It's Dragon Boat Festival again, and I really want to experience this atmosphere, so let grandma teach me how to make zongzi. To make zongzi, you should first wash the leaves and soak them in hot water.
Then prepare dates, eggs, meat and so on. For the stuffing, cook the delicious stuffing you like, and you can start working. First, fold the long leaves, enclose them, make a nest, put prepared glutinous rice and japonica rice in the middle, and wrap the edges and corners.
Then put jiaozi in rice, knead it into a ball, and finally make the jiaozi wrapped in bamboo leaves into four corners. The kung fu of making zongzi is in the last process. Whether your zongzi is wrapped well depends on whether the four corners are symmetrical or not.
When I first started learning, I always twisted the four corners into a ball, either six corners or a ball. Grandma looked at my "masterpiece" more than once and smiled: "This, can this be called Zongzi? Where did you tie the string? " I'm dizzy! The four corners of emotional zongzi are convenient to hang with thin lines. Why are there no round zongzi in this world? Put the wrapped zongzi into the pot and cook it with high fire. After about 1 hour, simmer for 30 minutes.
In the process of cooking zongzi, I am always eager to open the lid to see the situation. Because the smell of zongzi floated out of the pot, it made my mouth water.
The waiting time is always very long. When the steaming zongzi was finally "liberated" from the pot, I danced with joy. Put it in a bowl and peel it off with chopsticks, and you can see the golden and soft "zong meat" inside. Take a bite. It's so delicious that I almost bit off all the chopsticks.
This year's Dragon Boat Festival, I learned how to make zongzi and tasted the fruits of labor, which were not sweet.
2. Write a description of the sachet (sachet), which was called sachet in ancient times, also known as "wearing a curtain", "allowing fragrance", "sachet" and "purse". Qingyang is commonly known as "tight" or "play". It uses colored silk thread to embroider various patterns with ancient, magical and profound connotations on colored silk, and sews them into embroidered small cloth bags with different shapes and sizes. The bags are filled with fine powder developed from a variety of fragrant Chinese herbal medicines, which can be used for seasonal celebrations, practical life and ornamental use.
Qingyang sachet embroidery originated in the ancient Yellow Emperor era, initiated by Qi Baishi, developed in Qin, Han, Tang and Song Dynasties, and matured in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Formed its own unique artistic style, with obvious regional characteristics: rough and bold, thin and beautiful; It is both strong and delicate, and pure and elegant; It is both freehand brushwork and pure meticulous brushwork. Its composition is concise and lively, implying tradition and ancient style; The color is bright red and green, which passes through the chromatography excessively; The embroidered surface is thick and the shape is childish and vivid. Fine embroidery, uniform stitches, picturesque; There are many kinds of acupuncture methods.
Jin, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and a famous folklorist, said with emotion after seeing sachets in Qingyang: "I have been to sachets all over the country. There are two good places, one is Qingyang and the other is Yunnan. In contrast, Qingyang, especially Zhengning sachet in Qingyang, is the best. "
In 2002, the older generation of revolutionaries wrote an inscription: "Qingyang sachet is the best in the world."
The box is not a simple embroidery. Let us re-examine the history, cultural connotation and artistic value of the box under the historical and modern background.
The sachet, called sachet in ancient times, is also called "petticoat" and "smelly". Its production and wearing history can be traced back at least to the Warring States period. In Qu Yuan's Lisao, there is "Hujiang Powder, Bi, which Qiu Lan thinks is admirable". Li Jiang, Fructus Aurantii and Qiulan are all herbs. Sewing means connecting. Pei is, which means sachet and wearing. The whole sentence means taking Pei Wei, who is full of herbs. Thus, as early as the Warring States period when Qu Zi was alive, the sachet was an ornament.
There is a saying in the Book of Rites of Han Dynasty: "Men and women who are not crowned ... wear tassels and stink." Smell is sachet, which means that underage men and women in Han Dynasty wore sachets.
