Essay on hometown (Wenzhou) traditional culture such as (specialties customs)

[Pancake sauce] Wenzhou famous specialties pancake, washed and opened on both sides of the diagonal knife, pickled in soy sauce edamame. There are also salt pickling, two days can eat. Eat with sugar, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil.

[Hemp Qiao] Originally known as Qiao Shi, it originated from the custom of women begging for coquettishness on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Hemp Qiao using high-quality flour, cane sugar, lard, salt, soda and other raw materials, modulated into a tongue, sprinkled with sesame, baked. Wenzhou City Bread Food Factory production of hemp Qiao, in 1983 won the Zhejiang Province, the best traditional commercial products award.

[Wenzhou beef baklava] Founded in 1936 in the city of Wu Ma Street Fuk Luk Shou candy store, originally made for the Guangdong masters, the first sale will be home to the market. Demand exceeds supply. Since then, Wenzhou successively opened a number of beef baklava workshop. Wenzhou city food company workers after many innovations in the production process and ingredients, made of beef baklava with Wenzhou characteristics, selling well at home and abroad. 1982 was named the best product in Zhejiang Province.

[Wenzhou Meat Loaf] Lean pork with bones and high-grade soy sauce, sugar, salt. After the raw material finishing, stewing, embryo, frying, wiping loose five processes made. The finished product is light yellow, flocculent, fiber thin and loose, delicious, nutritious. 1956 in Shanghai, held in nine provinces of the national food exchanges, Wenzhou meat loaf won the first place in the total score.

[Wenzhou Scholar's Red] This wine has a history of more than 800 years, after liberation was once out of gear. 1988 in the fall, Wenzhou Winery in accordance with the secret recipe to resume production. The wine tastes mellow and fragrant, the color is red and translucent, it is widely popular and has been exported to Japan, France, Spain, Singapore, Malaysia, the United States and other countries and Hong Kong.

[Wenzhou Sorghum Pork] is said to have been created in the Qing Dynasty in Wenzhou's Hengjing Lane Guangjin-like preserved meat store. Pork breast cut into thin slices, mixed with sugar, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, shaoxing wine, refined salt. After spreading the sun, drying and become. Round, translucent, with uniform thickness, crispy and delicious. Eating without getting tired of the characteristics.

[Long people wontons] As early as the Song Dynasty, China has the habit of eating wontons on the winter solstice. It is said that the rich family to set up a broad, a bowl of wontons have more than ten flavors, different fillings, known as the "hundred flavors of wontons". 30 s. A long man in Yueqing named Chen Lipin, who is the first person in the country to have wontons. Yueqing has a long man named Chen Lipiao, in Wenzhou City, shoulder wonton tandem selling along the street, and then set up store in the fishery abundance of bridge. Made wonton skin as thin as paper, filled with fresh meat, like clouds. Covering materials are seaweed, shredded eggs, meat floss, shrimp, broth and flavor, appreciated by customers.

[Wencheng Ramen] has a history of several hundred years. Its production method is: pour white flour into the basin or board, slowly add water, mix well, and then use both hands to knead repeatedly until sticky into a ball. Cut the dough into 1 cm wide pieces and cover with a wet towel to prevent it from drying out. About 15 to 20 minutes, both hands will be lifted at both ends, while pulling and shaking, can be extended at will. Some people pull to nearly a meter long, and then merge and re-draw thin to the cotton yarn in general, thrown into the boiling soup, a little cooked that is cooked, fish up and add seasoning accessories, can be eaten.

[Wencheng Hair Vegetable] also called "vegetable heart", is a traditional home cooking. Mustard will be washed and softened, cut thin and spread to the degree of hand pinch no water seepage, plus 3% to 4% salt kneaded, Sheng small mouth cylinder cans press solid, tightly sealed inverted in a cool clean place, can be stored for a long time 3 years does not deteriorate. Its flavor is sweet and sour, the fragrance of the nose.

