Exercise Material Card on Folkways and Customs

A hundred miles of different winds, a thousand miles of different customs.

When we talk about Tujia people, we are bound to think of mochi. Patty cake is a necessary food used by Tujia people to pay homage or eat on New Year's Day, which is the inheritance of Tujia culture and civilization, and is a fine product of Tujia food. There is a saying: "On the 28th day of the Lunar New Year, we make mochi and pour wax on it, and kill a small New Year's pig". Therefore, every family is busy making patties on this day.

In fact, it's not easy to make mochi, but it's the sweat of the year. First of all, the glutinous rice is repeatedly washed with water, then soaked and steamed, then scooped into the pestle and mortar, and then smashed by the men with a stick until it is cooked, then fished out on the table, kneaded by the master and divided into evenly rounded piles, and then sent to the people who participated in the making of mochi, and then each of them kneaded and rubbed and pressed with both hands and carefully crafted into.

The practice of patty cake is not only from Henan to Hunan - difficult on difficult, patty cake pattern is still a lot of patterns.

Some people print a fish on the mochi, which means that people have more money every year; some then point on the mochi with four dots, which means that people have four seasons to be rich; some print five five-pointed stars on the mochi, which means that people love the motherland ......

The mochi is not only in a wide range of styles, but also in an eclectic range of shapes. The round shape represents the family reunion, never separated; the square one represents the Tujia people square, straight and cool.

Different shapes mean different things, and different colors mean different things.

White represents a person's purity; red represents the Tujia people's days are red-hot; green and white represent the Tujia people's innocence ......

In the past, patty cake was even more indispensable to the Tujia people to pay homage to the New Year's Day, as the saying goes, "pay homage to the New Year, poop on the front," because patty cake is the best way to pay homage to the New Year, because it is the most important thing for the Tujia people to pay homage to the New Year. "Because mochi is a symbol of reunion, success, Yuanbao, etc., said the host family's congratulations and Chaohe, no mochi, and then heavy gifts seem to be not enough weight, not respect.

Tujia mochi and the Tujia people New Year's Eve is how inseparable. Tujia mochi is a symbol of Tujia people's unity, civilization, friendship and harmony, may it be passed down from generation to generation with other Tujia culture, and flourish, may the Tujia mochi give good wishes to the general people, may the people take advantage of the reform of the spring breeze, the fragrance of mochi to the five lakes and all over the world, and I wish that the fragrance of the mochi in the motherland's spring breeze drifts more and more countryside ... ...