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202 1 China Nantong Jianghai International Cultural Tourism Festival will open on September 29th.

China Jianghai International Cultural Tourism Festival has been held for 17 times, and it has become a well-known festival brand that integrates the cultural tourism resources of the whole city and promotes regional cultural tourism exchanges. The Cultural Tourism Festival is scheduled to be held from September to June at 5438+00, sponsored by Nantong Municipal People's Government, and undertaken by Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Propaganda Department of Nantong Municipal Committee and Nantong Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Television Tourism.

2. Nantong Cultural Festival

Nantong blue calico is the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection projects. It has a long history, rich cultural heritage, well-preserved technology, high technical level and wide social influence.

Nantong is famous for hand-woven fabrics, and the Jianghai Plain is rich in bluegrass. So many farmers have small green vats to dye cloth for later use. Nantong blue calico is famous for its green and white colors, and its characteristic technology is relatively complete with that of Tongzhou dimethyl in modern times. It is famous for its exquisite patterns and rich folk culture.

Due to the continuous innovation of many blue calico artists, modern blue calico is more exquisite, and the tourist handicrafts made with it are ingenious in design, exquisite in production and exquisite in packaging, so they are widely welcomed by all walks of life.

3. Special festivals and customs in Nantong

As a way to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, different regions have different ways to celebrate. Although the content and form are different, the meaning is the same. Everything is to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. All for a better life in the new year. This issue of Nanchang Culture will introduce you to the customs of Nanchang New Year. How do we get high locally?

During the Spring Festival, Nanchang people say: After twenty-four, celebrate the New Year every day (Nanchang dialect). Because Qin Shihuang recruited migrant workers to build the Great Wall in Wan Li, the migrant workers in Nanchang didn't go home until the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and their families called the time for their relatives to go home and reunite for the New Year. Therefore, Nanchang people celebrate the New Year on different days and at different times. The 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th are all celebrating the Spring Festival. Some celebrate the Spring Festival in the morning, and some celebrate the Spring Festival in the middle age at night. Nanchang people, of course, also include the families of Jiangxi people. Thanksgiving is not always New Year's Eve, nor is it always dinner together in the evening.

Some villages in Guangfu Township, Nanchang County have the custom of celebrating the Lunar New Year in the 26th lunar month and even having a reunion dinner in the morning. Some are at 7 o'clock in the morning and some are at 9 o'clock in the morning. Many villages in Song Kai celebrate the 29th lunar month. Generally speaking, there are really few families celebrating the 29th lunar month in Jiangxi Province. If you stay in Nanchang, you will find that firecrackers come and go every day after the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

Many urban families still keep the custom of their hometown, that is, the Spring Festival mentioned above. The specific reason is that the people of the whole province basically recognized Qin's construction of the Great Wall, took the labor force to the north to participate in the construction, and went home for the New Year in batches at the end of the year. When the man returned to his hometown, it was the time for the family to celebrate the New Year, and it was handed down. As far as I know, it seems that this kind of situation is rare in other provinces. According to the statistics of national minority distribution areas, Jiangxi is the province with the smallest minority population, and the proportion of Han nationality is as high as 99.9%. Jiangxi is also a relatively complete province of Han folk customs, such as Nuo dance of Han nationality, which is the most complete in Jiangxi. No wonder there is a book called The Last Han Nationality in China, which is about Nanfeng, Jiangxi.

What do Nanchang people eat for the New Year?

Stir-fried beef powder: the cow has strength, and the rice flour looks like the beard of the birthday girl, so it indicates good health and longevity in the coming year.

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In addition, there are batter soup, miscellaneous vegetables, chicken, duck and fish. We have to mention fish. Nanchang people will put all the fish in during the New Year, and if they win, they won't eat them. I

In rural Nanchang, it is a custom to play with bench dragons during the Lantern Festival. There are lanterns on the bench, and several men in the family put some lanterns on it. Then, they walked into the street, joined people's benches and started walking, which showed how long the dragon was. My ancestral home is in Ruozhu Village, Xiangtang Town, Nanchang County. My father-in-law told me that during the Republic of China, there was a bench dragon. There are many men in my family, so there are many benches. The king of Taiyuan wrote on a lantern that we came to the north. I think this is the so-called Hakka ancestors. I like to speak Hakka, because I think Hakka is only a branch of Jiangxi, and blood is thicker than water, whether it is a stream source or a dialect. My father-in-law told me that playing bench dragon as a child was his happiest time. At night, the dragon walks by the river, and the bench dragon is reflected in the river. Very happy.

