My interest in the holidays has faded.

The Spring Festival is the Spring Festival, just put more things in the refrigerator and insist on not going to the vegetable market for a few days.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival. I don’t eat the mooncakes I bought, just for show.

But something is different this year. When the aroma of the rice dumplings is getting stronger and stronger, we just happened to read Mr. Wang Zengqi's article "Duck Eggs at the Dragon Boat Festival". A duck egg at the Dragon Boat Festival reveals memories of my hometown and the beautiful life of my childhood. I also learned something.

Reminisced.

When I was a child, the Dragon Boat Festival in Bitou Village, Xieshen Township, my hometown, was very particular.

When making rice dumplings, there are requirements for rice dumpling leaves, fresh reed leaves, green or oak leaves, exuding a light fragrance.

On the afternoon of the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, all the raw materials were prepared. White glutinous rice was soaked in water, plump candied dates, peanut kernels, and raisins were soaked early. Together with my family's production, an exquisite rice dumpling was born.

Don't rush when cooking rice dumplings, cook them slowly over low heat. My grandma likes to use the stove. She puts the rice dumplings on the stove the night before and they can simmer for a whole night.

The next day my brother and I got up together, opened the lid, and a pot of hot rice dumplings appeared in front of us. The house and yard were immediately filled with the aroma of rice dumplings.

Lin's grandfather was educated. He told us that Chang'e in the Moon Palace kept pounding medicine every year. These medicines were to be sprinkled on various vegetation and in rivers on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Before the sun comes out on the Dragon Boat Festival, these medicines are still on the grass. If you pull them out at this time, boil them into medicine, and use the water to bathe, you can cure all diseases.

Of course the children believed it. At dawn, my brother and I went to play in the fields with the famous "Old Stinky". We had to complete a sacred mission for our family - pulling out herbs.

The morning light in the fifth lunar month is beautiful, the air is cool, and the surroundings are quiet. If you accidentally take a look, you may run into the neighbor's children who come to dig herbs.

Now that the Dragon Boat Festival is coming again, who would go to the fields to dig grass? There is a special shower gel for bathing, and I am too lazy to make rice dumplings. I can’t eat a few, so why go to all the trouble? Just buy a few.

However, the happiness of the past cannot be bought!

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese folk festival. It is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation.

The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival and Duanyang.

In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many other names, such as: Noon Day Festival, Chongwu Festival, May Festival, Bath Orchid Festival, Girl's Day, Tianzhong Festival, Di La, Poet's Day, Dragon Day and so on.

Although the names are different, generally speaking, the festival customs of people in various places are more similar than different.

Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival has been a traditional habit of the Chinese people for more than 2,000 years. Due to the vast territory, numerous ethnic groups, and many stories and legends, not only have there been many different festival names, but also different customs in different places.

The main contents include: when the daughter returns to her parents' home, hangs the statue of Zhong Kui, greets the ghost ship, avoids the afternoon, puts up the leaf talisman at noon, hangs the calamus and mugwort, travels against all diseases, wears the sachet, prepares the wine for the sacrifice, races the dragon boat, competes in martial arts, and hits the ball.

, playing on swings, coating children with realgar, drinking realgar wine, calamus wine, eating Wudu cakes, salted eggs, rice dumplings and seasonal fresh fruits, etc. Except for the superstitious activities that have gradually disappeared, the rest are still spread throughout China and neighboring countries.

Some activities, such as dragon boat races, have achieved new development, breaking through time and geographical boundaries and becoming international sports events.

There are many theories about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: commemorating Qu Yuan; commemorating Wu Zixu; commemorating Cao E; starting from the Summer Solstice Festival of three generations; avoiding evil moons and evil days; Wu Yue National Totem Sacrifice; etc.

Each of the above statements has its own origin.

According to more than 100 ancient book records and expert archaeological research listed in the "Dragon Boat Test" and "Dragon Boat History Education" by scholar Wen Yiduo, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is a totem festival held by the Wuyue people in southern China in ancient China, earlier than Qu Yuan

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However, for thousands of years, Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit and touching poems have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Therefore, people "cherish and mourn him, comment on his words from generation to generation, and pass them on from generation to generation." Therefore, commemorating Qu Yuan has the widest and deepest influence.

occupy a mainstream position.

In the field of folk culture, Chinese people associate dragon boat racing and eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival with the commemoration of Qu Yuan.