What are the customs of Chaoshan traditional festivals?

Customs of Chaoshan Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional folk festival for generations of Chinese people. There are all kinds of colorful local customs in Chaoshan Dragon Boat Festival. There is a famous poem by hipsters during the Dragon Boat Festival: "Every family is eager to eat zongzi. I prefer the dragon boat race, with loud gongs and drums and brilliant paddles. " Poetry vividly tells the vivid scene of Chaoshan people celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival.

Pay tribute to Qu Yuan

Since ancient times, although there are different views on the name and origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the day when Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet, was unlucky, worried about the country and his life, and threw himself into the Miluo River for martyrdom. The earliest record that Qu Yuan said is: In the book Continued Harmony by Wu Yun of Xiao Liang, he said: "People make zongzi with colored silk and neem leaves, which are all the legacy of Miluo". It is also said that after Qu Yuan was martyred in the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, the people of Chu threw zongzi into the river in order to prevent Qu Yuan's body from being embezzled by fish and shrimp. This statement still holds true today. Therefore, the world regards the Dragon Boat Festival as a day to commemorate Qu Yuan.

Dragon Boat Racing

In Chaoshan, there is a folk song named "Bao He's son-in-law grabs the first prize", which vividly reflects the folk custom of Chaoshan folk dragon boat race. Rivers and ponds in Chaoshan water town crisscross. Dragon boat festival, dragon boat race. The gongs and drums are loud, flags are flying, paddles are like wings, and medals are competing for each other. The street was empty and water poured on it. Very lively. The tide poem "Dragon Boat Festival" says: "Dragon Boat Festival clouds open and showers close, and dragon boat races are held on the river. My heart was in a hurry with the drums and I forgot Qu Yuan's sorrow that day. " This is the poet's description of people watching the dragon boat race.

There are two kinds of dragon boats in Chaoshan: real and fake. The "real dragon" has a dragon head, a dragon neck, a dragon body and a dragon tail. The dragon boat is more than 20 meters long and 1.5 meters wide. 15 has 30 rowers, 1 34 for drumming, gong beating, water splashing and helmsman. "False Dragon", commonly known as braided boat, has a total length of 10m, five pairs of paddles,10 people, drums, gongs, water splashing, helmsman 14 people and * * 14 people. Some people don't have to knock gongs. )

Eat Dragon Boat Festival jiaozi.

Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty said: "The ancients used reed leaves to wrap millet and cooked it into a sharp corner, so it was called zongzi and corn." Chaoshan people commonly call "Zongzi" as "Zongzi Ball". Chaoshan people, handed down from generation to generation, make zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is one of Qu Yuan's heritages. There is a folk saying that "if you don't eat zongzi in May, you won't let it go." It can be seen that Zongzi has become a famous snack in Chaoshan with a long history. In particular, the "Double Boiled Zongzi Ball" in Malao Palace in Shantou is the most famous, which arouses the homesickness of overseas travelers and is often remembered. Some "old fans" have just returned to their hometown and specially ordered "Mother Palace Zongqiu" in Shantou to try it first. When tasting, the wrapped bamboo leaves are peeled off first, revealing steaming, oily glutinous rice white and crystal clear, and delicious fillings such as mung bean paste, diced melon and peanuts, sausage, shrimp skin, mushrooms, pork, fermented milk and pepper are colorful, which is naturally mouth-watering. After careful tasting, it is fragrant, sweet, tender, smooth, colorful, fragrant and delicious.

Hanging "Five Ruins"

In Chaoshan people, wormwood, calamus, pomegranate, garlic and dragon boat flowers tied with "red rope" are hung under the lintel, knocker and even eaves during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is called "five pistils". In fact, the ancient hipsters took epidemic prevention and health care measures against the plague raging in the "evil moon" in order to drive away the plague and evil spirits.

Chenghai old county records: "Put mugwort leaves on the Dragon Boat Festival door and pomegranate flowers (pages) on your hair to ward off evil spirits."