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The Special Customs of Tujia Dragon Boat Festival
In addition to traditional Tujia foods such as oil tea soup, zongzi is essential for Tujia people to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. In Longtan Ancient Town, Youyang Tujia Autonomous County, Chongqing, Tujia people can be seen squatting on the ground to sell zongye and glutinous rice. The newly picked leaves of Zongzi have a faint fragrance of mountains and sweet fragrance of glutinous rice, which makes people strongly feel the atmosphere of Dragon Boat Festival. The waving dance is the primitive sacrificial dance of Tujia nationality. During festivals, Tujia people will hold lanterns and torches, hold colorful flags and wear floral quilts, and flood into the special "wave hall". Tujia waving dance has a distinct rhythm, and the dance is rough and powerful. The content is mostly scenes of Tujia production, life and battle. Tujia people who are good at singing and dancing often dance with their hands all night to celebrate festivals and a better life. In Shizhu, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival is different. After the first end of the fifth day, there will be the end of the fifteenth day and the end of the twenty-fifth day. Of the three Dragon Boat Festivals, only the early sun hangs mugwort and calamus, and eating zongzi in the early sun is also very popular. June 6th is one of Tujia festivals, which is roughly the same as the customs of Han nationality, but the interpretation of the customs has national characteristics. Tujia people celebrate this festival very ceremoniously. According to legend, on this day, every household dries clothes to commemorate the death of the local king. Legend has it that the Yuan Dynasty sent troops to suppress the local people, and the national hero King Qin Tu fought against the government troops. On the sixth day of June, he was defeated, bloody and unyielding, and was finally killed. Since then, every year on the sixth day of June, Tujia people have replaced hanging robes with hanging clothes, commonly known as drying dragon robes, to show their condolences. This festival is generally reserved in Tujia areas, and there is a saying in rural areas that "on June 6th, dragons dry clothes". No matter how busy you are, on the sixth day of June, every household should dry clothes, calligraphy and painting, grain and cabinets, not only to prevent insects, but also to prevent mold. Tujia people believe that things that are dried on this day will not grow mildew all year round, and the custom of "drying dragon robes" is still very popular in rural areas. At the same time, many people also use daily pots to hold water in the sun for children to bathe. It is said that it can avoid scabies and scabies. This is a festival with health care nature cultivated by the ancients. Tujia people also regard whether there is a good sun on this day as a symbol of auspicious farming. As the saying goes, "June 6 is cloudy, and cattle grass is as expensive as gold; It's sunny on June 6, and cattle and grass can't win. " Shizhu has the custom of "going out during the Dragon Boat Festival". Four people use two bamboo poles to lift the wide table covered with red carpet. A Taoist priest riding a tiger weaves bamboo sticks on the carpet. Beating gongs and drums, marching in the street. In ancient times, there was a custom of "typing" on the Dragon Boat Festival in western Sichuan. On that day, Chengdu people bought plums and threw them in the southeast corner of the city, attracting tens of thousands of spectators. In the 21st year of Guangxu (1895), this custom stopped because of the sudden conflict between Touli and foreign missionaries. Leshan, Xinjin and other places also hold grand commodity fairs during the Dragon Boat Festival.