Chapter 72 Dragon Boat Festival [Please recommend for collection]
Lin Ying left and went back to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with her parents. Liu Lan and Li Xin had a holiday. Today, Li Feng's house was much cleaner. Several old people followed Li Shanshan to collect herbs. Li Feng took care of fruits and vegetables at home, mainly watermelons.
Most of the ones in the space have matured, but only a few have matured outside. Li Feng took advantage of no one entering the space and took out a dozen watermelons. They were mixed and placed outside the yard. Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, and people in the city have a holiday. Many people may
come over.
Li Feng picked two baskets of crispy melons. He only picked half of the basket of cantaloupes and a lot of vegetable melons. The bitter melons he planted were now green. Li Feng thought that it was time to eat bitter melons. He had made a lot of bitter melons, and the whole hillside was lined with them.
, Li Feng took the basket and picked it again. It was full of piles, a few of which were forty or fifty kilograms. This is because Li Feng didn't pick too much.
Bitter melon is also called grape. When ripe, the color turns yellow-red, sweet and a bit cloying. There used to be a lot of them in the mountains, waiting for them to ripen in summer, attracting many birds and beasts. At this time, the children of Lijiagang carried baskets
, I picked grapes. At that time, I didn’t know that these green things could be eaten.
Nowadays, most people eat unripe bitter melon. It is bitter, purifying the heart, improving ears and eyesight, and clearing away heat and fire. It is an indispensable dish on the summer table.
After Li Feng finished his work, he took out some burnt leaves, which were fried the day before yesterday. They were crispy and fragrant. They were lit with sesame seeds. Li Feng ate them as snacks. Ling Dang accompanied Zhang Lan to Likouzi to buy realgar wine. In fact, Li Feng thought he could drink the realgar wine by himself.
It's weird, nothing good to drink, but I get some every year during the Dragon Boat Festival. It's like that. You always have to decide whether to drink it or not. Why not buy some realgar powder, get some herbs, grind it into foam, and put it in a bamboo box.
The fragrant fragrance can not only repel mosquitoes, but also refresh and clear the brain. It can be said to be a good thing that kills two birds with one stone.
As for sprinkling realgar wine on doors and windows and smoking mugwort, it makes sense. After the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is hot and dry, and snakes and insects breed quickly. Mosquitoes in particular are prone to bite people and spread viruses. Such methods of preventing snakes, insects, rats, and ants can be regarded as ancient medicine.
Hygiene Festival. All these traditions, Li Feng thought, as a Chinese, they should be passed on.
As for mugwort and calamus, several old men made a lot of them yesterday. Li Feng found some pieces of red paper, painted them according to the ghost paintings of previous years, put mugwort, calamus, and bitter peach branches on them, wrapped them, and made four packages.
Li Feng felt that there was no need for any door, front door, main room door, or anything else. The single room directly placed the herb box, and as for warding off evil spirits, Li Feng, a highly educated man, even though his own space was very strange,
It was very rare for Li Feng to have some doubts about ghosts and gods, but to get him to believe in them.
Speaking of calamus, Li Feng has a deep memory. When Li Feng was a child, there were a lot of mosquitoes. There were no mosquito-repellent incense at that time. There were only hand-pushed medicine dispensers and blue-green mosquito repellent in water bottles, but it often didn’t work. Mosquitoes bothered me every day.
Li Feng heard that calamus can kill mosquitoes, so Li Feng pulled a cart along the river bank and ditch. Li Shan and Zhang Lan looked at it dumbfounded. As for the insect repellent effect, Li Feng only remembered that he pulled a cart
The calamus is spread in the yard, but there are still mosquitoes.
As for why calamus is used to ward off evil spirits, calamus is the first of the five auspicious signs in the sky, symbolizing the sword that drives away bad luck. Because of its growing season and shape, it is regarded as a "hundred-yin energy". The leaves are sword-shaped and can be inserted at the door to ward off evil spirits. Therefore, alchemists
People called it the "Water Sword", and later customs extended it to the "Pu Sword", which can kill thousands of evil spirits.
