The chariot walked, and the coachman wore a straw hat and drove the car leisurely. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Fei Tianyuan, where are we now?" A weak voice came from inside the carriage.

"Ahh When you reach the junction of Beidi and Great Qin, you will soon be able to enter the territory of the Great Qin Empire. The coachman looked up, looked around, and responded.

At this time, a head poked out of the carriage, with a pale face and slightly purple lips, who is it not Qin Jing?! It's just that it's too haggard for people to recognize each other immediately.

"Qin Jing, I said it was cold outside, why did you still come out?" The coachman raised his head and looked at Qin Jing, his eyes full of concern.

"Are you trying to suffocate me if you stay in there all the time?!" Qin Jing smiled, and then sat next to Fei Tianyuan, who was playing the coachman.

"How's your body?" The latter simply asked.

"Since the end of the operation, all the cultivation has been gone, but fortunately, Ghost Sword: Killing Immortals is still the same as me, so I don't have to worry about my safety at that time." Qin Jing shook her head.

"That's already good, after all, I'm still alive, and the pain is gone, isn't it!" Yan Tianyuan raised his hand and whipped it, "Don't worry, I will always stay by your side to protect your safety." ”

"Humph!"

"It's hard to have the kind of tune in the novel, and my brain won't be so bad."

"Honestly, it's nice to be outside in the sun!"

"Well, it's almost the Dragon Boat Festival."

"How do you spend the Dragon Boat Festival in your family?"

"Eat zongzi and race dragon boats!"

"Tell me?"

"What's there to talk about?!"

"Tell me what?!"

"Eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival is our traditional custom in China. Zongzi, also known as "horn millet", "tube zongzi". It has a long history and many patterns.

According to records, as early as the mythological period, the corn was wrapped in mushroom leaves (callus white leaves) into a cow's horn shape, called "horned millet"; Rice packed in a bamboo tube is sealed and baked, called "tube dumplings". Later, in the ancient years, the millet was soaked in grass and wood ash water, because the water contained alkali, the millet was wrapped with mushroom leaves to form a quadrangular shape, cooked, and became a lye water dumpling.

Not long after the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, zongzi was officially designated as the food of the Dragon Boat Festival. At this time, in addition to glutinous rice, the raw materials for wrapping zongzi are also added with traditional Chinese medicine nootropic kernels, and the cooked zongzi is called "nootropic zongzi". The "Yueyang Wind and Soil Records" recorded in the "Yueyang Wind and Soil" around the time: "It is customary to wrap millet with mushroom leaves,...... Boiled, cooked together, eaten from May 5 to the summer solstice, a dumpling, a millet. "Later, there were miscellaneous rice dumplings. The rice is adulterated with poultry and animal meat, chestnuts, red dates, red beans, etc., and the varieties increase. Zongzi is also used as a gift for socializing.

Later, the rice used for zongzi has been "white as jade", and its shape appears conical and diamond-shaped. In Dongyi literature, there is a record of "white jade zongzi". During the Song and Yuan dynasties, there were "candied dumplings", that is, fruits into the dumplings. The poet Su Dongpo has the verse "When I see bayberry in the zongzi". At this time, there were also advertisements made of stacked pavilions, wooden carts, cattle and horses with zongzi, indicating that it was very fashionable to eat zongzi in the Song and Yuan dynasties. Further back, the wrapping material of zongzi has changed from mushroom leaves to hoop leaves, and later there are zongzi wrapped in reed leaves, and the additional materials have appeared bean paste, pork, pine nuts, dates, walnuts, etc., and the varieties are more colorful.

On the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, every family eats zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan, and generally wraps the zongzi the day before, cooks them at night, and eats them in the morning. Zongzi is mainly made of tender reed leaves abundant by the river pond, and bamboo leaves are also used, collectively referred to as zongzi leaves. The traditional form of zongzi is triangular, generally named according to the inner gourd, the glutinous rice is called rice zongzi, the rice mixed with adzuki beans is called azuki bean zong, and the red jujube is called jujube zong; The homonym of jujube dumplings is "early middle school", so the most people eat jujube dumplings, which means that children who are reading can eat early and middle school champions. In the past, on the day of the imperial examination, students had to eat jujube dumplings in the morning, and to this day, on the morning of the middle school and university entrance examinations, parents also make jujube dumplings for the candidates.

Eggs must be boiled in the pot of boiling zongzi, and some duck eggs and goose eggs must be boiled if conditions permit. It is said that eating boiled eggs in the pot of dumplings in May will not cause sores in summer; Put the duck eggs and goose eggs boiled in the zongzi pot in the sun at noon for a while before eating, and you won't have a headache all summer.

Until today, at the beginning of May every year, the people of all ethnic groups in China have to soak glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves, and wrap zongzi, and their colors and varieties are more varied. From the perspective of fillings, Beijing jujube dumplings with many small jujubes in the north; In the south, there are a variety of fillings such as bean paste, fresh meat, ham, egg yolk, etc., among which Zhejiang Jiaxing zongzi is the representative. The custom of eating zongzi has been prevalent in China for thousands of years, and has spread to Goryeo, Dongyi and South Vietnam. ”

"There are so many exquisiteness about zongzi!"

