Cover news reporter Li Yuxin
"If you want to talk about the most lively scene of the Dragon Boat Festival in old Chengdu, it must be a dragon boat race." I think it can be described in one sentence - the sunset and the mallard fly together, and the Jinshui is the same color. ”
On June 14, the annual Dragon Boat Festival arrived as scheduled. As one of the four traditional festivals in China, eating rice dumplings, hanging calamus, making sachets... The traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and have been passed down from generation to generation. But if you talk about the Dragon Boat Festival folklore that most affects the old Chengdu people, it is undoubtedly a dragon boat racing over the Jinjiang River, and a hemp duck fluttering on the water.
Dragon boat racing in the Chengdu Fu River in the last century (Source Micro Chengdu)
Turn back the clock to the 1930s and 1940s, the childhood of Shuai Peiye. The people on both sides of the Jinjiang River were crowded, and even the small ones could not squeeze into the crowd of spectators, and his father held him high on his shoulder to get a glimpse of the grand scene of the Jinjiang Dragon Boat Race.
"That scene can't be described as a crowded alley, and there are at least hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the strait." Chengdu people poured out of the nest, just to see this dragon boat race and catch the hemp duck. Recalling the picture at that time, the folklore expert Shuai Peiye still felt that he had always remembered it, and he was very happy, and he also casually adapted the famous sentences in the "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion".
Dragon boat racing Is a lively scene where people can't squeeze in
"Dragon boat Jinshui said Duanyang, Ai ye calamus shochu incense. The children of the miscellaneous bushes are taught to smear the ears and noses with male and yellow. "The "Jincheng Bamboo Branch Words" written by Yang Xie during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty depicts the scene of chengdu folk spending the Dragon Boat Festival.
What was the grand situation of dragon boat racing in Chengdu in the old days? In Shuai Peiye's memory, the most "noisy" activity of the Dragon Boat Festival is this one. "Before the early 1950s, the water from the Nine Eyes Bridge in Chengdu to Wangjiang Park was extremely wide. In the old days, as a major water wharf in Chengdu, it was simply called a hundred boats competing for the current and ten thousand sails. Not only is the river particularly wide, but the water is also particularly gentle, making it particularly suitable for dragon boat racing. ”
Shuai Peiye
After the order was given, I saw shouts on the river, drums vibrating, oars stirring up the waters of the Jinjiang River, and spectators spread over the mountains and crowded the banks of the river. "At that time, the only thing that couldn't squeeze in was dragon boat racing." Shuai Peiye said that he was just a young doll at that time, naturally incomparable with a strong seventeen or eighteen-year-old teenager, only by being carried on the shoulders by his father, he could look at the river from a distance and vaguely see the scene of dragon boat racing.
"Because from the Nine Eyes Bridge to Wangjiang Park, the two banks of the Jinjiang River are no longer called 10,000 empty alleys, called 100,000 empty alleys." The river is surrounded by a wall of people who are completely airtight, and they can't go to the water's edge to see it. ”
Although the dragon boat race is extremely exciting, if you think that the only thing that stirs up the splash on the river is the boat rafter, then you can underestimate the liveliness of the Chengdu River in the Dragon Boat Festival. When it comes to the Dragon Boat Festival, it is not only the athletes who can paddle dragon boats, but also the swimmers who roll in the water of the Jinjiang River.
"At this time, all the 'good things' swimmers in Chengdu must show their skills, because anyone can grab it, you just have to jump into the water." Here, Shuai Peiye is talking about the climax of the Dragon Boat Festival- catching ducks.
"Dragon Boat Competition" (Qing Anon.)
The duck flutters "Good thing" swimmers compete for the object
"Among the famous snacks in Chengdu, there is a duck that is unbelievable and amazing, called camphor tea duck. This duck dish is exquisitely made and smoked from the raw materials with camphor wood and tea leaves, so it has a special fragrance. The meat is soft and squishy when eaten, and it does not have a fatty feeling. The protagonist of this dish, that is, the object of competition among the swimmers in the Jinjiang River during the Dragon Boat Festival, chengdu ma duck.
Posing a hemp duck, Shuai Peiye was full of praise, and it was even more eyebrow-raising and dancing. According to him, this breed of duck grew up in the rice fields, strong and strong, and could fly in the air with wings. "This duck has only lean meat on it, and the meat is not old, and the taste is very special." Because it grows up eating insects, shrimp, fish, and grain millet in the rice field, the meat is particularly delicious. ”
Such a good thing naturally attracts countless citizens of good things to compete. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the big folk households will donate a batch of hemp ducks, which will be put into the Jinjiang River by the organizers, and if they want to catch them, they must depend on their respective skills. "These ducks can fly in the air, it is extremely difficult to grab them, and it is all in hand, and as soon as you grab the ducks in the air, they leave." As a result, the athletes on the river surface did everything in their power, but they could not catch it. The ducks spread their wings and fluttered on the river, the swimmers waved their hands and splashed countless splashes, and the river surface was a lively scene, which was extremely chaotic. "That's why I used this adjective, 'Sunset and hemp duck fly together, Jinshui is the same color'."
There is also anecdotal rumor that before these ducks were put down into the water, they were cut open by the organizers in a small opening in the neck and smeared with salt, so the pain of the river was chaotic, making people unable to easily get their hands on it. "Of course, this is only a folk saying, and now it seems a little unhurried."
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