Fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also called DuanYangJie,afternoon day festival, may festival, ai festival, terminal five, ChongWu,midday, summer day. Although the name is different, but all around the custom ofthe people's holiday is the same. The Dragon Boat Festival is China's twothousand years old customs, on this day, every family hanging moxa calamus,dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, drink realgar wine, swim all ills, sweetbursa.
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, you know the origin of the Dragon BoatFestival? ! I don't know! Let me tell you! Do you remember the patriotic generalchu qu yuan? I to say him!
Qu yuan is the warring states period abroad, very learned. He beside theking a few to image is his country rich and strong. Treacherous court official,listen to the words, bad king king chu qu yuan XiaoZhi exile. In exile, qu yuanheard that chu capital held by the enemy, and the people suffer, veryindignation. Falls on this day, he came to the miluo river edge, with a stone,in order to jump jumped into the miluo river. Abroad people hear that cast jiangqu yuan was very sad. They rowed steadily to salvage qu yuan, with tears intheir eyes, also threw rice dumplings into the river feed the fish, hope thatthe fish don't harm the body of qu yuan. This is may duanyang the origin ofzongzi.
The Dragon Boat Festival has a lot of interesting activities. Columns suchas dragon boat racing, hanging sachet, sachet, cinnabar, realgar, xiang,outsourcing to wire cloth, fragrance 4 excessive, again the five-color silkstring into a rope buckle, for all kinds of different shape, form a series,variety, and exquisite. Have the habit of hanging moxa leaf, calamus.
There were so many activity in the Dragon Boat Festival!
The Dragon Boat Festival is a lunar holiday, occurring on the fifth day ofthe fifth lunar month.
The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated inChina, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival iscelebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row theirboats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs toattempts to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned on the fifthday of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bambooleaves filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat therice rather than the hero poet. This later on turned into the custom of eatingtzungtzu and rice dumplings.
The celebration's is a time for protection from evil and disease for therest of the year. It is done so by different practices such as hanging healthyherbs on the front door, drinking nutritious concoctions, and displayingportraits of evil's nemesis, Chung Kuei. If one manages to stand an egg on it'send at exactly 12:00 noon, the following year will be a lucky one.
On Dragon Boat Festival, parents also need to dress their children up witha sachet. They first sew little bags with colorful silk cloth, then fill thebags with perfumes or herbal medicines, and finally string them with silkthreads. The sachet will be hung around the neck or tied to the front of agarment as an ornament. They are said to be able to ward off evil.
The sachetsare very popular with children and they vie with each other tocollect as many as possible. Children are not the only ones who collect HsiangPao. Older people are often given them as a symbol of respect, and they arehighly prized because of the intricate and beautiful embroidery that adornsthem.
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Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. Its Qu Yuans day ofcommemoration. In the morning, I wore a beautiful skirt, I had eaten glutinousrice dumplings, and I followed my father. Mother went to her grandmothers housetogether. I see my brother. My sister is waiting for me at the door.
As soon as I got off the train, they were dragged into the room and playedgames. I will be a patient first, my sister will be a doctor and my brother willbe a nurse. At noon, grandma made a full table lunch, we ate lunch, heart. Theaunt said, "if I can eat such a rich dish every day, I will be satisfied."
In the afternoon, when our family went back to grandmas house, my aunt.Great aunt came. They also sent a lot of things to our kids. We had a good timetoday.
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Today, I went to the grandmas home with my father and mother forthe Dragon Boat Festival. When we entered the door, grandma said, "today isDragon Boat Festival. Lets make dumplings." We promised. Grandma said, "bambooleaves need to be soaked for a while.
After a while, we began to pack the zongzi. Each of us picked up threepieces of bamboo leaves, grabbed a handful of glutinous rice with our hands, putthem in the bamboo leaves, and put on some big red dates. And then wrap it intoa cone. Im glad to have a zongzi wrapped up. I said to grandma, "the dumplingsare so simple. Grandma said, "the real bag is not easy!" After finishing thepackage, the dumplings were cooked.
Our whole family is very happy to eat sweet rice dumplings.