New Year greetings: On the first day of the first month, young people greet their elders in turn, and elders lead young people to pay New Year greetings to their neighbors. The eldest son says hello to his parents, the younger generation says hello to the elders in turn, and the elders lead the younger generation to say hello to the neighbors. The second son-in-law pays a New Year call to his mother-in-law. When my daughter came back to her mother. On the third day, she will send candy cakes to her neighbors, which reflects the harmonious neighborhood relationship. Day 1: It is a very important custom to worship ancestors on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Put some red dates, candied wax gourd, peanut candy and fruit on the ancestral shrine, burn incense, worship sincerely and burn clothes with your family. After that, they began to pay New Year greetings to each other. The younger generation congratulated each other on the New Year and said hello to their elders or relatives and friends. Don't sweep the floor or take out the garbage at the beginning of the new year in Tang Dynasty. It is said that this will send away wealth. Don't say unlucky things, or you will have bad luck this year.

There is a saying in Nanchang: (Nanchang dialect) The puppy in grade one, the second son in grade two, and the old man in grade four are also dedicated to the relatives who passed away in grade three or four.

Change tea: it means change money, which means everyone has money. Authentic Nanchang dialect calls snacks and sweets given to guests during the New Year as money exchange. On New Year's Day, early in the morning, children will hang a small red cloth bag around their necks, visit their ethnic families in the New Year and ask for money exchange until the small cloth bag is full. Wrap the cake with thick wool paper and a layer of white paper, paste a piece of red paper and distribute it everywhere. Just one thing, just one thing, only form, no content. It's interesting to eat the cakes inside and replace them with stones or sand.

The last seven days are similar to last year: Nanchang people attach importance to the seventh day. On this day, they must have a big meal. Paste soup, a symbol of a better life. On this day, a grand sacrificial ceremony is usually held. Seven-dish soup is only popular in the south, and the ingredients of seven dishes vary from place to place. Only Nanchang has two practices: sweet and salty. Salty side dishes include white radish, Chinese kale, Chinese cabbage, Chinese cabbage, spring cabbage, garlic, celery and so on. And sweet edible vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, coriander, Chinese cabbage, celery, Chinese kale, etc. Fry in oil and season with sauce and sugar.

These dishes all have special meanings. Celery represents hard work, garlic represents money, spring vegetables represent vitality, and mustard represents making a fortune in the new year. Don't pour the seven vegetable soup, or the blessing will fall.

In addition, seven-dish soup is also good for your health. Everyone has big fish and big meat during the Chinese New Year, and seven dishes and one soup can relieve greasy food.

Lantern Festival: (Nanchang dialect) After the Lantern Festival, there are no lights. After the Lantern Festival, the activities for the elderly are basically over. (Nanchang dialect) The midnight fire, Lantern Festival, lanterns, lanterns and riddles on lanterns are very lively.

China New Year is a grand festival.

As soon as you enter the twelfth lunar month, it is the year. In old Nanchang, Laba was a traditional auspicious day. As the saying goes, you don't have to choose Laba on this day, you will also have good luck and live a good life. Therefore, on this day, Nanchang people not only drink Laba porridge, but also often hold Laba weddings such as betrothal, wife-in-law, and wife-in-law. It is said that Laba porridge is the masterpiece of Zhu Yuanzhang and Ming Taizu. When Zhu Yuanzhang was herding cattle in the field, he was so hungry that he dug a mouse hole and wanted to catch a mouse to satisfy his hunger. I didn't. Don't think that if I dig deep, it will be gone. I didn't see mice, but I saw rice, corn, beans and other things, so I cooked porridge with them and ate it with relish. Later, when he became emperor Zhu, he was tired of eating delicacies, and often asked the chef to put all the grains together to make porridge, named Laba porridge.

The 24th of the twelfth lunar month is a small year. On this day, the old Nanchang people will draw sugar on the oven door, which is called glue furnace tooth. If the boss wants to fire an employee, he must invite the fired employee to sit at the table for dinner that day. From this day on, Nanchang people began to formally celebrate the New Year. All walks of life began to be extremely busy, and large and small markets were extremely active. People who work in other places rush back to their hometown for reunion. Between New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve, the Chinese New Year is like this almost every day. As the saying goes, 24 years have passed and every day is a new year.

