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Dragon Boat Festival In Distance

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By moladdaPublished 4 years ago 6 min read

Every holiday, the most said and heard the most words is happy holidays, only this Dragon Boat Festival, we do not say happy, only wishing well.

Only wishing well! This festival has a unique melancholy color, and is not related to Qu Yuan.

In my memory, every year on this day, my hometown, every door head, window pane are full of mugwort leaves; adults' beds, children's cradle

bed, children's cradle, are to put a calamus leaves of a large bushel fan; used to ward off evil spirits and avoid poison, meaning no disease and no evil adults, children's well-being.

children's health and disaster-free.

May, for a long time, our people there are considered a poisonous month. Because snakes, insects, ants and flies will come out in May like a swarm.

In May, all kinds of diseases and epidemics will also occur in May.

This is not without origin. It is also recorded in the Historical Records of Meng Changjun that Meng Changjun Tianwen was born on the fifth day of the fifth month. His father

His father, Tian Ying, saw it as a disaster and thought that "the May son, who grows up in the household, will be detrimental to his parents".

In my hometown, Duanwu, Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival are the three most important festivals of the year. Usually people's sons and daughters get married

The day of the big day, are also set in the second half of a day. Perhaps the winter climate is suitable for everyone to organize a wedding. So

The first day of the year, whether it is a free love, private lifelong young lovers; or through a matchmaker, matchmaking object. Both sides of the big

People will take advantage of this day in the Dragon Boat Festival, get together, in the laughing about the family, joyful and cordial, beautiful atmosphere, business

The day to agree on the children's events.

Festival gift giving, the process of the millennium. On the Dragon Boat Festival day the man is required to go to the woman's home to send gifts. Even after the marriage, the

This part of the same can not be subtracted. The amount of gifts, depending on the person. The only gift is a large fan with pope leaves.

The only one that is indispensable is the large fan with the pupa leaves. Whenever you meet a gift carrier, there is a bushy leaf fan with a red string on the basket. Everyone understands that the family's happy event is near

In the near future, there will be a wedding wine waiting to be eaten.

It's a pity that the fan has now been replaced by modern electrical appliances, and this big fan with cattail leaves is also farther and farther away from us.

farther and farther away -----.

Nowadays, the custom of eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival has taken root and has become a standard food on the Dragon Boat Festival. But in my memory, the

My hometown in the Dragon Boat Festival, zongzi is still rare. This food with glutinous rice as the main ingredient is only seen at the Mid-Autumn Festival

The only time you see them is during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Because the mid-autumn festival is the time of glutinous rice harvest, the fresh glutinous rice is pounded countless times to make glutinous rice cake.

It is also a must-have gift from the man to the woman at the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival in May, when I was a child, was still most often made of fresh wheat flour, the main poop. Before the festival arrived, the women in every household

Household women began to urge their men to grind that fresh wheat flour back, if the man pushed back, dragging to

If the men push back, dragging their feet and using the Dragon Boat Festival as an excuse, they will be scolded by their daughters-in-law. They would not stop until they saw the man carrying the newly harvested wheat out.

The new harvest of wheat will not stop until you see the man carrying it out. When the man carries back the flour that is white and emits the rich smell of wheat. The women must be full of smiles and joyful

The women are full of smiles and joy, they take the initiative to take the flour bags from the men's hands and carry them to the kitchen by themselves without the help of men, pouting and bending over.

The man's hands, and without the man's help, pouted, bent over and carried himself to the kitchen.

When the Dragon Boat Festival comes, it is time for the daughters-in-law to start performing. On this day, smoke curls up from the roofs of every house, the low

The smoke coming out of the low tile eaves emits the sweet aroma of baked rice. The whole village is filled with the

the fragrance of wheat. Even the leaves of the small trees outdoors were sticky with the fragrant smell.

When I was young, I couldn't get out of the house when I smelled the aroma. I would wait by the stove early and wait with my eyes

I would look at the steamy cage and read the numbers in my mind, counting from 1 to 100, and after that, I would count them all over again.

The time to open the pot came only after a few times. The moment the pot is opened, the boiling hot air rushes to the roof, and before the heat is dispersed, small hands have long reached into the hot air to grab

The moment the pot is opened, the boiling heat rushes to the roof, and before the heat dissipates, the little hands are already reaching into the heat, to grab, to pick, to pinch, to reach in countless times, and to be scared by the heat finished countless times. When you really get the fluffy

When you really get the soft, hot and fragrant noodles, you don't put them in your mouth, you put them under your nose and smell the sweetness that penetrates your heart and the new wheat that emanates.

The first thing you need to do is to put it in your mouth and take a bite after you have smelled it a hundred times. It is hard to describe the taste and the nostalgia.

When I think of it now, I don't know why my heart rises with sadness ----

As the wheat poop comes out of the pot, the village presents a different scene. The daughter-in-law of each family or hold, or tuck, or pocket

The first thing you need to do is to get your own freshly cooked, steaming wheat buns out from under the eaves and gather one by one. They gathered one by one.

The wheat buns of different shapes and sizes were placed in rows and piles, like flowers, in front of everyone. You take a bite, I take a bite.

You swap, chew and savor, just like artists holding an art event, appreciating these finely carved artworks.

The artwork was appreciated. If you find someone original, make a different style out, it will be like the discovery of a new world, one by one, pass one to another, hold in your hands to figure out.

If you find someone who has an originality and makes a different style, it is like discovering a new world, passing one to another, holding it in your hand for half a day, and then tasting it. The pattern may have been memorized by heart, or

The next day, or the next year, the next day. Then the next day, or the next year's Dragon Boat Festival, there will be something to show off.

There is also the capital to show off. The most important thing is that the new daughter-in-law of the family, and made a unique and innovative, that instantly detonated the praise

The praise. The old face of the mother-in-law standing on the sidelines is also much brighter. The new daughter-in-law smiles shyly, but the beauty in her heart is unconcealed.

It is impossible to conceal the beauty of the heart.

Another year of Dragon Boat Festival, as I have been far away from home for many years. The taste of my childhood is still in my heart and mind. Some memories

Also with time, slowly lost and forgotten. I thought, if I put together everyone's memories of the festival in my hometown, and

If we add new chapters and become a tradition, it will be a very beautiful, rich, ancient and vital hometown culture.

The culture of the homeland will be very beautiful, rich, ancient and vital. And then, through this traditional festival, we can realize the perpetuation of culture.

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