The Dragon Boat Festival traditional food and moral
1, dumplings
Dragon Boat Festival to eat dumplings, which should be the traditional customs of the people. Zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube dumplings". It has a long history, and there are many different patterns. The morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, families eat zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan, generally the day before the zongzi package, cooked at night, eaten in the morning. Over the Dragon Boat Festival when married daughters to return to their families to visit relatives, send Dragon Boat Festival gifts, which dumplings are essential. It is said to eat rice dumplings have two meanings: one is because "rice dumplings" and "in" sound close to the "merit in the" meaning, the second is because of nostalgia for the ancestors (honoring the ancestors).2, sesame, mung bean cake
As the Dragon Boat Festival is the most vigorous of the four seasons of the year, the temperature is getting higher, in this time people's mood swings are relatively large, easy to irritability and anxiety, especially need something to ease the situation. Mung bean cake can greatly alleviate the negative effects of excessive yang energy and high temperatures, can effectively dissolve the irritability and anxiety, made of mung bean cake with a delicate and smooth texture. Sesame blossoms, sesame cake sweet and savory, cake and high with the same sound, there is a positive, soaring symbolism, and the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings together with the symbolism of high school.3, salted eggs
Dragon Boat Festival, we also have to eat salted eggs and eggs, in the old days when I was very young, to see the adults with colorful woolen thread woven into colorful mesh bags, loaded with salted duck eggs and eggs, hanging around the neck of the small children, the meaning of blessing the children to turn good luck, peace and health. It's rare to see it in the city now, but it's still a common sight in our hometown, where children listen to their elders and hang on to the mesh bag all day long without taking it off.Duanwu Festival customs
1, dip dragon boat water
Dragon boat water, occurring during the period of Xiaoman to the summer solstice. In China's traditional culture, rain and dragons are linked together, the dragon is not only auspicious, but also the master of the rain and wind, the dragon flies in the sky, traveling clouds and rain. In the natural sky, during the midsummer period is the Dragon seven hosts fly up to the south when the sky, in the "I Ching - Qian Gua" lines said: "flying dragon in the sky". In mid-summer before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, China's southern warm and humid air flow is active, and from the north south of the cold air in South China, there is often a sustained widespread heavy precipitation. When the strong precipitation comes at the Dragon Boat Festival, the water level of the rivers rises rapidly, providing good site conditions for picking dragon boats. Dip dragon boat water is popular in southern China's traditional customs, because the dragon boat water means good luck, dragon boat water and dragon boat water and the water people are considered to slip through the "big auspicious water", according to traditional saying dip dragon boat water means good luck, everything goes well.2, Pei Dou Niang
In the old days, women's headdresses on the fifth day of the Dragon Boat Festival, mostly in the south of the Yangtze River. Some areas are also known as Jianren. This object is said to have originated from the ancient step rock, said that the Ai people in a different form. The Qingjia Records" cited "Tang and Song dynasty records" cloud: "Jiang who the north and south, five hairpin color wins the system, ready to very clever.... To add the streamers, embroidered balls, tassels, bells and bells, or string, the name is Dou Niang, can not be described."3, sticking the noon hour charm
In the old days, some places in Guangdong have sticking "noon hour charm" custom. After lunch, every family stick "noon time charm". Charms with a width of about an inch, nearly a foot long yellow paper strip, above the vermilion sand written on the "May 5, noon book, the official wrong mouth disease snakes, insects, rats and ants are eliminated" and other words. In the door hanging calamus, phoenix tail, mugwort leaves, and tied a bunch of garlic, painted with cinnabar to avoid evil spirits. Some people also put a small couplet written on yellow paper on the door: "Ai flag welcomes a hundred blessings, bushy sword cuts down a thousand evils."4, pickpocket dragon boat
pickpocket dragon boat has a long history, is a multi-person collective paddle race. Dragon boat racing is divided into several sections such as please dragon, sacrificing the dragon god, swim dragon and collect dragon. Before the dragon boat race generally have to hold a grand sacrificial ceremony, the first to invite the dragon, sacrificing to the gods. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, we have to choose an auspicious day to get up from underwater, and after sacrificing to the god, we will put on the dragon head and dragon tail, and then prepare for the race. In Fujian and Taiwan, they go to the Mazu Temple to worship. In the past, people worship the dragon god atmosphere is very serious, more pray for blessings, wind and rain, go to the evil spirits, make trouble, and all things go well. In Zigui, the hometown of Qu Yuan in Hubei Province, there is also a dragon boat ceremony to worship Qu Yuan. To see more festival customs, please click》》》》