Overview of Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival Folk Customs

May may, the water keeps flowing and the clouds remain.

It's hard to find money, some people are gorgeous, and there are several astro boys traveling.

Pearl curtain pillow, lotus pond, harpsichord, kite, boat.

I plan to peek at the foot of the temple in Longjia and pity the head of Haixi in Jiangbei.

Chen Zilong's poems should be about Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival. There are really few ancient poems about the Dragon Boat Festival that don't mention Qu Yuan, because usually the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. But the Dragon Boat Festival in Suzhou is different. The difference is that it is not a sacrifice to Qu Yuan, but a sacrifice to Wu Zixu, who was more than 200 years earlier than Qu Yuan. Wu Zixu public sacrifice has become an important activity of Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is not only a traditional folk festival in Suzhou, but also an intangible cultural heritage as old as the ancient city of Suzhou.

Archaeological findings show that there was a tribe called Baiyue in Wudi of Neolithic Age in primitive society, and the dragon was their totem. They compare themselves to the descendants of dragons. Every year, the Dragon Boat Festival is not only a boat race to please dragons, but also a variety of foods are put into bamboo tubes, wrapped in leaves, thrown into the water and eaten with dragons. Commemorating the Dragon God has become the original origin of Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival, and it is also the most lively activity of the Dragon Boat Festival. Drums are stirring, people are buzzing, and people gather by the river to watch the water athletes rowing dragon boats to win gold.

Later, the Dragon Boat Festival in Suzhou added sacrifices to Wu Zixu. Wu Zixu was a member of Sun Wu's team, also known as the two generals, and was a hero who helped the King of Wu build the ancient city of Suzhou. Wu Zixu's story is a household name. He was put to death by ambush and hung above the city gate. His body was put into a leather bag and thrown into the river. The so-called "bad end" is the fifth day of May, the Dragon Boat Festival. As a result, it is widely rumored among the people that "Zi Xu died and Narcissus was born". Since then, "offering sacrifices to soldiers to welcome daffodils" has become an important part of Wudi Dragon Boat Festival. The descendants of the Wu family will gather in Suzhou during the Dragon Boat Festival. After the sacrificial ceremony, descendants and people in Wu Zixu rushed to throw zongzi into the river and release loaches and mussels. The scene is spectacular.

206 years after Wu Zixu's death, it was also the Dragon Boat Festival. Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River in Chu State. Whether by coincidence or by design, people sacrificed this great poet in the same way. As for other customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, the whole country is similar. Eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival has become the representative food of the Dragon Boat Festival, and Jiaxing is the most famous. Jiaxing was only the border of wuyue 2500 years ago. In fact, Suzhou real estate zongzi is really an eye-opener. As far as its appearance is concerned, there are triangular zongzi, pillow zongzi, feet zongzi, gold ingot zongzi, mother-child zongzi, cake zongzi (including all kinds of rice cakes), pen zongzi (meaning the first prize in the meeting) and so on. , dazzling; As for the content of zongzi, it is varied and numerous. The other is to hang calamus and absinthe on the door, drink realgar wine to ward off evil spirits, hang sachets, and burn five poisons to drive away poison. Gourd, snake insect, scorpion, centipede, toad, gecko and other patterns. , can be cut into red paper, varied and lifelike, and it is a folk paper-cutting art in a strict sense, and it is unwilling to be driven away, torn up and burned as poison.

Lifelike dragon boats have appeared in the moat, and the contestants preparing for the dragon boat race have also sounded over Sioux City, accompanied by the loud and neat trumpets of fierce drums. All kinds of zongzi in the shop are full of festive atmosphere. This scene is like a nursery rhyme: May 5th, Duanyang. The door is full of incense. Eat zongzi and sprinkle sugar. The dragon boat went into the water happily.