Use ultralight clay to do Dragon Boat Festival works

Make Dragon Boat Festival works with ultralight clay as follows:

1, first, let's make a small cage drawer to put the dumplings in, and use brown clay to make a round piece.

2, the top with a tool to press out vertical stripes.

3. Use brown clay to make the wrapping edge of the small cage drawer, so the small cage drawer is ready.

4, first with green clay to make a dumplings, is a triangle dumplings Oh ~

5, and then with green clay to make a dumpling leaves in the cage drawer.

6, with white clay to make a triangle of glutinous rice dumplings, with yellow clay to make a round egg yolks glued to the top, as shown above.

Duanwu Festival, is a collection of worship of God and ancestors, pray for blessings to ward off evil spirits, celebrations and entertainment and food as one of the big folk festival. Customs mainly include rowing a dragon boat, sacrificing to the dragon, picking herbs, hanging mugwort, playing the afternoon water, washing herbal water, worshipping the gods and ancestors, dipping in the dragon boat water, eating rice in the dragon boat, eating zongzi, releasing paper dragons, releasing paper kites, tying the five-color silk threads, wearing scented sachets and so on.

As one of the four traditional festivals in China, it not only clearly records the rich and colorful social life and cultural content of the ancestors, but also accumulates profound historical and cultural connotations.

Historical origin:

The word "Duan" in "Dragon Boat Festival" originally means "positive", and "Wu" means "middle".

The word "Duanwu" originally meant "positive" and "Wu" meant "middle". "Dragon Boat Festival", "in the right" also, this day at noon for the right in the right. Midsummer noon noon day flying dragon in the sky, the Dragon Star at this time in the south in the sky, for the whole year the run of the circumference of the most "in the right" position, both "in the" and "in the right", it is a very lucky elephant.

Ancient people have always respected the center, the right way, the "right" way in this manifestation of the best. In addition, the end also has a "first" meaning, so Wu (five) the first day of the month, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Festival, Festival of the Dragon, the Festival of the Day, etc., originated from the worship of heaven, evolved from the ancient times of the sacrifice of the dragon. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong seven lodges soared to the south of the sky, is an auspicious day for the Dragon, that is, as the "I Ching - Qian Gua" lines of the fifth line of the lines said: "Flying Dragon in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Star both "in" and "get positive", is the elephant of great fortune.

The origin of the festival covers ancient astrological culture, humanities and philosophy, and contains deep and rich cultural connotations; in the development of the inheritance of a variety of folklore as a whole, the festival is rich in customary content. Dragon boat and rice dumplings are the two major rituals of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been handed down in China since ancient times and are still practiced today.