“May 5, the Dragon Boat Festival, dragon boat racing, beating gongs and drums, the Dragon Boat Festival customs passed down through the ages.
” As a traditional Chinese culture, the Dragon Boat Festival carries the memories of many people.
On May 31, Jiulong Lake Town, Zhenhai District, Ningbo City, carried out a variety of folk activities according to the traditional customs, inheriting the traditional culture and customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. The local strong Dragon Boat Festival sentiment also attracted compatriots of all ethnic groups to participate.
At 9:30 in the morning, the lively “dragon dance” performance opened the Dragon Boat Festival activities.
After the wonderful dragon dance performance, “Dry Longyou Village” began, led by the dragon dance team, with more than 20 art lovers waving the dragon dance ribbon. Lu Zuqiang, a young man from Zhuang nationality, joined them and played with the villagers in the green mountains and waters of Qinshan.
“In my hometown Guangxi, I am a good dragon dance, I actively participate in every dragon dance activities, came to Ningbo, such activities, I certainly can’t miss, ha ha…” Lu Zuqiang came to Ningbo for more than two years, said he likes the local conditions and customs of Ningbo.
Such a Dragon Boat Festival dragon dance custom in Jiulonghu Town has a history of more than ten years. Every year, the Dragon Boat Festival dragon dance team will bring wonderful performances to each village and give the blessing of the festival to every villager.
“After the dragon” activity, we returned to the Qinshan lawn, and the Kowloon studio experience of the fun of zongzi, pull the leaves, filling glutinous rice, sealing, bundle… after a while, a zongzi filled the table.
At the event site, there are also traditional Dragon Boat Festival games such as pot throwing and five poison shooting. Through personal experience, we have a deeper understanding of the traditional festival culture.
In addition to the Dragon Boat Festival food and featured games, the scene arranged sugar painting, rich cake and other intangible cultural heritage display and mugwort wreath production link.
In front of the sugar painting booth, the staff dressed in Hanfu scooped up the melted sugar with small spoons, and quickly cast back and forth on the chopping board, seemingly random but connected, soon a small animal appeared in front of people, attracting many people to stop and watch.
From jiulong lake longyuan community hui compatriots ulan under the guidance of volunteers made a wormwood wreath, she was very happy to say: “I have not experienced this folk activities, let us today in the experience understanding of Chinese traditional culture, benefits, also met a lot of friends, hope later can have more opportunities to participate in similar activities”.
Through the Dragon Boat Festival, ethnic minority compatriots and Jiulong Lake villagers experience all kinds of Dragon Boat Festival folk activities together, feel the charm of intangible cultural heritage and traditional culture, enhance the feelings between the residents of all ethnic groups, we deeply feel the warmth and friendship of “ethnic unity as one family”.