[Horseshoe pine] the earliest production in the Qing dynasty Yongzheng years, Wenzhou Yueqing County, white elephant place, in the shape of a horse's hoof name. It is made of flour and brown sugar for the skin, filled with sugar heart and salted meat dices, red melon silk, cooked sesame powder and cinnamon. Side slanting, five cuts open, with underhand pressure to reveal the heart of sugar, affixed to the inner wall of the barrel of the fire charcoal oven at a high temperature of 200 ℃, stewed in an open fire, with a crispy skin and soft heart characteristics.

[White Snake Cake] In the late Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Wenzhou City, the right side of the bell tower of the head of the city, there is a Zhang's opened the Cake Shop. Its system "onion oil heavy crispy biscuits", each 50 kilograms of flour with 8.5 kilograms of lard kneaded into a crisp surface; filling with salted pork fat diced pork, wine-soaked shrimp, sweet soy sauce melon grains, Beijing winter vegetables, green onions, mixed with sesame oil. After molding, they are baked over hot coals. The baked cakes are light yellow in color and crispy when eaten. Because the owner of the store likes to wear white clothes, people call her the "White Lady" in the "Tale of the White Snake", and the baklava is also named after her.

[White Elephant Cake] Gongjiu brand cake, the Department of Yueqing County, White Elephant Town, Gongjiu North and South Goods Company created, so far has a history of more than 50 years. It takes glutinous rice flour as the main material, sesame, cotton sugar, citrus cake as the auxiliary material, and is made by steaming and cooking, characterized by white color, sweet taste, soft and fluffy.

[Gift cake] Wenzhou City on the gift cake, in the plastic arts and pattern design, and strive to cater to different levels of favorite. Children and teenagers birthday cake, commonly used buttercream piled on Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, twelve banks and other vivid images; the old man birthday cake is as high as nine layers, layers of different auspicious patterns, the highest layer of the center of the rice plastic old life star, colorful, beautiful shape.

[Temple Front Hundun] Yongqiang Temple Front Street Hundun, founded in the Qing dynasty during the Daoguang period. The wonton skins made of white flour are as thin as a cicada's wing; the fillings are made of lean meat from the hind leg of the pig slaughtered on the same day. The owner of the store has set a strict rule that only one bowl of wontons is cooked in one pot of soup, and no exceptions are made even if business is good. Accompaniments include shredded egg, seaweed, minced meat and chopped scallions.

[Old Wine Khan] Wenzhou specialties famous wine, to steam the essence of high-quality yellow wine and famous. In the late Qing Dynasty, it was once listed as a tribute. The old wine sweat alcohol for 64 degrees, containing ester amount of about 0.3%, the amount of wine is only 1%, that is, 100 kilograms of high-quality yellow wine is only steamed to mention the wine sweat 1 kilogram or so. The quality is fresh and mellow, the aroma stays in the teeth and cheeks after drinking, and it has the good effect of promoting blood circulation, clearing the mind and dispelling the summer heat. Wenzhou distillery production of old wine Khan, 1989 in the National Food Expo won the silver medal.

[Sesame foot sugar] late glutinous rice cooked and dried, and sand mixed into rice flowers, sieve, add sugar, caramel boiled syrup and cooked sesame, cooked peanut kernels, cinnamon, ginger, lard, modulation molding, cut into long squares. It is characterized by one product with multiple flavors. In the old days, there are also special salted sesame sugar for New Year's Eve. Its ingredients and methods and sweet basically the same, only without sugar, add shrimp (chopped), green onions and salt, a unique flavor.

[Lantern Cake] In the late Qing Guangxu, Wenzhou people Chen Daimu, Chen Shattered two brothers, set up a stall in the East Gate Steeplehead fried Lantern Cake. Filling is pork leg meat and Huangyu radish, the outer skin with new soybean and rice flour paste and mix, using fresh lard deep-fried. The cake is so named because it looks like a lantern. This product has a crispy outer skin, soft round edges, and refreshing inner filling, making it unique in flavor.

