Haiyan Heqing Four O’clock Days

  Chapter 47 [Jinglian Xiasheng] At the time of Mango Valley, grass grows, farms are busy, rain and hot wind [Mango species·fourth]

  South is salty and north is sweet since ancient times,

  Dumplings are all steamed in the East China Sea and the West Mountains.

  Hua Xia May grass and wood canopy,

  Flying dragons in the four realms of Yan and Huang.

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   "Duanyang?" Manchong immediately recognized the person, "What's in the basket in his hand?"

  Duanyang stunned, he lifted the things in his hands, and looked at it twice with some doubts, "Where is the basket? Didn't you see the zongzi wearing together?"

Sure enough, Duanyang carried a pile of rice dumplings threaded together by a five-color thread. The green zong leaves exuded a natural fragrance, which was very attractive, so that the surrounding vegetation was attracted to rise up. A lot.

  Looking carefully, he should be shouting and wanting to get a taste from Duanyang hands.

   "Also, what are you doing?" Duan Yang stopped quarreling with Mang Chong, put down his hand, and snarled in the direction of Kyushu, "Is Kyushu playing with the kids by the river?"

  "Hello, Brother Duanyang!" Upon seeing Duanyang, Kyushu said hello politely.

  The little boy who heard Duanyang mentioned him also greeted him, "Hello, big brother!"

  Then the little boy looked at Kyushu, and asked quite curiously, "You...sister, why do you have two brothers? What is the name of this brother is Duanyang?"

   "Because I was born on Duanyang Day, which is the Dragon Boat Festival." Knowing that Kyushu is not easy to explain to the boy, Duanyang answered the boy's question on his own. Although this may seem far-fetched, it is indeed the truth.

  After answering the boy’s question here, Duan Yang continued to look at the Mang species and waited for the Mang species' answer.

   "What, Kyushu and I passed by, this kid is pulling calamus, Kyushu wants to try it together, this is not..." Manchu did not directly mention the incident of the little boy falling into the water.

  "I see." He nodded, turned his head and said to the two children, "This is a problem with your method."

  "Wait for me to borrow a sickle or a shovel..."

  Duan Yang was talking, the little boy stood up suddenly, "Mom and Dad!"

  It turned out that the boy’s parents picked the wormwood from his home. They found out that the boy had not been home for a long time after going out.

  Seeing the little boy, the husband and wife thanked Manchong and the Dragon Boat Festival, but they did not complain that the little boy got all water. They just hugged the little boy and told him not to run around, making people anxious!

   Knowing that the little boy wanted to save some experience for the two of them to pull the calamus, it happened that the couple had just finished their farm work and had a shovel in their hands, so he taught the little boy how to shovel the calamus with roots.

   "This root, go home and remove it, and then the clean calamus and wormwood are entangled." Pointing to the calamus dug out with mud, the little boy's mother explained patiently.

After tidying up her own children, the mother was finally able to relax, and asked Kyushu: "Little girl, why don't you go to my house with your two brothers. We will wrap a few bundles and bring you to hang them in front of the house, although not Something of value, but it is also auspicious."

  Kyushu, Mangzhong, and Duanyang were embarrassed to disturb others, but the hospitality was difficult, so they had to follow the little boy’s family to their home.

  "Sit down, I'll pour you a glass of water." It is also rare. The people I meet in Kyushu these days are very hospitable and polite.

The little boy’s mother here arranged for Kyushu and Mango to sit down, and Duanyang went to the little boy’s father and said, “We’re sorry to see that we can’t finish the rice dumplings, so why don’t you steam it together and help? To share and share."

  Duanyang is very talkative, and the little boy and his family are also planning to prepare more meals while thanking them.

  Not long, the vegetable rice is on the table. After all, it is the Dragon Boat Festival, and the zongzi is a well-deserved “big dish”.

  Because in China China, there is an ancient dispute over zongzi, which is sweet in the north and salty in the south. I don't know when it started. Maybe it started since the food of zongzi.

   Although Duanyang himself is sweet and salty, I think it is very good. But now the rice dumplings on the table are half sweet and half salty, specially prepared by Duanyang for fear that it will not match the taste of Kyushu.

"It's the first time I tasted the sweet rice dumplings in the north. It's very interesting. The taste is still not used to it!" The little boy's mother took the red date rice dumplings in her hand and dipped it with some white sugar in the plate, and handed it to her family. The child tasted it too, "Here, you taste it."

  The little boy took a small bite, what's wrong, blinked, and took his mother's hand and said: "Mom, I think it's great, can you do it later?"

  "Do you still think your mother is not tired?"

   "It's alright, it's okay to make two zongzi. It's a big holiday, don't talk about children."

  Don’t look at the little boy’s parents having such an interlude-like quarrel at the dinner table. On the contrary, it is more family and peaceful, and more angry with family.

  One person and two immortals went out, the little boy’s mother stuffed several bundles of wrapped calamus and wormwood, “You can also send your neighbors some more at that time, and the neighbors will help each other out!”

  While sending them out of Kyushu, the mother said, “By the way, if the little girl is still willing to play, it would be better to go to the river half a mile away. There is a dragon boat race this afternoon, which is very lively.”

  　Knowledge link: [related knowledge mentioned in this chapter (including some extensions)]

  　　 Dragon Boat Festival related

  　　①The Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival.

  　　 Dragon Boat Festival Customs

  　　①Eating rice dumplings (the north is salty and the south is sweet)

  　　②Dragon boat

  　　③ series five-color thread

  　　[Part of the information comes from the Internet, and is made by self-integration and interpretation]

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