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202 1 aquarium festival time

202 1, and the festival ends from late August to early October of the lunar calendar.

The "Duanjie" of the Shui nationality, also called Guajie, is similar to the Spring Festival of the Han nationality. According to their own calendar, it is held from1February in the water calendar to February of the following year (equivalent to August to 10 in the lunar calendar). From the first batch to the last batch, Duanjie is divided into seven groups according to each natural village or branch, which lasts for 49 days and is known as "the longest national festival in the world".

After the festival, it is autumn and the grain is returned to the warehouse. It is difficult for the Shui people to restrain their inner joy, get together for a carnival, celebrate a year's hard work, and look forward to another bumper harvest next year.

During the festival, the Shui compatriots will hold sacrifices and ancestor worship ceremonies to show their respect for their ancestors, and at the same time pray for good weather and good harvests in the coming year. In addition, they will organize horse racing, water song competitions and other activities, and at the same time, they will prepare fish-wrapped leeks, 9,000 wines and other delicacies and wines, and invite guests and friends to celebrate the festival.

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Every time I go to "Rihai", the villages take turns to visit and eat wine during the holidays. In order not to affect production and save money, this festival has been held on the first "sea day" of the lunar calendar 1 1 month to celebrate the harvest after the busy farming. According to tradition, you can only be vegetarian on the night before the festival.

On the day of the festival, every household should set up a rich dining table and hold a feast, including not only meat dishes such as beef and pigs, but also fish, shrimp, tofu, melons and fruits, glutinous rice and so on. Among them, the most precious delicacy is "fish wrapped in leek", which is complex and exquisite in production process and delicious in taste.

The reason why leek occupies a very important position in the aquarium is said to be that leek commemorates an old man in ancient times with the homonym of nine. He made a delicious food with nine different vegetables and fish to strengthen his physique.

Wine is indispensable when celebrating festivals. Most of the work of making wine is undertaken by women. There are rice wine, glutinous rice wine, miscellaneous grains wine and sweet wine in the aquarium. Among them, the glutinous rice wine in Sandu 9000 area is the most famous, with brown color, sweet fragrance and refreshing feeling. 1957 hosted a state banquet. Aquarium people are very polite when entertaining guests on festivals or at ordinary times.

Guests usually kill chickens and ducks. If there are VIPs coming, they should kill pigs and fish. Because the pig's head and the chicken's head symbolize dignity, when dining, we should first respect the chicken's head for the guests. Pig's head is a farewell dish for guests; If it is a female guest, the guests should take away the chicken and duck wings and legs, glutinous rice cakes and zongzi left in advance when they leave, which is called wrapping ceremony by the people.

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