WengYang Spring Festival hometown food custom is, what

WengYang street is located in wenzhou yueqing city liu city plain east, belongs to the liu city area one of the four major components. The following is an introduction to the dietary practices and cultural practices.

(A) New Year's Eve and Spring Festival

New Year's Eve is probably the most important festival of the year for WengYang people in Yueqing. Since the New Year is approaching, there are winter solstice eating dumplings, sun-dried soy sauce meat and eel replicas, and pounding New Year's cake. After the twenty-fourth day of the lunar calendar, families will offer sacrifices to the stoves, dust the new, and put up Spring Festival couplets. On the night of 29th and 30th, the whole family will get together and eat "New Year's Eve Wine", that is, New Year's Eve dinner, and then the elders will distribute New Year's money to the younger generation.

In the early morning of the first day, the first thing every family is to scramble to hit the "door cannon", the whole city a firecrackers, symbolizing the old to welcome the new and receive the blessing, commonly known as "receiving the New Year". Playing the "door cannon" also has the practice, generally is the first small firecrackers a string, called "hundred children gun"; and then put a double sound of big firecrackers, big firecrackers only three hair, meaning that can lift the year's plague plague obscurity and said to pick up the New Year. The first meal of the New Year should be put on some rice cakes, meaning that every year high. On the second and third days of the New Year, we start to visit our friends and relatives, and go to our neighbors' houses.

But in recent years, with the simplification of the family structure and changes in social aesthetics, although the customs of bowing to the elders and wearing new red clothes have been gradually weakened, the expectations of the New Year and the hopes for a good new year remain unchanged.

(B) special dietary folklore

⒈ Vegetarian noodles

From ancient times to the present in Nantang, Yueqing people usually have the custom of eating vegetarian noodles. Vegetarian noodles are rich in nutrients and easy to digest, for the masses of favorite foods, the elderly birthday, birthday, women have children with this as the main food. Because the food has a strong body, anti-aging effect, it is also known as "longevity noodles". Our city counties have "vegetarian noodles" processing, Yueqing vegetarian noodles history of several hundred years, vegetarian noodles are characterized by fine as silver wire, white and pliable, good taste. Foreign friends and relatives to visit friends and relatives in Yueqing, the host will generally cook a bowl of vegetarian noodles for them to taste.

Yueqing vegetarian noodles have a wide range of uses, such as eating ginger and sugar noodles for the month, eating green onion and white noodles for colds, and eating longevity noodles for birthdays. In addition, to send the moon soup, on the weekly rituals, to wish ten rituals, birthday rituals and offerings to the Buddha, etc., the use of such noodles. Some famous handmade noodles have to be booked months in advance, and it is even rumored that the quality of the noodles is best in August and September, and many regular customers will order the noodles for their daughters-in-law who are going to have their first month of pregnancy as early as possible.

Peake sticky rice

Sticky rice is also one of Wenzhou's staple foods, especially for breakfast, but Wenzhou's fondness for it has made it an all-day operation in many places.

Sticky rice is arguably simpler and more convenient to eat in Wenzhou. Sticky rice from the steamer cage out of the cage as long as in accordance with the different personal tastes with different ingredients. Generally divided into two kinds: broth and oil strips, as long as you take the appropriate amount of oil strips sprinkled on the glutinous rice, and then poured beforehand boiled with a good broth can be served a night of authentic Wenzhou glutinous rice; there is also a way to eat: directly out of the cage of glutinous rice sprinkled with sugar, this way of eating corresponds to the southern people good sugar. This way of eating is also a unique flavor. These two extremely simple ways of eating glutinous rice show the simplicity of the local people, without losing nutrition and concise and quick.

3 sweet potato yellow folder

sweet potato yellow folder, also known as sweet potato royal folder, similar in appearance to the steamed dumplings, made from fresh sweet potatoes and sweet potato flour, the outer skin is soft and tasty, golden and transparent, so it got this name. It originated in WengYang Street, Yueqing City, Zhejiang Province, and is said to have originated in XiangYang Town (the area of LiuChi Town today). After a hundred years of inheritance and development, it has become one of the famous snacks in Wenzhou, and is also known as "DengZhan Cake", "Oil Dregs", and "Duck's Tongue". Singing Muffin

Muffin is a traditional Han Chinese snack in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, which is soft, sweet, delicious and famous in China. Most of the traditional muffins are made of glutinous rice, brown sugar and fat meat, with red dates, walnuts and cinnamon as fillings. The brown, six-pronged muffins are just cooking out with rising heat, with red dates and cinnamon decorating the surface, and filled with shiny fat meat and walnuts, which is fragrant to the nostrils. Muffin is a gift to relatives for engagement and marriage in Wenzhou. On the 25th day of the Lunar New Year, we cook the cake to pray for a high rise in the coming year.