It's in the Ordnance Prison. When everyone at Royal Roads University was busy making www.biquge.info road, the annual Dragon Boat Festival was quietly coming.

The Dragon Boat Festival of the Dashun Dynasty is quite interesting, because the Dashun Dynasty is a dynasty with a relatively relaxed political environment and mellow folk customs. Therefore, for the festival, it is always warm and public.

The Dragon Boat Festival, the Dashun Dynasty is not limited to the fifth day of the fifth month of May, but from the first day of the fifth month of May to the fifth day of the fifth month of May. From the first day to the fifth day of the new year, Lu Chengqi didn't have to go to the court, and the entire court was on holiday. Not only is there a holiday, but the court also has something to give. There are naturally zongzi to eat, and there are also some "Baisuo", that is, five-color silk, which originates from the ancient Chinese worship of five colors, with five colors as auspicious colors. The emperor gave his subordinates a lot of "Baisuo", which is a "real pearl Baisuo", which is also a kind of honor. In addition to "Baisuo", there are also green leaves, five-color sunflower pomegranates, golden silk emerald fans, hairpin charms, warp tubes, sachets, soft incense dragon birthday wearing, etc., all of which are boutiques, from the hands of the royal family, and there is absolutely no sale on the market. In other words, it's a limited edition.

At this time, because the summer is approaching, the imperial court will also give fans to the ministers, taking precautions. And Lu Chengqi loves folding fans, and this time he gave fans to the ministers of the DPRK and China. Lu Chengqi also personally inscribed the word "for the people" on the folding fan and stamped his own private seal. At this time, folding fans have not yet become popular, probably because Lu Chengqi gave away folding fans widely this time, which made folding fans popular in advance.

And at this moment, the local government also has to pay tribute fans for the imperial court, called tribute fans. The Dragon Boat Festival fan has gradually become a habit, not only the emperors of the past dynasties gave fans to their subordinates, but also the people gave gifts to each other.

At the beginning of the new year, the people of Chang'an City, every household was busy, and all kinds of festival supplies, food, and sacrificial vessels were prepared. Do not prepare some sunflowers (or hollyhocks), pampas leaves, Buddha Dao wormwood, peach willow branches, apricots, forest birds, persimmons, incense or incense prints. And these are collectively called "thrift", which are picked up by the merchants, and they are selling through the streets and alleys.

The hawking in the past few days is a kind of rendering, a kind of fueling the flames. The fifth day of the fifth month of May is the climax of the Dragon Boat Festival. On the fifth day of the first month, the people of the Dashun Dynasty displayed the "festival things" at the head of the door, offered them with tea and wine, held sacrificial activities, and some other activities.

On the fifth day of the new year, wormwood should be planted and bathed. Before dawn, wormwood must be inserted into the door. At noon, it is necessary to take a bath in the well flower water, so that the epidemic will not invade for a year. It is customary to pick wormwood peach pu to rub water for bathing, even in later generations, the Dragon Boat Festival customs such as inserting wormwood and bathing are still preserved.

Women and children also wear some accessories. The "Baisuo" mentioned earlier is also a kind, in addition, there are Ai Hu, Fu Gong, Five Poison Diagram, etc. "Baisuo" is embroidered and woven into various ornaments with clear stripes, which can be worn, hung around the neck, or given to each other, and wrapped around the arms of children.

"Ai Hu" is to cut Ai into a small tiger, or glue mugwort leaves on the cut tiger, and wear it on the head to ward off evil spirits. "Fu Gong" is to cut the color into a small symbol, wear it on the head, and insert it on the sideburns, so it is also called "hairpin head charm". Wearing the "Five Poisons Map" is the most special. "Five poisons" refers to centipedes, worms, snakes, scorpions, grass insects and the like, in ancient times, people believed that the "five poisons" can be used to treat boils, can poison other pests, so they cut it into a picture and wear it on the body.

In addition to the accessories they wear, the people of Chang'an City also buy small drums and fans that are intricately made. The small drum can be hung on the shelf, placed on the seat, the shape is different, the small fan is divided into green, yellow, red and white colors, or embroidered or painted or wisps of gold out of various patterns, these have a nice name, called "silver drum flower fan". Every Dragon Boat Festival, there will be more shops and merchants in Chang'an City who sell drum fans and other things, for the people of Chang'an City to buy, in order to give each other gifts and ask for a good fortune.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, the most unavoidable thing is the zongzi. The Dashun Dynasty corresponds to the Song Dynasty in history, and the eating habits gradually become the same as those of later generations, so there are many varieties of zongzi, and the shape is different, there are horn zongzi, cone zongzi, rhombic zongzi, tube zongzi, scale mallet zongzi, nine sub zongzi, etc. These, in the palace, Lu Chengqi and Zhou Zhiruo tasted them one by one, and they were really delicious.

