What are the customs of Wenzhou Spring Festival?

The customs of the Spring Festival in Wenzhou are: offering sacrifices to stoves, dusting off new things and posting couplets.

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On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, every household should also "worship the iron pot Buddha". It is said that this day is the day when Kitchen God reports the merits and demerits of ordinary people to the Jade Emperor. It is said that the kitchen god is greedy and shuts up when he has sugar to eat. Therefore, it is inevitable to sacrifice wheat candy to the kitchen god, so that he will not speak ill of the jade emperor.

2. Shanxin

Every year around the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, following the custom of "dusting off the dust and replacing it with a new one", every household in Wenzhou city should sweep away the dust and dirt, decorate the studio with pastel murals and dry things. Every household is eager to wash away the stains deposited in their homes for one year, and prepare them clean and tidy in advance to welcome the Spring Festival.

3, paste couplets

Another common custom of the New Year is to paste couplets. As early as the Song Dynasty, pasting couplets has become a fashionable custom. In Song Dynasty, Spring Festival couplets were called Taofu. The ancients believed that peaches could catch ghosts and exorcise evil spirits. Therefore, they often set up some objects made of locust wood at the door as decorative patterns, which are called peach symbols, and then gradually evolved into peach symbols, that is, Spring Festival couplets.

Wenzhou Spring Festival gourmet

1. From the solstice of winter, every household began to bask in sauced meat. Housewives soak fresh pork in soy sauce for an hour or two. Soy sauce can be added with proper amount of monosodium glutamate, sugar and soju. Choosing sunny weather and basking in the sun for a few days will become a delicious accompaniment to the New Year's Eve dinner.

2. Fish cake is a traditional folk specialty in Wenzhou. Is it from Donghai? ? With mackerel, mackerel and other fresh marine fish as the main raw materials, with unique condiments, it is refined by traditional formula and advanced technology. Fish cake is smooth and Bai Jie in appearance, smooth and soft in entrance, fresh in taste, moderate in toughness and crispness, and it has become an indispensable wine and table food. Every New Year, there must be fish cakes on the dinner table of Wenzhou people.