During the Tang and Song Dynasties, sachets gradually became the special products for ladies and beauties. On the other hand, male officials began to wear wallets. Some officials simply put their wallets on court clothes when they go to court. Of course, the purse and sachet were not exactly the same at that time. The sachet is mainly filled with herbs, while the purse is mainly used to "hold towels and exquisite things". This is consistent with the handbag-shaped "chitose sachet" unearthed from Shuangta Temple in Huachi County not long ago.
By the Qing Dynasty, the sachet had become a symbol of love. A quarrel between Baoyu and Daiyu in the seventeenth episode of A Dream of Red Mansions was caused by sending a purse.
History has evolved into modern times, and sachets are mostly used as gifts for the folk Dragon Boat Festival. Their main function is to pray for good luck and ward off evil spirits.
Look at the design of the sachet. Take the "Chitose sachet" unearthed from Shuangta Temple in Huachi County as an example. Embroidery patterns are selected from deformed plum blossom, lotus flower and girdle flower, which are designed according to the pure land theory of Buddhism. Its moral is to regard this small sachet as "the pure land of the west", because since the Tang Dynasty, deformed plum blossoms have been placed on the Buddha's chest as auspicious symbols.
More than 800 years ago, Buddhist believers presented this sachet to the stupa, entirely to show their reverence and sincerity in praying for the Buddha.
Judging from the existing sachets in China since the Qing Dynasty, most of them take flowers and animals as the main characters, and express all kinds of emotional sustenance and beautiful yearning in a figurative and symbolic way. For example, Pisces, butterflies and dragons are used to symbolize love, intercourse and fertility between the two sexes; Describe women with metaphors such as lotus, lotus, peony and plum blossom; Metaphor is a man with magpies and flower-picking bees; Pine crane symbolizes longevity, pomegranate symbolizes many children; And people who use homophones of Chinese characters as metaphors can also be seen everywhere: "Early birth of your son" (a combination pattern of dates, peanuts, longan and lotus seeds) is given to newlyweds; A "childlike innocence" for the long-lived elderly (there is a combination pattern of cats and butterflies playing peony, indicating that old age life is very interesting); Children's "longevity doll" (a naive doll as the main body, surrounded by bats and peaches, indicating that the child will live long) ...
Uncovering this thick cultural accumulation and facing this colorful picture of life, all the ancient but clumsy, primitive and vivid artistic treasures are displayed in front of us. In fact, this is the art of revealing people's expectations; The art of expressing thoughts and beliefs; The art of showing vitality. It can be said to be true national culture, folk culture, popular culture and humanistic culture.
3. Buy a 500-word sachet composition and write down the buying process in detail. Interest in festivals is getting weaker and weaker.
Spring Festival is the Spring Festival, so put more things in the refrigerator and insist on not going to the vegetable market for a few days. Mid-Autumn Festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Don't eat moon cakes, just for show.
However, this year is somewhat different. When the fragrance of zongzi is getting stronger and stronger, we have just learned Mr. Wang Zengqi's article "Duck Eggs on Dragon Boat Festival". The language is plain and humorous, and Kan Kan tells about his nostalgia for his hometown and childhood. This kind of affection gripped me tightly and made me deeply immersed in the nostalgia for my hometown. The Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown is very particular.
Need to wrap jiaozi, fresh reed leaves, green leaves, or mistletoe leaves, emitting a faint fragrance. On the afternoon before the Dragon Boat Festival, all the raw materials were ready. The white glutinous rice was soaked in clear water, and the candied dates, peanuts and raisins were all soaked. Hard-working hostess folded left and right with dexterous hands, and then wrapped it with silk thread layer by layer, thus a delicate zongzi was born.
Don't worry about cooking zongzi. Cook slowly over low heat. Old people like to use stoves. Put zongzi on the stove the night before to stew it all night. The next day, when the children got up, they uncovered the pot cover. It was a hot zongzi. The house and yard suddenly filled with the fragrance of reed leaves and zongzi.
Besides zongzi, we should also eat cooked garlic and eggs. These kinds of food are put together, and you can enjoy them casually even if you don't eat them. White jade-like oblate garlic, oval eggs with red meat and irregular green zongzi are all beautiful, from the combination of colors to the combination of shapes.
