The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Lunar Calendar is a popular traditional festival, which is also known as the Duanyang Festival, Wuyang Festival, Ai Festival, and Summer Festival. Although the traditional Dragon Boat Festival customs of Maanshan people are generally consistent with those of other places, there are still certain local folk characteristics in terms of food, clothing and play.
Traditional festivals generally come with people's good prayers, and the Dragon Boat Festival is no exception.
In addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, every year on this day, Ma On Shan people will be placed in the main hall, incense above or inserted in the lintel of moxa leaves and calamus. Ai leaves for the gods, calamus for the sword, praying for the exorcism of demons and ghosts, to avoid evil spirits and poison. Many people also hang Zhong Kui statue, in order to calm the house to drive away evil spirits, pray for peace. Meet some families have elders died, this day, the younger generation also have to bring zongzi and other items on the new tomb sacrifice, in order to pray for the peace of the family.
Duanwu Festival, in Dangtu County, there is a "big send small" custom. Before the festival or on the day of the festival, the elders took the initiative to send children "Dragon Boat Festival line", "Dragon Boat Festival Dragon", summer clothing and other gifts, in order to the younger generation of children to grow up healthy.
Every festival, sumptuous food is an important and indispensable element. Dangtu people have always been very particular about what they eat at the Dragon Boat Festival.
Early in the morning on this day, the Dangtu people use mung bean cake, candied fruit cake as a snack, sipping morning tea. Dumplings are the main food for breakfast, and "Wuhong" is popular for lunch.
"Mung bean cake" to mung beans as the main ingredient (no mung beans to broad beans instead), the color yellow-green, sweet and crispy flavor; "candied fruit cake" is based on glutinous rice as the main ingredient, sprinkled with sesame seeds, rounded color, sweet and sticky taste. "Zongzi" in a variety of forms, different flavors. From the shape of points, there are "small foot-shaped", "pillow-shaped", "diamond-shaped", "bullock-shaped" and so on; from the The raw materials, all to glutinous rice as the main material, due to different ingredients and is divided into date rice dumplings, red bean rice dumplings, ham rice dumplings, chicken rice dumplings, white rice dumplings, and so on.
The so-called "five red": one is red salted duck eggs, two is eel, three is river shrimp, four is amaranth, and five is Xionghuang wine. "Five red", there are meat and vegetarian, there are eating and drinking, there are pickled and fresh, are seasonal delicacies, delicious.
The Dragon Boat Festival day, Dangtu people's clothing is also rich in certain holiday characteristics.
On this day, the traditional women of Dangtu wear the "Dragon Boat Festival thread" on their wrists, and the children wear the "Dragon Boat Festival thread" on their wrists and ankles, hang "incense bags" on their chests, and carry "cloth tigers" on their backs. The children wear the "Dragon Boat Festival Thread" on their wrists and ankles, hang "incense bags" on their chests, carry "cloth tigers" on their backs, wear "tiger shoes" and hold "Dragon Boat Festival Dragons" in their hands, in order to ward off evil spirits and prevent epidemics. The "Dragon Boat Festival Threads" are made of dozens of colorful threads, which carry a fresh fragrance. The "incense bag" is an ornament made of colorful threads, usually in the shape of a "red heart", filled with grains and spices. "Dragon Boat Festival Dragon" and "cloth tigers" in the production method and "incense bag" is largely the same, but the shape is slightly exaggerated, bright and fancy colors.
According to the Ming Dynasty, "Shantang肆考 "According to the records, the Dragon Boat Festival to wear a bag of incense is the Ming Dynasty later. Today, people from a scientific point of view that: before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather began to sultry, plum days will come, wearing a "bag of incense" is to eliminate the smell of sweat, moldy, refreshing the efficacy of the mind.
Dragon boat race is the Dragon Boat Festival is traditionally the most lively of a mass recreational activities. Gushu earth, Jiangdong Zeguo, a long history, the ground between Wu and Chu, the river with the lake, dragon boat racing, the tradition is also long. Cai Shi, Daxin in the river, Guxi, Huangchi in the river; Bowang, Huyang Shang Yong Jie, Danyang, the new city Shang Wen Qiao. Dragon Boat Festival, four townships and eight towns dragon boat race, depending on the successive victory, lively. At that time, the surface of the water dragon boat painted, flags, both sides of the pole hanging color, crowded. Heavy artillery, the boats all start, following the sound of firecrackers speeding, running Kam I colorful pole and go. Drumming instruction rhythm, helm to grasp the direction, paddle forward, a drum and a pulp, neat and powerful, such as an arrow out of the string, breaking the waves forward, to get the "color" for the first. People on the shore and the water boaters, suddenly east and west, left and right, or far or near, or before or after, rising "color", leading to the dragon boats to be the first, back and forth, and strive to compete "color". A sea of people on the shore, shouting and cheering, very lively.
After the tension, we sing the boat song, "rowing dragon boat" has become an excellent track when the Tu folk songs, selected by the Anhui hundred folk songs, Shanghai, Anhui Province, secondary school music textbooks, the national junior high school compulsory education reading book. In the powerful and rhythmic sound of gongs and drums and the sound of oars, one person leads the singing with a high voice, and the oarsmen sing along, help out, and yell, with rich local characteristics in the singing and rhythms. Dagong Wei and other places circulating the "Dragon Boat tune" folk song sung in this way: the Qingshui River long and long, both sides of the sea and mountains of people; the elderly on the dragon staff, the girls wore a flowery dress; to ask what to do today, the Dragon Boat Race DuanYang Festival; the green dragon and yellow dragon to the race, the race to the river waves; race to the small children jumping, race to the girl smiled and broke the bowel ......
Since the reform and opening up, Maanshan people's Dragon Boat Customs year after year with dragon boat races, Dangtu Dragon Boat province repeatedly won the top, the national competition has also made the third and fourth good results. In recent years, dangtu county year after year in the moat on the dragon boat competition. Moat rectification, but also specializes in the construction of a strong folk flavor of the Dragon Boat Square.