In the next few days, people will tie a dragon with lotus roots, and make gold ingots and copper coins cut from pine branches, ginkgo, gold paper, silver foil paper and red paper into cash cows and put them on the altar to worship the god of wealth. Before the ancestral memorial tablet, pigs, chickens, fish, meat, rice cakes and other sacrifices should be offered to worship the ancestors. Besides, when we meet, we should not only verbally say auspicious words, but also stick a small note cut from red paper three or four inches wide and one or two feet long in the main room, and write a children's proverb, so that everything will be forgiven, and there will be good luck from east to west and from south to north.

Green and auspicious, more than every year.

After nearly a week of busy preparations, it finally arrived on New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve, China people's enthusiasm for the Spring Festival reached its peak.

When it comes to New Year's Eve, we have to talk about the reunion dinner. New Year's Eve dinner is the most abundant meal for Nanchang people in a year. Generally, there are more than a dozen dishes, and there should be 18 dishes, each with a profound meaning. For example, fried vegetables symbolize green auspiciousness, fried rice cakes symbolize annual increase, braised whole fish means annual surplus, and fried rice noodles symbolize bumper harvest and rice bunching. Harmony, another special dish, is a unique dish in Nanchang. It is fried with shredded pork, shredded bamboo shoots, celery, bean sticks, garlic, shredded carrots, yellow flowers and shredded cuttlefish. It symbolizes harmony and wealth.

After a hearty meal, the whole family sat around the charcoal fire and stayed up late into the night. Don't underestimate charcoal fire. As the saying goes, the fire on the evening of the 30th is the Lantern Festival. This custom originated in ancient times, when the monster called Nian was driven away by fire. Later, it was more for the next year's life, in order to surpass the expectations for better. On New Year's Eve, the elders should give red envelopes to the younger generation to suppress evil spirits and let them always be on guard against ghosts. The lucky money given by Nanchang people is often even, which means, for example, the second is the yes-man, the fourth is the fortune of the four seasons, the sixth is a great success, the tenth is perfect, and the twelfth is 120 years old.

Be sure to set off firecrackers and close the door-the so-called wealth gate, collect wealth, send away the old year, and then rest the whole family. On the first day, getting up and opening the door to set off firecrackers means opening the door of wealth to welcome the New Year and start your own fortune. Once this barrier is opened, the rolling wealth will

Second, visiting relatives and friends with tea should pay attention to going home during the New Year. In other words, when visiting relatives, you should bring cakes and fruits as gifts. When the host sees him off, he will also give back cakes, fruits and so on. Time and again, it symbolizes that everyone shares wealth with their relatives and friends, so changing tea means changing money, which means everyone has money.

The last highlight is the Lantern Festival. In the old days, on the fifteenth night of the first month, various dragon dance teams would dance in the street, from the horse washing pool in Zhongzheng Street, before the official school, Wazijiao and Wanshou Palace to West Street, with loud music and a sea of people. After nightfall, colorful lights were hung in front of every household, and fireworks and firecrackers continued throughout Nanchang. On that day, Nanchang people also like to use glutinous rice flour as skin, peanuts, black sesame seeds, white sugar and winter melon sugar as stuffing, and make white, round and tender Yuanxiao fruit. That night, the whole family sat together to eat Yuanxiao, symbolizing family reunion and happiness.

Lantern Festival is over. After the fifteenth day of the first month, the Lunar New Year activities that lasted for more than one month ended.

4. Unique festivals in Nantong

China Nantong International Kite Festival

Nantong is one of the four major kite producing areas in China. Kite making has a long history and has made great progress since 1990s. It also held the Nantong International Kite Festival in China.

Basic information

Chinese name: Nantong International Kite Festival, China; Cultural Festival; Festival time: March 23-March 25; Hot spots in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province.

