China News Service, Guangzhou, June 14th. Title: Guangzhou under the epidemic: homes can also have the atmosphere of the Dragon Boat Festival
China News Agency reporter Cai Minjie
The 14th is the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese festival.
Affected by the epidemic, this year’s Dragon Boat Festival is somewhat different for Guangzhou.
In Guangzhou, Dragon Boat Festival has traditional customs such as rowing dragon boats and eating rice dumplings.
In the past from the first to the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the lively and festive "Dragon Boat Scenery" was staged in the crisscrossing rivers of Guangdong. The dragon boats shuttled like arrows in the water, and the audience on the shore shouted for help.
The people pack fresh meat dumplings and lye dumplings, and take the dumplings to visit relatives and friends.
Many people will take advantage of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, and the airport and high-speed rail stations are full of passengers.
Since May 21 this year, Guangzhou, Foshan and other places have successively reported the emergence of local people infected with the new crown epidemic.
Guangdong continues to upgrade its prevention and control measures, and many places do not allow dine-in meals, and call for on-site celebration of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. Those who really need to leave Guangzhou must hold a 48-hour negative nucleic acid test certificate.
For a while, Guangzhou seemed to be much quieter.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, the reporter visited Beijing Road Commercial District, Tianhe Commercial District and other places in the city, and found that the crowds in the busy commercial areas in the past are now reduced sharply. The large screen scrolls and displays reminders to remind citizens to pay attention to physical abnormalities and seek medical treatment as soon as possible. .
Some shops are still open for business, but there are few customers.
"Today I went to the bakery to buy a few rice dumplings, and I will go home soon." Guangzhou citizen Ms. Liang said that she would not be too worried about the epidemic, and just take precautions.
The reporter visited some of the epidemic prevention and control enclosed and closed areas that have received social attention to see how the people "live on the spot."
In the east area of Jinxiu Peninsula, Nanpu Island, Luopu Street, Panyu District, Guangzhou City, which has been "quarantined" for two weeks, reporters saw community workers on the periphery delivering Dragon Boat Festival gift boxes to quarantined residents, containing red bean dumplings, fresh meat dumplings and tea leaves. Wait.
From time to time, drones hover in the sky to remind the public to protect themselves against the epidemic.
According to Wang Qiang, the relevant person in charge of the community, there are currently 124 households in the enclosed area of Jinxiu Peninsula, and the zongzi needs to pass through three disinfection checkpoints such as the gate and lobby of the community before they can be delivered to the door of the residents.
"In the beginning, we were very nervous, but now it has become much calmer." Mr. Chen, a resident who lives in a closed building on the Jinxiu Peninsula, plans to use rice dumplings with hot pot for lunch.
He said that while staying at home, he and his family felt the support and love passed between medical staff, community workers, and neighbors.
He Libi, deputy chief nurse at the Luopu Branch of the Second People’s Hospital of Panyu District, Guangzhou City, who is mainly responsible for ensuring the medical needs of residents in the closed and controlled area, said that at the beginning of the isolation management, residents with chronic diseases were more anxious, and now they have gradually adapted to the isolation management. "Since the start of the garrison work, my colleagues and I have not returned home once, and hope that the epidemic will end as soon as possible."
During the Dragon Boat Festival, residents living in high-risk areas in Liwan District received holiday gifts one after another. More than 70,000 copies of zongzi were delivered free of charge by workers wearing protective clothing.
“In the past, everyone lived on their own and neglected to communicate with their neighbors, but through this epidemic, everyone never realized that they were familiar with each other.” said Mr. Yang, who lives in the Hedong community.
Guangzhou resident Ms. Huang sent 100 loving rice dumplings to the nucleic acid test site in Dongping Community, Datang Street, Yuexiu District, for medical staff, volunteers and sanitation workers to eat the beloved food for the Dragon Boat Festival.
There is a local nursery rhyme in Guangzhou. The lyrics sing: "On the fifth day of May at the Dragon Boat Festival, Ama Qu told me to watch the dragon boat." It means that the mother told the children to watch the dragon boat together during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Every year from the first day to the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, villagers in various villages in Guangzhou will race dragon boats on the river.
This year, the dragon boat race was suspended for the second year due to the epidemic.
"Since I was little, I like to watch the Dragon Boat (Dragon Boat Rowing) and eat the Dragon Boat Rice with my family." Xian Huichen, a resident of Xian Village in Guangzhou, said, praying for safety and success in the coming year, and then meet again to watch the dragon boat.
Compared with the deserted offline market, the online market orders surged.
According to data provided by a community group buying business platform, as the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, orders for traditional food such as zongzi, zongye, and glutinous rice have gradually increased.
Among them, egg yolk dumplings and eight-treasure dumplings have become the most popular flavors of rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival this year.
"This year's "Zhaijia" New Year, purchased a lot of raw materials online, and the family divides the labor to make rice dumplings." Liang Ying, who is usually busy with work, posted their own wrapped rice dumplings in the circle of friends on the Dragon Boat Festival. "Take advantage of this time to spend more time with your family. It is also very interesting to popularize traditional Chinese culture to children and tell them how to make rice dumplings."
During the epidemic, young people studying and working in different places placed an order to deliver rice dumplings to the elderly in Guangzhou.
"This year I can't go back because of the epidemic in my hometown. My parents let me not worry. It's the holiday season, and I hope my parents know that our hearts are together." said a user who placed an order for his parents from Shanghai.
The Guangzhou epidemic 5 is being contained and is gradually improving. In the early morning of the 14th, Guangzhou officials announced that they would unblock eligible closed and closed management areas in an orderly manner. Someone wrote in the circle of friends: "Working together is the most important thing. When the epidemic is over, we will be well." (End)