This afternoon, I suddenly received a word "Dragon Boat Festival Memory" from my hometown's eldest brother Yanqing's classmate Jia Wenyou-Brother Wang Jinyu on my mobile phone: "The Spring Festival is clear and Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Dragon Boat Festival is lost due to the eternal regret. Qu Zi sinks into the Miluo River and hates it, and Han State grabs the festival and worries about luxury. Ai Ye Zongpu realgar wine and Xiang Zongsalty egg sea dragon boat are old friends. Just now, after reading a few doggerel poems drafted by brother Wang, at this moment, I can't help but recall the scenes of eating zongzi and watching dragon boat rowing in my hometown during the Dragon Boat Festival ...
I remember the Dragon Boat Festival in my childhood hometown, eating zongzi and watching dragon boat rowing, and I miss the whistle that I bought for a dime, made of yellow mud and a little color paper, and a bamboo stick with two or three chicken feathers, and blew "beep". These childhood memories make me look back from time to time, and the unforgettable meaning of the old days remains. When I am alone in a foreign land, or when the rain knocks on the window at night, these beautiful memories have accompanied me through many lonely times. Now I suddenly smell the fragrant zongzi floating outside the window and know that the Dragon Boat Festival is coming. That cherished memory is still with the sweetness of the years, and it is even stronger in my heart.
At that time, I remember when I was about thirteen or fourteen years old. In anticipation, we ushered in the annual Dragon Boat Festival. In order to go to the Shangwan River of Fengzhuhu Reservoir opposite my hometown pond to see my hometown's adult dragon boat racing, my 1-year-old third brother and I got up early, took my old mother to wrap a bunch of steamed zongzi, and together with the children next door, hurried to the Shangwan River of Fengzhuhu Reservoir opposite my hometown pond to see my hometown's adult dragon boat racing. The leader was king of the children Sinali, who was the fourth oldest at home. We all called him fourth uncle according to seniority. Usually, he always leads the way in catching sparrows and crickets, and today is no exception. In Mandarin, the dragon boat is called dragon boat. However, those farmers who take part in boating really don't want to listen to this word, because it has been called dragon boat for several years or even decades, or even generations or even dozens. Let's call it dragon boat, because it shows respect for farmers. Although many city people have started rowing dragon boats, dragon boats traditionally belong to farmers.
The dragon boat in my hometown may be as fascinating as the waist drum and duet in the north. According to the southerners, a dragon boat is as powerful as a thousand waist drums. If the waist drum and duet are focused on performance, then the dragon boat is focused on competition and watching. A dragon boat without a competition has no emotional appeal, just like a two-person biography. Without one person, there is no lasting appeal, just like a cross talk, only one person can't perform. Dragon boats seek speed and tension in progress, so they have both introverted beauty and external beauty. In essence, it is the perfect combination of physical strength and speed. In the dragon boat race, there was water everywhere. There was water on the dragon boat, the racers were covered with water, and the people who followed on the shore were covered with water. It was sweat from them, and it was wet everywhere. So some people say that the dragon boat is a wet world. It is also said that the dragon boat is a world of poetry, and the competition of input, the shouts, cheers and the passion of sprinting one after another will not be inferior in the artistic conception of any poem. Wet and poetry complement each other, which shows the endless heroism of the Chinese nation, and wet and poetry set off each other, which shows the characteristics of the Chinese nation as a great country. At that time, the children's faces were all smiling with joy, and you chased me and skipped to the Shangwan River in Fengzhuhu Reservoir opposite the pond in your hometown. The most unforgettable thing is the rich fragrance of zongzi in my hometown, floating in the clear sky, which makes me really feel that the unique atmosphere of the Dragon Boat Festival permeates my hometown.
A group of our friends came to the upper bay bank of Fengzhuhu Reservoir, which is opposite to the hometown pond. The river was crystal clear, and there were waves on the edge of the reservoir. The river beat the rocks on the shore of the pond and splashed waves several feet high. The first people crowded the upper bay bank of Fengzhuhu Reservoir, which is opposite to the hometown pond, to help the old and the young. Some children sat on the shoulders of adults and blew bamboo whistles with cock feathers. Several children also climbed to the willow tree with crooked neck by the river. There are noisy crowds and surging people everywhere, and the whole boiling Shangwan River in Fengzhuhu Reservoir opposite the pond in my hometown has a panoramic view.
I can only see that there are more than a dozen dragon boats in the upper reaches of Shangwan River in Fengzhuhu Reservoir, which is opposite to the pond in my hometown. Unlike ordinary fishing boats, dragon boats are long and narrow, with a headdress and a dragon tail at the stern. The dragon head and tail are carved with wood and painted with color. The colors of the faucet are red, yellow and white, and the beard on the faucet is lifelike by the river wind. The dragon boat is full of gongs and drums, and the sailors are eager to try. In front of the dragon boat, there is a big float with a new dress, which is painted all over the body, like a big stage on the water, and colorful flags are flying around the boat in the wind. Meanwhile, the boat is full of drums and music, and Hua Dan, Xiaosheng and Clown in costumes seem to be putting on a costume drama. Clowns turn hollow somersaults at the bow, one after another dazzling.
With the deafening cry of the dragon boat, the cheers of people on the banks of Shangwan River in Fengzhuhu Reservoir opposite the pond in my hometown, a burst of gongs and drums resounded through Qingxi River, and the dragon boat race in my hometown began. I saw a dragon boat flying downstream like an arrow leaving the string, and the white waves paved a white practice behind the boat. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, a colorful chain is flying in the river. My third brother and I, a group of children, cheered in the crowd, followed the dragon boat running on the shore, and the whole river in my hometown was boiling. The river rushed to the shore, and our shoes were soaked by the river during running. With the sound of gongs and drums on the dragon boat, we and the people on the shore crowded and ran to the downstream of the river, cheering for the dragon boat like an arrow.
At noon, we hurried home for dinner. "Early Dragon Boat Festival, Late Mid-Autumn Festival" Today's lunch must be sumptuous, and we also need to drink realgar wine, which is the wine of Dragon Boat Festival. But only adults can drink it, and children can't drink it. Adults dip their hands in wine and rub foam on their children's faces, ears, noses, palms and feet, saying that this can exorcise evil spirits and detoxify. In The Legend of the White Snake, the White Snake only showed her true self after drinking realgar wine, and ashes of time was afraid of realgar wine.
On the night of Dragon Boat Festival, enjoying the cool outside, the night sky in summer is so deep and quiet. Listening to my mother and neighbors chatting, I know that eating zongzi and racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the ancient patriotic poet Qu Yuan. The beautiful and touching story lit up my dim heart like the twinkling stars in the night sky.
Zongxiang is floating outside the window again. With the passage of time, the traditional food and heavy folk culture charm of the Dragon Boat Festival are still silently passed on. It is a national spirit and a long history, which makes the folk culture of the Dragon Boat Festival endless and precious! Despite the passage of time and vicissitudes. But I still repeat these unforgettable stories in my hometown, savoring the joys and sorrows of life in silence.