Memories of childhood Dragon Boat Festival: busy wheat fields, unforgettable wheat fragrance, Zongxiang, Ai Xiang …

It's another year of Dragon Boat Festival. As I grow older, I become more sentimental and like memories more. I want to tell my children something about my childhood and write it down by the way. I am afraid that one day I will forget, and I can turn it out to comfort myself.

Dragon Boat Festival is a love-hate festival in my childhood. I love many customs: eating zongzi, tying five shreds, boiling eggs and inserting wormwood. There are many interesting things to do and many old stories and legends to listen to. I hate that Dragon Boat Festival is the season to harvest wheat. In this harvest season, basically every year coincides with the rainy season. It's hard to get busy. Now think about the wheat awn on the ground, or feel itchy [smile] [smile]. My hometown is Jiaodong District, Shandong Province. Although both the book and the teacher say that the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan's suicide by throwing himself into the river after school, I haven't seen any commemorative activities or corresponding stories and legends in my hometown. More are legends, stories and prayers about good weather and getting rid of disasters and diseases. Come to think of it, there are quite a lot of activities and ceremonies.

The most important thing is to eat zongzi. The zongzi in my hometown is different from the triangular zongzi in the city now. It is a square zongzi with square leaves. My mother's Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi is more perfect. Before the Dragon Boat Festival every month, she chooses sticky glutinous rice, pure taste zongzi leaves and dates everywhere. Near the Dragon Boat Festival, she washed them one by one, soaked them in water, and the elasticity of zongzi was moderate. When cooking, it is very particular to have a big fire before a small fire. The zongzi cooked every time is fragrant and delicious. It is important to mention zongzi leaves. When I was a child, I called it pineapple leaf (dialect). Different from reed leaves in the south and cities, this kind of leaves has stronger flavor and darker color. Reed leaves are more fragrant, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.

After zongzi, it's time to say eggs. Shandong people's love for eggs makes it almost integrated into every festival. There are legends about eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. Probably because of the large population and the relative shortage of eggs, I can only eat a few happily on holidays. Anyway, when I was a child, I let the elderly and people who needed to make up their bodies eat eggs first. Up to now, I like eggs very much, which stems from the fact that I didn't have enough eggs when I was a child. Some eggs must be boiled in the zongzi pot on the Dragon Boat Festival, which symbolizes the rich desire for life. Sometimes when cooking, I still roll on my child's stomach to get rid of illness and disaster.

These are all foods. Let's talk about decorative wormwood and colored ropes. Hanging wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival means that it can eliminate diseases (wormwood has been at home for three years, so doctors don't have to come), and at the same time, it can repel mosquitoes and insects, with good results. At night, a handful of wormwood cools down and mosquitoes disappear. Besides, tying five strings (colorful ropes) is the highlight of children. Family members will tie five wires (colorful ropes) to their children's wrists and ankles, and the simple colors at home will suddenly come alive. When it rains, pick five wires and throw them on the eaves in the rain. It is said that they can be turned into small snakes and dragons, and Carl has a good weather. ...

Enough playing, it's time to say busy farming. Now there are golden wheat fields everywhere, full of harvest and joy. At that time, they were miserable, cutting wheat, bundling wheat, recovering wheat fields, threshing and bagging, and drying them every day ... This process lasted for more than half a month, and they were basically busy at home. Of course, when harvesting and drying wheat, there are also people who sell sorbet ice cream, so you should be able to eat one. Now that I think about it, the joys and sorrows of that era were so simple, and they were all true from the heart. Now they are much richer and don't have to work so hard, but they lack the truth of stepping on the ground, the sureness of wheat storage, the firmness of spring ploughing and autumn harvesting and winter storage, and they know the direction and calmness of what to do when they get up. Without a popsicle, they are cheerful and simple. ..

Looking forward to one day, returning to that simple truth and bitterness.