Shandong customs?

Shandong customs broken five (lunar calendar) on the fifth day of the first month, commonly known as "broken five" festival. This day, women are not allowed to string door, string door is not good luck. Qing Yi class notes": "the fifth day of the first month for the broken five, women are not allowed to go out." On this day, every family ate dumplings, meaning that the dumplings wrapped up, for good luck. Nowadays, although women are not allowed to go out, eating dumplings on this day has become the custom of each family. Lantern Festival The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as the "Lantern Festival" is also known as the "Lantern Festival" in Jinan, the annual Lantern Festival, the scene is extremely spectacular. At this time, the major parks, factories, mines and enterprises and the streets and alleys, are full of all kinds of lanterns, night, palace lanterns, gauze lanterns, fish lamps, lanterns, baskets of lights, horse lanterns ...... light, breathtaking. Especially the annual Baotu Spring Lantern Festival, is unique. Various kinds of flower lights, bird and animal lights, horse lanterns, story lights, riddle lights or magnificent, or simple and elegant, or clever and chic, with distinctive local colors. On this day, it is popular for families to eat Lantern Festival. In addition, before and after the Lantern Festival, the streets and alleys of Jinan are full of stilt walkers, dry boat runners, dragon lantern dancers and lion dancers. People put some myths and legends, historical stories, as well as strong love and hate and good wishes into this folk art rich in national traditions, increasing the cheerful atmosphere of the festival "Dragon Carrying Heads" On the second day of the second month of the Lunar Calendar, the Spring Dragon Festival, commonly known as "Dragon Carrying Heads," meaning that the dragon is Xingxing. The festival is commonly called "Dragon's Head Raising", which means that the dragon will be prosperous and the wind and rain will be favorable. Qing Zhu Li Zun, "the old news under the sun", "all people call February 2 for the Dragon Carrying Heads." On this day, the public woke up early, fried "scorpion claw" (i.e., beans pickled) to eat, to avoid insect bites and scorpion stings; old men and women have a haircut to see the spirit of the exemption from disasters and diseases; the rural areas prevailed in the ashes of the stove "hoarding", wishing for a good harvest. These customs have been carried on to this day. Qingming Customs Qingming is the fifth of China's twenty-four solar terms. The ancients attached great importance to this festival and left behind many interesting customs. In Jinan, some of them have been preserved to this day, such as "Treading Green", "Sweeping Tomb", "Swinging", "Planting Willow" and "Planting Tree". "Tree Planting Trekking Trekking, also called hiking or excursion in ancient times, but now called spring excursion or picnic, is the main custom of the Qingming Festival. In ancient times, on this day, people would gather relatives and friends, take care of the old and the young, go to the countryside to play in the springtime, and then sit around the wild feast and return at nightfall. Jinan mountains and beautiful water, beautiful scenery, every Qingming Festival, the spring light, wind and sunshine, people south of Thousand Buddhas, north of Lake Ming, countryside tours, springs, tourists like weaving. This custom of spring tour has been retained until now. Tomb-sweeping Qingming Festival, in the solar calendar on the fifth and sixth days of April, the public are carrying paper, incense and offerings to the tomb to pay homage to their ancestors, to add soil to their graves, in memory of their ancestors. This custom is said to be of long standing, having begun in the Qin Dynasty, and was continued in the Han Dynasty. It was only in the Tang Dynasty that tomb-sweeping was fixed to be held at Qingming. The Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi's poem "Cold Food and Wild Hope" wrote: "Outside the ruins of Guo Men, who cried during the cold food, the wind blew the paper money flying in the wilderness, and the ancient tombs were full of spring grass green", which describes the scene of sweeping the graves in the countryside, and during the Song Dynasty, people all visited their ancestors' tombs on the day of the Ching Ming Festival, and people in Kyoto went out to the suburbs in the city, like a market in the four fields. In today's world, Qingming Festival has become a day for people to remember the martyrs and their deceased relatives. Swinging at Qingming Festival In Jinan, the custom of swinging at Qingming Festival has been passed down in the city and the countryside. Qingming Festival this day, men and women, old and young, dressed in new clothes in the green poplar deep outside, or in front of the square, standing wood for the frame, on the surmounting cross-wood, under the suspension of two ropes, rope under the horizontal system of a board, people can sit on the board can be stood up, holding two ropes can be before and after the up and down swinging, very fun. According to legend, swinging is a game of the northern Hu people. During the Warring States period, Liu Huan Gong's northern expedition, only this game to the Han Chinese. Since the Han and Tang dynasties, it has been used in the harems of emperors and the gardens of prominent officials and nobles, and then gradually spread to the people. Willow and tree planting Qingming Festival is the time of the year when "the green willow is only half yellow". Jinan cities and towns used to have the custom of sticking willows in the doors and wearing willow branches and balls on the heads of women and children. It is said that this custom was to honor Shennong, the ancestor of farmers who "taught the people to gather crops", and was later found to be a way to remember the year and express the good wishes for longevity. For