"The Dragon Boat Festival in Beijing, the noble and sluts must buy new shoes, wear them for the holidays, and take it for granted. ”

With new shoes, there will naturally be new clothes, both in May, even if the midsummer officially unfolds its scorching embrace, unfortunately, Comrade Yan Qi's figure, even if he wears a thin and soft summer shirt, it is like wearing a big cotton jacket.

May is also known as the Durian Moon, so girls like to wear bright red pomegranate skirts, as the so-called "eyebrows snatch daylily color, red skirts jealous of pomegranate flowers." "Yan Wu girl's pomegranate skirt is the most beautiful, the skirt layer by layer imitates the appearance of pomegranate petals, as soon as you walk, the skirt blooms with the wind, like a pomegranate flower, warm and fresh, and then with a dark green blouse, imitation of pomegranate leaf shaped sleeves, the end is more delicate than flowers, bright and beautiful.

Yan Ba girl wears a pomegranate skirt in another sense, the ancients will make pomegranates male and female, male tree flowers are large, there are deep or shallow markings on the petals, so the skirt is dyed with batik or tie-dyeing process to dye the pattern of the pomegranate pattern in a chaotic and orderly manner, also known as the "pomegranate skirt", the legend says that Yang Guifei loves to wear this kind of pomegranate skirt.

Yan Qi also wears a pomegranate skirt, the house makes a summer shirt, and what she makes is the most versatile one - a full-breasted long skirt with vermilion in the whole skirt, when the ladies of the Tang Dynasty wear this kind of skirt, they lift it to cover half of their chests, and the upper half is exposed, of course Yan Qi can't wear it like this, even if she wears it like this, she can't see where the chest is and where is the belly, so she has to wear a cardigan shirt on the upper body, with a black fragrant cloud yarn texture, and the red thread on the top is embroidered with folded pomegranate flowers.

The hair is curled into a single snail bun, a fresh pomegranate flower rewarded by the old lady is inserted, and the hairpin is also a five-poison charm with the image of the five poisons drawn on paper, and the wrist is tied with green, red, yellow, white, and black silk threads - after the Dragon Boat Festival, all the equipment must be complete before going out.

The people in each room gathered in twos and threes to the Four Seasons House, and in the courtyard, Mama Zhuang was directing people to gather the old medicine to gather in the court and burn it, which is called "burning ancient medicine" to ward off the epidemic or stop burning.

When I entered the upper room, I saw that Young Master Yan had already come, wearing colorful new clothes, all kinds of talismans were tied at the ends of his hair and braids, and there were also colored threads on his back, Ai Hu, embroidered with various colors of silk with five poisons glued to mugwort leaves, and on his hands and feet, there were a dazzling array of clothes, which was simply a "walking merchant car".

Mrs. Yan was pulling Young Master Yan Shi, dipped the realgar wine in one hand and painted the word "Wang" on his forehead, and after drawing the word Wang, he had to apply it to his cheeks, ears and nose, and told him what the toad he was looking at yesterday was used for: "...... When it is noon, take the toad with eight characters on its head, dry it for a hundred days, draw the ground with its feet, that is, flowing water, and bring its left paw on the body, which can avoid the five soldiers...... That thing can also be made into a toad ingot, stuff a piece of ancient ink in its mouth, hang it under the beam to dry, or use a needle to puncture the toad's eyebrows, squeeze out the toad crisp, which can pull out poison, clear heat, reduce swelling......"

Young Master Yan listened as if he didn't understand, until the old lady finished smearing him with wine, and immediately danced with his hands: "Look at the dragon boat! Look at the dragon boat! Grandmother, I want to see the dragon boat!"

"Okay, good, look at the dragon boat!" Mrs. Yan smiled, waited for everyone to salute one by one, sat down slightly, and let a few slightly older family members lead out of the house, and went out to pick herbs in the field, picking gentian, cinnabar root, salvia, plantain, Shanglu, Aracea, Banxia, seven-leaf flower, schisandra, kudzu root, litmus, etc. In line with the original intention of warding off evil spirits and seeking good fortune, every year Mrs. Yan still lets the children go out to follow a passing scene, thinking that more herbal gas on the body can at least reduce diseases and strengthen the body.

Folks believe that the medicine collected during the Dragon Boat Festival is the best, and there is also a certain scientific basis. In midsummer May, many herbs have matured and have the strongest medicinal power, and the effect is naturally better when picking herbs at this time. "Menglianglu" also contained: "On this day, hundreds of medicines or medicines are collected to ward off plagues and other uses, and the fruits of hiding have a cure." ”

At noon, the family sits together for a meal, the staple food is to add garlic over the water, the soup is a peach branch boiled evil soup, naturally there are also indispensable zongzi, a plate is served up, there are many names, what horn zongzi, cone zongzi, rice dumplings, tube zongzi, weighing hammer zongzi, nine sub zongzi, and there is also the fat turtle picked out is cooked thoroughly, deboned and salted soy hemp, the name is called the turtle sticky rice, take the image of yin and yang wrapping - this practice can be traced back to the Jin Dynasty.