[Hibiscus candy] is originally a famous Manchu snack, improved by the Wenzhou confectioner to become a Wenzhou specialty. It is white flour and egg modulation into a ball, pressed into powdered skin, uniform and thin, people fried in lard into hibiscus flower pieces, and then caramelized sugar syrup board, sprinkled with osmanthus,

cut pieces on the market. Because the finished product petal overlap, level clear, color wheat yellow, delicate and bright, very popular.

[Li Datong double cooking cake] Rui'an pastry master Li Ruiqing created in the Qing Dynasty during the reign of Guangxu, more than 100 years of history. It uses glutinous rice flour mixed with sugar or brown sugar and sifted, sprinkled with osmanthus, molding and cutting, after two cooking and become. Its characteristics are: fine, soft, tough, fragrant, sweet, young and old savory, is the famous brand of tea food in Wenzhou City.

[Yangmei wine] Yongjia all over the abundance of Yangmei, commonly known as "Nanxi plum", the annual output of more than 10,000 quintals. In addition to supplying the market, but also with white wine formulated into "Yangmei wine", shipped to domestic and international markets. Yangmei wine is sweet with acidity, comfortable population, can resist the summer, for the summer wine.

[County before the dumplings] County before the dumplings are famous. Once upon a time, there were more than 10 varieties, but only the most popular ones were made, such as hemp heart dumplings, sand dumplings and fresh meat dumplings. The filling of hemp heart dumplings is stirred with cooked sesame, powdered sugar and raw lard; the filling of pounding sand is made with bean flour, banana essence and sugar; the filling of fresh meat dumplings is minced pork hind leg from a newly slaughtered pig. Wenzhou custom, the engagement of the county before the soup dumplings coupons are distributed to neighbors and relatives and friends along with the wedding candy.

[Oil egg] glutinous rice flour dough, with hemp heart or bean paste as filling, dipped in white sesame, deep-fried, cooked in old yellow color. The shape of duck eggs and slightly longer, hollow, called oil eggs; also with fresh pork and mushrooms and other fillings, round like a ping-pong ball and slightly larger, called hemp ball. Li Datong, a century-old store in Rui'an, started out making oil eggs and doughnuts.

[Hongqiao Mung Bean Cake] Hongqiao Mung Bean Cake was founded in Hongqiao Town, Yueqing County, during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, and was formally set up in the middle of the Guangxu period, with the name of "Cai Risheng Southern Cake and Candle Shop". Mung bean cake is made of mung bean flour, fried glutinous rice flour, sugar, lard, tea oil and other proportions. It is soft and flavorful, sweet and delicious.

[Lotus Flower Crisp] Flour and cooked lard, respectively rolled into water oil skin, dry shortening, open into a multi-layered pastry, wrapped in bean paste filling, made into a spherical shape. With a knife at the top of the wedge into six large petals, put a small fire in a warm oil pan and fry until ripe open petals. Finished layers of puff pastry turned out as lotus petals, crisp and sweet.

[Qiancang early broad beans] produced in Pingyang Qiancang, characterized by early season, tender, in 1972 the United States President Nixon visited China, specially sent to Beijing as a national feast delicacies. Therefore, it is famous overseas.

[Jelly] to yellow croaker or other fish fat as raw materials, add water (50 grams of dried croaker plus 2500 grams of water) boiled, dissolved and cooled to become. Eat with a knife into small particles, with soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, rice vinegar, sesame oil, pepper and other seasoning. The taste is cool and smooth, and it has the effect of relieving alcohol.

[Huangtan Sugar] The refined glutinous rice is used as the raw material, fermented with malt, and sesame, peppermint oil, and raw kernel are added as condiments to make crunchy sugar threads, hard and tough sugar strips, and various kinds of patterned sugar cakes, which are sweet and savory. This is the Huangtan folk traditional food processing industry, the Ming and Qing Dynasties is very prosperous, sold in southern Zhejiang and northern Fujian, Su Hui reputation.

