On the 6th and 8th of the street opening time of Ma 'an East Road, the "Zongzi Street" in Ma 'an East Road Community officially opened. Due to the price changes this year, (rice has gone up by one yuan per catty, and the price of meat has also gone up), compared with last year, the price of white flavor has gone up by about one yuan per catty, and the price of meat dumplings has gone up by about two yuan per catty. The price of white dumplings is seven or eight yuan a catty, and meat dumplings are about fifteen or sixteen yuan a catty.
According to the staff of Ma 'an East Road Community, their next step is to launch Zongzi online celebrity Store, where people can not only watch the live broadcast, but also experience making and eating Zongzi on the spot and experience the traditional culture from a distance.
Dragon Boat Race is one of the traditional activities of the Dragon Boat Festival in Chengdu. It started in Han Dynasty, especially in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Jinjiang is the annual dragon boat race in Chengdu.
Later, the Jinjiang River bed rose, the water level dropped, the dragon boat race in Chengdu stopped, and the race was moved to Xinjin and Jintang.
Sandaoyan Town People's Government issued an announcement that the traditional folk activities, namely the 67th Dragon Boat Festival and the 7th Water-splashing Festival, will be temporarily cancelled on June 25th, 2020 this year. At the same time, it is strictly forbidden for any unit, social organization or individual to organize and hold traditional Dragon Boat Festival without authorization within Sandaoyan Town for any reason.
Hanging sachets for Dragon Boat Festival activities
The Records of Chengdu Folk Dialect also records that children wear zongzi wrapped with five-color silk thread and sachets sewn with cotton cloth and silk thread. Chinese medicines such as realgar, Rhizoma Atractylodis, Flos Caryophylli, Herba Asari, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, etc. are said to ward off poisonous insects and plagues. Young women also insert Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Folium Typhae or pomegranate flowers in their heads to ward off evil spirits.
Dianrealgar
When drinking realgar wine, touch a few drops with your fingers and apply them to your child's forehead, nose and ears to prevent mosquito bites. Or draw a word "Wang" on the child's forehead, one with realgar to drive away the poison, and the other with tiger to suppress evil.
Eat amaranth
Dragon Boat Festival, which is famous for zongzi and salted duck eggs, is not ranked as the "big brother" in traditional festivals in China, but it is also an "old qualification" between festivals. On this day, eating zongzi, salted duck eggs and fried amaranth means that eating amaranth will never forget the "Han" and express a patriotic thought.
Wang cong sai ge
Don't think that folk songs are only the patent of ethnic minorities. Chengdu people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival and also sing songs. According to "History of Wangcong Saige", Wangcong Saige originated from the fact that the people thanked the ancient Shu emperors for their songs and dances, and blessed the local area to survive the plague. The wind of Saige flourished in the Qing Dynasty, resounded in the Republic of China, and was interrupted in the early days of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. 1983 The Wangcong Saige in the Dragon Boat Festival was rebuilt, and now the Wangcong Saige in Pidu District has become an intangible cultural heritage of Sichuan Province.
Send an umbrella or straw hat to the son-in-law
This is a unique folk custom in Chengdu. According to the Records of Chengdu Folk Dialects, in the past, it was popular to send umbrellas and straw hats during the Dragon Boat Festival in some suburban rural areas of Chengdu. On the first Dragon Boat Festival after marriage, the son-in-law should prepare nine zongzi, nine salted eggs and two bottles of wine, take his wife to his father-in-law's house for the holiday, and give him a new umbrella after his parents-in-law receive the gift. When the son-in-law comes home, he will go home with an umbrella no matter whether it is sunny or rainy, which means he will take care of his new wife. In traditional Chinese characters, "_" is the word with the most characters, which means to have more children and prosperous people.
Pork Festival
Unlike the "Zongzi Festival" and "Salted Egg Festival" that people call now, the Dragon Boat Festival in old Chengdu is nicknamed "Pork Festival". At that time, many people could only eat pork "have a toothache" on holidays, so the common name "Pork Festival" came into being ~