There are no rivers and lakes where you can row dragon boats in my hometown, but during the Dragon Boat Festival, you can still see a pile of wormwood or calamus in front of people's houses, and even smell the fragrance of zongzi in every household.
It stands to reason that my family has nothing to do with the Dragon Boat Festival, but it is a little different. Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to know the difference, look down patiently-
Actually, there is not much difference. It's just the Dragon Boat Festival! It's just that the atmosphere in my house is wrong.
People celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with joy and excitement. But my family is filled with smoke, divided into two factions, and it takes two rounds every year to stop.
The first round: eating zongzi
Legend has it that when Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, people threw zongzi wrapped in winter leaves, deer leaves and colored silk into the Miluo River to offer sacrifices to Qu Yuan, so as to prevent dragons in the river from eating Qu Yuan's body. Since then, the custom of making zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival has been handed down.
Nowadays, under the ingenious management of China people who pay attention to food culture, the shape and raw materials of zongzi have changed greatly. And one of the differences in my family lies in this dumpling stuffing.
Parents like to eat glutinous rice dumplings and broad bean dumplings; My brother and I like to eat jiaozi with bean paste and jiaozi with minced meat. But my mother always opposes wrapping jiaozi with bean paste and meat for various reasons. So there was the first round of competition.
"Mom, is there jiaozi with bean paste and jiaozi with minced meat this time?"
"How troublesome it is to pack these two kinds of zongzi! Jiaozi stuffed with bean paste needs to be washed and ground. You want to kill your mother! Jiaozi's meat stuffing is greasy, so eating more is not good for your health. Or glutinous rice dumplings and broad bean dumplings are better! "
"Green vegetables and radishes have their own advantages." My brother and sister just like to eat these two kinds! You don't even agree to this small request? "
"That's good, dare you pack. Now I am not free! "
"pretend, who is afraid of who!"
As the saying goes, "Food is the most important thing for the people", and you can't lose your stomach anyway! Soon we got all the raw materials we needed. Next, the two of us washed rice and cut meat, and we were in full swing!
After a busy day, I finally wrapped and cooked zongzi. But we are still stuck with our parents. Simply move the food to the living room and eat zongzi while watching TV. How cozy!
The first round: we won!
The second round: hanging wormwood
Wormwood and calamus are perennial herbs, which can repel mosquitoes and kill insects; Hanging wormwood is another custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is used to ward off ghosts and evil spirits. So we all agree that there should be a pile of wormwood hanging in front of the door.
But the enemy thought that hanging wormwood in front of the door would only attract mosquitoes, snakes and ants, so they insisted on not picking wormwood. The second round of the game has begun.
After a war of words, we gradually lost our ground. Although I really want to hang a pile of wormwood in front of the door, there is no place to get it because none of us want to go up the mountain to pick it. So it ended in failure.
The second round: the enemy won!
In this way, the tournament situation is the same every year: a draw. But this Dragon Boat Festival is really not a taste. Alas, it's really "stealing chickens and not eating rice"!
Twenty days later, during the Dragon Boat Festival, my family will have a big competition again. Alas, my Dragon Boat Festival is really ridiculous!
Tidy yourself up
2. Composition about making zongzi: Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China. When the Dragon Boat Festival comes, there will be many programs, such as eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, washing dragon boat water and eating eggs ... But in this year's Dragon Boat Festival, I learned one thing, that is, I learned to make zongzi.
Making zongzi is easier said than done. The day before the Dragon Boat Festival, I saw grandma busy washing zongzi leaves.
Prepare the materials for making zongzi, wash the glutinous rice ... Grandma made these, while she was preparing to make zongzi, I watched and learned. First, I took some zongzi leaves and made them into triangles. Then I poured rice. Later, I couldn't hold them tightly, and the rice fell down, so that there was rice all over the ground. It happened several times in a row, which made my grandmother smile and I looked at myself. Finally, the zongzi leaves were made into triangles, and the rice was not missed. Then I put some pork, egg yolk and bacon with chopsticks ... then I folded the leaves and tied them. Grandma repeatedly told me that zongzi should be tied tightly, or it would turn into porridge when cooked.
I tied the zongzi tightly with a rope, and a zongzi was made like this. I will make persistent efforts and continue to make zongzi. My neighbors praised me for being great and full of praise. That day, the fun of making zongzi was really interesting, which made me feel so happy.
Let me learn a truth from it: be patient, persevere and don't give up halfway. Part II: A composition describing jiaozi. The Dragon Boat Festival is here, and my family is in jiaozi.