Wormwood represents good fortune, and it has a beautiful meaning when inserted on the door. As for the bitter peach branches, it has always been considered to suppress the gods caused by the ground.
When a married daughter from Lijiagang returns home for the first time, or brings her children back to her parents' home for the first time, her parents' family will prepare dry peach branches to ward off evil spirits and exorcise ghosts for the newlyweds and their children.
This year's Dragon Boat Festival was just past noon at Li Feng's house. It was only midnight at this time. Li Feng put the remaining mugwort and calamus on his shed to dry. It would also be a good idea to light it at night to smoke out mosquitoes. The weather was getting hotter, so Li Feng
A straw shed was built not far from the pond for shade. I took a nap at noon and smelled the fragrance of lotus flowers. It was quite refreshing. It was not a pleasure to move my own summer bed over.
As for the calamus planted by a few old people near the Swordfish Pond, Li Feng irrigated it with some spring water. It must not have shrunk now. It looks green and growing well, but it smells bitter if it is too close.
There are no special customs for the Dragon Boat Festival here in Lijiagang. Rice dumplings, salted duck eggs, eels, and realgar wine are all other specialties. As for worshiping the father-in-law of the land and worshiping the mountain gods, few people have mentioned it. The most popular one is the water race that has been around for many years.
Now it has become a deep memory of Li Feng's generation. As for the second child and his children, they no longer know the existence of Shui Sai.
Li Feng was busy with the thatched shed. Several tourists came to visit. Li Feng was very happy when he saw the person. This was not Sun Chenchen. The person behind him seemed to be Sun Can. Two girls were accompanying an old man. The old man had a stooped waist and gray hair.
, the hand trembled slightly.
Li Feng looked a little surprised at how these two people got together. Li Feng put down what he was doing and went up to him. He asked the old man to sit down, poured water, and got some fruits.
"Don't be busy, young man. We can't stay for a while. The old man came here mainly to see the reservoir. It has been several years. I wonder how the reservoir is doing?" The old man said, with deep nostalgia in his eyes, which infected several people around him. Li Feng knew this
Like Lin Bo, he longed for the dam that had left a deep mark on a generation. "The reservoir is still the same, but it is well protected now." Li Feng said with a smile, and his enthusiasm made several people laugh.
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"Brother Li, this is my grandfather, and this is my cousin Sun Can." Sun Chenchen looked at Li Feng and only looked at the two of them, his face slightly flushed. Sun Can was not polite here, eating crispy melon and cantaloupe, and said yes.
eat.
"Sister, you don't need to introduce me. Brother Li and I are acquaintances. Last time Su Mi and I came over to play." Sun Can curled his lips and finished eating a piece of cantaloupe.
Within a few minutes, the two sisters helped the old man along the mountain road toward the dam. Li Feng watched the old man's slightly trembling figure and felt deeply in his heart.
Then more than a dozen customers came one after another, and several of them came here specifically to buy eels. Li Feng was quite surprised. Is the custom of eating eels during the Dragon Boat Festival also popular in the city? Li Feng had some questions and asked, "Who knows?"
Isn’t that the case at all? It turns out that last time a few city people bought some eels and they tasted good. The old man praised them a few times. During the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, they had time to buy some and give them back to the old man as a gift.
Li Feng was stunned, then he smiled and took the net bag and pulled it in the ditch a few times, and got a few pounds. There were not many in his ditch now, so Li Feng wanted to save some seedlings. Not many are sold now. Fatty Xu even called yesterday,
It was said that Li Feng was asked to get some more eels, but Li Feng could only smile bitterly and say that he really had nothing left here.
After sending a few people away, Li Feng took another two or three kilograms in a net bag and kept them in a basin for cooking at home. At around ten o'clock, Zhang Lan pulled the bell, and the ringing sounded in the distance, waking up his squinting eyes several times.
