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Ceremony of Zao ( 灶)

Fuzhou traditional seasonal customs. Folk legend has it that the Jade Emperor sends the god of the stove to the earth to supervise the good and bad behavior of every household, and he arrives on the fourth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, and reports to heaven on the 24th day of the twelfth month of the year before the end of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar. The festival is a farewell party for the God of Stove. Customs in Fuzhou, Zaos Festival is held in two days: the 23rd night "sacrificial meat stove", offerings with fish, meat, wine, hope that the God of the stove in front of the Jade Emperor can hide the evil and promote the good; the 24th night "sacrificial vegetarian stove", only fruits, vegetables, and Zao sugar, Zao cake. For fear that the god of the stove drunk, do not distinguish between good and bad, talking nonsense. Stoves pay special attention to the use of sugar, after the sacrifice, but also grab a handful of sugar in the stove door painted again, meaning that the stove God's mouth sticky, so that it is less to say, do not talk nonsense. It is said, "Speak good words in heaven and keep peace in the next world." Before the Zao festival, grandparents should send Zao sugar, Zao cakes and flower face shells (masquerade masks) to grandsons and granddaughters. In the old days, when medicine was undeveloped, superstitious people believed that wearing a flower mask would prevent the God of Plague from seeing the true face of the child and could ward off evil spirits. Now generally do not hold the ceremony of sacrificing stove, but the custom of family feasts in the festival still exists. Zao sugar, Zao cake renamed "New Year's sugar, New Year's cake", flower face shells only as the Spring Festival children's toys.

Winter Festival Rolling Balls

Fuzhou traditional seasonal customs. In Fuzhou, it is said that the winter festival is like a big year. In the Song Dynasty, it was customary to pay homage to festivals, pay homage to tombs, and give gifts to each other, but in the Ming Dynasty, the custom was changed to rubbing pills and sticking them on the lintel of the door. Rubbing pills to symbolize reunion, full of joy. The ceremony is the night before the winter solstice, in front of the ancestral shrine, display hairpins and other auspicious offerings. On the tabletop is placed a large bamboo basket containing ground glutinous rice, decorated with lucky oranges, red chopsticks and seasonal flowers. When rubbing pills, the whole family of men, women and children sit around the large bamboo basket, rubbing pills, singing children's songs, rubbing pills and pinching two kinds of rubbed balls and round strips, pinching the shape is not confined. Adults like to pinch longevity peaches, bats (Fu) and other symbols of good fortune; children pinch is not necessarily in line with the auspicious, relying on adults to applaud and append, such as pinching a dog, singing "dog cast rich", pinching a turtle, singing "turtle longevity. Rub the pill some cooked sugar to eat; some in the cooked sticky sugar mixed with soybean flour to eat. Like this family of men, women and children get together to engage in "face painting" scene, seems to be unique to the Fuzhou area.

Au Jiu Festival

Also known as the Festival of Filial Piety, the Festival of the Nine Days after the Festival, the Festival of Sending the Poor. On the twenty-ninth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, every family cooks Aojiu porridge with glutinous rice and brown sugar, which is filled with jujubes, peanuts, cowpeas, sesame seeds, water chestnuts and other ingredients, and it is used to offer sacrifices to ancestors and give gifts to relatives and friends. All married daughters should send the congee back to their parents' home to honor their parents. The source of the congee, folklore varies: one says that according to legend, Meilian's mother was fierce, and after death was sent to hell to suffer. Meilian grew up, every day to send food to his mother, were eaten by small ghosts, had to cook a bowl of color black porridge, small ghosts do not dare to eat, so the name of Au Jiu Porridge, Meilian to send food day that is Au Jiu Festival, filial piety festival. One said that the source of sending poor, Ming Dynasty scholar Xie Zhao system said: "Gao Yang's son, clothing, food mincemeat, the first month of the obscure day of death, the world as mincemeat, abandoned the broken and the streets and alleys, in addition to the poor ghosts."

The scholars of the Qing Dynasty were mostly in favor of this statement, Lin Zu-tao (Minzhong yearly singing〗poem: "According to legend, the nine Fangchen, each cooking syrup mixed with dates and hazelnuts. Sweep away the dust and cast all the filth, send him poor ghosts to receive the money god." The first nine days of the first month of the Min custom called on the ninth, nineteen called in the ninth, twenty-nine called the next nine or after the ninth, so it is also called after the nine festival. This custom is still popular in the folklore.

Fuzhou traditional snacks and specialties

Fish balls, taro paste, pot side paste, taro fruit, nine layers of fruit, light cake, meat floss, scallion meat cake, Yan Pi, thread noodles, spring rolls.

Respondent's supplementary 2009-10-23 00:23 Fuzhou traditional banquet etiquette and taboos

Fuzhou traditional banquet in many of the etiquette and taboos, because there is a certain significance, and not complicated, a little bit of attention to be able to do so, so there is now a lot of innovation, these etiquette and taboos are still able to be preserved, and is now cited as a number of examples to talk about.

