Ji Aimin, who once specialized in local history research in Taizhou and is now the deputy director of the Hailing District Agricultural Committee, said that the Dragon Boat Festival for Taizhou people begins on the first day of the fifth lunar month. On this day, residents should go to the central hall or at the door of their house to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. Paste the talisman, hang the image of the judge in the house, and put calamus and mugwort in the vase. It is said that the talisman and the judge are specialized in exorcising ghosts, the calamus is said to be a sword that can kill thousands of evil spirits, and the mugwort represents a hundred blessings. The combined power of these two things can drive away bad luck. According to research, calamus and mugwort can clean the air and play a certain role in disease prevention.
Starting from the "Little Dragon Boat Festival", children have to tie a hundred ropes made of five-color silk threads, wear tiger leather jackets, trousers and tiger shoes, and hang small mesh bags containing cooked duck eggs around their necks. Cloth tigers, rice dumplings and lotus roots, sachets filled with realgar and fragrant powder are hung inside the mosquito net. Women insert red and green velvet needles in their hair. It is said that this can ward off evil spirits and drive away the five poisons (snake, scorpion, gecko, centipede, spider). In fact, this also uses the special smell of realgar and other traditional Chinese medicine to achieve the effect of repelling insects.
On the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, every family eats rice dumplings. On the one hand, zongzi is homophonic to "baozhong", and zongzi has become an auspicious food to pray for success in exams. There is a proverb in Taizhou that "after eating the Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings, you give away cotton clothes." Zongzi is also a food with seasonal symbolic significance. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, there will be dragon boat racing in the city river, as well as a bid-fishing performance. There are famous bidders on the bow of the dragon boat, who will throw live ducks or silver coins into the river. After hearing the order, the bidders will rush into the water. Take back the "standard".
Taizhou folklore expert, 77-year-old Xiao Ren, said that during the Dragon Boat Festival, people use Baicao soup to bathe. On this day, Taizhou bathrooms put calamus, mugwort and other Chinese herbal medicines into the bathtub, and some people also bake them themselves. This kind of grass soup is said to prevent skin diseases for a year after taking a bath. Children should use realgar wine to write the character "王" on their foreheads, which is called "E". The ancestors at home would light moxa sticks and smoke every corner of the house, chanting: "Smoke hundreds of insects on the Dragon Boat Festival, and there will be no trace of all the insects." During the Dragon Boat Festival, many citizens will throw rice dumplings and other food into the city river, saying There are many kinds, some say it is a sacrifice to Qu Yuan, some say it is a sacrifice to Wu Zixu, and some said it is a sacrifice to the "dragon".
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