Tianjin customs and habits

Association of laboratory animal breeders

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Tianjin people boil Laba porridge and soak garlic into green Laba garlic with vinegar.

Visit the Niangniang Palace

After the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, there will be many new year's goods in the business circle around Niangniang Palace, and most women come here to "wash dolls". The "dolls" tied back from Niangniang Palace should be "washed once a year", which is something that women must complete before the festival.

Melon sacrifice furnace

The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is the day when the kitchen god ascended to heaven. Everyone should buy honeydew melons and wait until evening 12 to worship the kitchen god. After the incense is burned, please come down from the statue of Kitchen God, light it and burn it. You can buy a new statue of the kitchen god on New Year's Eve, which is commonly known as the "kitchen god size" and change it every year. The purpose of offering honeydew melons to the stove is to stick the mouth of the kitchen god so that the kitchen god will not speak ill.

Art of new year pictures

New Year pictures will be posted in Tianjin during the Spring Festival. The production method is "half printing and half painting", that is, the lines of the picture are carved with wood, then watermarked with ink on the paper, printed in monochrome for two or three times, filled with colored pens, manually hooked, engraved, brushed, painted and mounted.

The fifth day of the first lunar month

Tianjin people call the fifth day of the first month "Breaking Five". On this day, every household will eat jiaozi, and the chopping board will jingle so that the neighbors can hear it to show that they are chopping "little people".

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Four major folk arts in Tianjin:

1. Clay figurine Zhang Caisu

It refers to the colored sculptures created by Tianjin artist Zhang Mingshan in the middle of the 9th century. Clay figurine Zhang Caisu can be said to be a must in Tianjin. "Clay figurine Zhang" enjoyed a high reputation in Qianlong and Jiaqing years of Qing Dynasty. What makes Tianjin clay figurines shine brilliantly and become a wonderful flower of national art is the colored sculpture "Clay Fighter Zhang", which raised the traditional clay figurines to the level of circular plastic arts, decorated them with colors and props, and formed a unique style.

2. Yangliuqing New Year Pictures

Woodblock prints are famous folk woodblock New Year pictures in China. Together with Suzhou Taohuawu New Year Pictures, it is also called "South Peach Blossom and North Willow". It came into being during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty. The heyday was from Qing Yong to the early years of Guangxu. It has the characteristics of exquisite brushwork, beautiful characters, bright colors, rich content, diverse forms, peaceful atmosphere, humorous plot and interesting inscription. On June 8, 2007, Tianjin Yangliuqing Painting Society won the first Cultural Heritage Day Award from the Ministry of Culture. 20 10 On May 9, Tianjin World Expo Week opened, and Yangliuqing New Year pictures were displayed to the world as exhibits.

3. Wei Ji Kate?

Kite is one of the traditional folk arts and crafts in China. It has a long history. Kites were recorded as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. By the Tang Dynasty, kites had prevailed in cities and villages all over the north and south.

Tianjin in the north of China is one of the main producing areas of kites in China. Among the kites in Tianjin, the kites produced in Wei Ji are the most exquisite and famous. "Wei Ji" kite has a history of 100 years. Its founder Wei Yuantai (born in 1872) is skilled. Over the past 70 years, he has made tens of thousands of kites with exquisite and high artistic quality, which is well-known at home and abroad and enjoys the reputation of "Kite Wei". 19 14, the "Wei Ji" kite won the gold medal at the Panama International Fair in one fell swoop, and has since become a precious collection favored by many museums at home and abroad.

Step 4 carve bricks

Liu began to learn brick carving skills with his grandfather Ma Shunqing when he was 0/5 years old. Ma Shunqing is a famous brick carving artist in Tianjin. During the light years of the Qing Dynasty, he developed Tianjin brick carving into a folk art independent of architecture, and created the superposition method, which expanded the three-dimensional space and made his works distinct. Liu Jicheng and developed Ma Shunqing's method of sticking bricks and created Tianjin's unique brick carving style. Known as the "brick carving Liu", he is good at three-dimensional and semi-three-dimensional through carving. The landscape, flowers, figures, birds and animals carved on the square brick are vivid and ingenious, which has high artistic appreciation value.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Tianjin