According to the notes of the Song Dynasty such as Legend of Wulin and Liang Lumeng, the Dragon Boat Festival is a very important festival in the Song Dynasty, and it became lively on the first day of May.
On this day, the officials of the college wrote poems to set off the festive atmosphere, and a grand banquet was held in the palace. There are tigers, ash trees, calamus wine (now drinking realgar wine), as well as beautifully shaped candy and zongzi on the dining table.
The temple is well decorated, surrounded by golden jars filled with sunflowers, pomegranates and gardenias, and the fragrance is overflowing. The emperor gave the first wife and the second wife gifts, such as sachets, gold fans, hair clips, amulets, wearing and purple exercises.
In the official aristocratic family, although there is no luxury and extravagance of the court, it is also carefully arranged. They piled zongzi into pavilions and played tricks on them. He also wrote a poem with a white heart and a red border with Rob, and hung it on the lintel of the gate with the doll of Ai Caozha, praying for good luck and evil spirits.
Drinking calamus wine in ancient Dragon Boat Festival.
In the folk, people wear symbols given by Taoist temple, and set up a big basin at home, where wormwood, calamus and sunflower are planted, and five-color paper money and dim sum dumplings are hung on it. No poor family will fall down.
From the first day to the fifth day, people in Song Dynasty were immersed in the atmosphere of Dragon Boat Festival. These days, the market is full of joy, and the hawking is endless until the fifth watch.
Lu You, a great poet, once wrote "Five Poems by Mao Yi" to describe the Dragon Boat Festival in the Southern Song Dynasty: "I concentrated on five mountain villages, and pomegranate flowers suddenly increased. The poet ate two dumplings, and the executive was on the mugwort. I am still busy taking medicine and trying to get sick safely this year. " After sunset, I smiled at the cups and plates.
We are celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival now, and we like to travel during this small holiday. All the scenic spots, large and small, seem to be echoing the crowd ... in fact, so did the Southern Song Dynasty. There are many tourists around the West Lake in Hangzhou, and cruise ships sail in the lake (including dragon boat races).
Why are ancient and modern times so consistent? This is related to the season. After the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather gradually became hot, and people were reluctant to go out to play for some time.
20 10 zongzi unearthed from the Southern Song Dynasty tomb in De 'an, Jiangxi Province is the earliest physical zongzi discovered so far.
In addition, in view of the fact that the "sweet party" and "salty party" who eat zongzi are in a life-and-death struggle, I pay special attention to the records of the Song people about the practice of zongzi and want to see if there was a dispute between the "sweet party" and the "salty party" at that time.
"Miscellaneous Notes on the Year of the Year" contains: "There are many famous zongzi in the Dragon Boat Festival with different shapes, such as angular zongzi, cone zongzi, ling zongzi, tube zongzi, weighing zongzi and Jiuzi Zongzi." He also said: "The Dragon Boat Festival is called Jiao because the ancients wrapped rice in leaves. Millet is made into zongzi, or dates, or sugar. In recent years, pine, chestnut, walnut, ginger and musk have been added. " In modern times, wormwood ash is cooked in juice and its color is as golden as gold. "
Zhong Fulu said, "Wash it with glutinous rice, put jujube, chestnuts, dried persimmons, ginkgo and red beans in it, and wrap it with leaves or clams." One way is to wrap Artemisia argyi leaves with rice, which is called Ai Xiang Zongzi.
Zongzi in ancient Dragon Boat Festival.
Other documents include "jiaozi of molasses", "jiaozi of fruit candy" and "jiaozi of candied fruit". According to the records of these Song literati, it is not difficult to find that these kinds of zongzi are all sweet, at least mainly sweet, and there is no record of meat entering zongzi.
In other words, the favorite salty zongzi in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces was not common in the Song Dynasty, and there would be no dispute between "sweet party" and "salty party". In fact, salty zongzi and meat zongzi became popular after the Ming Dynasty.
However, it doesn't matter whether it is sweet or salty. As long as you like, as long as you like. No one can force you to give up this choice.