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Chapter 119 Dragon Boat Festival

It's at the Ordnance Superintendent.When everyone in the Royal University was busy creating a rush, the annual Dragon Boat Festival came quietly.

The Dragon Boat Festival in the Dashun Dynasty is quite interesting, because the Dashun Dynasty was a dynasty with a relatively relaxed political environment and mellow folk customs.Therefore, for festivals, they are often lively and publicized.

The Dragon Boat Festival, the Dashun Dynasty is not limited to the fifth day of May, but from the first day of May to the fifth day of May.From the first day to the fifth day of the new year, Lu Chengqi didn't have to go to court anymore, the entire court was on holiday.Not only is there a holiday, but the court also gives away things.Naturally, there are zongzi to eat, and some "baisuo", that is, five-color silk, which originated from the worship of five colors in ancient China, and the five colors are auspicious colors.The "Baisuo" bestowed by the emperor to his ministers is expensive, but it is a "Pearl Baisuo", and it is also a kind of honor.In addition to "Baisuo", there are also green leaves, five-color sunflower durians, golden silk green fans, hairpin charms, prayer tubes, sachets, soft incense dragon birthday wear, etc., all of which are high-quality goods, from the hands of the royal family. Absolutely nothing for sale.In other words, it's a limited edition.

At this time, due to the approaching heat, the imperial court will also present fans to the ministers in order to prepare for the rain.But Lu Chengqi only loves folding fans, and this time he gave all the fans to the court ministers.Lu Chengqi also personally inscribed the word "for the people" on the folding fan, and stamped his personal seal on it.Folding fans were not yet popular at this time, probably because Lu Chengqi widely gave away folding fans this time, which made folding fans popular in advance.

At this moment, the local government also pays tribute to the imperial court, which is called tribute fan.It has gradually become a custom to give fans during the Dragon Boat Festival. Not only did the emperors of all dynasties give fans to their ministers, but the folks also gave gifts to each other.

From the beginning of the first day of the lunar new year, the people in Chang'an City were busy with every household, preparing all kinds of festival supplies, food, and god-worshiping utensils.It is a must to prepare some sunflowers (or hollyhocks), cattail leaves, Buddhist and Taoist mugwort, peach willow branches, apricots, wood poultry, navel seeds, incense or incense seals.And these are collectively called "Jiwu", which are carried by shopkeepers and sold through the streets and alleys.

The hawking these days is a kind of exaggeration, a kind of fueling.The fifth day of May is the climax of the Dragon Boat Festival.On the fifth day of the lunar new year, people in the Dashun Dynasty put "festival objects" on the door, made offerings with tea and wine, held sacrificial activities, and other activities.

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, it is necessary to plant wormwood and take a bath.It is necessary to insert wormwood on the door before dawn.At noon, take a bath with flower water from the well, so that the disease will not invade for a year.It is a common practice to knead wormwood and peach pudding for bathing. Even in later generations, the Dragon Boat Festival custom of inserting wormwood and bathing is still preserved.

Women and children also wear some accessories.The "Baisuo" mentioned earlier is also a kind. In addition, there are Aihu, Talisman, Five Poison Map, etc. "Baisuo" is embroidered and woven into various ornaments with clear-striped silk threads, which can be worn, hung around the neck, or given to each other as gifts, and wrapped around the arms of children.

"Aihu" is to cut moxa into small tigers, or stick moxa leaves on the ribbon-cut tigers, and wear them on the head to avoid evil spirits. "Fulu" is a small talisman cut from colored silk, which is worn on the head and inserted on the sideburns, so it is also called "hairpin head talisman".Wearing the "Five Poisons Map" is the most special. The "five poisons" refer to centipedes, gnats, snakes, scorpions, grass insects, etc. In ancient times, people believed that these "five poisons" could be used to treat boils and kill other pests, so they were cut into illustrations. Wear it on your body.

In addition to the accessories they wear, the people in Chang'an City will also buy some exquisitely made small drums and small fans.Small drums can be hung on racks or placed on seats in different shapes. Small fans are divided into blue, yellow, red and white colors, or embroidered or painted or threaded with gold to make various patterns. Painting fan".Every Dragon Boat Festival, there will be more shops and peddlers in Chang'an City selling drum fans, baisuo, etc., for the people of Chang'an City to buy, so as to give gifts to each other and win a good fortune.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, the most unavoidable thing is zongzi.The Dashun Dynasty corresponds to the Song Dynasty in history, and the eating habits gradually changed to those of later generations. Therefore, there are many varieties of zongzi in different shapes, such as horned zongzi, cone zongzi, water chestnut zongzi, tube zongzi, weighing mallet zongzi, and nine-zined zongzi. wait.These, in the palace, Lu Chengqi and Zhou Zhiruo tasted them one by one, they were really delicious.

