Customs in Hanyin County

Hanyin County in southern Shaanxi is located in the transitional zone between north and south of China. Most of the residents in the county were immigrants from Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi and Anhui during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Various regional cultures collide, merge, overlap, precipitate and rearrange here, forming a unique custom of Dragon Boat Festival.

dew

When you don't wash your face after getting up at dawn on the Dragon Boat Festival, adults will take their children out of the city, clean in the lush areas in the suburbs, suck dew on the grass with dry towels, and then wipe your face and head with dew-sucking towels. It is said that they can beautify and care for their hair.

Pull out herbs

Legend has it that some Chinese herbal medicines have the best efficacy during the Dragon Boat Festival. After dew condensation, men go to rivers, ponds, fields and ditches to pull out Chinese herbal medicines such as Acorus gramineus, Acorus gramineus, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Plantago, Kym, Cupressus, Arrow, roadside ginger, honeysuckle vine, Houttuynia cordata, Chaisu, wild mint, wick, wormwood and wild eggplant, and take them home to dry.

Acorus calamus Aichi

During the Dragon Boat Festival, there is a custom of hanging calamus and mugwort leaves in front of every household. Legend has it that Acorus calamus is made of Qu Yuan's sword and inserted in memory of Qu Yuan. Sticking moxa sticks is related to the story of Huang Chao in the late Tang Dynasty to commemorate Huang Chao's helping the rich and the people. Acorus calamus and Artemisia argyi are inserted to avoid insects and diseases.

Pei xiangbao

The sachet is made of Gan Song, Kaempferia Kaempferia, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Moschus, etc. And embroidered with five-color flowers and five-color Zi Ling. Its styles include figures, zodiac signs, flowers and so on. On the Dragon Boat Festival, children will carry sachets on their chests, and girls and young women will wear sachets in conspicuous places. Girls will also give their elaborate sachets to their sweethearts or make promises. Dragon Boat Festival is also a large-scale exhibition of women's sachets and embroidery. Whoever makes the sachet with excellent quality wins the reputation of "ingenuity".

Tie a flower rope

The flower rope is made of five-color silk thread and soaked in realgar wine. Tied to children's wrists, middle finger roots and ankles to ward off evil spirits and insects and keep them safe.

Insert pomegranate flower and gardenia flower

On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, pomegranate flowers and gardenias are sold in the streets and alleys of the city. Every hostess wants to buy some to take home, put pomegranate flowers on married women's heads to show that they are blessed with many children, and put gardenias on unmarried girls' heads to show purity and fragrance.

Sacrifice Qu Yuan and eat zongzi.

On the Dragon Boat Festival, every household will make zongzi, which is mixed with mung beans, red beans or jujubes and cooked overnight. The cooked zongzi was put away in the early morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, and the family could only eat it after offering sacrifices to Qu Yuan. Sacrificing Qu Yuan is very particular. Specially set up incense table, incense wax is lit on the incense table for zongzi, eggs, steamed bread and fruit. The family took turns to bow down to Qu Yuan for wine. Adults tell children the story of Qu Yuan and praise Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit and national heroic integrity. There are some scholarly families, and there are also some works by Qu Yuan for priests to read. Immigrants and descendants from Hunan and Hubei also threw zongzi into the river to offer sacrifices to Qu Yuan.

(of a person) return to one's place of origin or unit.

After special dressing, the young married girls, accompanied by their husbands, rushed back to their parents' home before lunch on the Dragon Boat Festival to pay their respects to the elderly, whisper to their mothers and listen to their parents' life advice.

Chasing festivals

On the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, most of the engaged unmarried sons-in-law have to bring gifts such as mung bean cake, chicken, fish, eggs and so on to their parents-in-law's house to chase the festival and respectfully accept their questions. The prospective husband will also take this opportunity to sneak a look at the daughter-in-law who has not entered the door and try to exchange souvenirs such as sachets instead of talking.

Six-color lunch

The Dragon Boat Festival attaches great importance to lunch, which is both nutritious and delicious. The food on the table should have six colors: yellow, purple, green, red, black and white. Yellow refers to eel stewed egg soup, tofu, bean sprouts and dried tofu; Purple refers to seaweed kelp sparerib soup and fried purple eggplant; Red refers to red dates, red beans, glutinous rice porridge, cold or fried amaranth; Green refers to mung bean cake, stewed green beans, fried cowpeas and mixed cucumbers; Black refers to black fungus ants stewing chicken pieces on trees (black sesame fried noodles); White refers to potatoes, garlic, etc.

Take a herbal soup bath

In the afternoon of Dragon Boat Festival, every household is busy cooking herbal soup such as Acorus gramineus, Artemisia argyi, Perilla frutescens, wild eggplant and Arrow. In the evening, the family takes turns to take a bath with this herbal soup, which can dispel wind and cold, detoxify and prevent diseases.

Rape flower festival

Rape Flower Festival is a large-scale tourism festival held along the 3 16 second-class highway 10 km and 65,438+10,000 mu rape planting area. It is an important measure for the county to explore the market-oriented and commercial operation mode of characteristic festival activities, enrich the composition of tourism products and strengthen investment attraction. The First Rape Flower Festival in Hanyin, Shaanxi Province will be held from late March to early April, 2006. The activity lasts for half a month, and the theme of the activity is "enjoying flowers, enjoying folk customs and visiting garden cities".