Loudi Shuangfeng Spring Festival Folk Custom

The most important thing in Chinese New Year is eating. A lot of delicious food should be prepared before the Chinese New Year, because it is too complicated to make, and it is often only cooked during the Chinese New Year.

First of all, hard vegetables, killing pigs, sheep and cattle, and fishing in dry ponds, so I won't go into details here.

Every new year, every household will soak beans, make tofu, fry oil tofu and make an altar of tofu. "On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, push the mill to make tofu." Tofu is often cooked by several people in the village, because tofu is the best. People who want to make tofu can bring beans and pay a nominal fee. Firewood was burning in the big stove, and boiling soybean milk was rolling in the iron pot. Take out a ladle and add some sugar, which is delicious soybean milk. Add some talcum powder to soybean milk and let it stand for a while, and it will become soft bean curd. People in Loudi eat tofu brain, which has sugar and sweetness. Pour the bean curd brain into gauze to filter water, put it into a grinding tool and press it for a while, which is the bean curd block.

Many handmade sweet potato vermicelli will be made before the Chinese New Year, because Loudi people eat mixed vegetables (fried vegetables such as bamboo shoots and carrots) during the Chinese New Year, which means harmony and beauty in the coming year.

Set up a pot of oil, stir-fry pork, people who are not afraid of trouble, but also make yellow fried oil (glutinous rice mixed with eggs, oil residue, dried tangerine peel and so on. , and fry into small balls, which can be eaten after frying, and can be used as a cold snack or steamed hot heart during the Spring Festival)

We don't pay so much attention to the New Year's Eve dinner at noon in the morning. Now there are many only children, so we have to catch up with several New Year's Eve dinners, one for our in-laws and one for our parents. You can receive lucky money after dinner.

There is a sequence of New Year greetings, the so-called "eldest son, second son, third grade, fourth grade." This means that on the first day, the son pays a New Year call to his parents. The next day, the son-in-law paid a New Year call to his mother-in-law; From grade three to grade four, you can walk around. Generally speaking, it is very important for a new son-in-law to pay New Year greetings to his mother-in-law in the first year. He should bring generous gifts and give dividends to her relatives and friends, otherwise he will be laughed at by others.