"Colorful wisps of bijun brown, fragrant stem white jade mass". Dragon Boat Festival, rice dumplings are fragrant, gathering people's hearts and sending blessings. In order to further carry forward and inherit Chinese traditional culture, show the rich cultural connotation of the Dragon Boat Festival, and create a happy and peaceful festive atmosphere for the villagers, Xiquan Town launched a series of activities to welcome the Dragon Boat Festival.
Approaching the Dragon Boat Festival, Ning Xiuming, who is nearly 60 years old, began to get busy, cold noodles, cool powder, stuffed skin... For decades, Ning Xiuming has continued the custom of making Dragon Boat Festival food.
Ning Xiuming, a villager in Chen Zhuang Village, Xiquan Town: In summer, our Jingtai people's folk custom is to eat cold noodles, cool powder, stuffed skin, gray beans, and sweet embryos, which is also the characteristic of our Jingtai people to welcome the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival.
In the courtyard of the village committee of Shangba Village, villagers sit in groups of three or five. The old people pulled up the erhu and sang a small song, the children chased me to play and play, and the young people clearly divided the labor and began to make rice dumplings. Rice dumpling leaves, pots of glutinous rice, raisins, peanuts are neatly placed, and the "rice dumpling master" teaches hand-in-hand, rolling rice dumpling leaves, putting glutinous rice, pressing and compacting, wrapping, binding, and the whole set of actions is completed in one go. The older women also kneaded colorful flower threads into colorful flower ropes with auspicious meanings, and put them on the wrists of the children, sending affectionate blessings, and the scene was lively and peaceful.
When it was dinner time, the film projection team came to the village and played the red film "Hundred Regiments War". The whole village watched the movie, ate rice dumplings, and enjoyed this wonderful time with the gusts of breeze.
Zhang Julin, a villager in Shangba Village, Xiquan Town: We have had good food every night in the past few days, such as spending the Dragon Boat Festival, eating rice dumplings, singing small songs, entertainment, singing, activities, and watching movies.
Li Xiaolin, secretary of the party branch of Shangba Village, Xiquan Town: On the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, the party branch of our village has enriched the spiritual and cultural life of the elderly by organizing villagers to watch movies, wrap rice dumplings, rub flower ropes, sing ditties and other activities, and at the same time enhance the cohesion of our village and create a strong atmosphere of cadres and families.
Reporter: Zhang Haichun Wang Yuanying