Little wild rabbits, I don’t know why, but a few little guys are particularly attached to bells. This made Lin Ying and Uncle Cheng quite jealous. Lin Ying muttered several times that these little guys have no conscience.
"Mom, I'm back." Seeing his mother and Lingdang sweating, Li Feng quickly poured two cups of herbal tea and handed them to his mother and Lingdang.
"Well, it's really hot today. There are too many people buying there, and there's a long queue." Zhang Lan carried two porcelain jars in a basket, which looked like they were the realgar wine he bought.
Realgar wine is white wine or rice wine made from realgar ground into powder. Realgar wine must be dried in the sun. In the past, most people made it at home early. Nowadays, people don’t have time to spare. It’s easy to buy some in the past.
.Here Zhang Lan took out a paper bag with realgar foam inside. Realgar foam can be used as an insecticide. The ancients believed that realgar can kill hundreds of poisons, ward off all evils, and control poisonous poisons. People wear it, and when they enter the mountains and forests, they will be lurked by tigers and wolves.
, enter Sichuan water and avoid hundreds of poisons. Zhang Lan bought these to accompany the herbal medicines to make boxes and put them in the house to repel insects.
The main chemical component of realgar is arsenic disulfide. When realgar is heated, it will transform into arsenic trioxide through a chemical reaction, which is the highly toxic arsenic. Therefore, drinking heated realgar wine is actually taking poison. Apply realgar wine on a child's head, tip of nose, earlobes or
There is no scientific reason to apply it on the body to drive away evil spirits and avoid epidemics. Alcohol can dilate blood vessels and accelerate the absorption of arsenic in the digestive tract and skin. The time may be as short as ten minutes, and as long as 4 to 5 hours, poisoning will occur. In mild cases, it may cause brain poisoning.
Postbone pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, "rice-like" stool, and in severe cases, death. Realgar wine has a strong pest-killing effect. In ancient times, realgar wine was one of the main disinfectants used to eliminate pests and diseases in summer.
1. Frequently spray it under the bed, in corners and other dark places to avoid poisonous insects.
These are the information that Li Feng found online. He talked about Zhang Lan yesterday, and Li Shan listened. The two of them didn't say anything. They only talked about buying some realgar wine and spreading it in the yard to get rid of insects. As for drinking, they didn't say anything more. At least the couple agreed in their hearts.
My son said that the main reason is that technology has developed now. Some things from the past have been tested and found to be harmful to the body.
Today we had dinner at Taolin. Zhang Lan took a rest and started cooking. Ling Dang wore a new dress bought by Li Feng. Her pigtails were re-tied and tied with a bow. It was very cute. Li Feng bought a silver chain for the bell around her neck and re-wear it.
, quite interesting. At this moment, the little girl ran to the rabbit cage and took the little rabbits outside to bask in the sun. The little guys looked like humans at first sight, but now they are not afraid of people at all, sniffing the petals of flowers and shaking their mouths.
With big ears.
At noon, there were three more people at the dinner table unexpectedly. Unexpectedly, Sun Chenchen's grandfather and Uncle Lin and Li Shan were old acquaintances. This was a coincidence. In fact, Li Feng should have thought that Lin Chengdong lived in Lijiagang at that time and was on Bazi every day.
, who doesn’t know each other after a few years? There are many people and many chopsticks, it’s lively, today we use the big dining table to gather around, eat and drink.
At noon, several old people drank more, and Li Feng took care of them. It was rare for Li Shan to see his old friends. He was already drunk and was helped back to sleep by Zhang Lan.
Li Feng took Sun Chenchen, Sun Can, and Ling Ding to clean up the tables, chairs, benches, and dishes. When they were washing the dishes, Sun Chenchen and Sun Can were quite embarrassed because they were not as quick as Ling Ding and could wash them cleanly.
Li Feng smiled and shook his head. These girls are now liberated and no longer touch the kitchen.
