Weihai, as a famous coastal city in Jiaodong, was an important coastal health center in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was called Ahava in ancient times. It is also a concentrated expression of pain in modern history. This is the burial place of Beiyang Navy in the Sino-Japanese War. It is a real patriotic education base. As a witness of this period of history, Liu Gongdao's role now lies not only in tourism value. It is also reflected in the pursuit of ancient and modern times, the reflection on the history of shame, and the purpose of inspiring the latecomers to be ashamed and brave.
The 32-year history of British Concession and the 42-year history of Liu Gongdao occupation are historical scars that we cannot erase.
What I want to say is that every region has its own unique history and unique cultural scenery, just like the Dragon Boat Festival.
Judging from the origin of most of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival is mainly to pay homage to Qu Yuan, and its appearance is: eating zongzi and racing dragon boats.
The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival in Weihai has its own legend.
This festival is related to General Huang Chao.
The ancients were not as sober as they are now, and there was hope in the fabrication of the rebels and malice. This is the case in Huang Chao.
Legend has it that when Huang Chao rebelled, wherever he went, it was basically a massacre. Whether it is the government or ordinary people's families, it is inevitable.
One day, when he was leading his troops through a country road, he saw a woman and two children. Probably after a long walk, both children are tired. So that woman was pregnant with a child. Let another child follow. Strangely, this woman is holding a big child, while she is carrying a very small child.
Huang Chao was surprised to see this, so he asked his men to call the woman to the front of the horse and asked why the woman was carrying a big child and let a child walk.
The woman replied: I am a stepmother, the boss is born by her husband's ex-wife, and the child is her own. If your children are suffering, then they are suffering. A child without a mother can't be wronged.
Huang Chao was moved by this woman's practice. He was determined not to kill the woman's family. So I asked the woman to hang wormwood and peach branches under the eaves of her house on the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival the next day.
Then Huang Chao informed all his men that when they were slaughtering the city the next day, they saw people with wormwood and peach branches hanging under the eaves and avoided the door, so as not to disturb them.
Unexpectedly, when they entered the city the next day, the soldiers found peach branches and wormwood hanging in every household in the city.
It turned out that when the woman came home, she heard that Huang Chao's army was going to pass through the city, and everyone heard about the ferocity of Huang Chao. Just when everyone was panicking. The woman understood that the man she met was Huang Chao. So she told everyone. Hanging wormwood and peach branches under the eaves the next morning can ward off evil spirits and avoid this difficulty.
Huang Chao led the troops through and found peach branches and wormwood hanging in front of everyone's house. I know that kind woman must have told the whole city the news of hanging peach branches and wormwood. In order to keep the promise. Huang Chao's army didn't kill anyone in this city.
So every year, every family traditionally hangs wormwood and peach branches on the door.
This story was told by my father on the Dragon Boat Festival.
This legend embodies the people's good wishes, and good virtues can touch cruel superiors.
In Weihai area, the traditional items hung on the door to ward off evil spirits are: mugwort, peach branches, garlic and sleepy grass (a kind of grass similar to wheat ears). Pronunciation card water muddy), apricot branches.
Artemisia argyi is different from Artemisia argyi. According to my father, mugwort is round-leaved, which is rare now. Most people choose wormwood, and faith is the spirit. Artemisia argyi deworming.
Needless to say, peach branches are famous exorcism items.
It is said that garlic can remove anything bad. Take scattered homophones.
I'm sleepy, and I don't know how to write in written language. This is a kind of grass that looks like an ear of wheat. It is said that touching the sleepy grass can keep you awake and healthy all year round.
Apricot branches also ward off evil spirits
In short, make a bundle of the above five kinds of ties and stick them on the door to ensure the health of the whole family for a year without disease or disaster.
Besides, there are two kinds of evil spirits suitable for children. One is that the Dragon Boat Festival is held after midnight 12, and children are given colorful hands and feet at any time from midnight to dawn. Weihai is called "cutting five colors" locally. Generally, it is made of silk threads of five colors: red, yellow, blue, green and purple. After the Dragon Boat Festival, the first heavy rain, colorful hinges down, threw them in the river and ran away, which means that all children's future problems and disasters will run away.
And a colorful broom. Few children know now. This small broom is made of bones and colorful. My father said the word "autumn", but I was still confused. Do you have this kind of plant? Father said that hemp rope used to be made of hemp. I checked Baidu, and it does exist. This is a cash crop. After sowing, cutting, retting, harrowing, peeling and cleaning the seeds, the seeds are obtained, which are the raw materials for making hemp rope. Small broom is made of broom embryo and tied with colorful clothes, which is a colorful broom to ward off evil spirits.
In addition, children should wear Chinese corsets. There are also many exquisite red Chinese children's chest covers. Children under the age of five generally have patterns of butterflies, toads, chrysanthemums and bergamot on their bras, which means longevity, while children over the age of five often have patterns of "tiger head", which symbolizes children's vigorous growth. Generally/kloc-children under the age of 0/2 will take him for a ride, and they will say, "Goose flies and toad walks, chrysanthemum holds the handrail, and the child lives to ninety-nine. Chrysanthemum has nine petals, which means ninety-nine." (Aunt Tamura Sun Shuxiang)
In addition, there is the custom of hanging cloth monkeys on the door, which means guarding the door. In some families, this kind of cloth monkey embroidery is vivid. This mainly depends on whether the hostess who lives at home, mainly the daughter-in-law, is ingenious or not.
Eating eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival is also an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival. Eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs, salted duck eggs, preserved eggs and all kinds of eggs are cooked in a large pot. In the past, when materials were scarce, it really made people drool. Another activity for children is to add their own boiled eggs to the heads of other children's eggs and push them hard. Winners enjoy the eggs of children with broken eggshells, which are especially delicious.
Now, there is the custom of eating zongzi. But I doubt very much, how many ordinary people can eat when the material circulation is difficult in the past? Eating zongzi and racing dragon boats are purely customs suitable for southerners. But now the material development is great, and it is good to eat each other.
After all, now the festival is not for eating and drinking, but for tasting culture.
Danyang Dragon Boat Festival, Miluo rare bright moon, Taoyin mourning sacrifice to the gods.
Think of the heroic Millennium.
Only a handful of Confucian scholars can defend the country and the public can stand out from the crowd.
Du Ying is broken, and his future is not paid, and tears are shed on the river.
The soul of a hero
I feel that his early death is like deep water turned into sand, passed down from generation to generation.
When the two countries are at peace, they fight back and forth;
If you abandoned your ambition, why did you die?
Xu, Xiang Yuan took a boat, and * * * lost the fairy.
Su Shi in Huanxisha Song Dynasty was slightly sweaty and blue. Bathing vanilla at Dragon Boat Festival in Ming Dynasty. Qingchuan is full of fragrance. The colored thread is lightly wrapped around the red jade arm, and the fine print hangs Lv Yun obliquely. Beautiful women meet for a thousand years.