What are the customs and taboos in Taizhou (or Taixing)?

1. In the early morning of the first day of the first lunar month in Hailing District, Taizhou City, tea fruits and jiaozi were presented in front of the ancestral tablet at home, and the whole family burned incense to worship. Eat dumplings, fruit tea, etc. Go out and kowtow to your elders to pay New Year's greetings. When you go to a relative's house, you must kowtow to the portrait axis of his ancestors.

2. The lunch on the first day was mainly wine and food. After dinner, or listen to people singing books, or invite people to play cards. Eat early at night and go to bed early at night. Legend has it that the mouse married a girl that night and could not light a lamp at home. Several people use bamboo poles to stir up a red lantern or a string of red lanterns and erect them in the courtyard, which is called "lighting the sky". The red light shines high every night until the lights are turned off on 18.

In the first month, Taizhou urban and rural residents ushered in the custom of "New Year's Day", also known as "Please celebrate the Spring Festival". Known as contacts, people invite each other, and some people entertain for days, reaching dozens of days. Teachers who entertain new husbands, daughters-in-law, and children of the Fang nationality are often referred to as "waiting for the son-in-law", "waiting for the bride" and "waiting for the husband" respectively.

Second, taboo.

1. Don't dump sewage, garbage, litter or urinate anywhere on New Year's Eve. ?

2. Avoid swearing, talking loudly and children crying on New Year's Eve. ?

3, New Year's Eve is taboo to drop plates; In case it breaks down, say "breaking the peace" to resolve it. ?

Don't say such unlucky words as "broken", "dead", "sick", "lost" and "defeated".

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Taizhou famous specialty:

1, May Lan Yan?

"Meilan Banquet" is based on the flavor of Huaiyang cuisine, with exquisite materials and rigorous production. It was developed in memory of Mr. May Lanfang. It combines drama with cooking culture, takes Mr. Mei's 65,438+08 representative plays as the background, takes drama as a metaphor, absorbs Mr. Mei's daily eating habits, and collects famous dishes in Taizhou during the tour, thus forming a colorful banquet.

2. Jingjiang crab roe soup bag?

Jingjiang crab roe soup packets? Its characteristics: thick but not oily, oily but not greasy, thin skin like paper, delicious soup; When it first came out of the cage, it was "put on a plate like a clock and clamped on chopsticks like a lantern". Crab oil is golden yellow, gently shaking, like a soft-shelled egg.