Linhai folk-custom composition
Linhai has a long history, beautiful scenery and outstanding people. In the strong historical and humanistic atmosphere, Linhai has different living customs from other places.
The most special place of the Lantern Festival in Linhai is the custom of drinking bad soup on the fourteenth night of the first month of each year, that is, every household eats bad soup. The method of bad soup is to fry shredded pork, winter bamboo shoots, taro, mushrooms, fungus, shrimp skin, dried bean curd, oil bubble, bean curd, Sichuan bean board, mustard and the like in a pot, then adjust water with rice noodles, boil and make a paste. It's delicious.
It's cold at this time, and you can eat it for a week by stirring several pots at a time. When eating again, you can eat it with a little heating, which is very convenient. As coastal people, everyone likes to eat.
You must be curious to ask why there is such a custom There are several versions of the customs handed down by our ancestors.
One way of saying this is:
"Linhai County Records" all said: "It is said that when the city was built in the Tang Dynasty, it was freezing in the cold, and it became a much-told story.
In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Taizhou (Linhai) was often burned and looted by pirates. Wei Chiliang, the secretariat at that time, mobilized soldiers to build a city to guard against theft. The construction started on the 14th day of the first month, and the Lantern Festival was celebrated as usual. Pirates took the opportunity to land in Taizhou Bay. When Wei Chi, the secretariat, learned of it, he sent troops to suppress thieves and stepped up the construction of the city. That night, the construction of the destroyer city Xuefeng did not progress quickly. People get together to discuss which night to burn to comfort the soldiers who built the city. Some people say that sending food and wine can keep out the cold. The history of commanders stipulates that soldiers are not allowed to drink alcohol. Another man came up with a good idea: use new wine with bad taste as water, mix good food with powder and stir it into bad soup, which is delicious and keeps out the cold. Sure enough, the soldiers drank the bad soup, were all hot, were not afraid of the cold, worked harder and made great progress.