The customs of Dragon Boat Festival are different between the north and the south, and the north is basically based on the traditional customs of North China. However, after thousands of years of historical changes, our northeast has gradually developed its own customs and traditions. Let's take a look at the customs and traditions in Northeast China.
As for the customs of Dragon Boat Festival in Northeast China, in Yingkou, there are several customs of
1 and eating zongzi
Zongzi is the first one. Although the tastes of Zongzi in the north and the south are different, the expressible content is the same. Eating Zongzi has become a PK in the south and the north, and the meaning of food is even stronger.
Yellow rice jujube zongzi is a traditional zongzi in Northeast China. The main ingredient of zongzi is glutinous rice, which is difficult to digest and should not be eaten too much at one time. Especially the elderly and children, as well as patients with cardiovascular diseases, gastrointestinal diseases and diabetes, should eat less. It is best to eat zongzi with vegetables and fruits to increase the intake of fiber and make the nutrition more balanced.
2. Eat tea eggs
Besides zongzi, eat tea eggs. Eggs include eggs, tea eggs, goose eggs and salted duck eggs. The original custom of eating eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival should be to avoid the plague in the middle of the afternoon. In this festival near the summer solstice, the yang is rising to the right end, the yin is first applied, the yang is flourishing, and heaven and earth are in harmony. It is the most urgent thing to supplement protein. In Northeast China, people will cook tea eggs every Dragon Boat Festival.
On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, the elders roll cooked chicken, duck and goose eggs on children's bellies, and then peel them for children to eat. It is said that this can avoid children's stomachache, but it is actually a children's game on holidays. Other areas are mainly cooking, which is said to have been thrown into the river to feed fish and shrimp to save Qu Yuan, and later evolved into cooking as a memorial.
3. Fighting against stones
The way to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in Fuxin and Montenegro, Liaoning Province is very special, and it has been preserved to this day? Fighting against stones? The tradition. ? Fighting against stones? It is a traditional stone-fighting activity in which two villages throw stones at each other for fun. It was originally an entertainment activity within the village, and later it gradually developed into an important custom of people's Dragon Boat Festival.
On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, twelve or thirteen-year-old children from two villages stood on the hill and shouted at each other and threw stones at each other. After a while, in the morning, older elders came forward to call for battle, and continued to throw stones at each other while calling for battle; At around 11: 11, all parties went home for lunch. Wait until two o'clock in the afternoon. Fighting against stones? Officially, at this time, farmers stopped planting, small traders stopped selling goods, and every family closed their doors and windows and ran to the hills to watch the fun. Everyone was excited. The two sides threw stones at each other, and on this day, people who were injured or disabled by stones could not report to the official, claim compensation or resent.
4. Eating Dagao
Where Korean people are concentrated in China? In Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province, the Dragon Boat Festival is one of the important traditional festivals of Koreans, but the Dragon Boat Festival is mainly eaten by Koreans. Cake? .
Beating cakes is the food that is hammered out in a matching wooden trough or stone trough with a special beating hammer. The raw material is mainly steamed glutinous rice or sticky yellow rice. In addition to eating cakes, Koreans also have traditional sports activities on Dragon Boat Festival, such as swinging, springboard jumping and wrestling. The girls were swinging, while the boys were wrestling, which was very lively.
5. Drinking
Everyone needs to drink a glass of wine when getting up early in the Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to ward off evil spirits. Drinking and spraying realgar wine is a traditional folk custom of Dragon Boat Festival. The proverb says:? On May 5th, realgar shochu celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival. ? Because people in ancient times were superstitious about the Dragon Boat Festival, that is, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month? Bad month and bad day? , is the most poisonous day, so on this day, people will cut the collected cattail roots, dry them in the sun, mix them with a little realgar, and soak them in white wine to drink, thinking that this has the effect of driving away snakes and evil spirits.
For children who are too young to drink, adults apply a small amount of realgar wine to their cheeks, ears, nose and other parts to eliminate disasters and diseases. But modern science has proved that drinking realgar wine is harmful to health, so it is better not to drink it.
6. Go for an outing
During the Dragon Boat Festival in Heilongjiang, people usually go out for a walk in the suburbs, wild places or parks early in the morning. Go for an outing? . Fold some branches or buy some wormwood, tie various colored gourds and hang them on the door edge and windows.
The custom of going for an outing has a long history in China. Li Nao once recorded it in the Chronicle of Middle Qin. On the third day (the third day of the third lunar month), Qujiang was given a banquet, and everyone was drinking and trampling on the grass at the head of the river, which was called an outing. ?
7. Hanging paper gourds
In the morning, hanging gourds on the doorsill symbolizes the prosperity of the family. In addition, peppers, dustpans and brooms made of multicolored threads and cloth strips can be hung at home. These things all mean good luck, driving away the five poisons and sweeping away the plague.
There is another story about the folk hanging paper gourd: It is said that Huang Chao, the leader of the Tang Dynasty rebel army, was helped by an old lady. Huang Chao said to the old lady when he left? When there is chaos in the future, you can make a colorful paper gourd and hang it on the door, so I can save you. ? Later, it happened to be the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May. Huang Chao led an army to attack Chang 'an, and the old lady and her neighbors hung colored paper gourds, all of which were protected by the rebel army. This legend has been passed down to this day.
