Making rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival is also to commemorate Qu Yuan, which also has irreplaceable commemorative significance. The following is a collection of essays about the Dragon Boat Festival that I have collected. I hope it will be helpful to you.
Composition 1 describing the Dragon Boat Festival
"Who can tell me whether the festival is difficult or not? It is rumored to be Qu Yuan for all eternity. It is ridiculous that the Chu River is empty, but it cannot wash away the grievances of the direct ministers." This poem was written in memory of Qu Yuan. The Dragon Boat Festival is also spread throughout the world because of Qu Yuan. Unique customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as making rice dumplings and racing dragon boats, commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. According to legend, dragon boat racing was passed down from Qu Yuan, who died while trying to save his life by throwing himself into the Boluo River.
Today in the 21st century, dragon boat racing is no longer simply held to commemorate Qu Yuan. It has evolved into one of the most passionate sports that fully embodies the Chinese nation’s spirit of hard work and struggle. Dragon boat racing, a monumental sport, has not only broken through the boundaries of time and geography, but has also become an international event and has gained new development.
The zongzi itself is made of glutinous rice or glutinous rice, and then wrapped with reed leaves to complete it. Of course, there are various kinds of rice dumplings, and different regions will make different rice dumplings. Although the shapes are different, they all have one unique characteristic, that is, they are all very sweet and delicious. Although the flavors are very different, they all express the people's longing for this great man Qu Yuan.
The annual Dragon Boat Festival is here again. However, there is a slight sense of loss in my heart. With the development of society, the festive atmosphere of the Dragon Boat Festival is gradually weakening. The Dragon Boat Festival, like many traditional Chinese festivals, has profound cultural connotations and is a precious cultural heritage of our Chinese nation.
The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is not just to commemorate Qu Yuan, but it is the most convincing one. Although there are different opinions about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, it also adds a lot of mystery and charm to it. From this we can easily see the imagination of the Chinese people, and it also reflects the indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation. The Dragon Boat Festival has a history of more than 2,000 years in our country, and the accumulation of more than 2,000 years of history has given it profound humanistic connotations.
Secondly, the Dragon Boat Festival is also imbued with the beautiful emotions of the nation. Every commemorative activity that continues to commemorate the Dragon Boat Festival embodies the beautiful emotions and wishes of the ancient people. If the Dragon Boat Festival is more touching because of the legend, then the beautiful national emotions immersed in the Dragon Boat Festival make it exude eternal charm. Legends can move people, but emotions are even more touching!
The rich humanistic connotation of festivals lies in exploring and promoting them. Sometimes the reason why our traditional festivals are indifferent to some people is because society does not pay enough attention to traditional culture. . Our society should enhance its awareness of the conscious protection of national culture. Traditional culture is by no means synonymous with "feudal" and "backward", but should become a national treasure that we are proud of and proud of in the new era.
Composition 2 describing the Dragon Boat Festival
My interest in celebrating the festival has become less and less. The Spring Festival is the Spring Festival, just put more things in the refrigerator and insist on not going to the vegetable market for a few days. The Mid-Autumn Festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival. I don’t eat the mooncakes I bought, just for show. But something is different this year. When the aroma of the rice dumplings is getting stronger and stronger, we just happened to learn Mr. Wang Zengqi's article "Duck Eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival". The plain and humorous language reveals the attachment to his hometown and childhood life. This kind of Emotion gripped me tightly, and I fell deeply into the nostalgia for my hometown.
The Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown is very special. When making rice dumplings, there are requirements for rice dumpling leaves, fresh reed leaves, green or oak leaves, exuding a light fragrance. On the afternoon before the Dragon Boat Festival, all the raw materials are ready. The white glutinous rice is soaked in clean water. The plump candied dates, peanut kernels, and raisins have already been soaked. The industrious hostess uses her dexterous hands to fold them left and right, and then layer them with silk thread. Wrap it around, and a delicate rice dumpling is born. Don't be impatient when cooking rice dumplings. Cook slowly over low heat. Elderly people like to use stoves. They put the rice dumplings on the stove the night before and they can simmer for a whole night. The next day, the children got up together and opened the pot, which was full of hot rice dumplings. The house and yard were immediately filled with the aroma of reed leaves and rice dumplings. In addition to eating rice dumplings, you also need to eat cooked garlic and eggs. Put these kinds of food together, even if you don't eat it, you can just look at it and enjoy it. The oblate white jade-like garlic, the flesh-red oval egg, the green irregular-shaped rice dumplings, from the combination of colors to the combination of shapes, They all look really good. Fumigation of mugwort. We are far away from the mountains. Mugwort is bought from the market. On the Dragon Boat Festival, it is hung on the lintel. After a few days, it dries completely. Take one or two and light it in the house. As for fumigation, I’m not sure what the purpose of smoke is. Some people say it’s to smoke mosquitoes. I think there may be more things, such as centipedes, scorpions, etc. It’s probably similar to the five poisons used in other places. Bring sachets, brightly colored fabrics made into various shapes of ornaments, with spices inside, and they become children's favorite ornaments. Hang them around your neck and sniff them from time to time. Wear five colored threads on your wrists and ankles. But what I remember most is that I went to the fields to pull out the "holy grass" at dawn. The sacred herb mentioned here, in quotation marks, is what I really can’t think of what the adults said at that time.
The elders told us that Chang'e in the Moon Palace keeps pounding medicine every year. These medicines are to be sprinkled on various vegetation and rivers on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival. Before the sun comes out on the Dragon Boat Festival, these medicines are still on the grass. If you pull them out at this time, boil them into water, and use this water to bathe, you can cure all kinds of diseases. Of course, the children believed it very much. At dawn, we gathered our friends and set off towards the mysterious veiled fields. We wanted to complete a sacred mission for our family. The dawn of May in the lunar calendar is beautiful, the air is cool, refreshing and moist, and everything around is quiet. If you accidentally look at it, you may encounter the neighbor's children digging weeds. There is so much joy in looking at each other and smiling. The fields in the morning were awakened early on this day, and the dewdrops were still turning on the strong green grass. The grass we need is particular, such as cat eyes, the kind of grass that turns red when touched. If you are not afraid of it today, just Pick. There are also plantains, knotweeds, etc. You can't wait too long. You must pick them home before the sun comes up, so that those mysterious medicines will be effective. I went home in a panic, looked up at the sky, and overcame my pride like the sun. Thinking about it now, I still feel that it is as mysterious as one of the Grimm's fairy tales, where once the sun rises, everything returns to its original appearance.
The Dragon Boat Festival is coming again, who would go digging grass in the fields? There is a special shower gel to bathe the children, and I am too lazy to make rice dumplings. I can’t eat a few, so why bother doing it? Just buy a few. However, can we just buy some of the care and fun hidden in various processes? Don’t buy it when you can do it yourself, because with a simple word "buy", we have lost so many beautiful things. ah.
Composition 3 describing the Dragon Boat Festival
The first legend of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. In 278 BC, the Qin army defeated the Chu State. Seeing his motherland being invaded, Qu Yuan was heartbroken, but he still could not bear to abandon his motherland. On May 5, after writing his final work "Huaisha", he jumped into the Miluo River and died.
It is said that after Qu Yuan's death, fishermen rowed their boats back and forth on the river to recover his true body. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other food prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river "plop, plop", saying that when the fish, lobsters and crabs were full, they would not bite Dr. Qu's body. People followed suit after seeing it. An old doctor took a jar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying it was to stun dragons and water animals so as not to harm Doctor Qu. Later, for fear that the rice balls would be eaten by dragons, people came up with the idea of ??wrapping the rice with neem leaves and wrapping it with colored silk, which developed into rice dumplings.
The second legend is about the filial daughter Cao E. Cao E was from Shangyu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Her father drowned in the river and his body was not seen for several days. At that time, the filial daughter Cao E was only fourteen years old. Seventeen days later, He also threw himself into the river on May 5th and took out his father's body five days later. It became a myth.
The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include eating rice dumplings, racing dragon boats, hanging sachets...
I have finished introducing, there are many more myths like this!