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011. Dragon Boat Festival

Sun Gang had another task every day, which was to water the seedlings. Seeing the seedlings change every day, they looked more and more like weeds. After half a month, two leaves grew out of the seedlings. At this time, they could be transplanted into the paddy fields.

The roots of the seedlings are beard-shaped, thin and short, and as the seedlings grow, there will be more branches growing next to the rice plants.

Today is the day when Sun Gang planted rice rice fields where he was preparing to raise fish.

Sun's father briefly explained the key points of transplanting rice seedlings, then took off his shoes, rolled up his trousers and went down to the field. Sun Gang bent down according to the instructions taught by his father, held the seedling handle with his left hand, and divided two to three seedlings with his right hand, stretched his four fingers straight and put them together, pressed the seedlings on four fingers with his thumb, and inserted his fingers into the soil, and then brought the seedlings into the mud. This seedling was also planted. When planting, be careful not to bend the roots of the seedlings, so that the seedlings cannot survive.

Soon Sun Gang mastered the key points and could go hand in hand with his parents (in fact, transplanting rice seedlings in line with each other). It was horizontal and vertical and vertical.

Put a handful of green seedlings into the water. The seedlings instantly became green. It was like a farmer's hand, dyeing it green. In the sky, there was a hazy drizzle like smoke. The gentle spring breeze blew green the endless rice fields.

Just as Sun Gang was having sex, his legs suddenly felt a pain. When he lifted his legs up, he looked numb all over. He saw a mollusk sticking to his legs, as if he was still hiking in. Sun Gang was afraid of these soft things since he was a child.

Just now, I was concentrating on planting rice seedlings, but my feet were stimulated by cold water, so I didn't notice it at all. Seeing the leeches on my legs, Sun Gang was so scared that he immediately went ashore and sat on the ridge of the field, patting hard, but he couldn't get rid of it. So he thought of pulling it out, and the leeches were slippery and pulled out. I had heard that leeches would enter the body and flow along the blood vessels (heard-of-factly).

It was still Sun's father who had a solution. He quickly scraped off a few leeches and scraped off a few leeches. This move was really effective. The leeches were scraped off, but Sun Gang didn't dare to go down the field again by the field. Sun's mother felt sorry for her son and asked him to go home to cook.

Since the rice field that was preparing to raise fish was very troublesome to plant, it was necessary to plant rice on the ridges carefully and fall into the ditch where the fish was raised. So it took the three of them two days to plant the seedlings.

After Sun Gang did the logistics work and the help of several aunts, he planted all the remaining acres of rice fields.

A few days after planting seedlings in the experimental field, Sun Gang moved out of the space more than 1,000 grass carp, carp, and crucian carp, hundreds of half-turns each, into the ditch of the rice field, and injected several buckets of space water.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, a few days have passed again, and the Dragon Boat Festival in May has arrived.

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Dragon Boat Festival, is one of the "three major festivals" in my country's traditional folk festivals.

In ancient times, every Dragon Boat Festival, poets and scholars would hold a gathering for chanting poems and drinking wine. Poetry was to commemorate Qu Yuan, and drinking realgar wine was to disinfect it, and to help the elegant atmosphere. Gu Lu, a literati of the Qing Dynasty, said in "Qing Jialu": ​​"Grinding realgar powder and wine to drink is called realgar wine." During the gathering, they usually brought wine bowls, chanting poems, drinking wine, and hitting the bowls.

After a long period of evolution, the content of the Dragon Boat Festival activities has far exceeded its original cultural connotation. Especially since the reform and opening up, this activity has been expanded into trade negotiations, investment promotion or the display of various cultural, sports, and folk customs activities. Various folk activities are carried out through the traditional festival of the Dragon Boat Festival, and a platform for economic development.

To this day, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular and grand festival among the Chinese people.

On the Dragon Boat Festival, it was dawn, and every household was stuck in the doors and windows, and two mugwort was inserted under the eaves to avoid demons, ghosts, plagues, gods and evil. People called mugworts in human form, hung mugwort leaves in the air, cut into tiger shapes, and women fought to wear them to avoid evil and drive away miasma. As recorded in "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji": "On May 5, pick mugwort to be a human, and hang them on the door to ward off green energy."

Before the sun came out, adults took basins, jars, and children followed behind with hand towels and went to the wild to collect dew from the grass-skins for bathing. It is said that the bathing of the grass-skins in May can cure diseases and will not get sick for a summer.

Dad Sun got up early and cut some mugwort, and inserted one on both sides of each door, even the house in Sun Congo Garden was indispensable.