Mother washed the glutinous rice, peanuts and black beans first, then soaked them in water, and then washed the zongzi leaves. I cut the thread into several sections, and the preparation work was finished. At noon, my mother fished out glutinous rice, peanuts and black beans together, drained the water, sprinkled some edible soda ash and mixed well.
Then, my mother rolled two leaves into the shape of a top, filled them with glutinous rice, and covered the leaves left on them. Finally, tie it tightly with a rope and a zongzi will be wrapped.
Because it is my mother's first time to make zongzi, the zongzi made by my mother is very strange, some are like grenades, some are like guns, and some are like candy. After all the jiaozi is wrapped, put it in a pressure cooker and cook it for half an hour, and jiaozi will be cooked.
Open zongzi, yellow glutinous rice, black beans and safflower. How beautiful! Take a bite. It smells good. Today, my grandma and I make zongzi together.
First, grandma scalded the reed leaves with boiling water, and then put the seasoning into the soaked glutinous rice. Next, grandma is responsible for wrapping zongzi, and I am responsible for cutting the thread used for zongzi.
At first, I didn't know how long to cut the thread, either short or long. Grandma taught me to say, "the rope for tying zongzi should be able to wrap around three or four times."
I tried it, and sure enough, the cutting line is neither short nor short, and it just works. Grandma's jiaozi is small and exquisite, like a small sachet, emitting the unique fragrance of reed leaves, and I have already flowed down before I ate saliva.
Grandma told me when making zongzi that she practiced with sand and reed leaves over and over again when she was a child and learned to make such beautiful zongzi. After listening to this, I admire my grandmother very much. I deeply realize that no matter what I do, as long as I work hard and hard, I will definitely gain something! Today is Dragon Boat Festival, and everyone eats zongzi.
My mother used to buy zongzi for us to eat. This year, my mother said that we would take care of jiaozi ourselves.
We put the prepared glutinous rice, sugar, raisins and zongye on the table. My sister picked up the thin thread and cut it into several pieces.
We learn from our mother's appearance, first roll the rice leaves into triangular packages, then hold the glutinous rice with a small spoon, put the glutinous rice in the open rice leaves, and add raisins, sugar and so on. Finally, fold the zongzi leaves, seal the opening, and wrap it with thin thread to let the glutinous rice escape from the zongzi leaves.
We cook wrapped zongzi in the pot. Half an hour later, my mother said it was ok. Open the lid, my mother steamed zongzi and put it in cold water. After a while, the zongzi got cold. My sister and I picked up the zongzi, parted the thin thread and peeled off the leaves of the zongzi layer by layer, and a fragrant smell came to the nose. How fragrant it is! Take a bite. That's so sweet. It is sweet in our hearts.
Mom said: My own jiaozi is delicious, and my sister and I said in unison: delicious, delicious. Chapter 5: Write about making zongzi. Tomorrow is Dragon Boat Festival. My mother and I will go to my mother-in-law's house to make zongzi, but I can't make zongzi. I just want to eat zongzi right away.
When I arrived at my mother-in-law's house, the living room was filled with pots of all sizes, some with white glutinous rice, some with yellow millet, some with red dates and some with beans. The tall bucket is full of zongzi leaves, and the mother-in-law has begun to wrap them. He first wrapped the leaves of Zongzi into a triangle, put a handful of rice and beans, then put a jujube, put a little water in it, and finally wrapped it into a pile. But I didn't help my mother-in-law, but I know it's not easy to make dumplings.
3. Don't write too many essays (mainly detailed descriptions and character movements) about making zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. Whenever the fragrance of jiaozi began to pervade small villages, I knew the Dragon Boat Festival was coming when I was a child.
Nowadays, the memory of Dragon Boat Festival often comes to my mind. When I smell Zongxiang, I also smell the taste of childhood. It feels so close, as if those things happened yesterday. At that time, the countryside paid special attention to the Dragon Boat Festival. At that time, I didn't know the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival. I only know that the Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated at home every year like the Chinese New Year.
Although there was a little legend in my mind to commemorate Qu Yuan when I was a child, I didn't know anything about the so-called legend of Wu Zixu's death anniversary and filial piety to his daughter Cao E. It was essential to wear sachets and tie colored threads on the Dragon Boat Festival when I was a child.
On the morning of the first day of the fifth lunar month, before the sun comes out, the first important thing for adults is to tie five-color lines on their wrists, ankles and necks. Children are not allowed to talk when tying the thread. The five-color line cannot be broken or discarded at will, and can only be thrown into the river during the first heavy rain in summer or the first bath.
