Near the Dragon Boat Festival, you appreciate the custom of Dragon Boat Festival in old Ji'nan.
the Dragon Boat Festival is called the five Festival, also called the Dragon Boat Festival, the five Festival, the heavy noon Festival, the mid day festival and the long Festival. It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, because of Tang Xuanzong's five day birth in August, the prime minister, Song Chao, in order to curry favor with the emperor and avoid the "Five" word taboo, the "end five" was officially changed to "Dragon Boat Festival".
the origin of Dragon Boat Festival is different, and the way of festivals is different. One of the universally accepted origins is to commemorate patriotic poet Qu Yuan. People also use various ways to bless the future. With the progress of society, family reunion is becoming a fashion by the time of the Dragon Boat Festival.
in the past, the old Jinan people had a much more lively Dragon Boat Festival than today.
near the Dragon Boat Festival, many countrymen first came to the town with big bundles of wormwood, shouting and selling along the streets and alleys. Artemisia argyi has a peculiar fragrance, which has the function of repelling mosquitoes and purifying the air. Therefore, as soon as people arrive at the Dragon Boat Festival, they hang the wormwood under the eaves and plug them on the door. Others are placed under the bed to ward off evil spirits and drive away mosquitoes. Some peddlers weave wormwood into tiger's appearance. People buy it at home, because people think that tiger is the king of animals and can control "five poisons".
the old Dragon Boat Festival custom in old Ji'nan is to boil eggs with Artemisia argyi, and it is said that they can eat eyesight.
when the housewives are busy cooking zongzi and AI eggs, other people are not idle, they are busy hanging AI. AI has a strong fragrance. In Chinese traditional concept, AI is not only a kind of herb that can cure diseases, but also represents evil spirits to drive away poison and recruit hundreds of blessings. Therefore, for a long time, hang AI has been an important folk custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. The old Jinan people are very particular about hanging AI. It's not just to hang AI Zhi on the doors and windows. The most exquisite one is the "tiger" - the "tiger", which is cut into tiger shaped products. Hang out the twig and then draw the door. It is to draw five kinds of poison in the eyes of people, that is, the image of scorpions, centipede, venomous snakes, house lizard and toad, and then put on the door or the lintel. In the consciousness of the old Jinan people, the painting door symbol is linked with the "tiger", which is also for the sake of health and safety and prevention of plague. After finishing the door, you should also sprinkle the male rice wine: the front courtyard, the courtyard, the chicken house, the dog house, and all the people can touch the place. Realgar wine is said to kill pests. The old Jinan people are drenched in the Dragon Boat Festival.
wearing a sachet, wearing a five colored silk thread, wearing a five poisoned belly pocket and wearing a tiger hat, is also the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival in Ji'nan. Sachet is made of silk like zongzi, chicken heart, cucurbit cherry, mulberry and small monkey, small tiger and other small bags, in addition to some cinnabar, realgar, Atractylodes and so on, but also loaded with vanilla. The different shapes of the sachets form a bunch, all kinds of colors, and exquisite and lovely. It is said that wearing on children can play a role in avoiding evil and avoiding plague. When the fragrant sac is put on the Dragon Boat Festival, it is thrown away. The five color lines are made of red, yellow, blue, white and black five colored silk lines. In ancient China, five colors are worshipped with five colors as auspicious and five color lines symbolizing five color dragons. It is said that the five color lines can be used to conquer the demons and ghosts, and can also be blessed with long life. On the morning of the festival, when adults get up, the first thing is to tie the colorful lines on the wrist, wrist and neck of the child. When the line is tied, the child can not speak freely.
the belly button is a kind of underwear worn on the chest and abdomen. It is used to warm the abdomen and protect the navel. When the Dragon Boat Festival, adults often give children a "five poison belly pocket" or "tiger's belly pocket", embroidered with scorpion, centipede, snakes, lizards, toads and other graphics, to avoid blast gas, drive poison, dispel disaster prevention and prevention.
like the rest of the country, every family member in Ji'nan eats zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. People buy the rice leaves and rice, jujube and so on together into three prism, with colorful lines tightly, cooked in a big pot, some people still do so today.