There is a fragrant pear tree in front of Grandma Tan's house, which is covered with small pears that are about to mature. Grandma Tan told us that they would wrap zongzi under this pear tree every Dragon Boat Festival. At the moment, I see Grandma Tan and her family sitting around a pear tree with a round table in the middle. The table is covered with zongye, glutinous rice and red dates. While chatting at home, the family happily wrapped zongzi, only smelling the fragrance of zongzi under the fragrant pear tree.
"Dragon Boat Festival in the first month" (that is, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month) is the most important festival of Quxiang people in a year. People in Lepingli will prepare Dragon Boat Festival supplies in advance, such as zongye and dough for Baba. Grandma Tan's wife Xiang Lishan is 74 years old. He said: "Every year on the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, I go up the mountain to cut the leaves of Zongzi, and then I go home and soak Zongzi in water to wash it clean. My wife will also soak glutinous rice in water at home to make dough. "
It is reported that Quxiang people have two kinds of food necessary for the Dragon Boat Festival, one is Qu Yuan Zongzi, and the other is Baba, which looks like an oversized steamed bread. According to legend, Baba is a lunch prepared by Qu Yuan's mother for her school, which contains Qu Yuan's deep love for her son, so it has been passed down to this day. Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, Grandma Tan steamed several cages of zongzi and Baba for the whole family to enjoy.
Xiang Lishan also said that during the Dragon Boat Festival, he would go up the mountain to pick fresh leaves with dew at 4 or 5 in the morning. When women are busy making zongzi and Baba, they stick couplets on the door with the paste made by the old man Lishan, and then hang bundles of fresh mugwort leaves. At the same time, because the fragrance of mugwort leaves has the function of repelling mosquitoes, the elderly will also use it to soak their families in the bath.
It is understood that in Lepingli village, every Dragon Boat Festival, the elderly at home will call in advance to invite their children and grandchildren to go home for the New Year. The family sat around eating zongzi, Baba and realgar wine. Surrounded by mountains and under peach and pear trees, * * * told the feelings of Qu Xiang people about the Dragon Boat Festival.