Language courtesy. Set up a banquet, the guests came, the host said more laojiao, laojiao, the guests? Meet the birthday celebration fist said birthday, fashionable said health long life; other celebrations are unified said congratulations, only funeral feast, guests to solemn silence expressed grief for the best, bowed his head to grasp the master's hand, up to say a take care of, a thousand words are in a word, and even no sound is better than a sound. At the banquet, the host said please drink heavily, no good food, to Nong cheated (because of the receipt of red envelopes, had to modestly say cheated); guests said to eat well, do not say eaten (unlucky) or eat really full (rude).

To be eaten and not eaten in the feast. Fuzhou birthday banquets and other banquets must have a bowl of Taiping Yan. Tai Ping Yan is called a big dish, out of the big dish to firecrackers, firecrackers and wait for the host to toast, before this is not allowed to move the chopsticks. If there are children who don't know the rules, the adults will stop them, this is to be eaten. What if I don't eat? The last dish to be eaten is the whole head fish. The whole head fish has a head and a tail and symbolizes a surplus, so how can it be eaten? Do not eat, and finally put away by the host, for the celebration of the late rice with (rice dishes) or send neighbors and friends **** enjoy.

The weight of the plate and not heavy. Wedding and funeral banquets, after eating a dish, plates and dishes can not overlap, the staff to collect can not be heavy, which is afraid of touching the heavy funeral and remarriage of the color. Other than this, most other things can be repeated. However, in my opinion, nowadays the implementation of family planning, a couple only one, according to the reasoning of the banquet can not be heavy, but the old custom does not care about this set.

The dishes are appropriate and inappropriate. Wedding feasts and add to the moon feast can not be on the pomfret, whether orange juice pomfret, pomfret stew are harmonized with the prostitute, it is not appropriate, the funeral banquet must have a bowl of mutton, commonly known as mutton bags, because the sheep know breastfeeding grace, there are kneeling breastfeeding move, so eating mutton table filial piety. This custom does not make sense, in that case, the funeral banquet is not on the lamb is ah! However, the ancestors taught us to do so, we all do, who dare to violate?

Happy feast to have a bowl of peace Yan, which is already common sense, now the first bowl of life feast is yarn noodles, the past does not seem to have this custom. Face and life resonance, eat fried thread noodles to symbolize long life, really can not be disputed.

Yi milk (mother) can not do eighty. Fuzhou has a curse word called Yi milk do eighty, so for the mother to do birthday is not seventy-nine years old or eighty-one years old; even if every year to do, eighty years old this year also do not do. Why is this? First of all, in Fuzhou dialect, eighty and pluck straight (death) harmonize, and doing eighty means pluck straight. Secondly, it is said that Luo Yin's mother was very vicious in her lifetime and was imprisoned in hell after her death at the age of eighty.

Welcoming Spring

The traditional seasonal custom of Fuzhou folklore is also known as welcoming spring cows. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, a few days before spring, the people of Fuzhou went to the Min Wang Shrine at Qingcheng Temple to take soil and make spring oxen in preparation for spring plowing, in order to thank the Min Wang Wang Shenzhi for his achievements in the development of Fujian. On the day of spring, the farmers in the suburbs sent their representatives to the city and assembled in front of the governor's office, and the crowd included brocade flags, colorful pings, ten feet of foot, and a hundred operas of the pear orchard, etc. In this case, the governor rode a horse and led the crowd. The governor led the crowd on horseback, followed by the peasants carrying their spring oxen. In the sound of drums and firecrackers, along the streets and alleys, from the east side of the city Xingchunmen out of the city. And selected in advance in a countryside, by the governor personally support the plow ploughing the fields, after the ceremony back to the city, which lasted one day. Welcome spring day, ten thousand people in the alleys, and there are clay small spring cattle as well as prints of spring cattle figure for sale, unprecedented. This custom has been abolished.

Welcome the year

Fuzhou folk traditional festival seasonal customs. Also known as the New Year's Day. In the old days, more in the first month of the lunar calendar every year after the tenth, the end of the month. Village as a unit, or a number of villages jointly, with eight-carried sedan chair to invite out the local gods, such as Taishan God, White Horse King, Shangshu Gong, Linshui milk and other main god, plus the god's subordinates, such as white beard, children's younger brother, seven masters, eight masters, such as "Answer Bone" statue (a bamboo frame made of the statue of the gods by a person on top of the swaying and line), lined with the underground ping (actors in disguise history), and the "Bone" (a scene of a story, sitting on a bamboo frame made of the statue of the gods by a person on top of the swaying). A scene of the story, sitting on a cart driven by people walking), land boat (the color boat set tied to the actor's waist, walking on land, symbolizing the boat), immediately blowing, shoulder ping, ten foot feet, dancing dragon lanterns and other programs, in the drums and lanterns firecrackers in the formation of the parade in the villages and streets, the masses to watch the road, it is very lively.

