In the first battle of Bandit Island, the Tiemu battalion first had great sorrow, and then great joy. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info waited for Yang Ritian to lead the crowd to clean up the battlefield and withdraw to Changsheng Fort, and you could see the smoke on the Shennong River beach from afar.

Jia Daoshi weighed the copper coin he wore in his waist, and sighed with emotion: "Today is the Dragon Boat Festival." ”

Sun Yi's first reaction was to eat zongzi today.

After thinking about it, there was no Jiangmi in the Tiemu camp, and there were no zongzi leaves, so I could only give up eating zongzi. However, there are many large and small rafts in the camp now, and a dragon boat race can be arranged to celebrate the victory.

When the soldiers came ashore, the people crowded over and dipped grass branches in water and threw them on the soldiers.

Sun Yi secretly asked Daoist Jia, what are the people doing?

Daoist Jia told Sun Yi that this was to drive away the plague for the soldiers. Folklore, to the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the five poisons are rampant, the big murderer, everything is not appropriate, since ancient times the Dragon Boat Festival is the day to drive away the drug and pray for peace, today's soldiers have passed this catastrophe, the people will pay more attention to the Dragon Boat Festival to drive away the drug. The fire burning on the river beach is the calamus and mugwort collected by the people. The people sprinkled water on the soldiers, and it was called washing away all diseases.

Sun Yi couldn't help but be surprised, wondering if he had traveled to another Ming Dynasty, and asked, "Isn't the Dragon Boat Festival a memorial to Qu Yuan?" ”

Daoist Jia was stunned for a moment and replied: "In the Ankang area of southern Shaanxi, there are indeed people who sacrifice the three doctors during the Dragon Boat Festival. The Guanzhong area is dedicated to Zhong Kui, Longxi is to worship the Great Qin Heavenly King Fu Jian, and Longdong is to worship the Qin general Bai Qi. Shanxi sacrificed Jie Zitui, and Wu Yue sacrificed Wu Zixu. Could it be that Father Lidel is a native of Chu? ”

Sun Yi shook his head. In later generations, Sun heard his grandfather say that his family's family tree was burned clean in 1960, and his grandfather could only think of the displacement of several generations, where his family's ancestral home was, and what the origin was, no one knew for a long time.

Sun Yi was just puzzled, the Ming Dynasty and later generations were only separated by less than four hundred years, why was the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival so bad?

Sun Yi actually didn't know that Qu Yuan was the leader of the Dragon Boat Festival, only in 1939. At that time, the Japanese invaders were raging and the state affairs were shaky, Guo Moruo, Lao She and others proposed to establish the Dragon Boat Festival as the Poet's Day, so after the liberation, Qu Yuan and the Dragon Boat Festival became synonyms. In the Ming Dynasty, the custom of sacrificing Qu Yuan during the Dragon Boat Festival was far inferior to Wu Zixu even in the Jingchu area, and the Sanmen Doctor was just a tragic figure in the hearts of many Ming Dynasty people, far from being a symbol of patriotism in later generations. Even in later generations, if you go to countries around East Asia that have a Dragon Boat Festival tradition, such as Annam, North Korea, Ryukyu and Taiwan, the local people are actually very unfamiliar with the legend of Qu Yuan.

Zhong Kui catching ghosts, Fu Jian and Bai Qi exorcism, these customs of the people of Shaanxi in the five years of Chongzhen are the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival for thousands of years.

As soon as Sun crossed the people's mezzanine to welcome him, he saw Jiang Laojun leading a team of men and horses, and one by one they planted a long-leaved grass called calamus on the soldiers.

Jiang Laojun's team of men and horses was originally to deal with the plague and temporarily assembled the people who knew a little bit of medical skills, but now there is no plague, and the people and horses have not dispersed. At that time, in order to make it easier to identify in the epidemic, the team specially made a flag, and drew a gourd with a brush on a piece of white cloth, which took the meaning of hanging a pot to help the world.