5. Nantong Spring Festival Folk Custom

Nantong's Spring Festival custom Nantong people have the custom of inserting sesame stalks, holly and cypress branches at home or in front of the hall during the Spring Festival, which means that life is full of flowers all year round and green is beautiful. 1. Try your luck, win the lottery, and look forward to the coming year (on New Year's Eve, you will worship your ancestors, keep old, celebrate the New Year's Eve, and so on. Eat a sweet soup when you are old, also called Fushou soup. This soup is made of red dates, lotus seeds, water chestnuts and so on. It means increasing happiness and longevity. From the very beginning, it is a tradition of people in central Jiangsu not to eat jiaozi, but to eat Yuanbao eggs (that is, tea eggs). When the guests come, be sure to eat one. In addition, a bowl of sugar water and a pistachio ball (steamed glutinous rice flour, dried and rolled into balls) should be served to the guests to show sweetness and joy. A busy year begins on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. Fried radish balls and tofu balls, made rice cakes and steamed buns, and prepared various dishes. I was busy until New Year's Eve. Fish is a necessity for every family. At night, two crucian carp and two silver carp will be cooked. Put the cooked fish on the box at home and eat it after the Lunar New Year (Lantern Festival). In addition, each family should buy at least 8 live crucian carp to raise, which means there are fish (surplus) every year. At noon on New Year's Eve, every household should clean the doors and windows and put up Spring Festival couplets. Then they worship their ancestors, set off firecrackers, have a New Year's Eve dinner, and have jiaozi. Every township has a dragon lantern (during the Chinese New Year, every township has the custom of running a dragon lantern. Lishui is the hometown of Nanjing Dragon Lantern. According to custom, there are no dragon lanterns on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, only on the eighth day of the eighth lunar month. )

6. Nantong traditional festivals

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7. Introduction of Nantong Special Festivals

Hello, Nantong Nanshan Lake Music Fountain is generally open every Saturday or other traditional festivals.

: The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. As for gifts from relatives, according to local customs, in Hunan, grams should be given.

1. Try your luck, win the lottery, and look forward to the coming year (on New Year's Eve, you will worship your ancestors, keep old, celebrate the New Year's Eve, and so on. Eat a sweet soup when you are old, also called Fushou soup. This soup is made of red dates, lotus seeds, water chestnuts and so on. It means increasing happiness and longevity. From the very beginning, it is a tradition of people in central Jiangsu not to eat jiaozi, but to eat Yuanbao eggs (that is, tea eggs). When the guests come, be sure to eat one. In addition, a bowl of sugar water and a pistachio ball (steamed glutinous rice flour, dried and rolled into balls) should be served to the guests to show sweetness and joy. )

2. The busy year begins on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month (the busy year begins on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month). Fried radish balls and tofu balls, made rice cakes and steamed buns, and prepared various dishes. I was busy until New Year's Eve. Fish is a necessity for every family. At night, two crucian carp and two silver carp will be cooked. Put the cooked fish on the box at home and eat it after the Lunar New Year (Lantern Festival). In addition, each family should buy at least 8 live crucian carp to raise, which means there are fish (surplus) every year. At noon on New Year's Eve, every household should clean the doors and windows and put up Spring Festival couplets. Then they worship their ancestors, set off firecrackers, have a New Year's Eve dinner, and have jiaozi. )

Every township has a dragon lantern (during the Chinese New Year, every township has the custom of running a dragon lantern. Lishui is the hometown of Nanjing Dragon Lantern. According to custom, there are no dragon lanterns on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, only on the eighth day of the eighth lunar month. )

8. Nantong Dragon Boat Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival Customs in China and Jiangsu

Mid-Autumn Festival refers to the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, which is a traditional festival in China. People will choose to reunite with their families and share their family happiness. In order to celebrate this festival, there are customs all over the world. People will put incense tables, pray for peace, eat moon cakes and pray for reunion. So, how did Jiangsu celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Jiangsu Mid-Autumn Festival custom

Nanjing:

In the old Mid-Autumn Festival in Nanjing, we usually ate moon cakes, grapes, pomegranates, persimmons, pears, fragrant lotus roots, cooked water chestnuts, taro, chestnuts and osmanthus ducks, and drank to amuse ourselves. That night, the whole family got together to eat and drink.

After dinner, Nanjing people put boxes in the yard, on the terrace or on the open space in front of the door, put moon cakes and fresh fruits, and light incense sticks (tied like pagodas or pavilions, cut into the shape of the moon palace, pasted with ribbons, and added paper barrels) to worship the moon god. Maybe E is often shy and afraid to meet men, or the traditional concept is that the moon is the moon and women are always the moon, so there used to be a proverb that men don't Yue Bai T;

Women The night market in America is called a moonwalk, commonly known as dancing on the moon. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, Nanjing women's association will walk up and down the street in groups of three or five, paying homage to relatives and friends, enjoying the moon and flowers, and coming and going to show the full moon until the end of the night. Some people use the moon to tryst, talk to their sweethearts, get together, ask the moon to send love and express their yearning for a better future.

