Dragon Boat Festival: honey cool brown, oil cake, flower rope

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When I was very young, the impression of the Dragon Boat Festival was always at school when the summer holidays were over, even if I was too busy to have time to eat a serious meal, my father would still squeeze out time to go to the street to buy a few honey cool browns, my mother would take advantage of the gap between cooking to fry a pot of oil cakes, my grandmother would twist us a colorful flower rope, and every grandchild would bring a wrist and ankle belt...

Honey cool brown, is the best food I have ever eaten when I was a child, soft and sticky cold brown dipped in ice sweet and sweet honey, take a bite, the whole person feels cool, there is no summer impetuousness, and that sweetness will make people feel like honey all day, cutting up the wheat to the sickle can also swing faster...

I don't know why I want to eat oil cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival, but at that time, only when I was over the Dragon Boat Festival, my mother was willing to fry oil cakes to eat. Mom would reconcile the noodles before going to the field, and when she came back, she would send a big dough skillfully divided into several small doses, and then rolled it to the size of the bowl with a rolling pin, and then cut a few lines with a knife in the middle and put it into the hot oil pot. Sitting at the mouth of the stove to fill the firewood, I smelled the fragrant smell of oil on the side of the pot, listened to the sound of the thorns in the pot, looked at the big golden oil cake floating in the pot, usually ate too much pot helmet steamed buns, with the oil cake on the cucumber shredded can eat three in one breath.

Flower rope, probably the only ornament I ever brought when I was a child, at that time, Grandma would twist the flower rope before the Dragon Boat Festival, and the colorful flower threads were wrapped together under the tool (boqiao) that Grandma used to twist the soles of the shoes, and the tighter and tighter, more and more dazzling... On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, we can't wait to let Grandma help us bring it, and the little friends will compare with each other, whose flower rope is better, whose color is brighter, whose deterrent power is large, and all kinds of water snakes dare not come close. Because Grandma said that the flower rope should be worn until the sixth of June, then cut it, throw it into the canal to let the water wash away, so that there will be no snakes near it for a whole year.

Until now, honey cool brown is still my favorite, the gift box contained in a variety of flavors of rice dumplings can not let me eat to the fullest, always feel that the meat is too salty, the dates are not sweet enough ... And the oil cake has no longer the original temptation, but feels that the pot helmet steamed bun and spicy seeds are the perfect match. Flower rope, mother will also be like grandma in the past, with multicolored silk thread to the little grandson to hand twist one, let the belt play for a while. It's just that in the hearts of children, the concept of the Dragon Boat Festival is: May 5th, over the Dragon Boat Festival, rowing dragon boats, beating big drums... Perhaps, the original Dragon Boat Festival customs in the northwest countryside will be gradually forgotten like the summer harvest holiday of that year.