What kind of food is red peach, also known as monascus peach?

Red peach, also known as monascus peach, is a famous Han snack in Chaoshan, Guangdong. Named after the shape of peach fruit. Peaches symbolize longevity, so making peaches reflects the desire to pray for longevity. Some places are called peaches and hearts because they look like flat hearts. Chaoshan housewives can generally master this food technology. Because the whole process starts with pounding rice noodles, cooking is also called pounding.

Chaozhou folk custom, in the eighth year, almost every household had to make red peaches, fermented peaches and white rice peaches. Heart and fermented grains should be placed in front of ancestors' graves to worship after eating, while white rice peaches are only used for eating. That's because chaozhou people thinks red is a symbol of good luck, and fermented grains need to be fermented in the production process, so it has a beautiful meaning of "fat".

Interpretation of Chaoshan people's sexual worship from the perspective of heart.

Author: Yang Yuting

The "Yangyuan Stone" and "Yuan Yinshi Stone" located in the world geological park and the world natural heritage site in Danxia Mountain have attracted countless tourists from home and abroad to admire the exquisite male and female genitals carved by nature, lament the great power of men and women to create life and express their reverence. Sexual worship is everywhere in life. For example, some experts have interpreted the origin of the word "Zu", thinking that "Shi" is the god on the left and "Qi" is the male root on the right. Together, it means to worship god with male roots. Durol, a religious scholar, believes that the tower architecture of later generations, especially the Gothic church, was developed under the influence of these two male genital shapes. Another example is the painted pottery pot unearthed in Liuwan, Ledu, Qinghai, China, which has plastic portraits of women with bare breasts and genitals; The red pottery nude female figure unearthed from Hongshan Culture building complex in Dongshanzui, Kazuo County, Liaoning Province, has a triangular relief pattern on the lower body to represent the vulva; Aktas Cave in Wusun Mountain, Yili, Xinjiang, is painted with rock paintings in the late Paleolithic period, and female genitalia is also painted in the middle of the rock wall. These are powerful physical evidence of people's worship of sex. According to the author's investigation and study, it can be seen everywhere in the daily life of Chaoshan people, and the deep heart that every household is very familiar with also reveals the sexual worship of Chaoshan people.

Red hearts have a special cultural position in the eyes of Chaoshan people, and eight festivals and sacrificial activities are almost indispensable. What is the cultural connotation of the heart? Perhaps many people focus on the shape of "Shoutao" when interpreting her, thinking that it represents longevity and auspiciousness; Red symbolizes prosperity and happiness. But this is only the most intuitive and superficial cultural interpretation. Just as many people think that the unearthed painted pottery and other cultural relics are engraved with "fish" or "fish scales", they simply think that this is a symbol of "more than one year". In essence, they have a deeper cultural interpretation-this is sex worship.

So what exactly is sex worship? Sex worship is a part of human primitive religion-nature worship. It is a kind of awe and mysterious perception of sex. Specifically, it can be understood as follows: First, primitive people lived a hard life. They fight against nature in order to survive, and they need to pay great efforts and costs. However, sexual intercourse between men and women can easily make them feel happy and satisfied. So they think that the genitals of both sexes are "monsters that seem to be independent of the human body", full of magical and irresistible forces, and they have a feeling of respect and worship for genitals and sexual intercourse. Second, before the mystery of women's fertility was solved, people felt that God had endowed women with great magic, and new life could be born in women's stomachs, which would continue the offspring and make human power stronger and stronger. The legend of "Nu Wa made man" in the history of China, the Virgin Mary in the Bible, and the female idol cultural relics of "big belly and big breasts" unearthed in many European countries all tell that human beings attach importance to and worship women, motherhood and female genitalia. The cultural relic essence of the figure of "fish" or "fish scale" is to take the meaning of "more eggs in the belly and strong reproductive ability". Later, people found that the important power of life extension not only came from women, but also could not create a small life without men, so they had a new understanding and worship of men and male genitals. The legend of "blackbirds give birth to business" is a metaphor for the ratification of male fertility contributions. Some scholars have pointed out that the essence of sex worship is the subjective reflection of "unknown and potentially huge positive" gender values by the human brain. It can be divided into genital worship, sexual intercourse worship and reproductive worship.

What about the "sexual worship" of hearts? Let's talk about goods first. Guo is a kind of food made of rice flour, flour or potato flour, or a sweet food made by adding vegetables such as leeks, radishes, thick vegetables, rat leaves or mung beans, peanuts, sesame seeds, glutinous rice and taro paste. Or add fragrant rice or glutinous rice such as pork, shrimp, mushrooms, etc. to make salty, meat or vegetarian, sweet or salty, and there are many kinds. On New Year's Eve, the first day, the Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Mid-Autumn Festival and other occasions, such as weddings, outings, camping for the elderly, ancestor worship or funerals, offerings are one of the essential offerings.

At present, the historical origin of this commodity seems to be inconclusive, perhaps because it is too common and common, rarely appears in the elegant hall of poetry and songs, and there are few materials and records. Some people say that in ancient sacrificial activities, our ancestors knew how to make some food as sacrifices from the primary processing of grain, and prayed for a bumper harvest and good weather. The appearance patterns of these foods are symbols of animals or human genitals, which is a simple expectation of human beings in the long-term struggle to adapt to nature and overcome nature. It is also said that the goods are the food prepared by virtuous women in Chaoshan area for their husbands and families to go fishing or cross the sea, because the goods are not only stored for a long time, but also carry affection and concern.

Although the history of hearts can't be verified, as one of the most important products in Chaoshan area, we think it contains more or less primitive reproductive worship and generalized sexual worship, and is rich in the kindness of husband and wife and the yearning for lovers.

Although the above inference is not elegant, folk customs can prove the inner sexual worship. In Chaoshan folk, red heart prints often appear in pairs with the same face. The shape of the cotton-headed nail resembles a female breast, and its pronunciation is also homophonic with "nipple". In the first month's sacrificial activities in Dongli, Chenghai, if new people worship the headgear, they are praying for having children, because "breasts" imply strong reproductive ability and can feed their children to grow sturdily. The appearance of Paired Hearts is undoubtedly a work of art abstracted from male genitals and a representative symbol of male genital worship. You may remember that when I was a child, as long as I ate red hearts, my family would joke that I would eat sharp hooks first and then have a boy. Eat first, then triangle, and have another girl. In fact, this is also the explanation given by the ancients for the gender difference of the heart, and its sharp part has the symbol of "male root" There is a custom of "looking for a baby with one heart" in the mother's sacrificial activities in Fenggang, Haojiang. Everyone presented a huge heart weighing four or five pounds and prayed that Fenggang's mother could give birth to a son for the couple. It is said that it is quite effective for Fenggang's mother to have a boy.

Not only Chaoshan area has a heart shape, but also Minnan in Fujian, Zhouzhuang in Shandong and Huizhou in Anhui. In a sense, it represents that the culture of sexual worship contained in the heart is the most primitive, simple and universal belief of human beings. It is a cultural symbol, an expectation and admiration for human reproduction, and a writing and praise for vitality.

Understanding the sexual worship of Chaoshan people from the perspective of mind is a subject worthy of study. This article is just to attract jade, there are many topics worth discussing and many problems that need textual research.

(The author is a local cultural researcher and director of Haojiang District Tourism Bureau.)