When I was a child over the Dragon Boat Festival I can be excited a week in advance, because you can eat the fragrant dumplings, that time life is more monotonous, but also very bitter, is not a festival is usually nothing to eat. Speaking of rice dumplings, it is not only delicious, the main thing is in the process of wrapping rice dumplings, embodies the fun.
Every year, the Dragon Boat Festival, mother in the first night to run on a pot of glutinous rice, the next morning is my mother and I together package, green rice dumplings in the leaves with glutinous rice and jujubes, packaged into three-pronged dumplings, packaged in a cauldron in the boil for three or four hours, after the mother soaked dumplings in the two buckets of water ready, cooled down after the fine open the bamboo leaves, a bite of the white glutinous rice, purple red jujubes on the The head is exposed, dipped in sugar and then eat, then eat up is so sweet and savory, memorable.
On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, families put the wormwood picked in the mountains and inserted it in the door, saying that it was to avoid evil spirits, and we children just followed suit and did not understand the meaning.
The morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, get up, our mother in our wrists and ankles wrapped in colorful silk threads, the future has been with, it is said to be able to get rid of disease and evil. In fact, in my heart, these colorful silk threads in my heart is a substitute for those exquisite bracelets. Some people will also spend some money to their children to buy incense purse to bring in the body, my mother is their own hands with some small cloth to do, stuffed with some cotton, put some vanilla, even so we are also very happy.
The memory of childhood festivals is happy, and the atmosphere of the festival is thicker than now.
The Dragon Boat Festival essay material two
There are many festivals all over the world, there are many traditional festivals in China, and my hometown Shaoguan is also living our traditional festivals in its unique way. Among the many traditional festivals, the Dragon Boat Festival is my favorite. The reason is not because of Qu Yuan, not because of anything. Just because I was born on the Dragon Boat Festival.
Dragon Boat Festival is a very lively festival, the family package zongzi, eat zongzi, this is the Dragon Boat Festival must be customary, a variety of zongzi have shape more than one, in the countryside, we will also package a book bag shape to give younger siblings sat on the waist to bring back to the school while walking to eat. There are many flavors, sweet, salty, tangy, spicy, and even bitter. However, it seems that because the place is not the same, wrapped out of the flavor of the dumplings are not the same, each local people are basically only used to their own package, for other places wrapped out of the flavor of some people are not too used to. For example, I am not accustomed to, because the filling is not the same, I still like to eat home-packed dumplings.
In the Dragon Boat Festival there is also an indispensable activity - dragon boat. In the wide river, put down three or four dragon boats, a dozen people paddling paddles, a person sitting on the head of the dragon gong, a person sitting in the boat drums, the crowd shouted "one, two," "one, two," the situation can be comparable to the waves. Onlookers on the banks of the crowd against the hot sun, but also still do not forget to shout and cheer for their favorite dragon boat. And then look to the river, a few dragon boat as if fierce axe broken river has long been racing you to death. Foreign friends have picked up the camera quickly photographed this spectacular scene, for fear that they will never see such a great view.
Every festive season is doubly homesick, that is, even the stomach is homesick, the heart loaded with relatives, the stomach used to think of home food. This is not, the stomach croaked again.
Dragon Boat Festival essay material three
Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, the Spring Festival firecrackers, Lantern Festival to eat dumplings, Qingming Festival graves and so on is China's traditional cultural practices. Every festival is twice as important as the family, whether it is far away from the home of the traveler, or close to the family to get together and have a reunion festival.
On the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, we bought a large pile of bamboo leaves and soaked it in a basin of water in preparation for wrapping zongzi tomorrow. By the next day, I got up early, smelled a burst of fragrance wafting out of the kitchen, greedy me is a mouth watering three thousand feet, so I went to the kitchen with my grandmother to pack rice dumplings. I first took out some glutinous rice in the pile of glutinous rice, respectively, it is arranged in the body of the triangle, the center of a large egg yolk, but also in each corner of a piece of meat, and then take out the bamboo leaves in the water basin, wrapped them up, and then tied up with a rope, but how I can't tie up the tightly, and Grandma is skillfully wrapped up.
