Making dragon boat festival works with ultra-light clay

The dragon boat festival works of ultra-light clay are as follows:

1. Let's make a small steamer of zongzi first, and make a disc with brown soil.

2. Press out vertical stripes with tools.

3. Make the edge of the small cage with brown clay, so that the small cage is finished.

4. first make a zongzi out of green mud, which is a triangular zongzi ~

5. Then make a zongzi leaf with green mud and put it in a steamer.

6. Make a triangular dumpling with white mud and a round yolk with yellow mud, as shown above.

Dragon Boat Festival is a folk festival that integrates offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The customs mainly include dragon boat rowing, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, washing herbal water, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, soaking in dragon boat water, eating dragon boat rice, eating zongzi, putting paper dragons, putting paper kites, tying colorful silk threads and wearing sachets.

As one of the four traditional festivals in China, it not only clearly records the colorful social life and cultural content of our ancestors, but also accumulates profound historical and cultural connotations.

Historical origin:

The original meaning of "Duan" in "Dragon Boat Festival" is "Zheng" and "Wu" is "Zhong". "Dragon Boat Festival" and "Chiang Kai-shek" are also right, and noon on this day is right in the middle. In midsummer afternoon, the flying dragon is in the sky. At this time, Long Xing is in the south middle school, which is the most "suitable" position to run on Sundays all year round. It is both "right" and "right" and a symbol of good luck.

The ancients always advocated the middle way and the right way, and the "middle way" was vividly displayed here. In addition, the end also means "early", so the first noon of the fifth month is also called Dragon Boat Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival and Tianzhong Festival, originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena in ancient times and evolved from the Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the black dragon rises to the south of the sky for seven nights, which is an auspicious day for the dragon to fly. As the fifth poem in the Book of Changes says, "The dragon is in the sky". At noon, Long Xing is both a "win" and a "right" and a symbol of good luck.

Its origin covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations; In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs are integrated, and festival customs are rich in content. Picking dragon boats and eating zongzi are two major customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been passed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.