In addition to eating zongzi, the people of the Dashun Dynasty also ate fragrant sweets, white balls, perilla, and drank calamus wine. "Xiangtangzi" is made by cutting calamus, ginger, apricot, plum, plum, perilla, etc. into shreds and soaking them in molasses. "Calamus wine" is made by dipping calamus.It is believed that drinking calamus wine at the Dragon Boat Festival can prolong the life, so the people in the Dashun Dynasty called it "Drinking Continue" to drink calamus wine at the Dragon Boat Festival.These scenes still retain the old customs of Jingchu.

The most exciting thing about the Dragon Boat Festival is dragon boat racing.On the Feng River, colorful boats race.Lu Chengqi and Zhou Zhiruo came to watch the dragon boat race in person.I saw gods and ghosts, dramas, banners, lions and leopards, etc. on the colorful boats. There are two boats beside them, which are music boats, specially for playing music.

When the music sounded, the water troupe began to perform.Lu Chengqi had never seen such a performance before, and he watched it with great interest.The water troupe has a total of three plays, one is the question and answer of the fisherman on the water, the other is the puppet show (water puppet), and the last is the water swing, which is the water miscellaneous show.

At the end of the play, a hundred opera and music boats, each beating gongs and drums, moving music and dancing flags, retreated from the water puppet boats on two walls, and twelve small dragon boats appeared.There are more than [-] soldiers in scarlet clothes on the small dragon boat, each with flags, drums, and bronze gongs. There is a military academy at the bow of the boat, and the flags are waving to attract people. They are commanded by the forbidden army Huyi.There are also ten tiger-headed boats, on which a man in brocade clothes stands on the bow with a small flag.The rest were all wearing green shorts and long headscarves, and they waved the boat together. They were wearing common people's clothes, but in fact they were all impersonated by the imperial guards.There are also two flying fish boats, which are painted in gold and are the most delicate.On the flying fish boat, there are more than [-] people in variegated opera shirts, with variegated small flags and scarlet umbrellas interspersed, dancing from left to right, and singing hard with small gongs and drums.There are also two loach boats, which can only be rowed by one person, and are made of a single log.The intention of these small boats is to pull the big dragon boat out of the Yishui Temple, which is the boat workshop where the big dragon boat is hidden.

The small dragon boat uses ropes to pull the big dragon boat in front. The big dragon boat is about thirty or forty feet long and three or four feet wide.It was the first time Lu Chengqi saw such a big wooden boat, and he thought to himself: "The treasure ships built in the Ming Dynasty are nothing more than this?"

There is someone waving a flag on the dragon's head, and in the water sheds on the left and right, there are six wooden paddles, dancing together, like flying.These large and small boats are not used for dragon boat races, but are used to practice formations on the water.

Lu Chengqi never understood why they didn't compete yet. Originally, there was no such thing as the speed of the competition.This big dragon boat is equivalent to the flagship, and the other small dragon boats, flying fish boats, tiger head boats, and loach fish boats are all battleships.I saw the flag bearers on the big dragon boat waving the red and green flags, and these small boats began to line up, either in a circle, or in a scissors array, or in a T-shaped array...

Lu Chengqi gradually realized some tricks, but Zhou Zhiruo didn't know why, so he said to these forbidden soldiers, they performed very wonderfully, and applauded repeatedly.

Lu Chengqi doesn't understand water battles, but he always comes here, and thinks that the water battle drills are the same thing, but he always feels that something is wrong.After careful observation, Lu Chengqi discovered that these boats were all flat-bottomed boats, and the draft was not deep, so they showed their prestige on the river.When it reaches the sea, it only takes one storm to overturn it.

After the imperial army finished their drill and put the big dragon boat, small dragon boat, and all the boats into the Yishui Hall, Lu Chengqi still stopped on the bank, staring at the Feng River that was stirred up by the yellow sand, wondering what he was thinking ...

(End of this chapter)