Jiang Laojun picked out the longest bunch of calamus for Lidelye, and the leaves and stems of this bunch of calamus were also woven into the shape of a tiger with other herbs, called "Ai Hu".

When Jiang Laojun personally put Ai Hu on Sun Yi's shoulder, Sun Yi thanked him and said to Jiang Laojun: "The kind of bark you gave you last time, you can try it today." ”

Jiang Laojun agreed, "Okay, good." ”

The militia and civilians who had participated in the war disbanded when they came ashore. Sun Yi and Yang Ritian have discussed, and all the people who are okay for the rest of the day will have a holiday, so that everyone can have a holiday.

Sun Yi returned to Changsheng Fort and found that something had changed.

The stables were decorated with red paper, and even the saddles were tied with red ropes. After asking Jia Daoshi, I learned that the fifth day of the fifth month of May is the "natal day" of horses.

I don't know who pasted a blank piece of paper on the door of my room, and on the white paper were snakes, scorpions, toads, geckos, and centipedes.

Jia Daoshi said that these are the five poisons, and hanging the five poisons is also the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is taken to "fight poison with poison".

As he spoke, Daoist Jia took off the copper coin on his waist, "This was hung up by my mother when I was a child, and I have been wearing it for so many years." ”

This copper coin is larger than ordinary money, the left side of the money eye is the pattern of five poisons, and on the right is Zhong Kui holding a sword, and on it is the word "Imperial Decree". It seems that it is also the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Wang Erniu came in a hurry and gave Sun Yi a string of nine zongzi tied together with colored threads. Jia Daoshi grabbed Erniu to discuss the dragon boat race.

Sun Yi is strange, Tiemu Camp actually has zongzi? When I opened one, it turned out to be sorghum filling!

Flipping through the zongzi leaves, Sun Yi asked, "Erniu, how did you get this zongzi leaves?" ”

The second monk Wang Niu, the second monk and the second monk were puzzled, "Master, this is the reed leaf." ”

Sun Yi hurriedly covered up the past, he always thought that there was a special plant to produce zongzi leaves.

Besides, Jiang Laojun greeted the generals in triumph, and led the team back to the temporary hospital with the "gourd flag". In this battle, one person in the Tiemu battalion was killed on the spot by an arrow in the chest, and five people were slightly injured. Just after taking care of the wounded, Yang Liu escorted a group of prisoners into the courtyard.

The injuries of the captives ranged from mild to severe, and they were still treated by the "gourd soldiers" who practiced their hands. The sixth brother of Wolf Mountain Hall and Goudan also rushed to help "heal their injuries" with batteries, but they were stopped by Yang Liu, who was in charge of guarding the prisoners, with a cold face.

In addition to their external injuries, all of the captives were poisoned. At this time, although the symptoms no longer worsened, the whole yard was still full of humming and moaning.

Jiang Laojun picked a few prisoners, and each of them was given a few pills in varying quantities to take them.

The raw material of this pill is the neem skin that the Ironwood Camp caravan specially bought back from Bansheng City, and Jiang Laojun personally concocted it according to Lideerye's recipe: grind the neem skin and sieve; The coarse powder is decocted twice, the decoction is combined, filtered and concentrated into a thick paste, mixed with fine powder, and water-containing stone powder is added to make pills.

Lidel said that this medicine is the best to deworm, but the medicine is too strong, and it is inevitable to feel dizzy, headache, drowsiness, nausea, and abdominal pain after taking it. The pills had been made a few days ago, but the war had been tense, and they did not dare to let the soldiers and civilians try it rashly. The Dragon Boat Festival has a tradition of collecting medicine and making medicines since ancient times, and it is best to try it today.

After a short time, some of the captives who had taken the pill complained of stomach aches, and after half an hour, a dozen disgusting roundworms came out. Although the captive's legs fluttered, his spirit suddenly improved, and when he met people, he said that the witchcraft of the two poles had been broken, and the dirty things in his stomach could no longer harm anyone.

