Chapter 175: Purify water to remove filth, and draw blessings on the soles of the feet
How to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, customs vary from place to place.
In Xianyuan Village, in addition to eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats, they also hang calamus and mugwort, purify water and remove filth, draw blessings on the soles of their feet and pick hundreds of herbs to make sachets.
The Dragon Boat Festival itself is actually a festival born in ancient ancestors to fight against poisonous insects and plagues in summer. Commemoration to Qu Yuan was only a later added connotation.
Eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats is a custom used to commemorate Qu Yuan.
More customs are actually to drive away snakes, insects, rats and ants and protect their health.
Therefore, every Dragon Boat Festival, everyone should say good health in Dragon Boat Festival, rather than happy holidays.
Acorus mugwort has the effect of deworming, so at this time, you have to hang some at home.
Purification of water and filth removal is a feature of Xianyuan Village.
Xianyuan Village is located deep in the mountains, with much more poisonous insects than other places.
Grind realgar soaked in wine, stained with bamboo branches, and sprinkled on the ground, which is a good way to drive away poisonous insects, so it has been passed down as sucking.
Purification of water and filth removal is very important for Xianyuan Village. After the dragon boat team came back, they immediately started.
The leader must be the most respected person in the village, and the followers are generally the pillars of each family.
Under the leadership of the second uncle, a group of people first went to the ancestral hall to sautum a stick of incense for their ancestors, then opened the wine jar placed in the ancestral hall and took out the realgar wine inside.
The bamboo branches used to dip wine were sent to pick them in the morning. Each bamboo tree only takes the latest and tenderest piece, and it is not easy to collect so many.
Everything was about to stop, so the second uncle took them and took the ancestral hall as the starting point to sprinkle realgar wine around the entire Xianyuan Village.
Whenever you do these things, there will always be naughty kids running around.
Some even went to the place where the bamboo branches were scattered and were poured with realgar wine.
Such a naughty child naturally couldn't get it well, and was scared away by his elders' scolding.
After purifying water and removing filth, a group of people dispersed and they were busy celebrating their own festivals.
The naughty kids who were running around happily just now are in trouble now.
Because what greeted them was a brush dipped in realgar wine.
A brush is not scary, but it is not enough for many people to scratch the soles of the feet.
Use realgar wine to draw characters on children. This custom is found in many places, but it is usually drawn on the forehead.
Xianyuan Village does not take ordinary roads, so it should be painted on the soles of your feet.
When painting blessings, you naturally use calligraphy and painting to express the blessings of elders to their children.
The naughty children in the village were grabbed by their parents and pressed on a chair. They grabbed one foot and drew it.
There are no fixed requirements for using realgar wine to draw blessings on the soles of your feet. Just express your parents’ expectations for your children.
It's okay to be casual, just draw two strokes on the soles of your feet.
But when you encounter someone who has great expectations for your child, you want to write an article on the soles of your child's feet.
The naughty kid who can't stand it will naturally make a fuss and make a fuss if they don't cooperate.
There were many homes in Xianyuan Village where naughty children cried and shouted at their parents.
"What's the sound? Is anyone abused the child?" Zeng Qingwan, who was wandering around the village, heard the sound and frowned.
"You'll know when you go and take a look. It's so interesting at this time." Lin Yifan responded with interest and took them to the door of a family.
In this family, grandparents held the child's body, mother grabbed the child's feet, and father wrote quickly on the soles of his feet, which was quite tacit.
“Ahhaha…ahhaha…”
The child who was held down was in trouble. The itchy feeling from the soles of his feet made him cry and laugh, and tears came out.
He struggled hard, but he could not stand the triple suppression of his grandparents and mother.
It was not until my father finished writing hard that the child was free from "torture".
"Baby, what I wrote to you is to study hard, strive to become a ceo, marry a rich and beautiful woman, and reach the peak of your life. Don't let my expectations down."
The father, who had accomplished his work, said earnestly.
"I know Dad, I will definitely not let you down." The naughty child responded in a mute voice while wiping his tears.
They all accepted a "torture", would he dare not agree?
If you don't agree, what if the family catches him and gets another one...
"What a pitiful kid." Zeng Qingwan and Wu Zixuan said with some distress when they saw the child.
When they think of the itchy flesh of the soles of their feet with a brush, they feel that the soles of their feet are already itchy.
"This naughty child has done a lot of naughty things. Now his parents are just taking the opportunity to teach him a lesson. How pitiful are there?"
Lin Yifan smiled unkindly.
It’s really exciting to watch the naughty child being tossed. I can’t get tired of watching it.
I don’t know if my ancestors wanted to find an opportunity to mess with these naughty kids.
"No wonder you were even worse than him when you were a child. It turned out that you were too naughty."
Lin Qiaoer suddenly realized the truth.
As soon as these words were said, Lin Yifan's smile was a little distorted.
Girl, don’t take such a way to reveal my brother’s shortness!
"I didn't see that, you were so naughty when you were a child. It seems that you will be called Pipifan in the future."
Zeng Qingwan heard this, looked at Lin Yifan for a while, and covered her mouth and said with a smile.
"The name Pipifan is great. Sister Qingwan, you are very good at naming names." Lin Qiaoer cheered.
Pipifan, the name sounds festive, and it makes her even happier when she is attached to Lin Yifan.
"Lin Qiaoer, I remember you are not eighteen years old yet. Logically, you also need to draw blessings on your feet. Do you want me to give you one?"
Lin Yifan said with a slight smile.
This naughty sister needs to teach her a lesson.
"No, I haven't washed my feet for many days, my feet are very smelly!" Lin Qiaoer hurriedly hid behind Zeng Qingwan.
In order to let Lin Yifan let her go, she was willing to be vilified.
"It doesn't matter, I don't dislike it." Lin Yifan would not believe Lin Qiaoer's nonsense and said firmly.
"Brother, please let me go. I'll pick hundreds of herbs to make sachets later. Can I make the best sachet for you?"
Lin Qiaoer quickly begged for mercy.
Since she was young, she has been blessed by Lin Yifan many times.
She didn't want to experience that numb and itchy feeling again.
"This is almost the same. Remember to do it seriously. If you don't do it well, I will still be able to draw blessings."
When Lin Yifan heard this, he nodded happily, satisfied with what Lin Qiaoer said.
Chapter completed!