Mid-Yuan Festival

Fuzhou traditional seasonal festivals. Rural areas called "July half", commonly known as "do half". It is the half of the year. It is classified as a big festival second only to the New Year's Day, and evolved from the ancient "suburban society". After the summer harvest, farmers took advantage of their farm time to hold ceremonies to honor the gods who managed the land and the ancestors who opened up the fields, which also contained the meaning of celebrating a good harvest. In ancient times, the Mid-Yuan Festival was only held on the 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar, and it was a vegetarian feast, and it was stipulated that one could not spend the night in other people's homes. Later, from vegetarian food to meat, from the development of the family to feast guests, from the sacrifice of the field, ancestor worship to the development of the "ghosts of the Lord", the "half of the seventh month" into a superstitious ghost festival, a big Pudu. Customary habits in this day in the countryside in order to invite each other, each set the feast time, as long as it is July, regardless of the day can be a festival. Wealthy families to guests as a pride, continuous banquets for several days, and even singing feet, please commentaries, act Min drama to entertain guests, spend a lot of money.

Doing Summer

Fuzhou's traditional seasonal festivals. As early spring is still cold, it is easy to get sick. In ancient times, in order to remind people, especially in the first day of summer held a "festival" ceremony, called "do summer". Do summer activities are different from ancient and modern, there are mouthfuls of plums, bamboo shoots, with the aim of eliminating diseases and disasters, now popular cooking Dingbian paste, frying "pancakes", cooking "bowl cake". The pancake is fried with bean sprouts and rice milk on a special pan; the bowl cake is made of rice milk with fermented ingredients, which is cooked in a small bowl. A poem by Lin Zu To of the Qing Dynasty reads: "The flowers return in spring and turn green, so I welcome the dish to be cooked by my wonderful hands. Cooked flower cake can be eaten, sharing the reward from the neighbors first. Flower cake is bowl cake. This custom has been changed to eating Dingbian paste.

Second, the city standard

Fuzhou City, Yu Mountain, Wu Mountain, Ping Mountain, "three mountains" stand, the Minjiang River is like a green belt through the city. History tells us that in the second year of Liang Kaiping in the Fifth Dynasty, the King of Min, Wang Shenzhi, expanded the city and brought the scenic Yu Shan, Wu Shan and Ping Shan into the city, forming the unique landscape of Fuzhou, "the mountains are in the city, and the city is in the mountains". "Three mountains and one water" became the main symbol of Yung City, so Fuzhou is also called "Three Mountains".

The City Tree

Fuzhou banyan planting has become a trend in ancient times. Especially in the Northern Song Dynasty, the governor Zhang Boyu advocated the "family banyan planting", "full of green shade, the summer does not open the cover", so that the Jinshan living area of Fuzhou

Fuzhou has been called "Banyan City". The banyan tree is evergreen and has a long history. The banyan tree is evergreen in all seasons, with flourishing branches and leaves, majestic and upright, full of vitality, symbolizing the spirit of Fuzhou city. There are nearly 1,000 ancient banyan trees in Fuzhou. The thousand-year-old banyan tree located in Fuzhou National Forest Park is known as the first big banyan tree in Fuzhou, with a height of 20 meters and a spectacular ground projection area of more than 1,330 square meters. According to legend, the banyan tree was planted by three military officials who practiced martial arts here during the Yeping period of the Northern Song Dynasty. Whenever spring returns to the earth, about half of the ancient banyan tree's crown sprouts first, and when the old leaves gradually fall off, the other half of the crown sprouts new leaves, forming a layered, colorful and pleasant scene.

Fruit

Fuzhou Basin is rich in oranges, especially tangerines, and thin skin, red color, juicy, sweet, unique flavor, known as "Fu orange". Fu orange ripening at the end of the year, Fuzhou custom to "red" see good, and "orange" and "auspicious" sound like, so become the folk good luck and New Year's gifts.

City Flowers

Fuzhou specialties, production and quality of the country's first. Jasmine blossoms every year in late spring and early summer, with single petals, heavy petals, single leaves and compound leaves. There are two kinds of flower colors: red and white, with white flowers predominating. Jasmine flowers are fragrant and elegant, and can be used for making jasmine tea and refining spices.

Famous Places

"Top Ten Business Cards of Fuzhou": Three Square and Seven Alleys, Mawei Shipbuilding, Lin Zexu, Three Hills, Two Pagodas and a River, Gushan Mountain, Min Opera, Hot Springs, Shoushan Stone, Tanshishan Cultural Heritage Site, and Qingyun Mountain.

Traditional arts--Min opera, commentary, Shifan

Fuzhou

Fuzhou, also known as Rongcheng, abbreviated as "Rong", is the capital of Fujian Province, located in the lower reaches of the Minjiang River, and is an important metropolis along the southeastern coast of China, bordering the East China Sea to the east, and separated from Taiwan Province by the sea. East China Sea, and Taiwan Province across the sea, north, west and south of Ningde City, Nanping City, Sanming City, Quanzhou City, Putian City border respectively. Fuzhou is a national historical and cultural city, which has long served as the political center of Fujian in history, both as an important trading port on the southeast coast of China and a gateway to the Maritime Silk Road, and also as an important cultural center, with a very well-developed culture and education since the Song Dynasty, and is one of the Chinese cities that have produced the largest number of scholars (more than 4,100 people), scholars (31 people), and academicians of the two academies (67 people). In modern history, it was one of the first five cities in China to open up for business, and one of the cradles of China's modern navy and the birthplace of industry, science and technology.

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