example, in the poem "Cold Food" written by Zhao Yuanzhen of the Song Dynasty, in the village of Silent Chaimen, the phrase "remembering the year" is also taught; and in the countryside, there is a farmer's proverb that says "Wear a flower and live for a hundred and eight years, and insert a willow and live for a hundred and nine years". Later, the custom of wearing willow was gradually eliminated, but the willow, planting willow is prevalent and widespread, and then evolved into planting trees during the Qingming Festival. In the 4th year of the Republic of China (1915), Qingming Festival was designated as Tree Planting Day. Nowadays, around the Qingming Festival, large-scale reforestation campaigns are carried out everywhere. The green willows not only bring infinite vitality to the earth, but also hold people's infinite hope. Buddha Bathing and Life Release Bathing and Life Release is a religious festival. Every year, the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar is the Buddha Bathing Festival. During the Song Dynasty, there was already a "Yufo Festival" in China. Folks make sweetened water with fragrant medicines and give it to each other, and those who burn incense and give alms to Buddhist temples are called "Bathing Buddha". Or buy fish, turtles, snails, mussels and other water animals to be released. Large temples have special release pools for people to release animals. Legend has it that the eighth day of the fourth month is the birth anniversary of Shakyamuni Buddha. Jinan has many temples, in the past, the eighth day of the fourth month of bathing Buddha life release has also become customary. On this day, Dongyue Temple, the North Pole Temple and other temples of the monks and Taoists, are set up altar chanting and doing things, many good men and women also flocked to the temple to compete for money. Some people also recite release mantra, will buy fish, turtles, snails, mussels and other aquatic animals into the water, day after day, to express their compassion and religious piety. Dragon Boat Festival Customs The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the traditional Dragon Boat Festival in China. Ancient people also called the month of May "noon", five days and often written "noon", "end" and "first" meaning, so the fifth day of May is called "Dragon Boat Festival". Meaning, so the fifth day of May is called "Dragon Boat Festival"; because the "noon month" and "noon day" two "noon" word repeating So "Dragon Boat Festival" is also called "Dragon Boat Festival" and because the ancients often take the "noon" as "raise the star", so the "Dragon Boat Festival" is also called "Duan Yang Festival". From the Tang Dynasty officially stipulated the Dragon Boat Festival as an important holiday, gradually began to pay attention to. Jinan people over the Dragon Boat Festival is mainly characterized by the following: painting the door charm. On the day of Dragon Boat Festival, people make paper cuttings of "five poisons" (scorpion, centipede, poisonous snake, toad and gecko) into door charms. It is said that this is to drive away the "five poisons" and prevent the plague. Ai sticks, hanging Ai tiger. Dragon Boat Festival early this morning, people will be plugged in the door, or with wormwood woven into the "Ai Hu", in the center of the lintel or wear on the body, to drive away insects and evil spirits, to protect the well-being of the people. Drinking Xionghuang wine, eat zongzi. Dragon Boat Festival this day before breakfast, to drink a cup of xionghuang wine, and then eat sticky rice, jujubes and other packages made of zongzi, drinking yellow wine is said to kill pests, avoiding evil, packages of zongzi is in order to hang on to the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Wear fragrant buns and tie colorful silk threads. "Wear a scented bag on your lapel, and the doll will make people love you". It is also a popular custom for children to wear scented buns and tie colorful threads on their wrists during the Dragon Boat Festival in Jinan. Fragrance bag is embroidered with cotton fabrics and silk threads, in addition to some of the bag loaded with xionghuang, cangzhu outside, but also loaded with vanilla with the spices, worn on the body to drive away insects in addition to the role of filth. Colorful threads symbolize the five-color dragons, the Department of five-color threads can subdue demons and monsters. Dragon Boat Festival this day, in Jinan, some celebrities in this day boating Lake Ming, party drinking, poetry and singing. Some of these customs have continued to this day, such as the Dragon Boat Festival day inserted Ai sticks, wrapped in rice dumplings, etc., today in Jinan is still very prosperous. The lotus flower plays an important role in the lives of Jinanites. There are some special customs in Jinan that utilize the lotus flower. One of the most interesting of these customs is the "Biku" drink. According to Duan Chengshi of the Tang Dynasty, in his book "Youyang Miscellany Chopper", in ancient times, when the lotus was in full bloom at Daming Lake, some officials and literati used to go to the lake to escape from the summer heat, and they cut down the large lotus leaves in the lake, filled them with wine, and then stabbed the center of the leaves with a hairpin, so as to make them connected with the hollow lotus stems. People sucked wine from the end of the lotus stem and drank it, and the taste, in the words of the literati who had experienced it at that time, was that "the taste of wine is mixed with the fragrance of lotus, and the fragrance is colder than water". This is the "Biku Drinking" which was popularized by the Tang and Song Dynasty scribes. In Jinan, the lotus leaf stands outside the wine, with it can also be made into many unique flavors of food. Such as the tender green lotus leaves, slightly scalded with hot water, cook congee covered in porridge, and then add sugar when the porridge cooled, color blue flavor, the name is: "Lotus Leaf Porridge", is the famous Jinan Charing snacks; according to do "rice flour meat" or "steamed meat". "Steamed meat" practice, first cut the pork, fried rice, mixed with soy sauce, and then choose Daming Lake produced only a bowl of tender lotus leaves, cleaned, a lotus leaf wrapped up a piece of pork and the right amount of fried rice, spread in a bowl, and then on the steamer, steamed that is, "Lotus Meat ""。 