Hakka Dragon Boat Festival, Zongxiang herbal incense...
Morning essay
The Dragon Boat Festival's rice dumplings are fragrant, and the mango flowers bloom. Today, it is another year of the Dragon Boat Festival. Hakka, Hakka region, commonly known as the First Year Festival, refers to the first important festival after the Lunar New Year Festival.
Dragon Boat Festival, according to Hakka customs, people who go out to work through commercial workers, in general, if there is no special reason, will leave to return to their hometowns, accompany their parents and relatives to their families, and spend the first year of the First Year - The Dragon Boat Festival, not only to remember qu Yuan, a virtuous and loyal minister who loves the people and the country, but also to celebrate the first reunion and reunion of family members after the New Year and the New Year. Therefore, the Hakka people pay special attention to the Dragon Boat Festival, which is the first year festival, which is of great significance. Ancient customs handed down, Hakka dragon boat festival, newly married women, must turn back to the mother's house to spend the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Guining Festival; set up marriage, women who have not yet married, the son-in-law must come to the door to send the festival, the festival is tobacco, wine, tea and candy, with a fresh big rooster or big duck ... These are all very solemn festivals, must be done well, and must be generous, not only to test the personal strength of the son-in-law, but also to consider the family style of the son-in-law. Otherwise, if there is a slight carelessness, the woman's family is not satisfied, the marriage may be delayed, and even repentance and termination. These are All Hakka folk customs, which are everywhere, or Jane or Long, because people depend on the place.
Today's Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to this marriage custom, the people of the mountains and villages in the Hakka area also have to rush to the market, in addition to buying and selling mountain goods and trading specialties, they must also purchase the necessary meat and festival goods for the festival, as well as the herbal medicine of rice dumplings and wormwood herbal tea, in preparation for a safe summer vacation. In addition, the festival is at the time of mango seeds, into the summer heat, the day of the sun (the sun Hakka called the sun) is red and hot, just when the mango flowers out of the spikes blooming, Hakka women are diligent and thrifty, often in the mountain side of the river bay wetland, cutting wormwood, pulling the creek yellow, picking summer grass, fishy grass and other herbs, but also specially cut a large bundle of new spikes of mango flowers to take home, the sun is full of land. These, the things of the festival, the xihuang xiagu grass fishy grass, washed and dried coolly, dried, bundled and knotted as a cold medicine, boiled water for three days to fry herbal tea for summer use. And, the mango flowers are dried, bundled and cut neatly, that is, the Hakka, every household, cleaning, sweeping and dusting, family cleaning the best daily utensils for the year.
In this way, the Dragon Boat Festival is a kind of nostalgia and a kind of nostalgia that the Hakka people go deep into their minds and become permanent inheritance and memory... I don't know, do you remember it?