It is said that children wearing five-color thread can avoid the harm of snakes and scorpions; Throwing it into the river is to let the river wash away plagues and diseases and make children safe and healthy. Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is the main custom in our hometown.
As soon as we entered May, our family began to soak glutinous rice. Mother usually prepares a basket of rice for soaking, and at the same time, she will soak the dried reed leaves in water to make brown leaves. Maybe the soaked glutinous rice will be more sticky. I remember my mother has been doing this for many years.
On the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, my mother and sister began to make zongzi together and put them in a big basin for preparation. I occasionally make trouble, try to imitate them, bend the leaves of zongzi into a cone with my left hand, then put the rice in the funnel with my right hand, flatten the rice, feed the palm leaves back and cover them, hold them and tie them tightly with silk thread, and the triangular zongzi will be wrapped.
Remember that the winding silk thread must not be loose, otherwise it will spread easily when cooking zongzi. Don't underestimate the skill at hand, because I have made many mistakes and been scolded by my mother many times.
When making zongzi, you can also put some peanuts, red beans, red dates, chicken, etc. in glutinous rice to make jiaozi with different flavors. Mother likes to mix red dates with rice for good luck. It is said that children who eat more jujube dumplings will win the first prize in school in the future. I really eat a lot every year.
Later, the champion didn't go to middle school, but he did go to school. I made it! I like rice with meat best. It tastes sweet but not greasy. Looking back now, I am particularly greedy! On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, adults have to prepare breakfast besides cleaning the house, and we children are the busiest. We get up at two or three in the morning. A group of friends first went to the distant Woods to look for mugwort leaves, then went to the wheat field to wash their faces with mugwort leaves and get dewdrops from the wheat leaves for good luck.
On the way, I will break a peach branch with a peach and put it at the gate. The old man said it would avoid disaster. I have to get home before the sun comes out, hang mugwort leaves on the lintel, put them in the window, and soak mugwort leaves in the basin to wash my face. It is said to have the magical effect of exorcising ghosts.
We are happy to do it, and we don't feel a little tired. This is a grand festival. Family members must cook eggs in the pot where zongzi is cooked. If possible, they should cook some duck eggs and goose eggs. After eating sweet zongzi dipped in sugar, they should eat eggs dipped in salt.
It is said that if you eat boiled eggs in May, you will not get sores in summer. At noon, put the duck eggs and goose eggs cooked in the zongzi pot in the sun for a while before eating, so that you won't have a headache all summer. When I was a child, there were few chickens at home. My mother has been saving eggs for a long time so that the whole family can eat them during the holidays. At that time, she seldom used money to buy eggs.
Like my sister, I always put my eggs in my pocket and don't want to eat them. I really can't bear to eat eggs with Zongxiang, so I have to wait for the children to fight with them and then slowly eliminate them. The memory of Dragon Boat Festival filled my childhood. Although I was poor, it reminded me.
The Dragon Boat Festival in childhood is happy, and the feeling of happiness seems to be far away from me, perhaps because I haven't been so happy at home for many years! Now, far from home, I still get up early every Dragon Boat Festival. Although I can't find the trace of mugwort, I can only touch the peach branches, walk in the street and feel the atmosphere of the Dragon Boat Festival with my heart.
How to write a diary about Zongzi This June 6th is a traditional festival in China-Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, the ancient poet Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the river on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. In order to commemorate him, later generations regard this day as a festival, and have customs such as eating zongzi and racing dragon boats. I was curious to see my mother making zongzi on this day. I asked my mother if she could teach me, and my mother readily promised me. She gave me a demonstration. She first picked two leaves, one large and one small, and then stacked them together. Then she pinched both ends of the leaf with both hands, rolled it into a funnel shape, added rice and meat, sealed it and tied a rope. I followed my mother's example, picked up two leaves and rolled them into a funnel. Who knows that these leaves don't listen to me and always turn into some strange shapes. Later, my mother helped me make it by hand. I put some rice in it with a spoon, and then I put a delicious piece of sauce meat in it. Then I ordered some rice to cover the meat. When I covered the leaves of Zongzi and prepared to tie them with a rope, my hand suddenly loosened and rice spilled all over the floor. Making zongzi for the first time was a failure. I was a little discouraged, and my mother encouraged me to say, "Never mind, come on, try it again!" " Hearing this, I regained my confidence. I don't believe that a zongzi can't be wrapped well. The second zongzi wrapping began. Everything went well in the front, but I became more careful in the back. It's time to tie the rope again. My mother reminded me: "You are not skilled now. Slow down and be careful." I became more and more cautious. I picked up a long hemp rope and wrapped the zongzi outside. I am very happy today, because I learned to make zongzi. How many times will I keep trying in my life?
