Essay 500 words on Dragon Boat Festival in Hebei!

Essay on Dragon Boat Festival 500 words: Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival comes from the story of Qu Yuan: the patriotic poet Qu Yuan came up with a good idea that could enrich the country and strengthen the people, but it wasn't adopted by the king, and he was expelled from the palace instead. Qu Yuan was so angry that he jumped into the Miluo River. When a local fisherman learned about this, he rowed his boat and threw rice from a bamboo tube into the Miluo River for Qu Yuan. Later, people changed the bamboo tube with rice into rice dumplings, and changed the boat rowing into dragon boat racing to commemorate Qu Yuan. Our family admires Qu Yuan so much that we celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival every year.

The traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to eat zongzi. Our family has a real good dumpling wrapper - my mom. Every year at the Dragon Boat Festival, our whole family can eat delicious dumplings. My mom always says that dumplings made of reed leaves are the most fragrant. So, every year at the Dragon Boat Festival, my mom uses the leaves of the reeds to wrap the dumplings. Before she wrapped the dumplings, do the preparatory work: put the reed leaves in the water to boil a boil, the ready glutinous rice and dates were washed. After the leaves of the reeds had cooled down, she began to wrap the dumplings. She first took three leaves, the three leaves rolled into a cone, and then first put a date, then put glutinous rice inside, the middle of the clip a few dates, and finally tied the leaves with a line, a dumpling is wrapped. She wrapped the dumplings and fat and big, like an old Buddha is sleeping. When the dumplings packaged, mom put them in the pressure cooker steamed for forty minutes, and then put three or four hours, so that it tastes, and then you can eat! The dumplings wrapped by my mom are very fragrant, so fragrant that I will eat them with a big mouthful as soon as I see them. So, whenever I eat rice dumplings, I always eat a lot!

Over the Dragon Boat Festival in addition to eating dumplings, but also to race dragon boats!

I love to watch the dragon boat race, dozens of sailors are holding paddles, paddling hard, drumming sailors high morale, banging hard. "Go, go!" Outside the field of cheerleaders passionate, issued a thunderous shouts, cheering, sailors heard had to paddle more vigorously. The whole scene of dragon boat racing was very spectacular and enthusiastic.

Eating rice dumplings, dragon boat racing, these two traditional customs **** with the weaving of a lively Dragon Boat Festival.