zongzi and row dragon boats to commemorate this great patriotic poet. Our whole family admires Qu Yuan's character and wisdom. Therefore, our family attaches great importance to the Dragon Boat Festival every year, and we must make zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan.

The custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to eat zongzi and race dragon boats. Zongzi can be divided into two shapes: one is Niutou Zongzi and the other is pointed-tailed Zongzi. In our family, my mother is an expert in making zongzi. Every Dragon Boat Festival, our whole family can eat delicious zongzi. My mother often said, "Zongzi wrapped in leaves is the most fragrant." Therefore, every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, my mother wraps zongzi with reed leaves. Before making zongzi, she made preparations: soak reed leaves in warm water and wash the prepared glutinous rice, dates and peanuts together. After the reed leaves cooled, she began to make zongzi. She first took three leaves, rolled them into a cone, then put a jujube, then put glutinous rice and peanuts in it, put a few pieces of jujube meat in the middle, wrapped them and tied them with straw ropes, and you're done. The zongzi wrapped by my mother is big and strong, like bundles and heavy. Mom cooks them in the pressure cooker for 30 minutes, then soaks them in the soup for about an hour to make them delicious, and then you can eat them! The smell of my mother's dumplings makes my mouth water. Sometimes I can eat several at a time and then my stomach is full of laughter.

Besides eating zongzi, there is also a dragon boat race on the Dragon Boat Festival!

I like watching dragon boat races best. Dozens of sailors are holding paddles in coordination, and Qi Xin is also struggling to paddle forward together. The sailors who beat the drums have high morale and beat the drums hard. "Come on, come on!" "The cheerleaders outside the stadium made thunderous shouts and cheers, which made the sailors more energetic and brave ... Every year, the dragon boat race was spectacular.

Eating zongzi and racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival is not only the traditional custom of the Chinese nation, but also the inheritance of China traditional culture.