[Dajing stone lotus paste] made of wild stone lotus seeds, cool and refreshing, for the thin jelly-like cold drink. Yueqing Dajing mountain people have the habit of picking stone lotus seeds on the mountain every summer. in the early 90's, Dajing every year, hundreds of people with stone lotus seeds into Beijing, in the streets of Beijing to open stone lotus paste cold drink store stalls, business is good.

[Dajing winter rice candy] on the white glutinous rice cooked and dried, grain crystal, burst into rice flowers, add sugar, caramel boiled syrup and lard modulation molding, sprinkled with cinnamon, slightly cooled and cut into small rectangles. Sweet and crunchy, old and small savory, because the cooking sunshine glutinous rice more in the sun is not strong, the climate is dry in the winter, so it is called "winter rice sugar".

[Hawthorn cake] take hawthorn juice, with sugar, agar, frozen into the plate, cut into prisms or flat squares for sale. Its flavor is sweet and slightly acidic, and it has the therapeutic value of eliminating accumulation, resolving stagnation and running stasis. Wenzhou is most famous for the hawthorn cake of the old store of five flavors and. The store for fresh, each batch of production to one or two days sold out to the degree.

[Wuga Pi medicinal wine] Wuga Pi medicinal wine made by Wu Wei and old store, choose the best sorghum wine, according to the ancient prescription with medicine, plus rock sugar copied and become. The flavor of the wine is mellow, and the aroma of the medicine is suitable for people. It is comparable to Zhejiang Yan Dong Guan Wuga Pi medicinal wine.

[Five flavors and fish sang] fish sang that is white sandalwood sang. Bai Tan Sang, also known as Little White Band, is a small, slender, flat fish. The old store of Wu Wei He has been making fish sashimi for 60-70 years. The store uses a unique traditional recipe, choosing fresh small white tape as thin as flat noodles, and marinating it with glutinous rice porridge, shredded radish from Huangyu Island, red dregs, salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, rice vinegar, etc. in a certain proportion. Generally pickled in the spring flood period, sealed, in the following year, three days open, bottled for sale. Many return home to visit relatives of Wenzhou overseas Chinese and compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, often with a few bottles back, as a rare hometown flavor.

[Wumi Xiangcao] also known as five-color Xiangcao, Wenzhou City, a traditional snack, created in the late 1960s. Glutinous rice flour and refined sugar as the main material, the cake plate processing and molding after steaming and cooking. A package of five, its color is different. Red with osmanthus flavor, yellow with banana flavor, white with five spices (cloves, anise, fennel, orange peel, pepper) for filling, black wrapped in black sesame powder, each with its own flavor, young and old. Wenzhou City, five flavors and food factory, the county before the food factory production of five flavors of incense cake, has been named the best Wenzhou goods and Zhejiang Province, quality products.

[Nanxi Wheat Cake] Nanxi Wheat Cake was originally from Yongjia Shatou. The small boat has always been a port for small boat travelers to stop and wait for the tide. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good idea of what you're getting into. The original ingredients of a wheat cake is: half a catty of wheat flour, an egg, a tablespoon of vegetable oil, mixing and kneading, into the shape of a concave character, embedded in pickles, fresh meat, cooking shrimp, monosodium glutamate (MSG). Wrapped together, pounded with a mallet into a flat circle, placed in a flat-bottomed iron skillet on both sides of the synopsis of the white, and then transferred to the oven to bake hard. The food is crunchy, fragrant, and delicious.

