Folk customs in Puyuan town
Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival. It is on the 15th day of the first lunar month, and it was called Shangyuan Festival in ancient times. IHD has the custom of welcoming dragon lanterns, racing dragon boats and eating jiaozi. The New Year ends at the Lantern Festival.
On the second day of the second lunar month, people have the habit of eating radish cakes (rice cakes). Children compete to fly kites, and people in the village raise money to reward the gods (land gods) for fun.
On the third day of the third lunar month, women pick wild vegetables and insert them. Some people say that summer is not dizzy. On March 3rd, a blessing ceremony was held in the Xin Chou Room (1720- 172 1) of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, thousands of dollars were wasted, and men and women got together for entertainment.
On April 5, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Tomb-Sweeping Day were called Qingming Night the day before, eating snails and lions and throwing empty shells on tiles, which made them famous in one fell swoop. Tomb-Sweeping Day eats Qingming jiaozi and sends friends and relatives to each other. Ten days before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, every family offered sacrifices to their ancestors.
Long Summer In the summer of May 6th, everyone in the family ate hemp balls. It is said that mosquito bites can be avoided. There is also roasted wild rice, which is made of bricks in the open air (preferably under a tree, aiming at the bird's nest). Is prepared from white rice, bamboo shoots, new broad beans and meat. Legend has it that it is not summer after eating.
On the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, we eat brown seeds and male soybeans. Acorus calamus and Artemisia argyi are hanging in front of the door. Write the word "Wang" on the child's forehead with realgar, and put on the five poison clothes to drive away evil spirits.
June 19 19 in the lunar calendar is said to be Guanyin Daoism Day. People in the village have the custom of burning incense, buying fish and shrimp and releasing them.
According to legend, on the evening of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, there is a saying that the cowherd and the weaver girl meet at the magpie bridge. This night, you can watch the phase shift of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in Tianhe, which makes people in the village feel that it is a kind of enjoyment. Girls used to learn sewing and seek skills. On the night of Qixi, I put the small embroidered shoes made in advance on the edge of the toilet and murmured, "The goddess in the pit is a one-legged fairy. Teach my girl to sew well." There are melons and fruits hanging in front of the courtyard. If there are spiders around at night, it is called "coincidence". And impatiens washed into juice and dyed nails. It is said that dyeing will "dye quickly" on July 7th.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is usually called the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month. In the past, the souls of the dead were sacrificed from 12 to 16. On the 30th day of the seventh lunar month in China, it is said that the Tibetan King and Bodhisattva were born. That night, every household put incense sticks in the ground, which means inserting candles; Mix sawdust and oil and light it on the tile, which will smell good every day; Stacking bricks into a tower and lighting incense on it is called a lighthouse; Put a paper lamp into the water, and what floats with it is called a drain lamp. There are still a few people who put candles on the ground on that day.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is called the Mid-Autumn Festival because the moon is round on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Eat moon cakes, pumpkins and pumpkin seeds every day. Watching the moon in the middle of the night, there was a moon-watching party in Dongyue Temple in the old days.
The Double Ninth Festival is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. People like to eat red beans and glutinous rice, while scholars like to enjoy chrysanthemums, drink wine and recite poems.
Winter solstice 65438+February 12 The day before the winter solstice festival is called the winter solstice night, and the dead are sacrificed with food, wine and paper ingots. On the solstice of winter, there is a proverb that you can make up for what you eat.
Sending stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is commonly known as Lunar New Year's Eve. Start sweeping the house dust and prepare for the new year's goods; Burn red beans and glutinous rice to worship the kitchen god, and send a paper sedan chair made of red paper to the kitchen god; The branches of holly and cypress are wrapped around hemp stalks, which is called "increasing day by day"; Put maltose on the "mouth" of Kitchen God, and let Kitchen God speak for the world.
New Year's Eve is the last day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as New Year's Eve. Sacrificing chickens, fish, meat and rice cakes to the gods is called "celebrating the New Year in the land". Heat up the reunion dinner. This is called staying up late. After dinner, elders give young children lucky money. That night, the shells were thrown all over the floor without sweeping. Since the Southern Song Dynasty, the people in Puyuan Town have made a living by raising silkworms and weaving silk, and are diligent in sewing machines, so there is a custom of raising silkworms.
In the first month, a long bamboo pole was used to worship Chai Tian, and rice and firewood were tied on all sides, and they stood in fields or open spaces, and a shed was built with reeds. In the shed, Tian Zu and the god of silkworm flowers are worshipped. In the evening, witches will sing, set off firecrackers and put flower tubes, and then send fire to the gods, wishing Tian silkworm a bumper harvest in the coming year. It's also fun. Silkworm rearing is closely related to the development of silk. On the twelfth silkworm birthday of the twelfth lunar month, the old silkworm empress (spring silkworm peasant woman) often takes rice flour as a cocoon round sacrifice furnace, which is called silkworm round play. There is a song day: "The golden platinum pigeon has round eggs, and the soup is boiling in a small pot. This year's birthday powder. "
Silkworm is big, and there will be 100 thousand in the mountains next year. "Now the stove is no longer worshipped, but some words that are taboo when raising silkworms are very particular. For example, bamboo shoots are not called bamboo shoots, silkworms are called "damage", eating ginger is not called ginger, and silkworms are called "stiff". Avoid saying the word "tea" because "tea" and "snake" are homonyms (Puyuan dialect).
"Crispy mutton noodles" is a traditional diet in Puyuan town, which is sold in all food restaurants in winter and spring. Mutton is selected from the "Flower Goat" born that year (mutton is tender, with low smell, goat is the best, followed by Hu goat). Slaughter, remove hair (without peeling), clean, cut into small pieces, each piece is about 4 ounces, stacked in a large pot, each pot is about 80 pieces, with PJ, soy sauce, sugar, Shaoxing wine, ginger and red dates. Noodles were made of fine water (as thick as thread) shaken by the noodle-making workshop in the town that day. People can take it out in a large pot of boiling water (commonly known as healthy noodles), put it in a big bowl full of mutton soup, cover it with a piece of crispy mutton (you can choose it yourself if you like to be fat or thin), and sprinkle some onions, garlic or Chili powder at will to eat. The mutton is crisp, tender and smooth, with rich flavor, the noodles are soft and elastic, the soup is thick and shiny, and the color and flavor are good.