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The folk customs of the Dragon Boat Festival with embroidered sachets of zongzi “tide”-Xinhua English.news.cn

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Xinhua News Agency, Taiyuan, June 14thTitle: The Dragon Boat Festival Folk Customs “Tide” with Embroidered Sachets of Rice Dumplings

Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ziwei

Zongzi is delicious, how to make it?

The sachet is exquisite, how to embroider it?

What other activities are there for the ancient Dragon Boat Festival?

During the Dragon Boat Festival this year, a variety of folklore activities were on fire; with the active participation of the people, traditional customs came out of paper and came alive.

  On June 13, volunteers from the Tianlongshan Grottoes Museum in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province were teaching tourists to make zongzi.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ziwei

“The thumb and index finger roll the zong leaves out of a small nest, and put glutinous rice in the nest. It must be rolled tightly to prevent leakage of the rice.” The day before the Dragon Boat Festival, in the Taishan Museum in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, a staff member dressed in Han clothes Under the guidance, second-grade pupil Ding Ruiyi and her sister are seriously wrapping rice dumplings. From a distance came soft music and commentary: “The sweet rice dumplings are full of faint sadness. The Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan…”

  On June 13, tourists embroidered sachets in Taishan Museum.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ziwei

On the same day, the sisters also experienced the Duanyang tea party, embroidering sachets, weaving five-color ropes, painting eggs, and painting the forehead with realgar powder in Taishan Museum. Ding Ruiyi’s mother said that in the past, children’s understanding of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival stayed in the textbook, and only after experiencing a circle can they be “engraved in the mind”, which is the foundation of cultural inheritance. They have participated in folk custom experience activities on the Dragon Boat Festival for two consecutive years.

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  On June 13, the staff of Taishan Museum were painting the foreheads with realgar powder for children. (Photo courtesy of the interviewee)

When you mention traditional skills and customs, everyone once thought that they were old-fashioned and difficult to understand, so they stayed away. Cui Xiaodong, deputy curator of Tianlongshan Grottoes Museum in Taiyuan, said: “The form of expression should be more flexible, so that everyone can learn about traditional skills and customs while playing. This is something that cultural and cultural institutions and the cultural travel industry should do seriously.”

During the Dragon Boat Festival, the Tianlongshan Grottoes Museum in Taiyuan City combines Dragon Boat Festival folk customs and intangible cultural heritage craftsmanship, bringing visitors to experience the intangible cultural heritage skills, allowing them to rub and mount the intangible cultural heritage by themselves. The reporter experienced while interviewing. The quaint rooms, classical music, professional tools prepared long ago, and the teacher’s patient explanations made the operation of traditional skills a comfortable experience and left beautiful memories.

  On June 12th, in the Tianlongshan Grottoes Museum, visitors are listening to the teacher’s explanation of the transfer and extension skills.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ziwei

“Folk-custom activities have now become a business card of Taishan Museum, and we have even realized the “activities to support activities”.” said Zhang Zhimin, director of Taishan Museum. The key is that the museum must be carefully designed and served so that visitors can have a sense of traditional culture. Good experience. After Taishan Museum designed the traditional folklore of various festivals into interesting, authentic and interactive folklore activities, the cultural dissemination effect is very good, the passenger flow has also risen greatly, and the ticket income has doubled in a few years.

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 On June 13, Qinglin was letting visitors experience Mulan Decoction.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ziwei

Qinglin, a practitioner of traditional culture and etiquette, and her team are also very busy. They were invited to perform traditional customs such as Dragon Boat Festival, Mulan Soup, Huae, and Duanyang Tea Party for tourists in multiple scenic spots. They restored the scenes that remained on murals, historical materials and cultural relics, and also specially left a link for interaction and experience for the audience. . Just a few years ago, their activities were still eye-catching.

“Over the years in the industry, I can clearly feel that more and more people are interested in traditional culture and traditional customs.” Qinglin said.

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【Editor in charge: Liu Yang】

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