Eat is even meat with lotus leaves to eat together, that is, the delicious pork, but also the fragrance of the lotus leaves, especially delicious. With the same method, can also be made into lotus leaf chicken, lotus leaf fish and other top quality dishes. In addition, the use of lotus leaves packaging food, is also a unique custom in Jinan. Previously sold in the food store steamed buns, pot stickers, cooked meat and pickles, many of which are packaged in lotus leaves, so that is not permeable to oil, permeable to water, but also have some of the aroma and flavor is very popular. In addition, in the past, Jinan people also have the custom of eating lotus petals. Fried lotus petals" is a famous summer dish in Jinan. Fresh, intact and clean lotus petals are washed, hung with a thin layer of egg batter and then fried in a frying pan, sprinkled with sugar after deep-frying, and then eaten in the mouth with a delicious fragrance and a lingering aftertaste. "The people of Jinan love to eat toon. Toon is a kind of tree whose young leaves are fragrant and edible. In the Qing Dynasty, people called picking and eating the young leaves of toon in spring "eating spring", which meant to welcome the new spring. The area around Zhonggong, a suburb of Jinan, is rich in toon. Every spring, when the toon sprouts and draws leaves, it is also the time for Jinan people to "eat spring". At this time, the farmers break off the young purple or light green toon buds and sell them in the market; people who like to "eat spring" scramble to buy them at home and savor the sweetness of spring. There are many ways to eat toon. Jinan's "toon sprouts mixed with tofu" is known far and wide. People will wash the toon buds or young leaves with salt, slightly pickled, kneaded, pickled about one night can be used. When using the pickled toon sprouts cut into pieces, and then steamed through the tofu and toon sprouts cut into small dices of the end of the plate, sprinkled with refined salt, drops of sesame oil can be eaten. Another practice is "fried toon" --- young toon washed, drained water, add salt and rubbed evenly, and then in the mixing of the batter in the batter, put into the hot oil and fried yellow, take out to eat, and crispy and fragrant. It is also known as "Deep-fried Toon Fish" because the whole toon is shaped like a fish after deep-frying, so it is also called "Deep-fried Toon Fish" in Jinan. Jinan Cattails Jinan people love to eat cattails for a long time, cattails are a kind of aquatic herbs. The cattail of Daming Lake is a beautiful vegetable of Jinan, which has been famous in China for a long time. Jinan Quick View" a bureau recorded that: "Daming Lake of Pu Cai, its flavor like bamboo shoots, planted all over the lake, for the northern provinces of plants Lei class of treasures." "Shandong Tongzhi," said Pu Cai "Pu bamboo shoots," is Jinan people "daily vegetables" of the usual products. The way of eating Pu Cai is: "milk soup Pu Cai", "pot collapsed Pu Cai" (cold dish) and so on. As for the Jinan people's favorite Pu Cai hot noodle dumplings, Pu Cai flatbread, etc., is also a favorite common food. Anyone who has tasted these delicacies has always praised them. Releasing River Lanterns on July 30th In Jinan, on the evening of July 30th, all Buddhist temples held the Bun Festival to celebrate the festival. In Jinan, on the evening of July 30th, Buddhist temples held the Bun Festival to celebrate the festival. Some people burned a large number of incense sticks and inserted them one by one into the ground along the wall roots and canals in their courtyards to show their devotion to the King of the Earth, while some used to release river lanterns to superdue the ghosts who died in the river. It is said that the 30th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar is the day on which Jizo King Bodhisattva became a Buddhist monk. When he attained enlightenment, he swore that he would liberate all sentient beings with sins and free them from the sea of suffering. Therefore, the 30th day of the 7th lunar month has become the day for overcoming "dead souls". River lanterns are made of wet noodles. After drying, pouring soybean oil in the lamp bowl, and then rubbing cotton into the wick, lit, placed in the river, let it float downstream. At this time, only to see the river full of lights, flickering, fluttering, the river is reflected in the red. It is said that the drowned "ghosts" in the river see the lights, can be superseded. River lanterns is a superstitious activity of Buddhism. The Taoist priests in the Arctic Temple on the north shore of Daming Lake in Jinan also performed the Jiao-festival on the 30th day of the 7th month of the Lunar Calendar to celebrate the souls of the dead. They read scriptures during the day, to entertain the temple to burn incense "giver", and look for paper workers and colored paper glued into a large "law boat", placed in front of the temple in the lake, to attract visitors. At night, the Taoist priests dressed in green and flowery embroidered vestments, banging cymbals, playing the sheng flute, from dozens of steps high Arctic Temple parade out to the front of the law boat incineration "sparse head", at the same time, the colorful paper Zha's large law boat burned. At one time, the fire, illuminating the lake, so that the whole city of Jinan for the sensation. So that the temple, the lake, ten thousand heads, crowded. After the liberation, with the abolition of feudal superstitions, "River Lanterns" and other activities have not been seen.