Dragon Boat Festival Customs in Chaoshan

The pace of life in the Chaoshan area is a little slower, so unlike in big cities, the Dragon Boat Festival in small counties can be grand and lively. Our Dragon Boat Festival is divided into three main steps, wrapping zongzi and worshipping the old man, and rowing dragon boats.

Because of the large family population, in our hometown is more like in the Dragon Boat Festival a few days before the family pack their own rice dumplings to eat, clean and hygienic, the material is also enough, but also affordable. Chaoshan rice dumplings from the outside to the inside look, first of all, wrapped rice dumplings leaves are green bamboo leaves, washed and dried can be used to wrap the rice dumplings. The second layer of glutinous rice is in the day of wrapping the rice dumplings after washing the glutinous rice in a pot with garlic oil and mushrooms, and a little soy sauce and mix, some like to put a little sacha sauce, so that the glutinous rice steamed out more sweet. Inside the filling it, by the bird eggs and bean paste, mushrooms and lean meat composition, bird eggs are peeled the day before the package dumplings, plus soy sauce and five-spice powder, and add a little sugar cooked together in the refrigerator after the preservation of freshness, but also so that the bird eggs have been brined to the next day when the package of rice dumplings have a more flavor. Lean meat, and do not have to cook, cut into a piece of a piece and cut into particles of mushrooms and stirred together into the dumplings is, and bean paste, go to the market to buy people to do a good job of bean paste filling it, so the Chaoshan dumplings stuffing enough to be divided into two layers.

The second part, is to worship the master, in the Dragon Boat Festival day is the fifth day of the fifth month, originally the Chaoshan region to worship the gods are the first and fifteenth day of the month, but because of this festival is more special, so in the Dragon Boat Festival will worship ah Gong and other big fairy. The people will have to get up early to prepare the goods and food for the festival.

Last but not least, the Dragon Boat Race. My hometown has a Huanggang River, which is the junction of seawater and freshwater, so people usually hold a Dragon Boat Race in the freshwater area every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, and each township puts out a team to start practicing in the afternoon and evening every day for half a month before the Dragon Boat Festival. In my hometown, the more special is to send red flags, because we belong to the town of fish and rice, most people rely on the sea fishing for a living, so the Dragon Boat Festival send red flags also implies that the next year will be smooth sailing meaning.

? When I was a child, I always watched the adults watching the dragon boat race while throwing dumplings and peaches and plums and other fruits into the water, but I do not understand why they have to do this, good food soak in the water is not a waste of it, and then grew up, know the origins of the Dragon Boat Festival, but also from the textbook to understand the story of the qu yuan only to understand that this to the water to throw the food from the origin.

Nowadays, due to the rapid development of the social economy, the popularity of Western culture festivals on the Chinese festivals passed down for thousands of years, the impact is too great, in the big cities, many young people to the white Valentine's Day and Christmas in mind, and these festivals have been incredibly grand, while the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival of these traditional Chinese festivals, but just feel that you can put a few days of vacation is very good, but in the Chaoshan region is still followed by traditional Chinese festivals and customs. But in the Chaoshan area, the traditional Chinese festival customs are still followed, although the economic development is a step slower, but the life is still full and happy, so in the Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, I prefer to come home to experience the atmosphere of the festival at home, and be proud that I am a Chaoshanese Y(^_^)Y