When eating, you should also drink wine, use calamus and realgar to harmonize, and then add cinnabar, after eating and drinking, the rest of the wine is handed over to the next person to take it and pour the four walls of the wall to ward off snakes and insects.

In fact, the Dragon Boat Festival is an important festival, in ancient times, it often had to be noisy for several days, from the first day of May to May 13th, or even longer, and the most traditional dragon boat race is also a May to be organized, the first to start more of the private race, to the fifth day of the first day is the official competition, due to the large number of participating teams, the competition should start early in the morning, the morning is the preliminary, the afternoon is the final.

People or officials who love to join in the excitement usually go out early to rush to the lake where the dragon boat race is held, and the more reserved people often only go out to watch the finals after lunch.

The Yan family is roughly like this, just like a poor and afraid person who once has money and no longer wants to be regarded as poor and sour, so he tries his best to burn money in disguise to show others, the Yan family is easy to have such a generation of people who have become officials from civilian background, and they also hope that their family can have a style like a generation of officials - at least the three mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Yan family think so, so they watched the children eat unhurriedly, and sat in the hall drinking tea and chatting unhurriedly, but a group of children who wanted to run to the lake were so anxious that they burned their butts.

It was easy to hear the girl outside, "The big man is back", the newly replaced oily green banana pattern silk curtain was lifted, and seeing that Yan Zike's official uniform had no time to take off, he carried a rice dumpling in one hand, and took a bunch of objects in the other hand, and did not let anyone help, so he entered the door with a puff of himself.

"The emperor rewarded it. Seeing a room of people looking at him, Yan Zi said a word, stretched out his hand and stuffed the zongzi to his fourth son, "Dates and chestnuts, remember that you like to eat them." ”

"No!" Fourth Young Master Yan carried the zongzi to the table, "It's still my father who loves me the most!"

Yan Zike gave the folding fan and the group fan in his hand to Mrs. Yan: "The palace fan given by the emperor is for the second elder." ”

Mrs. Yan took it, first opened the folding fan and looked at it, and saw the bamboo bone paper, painted with feathers, delicate and exquisite, she couldn't help nodding again and again, and said: "The emperor's grace is vast!"

Yan Zike bent over the five-color thread ribbon in the shape of a tiger's head and handed it to Young Master Yan Shi, who was holding his legs and looking up curiously, and then there were two pieces of Ai Hu paper, painting tigers and all kinds of poisonous insects, one for Mrs. Yan, one for Mrs. Yan, one for Mrs. Yan, and then two daylily flowers, two hesitation flowers, all of which were fake flowers with yarn piles, wrapped in incense, and gave them to Yan Er Girl, Yan Fifth Girl, Yan Sixth Girl and Yan Eighth Girl, and then to Yan Da Young Master, Yan Third Young Master, Young Master Yan Jiu and Young Master Yan Tenth each had a purse filled with male yellow, and finally there was a string of tiger heads made of copper coins in their hands, and they were also handed to Old Lady Yan: "Give it to the old man." ”

The old lady is the fourth master of Yan, and the old lady Yan took it in her hand and cried and laughed: "This brings evil spirits to Xiao'er, what do you do for him!"

"He lost all his money gambling with others, and this money can still be worth it. Swallow said.

Everyone: "......"

"All of these are from the Lord Long Live Lord?" asked Old Lady Yan.

"There are those given by the emperor and those given by the queen. Yan Zike stretched out his hand and took over a zongzi that the fourth young master Yan had just peeled and was about to put in his mouth, and walked out the door while eating, "I'll go change my clothes and get ready to go." ”

The children cheered, and the fourth young master Yan didn't care about peeling another zongzi, so he took the lead and rushed out of the door: "Grandmother, hurry up, I'll wait in the carriage first!"

"Look at the monkey in a hurry!" Mrs. Yan laughed, and first asked the maids around her to go to the pillow winter residence, "Let's see if you four masters have gotten up", and then slowly walked out of the Four Seasons Residence in the front and back hugs.

Yan Qi and Young Master Yan Jiu habitually walked at the end, and Yan Wu, who had always liked to walk in front of people, was not in a hurry this time, just waiting for everyone to pass in front of her, just waiting to stop in front of Yan Qi, turned her head and pretended to be surprised and said to her: "Huh, Seventh sister, Dad doesn't seem to have anything with you, what's going on? Isn't it...... Dad accidentally forgot that there is still such a person as you at home?" Without waiting for Yan Qi to answer, he rushed to the front of everyone with a smile all the way.

Outside the second gate, the Yan family carriage with the swallow-shaped mark was parked in a large row, even the master and the servants were stuffed in one by one, the special gate of the carriage was opened, and the fish came out in a row, and the high willows on both sides of the willow long street outside the house had already become green into layers of mountains, and the wind blew but it seemed to be the blue sea tide, and the willow waves were surging and rolling, and the waves extended the greenery to the end of the long street.

