From food, clothing, housing and transportation to talk about the culture of inheritance (2)

The last article talked about clothing, food, housing and transportation in the clothing, the next to talk about "food". There is an old saying in China that "food is the only thing that matters to the people."

"Food" cannot be simply interpreted as "eating", but this interpretation only shows the original meaning of the word "food", which is "food". This interpretation only points out the original meaning of "food", i.e. "eating", and ignores the natural attributes of "food" in people's daily food, clothing, housing and transportation, i.e. "food" is not only for "eating", but also for "eating", i.e. "food" is not only for "eating", but also for "eating". "

In the case of China, it is not just about eating, it is also about drinking.

In China,

the so-called "rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, rely on the water to eat water". "One side of the water and soil to raise people", talking about adaptation. China is a vast country with many different natural conditions. The 56 ethnic groups living in China, in different natural environments, each formed a rich and distinctive dietary practices.

So here, we can only take the traditional festivals and the twenty-four seasons of the dietary practices, a brief introduction to the "food". As for drinking water, the "tea culture" is also essential to talk about.

The Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is the most important and grandest of all Chinese traditional festivals, and has a history of more than 4000 years. During the Spring Festival, all ethnic groups hold various celebrations. These activities are mainly to worship the ancestral gods, pay homage to ancestors, get rid of the old and bring in the new, welcome the good fortune, and pray for a good year.

Small New Year

The Spring Festival is usually celebrated on the day of the Small New Year, which is the traditional day of the Han Chinese festival, and families begin to slowly prepare for the most important festival of the year. It is known as the "Little New Year" and signifies the end of the year and the beginning of a new one. It is celebrated on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year every year.

There is a folk song "23, sugar melon sticky", which refers to the New Year's Eve sweeping and sacrificial stove to eat stove sugar on this day. Zao sugar is a kind of sticky maltose. It is drawn as a long sugar stick called "Guandong sugar", pulled into a flat round type is called "sugar melon".

In winter, put it outside the house, because of the cold weather, the sugar melon solidified solid and some tiny bubbles inside, eat up crispy and sweet crisp, unique flavor. Eat stove sugar is one of the customs of the Han Chinese folk for the festive Spring Festival kicked off. It's a way of saying good things in heaven and keeping peace in the next world.

(Wang Hongli painted "eat Zao sugar")

(the above picture in turn Guandong sugar melon)

New Year's Eve

Every year, the evening of the last day of the month of Lunar New Year, the last day of the lunar year, known as the "New Year's Eve", the last day of the lunar year. "New Year's Eve", commonly known as Lunar New Year's Eve. It is the day when people say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. On this day, the family cleaned up outside the home, and then the whole family sat together to eat a New Year's Eve dinner, people often sleepless all night countdown to the whole clock to keep the New Year's Eve. The new year's Eve is also a time of great joy for all of us," he said.

New Year's Eve dinner, a sumptuous table. It symbolizes the happiness of the whole family. China is a vast country, and customs vary from region to region. But no matter what the custom is, it's all about good luck. In order to get a lucky mouth.

For example, eating fish heralds the "yearly surplus"; "eating hot pot symbolizes" red-hot "and eating dumplings means" rolling wealth "; Eating wontons to take the meaning of the beginning of the year; eating rice cakes indicate that "a year higher than a year". And so on.

Even snacks and snacks have a variety of sayings. Eat jujube (spring early), eat persimmons (things as expected), eat almonds (happiness), eat tofu (the whole family), eat three fresh vegetables (Sanyang Kaitai), eat peanuts (longevity).

(Fish, taking its harmony, means "Yearly surplus".)

(Dumplings, shaped like a silver dollar, are served in pots to symbolize the "New Year's fortune, Yuanbao rolling in").

(Hundun, taking the meaning of the beginning. Legend has it that Pangu's opened up the sky and the earth, so that "the light and clear upward floating gas for the sky, the heavy and turbid downward condensation of the gas for the earth", the end of the chaotic state, there is a universe in all directions.)

Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, and is also known as the Shangyuan Festival. As early as 2000 years ago in the Qin Dynasty. The main folk custom is to eat the Lantern Festival, lanterns, riddles. To the Qing Dynasty, and added a dragon dance, lion dance, running boats, stilts, twisting rice-planting songs and other "hundred theater" content.

Eating Lantern Festival, the Song Dynasty era was quite popular, but not called Lantern Festival and called "floating round son", and later called Lantern Festival. In the north and south, the name is different, the practice is also two different.

The north is called Lantern, the first filling to do a good job of freezing up and cut into large dice block, the basket with a large strainer held to a dip in the water, placed in a large sieve with glutinous rice flour, shake, and so the filling is full of glutinous rice flour, poured in the strainer with water and then shaking, and then three or two times, the advantages of this Lantern is eaten in the mouth, not cracked sinewy, defects are coarse filling powder roughness, because of the soft powder cause, cooked out of the soup is a little bit of paste.

The South called dumplings, first rolled out the skin, put on the filling and then wrapped up and rolled round, the filling is exquisite slippery incense, glutinous rice flour is also ground smooth and fine,

So the North is called shaking the Lanterns, the South is called wrapping the Lanterns, and the reason is here. The Northern Lantern is only a sweet one, the Southern Lantern is sweet and salty with a full range of vegetables and meat.