8. Tie colorful ropes
In the early morning, the first thing adults do after getting up is to tie colorful ropes around their children's wrists, ankles and necks. The five-color line can only be thrown into the river during a heavy rain or the first bath in summer.
It is said that children wearing five-color thread can avoid the harm of poisonous snakes and scorpions. Throwing it into the river means letting the river wash away plagues and diseases, so that children can be safe and healthy.
9. Inserting Artemisia argyi
According to legend, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, on the fifth day of May, people hung Artemisia argyi leaves and Acorus calamus on the portal, which meant to ward off poisonous gas and evil spirits. This custom has been passed down from generation to generation, and people in Benxi area still follow it.
On the fifth day of May, the Han, Manchu, Hui, Korean and other ethnic groups living in Benxi planted mugwort in the eaves of every house before sunrise, and peach branches were inserted in the lintel, with small monkeys sewn with yellow cloth and brooms tied with green hemp. Children have double colored threads on their wrists, ankles and necks. Men and women get up early, go to Shan Ye and the river together, take a trip to the dew, wash their faces with running water, and pull mugwort on the top of their heads, which is commonly called avoiding disasters and getting rid of diseases.
What are the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival
1. Eating Zongzi
The main ingredient of the Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi is glutinous rice, which is the seed of glutinous rice, a Gramineae herb. Sweet and warm in nature, entering spleen, stomach and lung meridians; It has the effects of benefiting lung qi, invigorating middle energizer, invigorating spleen and stomach, and stopping sweating. Glutinous rice has astringent effect, and has good therapeutic effect on frequent urination and night sweats.
indications: weakness of spleen and stomach, fatigue, anorexia and diarrhea; Spontaneous sweating due to qi deficiency. Bamboo leaves are sweet, light and cold. Indications: fever, anxiety and thirst, pharyngolaryngitis, stomatitis, gingival swelling and pain, sores on the tongue and mouth caused by excessive heart fire, and scanty red urine. It can also clear away heat and relieve annoyance: it is used for heat, vexation, insomnia and children's night crying. Other ingredients can be selected at will, such as jujube, hazelnut, coix seed, peanut, lotus seed, gordon euryales and so on.
2. Dragon boat race and dragon-washing water
Dragon-washing water is the water that the dragon boat races through. People think it is good water and living water, so there is often a custom of drinking dragon-washing water and taking dragon-washing water bath, and there are also folk customs? Washing dragon water in May Festival? The proverb is circulated.
3. Hanging sachets
Many places in China have the custom of hanging sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is also a way to prevent infectious diseases. The traditional Chinese medicines used in the self-made Dragon Boat Festival sachet are Rhizoma Atractylodis, Herba Agastaches, Evodia rutaecarpa, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Cortex Cinnamomi, Fructus Amomi, and Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, with 2g of each flavor and 1g of clove added. Grind these herbs, then put them in a dense cloth bag and sew them up.
it can be worn on the chest, waist or navel, or it can be hung at the door, indoors or in the car. Chinese medicine believes that these herbs have the functions of dispelling wind and expelling cold, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, regulating qi and relieving pain, and dredging nine orifices, thus playing a role in preventing diseases.
4. Hanging Acorus calamus leaves
A folk proverb says:? Qingming inserted willow, Dragon Boat Festival inserted ai? . On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the court, putting calamus and moxa sticks in the eyebrows and hanging them in the hall. In traditional Chinese medicine, moxa is used as medicine, which has the functions of qi and blood, warming uterus and eliminating cold and dampness. Acorus calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, and its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oil, which is a medicine for refreshing, invigorating bones, eliminating stagnation, killing insects and sterilizing.
5. Drinking realgar wine
The medical history of wine is recorded in Qing Jia Lu. It is called realgar wine to grind realgar powder, crumb cattail root and drink it with wine. What do people have in China? Early Dragon Boat Festival, Late Mid-Autumn Festival? In a word, Chen belongs to the dragon, and it is the time when the dragons are raining. It is a good year for the people to expect a good weather and a bumper harvest on the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival. ?
The preparation method of realgar wine is very simple. For adults to drink, take a small amount of realgar fine powder after water-flying treatment. According to the current Pharmacopoeia, the oral dosage is 1.15g ~ 1.1g, put it into a small bowl or cup, add 15ml ~ 21ml of white wine, stir it with chopsticks, then pour the wine with reddish yellow on the upper layer into quantitative white wine, and discard the sediment at the bottom of the bowl or cup. The drinking amount is about 1.5g..
6, driving away five poisons
Five poisons refer to five poisonous insects: scorpion, centipede, poisonous snake, shrimp salamander and gecko. ? Duanyang Festival, the weather is hot; Five poisons wake up, and there is no peace.
7. Boiled garlic
Garlic is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which is pungent and sweet, can kill virus and sterilize, and cooked food can clear gastrointestinal toxins and dredge blood vessels. On the morning of Duanyang Festival, it is the custom in most parts of the country to cook fresh garlic to dredge blood vessels and disinfect.
8. Eating chicken, duck and goose eggs
It is popular all over the country. On the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, in the northeast area, the elderly roll the cooked chicken, duck and goose eggs on the children's bellies, and then peel them for the children to eat. It is said that this can avoid the children's stomachache, but it is actually a kind of fun game in the festival.
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