China News Service, Taiyuan, June 25 (Yang Jieying, Yang Runde, Han Xuebing) "May 5th, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Rush, Drumming..." Tong Sheng is from a farmhouse in Huata Village next to Daotian Park, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province It came out that the door with Ai Ye was pushed open, and a scent of jujube rice scent mixed with the scent of rice dumplings came out.
As soon as entering the lunar month in May, the unique Dragon Boat Festival in Jinyuan District followed the pace of rice transplanting in Jinci Temple.
Local villagers are making dumplings. Photo courtesy of Jinyuan District News Center
Jinyuan District still circulates the saying "May is a poisonous month, and 5th is a bad day". Therefore, every May, the house must be cleaned, especially the Kang floor, especially for fear of hiding vipers, centipedes, and geckos.
On the table in the courtyard, several children are learning to make sachets and colorful threads with their elders. On the other side, several women gathered around and wrapped the dumplings neatly. According to reports, before opening the package, the locally-selected Jincijiang rice water was soaked for several hours and washed, the local picking reed leaves and Malian were cooked, and the red dates (junzao and jujube jujube), which are special products in the Xishan area, were prepared. ) Can be controlled.
The benefits of selection of materials are: using reed leaves (reed leaves have the effects of scorching heat, relieving thirst, relieving thirst, removing diseases and vomiting, diuretic constipation), glutinous rice (glutinous rice has the function of warming the spleen and lungs), red dates (red dates have tonic Benefits of Qi, nourishing blood and calming the nerves), Malian (Maren grass has sweet taste and calmness, has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, and hemostasis and anthelmintic), and the materials of zongzi create the special flavor of zongzi. Then wrap it into a four-corner shape, shape it into zongzi with Malian, then heat and compact it.
Mugwort inserted in the door. Photo courtesy of Jinyuan District News Center
After the water is boiled, cook it for another 2 hours on a slow fire. The Jinci incense dumplings (also called Jinci Liangzong) mixed with rice-scented jujube zongzi leaf scent will be cooked. After being taken out of the pot, it can be soaked in cold water. Rich, it is a summer seasonal food with high nutritional therapeutic value.
Zhang Baxiao, a villager in Huata Village, who is in his 70s, introduced this year that the locals called the Lunar May the "evil May." From the first day of May to the Dragon Boat Festival, folk customs are very popular. Adults point the prepared realgar wine in the children's eyebrows and ears, which has the effect of avoiding poisonous insects and eliminating germs. A mugwort is inserted in the door, a calamus is worn on the head, a charm is hung, and a ghost charm is hung. Adults fold the peach tree branches, pull the plantain and hay to wash and dry, and make herbal tea for summer.
The children are even more joyful, tying the five-color thread, hanging the purse, hanging the gourd, and the tiger. There are also children wearing tiger head caps, colorful embroidered tigers on children's apron, and wearing "tiger apron" to drive out the "five poisons", which means good luck. However, it was not the bureaucrat Qu Yuan who passed the Dragon Boat Festival in Jinyuan District more than two thousand years ago, but the first man in the family named Zhang Xianxian and Zhifen more than three thousand years ago-Shuiguantai.
The customs of Jinyuan Dragon Boat Festival. Photo courtesy of Jinyuan District News Center
The first record of Tai Chi's governance of water was first seen in "Zuo Zhuan": "Tai Chi, able officials, Xuanfen Zhao, Daze Ze, and Taiyuan". Tai Chi is regarded as the god of Fen Shui, and the earliest pioneer in Taiyuan in ancient times. The story about "opening the Lingshikou and emptying the Jinyang Lake" has been circulating for more than 3,000 years, and it has become the beauty talk of the Jinyuan people praising the Taiji River for the benefit of the people. People are impressed with Ende. Since then, on the fifth day of May every year, every household will commemorate the heroes of the flood control by means of dumplings, wormwood, and realgar. It has a history of more than 3,000 years. In today's Jinci Museum and Wangguo Village of Jinyuan District, there are two Tai Chi Temples.
Jinyuan is the seat of ancient Jinyang. In ancient times, Tai Chi led the ancestors of Taiyuan to fight against the flood and tried to open the mountain pass at the top of Lingshi Mountain to divert the flood. In order to thank the people who dug the mountains, the people around the lake in ancient Jinyang used reeds on the lake and wrapped glutinous rice to make dumplings. On the bamboo raft, the river drifted to the front, the people who dig the mountain ate dumplings, and finally opened the mountain pass to lead the flood to the Yellow River. Later, in order to commemorate the Tai Chi, people built a "Tai Chi Temple" and held a commemorative event every year on the Dragon Boat Festival. Over time, the formation of Jinyang Dragon Boat Festival customs.
Jinyang Dragon Boat Festival was successfully selected as the Taiyuan Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage List as early as 2006. "On the advent of the Dragon Boat Festival, we organized this event, not only to achieve the role of invigorating the mind and body of the residents, to enhance cohesion, but also to entertain and entertain, to enhance everyone's understanding of the traditional activities of the Dragon Boat Festival, and deeply experience the traditional festivals. The rich cultural connotation inherits the roots and veins of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation from generation to generation," said He Jianping, secretary of the party branch of Huata Village in Jinyuan District. (Finish)