What are the specialties in Xiaogan, Hubei?

Linshen brand rice wine

Sesame sugar, rice wine, cauliflower, shrimp paste, lotus root starch, fish noodles.

Rice wine and sesame sugar must be clubs. Native products also include peanuts. Before the liberation of Chestnut, the wind of folk sacrifice was quite prosperous. There were shrines, ancestral temples and temples everywhere. On holidays, worship ancestors and Buddha, or seek good luck, or seek more happiness and longevity. After liberation, there were fewer and fewer worshippers, and in the sixties and seventies, they basically disappeared. In the 1980s, sacrificial activities began to appear in rural areas.

Most ancestors and their surnames live in this county. Before liberation, there were many ancestral temples in Daxing, which were dedicated to the ancestors of this clan (that is, the names of ancestors). There are two solar terms in the first frost of Qingming Festival, and families get together to offer sacrifices.

In addition, there is a shrine in the hall of every household, which is dedicated to "the founder Zhao Mu" or "the king of heaven and earth", commonly known as "Xiang". On holidays, we must fast and sacrifice with fragrant paper. With the Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival is even more grand. At the end of the twelfth lunar month, the shrine is cleaned and sacrificial vessels are displayed. The sacrificial vessels are exquisite and the sacrificial products are rich. The main sacrifice bathes and changes clothes, burns incense and paper, kowtows and bows, and is solemn and pious. After liberation, the wind of gathering sacrifices in ancestral temples has disappeared, and the phenomenon of ancestor worship has faded. After the 1950s, various schools replaced "Zhao Muzu" with a portrait of President Mao Zedong. After 1970s, some families hung various "main hall paintings".

Before liberation, many people believed in God. As soon as something happens, they pray to God to worship Buddha, make money, eliminate diseases and disasters, and even have children. There are large and small temples, such as Earth Temple, God of Wealth Temple, Fire Temple, Longwang Temple, Guandi Temple, Kannonji, Niangniang Temple, City God Temple and so on. To raise livestock, we should worship the land bodhisattva and pray for "the prosperity of six livestock" Merchants should put the god of wealth and ancestors together and sacrifice in the morning and evening; If you have children, you should pray for the empress and bodhisattva.

Taboos There are many folk taboos in this county, which are common in production and life, mostly for making money. For example, in the Spring Festival or festive days, avoid saying unlucky words and use unlucky words. Such as "killing", "death", "ghost" and "dream". Some words should be replaced by homophonic characters or pictographs, indicating good luck. If the egg is called "Yuanbao", because the local dialect "chicken", "sin" and "egg" are homophonic, "Yuanbao" means "gold and silver" and "treasure"; Call "tongue" as "earning" because "tongue" and "credit" are homophonic, meaning "making money". Call "snake" a "long worm" to avoid the homonym of "snake" and "credit", and "long" means "long"; Calling "Shu Qiu Zi" a "big firewood" means "getting rich". It is auspicious to call the longevity vessel a coffin, because it is homophonic with Guan, Cai and Cai, and the longevity vessel is homophonic with Shou and Qi, so it is unlucky to call it a "Russian". There are many such words.

After the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, elders should wipe their children's mouths with a broom (or thick paper), calling it "shit mouth doesn't work", or stick "children don't avoid words" and "everything is exempt from sin" on the wall of the hall to offset their unlucky words.

There are also taboos about "choosing a day", such as "breaking ground" (mostly referring to building a foundation stone), happiness and sorrow (marriage, funeral), going out and so on. There are many days to choose a spouse, and the days to choose "eight" are the most.

Taboos are mostly related to feudal superstitions and have no scientific basis. It is forbidden for couples to stay in their father-in-law's house; Women are forbidden to enter the delivery room during menstruation or when there are metal objects in their pockets; Maternal women should avoid visiting neighbors' homes (that is, blood rushing to the gods); Men and women who are filial to their parents before the "first seven" are forbidden to enter other people's homes; Pregnant women should avoid seeing the groom pay homage to the bride and pick melons and fruits; Women's clothes and trousers should not be dried in places where people pass by; Businessmen taboo women cross the pole; Avoid using sugar for gifts at the end of the year; If a person dies in a different place, the body or coffin should not enter the home; During the funeral, after the coffin is carried out of the house, the funeral sent by relatives and friends should not be brought into the house; Children named, avoid the same words as their predecessors; Children should avoid going out to visit relatives in the afternoon; Avoid visiting patients in the afternoon; When parents are alive, avoid drinking after meals, which is considered as "offensive", and avoid owls singing in front of and behind the house (called crying birds, called running-in); In the afternoon, magpies should not crow in front of and behind the house. There is a saying that "early call to send happiness, late call to report sorrow".

After liberation, the cultural level of the masses has been continuously improved, scientific knowledge has been gradually popularized, superstitious ideas have been gradually eliminated, and taboos have been reduced.