The annual Dragon Boat Festival is here again. The traditional custom of Dragon Boat Festival is to eat zongzi. Our family has a veritable expert in making zongzi-my grandmother. Every Dragon Boat Festival, our whole family can eat delicious zongzi.
I also want to try the fun of making zongzi myself, so I asked my grandmother to teach me how to make zongzi. When I arrived at my grandmother's house in the morning, my grandmother had already prepared something to wrap the leaves of Zongzi, including Zongzi leaves, glutinous rice, stuffing and some ropes for tying Zongzi. Glutinous rice is as white as snow. I learned from my grandmother's appearance, picked up a few zongzi leaves, arranged them in order, and then folded them into an egg cone. I put a lot of glutinous rice, and my grandmother said, "You put too much. Where do you put the candied dates? " I quickly poured back some rice, and then chose a round, crystal-clear candied date and put it in. Grandma added: "You can also put some red beans." I thought, this is red bean candied jujube zongzi. I quickly put a lot of red beans in, and then began to make zongzi, but later I found that there were too many rice and red beans, which could not be packed at all and spilled a lot. I was a little depressed, and then my grandmother comforted me and said, "Don't give up, pour some rice and red beans and try again." With grandma's help, my first zongzi was finally wrapped. I made several zongzi one after another. Although these zongzi are not as beautiful as those wrapped by grandma, I still like them in my heart. You see, some are like fat pigs, some are like thin monkeys, and some are like bulging frogs. They are different in size. It's like an exhibition of animal zongzi.
Zongzi is wrapped with red beans, candied dates, red bean paste, egg yolk and pork. Grandma put them in the pot to cook. After a while, the delicious smell of zongzi floated out of the pot. I kept swallowing, thinking to myself: When the zongzi is cooked, shall I eat the little fat pig first? Or that skinny monkey? I'll think about it and decide whether not to eat first. I want to give the fruits of my labor to my grandparents and parents, so that they can appreciate my filial piety. Zongzi is not beautiful, but they will definitely be eaten in their mouths and sweet in their hearts.
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.
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As time goes by, the Dragon Boat Festival becomes more and more blurred in my mind.
I remember when I was a child, I often pestered my mother to tell that familiar but tireless story: More than 2,000 years ago, ancient China was in flames of war. On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, a patriotic poet who was worried about his country and people saw that his country was in danger of national subjugation, but his ambition could not be realized. In grief, he threw gravel into the Miluo River. He is Qu Yuan. People couldn't bear the death of Qu Yuan, a wise minister, so many people rowed boats to catch up with him and look for his beloved Qu Yuan everywhere. In order to prevent fish in the water from eating Qu Yuan's body, they wrapped glutinous rice in fragrant bamboo leaves and threw it into the Miluo River ... Every time I listen to this story, I always think, did Qu Yuan really throw it into the rolling Miluo River? Did Qu Yuan really become a star in the sky? Do fish really eat those zongzi? ……
Now, I have grown up. I have forgotten these questions, and I will never pester my parents to tell Qu Yuan's story again. Instead, I play computer, watch TV, do DIY by hand and read comic stories. I will never think about those topics that are far away from me again.
It's another year when the leaves of zongzi are fragrant. Although the home is filled with the smell of zongzi, most of them are bought from supermarkets. Few people will mention Qu Yuan again, and even fewer people will make zongzi while washing green wormwood. Some people regard the Dragon Boat Festival as a dream and live so simply that even Zong Ying can't see it. Today's human beings only care about crazy exploitation and desperate expansion. Let this beautiful global village be completely blackened by charcoal. Industrial wastewater flows into rivers, lakes and oceans, and groups of fish die tragically on the beach. Deforestation is endless, and mudslides, flash floods and earthquakes often appear. Soil erosion, rivers cut off and lakes dried up. When can I see that beautiful "dragon boat race" again? Seeing what happened around me, I kept telling myself: we must strengthen environmental awareness. Care for the environment should start with small things, and don't waste water, electricity, food or spit everywhere. Only by caring for the environment and protecting resources can we change the living environment. After several decades, our mother earth will still be beautiful, and then children will see clear water, blue sky and green reeds. After the Dragon Boat Festival, they will be able to eat homemade handmade zongzi and watch the exciting "Dragon Boat Race".
The children's song of the Dragon Boat Festival seems to reverberate in my ears again: "On May 5th, it was Duanyang, with mugwort leaves, sachets, zongzi and sugar, and the dragon boat happily went into the water." China has experienced a history of 5,000 years, and its traditional virtues have a long history. Don't let the Dragon Boat Festival get farther and farther away from us, and don't let it become a dream in my heart.
3. Composition describing the Dragon Boat Festival cuisine
Dragon Boat Festival is coming. I think everyone still remembers the Dragon Boat Festival last year. The following is the food composition of the Dragon Boat Festival that I arranged for you. I hope you like it.
As soon as I saw my mother making rice and a table covered with zongye, I knew the Dragon Boat Festival was coming again.
When I was young, 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. Later, I only knew a little legend in memory of Qu Yuan, but I knew nothing else.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, it is essential to wear sachets and tie colorful threads. The first important thing for adults is to tie the five-color thread around the child's wrist, ankle and neck. The tied five-color thread can only be thrown away in the first heavy rain or the first bath in summer. My mother told me that according to the old people, it can avoid disasters and keep healthy.
Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is the main custom in our hometown. Just in May, my family began to soak glutinous rice. My mother usually prepares a pot of rice and soaks leaves in water. Maybe the soaked glutinous rice will be more sticky. I remember my mother doing this for many years.