[Dwarf Muffin] In the late Sino-Japanese War, a Wenzhou man, Gu Jinfang, set up a stall at the corner of Wuma Street in the city to make muffins, which were famous for their exquisite materials and fine production. People to valley short, called its cake for "dwarf muffin". This confectionery uses pure glutinous rice of the year, which is ground into fine powder with water and mixed with fat pork buttocks, cinnamon and sugar. It is cooked and cut into pieces, and sold on the spot. It is characterized by soft and glutinous, sweet and salty, fragrant and delicious, so customers one after another.

[Xincheng dried tofu] Ruian Xincheng Gengchun sauce garden produced dried tofu, to taste and aftertaste of the beautiful reputation. It uses new beans of the year, after soaking, grinding, filtering, boiling, freezing, extruding, cutting, made with double vat of soy sauce and spices, and placed in a ventilated place to dry and then marketed. Whenever the bus stops at Ruian Xincheng, Tangxia and other stops, there are many vendors with baskets along the car window to and from the sale, the buyers are enthusiastic.

[Fukushou cake] with pure glutinous rice fried and ground, plus sugar, caramel, cinnamon and flavorings, mix well, with molds pressed into butterflies, rings, hundreds of children, as well as blessing, fortune, longevity, happiness and other words, between the red and white, as a wedding celebration gifts of good luck.

[Pancakes] Wenzhou people have the custom of eating pancakes at the Dragon Boat Festival. Production of pancakes have a certain degree of difficulty, first of all, the proportion of flour and water to be appropriate, stirred, grabbed in the hands of hanging without falling, the batter to the iron frying pan lightly dragged a circle, it will be branded a straight through about 21 centimeters, as thin as silk sheet to. The noodles are placed on a flat plate, put in shredded meat, shredded mushrooms, green beans, shredded eggs, shredded eel and chives fried into the filling, rolled into a cylinder, dipped in the original filling of fontanel to eat.

Customs

Jewelry dragon

In Wenzhou Yueqing, Yongjia and other places, there is a dragon lantern called "jewelry dragon". It is different from other dragon lanterns, the whole body is not in the shape of a dragon, but in accordance with the structure of the fish boat, the entire first frame is a curved wooden bar as a foundation, above the bamboo and gabion paste paper tied into a dragon boat. The boat is 3 meters long, 3 meters in length, and about 3 meters high. In front of the dragon head, in the dragon head mouth-like part, containing beads hanging beard, as a symbolic sign of the dragon, after the dragon tail, the middle of the "dragon body" on the 5-7 layers of the pavilion. On the insertion of small flags of various colors, each layer of the left and right and the rear of the Department of double-walled structure, the inner wall of the translucent white paper, the outer wall of the light green or colorful fine-grained paper patterns, when the dragon belly lights, the light reflected around the carving of the paper colorful, dazzling. The whole dragon boat decorated with more than 70 elaborate pavilions, in the various layers of pavilions and decorated with nearly 300 wonderful silk figures. Composed of more than 80 plays, most of the content is taken from the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Yue Quanzhuan". Folk called "dragon boat lamp", also known as "floor boat". The whole dragon lantern is also equipped with wooden gears, all absorbing characters are linked in a piece. Through the lights of a person shaking hands, operated by a person, can pull all the silk figures, each performing different actions, interesting, amusing, showing a strong local color and unique national art style. Jewelry dragon belongs to ornamental dragon lanterns, designed for people to watch, generally do not do dance performances. When the jewelry dragon is on the move, there is a dragon lamp and dragon lamp supporting lights, commonly known as "dragon boat moon", because it is shaped like the moon on the string, so the name. It is very small, no pavilions, and not stick paper-cutting patterns, only in the lamp on the left and right painted a little dragon scales, to do the symbol.