In addition to eating zongzi, the people of the Dashun Dynasty will also eat fragrant candy seeds, white balls, perilla, and drink calamus wine. "Sweet candy" is made by shredding calamus, ginger, apricot, plum, plum, perilla, etc., and making them with molasses. "Calamus sake" is made by soaking calamus. People believe that drinking calamus wine during the Dragon Boat Festival can prolong the year, so the people of the Dashun Dynasty call drinking calamus wine during the Dragon Boat Festival "drinking continuous". These few customs still retain the old customs of Jingchu.

The most exciting part of the Dragon Boat Festival is dragon boating. On the Feng River, colorful boats are racing. Lu Chengqi and Zhou Zhiruo dragon and phoenix came to watch the dragon boat race in person. I saw that on the colorful boat, there were gods and ghosts, miscellaneous dramas, flags, lions and leopards and the like, and there were two boats next to it, which were music boats, which specialized in playing music.

When the music sounds, the water troupe begins to perform. Lu Chengqi has never seen such a performance, and he watched it with relish. There are a total of three plays in the water theater troupe, one is a water fisherman's quiz, one is a puppet show (water puppet), and finally a water swing, that is, a water acrobatics.

After the play, the hundred opera boats, each sounding gongs together, dancing the flags, and the water puppet boat retreated on two walls, and twelve small dragon boats appeared. There are more than 50 scarlet-clothed sergeants on the Xiaolong boat, each with a flag and a gong, and there is a military academy in the bow of the boat, dancing the flag to attract it, which is the command of the tiger wings of the forbidden army. There were also ten tiger-headed boats, on which there was a man in brocade clothes, holding a small flag and standing on the bow of the ship. The rest of them were dressed in short green clothes and long turbans, and they danced the boats together, wearing the clothes of the common people, but in fact, they were all pretended by the forbidden army. There are also two flying fish boats, which are painted with gold and are the most exquisite. There are more than 50 people in variegated costumes on the flying fish boat, with small variegated flags and crimson umbrellas lined up, dancing left and right, and singing small gongs and drums. There were also two loach boats, which could only be rowed by one person, and they were made of a single log. The intention of these small boats is to drag the big dragon boat out of the water hall, that is, the shipyard where the big dragon boat is hidden.

The small dragon boat pulls the big dragon boat with a rope in front, this big dragon boat is about thirty or forty zhang long, three or four zhang wide, made into the shape of the dragon's head and tail, all carved with gold ornaments, luxurious and abnormal. Lu Chengqi saw such a large wooden ship for the first time, and thought in his heart: "The treasure ship built in the Ming Dynasty is nothing more than that, right?" ”

There are people dancing flags on the dragon's head, and in the water shed on the left and right, six wooden oars are arranged, dancing together, as if flying. These large and small boats are not used for dragon boat racing, but practice formations on the water.

Lu Chengqi has never understood why they haven't competed yet, originally people didn't have the idea of whether the game was fast or slow. This big dragon ship is equivalent to a flagship, and the other small dragon ships, flying fish boats, tiger head boats, and loach boats are all warships. I saw the flag-bearers on the big dragon boat waving red flags and green flags, and these small boats began to form a formation, or into a circle array, or into a scissor array, or into a T-shaped array......

Lu Chengqi gradually saw some doorways, Zhou Zhiruo didn't know why, and said that these forbidden soldiers, they performed very well, and applauded again and again.

Lu Chengqi doesn't understand water warfare, but he always comes over, and he thinks that this water warfare drill is also like that, but he always feels that something is missing. After careful observation, Lu Chengqi found that these boats were all flat-bottomed boats, and the draft was not deep, so they were reckless on the rivers. When you reach the sea, it only takes a storm to overturn it.

After the forbidden army finished the drill and put the big dragon boat, the small dragon boat, and all the boats into the Yishui Palace, Lu Chengqi still stopped on the shore, his eyes kept looking at the Fenghe River that was stirred up with yellow mud, and he didn't know what he was thinking......