Spring Festival Customs in Fengjie

The Spring Festival in Fengjie has the following customs:

1, playing the dust

Playing the dust is the end of the year cleaning, every Spring Festival, Fengjie households have to clean up. According to Fengjie folk saying: because the "dust" and "Chen" homophonic, the Spring Festival dust sweeping "in addition to the meaning of Chen Bu Xin", the intention is to put all the "poor luck! "and" bad luck "all sweep out the door. This custom is the desire of the people to break the old and make the new and the prayer of the old and welcome the new.

2. Killing a New Year's Pig

"I don't care if I have money or not, I'll kill a fat pig first to celebrate the New Year." Killing a New Year's pig is a "must" for Fengjie people to celebrate the New Year. Before the New Year, Fengjie people will slaughter a pig, invite relatives and friends to eat a lively meal to kill the pig, friends and relatives sitting around the table to share the joy of sumptuous food, "big piece of meat, big bowl of wine," bringing not only the flavor of the year in full swing, but also implies a bumper harvest in the coming year.

3, smoked bacon

Smoked bacon is Fengjie people's most lively and exciting highlights of the waxing moon. People will take out the fresh meat after a few days of curing, and then smoked with cypress incense sticks, the meat will become oily yellow color, bright, fragrant. Smoked bacon can be preserved for a long time without deteriorating, and is a good product for entertaining guests.

4, sausage

Irrigation of sausage is Fengjie people to prepare the New Year's delicious must-do questions, compared to bacon sausage is easier to carry, to do the dishes are also more convenient, and even just clean, in the cooking on the rice, and so the rice is cooked, take out a little everything, without oil and salt, is already a fragrant food.

5, eat planed pig soup

Eat planed pig soup charm, not in the taste, but in the atmosphere; eat planed soup addiction, not in the drinking and eating meat, but in the dynamic and lively; eat planed soup food, lies in the natural flavor. The more guests eat the soup, the more lively the atmosphere, the happier the host. The more guests eat the soup, the more lively the atmosphere, the happier the host.

6, grinding soup dumplings noodles

Soup dumplings are one of the essential food for Fengjie people on New Year's Day, every family will do a lot of soup dumplings on New Year's Day, which symbolizes reunion and sweetness. The nutrition of the dumplings is very rich, and the flavor is very sweet. When I was a child, my parents would pack some coins inside the dumplings, and whoever ate the coins would be lucky!

Extended information:

Fengjie's specialties:

1, Fengjie navel oranges

Fengjie Navel Oranges for the specialties of Fengjie County in Chongqing, China's geographical indications. The product is a specialty of Fengjie County, Chongqing, and a Geographical Indication of China. The navel orange skin is medium-thick, brittle and easy to peel, and the flesh is tender. in March 2014, it was recognized by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce as a well-known trademark of China.?

2, Fengjie Tinglai kimchi

Fengjie Tinglai kimchi adopts low-temperature plasma sterilization, sealing hair intoxication and sealing salt routing technology, which maintains the nutritional composition of the dish, and has won the honors of famous-brand products of China International Agricultural Exposition and Gold Medal of China International Food Exposition.

3, Fengjie Kui Pomelo

Fengjie Kui Pomelo shape is larger, the fruit color yellowish, thin skin. 1998 by the Chongqing Municipal Government as the "top ten famous pomelo".

4, Fengjie Taoji Ziyang Chicken

Fengjie Taoji Ziyang Chicken is pure green natural food, in October 2004, Chongqing Food Festival, "Ziyang Chicken" soup pot was named "China's Famous Hot Pot Banquet", "Ziyang Chicken", "Ziyang Chicken", "Ziyang Chicken", "Ziyang Chicken", "Ziyang Chicken", "Ziyang Chicken" and "Ziyang Chicken" are all natural food. The flavor of "Ziyang Chicken" soup pot has savory, wax flavor and clear soup flavor, also known as Ziyang Chicken, high mountain chicken, high mountain bacon.