Every year, before the Lantern Festival, all over the world to hire lamp-decorating artists, spend two months to make a good dragon lantern. When the Lantern Festival comes, the dragon boat lanterns come out with other dragon lanterns. Activity time is generally from the beginning of the first month ten to sixteen, a **** seven days and nights. People carry jewelry dragons and parade them to each village and each house with big gongs and drums, singing auspicious chants. To the seventh night, the village jewelry dragon is routinely concentrated to a nearby temple, for the "collection of the death" (incinerated with fire), the so-called send the dragon to heaven, and to sesame seeds, green beans sprinkled. In the collection before the death, but also let the villagers comment on the craftsmanship of the dragon lanterns, especially the dragon boat lamp tail a large fine-grained carved paper (commonly known as "dragon tail flower"), who, if you can comment on the first, known as the "Dragon Boat Brother", is a great honor.

Dragon boat lamps were born in Wenzhou Yueqing and other places, is by no means accidental, first of all, Wenzhou is located in the southeast of the seaside, generations of fishermen rely on the sea fishing for a living. Fish boat is the life of the fishermen, leaving the boat, the fishermen do not have everything, because of long-term production and life practices, so that they have deep feelings for the fish boat to create this special dragon lamp, which is the characteristics of the marine culture in the folk lamps and lanterns in the specific reflection. Secondly, it is closely related to the local arts and crafts, the nationally renowned Yueqing fine grain paper-cutting, it is said that the dragon lanterns on the "dragon boat flower" has a blood relationship, they complement each other, and promote each other's development, and gradually make the paper-cutting widely used in all areas of people's lives, and finally become an independent art with regional characteristics. The Dragon Boat Lantern is not only a wonderful lantern for the Lantern Festival, but also a piece of artwork of incomparable delicacy.

The jewelry dragon lantern, as a traditional lantern cai of the Ming Dynasty, has been passed down for hundreds of years, and it is very rare that it can be preserved intact until today. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people of Wenzhou through the ages, and it is also the masterpiece of the lantern cai of Wuyue region, and it is also considered a masterpiece in the whole country.

Wenzhou Drum Lyrics

Wenzhou Drum Lyrics is a form of music popular in Wenzhou, southern Zhejiang Province, which is also known as "goze lyrics" because of the fact that blind people used to perform it. According to the late famous artists Ji Songnian and Guan Huashan, Wenzhou Drum Lyrics "began in the Ming Dynasty, and was formed by the merger of Hengyang Lilian songs and lyrics. Hengyang, i.e. Pingyang nowadays; the songs of the alleys refer to the folk tunes. At that time, the literati in the wilderness and the clever blind artists, bearing the mantle of ancient music and absorbing the local folk tunes, created the rap form. After more than two hundred years of development, it has also been perfected instrumentally and musically.

Wenzhou drum words according to the way of singing, can be divided into two kinds: one is called "flat words", wherever red and white celebrations, or hospitality to guests, or due to disputes over the wrong penalty words there is also a word called "big words", also known as "Niangniang word There is also a kind of word called "big word", also known as "Niangniang word". Before liberation, it was sung in temples dedicated to the goddess. Singing big words, with a drum and a beat, beat a big drum, beat a big gong, the tune is high, rough, more primitive. Its main words are "Chen XIV Niangniang", singing the story of Chen XIV learning the law to exterminate the demon, which can be sung for several days and nights.

Wenzhou drum words are sung and spoken, mainly sung. Its singing, tunes, with a strong flavor of the southern folk songs, the basic tunes of the drum lyrics have dozens of plates such as slow, running water, tight plate. Since Wenzhou drum lyrics are sung in Wenzhou dialect (with Rui'an language as the standard), the voice is different from place to place, and the singing voice has its own characteristics, and its singing style is divided into southern and northern schools. The southern school tunes are more delicate and soft; the northern school tunes are more rugged and simple.

Wenzhou drum lyrics are long on lyricism, good at narrating, and the song is slang, easy to understand, and rich in mass vocabulary and folk proverbs, the form of the song book has a "folding book", "novels", "Department of the book" and so on three. "Its syntactic structure is basically a seven-step process. Its syntactic structure is basically seven-word sentences, sometimes also using five-word sentences and stacked panels and other forms. Its style is generally made up of rhymes and dobbles. Singing rhyme is very concerned about the natural rhyme, syllable harmony, maintaining the characteristics of folk rap music.