The bandits suddenly swarmed and begged Jiang Laojun to take an antidote for him, but Jiang Laojun shook his head and refused.

Several captives began to be administered, just to confirm the dose. The anthelmintic battalion itself is not enough to use the anthelmintic medicine, how can it be evenly distributed to the bandits?

The dragon boat race near the evening attracted the people of a river beach to watch.

A total of six teams participated, four production teams plus Battle and the Ironwood Battalion headquarters.

A dragon cruises on his own soft sail raft as a referee on the Shennong River. The rules are simple, the first raft to row to the shore from the other side of the Shennong River wins.

Six rafts of different sizes were all dressed up in fancy shapes, and the rafts were full of sturdy young men. The raft at the headquarters was led by Ga Li Guang, led by two soldiers and two orphans.

Sun Yi's legs and feet were inconvenient, so Wang Erniu specially arranged for him to sit behind a simple table.

The table was full of all kinds of zongzi, and the wild fruits were like a hill, which moved Sun Yi so much.

Sun Yi observed all kinds of zongzi from all directions, guessed and selected, and couldn't wait to open and bite if he liked them, and share some of the delicious ones with Qiqige around him, and throw the bad ones to the subordinates at his feet.

In later generations, Sun didn't like to eat zongzi early in the morning, and he didn't eat it during the Dragon Boat Festival. After returning to the Ming Dynasty, he ate coarse grains and wild vegetables, and now Sun Yite misses the kind of Jiangmi sweet zongzi that can greasy people in later generations.

Wang Erniu stared at the distance and watched Lord Lidel pick up all the sacrifices and eat them, and there was no way at all.

Yang Ritian comforted Erniu with a big grin, "Not only did the master eat it, but the overlord also ate it, even if it was our sacrifice!" ”

After that, he skipped the sacrificial procedure directly, and with a bang, he announced that the six raft races had begun.

The young man on the raft was arguing about which family's zongzi Lidel liked to eat, and when he heard the bang, he immediately became confused.

Because the rules of the race do not specify the starting point and the end point, as long as you cross the river, you will win, so all six rafts are intended to use the water potential of the river to squeeze into a small bay in the upper reaches of the Shennong River. After the bang, no one could grab it for a while.

In desperation, a young man started to push and kick the raft that was blocking the way.

The raft that had been kicked was gone, and when he turned around, he put the penny on the bow of the raft at the back, and after a while, the raft in front went out a few feet away, and the raft in the back went straight back.

Seeing this, Battle on the other raft suddenly realized that the race and the sheep on the grassland were the same way to play.

Battle whistled and threw out a penny in his hand.

Battle's penny was temporarily modified from a lasso, and the lasso was still at the end of the penny. Suddenly the lasso grabbed the tail of the raft in front of him, and Battle took advantage of the situation to retract the pole, and the raft in front kept retreating, and the raft of the nomads in Battle slid out like arrows.

The young man on the raft in front of him was anxious, and when the two rafts staggered, a fish jumped and pounced, and three or four people fell into the water immediately.

The people on the river beach immediately applauded.

Folk competitions have always been divided into literary competitions and martial arts. The rules of Wubi are that there are no rules. Taking the boat as an example, Wenbi is called a race, and Wubi is called a fighting boat.

The people of northern Shaanxi are strong, and the ferry race has become a fighting boat, and the enthusiasm of the young men from the participating young men to the lively people is all ignited at once. The six rafts on the river fought repeatedly, and the people cheering and cheering on the river beach shouted hoarsely, only hating that they didn't bring gongs and drums with them.

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Many years later, the people of the old wolf mountains and rivers recalled the impressive Dragon Boat Festival and used three "prostrations" to describe it.

When I thought there was a plague, I was so frightened that I collapsed;

When he fought the boat at the end of the day, he shouted and collapsed;

In the dark night, I took the anthelmintic medicine of Lord Lidel, and I collapsed.