What are the customs of Taizhou Lantern Festival? Taizhou People's Lantern Festival

What are the customs of Taizhou Lantern Festival?

On the fourteenth day of the first month in Linhai, every family made rotten soup.

People in Taizhou don't eat jiaozi during the Lantern Festival, but eat soup, especially around Linhai, Sanmen and Tiantai. Rotten soup is made of freshly ground rice flour and mixed with seasonings such as shredded pork, shredded winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus, dried bean curd, oil bubble, Sichuan bean board and spinach. It is a salty paste food, which is divided into sweet and salty. On the 14th day of the first month every year, people in Taizhou eat rotten soup after watching lanterns. On this day, they usually eat salty bad soup, and on the fifteenth day of the first month, they eat sweet bad soup, which means salty before sweet, and life is sweeter.

Huangyan "lights on every other night" for 14 nights and "lights orange" for 15 nights.

In the old society, on the fourteenth night of the first lunar month, every household in Huangyan City had to light up and hang up orange basket lanterns, orange lanterns and phoenix orange lanterns with local characteristics. Every orange forest outside the city is lit with red candles. From a distance, the whole Huangyan is brightly lit. At the same time, people in Orange Township also play a variety of folk cultural activities, such as lion dance, dragon dance, flower drum and dry boat. This custom, called "lighting", is said to have originated in the Ming Dynasty and was related to Qi Jiguang's anti-Japanese war. Road and bridge have the same custom.

Before liberation, on the fifteenth night of the first month of each year, there was an activity of "putting orange lanterns" on Chengjiang outside Huangyan City. According to the records of Huangyan County, this custom has a history of at least 1000 years. On the fifteenth day of the first month, all the men, women and children in Huangyan City came out, and there were people watching "lights" on both sides of Chengjiang River. Temporary stalls gathered, people came and went, and it was very lively.

Xianju boneless lantern carnival

Xianju Lantern has a long history, is widely distributed and has a wide variety. Such as Banlong Lantern in Hengxi and Banqiao, Changqi Lantern in Wushang Village, Jumping Horse Lantern in Zhuxi and Xiage, Carp Jumping Dragon Gate Lantern in Xiatang Village, Dragon Lantern in Shuikou Village of Shi Tian Town, Lion Lantern in Sedan Chair and Shrimp Pushing Lantern in Wang Qian Village, etc. During the Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival in Xianjushan Township was very lively. What is particularly wonderful is the "Boneless Light with Acupoints" in Xianju Village Beach, which is known as the "Pearl of the Sea of Lights".

Every household on the rooftop has to eat "hot boiled".

Every household, old and young, eats the custom of "burning, boiling and boiling" for the Lantern Festival, which is a major feature of Tiantai. "Paste Spicy Boil" is a kind of salty soup made of rice flour or stone powder. All the dishes are cut into small cubes. The main ingredients are lean meat, winter bamboo shoots and water chestnuts. Add a little Chili powder to steam it, which can stimulate appetite and be nutritious. Now, "paste spicy boiled" is also made sweet. Housewives mix longan meat, red dates, apple slices and lotus seeds into "mountain powder" or "sweet potato powder", which tastes different.

Eat "Michael" at noon and bad soup at night.

When three people celebrate the Lantern Festival, they usually eat "wheat coke" at noon and drink rotten soup at night. Let's see who cooks delicious food. The most interesting thing is that it is free for three people to eat rotten soup on the night of Lantern Festival. Anyone can go to someone else's house to eat a bowl of delicious rotten soup, and the owner is proud of eating rotten soup in his own house.

On the Lantern Festival night, the bride who got married last year still has to cook a few pots of sweet and bad soup, which is called "bride's bad soup" by the people to show that life is sweet and beautiful. "Niang Bad Soup" must be made by the new wife herself, and then set off firecrackers to invite the whole village to eat it. If it tastes good and everyone is happy, then the new wife will basically establish her position in this village; If you can't do it well, everyone will talk behind your back.

Yuhuan Xitai Fish Lantern Deduces Fishery Country Style

During the Spring Festival, drums and music are everywhere on Yuhuan Island, and all kinds of lights and dances are colorful. In addition to dragon lanterns, lanterns, lions and other animal-shaped lantern dances, seaside people prefer "Xitai Fish Lantern". There are two groups of fish lanterns in the west station, which are in the foreground and backstage respectively, each with its own characteristics. The fish lights at the front desk are bold and unrestrained, and the scene is more open and relaxed; The fish lanterns in the background are more exquisite and flexible, and the activity format is smaller, which is also suitable for women to dance and perform on the stage. Lantern dancers each hold a fish lantern, which is divided into two rows, corresponding to each other. Accompanied by the relaxed and warm knocking sound, the dolphins in each queue first appeared in the open space, then were guided by the dragon ball, and the dragon appeared, followed by various fish lights.

Wenling's "Lift the Taige" sings the leading role in literature and art.

Taitai Pavilion is an important part of Lantern Festival in Wenling fishing area. It is different from the activities such as "catching the god of wealth", "catching students" and "worshipping the girl in the Maokeng" in the Lantern Festival. These activities are only held on the fifteenth day of the first month, but the activities of lifting the pavilion can be postponed until the twentieth day of the first month or even the beginning of February.

Tiger is to put a square table and a long table together, the legs of the table are turned upside down, and all kinds of colored paper, colored cloth and colored flowers are tied into a colorful framework, which becomes a beautiful small stage with discerning steam lamps and corresponding drama scenes. There are several five or six-year-old children in it, dressed up as Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon, What's the Sea, etc.

The hospitable people in the fishing area will also invite relatives of some distant villages to their homes in the name of watching Taige.