Dragon Boat Festival in Baoshan Essay

Cake on the first day, dumplings on the second day, snails on the third day, peaches on the fourth day, and wormwood on the fifth day ...... "Whenever I recite these childhood songs, I think of the Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown.

Five flavors of grass

Hometown in the pot public mountain. The grass and trees on the mountain are verdant, and the fruits and melons are fragrant; under the mountain, the green water is surrounded by fertile fields. In a lush loquat tree side, has a neat red brick green tile. A quiet and harmonious countryside village, this is my hometown, but also the hometown of the Ming Dynasty scholar Ke Qian. Every year when the Dragon Boat Festival comes, we will put on the basket and sister together to go to the mountains to pick mugwort, and with pomegranate leaves, Gardenia and so on together as "five flavors of grass". On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, every house would have mugwort on its door, which was said to keep evil spirits away. Of course, in our opinion, as long as the smell away from the fresh and strange fragrance of the mugwort, for us is a happy thing, so every year we are scrambling to the mountains, picking a large piece of mugwort, but also picking a large piece of happiness.

Of course, my mom would cook us a lot of duck eggs with the "five flavors of grass", and it was said that the children ate them without coughing. As for us kids, we would always show off with the colorful woolen bags full of duck eggs knitted by our clever sister. After lunch, my mother would use the "five flavors of grass" boiled duck egg water to give us a bath, really fragrant and comfortable, the whole summer are not prickly heat it ......

Dumplings and dragon boat races

In our memories, the Dragon Boat Festival to give people the impression of In addition to play is to eat. During the Dragon Boat Festival, we can not only eat fragrant duck eggs, there are also memorable dumplings?

Packing dumplings is also one of the Dragon Boat Festival's reserved programs. Mom and aunts will always buy a lot of rice dumpling leaves, water less soaked, washed and yards. The filling of the dumplings is usually glutinous rice, with green beans, red dates, etc., cooked. Then in the mother and aunt of a dexterous busy, we children will be like a greedy cat around the steamer, waiting for the moment of the zongzi out of the cage of the arrival of ......

Grew up to read the book only to know that the custom of wrapping the zongzi and the history of our patriotic poets qu yuan related to it? It is said that after Qu Yuan jumped into the Miluo River, the masses in order to not let the fish in the water to bite the poet's body they made a lot of dumplings, thrown into the water. So that the fish would have something to eat and would not hurt the poet. So, in order to protect and commemorate the great patriotic poet, later there is a more lively "dragon boat race".

We don't have dragon boat races in our village, but in Huangshi every year there is such a bustling scene:

On the banks of the Mulan River, people gather around the shore early in the morning, and the gongs and drums vibrate in the sky and the firecrackers go off. The water, several neat dragon boat team, brightly colored clothes fluttering in the wind, the boys are passionate and eager to try. With the sound of a gong, each team competed for the start, we work together, and strive to be the first. At this moment, the sound of drums, firecrackers people's shouts ...... together into a lively and extraordinary picture.

The 2008 Dragon Boat Festival

When we step into 2008, all of us are full of expectations. We will usher in the Olympic Games and our great motherland will welcome visitors from all directions. However, on May 12, the Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, the magnitude of the earthquake disaster, tens of thousands of compatriots were killed in the disaster. But soon all Chinese people stood up: the People's Liberation Army entered the disaster area to rescue, volunteers also rushed to help, people from all directions to extend a helping hand to give a love ...... We are all of one heart and one mind, we will be able to achieve the final victory!

The 2008 Dragon Boat Festival, we will no longer only commemorate the great patriotic poet, we will remember all the compatriots killed in the disaster; we will pick more "five flavors of grass", distributed to friends in the disaster area; we will pack more zongzi, dedicated to those who are brave to save the uncles and aunts; we will be the Dragon Boat Race to be more We will make the Dragon Boat Race more vivid and wonderful - we Chinese are brave, fearless, hospitable and selfless! We will usher in the Olympic Games with a brave attitude, so that people all over the world will say: Chinese people, good job!

Duanwu is a beautiful and simple festival, for people who love life, it is not only to commemorate more should be an attitude to life. We have had many beautiful and moving Dragon Boat Festival, but the 2008 Dragon Boat Festival is destined to be different! Let us look forward to, look forward to our Dragon Boat Festival, look forward to our Olympic Games, look forward to our hard-working and courageous Chinese people to create a beautiful and brilliant day!