China News Service, Fuzhou, June 6 th: The Dragon Boat Festival "ends" the traditional festivals and customs in Fuzhou.
China News Service reporter Lin Weili
As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, many people in Fuzhou put up such red couplets in front of their doors. These words, which are neat and full of philosophy of life, are a unique culture of the Dragon Boat Festival in Fujian in the early years.
In addition to posting lunch books, Fuzhou people will spend more unique traditional customs on the Dragon Boat Festival, which was included in the national legal holiday for the first time this year.
According to Mr. Fang Binggui, a folk expert in Fuzhou, there are roughly ten activities in Fuzhou’s traditional Dragon Boat Festival, and a folk song sings these contents in a nutshell: "The Dragon Boat Festival is full of drums, and the belly is replaced by spring clothes; Dragon boat races in the river, sachets hanging on the children’s lapels; Every family is busy wrapping zongzi, and every household is happy to hang pu; Poison male yellow rice wine, avoid evil five-color symbol; Let the yellow smoke go, and post the noon book. "
Among these ten activities, the belly pocket, sachet and midday book are the treasures in the cultural treasure house of the Dragon Boat Festival in Fujian, especially the midday book, which is unique to only Fuzhou Shiyi in China and can be called a must in China.
Liang Zhangju’s "Couplet Conghua" in the Qing Dynasty recorded that Fuzhou folk customs, every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the Dragon Boat Festival, must use red paper, write the antithesis, and stick it on the column, which is called "noon book". It is said that this custom existed in the Ming Dynasty, and it is called "the separation of peach symbols", which is actually a kind of festival couplets.
However, with the accelerated pace of modern life, many old customs are gradually forgotten. This year, the Dragon Boat Festival was included in the national legal holiday for the first time. Although the three-day holiday is not long, it gives people time to settle down, return to tradition and regain all kinds of fun in the past.
Miss Lin, who works in a media in Fuzhou, has been busy making dumplings-shaped sachets recently. She said that her grandmother taught her this when she was a child. When she grew up, she stopped doing it for a long time because of her busy study and work. However, this year’s Dragon Boat Festival has a strong festive atmosphere throughout Rongcheng, which reminds her of the Dragon Boat Festival sachets that have been put on hold for a long time, so she decided to pick up colorful colored lines again and make more sachets with her own blessings for relatives and friends.
Some hotels and restaurants in Fuzhou have not only sold all kinds of delicious zongzi this year, but also added many activities with local characteristics, such as writing lunch books for the citizens, letting grandparents put Chinese-style covers on children, hanging fragrant bags and so on.
On the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, Fuzhou will also hold "Our Festival-Dragon Boat Festival Theme Cultural Activities": reading Chinese classics, reappearing hanging white wormwood, hanging calamus, wearing sachets, wearing purses and drinking realgar wine will be presented one by one, and the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Fuzhou will be interpreted.
As one of the most famous activities of the Dragon Boat Festival, dragon boat racing is also essential for the annual Dragon Boat Festival in Fuzhou. Although the Fuzhou Dragon Boat Race was held in another place this year, Guangming Port, as the most traditional dragon boat race place in Fuzhou, has not been deserted. Every year from the first day of May to the fifth day of May, even if there is no dragon boat race here, the dragon boats of all villages will still go into the water to worship God and seek peace.
At this time, many citizens always come to watch. Residents living nearby said that every year on the Dragon Boat Festival, there will be 50 or 60 dragon boats launched here. Whenever the dragon boat passes by, people will set off firecrackers to cheer for the dragon boat and pray for a safe and smooth year. (End)
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