The main musical instruments used in the singing of Wenzhou drums are flat drums, three-grain boards, ox-band zither, and small moon holders, etc. Therefore, the most distinctive feature of the performance is that the drums are used to play a variety of musical instruments. Therefore, the biggest feature of the performance is that a person can play four to six instruments in a single-file performance. At the same time, a person should play a variety of roles (male and female duets are used when available), and requires clear diction and detailed characterization. The plot should be explained in detail, the character's personality and demeanor should be accurately mastered, and one person can portray a variety of characters with different personalities, and can imitate various voices in order to render the atmosphere.

Wenzhou drum lyrics in the subject matter, most of the material from folklore and historical novels, which to express the family's sadness and joy and love stories mostly. There are more than four hundred traditional repertoires of various sizes, such as Chen XIV, Saying Yue, Powder Makeup House, Double Face, and so on.

Wenzhou Daoxiang

Wenzhou Daoxiang is a simple form, usually the artist is self-timed and sung. Singers hold two bamboo boards in the left hand, and elbow holding a bamboo tube taut with thin lard skin, while knocking the tube with the fingers and bamboo hit the knuckles, while singing songs. There are single singers and double singers. One person sings the words and phrases, while the other takes the last word and sings the chorus, and uses "li la li" to help give the singer a break. The lyrics are seven-word phrases, or five-word phrases, mainly sung, with a dobby. The repertoire includes "Gao Ji and Wu Sanchun" and "Parrot Passing", with vivid stories and rich vocabulary, and many metaphors to emphasize the environment and describe the characters.

Wenzhou Kunqu

Wenzhou Kunqu is a genre of Kunqu in the south of China, and is also known as "Yongkun" because it is popular in the area of Yongjia. It is basically similar to Suzhou Kunqu, but the tunes are slightly tighter, the rhythm is faster, and it uses the Wenzhou dialect. Accompanied by a flute-based, simple, gentle, lingering tune, and its rhythm, fast and slow, according to a fixed song, the provisions are very strict. Its repertoire includes "Pipa Tale", "Leifeng Pagoda", "Lianhuan Tale", etc. The performance art is characterized by simplicity, naturalness and brightness. The earliest classes were called "Tong Fu" and "Pin Yu".

Eating New Year's Eve Wine

On New Year's Eve, families gather together for a meal or invite their friends and relatives to eat and drink together, called "New Year's Eve Wine". Because New Year's Eve is the dividing line between the old and the new year, eat a year-old wine, meaning that the old and the new year is divided by this night. Therefore, this meal regardless of rich or poor, should try to do some sumptuous. Wenzhou people are very concerned about eating "year-end wine", also known as "New Year's Eve dinner". Eat the most auspicious. General seat with ten red bowls with red sand, holding ten kinds of cold dishes, called "ten full". Which, in addition to chicken, meat, there should be falling peanuts (said knot), mandarin oranges (said Daji), carp (said jump Dragon Gate), tofu (said the family clean), etc., and each bowl must have a piece of thinly sliced round carrot head over the top, to show that the color. In addition, the middle of the dishes, never less than "taro" and "fish". Wenzhou dialect, taro resonance for "Yu" and "Yu", meaning that eating taro, will make people next year, family income and expenditure, gradually rich. Eating fish also symbolizes the meaning of "yearly surplus". The first dish on the table must be rice cake, which means "high year after year" (nowadays, "noodles" are also used, which means "longevity"), and the last dish must be The last dish must be "eight treasures rice", symbolizing "wealth and treasure".