I was a little impatient when I tied it up, so I asked my grandmother why I was wrapping the dumplings. Grandma said: "pack rice dumplings is to commemorate the Warring States period, patriotic poet Qu Yuan, because of no ambition and jumped into the river to commit suicide, the people know, they have gone to the river to row a boat to salvage, we are scrambling to save the Qu Yuan to shore, but salvage for a long time, but also do not see his body, and finally we have to take the rice ball thrown into the river, do not let the river fish, shrimp, crabs, etc. Qu Yuan's body eaten, so there is now the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, and then the Dragon Boat Festival, and then the Dragon Boat Festival is now the Dragon Boat Festival. So there is now the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi". Listening to this story, I was y moved, so I wrapped up the dumplings with all my heart, and finally succeeded.
Chinese folklore has a long history of traditional customs, we should go to honor it, protect it, so that the ancient traditional culture to become the harmony of the nation.
Duanwu Festival essay material four
The first significance of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, who was born on the seventh day of the first month of the summer calendar in the fifth year of King Wei of Chu, or said to have been born in the twenty-seventh year of King Xuan of Chu and died in the ninth year of King Xiang of Chu. Due to the lack of ambition, after the country was captured by the Qin state, Qu Yuan was disappointed, under the sorrowful mood, Qu Yuan finally chose to throw himself into the river with a stone. In order to celebrate this patriotic spirit of Qu Yuan, people have designated the day of his casting as the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.
The second significance of the Dragon Boat Festival is the anniversary of Wu Zixu's death. Wu Zixu, a native of Chu, his father and brother were killed by the king of Chu, then Zixu abandoned the darkness and ran to Wu, to help Wu to conquer Chu, and entered the capital of Chu, Ying City, in five battles. At that time, King Ping of Chu had already died, and Zixu dug up his grave and whipped his body 300 times to avenge the killing of his father and brother. After the death of King Helu of Wu, his son Fu Chai succeeded to the throne. The Wu army had high morale and won a hundred battles, and the Yue kingdom was greatly defeated, and King Goujian of Yue asked for peace, and Fu Chai agreed to it. Zixu suggested that the state of Yue should be completely destroyed, but Fu-chai refused to listen to him, and Wu's Dazai, who had been bribed by the state of Yue, framed Zixu with slanderous rumors, and Fu-chai believed him and gave Zixu a sword, which he used to kill himself. Zi Xu was a loyal man and regarded death as his own. Before his death, Zi Xu said to his neighbors, "When I die, gouge out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of the capital of Wu, so as to see the army of Yue enter the city and destroy Wu." Then he cut his own throat and died, Fu Chai was furious, ordered to take the body of Zixu, installed in the leather on the 5th of May into the river, therefore, according to legend, the Dragon Boat Festival is also a day to commemorate Wu Zixu.
The third significance of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the death of Cao E, a dutiful woman who saved her father's life by throwing herself into the river in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Cao E was a native of Shangyu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Her father was drowned in the river, and the body was missing for several days, so she was only fourteen years old and cried along the river day and night. After seventeen days, she threw herself into the river on May 5, and carried her father's body out five days later. The story was passed down as a myth, and the legend was passed on to the governor of the county, who ordered Du Shang to erect a monument for it, and his disciple Handan Chun to write a poem in praise of it. The tomb of Cao E, a filial daughter, is located in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, and it was later rumored that Cao E's monument was written by Wang Yi of the Jin Dynasty. In order to commemorate Cao E's filial piety, the descendants built Cao E Temple in the place where Cao E threw herself into the river, renamed the village where she lived as Cao E Town, and named the place where Cao E died for her father as Cao E River.
The fourth significance of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the modern revolutionary poetess Qiu Jin. Qiu Jin was killed on June 5, the descendants for the admiration of its poetry, but also sad about its loyal and courageous deeds, was held in commemoration of the Poet's Day, and Poet's Day also commemorates the patriotic poet Qu Yuan and is designated as the Dragon Boat Festival. Qiu Jin word Ruiqing Jingxiong, the number of jianhu female warrior, small word Yu Gu, shaoxing, zhejiang people, young, good at poetry, lyrics, song, fugue, and like to ride a horse fencing, there are flowers, Mulan, qin liangyu in the world of the name. 28 years old to participate in the revolution, the influence of the great, premeditated revolt, the meeting for the qing army arrested, not give in to the guangxu thirty-three years in shaoxing xuan hengkou June 5, valiantly.