Smoked mugwort leaves, we are far from the mountains here. All the mugwort is bought from the market. Dragon Boat Festival is hung on the lintel. It will be dry in a few days. Take one or two and light them in the house. As for the purpose of fumigation, I am not very clear. Some people say it's to smoke mosquitoes. I think it may be more things like centipedes and scorpions, which is probably similar to the five poisons smoked in other places. Use sachets to make colorful fabrics into ornaments of various shapes, and put spices in them to become children's favorite ornaments, hanging around their necks and smelling them from time to time.
Tie a five-color thread and wear it on your wrists and ankles. But what I remember most clearly is that I went to the field at dawn to pull up the "sacred grass".
The sacred grass mentioned here is quoted, but I really can't think of what the adults said at that time. Our elders told us that Chang 'e in the Moon Palace kept fiddling with drugs every year and sprinkled them on various plants and rivers on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Before the sun came out on the Dragon Boat Festival, these medicines remained on the grass. If we pull them back at this time, boil them into water and take a bath with this water, all diseases can be cured. Of course, the children are very sure that we will set out at dawn to call for friends, and we will complete a sacred mission for our family in the mysterious field.
The dawn in May of the lunar calendar is beautiful, the air is cool, refreshing and humid, and everything is quiet. If you have an unintentional look, you may meet a child who comes to dig weeds next door. Looking at each other with a smile, I am somewhat happy in it.
The fields in the morning are awakened in advance on this day. Dewdrops are still turning on the strong grass. The grass we need is exquisite, such as grass that turns red when the cat's eye touches it. Today, if we are not afraid of it, we will choose it. There are also plantain, festival grass and so on. Don't dawdle, you must pick it home before the sun comes out, so that those mysterious medicines will be effective.
Go home in a panic, look up at the sky and overcome the sun-like pride. Now that I think about it, I still feel that the mystery is like one of Grimm's fairy tales. As soon as the sun came out, everything returned to the original mystery.
It's Dragon Boat Festival again. Who will dig grass for the wild and bathe the children? There is a special shower gel, and zongzi is too lazy to wrap it. Why bother? Just a few. However, can you buy some care and fun hidden in various processes? Don't buy what you can, because a simple word "buy" makes us lose a lot of beautiful things.
4. Buy a sachet. In Nanyang, our hometown, every fifth day of May, children wear sachets, which is our custom.
A few days before the Dragon Boat Festival, you see, bright, beautiful and lifelike sachets can be seen everywhere on children's necks, in streets and lanes, in grandma's wheelbarrow, in remote villages, and they are active in people's lives with their unique charm. Sachet is widely circulated among the people and is a masterpiece of working people. Embroidered or tied with cotton cloth and silk thread into a sachet, which contains realgar, mugwort leaf, smoked grass and fragrant powder.
Wearing a five-string rope on your body can repel insects and evil spirits. The sachet is exquisite in workmanship and diverse in shape, and the patterns on it are mainly animals and flowers.
Such as the zodiac, such as heart-shaped, such as fish and insects, all kinds of beautifully shaped patterns are really vivid, and small sachets are entrusted with people's beautiful yearning, or symbolize happiness, or love, or call for friendship, or praise life. A small sachet is full of care and expectation from relatives.
Growing up, my parents always buy me sachets every Dragon Boat Festival, among which my favorite sachet is the doll with moving feet, because this sachet is more beautiful and meaningful than other sachets. The front of this sachet is a doll with moving feet, wearing a beautiful red dress with a yellow flower embroidered on it and a heart on the back, which is made up of red, yellow and blue. Beneath this heart, there are a bunch of beautiful ones. This sachet is very fragrant, and it has a pungent smell when you fan it gently with your hand.
I love sachet, because this small sachet is full of love from my relatives, and I spent a happy and wonderful childhood with it. I will treasure and collect it forever.
5. My favorite handicraft sachet composition is flying in the fourth grade. I didn't expect it to be Dragon Boat Festival again soon. The teacher said, "Sprinkling realgar wine and wearing sachets on your body during the Dragon Boat Festival will bless you all your life." I want to buy a sachet for the Dragon Boat Festival, but I think it is more meaningful to make a sachet.