Running Horse Lantern

Running Horse Lantern is also known as "Walking Horse Lantern" and "Tuning Horse Lantern". Horse lanterns, is modeled after the shape of the horse with scotch paper mache, also known as "bamboo horse lanterns". Sub-horse head and horse body two sections, tied to play the horse lamp dancers in front of the abdomen and behind, living in the middle, walking up like riding a horse, commonly known as "horse head army". Generally 8 horses, including 6 white horses, rouge horses (red horses) 2. Before and after the Lantern Festival, in the city mostly by ten to thirteen-year-old boys, each with a paper tie in front of the chest horse head, hanging a small bell, behind a paper tie horse tail, with a belt tied to the body, running up and down can swing around, the horse bells jingling, holding a bamboo pole in the hand as a horse whip, at night, the head of the horse, the horse tail in the middle of the candles are lighted. When the show, by one or two children play horse boy, calling the horse team, out of the show. The children run and sing, plus dance moves, walk into a "triangle", "chain", "scissors" and other kinds of formation, the band played, the tune is melodious. Most of the lanterns are performed in the open space in front of the house or in the center hall. After the performance, the hosts rewarded with oranges, fried rice, candles, etc., and also gave money and silver medals. Qing Dynasty Guo Zhongyue has a poem: "Singing New Year's Day is happy to be in full swing, the city is full of competition to perform the lanterns of the previous year. Rolling dragons and horses clamor through the night, fire trees and silver flowers burned."

Seafood food customs

Wenzhou City, numerous coastal islands, fishing grounds, rich in aquatic resources, only seawater fish have dozens of species. And there are more than one million acres of shallow sea mud beach, the texture is fine and soft, suitable for aquaculture shellfish, algae, fish, shrimp and so on. The territory of the rivers and streams, water network cross, fish products are very rich. Folk consumption of seafood four methods:

Cooked food method is generally used to cook, steam, stew, fry, fry, etc., will be burned into a variety of fish and shrimp Lai dishes, and commonly used fresh ingredients with pickled food with steamed or stewed, such as fresh salted vegetables and yellowtail made of stewed yellowtail, broth milky white, tender fish, containing vegetables, fresh and delicious; or crucian carp fried in oil, fresh and crispy taste. Raw food such as live river crabs, washed and chopped, mixed with sugar, vinegar, ginger, pepper and then

Raw food method with live river shrimp, washed with wine, sugar, ginger, etc. soak on a moment, can be eaten raw, commonly known as the "Drunken Shrimp"; with a small fish known as the white Christmas, brown sugar and salt, made into a raw fish to accompany the meal, commonly known as the "Fish Life", the "Fish Life". "fish raw"; and oyster meat is also eaten raw, eaten dipped in a little sauce, vinegar, ginger, etc., the flavor are delicious.

Dry wax method, such as fresh yellowtail cut open and dried, is the famous "white replica bags", delicious flavor; or cuttlefish (commonly known as "squid") cut off the conch crags and dried, called "Ming Pro", also known as sea slugs. ", and such as sea slugs, a small fish, body length of about half an inch or so, as fine as hair, dried into silk, golden color, very tasty, scrambled eggs, mixed pickles, soak soup can be. Another example of fresh tamarind processing sun-dried, is the famous "Gong Gan", also known as "dried tamarind". Tempe meat is large and fat, food, remove both sides of the lock shell and hair, and then add radish, seaweed with cooking, extraordinarily delicious. This kind of dried seafood, not only can be stored for a long time, and has a unique flavor.

Pickling method using salt or wine lees to make seafood, stored in tanks as perennial dishes, such as the whole crab pickled for a few days, can be eaten; or take the meat and crab roe, chopped into a meat sauce, and then add salt pickling, you can take out the same day, mixed with rice vinegar, sugar and food, such as jellyfish, sea slugs, deep-fried fish, etc. can be pickled; mud snails after cooking with yellow wine impregnation, tender and delicious, bottled cans, can be stored for a long time. The use of wine lees to make bad fish, such as bad scallops, bad cuttlefish, bad yellowtail, bad eel tube. After the wine lees of fish, its flavor mellow, crisp and hygienic, not easy to deteriorate.