5. Composition describing eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival My favorite food is zongzi.
Zongzi is shaped like a pentagon. It is wrapped in lotus leaves, tied with a straw rope, as if to wear clothes, and there is a belt.
Zongzi is very fragrant and smells comfortable. The more people smell it, the more they want to smell it. Why do I like to eat zongzi? So it's the smell that seduces me.
Once, my parents took me to a stall to eat zongzi, and the smell of zongzi filled the whole stall. The stall owner steamed the jiaozi we wanted and sent it up for us to eat.
As soon as I saw zongzi, I quickly took it in my hand. Zongzi was very hot in my hand, and I untied the straw rope of Zongzi. Then I picked the lotus leaves little by little and ate zongzi with relish. The glutinous rice of Zongzi sticks between my teeth, as if a child was pulling his mother away from school. I still want to eat zongzi after eating, but my stomach is too small to eat or hold. Mother said, "You little thing really likes to eat zongzi." Don't be sad. Mom and Dad will take you to eat next time, okay? "I listened to my mother and shouted, Long live my mother.
If it is Dragon Boat Festival, I can eat more zongzi. I'm looking forward to eating zongzi after this year.
6. Eating Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a grand traditional folk festival in China-Dragon Boat Festival.
According to legend, Qu Yuan, a sage of the ancient Chu State, threw himself into the river on the fifth day of May. In order to prevent Qu Yuan's body from falling into the mouth of fish and shrimp, the locals used dragon boats to disperse the fish and shrimp in the river. Since then, on the fifth day of May every year, people row dragon boats to commemorate it.
Dragon Boat Festival rowing, a traditional custom that has spread for thousands of years, is especially grand in his hometown Xincheng. As early as the first ten days of April, you will hear lively gongs and drums. At this time, villages began to build dragon boats. After the dragon boat is built, people will hold a "launching" ceremony. As far as I can remember, my hometown people attach great importance to the dragon boat "going to the water", and they ask the gentleman who specializes in "watching the sun" to choose an auspicious time. When the dragon boat is "launched", fireworks and firecrackers will be set off in addition to gongs and drums. After the dragon boat is launched, the rowers will row back and forth on the river in their village several times, shouting their songs while rowing. Then, I will row a dragon boat to the "Dragon Mother" village to pay homage. However, I have only heard the sound of this lively scene, but I can't see its scenery. First, the dragon boat often chooses to "launch" at 1 and 2 am. Second, because there is a special rule in my hometown, women can't watch the dragon boat "go into the water". It is said that if a woman, even a little girl, secretly watches, the dragon boat will suffer misfortune. Therefore, when each village held the "Sheung Shui", we were all awakened by the noise, but no one dared to get up and peek, although our hearts itched. However, we can watch the dragon boat race on the river after "Sheung Shui".
On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, men are busy celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival, and women are also busy. They are preparing food for the Dragon Boat Festival. Eating zongzi, salted duck eggs and oranges is another custom to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown Xincheng. On the first or fifteenth day of April, women soak duck eggs in salt water and seal them so that they can eat salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival. In addition, we should prepare jiaozi. Zongzi wrapped in dark green leaves is delicate and lovely, and glutinous rice is mixed with various delicious fillings, salty and sweet. Salty, there are pork and plum stuffing, egg yolk pork stuffing, pea stuffing and so on. Sweet dates, red bean paste and so on.
The fifth day of May is even more lively. At dawn, firecrackers, fireworks, gongs and drums played symphonies together, and the villages rushed to the Tanghe River to prepare for the dragon boat race. We were awakened by the noise in our sleep, and were delighted to find that the zongzi at home was very fragrant, with calamus inserted in the doors and windows, and the table was full of delicious food-zongzi, salted duck eggs, eggs, oranges and so on. However, we were so upset by the sound of gongs and drums that we were in no mood to sit down and taste delicious food, so we grabbed a zongzi and ran outside. At this time, several dragon boats on the Tanghe River are chasing each other, and there are people on both sides of the Tanghe River. "Knock, knock ..." "Hey, hey ..." Drums and shouts were intertwined.
This is the Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown, a grand and lively Dragon Boat Festival.
7. The composition of the Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi should be described in detail, and the most important thing is to have the Dragon Boat Festival of "putting the trap in the rice"
More than two thousand years ago, Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet, sighed at the Guluo River and plunged into the rapids. More than two thousand years later, the fifth day of May became a traditional festival-Dragon Boat Festival. People wrapped zongzi, rowed dragon boats and boiled eggs to commemorate this great patriotic poet in various ways.
