Traditional Festival-Dragon Boat Festival Composition
Article 1: The composition of the traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival is getting closer and closer to the day of the Dragon Boat Festival. There are bursts of incense in the street.
My mother and I prepared glutinous rice, zongzi leaves and thread, and began to make zongzi. When I looked intently, I saw my mother roll a reed leaf into a funnel shape, put red beans and glutinous rice in it, then wound the reed leaf into a triangle and tied it with a thread. Looking at my mother making zongzi, I asked my mother inexplicably, "Why do you want to eat zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival?" My mother patiently told me: "Dragon Boat Festival is an ancient traditional festival, which started in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and has a history of more than 2,000 years. At that time, Qu Yuan, a famous poet, advocated enriching the country with talents and called for joint resistance to Qin, which was strongly opposed by others. Qu Yuan was expelled from the capital and exiled to the Yuanxiang Valley. Later, Qin Jun conquered Kyoto and Chu. Seeing that his motherland was invaded, Qu Yuan was heartbroken, but he was always reluctant to give up his motherland. On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, after writing his masterpiece Huai Sha, he died in the Miluo River and wrote a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life. " "What a pity!" After listening to my mother's story, I couldn't help sighing.
Mom continued: It is said that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were very sad and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished for his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other foods prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river "plop, plop", saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs would not bite Dr. Qu's body when they were full, and people followed suit. An old doctor took an altar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that he would stun the dragon water beast with medicine so as not to hurt Dr. Qu. Later, people were afraid that rice balls would be eaten by dragons, so they came up with a way to develop zongzi by wrapping rice with neem leaves and wrapping it with colored silk. My mother stopped what she was doing and looked up and asked me, "Have you ever seen the dragon boat race?" ""We saw it in Xinjin last year, "I asked puzzled." In fact, dragon boat racing is also related to the Dragon Boat Festival. On the fifth day of May every year, there are customs such as dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. ""Oh, yes. I didn't expect so many stories in a festival. "I suddenly realized that there are so many cultures in the festivals we often celebrate.
Eating delicious zongzi, I deeply felt: "China has a long history and splendid culture". I vowed to study China culture and be an upright China person.
Traditional Festival Dragon Boat Festival composition Dragon Boat Festival is coming, and many families will eat zongzi. In order to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, we not only eat zongzi, but also race dragon boats, set off river lanterns and so on. Do you know the origin of Dragon Boat Festival? Why do you eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival? Don't you know? Then I'll tell you!
In the afternoon, I went to the street and asked some parents-in-law. A mother-in-law said, "The origin of Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate a man named Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, and was trapped by a dragon after his death. The world is very sad. He throws five-colored zongzi into the water every day to repel mosquitoes and prevent the dragon from eating Qu Yuan's body. " A father-in-law said: "After Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, the local people immediately rowed to rescue him and went all the way to Dongting Lake, but Qu Yuan's body was never found. It was raining at that time, and the boats on the lake gathered at the pavilion on the shore. When people learned that it was to salvage the sage Dr. Qu, they went out in the rain and rushed into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to mourn, people rowed on the river, and later it gradually developed into a dragon boat race. Eating zongzi and racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival seems to be related to commemorating Qu Yuan, as evidenced by Wen Xiu's poem "Dragon Boat Festival" in the Tang Dynasty: "The festival is divided into Dragon Boat Festival, and it is rumored that it is Qu Yuan. It's ridiculous that the Chu River is empty and can't be washed directly. "
When I asked my parents-in-law about the Dragon Boat Festival and the dragon boat race, they talked even more vigorously. They said: "Dragon Boat Festival food and dragon boat race have become indispensable things for people to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. This is a traditional habit of China people for more than two thousand years. Due to the vast territory, numerous nationalities and numerous stories and legends, not only many different festival names have been produced, but also different customs exist in different places. Its contents mainly include: daughter going back to her mother's house, hanging Zhong Kui statue, welcoming the ghost boat, hiding in the afternoon, sticking leaves in the afternoon, hanging calamus and wormwood, traveling in all diseases, wearing sachets, preparing sacrificial bowls, dragon boat races, competitions, hitting the ball, swinging, drawing children with realgar, drinking realgar wine, drinking calamus wine, eating poisonous cakes, salted eggs, zongzi and seasonal fresh fruits. Some activities, such as dragon boat racing, have made new progress, breaking through the boundaries of time and region and becoming international sports events.
On the annual Dragon Boat Festival, people always miss Qu Yuan and tell their good wishes to the world in the faint moonlight. ...
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. I got up at the urging of my mother. Mother brought a plate of tea eggs for breakfast. "Why!" I asked, "Why did you eat eggs this morning?" Mom smiled and said, "Eating eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival can bless your luck and peace!" " "Really!" I quickly picked up an egg and peeled it off. "When I was a child, my grandmother dyed the eggs red and made a net bag to hang on my chest!" Mom recalled.
On the way to grandma's house, I saw the atmosphere of Dragon Boat Festival everywhere. The supermarket put up a big poster about the Dragon Boat Festival promotion. Soon I arrived at my grandmother's house and walked up the stairs. I saw several clusters of green plants hanging on grandma's door. I see these plants have thin stems and long leaves. "What is this?" I asked grandma who opened the door. "This is Artemisia argyi and Acorus calamus." Grandma answered. "Why did you put it at the door?" "This will prevent mosquitoes from entering the house and ward off evil spirits!"
As soon as I entered the room, the smell of Zongxiang wafted from the kitchen made my mouth water!
Grandparents are making zongzi skillfully, and I want to have a try. He began to say to his grandmother, "Let me wrap a zongzi!" " Grandma waved her hand and refused. I said, "I want to try! "At this moment, my grandfather said," You can make zongzi, but you must tell us first, why do you want to make zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival? " Ha ha! Just what you want! I gushed: "This is to commemorate Qu Yuan, a great poet at the end of the Warring States Period. He was a minister of Chu Huaiwang in the Spring and Autumn Period. In 278 BC, Qin Jun conquered Kyoto of Chu. Seeing that his motherland was invaded, Qu Yuan was heartbroken, but he never abandoned his motherland. On May 5th, he committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River with a boulder in his arms. After Qu Yuan's death, people were so sad that they all went to the Miluo River to mourn Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished his body back and forth on the river. Developed into a dragon boat racing. People came up with the idea of wrapping rice with neem leaves and wrapping it with colored silk to make it develop into brown seeds. " Grandma said, "That's enough, come here!"
Grandma taught me to make zongzi. First, roll zongzi leaves into a cone; Stick the rolled rice leaves in the tiger's mouth of the left hand, pour a spoonful of soaked glutinous rice into the rice leaf roll, put a spoonful of mixed meat on the rice and cover it with a layer of rice; Cover the leaf tail, pinch the leaf tail, roll up the excess leaf tail, and then tie it with tobacco. Finally, cut off the excess leaf tail. Ah! I finally wrapped a zongzi, which was not as beautiful as grandma's, but it still felt very good.
How happy this Dragon Boat Festival is! I not only learned to make zongzi, but also tasted delicious food. More importantly, the little zongzi makes me feel the profound history, culture and national traditions of my motherland, and I am even more proud of my motherland!