1. The Dragon Boat Festival can be regarded as a grand event among Chinese folk festivals. Zongzi, tea eggs, mugwort, etc. are all the characteristics of the Dragon Boat Festival.

When I was a child, I would be excited for the Dragon Boat Festival for a week in advance because I could eat delicious rice dumplings. At that time, life was relatively monotonous and hard, and you couldn't eat anything except during the festival.

Speaking of zongzi, not only are they delicious, the most important thing is that the process of making zongzi embodies fun.

When the Dragon Boat Festival comes every year, my mother will run out a pot of glutinous rice the night before. The next morning, my mother and I will make it together. We add glutinous rice and jujubes to the green rice dumpling leaves and wrap them into triangular rice dumplings.

Put it in a big pot and cook it for 3 or 4 hours. Then my mother soaks the rice dumplings in the two prepared buckets of water. When they are cool, she carefully opens the bamboo leaves and takes a bite of the white and tender glutinous rice and the purple-red jujubes.

Just expose the head, dip it in sugar and eat it. It tastes so sweet and delicious, and it is unforgettable.

On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, every family put mugwort picked in the mountains on the door, saying it was to ward off evil spirits. We children just imitated it and did not understand the meaning.

On the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, after getting up, my mother would wrap colorful silk threads around our wrists and ankles, which we have been wearing since then. It is said that it can remove diseases and eliminate evil spirits.

In fact, in my heart, these colorful silk threads are substitutes for those exquisite bracelets.

Some families also spend some money to buy sachets for their children to take with them. My mother made them with her own hands using some small pieces of cloth, stuffing some cotton and adding some vanilla. Even so, we were very happy.

I recall that when I was a child, I was happy during the holidays, and the festive atmosphere was stronger than it is now.

2. Today is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which is the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Day Festival, May Festival, AI Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Noon Day Festival and Summer Festival.

Although the names are different, the customs of people in various places to celebrate the festival are the same.

The Dragon Boat Festival is an old custom in my country for more than 2,000 years. On this day, every household hangs a statue of Zhongkui, hangs moxa leaves and calamus, races dragon boats, eats rice dumplings, drinks realgar wine, travels to all diseases, and wears sachets!

In the morning, our family started making rice dumplings, ready to feed the "roundworms" in my belly.

Speaking of the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone must not know the knowledge about the Dragon Boat Festival. Let me, a great doctor, tell you about the Dragon Boat Festival!

Speaking of the Dragon Boat Festival, we have to ask a poet to help us talk about him first, but who is this person?

He is the famous patriotic poet-Qu Yuan!

Qu Yuan was a man who went abroad during the Warring States Period and was very knowledgeable.

He served as an official next to the King of Chu and used his image to make his country rich and powerful.

The foolish king of Chu believed the words of his treacherous officials and dismissed Qu Yuan from his post and was exiled.

In exile, Qu Yuan heard that the capital of Chu State was occupied by the enemy and the people were suffering. He was extremely sad and angry.

On the fifth day of May, he came to the Miluo River, held a stone in his arms, and jumped into the Miluo River.

The people who went abroad were very sad when they heard the news that Qu Yuan had thrown himself into the river.

With tears in their eyes, they rowed boats to salvage Qu Yuan and threw rice dumplings into the river to feed the fish, hoping that the fish would not harm Qu Yuan's body.

This is the origin of making zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival in May.

Let’s talk about the story of dragon boat racing during the Dragon Boat Festival.

At that time, the Chu people were reluctant to bear the death of their virtuous minister Qu Yuan, so many people rowed boats to chase and save him.

They scrambled to be the first, but disappeared when they reached Dongting Lake. This was the origin of dragon boat racing, and dragon boat racing was held on May 5th every year to commemorate it.

They rowed dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river to prevent them from eating Qu Yuan's body.

The custom of racing was popular in Wu, Yue and Chu.

Dragon boat racing began in Taiwan in the 29th year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Taiwan's prefect, Jiang Yuanjun, hosted a friendly competition at the Half Moon Pond of Fahua Temple in Tainan City.

Taiwan now holds a dragon boat race every May 5th.

Well, this is the Dragon Boat Festival knowledge I have collected. Now everyone has a certain understanding of the Dragon Boat Festival. Now should everyone feel sorry for the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan?

If it weren't for King Chu's insistence, I think Qu Yuan would have brought us many immortal poems. But Qu Yuan's leap into the water washed people's hearts clean. What he left behind was not only tragic poems but also the spirit of self-improvement!

I believe that the great patriotic poet will always remain in people's hearts!

3. The Wu Festival comes from the story of Qu Yuan: The patriotic poet Qu Yuan came up with a good idea that could enrich the country and strengthen the people, but it was not adopted by the king and was expelled from the palace.

He was so angry that he jumped into the Miluo River.

Local fishermen rowed boats to scatter rice in bamboo tubes down the Miluo River to Qu Yuan.

Later, people changed the rice in bamboo tubes into rice dumplings, and changed the rowing boats into dragon boat racing to commemorate Qu Yuan.

In order to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, everyone celebrates the Dragon Boat Festival every year.

Our whole family admires Qu Yuan very much, so our family celebrates the Dragon Boat Festival every year.

The traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to eat rice dumplings.

Therefore, there is a really good zongzi maker in our family—my mother.

So every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, our whole family can eat a lot of rice dumplings.

My mother always said: Zongzi made with reed leaves is the most fragrant.

So she used reed leaves to make rice dumplings.

Before she makes the rice dumplings, she first makes preparations: boil reed leaves in water, wash the prepared glutinous rice and dates separately, and the preparations are ready.

After the reed leaves had cooled, she began to make rice dumplings.