What are the customs of Fuyang Dragon Boat Festival?
In addition to the common meat stuffing jiaozi, red bean paste jiaozi, egg yolk jiaozi and candied dates jiaozi, there is also a jiaozi called grey soup jiaozi. Grey soup jiaozi, as its name implies, uses straw ash. Have you heard that this kind of straw ash can also be used to make zongzi?
The practice of making dumplings in grey soup is very special. The leaves of glutinous rice straw are cleaned, leaving straw, which is burned into ashes and placed in a dustpan. Washing glutinous rice, soaking, draining, and putting into a bucket; Pour hot water into a dustpan filled with rice straw ash, and catch the leaked rice straw ash water with a bucket filled with glutinous rice; Then wrap zongzi with glutinous rice soaked in plant ash water. The grass ash water contains alkali, so the wrapped zongzi is easy to boil.
Second, the old Fuyang people yearn for the Dragon Boat Festival
On the Dragon Boat Festival, people will send zongzi to each other to commemorate Qu Yuan, but there is a custom of sending zongzi in Fuyang, which is not necessarily known to everyone. The reporter learned from the mouth of a 60-year-old grandmother in Longmen Ancient Town that the man in love will use two pole to deliver the 120 axe jiaozi to the woman's house. The axe zongzi is rectangular, with four corners and a jujube at each end. It is distributed to the woman's relatives and friends to inform them that her daughter is seeing someone. Buy that woman a new suit. These are called "please provide".
On the Dragon Boat Festival in the first year of marriage, the family will also give the man 120 axe zongzi to show their concern for their children. At the same time, give a fan to the man's parents and elders. The man will also put an old hen and five or six chickens in a cage and let the woman keep it until the woman gives birth, that is, the child is full. The man should also prepare a small basket for the woman, which contains a big zongzi, and there are many small zongzi hanging outside the big zongzi, expressing the hope that the woman will have children early.
Third, the old Fuyang Zodiac sachet
Sachet, also known as sachet and fragrant tassel, is commonly known as fragrant cloth bag and cloth bag. Dragon Boat Festival is the custom and production of sachets, which has a long history among the people. The sachet is filled with traditional Chinese medicine spices, such as Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Flos Magnoliae, Herba Menthae and Borneolum Syntheticum. , can emit natural fragrance. It can be worn on the body or hung on the tent, and has the effects of inducing resuscitation, eliminating dampness, strengthening the spleen, removing filth and pleasing the mind.
An old woman who runs a shop in Shi Ming Garden leads her family to sew many Chinese zodiac sachets by hand every Dragon Boat Festival. The shapes are mainly based on the zodiac, but also the shapes of zongzi and love. She told reporters that during the Dragon Boat Festival, elders often give sachets according to the zodiac of the younger generation. Friends who don't know the zodiac will send them according to the zodiac of the year, or choose zongzi and love-shaped sachets. The perfume of sachet is the most traditional natural perfume, but the price of perfume this year has doubled compared with previous years, so the price of sachet is more expensive this year, but people keep coming. In addition to sending sachets, elders will also send red Chinese corsets and tiger-headed shoes to their children, which means to ward off evil spirits and keep them safe and pray for their good luck and well-being.
Fourth, eat "Huang Wu" and hang wormwood.
Eating "Huang Wu" and hanging wormwood are also old Fuyang customs that have been passed down to this day. The so-called "Huang Wu" is eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted egg yolk and realgar wine. At noon on the Dragon Boat Festival, the most suitable meal for Huang Wu is to mix five kinds of yellow food. Because the theory of traditional Chinese medicine holds that the Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which is the peak of yang in a year, and noon is the peak of yang in a day, we can use the power of the solar terms of the Dragon Boat Festival to curb bad luck and improve our energy. However, modern science has proved that realgar is easily decomposed into arsenic trioxide when heated, which is very toxic and must be drunk under the guidance of a doctor. Old Fuyang people will use realgar wine to write the word "Wang" on their children's foreheads and apply it to their ears, nose, forehead, hands and feet, hoping that this will protect their children from snakes and insects. Every household will hang wormwood and calamus at the door. Realgar, wormwood and calamus all emit a strange fragrance, which makes snakes and insects smell far away, not only reducing the source of infection, but also killing germs, eliminating sweat and odor, and refreshing.
5. Dragon Boat Race on Fuchun River
The dragon boat race on Fuchun River is also a traditional activity for old Fuyang people to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, but it was not often held before. Since 2007, Fuyang people have started to hold the annual dragon boat race. Although it is not scheduled for the Dragon Boat Festival, it has become a very important project of Fuchunjiang Sports Festival. The dragon boat race on Fuchun River has not only become a powerful carrier to display Fuyang's landscape resources, but also become a localized sports brand in Fuyang. Fuchunjiang Dragon Boat Race will not only become a visual feast for the general public and friends, but also become a publicity activity for the outside world to understand Fuyang and Fuyang's going global.