In the morning, every family eats rice dumplings. Rice dumplings are usually wrapped the day before. The outside is mainly made of tender reed leaves or bamboo shoots, and glutinous rice is mostly used inside. Some are mixed with beans or red dates. They start cooking at night, and eggs and duck eggs are placed in the pot where the rice dumplings are boiled. At this time, every household is filled with a scent of saliva.

In the kitchen, Sun's mother brought the rice dumplings that had been cooked last night, as well as marinated eggs and salted duck eggs.

There are chestnuts, peanuts, red beans and jujube stuffings, and Sun Gang's family doesn't like to eat salted rice dumplings.

"Peel a white rice dumpling without anything..." Dad Sun likes to eat white rice dumplings, dipped in white sugar, and the white sugar crunched in his mouth.

"I know, it's indispensable." Sun Gang replied on behalf of his mother.

After a while, Sun Gang killed three large rice dumplings and ate them happily. The rice dumplings have a color, fragrance, taste and beauty. They are golden and shiny in the mouth. They are smooth and tender, soft and sticky. They leave a fragrance on the teeth and cheeks. They have a sweet aftertaste and nutritious. They also have a fresh smell of bamboo.

After eating rice dumplings, you should eat one or two eggs, which is called "pressure" to ensure that you will not have sores throughout the summer. Eating duck eggs and goose eggs can cure dizziness, headaches and other diseases.

The most urgent thing for children is to wash Baicao Soup near noon. This Baicao Soup uses Chinese medicinal herbs such as wormwood, sausage, motherwort, etc., boil it together and use it to bathe. It will refresh the whole body, prevent diseases and strengthen the body, and will not harm sores.

After taking a shower, apply realgar to the child's mouth, nose, ears, eyes, belly button, anus, etc. Children should wear "tiger bellybands" to prevent the invasion of various poisonous insects.

Then, colorful silk threads are on the neck, wrists, and ankles, called "buckle flower velvet". This flower velvet is a "fairy rope". If you buckle it, you can turn bad luck into good fortune and even gods cannot take it away. Then you put on a fragrant purse on your chest. This fragrant purse is made of various colored cloths, filled with spices, stringed one by one, ranging from three to five, six to seven. The young men gathered together at this time, and compared them to see who is better. The most beautiful one will definitely make everyone watch it, and they are envious. Sun Gang is now grown up and has no such hobbies.

While chatting, Sun Gang remembered that the pigpen was still empty, so he asked, "Mom, don't we buy piglets? The pigpen is idle."

"I was discussing with your father the day before yesterday. It's okay to raise two ends. I'll kill one end and sell one end during the Chinese New Year, and there's no need to waste the leftovers." Sun's mother replied while peeling the rice dumplings and leaves without raising her head.

"Let my dad drive to the market tomorrow to buy it." The next day, Dad Sun went to the market to buy two piglets.

"By the way, Dad, are you preparing realgar wine this year?" Sun Gang shouted to his father in the yard.

On the Dragon Boat Festival, realgar wine is sprinkled with walls, doors and windows, drinking pudding wine, etc., which can be disinfected and is beneficial to health.

Dragon Boat Festival can be regarded as a traditional medical and health festival, and it is a festival for the people to fight against diseases and poisonous insects. Today, these hygiene customs should still be developed and should be promoted and inherited.

"I made a jar a few days ago and kept it for today's use."

Sun Gang knew that there was another drink at night. Although Sun Gang didn’t like wine, realgar wine was made from traditional Chinese medicine, and drinking it is good for the body.

"Xiaogang, I'll send some rice dumplings to your grandma and grandma later. Our family has made a lot of them. By the way, I can get some wine and yummy at your grandma's house and make some rice wine." Sun's mother told her son.

"Okay, I'll go now, the rice wine is good..." Sun Gang quickly brought rice dumplings to his grandparents and grandparents' house.

Grandma Sun Gang is also very famous nearby for making wine music. When she was a child, Sun Gang often went to her grandma's cabinet to secretly drink sweet wine. She hadn't drunk it for several years, so she naturally had a great aftertaste.

Wash the glutinous rice, soak it in cold water for 4-5 hours, then steam it in a steamer, put it in a basin, and when the temperature drops to 30-40 degrees, stir in the wine koji, then sprinkle it in a cool white, put it in a jar and seal it. After about 2 days, the taste will come out.

Sun's mother made a large porcelain pot of sweet wine (that is, fermented glutinous rice) and two jars to be used for customers. Rice wine with high-alcohol wine as the introduction must be sealed. First, cover it with 2 lotus leaves, cover it with a layer of plastic cloth, tie it with a rope, and then paste it with a layer of mud. It will be opened in one or two months.

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