What are the characteristics of the traditional folklore of Tiantai

The first day of the New Year "five flavors of porridge" Spring Festival breakfast, customs vary. Tiantai city and countryside are all eating five flavors of porridge, the so-called "five flavors of porridge", is white rice, jujube, tofu, red beans (red beans), taro five kinds of porridge cooked together. Inferred up, originated from the Buddhist monks praying for the New Year "five blessings" to come down to earth and cook this miscellaneous soup. Wutai known as the "Buddha land", soil people believe in Buddhism, this custom is also infected, in order to pray for the wind and rain, the country and the people, the end of the year, the people can live and work in peace and contentment. However, the origin of this custom has to start from the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it is the local residents in order to thank Zhu Yuanzhang's volunteer army captured the county and the birth of the porridge, the moral is to eat it, will be able to attract the "five blessings".

Lunch is a specialty of Tiantai: "strudel", and dinner is dumplings or chaos.

Besides food, in Tiantai, every child in the family has to wear new clothes and new shoes ...... to "get rid of the old and welcome the new", wishing for a better life in the coming year. The most fortunate on this day will be the children, they will get the adults to prepare the new year's money .......

Also, in my hometown of Hongchou, there is a unique custom, although it is a legacy of the feudal "patriarchal" ideology, but after all, the birth of a child is still a happy thing. So Hongchou side has this year gave birth to a boy, the first day of the first month of the following year to do "melon wine" custom. The so-called "melon wine" is to set out their own prepared New Year's goods to invite some neighbors, friends, relatives to eat their own carefully prepared New Year's goods to celebrate. On this day every year, the people who hold the "melon wine" will prepare the traditional New Year's goods such as melon seeds, peanuts, rice bubble candy, and nowadays, people will also prepare some new New Year's goods such as candies, jellies, and canned fruits. This custom is not only prevalent in Hongchou, Sanhe and Tantou, but also in some towns in Sanmen County, which is adjacent to Hongchou. However, this custom is only found in the southeast corner of Tiantai for historical and geographical reasons.

And after the third day of the first month it is much the same as elsewhere, a custom of visiting relatives and friends and so on.

2. Lantern Festival

As the last festival of the New Year, the Lantern Festival is equally lively. Unlike other places, Tiantai people not only eat soup, but also have a special snack "paste la boil", and the 14th day of the first month is designated as the Lantern Festival. But this "paste la boil" history there is a story: an old artist and his daughter in the iron hooves of the Jin soldiers, fled to the city of Tiantai, but due to overwork and fainted to the ground, so that thought the good people home scooped up a bowl of paste la boil to its go eat. Eat for a while the two will be bright eyes, said repeatedly: "bright-eyed paste! Bright-eyed paste!" Since then, Tiantai people have been eating paste la boil custom.

Like other places, Tiantai people also like to see the Lantern Festival, but there are different customs with other places. In the Lantern Festival every year, Tiantai, Sanmen and other places throughout Taizhou have such a custom, that is, some of the children dressed up as gods and goddesses, and then placed on the "sedan chair" or colorful car, for the Lantern Festival when the important links, it is a bright landscape for people to watch.

3, Qingming Festival

While Tiantai people in the Qingming Festival also worship ancestors, sweeping graves, but Tiantai people's offerings are different, burned some conventional food, there are unique Qingming cakes and Qingming hinges, which are outside the skin is also more special. In addition to the glutinous rice flour, there is also a wild vegetable called "turnip", which is a small plant, about the size of a small green cabbage, but is a real wild food and green food, and it is precisely because of the presence of turnip that the skin of the Qingming cakes is green.

3, winter solstice

This is not a holiday, but it is the ancient weather forecaster, and its arrival means that the cold winter is really coming. On this day, all over the country will eat some special food to celebrate, but unlike other places, Tiantai people's custom is not to eat dumplings, but to eat a kind of glutinous rice ball called "winter solstice round". Its practice is first called glutinous rice flour and water, and then made into a ball, to be cooked, and then add some sweet spices to cover the outside can be, so with the Tiantai characteristics of the "winter solstice round" is done.

5, the customs of moving to a new home

Unlike other places, Tiantai from the old residence to move to a new home generally have to invite guests to dinner. Often, they set up a few tables and invite their friends to have a meal to show that they are celebrating the joy of moving to a new home.