(Southern package of Lanterns, the northern shake Lanterns.)

(Illustration of the difference between the northern and southern lanterns @ Momo207)

Ching Ming Festival

Ching Ming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, is celebrated at the intersection of mid-spring and late-spring, on the 108th day after the winter solstice. It is a day for ancestor worship and grave sweeping. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Han Chinese people began around the Zhou Dynasty, more than 2,500 years ago.

Qingming was first the name of a festival, and its transformation into a festival to honor ancestors was related to the Cold Food Festival (the only traditional Han festival named after a food custom). Later, because of the close proximity of the Cold Food Festival and Qingming, people combined the Cold Food Festival and Qingming into just the Qingming Festival.

Qingming Festival is about banning fires, sweeping tombs, and a series of customary sports activities such as trekking, swinging, cuju, playing polo, and planting willows.

Because of the relationship between the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival combined into one, the southern part of the country still retains the custom of eating green dumplings. It is a kind of green cake made of grass head juice. The practice is to first put young Ai, small Echinacea, etc. into a cauldron, add lime steam, bleach off the lime water, kneaded into glutinous rice flour, made into a turquoise colored dough.

(Jiangnan belt Qingming Festival to eat the green dumplings)

Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival for the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar each year, the Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, initially, the Chinese people to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics of the festival, the Wu-Yue land in the Spring and Autumn period before the fifth day of May to the Dragon Boat Festival form of the tribal totem sacrifices of the custom; the poet Qu Yuan died on this day. Qu Yuan died on this day, it has become a traditional festival of the Chinese Han people to commemorate Qu Yuan.

Dragon Boat Festival, is the Chinese people more than two thousand years of traditional habits, due to the vast area, many ethnic groups, coupled with many stories and legends, so not only produced a number of different names of the festival, but also has a different custom around. For example, the daughter back to her mother's home, hanging Zhong Kui statue, welcome ghost ship, hiding afternoon, posting afternoon leaf amulet, hanging calamus, wormwood, touring the hundred diseases, Pei Xiangbao, ready to sweet, dragon boat racing, martial arts, batting, swinging, to the child Tu Xionghuang, drinking Xionghuang wine, calamus wine, eat five poisonous cakes, salted eggs, rice dumplings, and seasonal fruits, and so on.

Zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube zongzi", by the zongzi leaves wrapped in glutinous rice steamed and become. It is by far the most culturally rich traditional food in Chinese history.

Legend has it that it was made in honor of Qu Yuan. The people in order to avoid letting the fish and shrimp erosion of Qu Yuan, they have put the rice grain into the river, the rice grain into the river is actually eaten by the dragon in the river. Qu Yuan dreamed that the people said, wrapped in moxa leaves, and then tied to the five-color rope, you can be safe from the dragon devouring; which led to the later zongzi.

("Corn", "Tube Zong")

Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional cultural festival that is popular among many ethnic groups in China and the East Asian countries, celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. It is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar; it is so named because it coincides with the halfway point of the three autumns, and in some places it is also celebrated on the sixteenth day of the eighth month.

The term "Mid-Autumn Festival" was first seen in the "Zhou Li", "Rituals - Monthly Orders", "the month of mid-autumn to raise the aging, the line of surimi porridge diet." Started in the early Tang Dynasty, prevalent in the Song Dynasty,

In the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone usually enjoys the moon, eat mooncakes, osmanthus; stroll lanterns, guessing lantern riddles; Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Festival custom, according to historians deduce that the first was the rise of the ancient court literati, and then diffused to the folk.

The custom of eating moon cakes began in the Tang Dynasty. The word "mooncake" originated from Wu Zimu's "Mengliang Records" in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was only a kind of snack food at that time. Later, people gradually combined moonlight viewing with mooncakes to symbolize family reunion and to express their thoughts.

(Cantonese mooncakes originated in 1889, when there was a pastry shop on the west side of the city, using lotus seeds boiled into lotus seed paste as the filling for the pastry, which was fragrant and delicious. Characterized by thin and fluffy skin, beautiful shape, delicate pattern and clear pattern.)

(Soviet-style moon cakes with wheat flour, caramel, edible vegetable oil or lard, water, etc. skin; wheat flour, edible vegetable oil or lard shortening; by the production of pastry, filling, molding, baking process. The skin is fluffy, the color is beautiful, the filling is fat but not greasy, and the taste is fluffy.)

(Chiu Chow Moon Cake is also known as "Chiu Chow" (潮式月饼) and "鴨" (鴨) is a famous Chinese pastry in Chaoshan District of Guangdong Province, which belongs to the category of shortcrust pastry. They are flat in body, white in color and filled with crispy sugar. It has a crispy skin and a fine filling, and it is crispy in the mouth, not fat and sweet.)

(Beijing-style moon cakes originated in Beijing, Tianjin and surrounding areas, in the north has a certain market, its main feature is the sweetness and skin-filling ratio is moderate, the general skin-filling ratio of 4:6, heavy use of sesame oil, sweet taste, crisp and loose texture. The main red mooncake, five kernel mooncake.)

Attachment: Traditional food on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar as recorded by Sanlian Life Weekly - The Most Missed New Year's Goods

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