The sun is blazing on the top, but under the trees is cool and refreshing, as soon as the carriage passes, the cicadas are loud, and the swallows are piercing, just like the mood of the people in the car, brisk and impetuous.

Turn from Liuchang Street to the street, the pedestrians gradually increase, on this day, many pharmacies and liquor stores have free realgar, angelica, atractylodes and sake lees and other things to give to the customers who come to the door, and in addition to the shops to take advantage of the festival to attract customers, most of the industries are closed, people gather in groups to call friends to the wine shop to drink and make noise, probably only the Dragon Boat Festival this festival, people have a more grandiose excuse (to ward off evil spirits and poison) to drink arrogantly.

Look at the "equipment" on the pedestrians on the street, they are all hairpins and spirit talismans, arms wrapped in colored silk, waist hanging medicine bags and foot shoes, remember the first time to go to the street during the Dragon Boat Festival after wearing it, Yan Qi has a sense of "the whole people are demons".

The carriage passed through the streets and alleys all the way, and saw what kind of statue of the Heavenly Master, the five poisonous paintings, or the various small gourds made of colored paper pasted upside down on the doors of many homes - this kind of attention is called venting poisonous gas, which is pasted before the Dragon Boat Festival, and on the fifth day of the first lunar month, it is removed and thrown into the streets and alleys, which is called "throwing disaster".

On the way, if you pass through the temple, there will be monks and monks to give pedestrians the wheel of the prayer tube and the evil spirit talisman, the nunnery also gives the nuns skillfully cut the five-colored papers, all of them are made of toads, lizards, spiders, clams, toads and snakes, etc., take it back and stick it on the lintel, disgusting insects.

From the street to the alley, from the lintel to the crack of the wall, every corner is contaminated with a strong festive atmosphere, complaining that the ancients loved the festival, because every festival is a national carnival, not like that life, just buy two zongzi to eat even if it is a festival, the busy continue to be busy, the tired continue to be tired, the drifting continue to drift, the one should continue to drift, the one should continue to be alone.

For many years, the dragon boat race took place on the Yanggu River in eastern Kyoto. Yanggu, the mythical place of the sunrise, is opposite the Yuyuan River located in the western part of Kyoto, and the Yuyuan is the place of sunset in mythology, and the two large rivers run through Kyoto, echoing from afar, and it is one of the most lively places in Beijing during festivals.

The terrain under the Yanggu River is complex, so that the water flow is sometimes turbulent and sometimes gentle, sometimes downstream and sometimes whirling, the most suitable for showing the spirit of adventure and hard work of the dragon boat race, in the morning has been compared with the preliminary race and the semi-match, this will be the feelings of the people on both sides of the river are rising, lunch is squatting by the river to eat, lest a good place to move their own will be occupied by others.

The carriage of the Yan family stopped at the shore of the confluence of the Yanggu River and Guixu Lake, which is the www.biquge.info and end point of the Biqu Pavilion of the dragon boat race, all the official ships and the boats that the emperor will take for a while are moored here, and the time to watch the game is on the Guixu Lake, except for the royal and official boats, any civilian boats are not allowed to go down to the lake.

The people of the Yan family got down from the carriage and looked around, but they saw that the sky was high and the clouds were light and the glass was ten thousand acres, the north was the peak green hills, the east was dense with forests and flowers, the west was green grass, and the south was sandwiched by the jade fence. The Yanggu River is clear and green, the clear waves of Guixu Lake are sprinkled with gold, and the lake breeze blows over with the fragrance of flowers on the other side and the cool water near the water, which makes people feel comfortable and relaxed!

Look at the lively crowd on both sides of the Yanggu River, the brightly colored summer shirts are like colorful flags, colorfully connected, stretching to the other end of the river. The noise of the horses, laughter, quarrels, and discussions gathered together like hundreds of buzzing giant engines, spreading in all directions on the surface of the river and the lake, like a rumbling thunder, and like a monstrous tide, everyone got out of the carriage and was shocked by this huge aura so that their hearts beat like drums, and the blood in their bodies boiled unconsciously, and suddenly gave birth to a thousand pride！

At this time, the emperor Lao Tzu has not arrived, no one dares to go to the lake first, everyone is waiting in the open space on the shore of the lake, not far away a group of young people with bows and arrows are playing with willows, and several officials are seen, running over and driving people away - here is now standing all over the ground are not officials or official dependents, 10,000 people accidentally miss shooting whom, they can't afford to shoot anyone!

Yan Qi was listening to the boiling rain chattering about the two men who had a conflict on the shore and pushed each other, and both fell off the Yanggu River, when he heard Wu Yue's voice coming brightly: "Xiao Qi, come on! I caught the two of them, and they were still stacked together......

Shut up!