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Preface:
Do you know the origin of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival? So do you know the Dragon Boat Festival customs in the mountain villages of northern Guangdong?
Rice dumplings and salted eggs
Today I will explain to you to see how it is different from your Dragon Boat Festival.
The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is now one of the four traditional festivals in the mainland, and like the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, it is a statutory holiday in the mainland. The Dragon Boat Festival is not only a holiday in our country, but also in countries such as North Korea, Japan, South Korea, and even Singapore.
Dragon boat racing
So what started the Dragon Boat Festival? A popular saying is now to commemorate the Chu poet Qu Yuan, who was a very outstanding poet and politician during the Warring States period. Qu Yuan committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and in order to commemorate Qu Yuan, people took this day as the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.
Qu yuan
But why should the people commemorate Qu Yuan? That's because during the Warring States period, Qu Yuan was born into the nobility, but he lived with ordinary people since he was a child, and his parents also taught Qu Yuan to love and care for the people from an early age.
Qu Yuan's hometown
Therefore, Qu Yuan began to do a lot of things to benefit the people when he was very young, and then he was praised and loved by the citizens. Therefore, when everyone learned that Qu Yuan had committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, they came to mourn, which led to the Dragon Boat Festival.
Qu Yuan tossed the river
The above is the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, people in different places, the activities of holding the Dragon Boat Festival are different, today I will tell you about the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in the mountain villages of northern Guangdong.
Wrapped rice dumplings
The indispensable protagonist of the Dragon Boat Festival, that is, Zongzi. People in mountain villages in northern Guangdong basically start to prepare various materials for wrapping rice dumplings, glutinous rice, peanuts, meat, rice dumplings, salted eggs, salted duck eggs, etc. two or three days before the Dragon Boat Festival.
Glutinous rice is grown by their own families, not purchased in the market, some families do not grow glutinous rice, only need to buy, or take the rice to plant glutinous rice people's home exchange, after preparing glutinous rice, wash it and soak it in water for later.
glutinous rice
Peanut rice is the peanuts planted at home, taken out to peel the shell, peeled out the grains of peanut rice, soaked in water, and kept as a reserve.
peanut
Meat, some people like to eat salty, they will marinate the new year's salted pork or bacon, as meat filling. If you don't like to eat salty, just buy fresh pork at the market and come back, cut it in advance, and wait for all the ingredients to be ready before starting to make rice dumplings.
Bacon
Rice dumpling leaves are an indispensable thing, there are two kinds of palm leaves, one is fresh rice dumpling leaves, just cut back from the mountain, washed with water, boiled, and then soaked in water. The other is the old rice dumpling leaf, that is, used last year, when everyone eats the rice dumplings, there is no destruction or staining of the rice dumplings, the villagers collect the peeled rice leaves, brush the glutinous rice on the top with a brush, wash it and then hang it on the wall to dry, and leave it for use in the second year.
Rice dumpling leaves
Compared with the new rice dumpling leaves, the villagers still prefer to use the rice dumpling leaves used in the previous year, and the texture of the rice dumpling leaves is different, unlike the new rice dumpling leaves that need to be boiled before they can be used.
Regarding rope, the city uses thread to wrap rice dumplings, but people in mountain villages in northern Guangdong do not like to use threads, they like to use the rice dumpling leaves on palm trees, tear the rice dumpling leaves into pieces, and then use them to tie the rice dumplings. Moreover, the rice dumplings tied with rice dumpling leaves have a more fragrant taste, unlike those tied with threads, and there is a faint smell of others.
Rice dumpling leaves
After the ingredients of the rice dumplings are prepared, the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, start wrapping the rice dumplings, and start cooking that night, and cook all the rice dumplings in a large iron pot on the wood stove. Once cooked, take it out and let it cool and serve again the next day. Of course, if you want to eat, you can also try it in advance.
Insert wormwood calamus
On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the sky is dark, every household begins to get up, go to the mountain to cut wormwood calamus, sort out the wormwood calamus that has been cut back, and then insert it on the door of their own home, as long as it is their own house, whether it is a house where people live or raise chickens, pigs, or cattle, as long as it is a house with a door, it is a bunch of wormwood calamus.
Some children didn't understand and asked why they were planting wormwood calamus on the door. The older generation will patiently explain the origin of the hanging wormwood calamus.
In the past, people found that there were many mosquitoes biting people in the summer, and there was no mosquito coil or insecticide at that time, so they wondered if there was any other way to get rid of mosquitoes.
After a period of time found that wormwood calamus is effective in repelling mosquitoes, they will hang wormwood calamus on their own door, mosquitoes smell the smell of wormwood calamus, will not fly into the house, everyone can sleep in the room, do not have to worry about mosquito bites.
Children heard that the little wormwood calamus had such an effect, and they also went to the mountain to cut it and then insert it on the door.
Honor the elderly
People in the past liked to say that the Dragon Boat Festival was happy, and with the popularization of culture, everyone knew the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, and slowly changed the words that said happy Dragon Boat Festival, and changed to the Dragon Boat Festival.
The mountain villages in northern Guangdong are basically family-style villages, and this uncle and uncle are basically family. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to preparing rice dumplings, a sumptuous lunch and dinner will also be prepared. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the food of the villagers' families is relatively good, and some people who live separately from the elderly must take the initiative to call the elderly to come and eat.
Dinner
Of course, on weekdays, the elderly will also be called to eat at home, the farmers in the mountain villages of northern Guangdong are still relatively kind and grateful, and every New Year's Festival, they will take the initiative to invite the older generation to come to the house to eat, chat, and taste their own bread dumplings or rice dumplings.
The old man does not eat much, in order to thank the requirements of the younger generation, even if he can't eat, he will take the initiative to sit at home and chat.
Walk relatives to visit the door
Rural life is relatively busy, as long as it does not rain, it is basically in the fields. Therefore, there are only holidays or holidays.
On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are elderly people in the family, some daughters who are married out of wedlock or some relatives, who will bring their own family's rice dumplings to visit relatives and visit the elderly.
The custom of the rural festival is like this, when you come, you come with a bag full of rice dumplings, and when you go back, the host family also returns a bag of rice dumplings or other things from his own family to bring home to his relatives.
Dragon boat racing, kite flying
Where I live, there are no rivers, growing up, never participated in dragon boat races. Dragon boat racing doesn't seem to have anything to do with us in mountain villages. Of course, on the one hand, climatic reasons, mountainous areas, karst landforms, drought and little rainfall, these natural conditions, resulting in the absence of these two projects in mountainous areas.
However, the absence of mountain villages does not mean that there are no rivers in northern Guangdong, and there are several rivers in northern Guangdong, such as the Wujiang River and the Xunjiang River, the annual flow of water is still very large, and the residents living in the surrounding area still hold dragon boat races every year.
In some parks in the city, adults will also take their children out to fly kites and accompany them to play. So dragon boat racing, kite flying, these activities feel far away from us, in fact, it is very close to us, as long as you are willing to participate.
Is the above the Dragon Boat Festival customs in the mountain village area of northern Guangdong? So what are the different Dragon Boat Customs in the places where you live? Feel free to communicate in the comments section.