What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Qinghai? How did you spend it?

Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. Like all housewives, I bought some glutinous rice and zongzi leaves early, learned from foreigners to soak some red beans, mung beans and peanuts, and prepared a zongzi filled with eight treasures. As soon as I came back from the night shift this morning, I got into the kitchen to make zongzi. Zongzi is wrapped and cooked on the fire. I am busy cooking eggs-it seems that these two kinds of food are prepared every Dragon Boat Festival. Send some to her husband's family, send some to her mother's family, and put some in plastic bags for her children to taste for teachers and classmates. I will also bring some to my office for my colleagues to taste. Of course, my colleagues also brought them, and I tried theirs. Dragon Boat Festival is like eating zongzi eggs. It's a pity not to eat. Eat it, swallow it in two bites, throw away the zongzi skin and wipe your hands with some napkins-the Dragon Boat Festival is over.

When the smell of zongzi began to diffuse, I had nothing to do, and the holiday food was as simple as that. I dug out the sachet my mother gave me a few years ago. My mother is very skilled. For several years, she earned a little money by selling sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival. Her sachets are all sewn by herself, stuffed with bits and pieces of silks and satins into various flowers, animals and heart-shaped pomegranates, decorated with ears made of silk thread, and filled with herbs such as Gan Song and Shifeng bought from pharmacies. Smell it, smell it. It's completely different from the fancy sachets glued together with linen. People like to buy my mother's sachet. Later, her eyes were old and she could no longer sew sachets, but every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, people came to inquire about my mother's sachets. My mother couldn't bear to brush her face, so she gave them away one by one. Mother sachet is a real sachet worn by Qinghai people. She can string peaches, pomegranate, dustpan, radish, small teapot and small star anise and sew them into a big sachet. The five poisons she sewed for the children were so vivid that even the centipede's claws were picked out one by one. I didn't want my mother to give away all these sachets, so I lied that someone was going to pay a high price for her sachets and bought them all with my money.

I think these sachets are probably the most precious thoughts left by our mother in the future.

This year's Dragon Boat Festival, I turned them out. I chose a heart-shaped pomegranate to hang around my neck and a tiger-shaped sachet for my son. My son, who is already in high school, threw the sachet on the bed, called me crazy, and then watched TV by himself.

I picked up these two delicate sachets and put them in the box. Indeed, a high school student and a middle-aged woman are no longer suitable for hanging colorful sachets on their chests. But what if it really hangs up? I come from Qinghai. It is an important content for Qinghai people to wear sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival. I am celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival according to the customs of Qinghai people. My children talk about the Dragon Boat Festival, such as the origin and origin of the Dragon Boat Festival. Which Dragon Boat Festival originated from Qu Yuan, Wu Zixu, Cao E and others? I said, how do Qinghai people spend the Dragon Boat Festival? He immediately rolled his eyes: "That's your business. Didn't you just pack two zongzi? " I am speechless.

I remember the Dragon Boat Festival last year. I went to a place in the country to see my relatives. Along the way, I saw willow branches hanging on the roofs and gates of every household, and women and children were wearing sachets and colorful silk threads on their wrists, folding Elaeagnus angustifolia flowers on the Elaeagnus angustifolia trees outside the village. Elaeagnus angustifolia flowers exude a strong fragrance. I can't help but break a branch and put it in my hair, but no one laughs at me. A woman also picked a bunch of bagged peonies from her yard and pinned them on my skirt. My mood is like the sunshine in May, shining all day.

Looking at the peony swaying on my chest, I think of the Dragon Boat Festival in Qinghai. In fact, the Dragon Boat Festival of Qinghai people started from the first day of junior high school. Every household cleaned the water tank, put fresh Chinese medicines such as Rhizoma Atractylodis and Rhizoma Osmundae in the water tank, and the men went out to fetch water. It is said that on the night before the Dragon Boat Festival, toads have to take a bath in the water, so they can't drink the water that day, so they must fill the water tank the day before.

On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, willow branches and mugwort leaves were planted on the roofs and lintels of all families, as if they had taken root and sprouted from their walls overnight. The women wiped the red cupboard clean, set up two sea bowls, folded several peony plants from the yard, injected clean water to raise them, dropped a few drops of wine in the bowls and said, "Peony caught fire; Drunk peony. " Suddenly, the peony bloomed brightly, setting off the bright red cabinet and the room with the bright red cabinet.

Then, the men hold a bowl of noodles, or two eggs, a handful of leeks and a bottle of wine, and ask their friends to have a picnic in a grove. Set up a pot of "three stones and one top", burn a delicious noodle, then take out the wine from your pocket, slap five drinks and six fists, get drunk and enjoy yourself.

Women generally don't take part in picnics. They have a more important activity. They mix cold noodles at home, spread bean jelly, steam jujube cakes and steamed buns, and are very busy in the kitchen. After the steamed stuffed bun is put in the drawer, the mother asks for leave to put on new clothes for her children (of course, this is a conditional family), while tying various sachets on her chest, sewing cloth tigers on her shoulders and sewing small snakes or frogs on her shoes. Finally, touch a few drops of realgar wine with your fingers and apply it to the child's forehead, eyes, nose and ears-it is said that this can prevent insects. With realgar wine, bugs can't bite children anymore. Maybe it was too drunk to get up.

The cold noodles are mixed, the bean jelly is solidified, and the steamed stuffed bun is still bright red. Women put food in wicker baskets and led the newly dressed children to Chengtou. In Xining in May, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and rape blossoms are fragrant. The woman looked around, and the Huangshui River flowed around the ancient city like a white ribbon. By the river, willows are weeping, wheat is green, and lilacs are floating like purple clouds. "Shili Xinghua Hongyu Road, several floors of Liu Yin Building". "The distant water shines on the sand, and the poplars are full of warblers." While eating the food brought, the women enjoyed the beautiful scenery of the ancient city of Xining, relaxed and happy, and were deeply intoxicated by this wonderful scenery and this beautiful festival.

This is the Dragon Boat Festival in Qinghai. Folks in Qinghai, after eating zongzi, let's have our own Dragon Boat Festival, because the Dragon Boat Festival of Qinghai people is really a beautiful, warm, romantic and rich festival.