“Colorful green jade rice dumplings, fragrant jade rice dumplings with white jade.” It’s the annual Dragon Boat Festival again, and I’m searching for memories of the Dragon Boat Festival in my mind, but I didn’t have much memory of this festival when I was a child.
I just remember that when we were children, our children wore five-poison vests, which were said to ward off evil spirits. I have seen babies a few months old wearing colorful threads on their white lotus-like arms, which are also said to ward off evil spirits. I never ate rice dumplings when I was a child. My hometown doesn’t seem to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, so I don’t have much memory.
I don’t know when, it should be more than ten years ago, some people began to collect reed leaves to make rice dumplings, but not many people can make rice dumplings. The sweet rice dumplings can only be enjoyed by clever women’s families. It is not easy to eat a rice dumpling. It is only because my mother is not skillful enough. Two years later, the new uncle wanted to send a hundred rice dumplings to his father-in-law's family, so many people learned how to make rice dumplings. Several people gather around a large pot of rice, which is filled with rice dumplings all afternoon. They cook a large pot full of rice for several hours, and then simmer for a night, filling the yard with the aroma of rice dumplings. There are also more types of rice dumplings, including those filled with bean paste, candied dates, and yellow rice. Those with greedy tastes will be satisfied. Picking reed leaves, making rice dumplings, eating rice dumplings, and sending rice dumplings have become things that every family has to do during the Dragon Boat Festival.
In the past few days, there are a few old people selling moxa leaves at the morning market, with several branches tied into bunches. In the circle of friends, I saw a friend receiving moxa leaves as a gift from others, which made me pay more attention to the Dragon Boat Festival.
Merchants like to celebrate the festival most. Supermarkets make rice dumplings and give away rice dumplings, and promote products. Restaurants offer discounts on Dragon Boat Festival dishes, and shopping malls offer small gifts. There are more and more festivals, and they are becoming more and more lively. The festivals that were neglected in the past have now turned around.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in my country with rich cultural connotations. Due to the epidemic, people have begun to pay attention to another cultural connotation of the Dragon Boat Festival. The People’s Daily said that during the Dragon Boat Festival, “adults are busy planting mugworts and carrying sachets. Children are tying colorful strings and wearing purses. In some places, Mulan soup and herbal tea are made. The fragrance is good for repelling mosquitoes and refreshing people. It also hopes to cure diseases. A good wish to eliminate disasters. In this sense, the Dragon Boat Festival can also become a 'Sports Festival' and a 'Health Festival'. "The Dragon Boat Festival entrusts us with our expectations for health and safety." Respect life. "This is what the festival is about.
I will end my incomprehensible gossip by borrowing a sentence from the People’s Daily, “Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. I wish the epidemic will subside, good luck and good health. I also wish you are not afraid of the midsummer sun and find a place of coolness.
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I wish everyone a healthy Dragon Boat Festival!