I looked around and came to Dongzhou Road unconsciously. I came across a dollar supermarket. On entering the door, my uncle asked, "What do you want?" "Do you have any spices?" While you are waiting, I'll bring it to you right away. "After buying lavender and wormwood, I finished the first step of making sachets.
I came home, took out a piece of red cloth, drew a long rectangle on it and cut it out. Then I started sewing. First, I folded the rectangle in half and began to sew along the two sides. It was easy to sew at first, but then I accelerated. "Ouch, ouch, it hurts me." I screamed. I quickly put down the needle, afraid of being pricked again, and quickly asked my mother, "Mom, why do you sew clothes quickly and well?" I put my hand in. "It's called practice makes perfect," my mother said, stroking my head. Hearing this, I picked up the needle again, carefully sewing, sewing, sewing, and finally sewing. "Yes, I did it! "
I had a good time this Dragon Boat Festival, because I learned that everything can't be done by halves.
6. Write a composition about making sachets. Be sure to write it yourself. If you write well, I will give you extra points for sewing sachets.
Although it is our girl's job to sew sachets, I have never touched needles and threads, let alone sew sachets.
Today, after listening to the teacher, I want to sew sachets by hand. I had to obey orders and do it myself. At first, I thought it wouldn't be difficult to sew sachets, but reading is difficult! But I'm not afraid of reading, so I don't think it's difficult to make sachets.
At first, I sewed carefully. After several stitches, I didn't feel any difficulty. For a moment, I was careless and distracted, and I got a needle in the back of my hand. When I came to my senses, it hurt to my heart and my fingers were really connected! The blood on my fingers flowed down like spring water, and I was anxious like an ant on hot bricks. Later, I used my quick wits to find a silk scarf and bandage the wound. At this time, I found that I could sew sachets. Suddenly, I felt flattered. But when I took a closer look, I sewed the sachet to death, and the fragrance could not be put in. what would i like to do ? Yes, you can open it and leave a hole. Yes, that's it! It took me a lot of effort to open a crack in the sachet. I'll keep this seam and sew up the rest. Well, I finally sewed a sachet.
I looked at my sachet and saw that although it was rough, it condensed my blood and sweat. I think this sachet is the best in the world.
Make a sachet
When it comes to making sachets, it is not easy to say it is simple, and it is not difficult to say it is difficult.
I remember that on July 22nd, my mother went to work and left me alone at home. I did my summer homework and watched TV, but I still felt bored. What should I do? A good idea suddenly flashed through my mind.
I went to my room and took out some cloth. Guess what I'm going to do Make sachets. But I don't know how to start, so I have to take out a book to teach you how to make sachets and do it while watching.
First, cut the cloth into the pattern you like. Don't make a mistake, they are two identical cute patterns. Then sew the threaded needle, stitch by stitch, but don't sew it on, because its opening is used to plug cotton; Then put the snow-white cotton into its "belly", which seems to be ready. In fact, there are still three parts left. The first 1: sew its head with a needle; Second: it is a fragrant perfume; Third: You need to put on a rope. When I put on the red thread, the sachet is finished. I felt very happy at that time. 12 years old, I tasted the feeling of "honey juice" again. I bought this with hard work and sweat.
I did another happy thing in the summer vacation.
7. Writing sachets is a traditional custom of Dragon Boat Festival, so I will also make a sachet.
Looking forward to it, it's finally afternoon. Turning on the projector, Teacher Liang who taught us how to make sachets appeared on the big screen.
We began to learn how to make sachets. Teacher Liang first folded a rectangular piece of cloth in half, then sewed it up, leaving cotton on one side.
I also followed teacher Liang's example. "Ouch, it hurts!" I shouted.
It turned out that I accidentally stuck the needle in my finger. I looked at it carefully and said to myself, "fortunately, there is no bleeding." Be careful. " After sewing, I stuffed cotton again.
Then, Mr. Liang sewed the last cotton hole, tightened the thread at both ends, tied a knot, and the sachet was ready. I sewed it, too I sewed it up, but I can't take the thread out.
Finally, I squeezed the cloth in, then I pulled out two threads, tied the knot and finished the sachet. Although the sachet I made is not so beautiful, I enjoy the process of making sachets and am still very happy.