When I was a child, during the Dragon Boat Festival, my parents would give each of our brothers and sisters a salted duck egg, a zongzi, a mung bean cake and a sesame seed cake, and everyone would hang a sachet on his chest.
Mother took out the realgar bought at Liu Tianbao drugstore (since I was sensible), poured it into the wine, stirred it evenly with chopsticks, and then dipped it between my eyebrows. It is said that it can ward off evil spirits. At that time, I was a child, afraid of being found out by my friends when I went out, so I tried to refuse to smear. Because realgar wine tastes really bad, and besides, that yellow thing on your face is ugly.
When I was a child, I didn't know much about the origin of all festivals, only that there would be delicious food on holidays. In short, it is a holiday to have delicious food.
After primary school, the Chinese teacher told us that Qu Yuan was a great politician and patriotic poet of Chu State in the ancient Warring States Period. Because the monarch was fatuous and the country was lonely at that time, Qu Yuan's political rights were suppressed ... Unwilling, he died in the countryside and threw himself into the Miluo River.
Qu Yuan's major works include Li Sao, Nine Songs, Nine Chapters and Tian Wen. Chu Ci, with Qu Yuan's works as the main body, is one of the sources of China's romantic literature, which has a far-reaching influence on later poetry.
Since the teacher talked about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, I have known since childhood that the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan and a day for modern people to express their patriotic feelings.
The Dragon Boat Festival has continued to this day and has become a good opportunity for businesses to compete. All major and small shopping malls sell all kinds of delicious dumplings with exquisite packaging. There are meat dumplings, egg dumplings, jujube dumplings, bean dumplings, clear water dumplings and so on, and there are many kinds of them.
On traditional festivals in China, China people will commemorate their ancestors in their own way. My relatives in Wuhan package jiaozi at home by themselves. As long as I spend the Dragon Boat Festival in Wuhan, I will receive Qingshui Zongzi wrapped by my sister-in-law, because the fragrance of Qingshui Zongzi is my favorite.
Please think twice about your relatives during the festival. All festivals are days of missing family members, which shows the great strength of China people's feelings.
Qu Yuan wrote in "Songs of the South": "Live with heaven and earth, and shine with the sun and the moon." This great patriotic poet has been dead for 2349 years, and his brilliant thoughts will last forever.
On the occasion of Dragon Boat Festival, I wish all my dear friends good health during the Dragon Boat Festival!