The day before the Dragon Boat Festival, my mother began to make zongzi. I occasionally make trouble and try to make zongzi, but I fail every time. It seems that it is not easy to wrap zongzi.
When wrapping zongzi, you can also put some dates, raisins, chicken and so on. Put it into glutinous rice to make jiaozi with different flavors. Besides, I like paella best, which tastes particularly delicious.
On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, my mother always wakes me up when I am sleepy and goes to the distant Woods and rivers to wash my face. The cool river washed away my drowsiness, and lively people came and went, really like the New Year.
At home, eating eggs and glutinous rice balls dipped in sugar, my heart is full of joy.
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Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. However, to say that everyone is most familiar with, that is the name Dragon Boat Festival! Some people have never even heard of these nicknames.
To represent the Dragon Boat Festival, of course, nothing is better than eating zongzi. On the Dragon Boat Festival, some people cook by themselves and some people go shopping. On the Dragon Boat Festival, almost no one does not eat zongzi. Of course, as a foodie, how can you not eat?
Every Dragon Boat Festival, our family also holds a zongzi eating contest! Buy two bags of zongzi and light them. We gobble them together, but I often don't win in the end. ...
I also heard a story about the origin of Zongzi: In ancient times, there was a man named Qu Yuan. He made a suggestion to the emperor to benefit the country and the people, but the fatuous emperor didn't adopt it. He was so angry that he threw himself into the river. In memory of him, people made a transparent coffin and put it in the pool. In order to give Qu Yuan some tributes, bamboo tube zongzi made of glutinous rice were thrown into the pool one by one. A few days later, people found fish in the pool, and those zongzi were eaten by fish. People are angry. At this time, a man shouted, "big guy, fish are most afraid of water chestnuts." You can wrap glutinous rice with clean grass leaves to make water chestnut! " "In the future, people will throw the wrapped zongzi into the pool. When the fish saw the glutinous rice dumplings, they thought they were water chestnuts and dared not eat them. Over time, people call it "Zongzi".
Let's talk about the origin of dragon boat racing! At that time, because people didn't want Qu Yuan to die, they all went to salvage Qu Yuan by boat. They rushed at each other, but when they got to Dongting Lake, they disappeared. From then on, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, people will hold dragon boat races to celebrate. Rowing a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body. This custom was first adopted by Wu and Yue. Dragon Boat Race started in Taiwan Province Province in the 29th year of Qing Qianlong. At that time, Jiang, the chief executive of Taiwan Province Province, also hosted a friendly match! Up to now, Taiwan Province Province still maintains the custom of dragon boat race on the fifth day of May every year.
In addition, there is the habit of hanging mugwort leaves on the Dragon Boat Festival: during the Dragon Boat Festival, there will be many mugwort leaves at the door of every family, and some ingenious people will make wallets! Cut a piece of cloth into various shapes and fill it with mugwort leaves. Children love to wear it! It is said that wearing a wallet can also ward off evil spirits! . Using calamus as a sword and inserting it on the lintel has the magical effect of exorcising ghosts!
There are so many customs in the Dragon Boat Festival!
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The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the traditional Dragon Boat Festival in China, also known as Duanyang, Chongwu and Dragon Boat Festival. At present, many activities of the Dragon Boat Festival are related to commemorating Qu Yuan, a great writer in China. On this day, every household will eat zongzi, and dragon boat races will be held all over the south, all of which are related to mourning Qu Yuan. Every family seems to have the same Dragon Boat Festival. Now let me introduce my Dragon Boat Festival!
The custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to eat zongzi and race dragon boats. So our family has a veritable master of making zongzi-mom. This morning, my mother and I learned to make zongzi together. Mother first took three leaves, turned them upside down, put them in the middle, and then rolled them into a hollow pheasant shape. I learned from my mother's appearance, took three films and rolled them into cones, but they were not rolled well and were still straight. When my mother saw it, she pointed out, "Grab one corner of the leaf with her left hand and roll the other corner of the leaf in with her right hand. Tighten it hard below and relax it above. " Under the guidance of my mother, I rolled the leaves. Then, mother inserted a chopstick into the leaves of the hollow cone, took a seasoning spoon and put some glutinous rice in it, and then shook the chopsticks evenly until the glutinous rice was tightly wrapped. I also put chopsticks and glutinous rice in the leaves. When you can shake chopsticks, you either pierce the leaves of zongzi or the glutinous rice is not tightly wrapped.
Mom said; "Shake the chopsticks gently and squeeze the leaves. You see ... "Mom said while demonstrating, and I listened while learning, haha! What does the zongzi I wrapped look like? The last step is to tie the rope. I saw my mother clasping the leaves of Zongzi with both hands, winding the rope around the sharp corner of Zongzi twice, and knotting the end of the rope, and a beautiful Zongzi was wrapped. I also tied the first sentence according to them. Then, the second and the third ... I made several packages in succession. The zongzi wrapped by my mother is fat and big, just like Lafayette sleeping. When she finished wrapping zongzi, she steamed it in the pressure cooker for a while and served it! Although our jiaozi raw materials are extremely simple, jiaozi is delicious. Mom cooks them in the pressure cooker for 30 minutes, then soaks them in the soup for about an hour to make them delicious, and then you can eat them! These zongzi are very fragrant, as long as you smell them, they will arouse your appetite.
As soon as my father and I smelled the fragrance, we took two greedy cats around the pot and asked my mother, "Mom, Mom, when can I eat?" Mother always says with a smile; "You two' little' greedy cats!"
Look, this is our Dragon Boat Festival!