What is the custom of Wenzhou hometown?

One, the winter solstice to eat dumplings

The winter solstice is called "to day", commonly known as the "Winter Festival". On the morning of this day, every family will eat dumplings or mochi. Dumplings are filled with sweet sugar or sesame, and there are also salted meat dumplings. And mochi to first cook the glutinous rice, pounded tough into a block shape, and then placed in the sugar in the bean flour rolling so that it sticks full of bean flour, that is, mochi, mochi for the winter solstice snacks, commonly known as "ring mochi". Eat mochi, dumplings, symbolizing reunion and celebration, folk "eat the winter solstice pill, even if a year old" said.

Two, the sun soy sauce meat and eel replica bags

Wenzhou people used to about the eleventh month of the lunar calendar began to sun soy sauce meat and eel replica bags. With raw lean pork, raw chicken and duck in the soy sauce soak, and then sun-dried food, a unique flavor. In the past, during the month of the sun, the rafters of every house were densely packed with iron nails with soy sauce meat, soy sauce ducks and soy sauce chickens hanging from them.

The self-made soy sauce meat, soy sauce chicken flavor and quality, so even if the market is ready to sell, people are still willing to do their own sun. Eel is a specialty of Wenzhou, Wenzhou people usually go to the market to buy some larger eel, cut open light sun, became our mouth "eel replica bags", eel replica bags is more delicious than fresh eel, is the New Year's Eve dinner in the good wine.

Three, pounded rice cake

Also called "pounded sugar cake" with glutinous rice mixed with some indica rice, plus brown or white sugar, steamed, put in a mortar pounding tough, and then made into a rectangular shape, Rui'an called the "slow food! "

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If placed in different patterns of the printing plate, can be pressed into such as peony, peach, Kuixing, God of Fortune, Scholar, as well as carp, unicorn and other patterns of sweet cakes, also made into a Yuanbao-shaped, the maximum weight of about 3 kilograms, inserted silver flowers can be placed on the long table in the nave, each room can be placed on. This is also known as "making rice cakes", that is, the meaning of rising year after year.

Four, sacrificial stove

December 24 of the lunar calendar, families also "worship wok stove Buddha". It is said that this day is the day of the king of the stove to the Jade Emperor to report on the merits of mortals, it is said that the god of the stove is gluttonous, as long as there is sugar to eat, his mouth will be sealed, so the sacrifice of the stove are not without maltose, in order to the king of the stove in the front of the Jade Emperor does not say bad things.

Five, dusting the new

Annual lunar December 24 around the same time, along the waxing "dusting the new" custom, Wenzhou city households to sweep the dust and drive dirt, powder wall decorating the room, polyester with the sunshine, each family took the opportunity to wash off the home a year of dirt piled up, ready to Dry and clean to welcome the spring.