"That's right! After all, it is the special food of our Chinese nation, although a certain race that only knows how to eat kimchi with small eyes and single eyelids and gurgling shouts that this is his thing. ”

"Which race?"

"South Goryeo!"

"Oh, it would be nice to send a soldier another day!" Qin Jing pursed her lips and muttered.

Hearing this, Yan Tianyuan couldn't help but scratch her Qiong's nose: "This is also beaten, that is also beaten, a bit of a girl's reserve, think of him screaming, what's the matter?" If you want to get it, it's just a matter of a day or two?! ”

"Oh! What about dragon boats? ”

"Dragon boat racing is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, it originated in ancient times when the people of Chu died because they were reluctant to throw themselves into the river because of the reluctance of the virtuous minister Qu Yuan, and many people rowed boats to chase and save them. They scrambled to be the first to chase to Dongting Lake and disappeared. Since then, dragon boats have been rowed on May 5 every year to commemorate it. Borrow a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish will not eat Qu Yuan's body. The habit of racing is prevalent in Wu, Yue and Chu.

In fact, "dragon boat racing" has existed as early as the mythological era. The canoe carved into the shape of a dragon in the sound of the drum and the game of ferry racing to entertain the gods and people is a semi-religious and semi-entertaining program in the ritual.

Later, in addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, dragon boat racing also gave different meanings to people in various places.

Dragon boat rowing in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has the significance of commemorating Qiu Jin, a locally-born modern female democratic revolutionary. On the night dragon boat, the lights are colorful, shuttling back and forth, above and below the water, the scene is moving and interesting. The Miao people in Guizhou hold the "Dragon Boat Festival" from 25 to 28 of the fifth lunar month to celebrate the victory of rice planting and wish a good harvest. The compatriots of the Dai nationality in Yunnan race dragon boats in the Songkran Festival to commemorate the ancient hero Yanhongwo. Different nationalities and different regions have different legends of dragon boat rowing. Until today, in many areas near rivers, lakes and seas in the south, dragon boat races with their own characteristics are held every year. ”

"It's amazing!"

"Yes! What are your customs?! ”

"Insert wormwood leaves!"

"Do you know what's important?"

"Hmph, you know a lot!"

"Hanging mugwort leaves, calamus folk proverb says: "Qingming willow insertion, Dragon Boat Festival wormwood". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people take mugwort and calamus as one of the important contents. Every house is sprinkled with sweeping and clearing, and calamus and moxa are inserted in the door eyebrows and hung in the hall. And with calamus, mugwort leaves, pomegranate flowers, garlic, dragon boat flowers, made into human or tiger shape, called Ai people, Ai Hu; It is made of garlands and ornaments, which are beautiful and fragrant, and women compete to wear them to drive away miasma.

Mugwort, also known as mugwort, mugwort. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils. The peculiar aroma it produces can repel mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants, and purify the air. In traditional Chinese medicine, moxa is used as medicine, which has the functions of regulating qi and blood, warming the uterus, and dispelling cold and dampness. The mugwort leaves are processed into "moxa wool", which is an important medicinal material for moxibustion and curing diseases.

Calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, and its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oils, which are drugs for refreshing, strengthening bones and reducing stagnation, and insecticidal and sterilizing.

It can be seen that the ancients inserted mugwort and calamus to have a certain anti-disease effect. The Dragon Boat Festival is also the "health festival" that has been passed down since ancient times, people sprinkle and sweep the courtyard on this day, hang mugwort branches, hang calamus, sprinkle realgar water, drink realgar wine, stir turbidity and remove rot, sterilize and prevent disease. These activities also reflect the fine traditions of the Chinese nation. ”

"It's still Chinese medicine!"

"Of course!"

"I'm hungry!"

"With a little patience, I can already see the border of the Qin State."

"To be honest, I don't really want to go back!" Qin Jing rested her head on Fei Tianyuan's shoulder.

"What's wrong?"

"That's good!"

"When your illness is completely cured, I will accompany you wherever you want to go!"

"That~ What about your new housekeeper Zhuge Sa?"

"You're trying to ask that girl!"

"Hmph, I just wanted to ask, what's wrong?!"

"What are the two of us involved with?"

"Flim Flam!"

"Where?"

"Help me to the roof of the car, I want to bask in the sun!"

"Be careful."

。。。。。。

Fei Tianyuan continued to drive the carriage, and this situation couldn't help but remind him of such a sentence:

"The mountains and rivers are far away, the road is hidden, and the Yiren are not in the West Chamber, just to round you with a golden and jade fate in this life.

When the mountains and flowers are flawless, they are looking forward to a lifetime of only being crazy with each other and ending up holding hands and never parting. ”