It's Dragon Boat Festival again, and I really want to experience this atmosphere, so let grandma teach me how to make zongzi.
To make zongzi, you should first wash the leaves and soak them in hot water. Then prepare dates, eggs, meat and so on. For the stuffing, cook the delicious stuffing you like and you can start working. First, fold the long leaves, enclose them, make a nest, put prepared glutinous rice and japonica rice in the middle, and wrap the edges and corners. Then put jiaozi in rice, knead it into a ball, and finally make the jiaozi wrapped in bamboo leaves into four corners.
The kung fu of making zongzi is in the last process. Whether your zongzi is wrapped well depends on whether the four corners are symmetrical or not. When I first started learning, I always twisted the four corners into a ball, either six corners or a ball.
Grandma looked at my "masterpiece" more than once and smiled: "This, can this be called Zongzi? Where did you tie the string? "
I'm dizzy! The four corners of emotional zongzi are convenient to hang with thin lines. Why are there no round zongzi in this world?
Put the wrapped zongzi into the pot and cook it with high fire. After about 1 hour, simmer for 30 minutes.
In the process of cooking zongzi, I am always eager to open the lid to see the situation. Because the smell of zongzi floated out of the pot, it made my mouth water.
The waiting time is always very long. When the steaming zongzi was finally "liberated" from the pot, I danced with joy. Put it in a bowl and peel it off with chopsticks, and you can see the golden and soft "zong meat" inside. Take a bite. It's so delicious that I almost bit off all the chopsticks.
This year's Dragon Boat Festival, I learned how to make zongzi and tasted the fruits of labor, which were not sweet.
Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is one of the biggest traditional festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival, which means the same as Wu Chu's, just like the fifth day. The word "five" in the Dragon Boat Festival is also connected with "noon". According to the order of earthly branches, May is "noon" month. Because noon is the "sun", the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Duanyang". On May 5th, both the month and the day are five, so calling five is also called noon. In addition, there are many nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: Summer Festival, Magnolia Festival, Daughter's Day, Tianzhong Festival, Dila Festival, Poet's Day and so on.
Many nicknames of the Dragon Boat Festival indirectly explain the differences in the origin of the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. That's what happened. There are at least four or five theories about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: in memory of Qu Yuan; Wuyue's national totem sacrifice theory: From the three generations of summer solstice festival; Evil month and evil day drive away, and so on. So far, the most influential view on the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. In the field of folk culture, China people associate dragon boat racing and eating zongzi with Qu Yuan. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan jumped into the river, the local people injured him and died, so they sailed to save him because of the custom of racing. He also said that people often put food into the water to offer sacrifices to Qu Yuan, but most of the food was eaten by dragons. Later, due to Qu Yuan's suggestion, they wrapped rice in neem leaves, wrapped it in colored silk, and later made it look like zongzi.
The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival mainly include: eating zongzi, putting moxa or calamus on the door to exorcise evil spirits, tying long life wisps, drinking realgar wine or disinfection, and racing dragon boats. Zongzi is also called "Jiao Shu" and "Zongzi". The former is named after its angular shape and glutinous rice inside, while the latter is likely to cook rice with a bamboo tube. Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival was very popular in Wei and Jin Dynasties. This kind of food is eaten on the Dragon Boat Festival and the summer solstice every year. Zongzi is also a holiday gift. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Zongzi was very famous and was often sold in the market. Now, we still have to eat some zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival. There are many kinds of zongzi, which are different from north and south, and also from east and west. In the south, red dates, peanuts and bacon are often mixed in glutinous rice, and other foods are common, but you should taste the fragrance of Zongye; In the north, dates and preserved fruits are often used as stuffing for zongzi. Xiaozongzi seems to have become a traditional symbol of China, occupying a certain position in people's minds. In the past, there was a custom of hiding in the afternoon during the Dragon Boat Festival. This custom originated from a belief that May is an "evil month" and plagues and sores will spread. The fifth day is an unlucky day, so parents take their children under one year old to grandma's house every day to avoid disaster, so they call it afternoon hiding. This is undoubtedly an underdeveloped concept in ancient science, because the summer heat in May came, mosquitoes flourished, and people without medical and health facilities were easily infected with infectious diseases, which brought people a kind of fear, thus resulting in the custom of hiding in the afternoon. Now some ancient customs of this festival have disappeared with the changes of society, but customs such as eating zongzi and dragon boat racing are still popular.