Dragon Boat Festival Ceremony of Dragon Boat Festival

Amid firecrackers, hundreds of people entered the village along the road and stopped to perform for a while. On the hillside and in the fields, there are people watching. The dragon tree is at the end of Shuiguachong Village, but "welcoming the dragon" must follow the country road opposite the village and circle the village half a circle. The process of "welcoming dragons" took about two or three hours. During this journey, Longruo, who went out to "steal" the clear spring water and went to Longtan to clean the sacred stone, returned to the team and carried Long Fu (two big pebbles worshipped all the year round in the Dragon Palace) on the dragon cart. Two or three hundred meters away from the dragon tree, the lively team stopped. On a small bridge, men form a circle and women are isolated from the outside. Bimo presided over the selection of the first village to enter the Dragon Boat Festival.

Amid the loud drums and firecrackers, the reporter and all the women were stopped and arranged to return to the village from a field path by the roadside. Surprised, the female reporter was told that this was a rule left by the ancestors. Women could not enter the scene of the Dragon Boat Festival, and even women in the village could not walk under the "Dragon Tree" for life. Under the setting sun, the rape flowers in the fields are dazzling, and the women walking in them are more enchanting. Not far away, in the dense forest next to the mysterious village, a cypress named "Dragon Tree" is hidden among the trees. This dragon tree is as big as a washbasin, with straight branches and lush leaves. According to the old man, the dragon tree that our ancestors first enshrined was very thick, and it took two or three people to hold hands to surround it. Unfortunately, it was cut at 1958. This tree was later discovered. In addition to some mysterious divination, it depends on whether it looks good or not, whether it is clean or not, and whether there are birds making nests on it. There is also a small pavilion in the forest dedicated to "Long Fu". This pavilion is about the size of a land temple, and it is painted with dragons and tigers, which are lifelike. The Dragon Boat Festival ceremony was held in front of the Monument Pavilion. There was a small clearing in front of the Monument Pavilion, which was covered with green pine needles.

At the beginning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the old people first took out two "Long Fu" from the dragon sedan chair and put them in the pavilion. In this process, the old people are in awe of these two "Long Fu". Next is worship. The old people took the food out of the basket, put it on the pine needles in front of the pavilion, and then lit incense. The whole forest is full of fragrance. The old people toasted the "Long Fu" enshrined in the pavilion in turn, and then bowed. Before "Long Fu", the old people looked serious, and everyone seemed very religious. Later, the village chief told us that a pig would be killed as a sacrifice before the Dragon Boat Festival. After the Dragon Boat Festival ceremony, pork was evenly distributed among many families in the village, and each portion was served with rice balls dyed red with pig blood and wooden knives (meaning weapons to ward off evil spirits) cut from Ma Yinghua tree, a totem worship of Huayao Yi people. This is the so-called dragon meat. The "dragon meat" distributed to families will be reserved for rice seedlings sacrificed to rice fields.