Winter Solstice, what are the customs in your hometown?

The winter solstice is commonly known as the "winter festival", "long solstice festival", "YaYu", etc. The winter solstice is a very important festival in our country's lunar calendar, but also a traditional festival.

My hometown is in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, Wenzhou is the cradle of Chinese mathematicians, the hometown of the Chinese Southern Opera, the Wenzhou people are called the Oriental Jews by the people of the country, and the dialect of the Wenzhou region has also been rated one of China's most difficult to understand dialects. After thousands of years of historical precipitation, the people of Wenzhou also inherited many local characteristics of the winter solstice folklore.

The winter solstice customs in Wenzhou are as follows:

Eating soup dumplings

On the day of winter solstice, Wenzhou people have the habit of eating soup dumplings or mochi. Elders will take advantage of the "broken interest" (Wenzhou dialect, meaning "children") to eat soup dumplings to teach their children, such as "eat the soup dumplings will be a year older," and advise children to be more obedient, all things to do better than last year. things should be done better than last year.

Sun-dried dumpling powder

Before the Winter Festival, many people grind glutinous rice into powder a few days in advance, mix it with water, and then divide it into small pieces and place them on bamboo bazaars to dry in the sun to make dumpling powder. After drying, they would put the powder into the oil tank, and when they wanted to eat, they would take a few pieces out and soak them in water and then use them. Some people also dry a lot of it at once and give it to their neighbors and relatives on the eve of the Winter Festival.

Selling mochi

Whenever the "Winter Festival" around the time of the old city of Wenzhou in the streets and alleys there will be some picking the stretcher to sell mochi people. These people are generally from the suburbs of the countryside, they will be at home beforehand, the dumpling powder boiled and pinched into a ball, and then with a little sugar, bean paste powder, all the way to sell, sell and do. They are highly skilled, a mochi by his hands a turn, it becomes hollow inside, smooth outside, like a ping-pong ball like mochi balls, and then filled with sugar and bean paste, sweet flavor.

Do Festival

In some rural areas of Wenzhou, on the day of the "Winter Festival", every family will set up a banquet to worship their ancestors. The pig's head, chickens, ducks, geese, fish and a few other things with and plate, to the ancestors worship, worship, the family sat down to eat, which is called "do festival".

Return to the sky

Some people also hold the "Return to the Sky" ceremony on the winter solstice. At the beginning of the year, if some of the wishes made are realized, they must be returned on this day. So Wenzhou people evaluation of a person lazy, do things with fine color, will use "still wish" two words to satirize, such as "you this person how to do things still wishing Nim, a little bit of energy is not".

This is also known as the "hundred wishes", which means that when you make a wish, you have to bring out a "hundred meters" to return it. Hundreds of rice refers to the use of a hundred families of rice to make up, so as to prove the return of a hundred wishes. But this "hundred rice" from where to get it? It is said that the winter solstice this day, beggars most eat open, because only their hands can be used as a "hundred rice", so some people will spend a high price to buy the beggar's rice as a worship wish.

Wenzhou winter solstice slang

"Pouring silver is not cold."

That is to say, people hold money every day, do not feel the cold, the heart comfortable hot.

"Extremely not extremely only 搝, cold not cold only shake."

Saying that one is not poor but keeps asking for it, and that one is not cool but keeps shivering.

As the saying goes, "a hundred miles of different winds, a thousand miles of different customs", the above is the winter solstice customs in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province!

"The winter solstice, the longest night, may your life beauty swing; winter solstice festival, pass the love, may your mood happy Tao Tao".