When is the Tang Tang Beef Festival?

Tang Tang Beef Festival is the first first frost among the 24 solar terms. There is a proverb in No.49, Tang Tang Zhen, Fogang County that "the first frost is full of red fields, which is the best time to eat cattle". On this day, the villagers here have the custom of eating beef to pray for getting rid of diseases. This custom has gradually evolved into a "beef festival" in recent years, attracting a large number of tourists.

The custom of forty-nine people eating beef in the first frost originated from a touching legend. In ancient times, 49 people were rich in water and grass, so many 49 villagers always had the habit of raising cattle, and cattle trafficking flourished.

According to legend, in the Ming Dynasty, there was a family in Tangling Village, Jiu Si, with a husband, Huang Song, and a wife, Lian Deng. They have two children and a daughter, five-tenths of dry land, an acre of rice fields and a buffalo. They live on cultivated land, and a family of five lives a half-starved life.

One year, his wife, Lian Deng, was unwell, vomiting and diarrhea, and she still didn't get better after seeking medical treatment everywhere. At the same time, more than 0 villagers in the whole village 10 were infected with strange diseases one after another.

On the day of the first frost, the buffalo at home suddenly came to Huang Song with tears in his eyes, bowed down to the ground three times, and then left his master.

In order to treat his wife, the whole family was hungry and cold during the first frost. Huang Song thought of the villagers who had the same experience as his family, so he asked several villagers to kill the buffalo and distributed beef and beef bones to the sick villagers' homes. The villagers made beef and beef bones into delicious food for sick families.

Miraculously, the sick villagers not only recovered after eating beef, but also gradually recovered.

Since then, the matter has been widely circulated. In the first first frost season, cattle dealers began to kill cattle to sell meat, and everyone rushed to buy beef to eat.