The old customs of Nanjing women touch autumn. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, they secretly went to the orchard to get fruits and pumpkins, indicating that they could have boys, while lentils indicated that they could have girls. Young ladies of unmarried women, in groups of three or five, went to the orchard to find fruits and vegetables and talked about whether they could find husbands.

Suzhou

On the Mid-Autumn Festival night in Suzhou, besides family reunion, enjoying the moon and eating moon cakes, there was a custom of burning incense in the old society. When the moon rises, every household puts a table in the courtyard, presents moon cakes, lotus roots, watermelons, ginkgo, persimmons, pomegranates and other fruits, lights incense and comes to Ramadan Palace.

People in Suzhou eat moon cakes, which contain broken plums, nuts, roses and sesame seeds.

Crossing three bridges is a girl's game, that is, from stepping out of the house to going home, you can only cross three bridges, so don't repeat it. Sisters meet and compete to see who gets home first. Touching autumn means exploring a child. A woman who has never been pregnant after marriage touched a melon in the field on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival. Touch the pumpkin, homophonic male, meaning boy; Picking lentils is to get girls; If you pick white lentils, it means that you will grow old together and your children will have a happy marriage in the future.

Suqian:

Mid-Autumn Festival is considered as a day for family reunion, also known as the Reunion Festival. In Yue Bai, it is a custom to enjoy the moon after dinner and eat moon cakes, water chestnut, pomegranate and persimmon. On August 16, every family will go to the in-laws' house to pick up their married daughters for reunion.

Nantong:

People also call Mid-Autumn Festival August and a half. They eat moon cakes, kill ducks, steam taro, eat beans, have a family reunion dinner, and invite nuns to perform Woodenhead children's play (Muppets) in Yue Bai. It is worth mentioning that Nantong people have different feelings about killing ducks. After Yuan soldiers occupied Tongzhou, they committed the heinous crime of massacre, which lasted for three days and three nights. Later, the people of Nantong remembered the history of blood and tears that were slaughtered, so they met on Tanabata, sharpened their swords and killed Tartars on the Mid-Autumn Festival. When the Mongols saw every family sharpening their knives, they asked, What are they doing? Residents say that killing ducks is actually killing Tatars. In the evening, the common people took collective action and killed all the Yuan soldiers in the city, and got a great revenge. Therefore, every household in Nantong eats ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival, which has become a custom over time. Therefore, Tongzhou people have the custom of eating ducks every Mid-Autumn Festival.

Huaian:

People also have the custom of killing ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that people banded together to kill Tatars. However, there are more elements in the explanation: later, a group of cunning Tatars were cornered and ran into the water to become ducks and hid. Everyone jumped into the river and killed the duck. In addition, there are customs of drinking osmanthus wine and eating Osmanthus Jelly, and the Mid-Autumn Festival custom on board is the most exquisite. In addition to offering sacrifices to cocks, carp and pig heads, it is also necessary to burn incense and kowtow, which is called hanging red with the blood of cocks flowing down from the breakwater at the bow.

Yancheng:

There are many customs in Mid-Autumn Festival: Yue Bai, making cakes, setting off fireworks and burning incense. In this Mid-Autumn Festival, Yancheng people have the habit of eating old duck soup and cakes, usually small broken rice cakes (commonly known as rice cakes), wheat flour cakes, sesame sugar cakes and so on. In Yancheng, before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a custom of giving gifts to prospective parents by engaged but unmarried son-in-law, also called chasing festivals. Two ducks are an essential gift. If my parents-in-law have collected all the ducks, it means that they don't I don't agree to marry their daughter this year. If they return one, it means that they agree to marry their daughter this year.

Xuzhou:

In ancient times, every family steamed moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Nowadays, this custom is rare. Steamed moon cakes have long given way to beautifully packaged commercial moon cakes, but you can still eat them. Don't try moon cakes made of sugar and sesame. In Xuzhou, in ancient times, there were also Yue Bai customs, such as dragon dancing and playing with lanterns. Now these customs have been replaced by setting off firecrackers.

Jiangyin:

Mid-Autumn Festival has a set of customs and rules. I learned a lot of details from folk experts: I want to eat sugar taro in the morning and put brown sugar osmanthus, which is sweet and slippery and delicious. At noon, a wedding banquet will be held at the reunion festival to show my thoughts for my ancestors. When providing happy wine is a sacrifice, there is only one nine-plate table, five vegetarian dishes and four-color fruits, and several glasses of sake. There is no food and no tin foil. main points