The customs of Lishui? Speed speed!

In the Dragon Boat Festival, Lishui's festival customs and the country's basic similarities, but with differences, according to the Qing Dynasty Daoguang twenty-six years (1846 AD) engraved "Lishui County," Volume XIII, "Customs" in: "Dragon Boat Door inserted bushels of Ai, women as a cocoon of Tiger, the Department of the long-lasting strand with other places. To the play of the dragon boat, because the boat overthrew the warning not to be". The author is puzzled, looking through the various versions of the "Lishui County" and "Zhizhou Prefecture", "with the same elsewhere" are briefly described, and the difference is no record, such as in the Dragon Boat Festival, Lishui people almost every family to "eat rolls", children and young people love to "play fight grass".

"Lishui burrito" is quite characteristic of the festival of local cuisine, the raw material for the flour and water and then add some salt, with both hands constantly stirred into both thick and thin properly and flexible paste, and then put on the iron casting of the pan (Lishui people called "simmering plate"), under the burning of white coals and kneaded over a slow fire, and then put on the iron casting of the pan (Lishui people called "simmering plate"), and then put the iron casting of the pan (Lishui people called "simmering plate"). Under the white charcoal burning slow fire kneading, kneading when the operator manually grasp a batter, constantly up and down rhythmically grasp a few times, one to prevent the batter from falling, two can enhance the toughness of the batter. The operator of the batter in the iron pot on a turn, that is, into a square pancake, by the charcoal fire responsible for the "deputy" in time to flip, and that is, from the iron pot to take out a good burrito has been burned. Branded burrito is commonly known as "burrito skin", thin skin white like paper, round shape like the moon, about 20 centimeters in diameter.

The burrito filling for the people's regular dishes, such as string beans, bean sprouts, dried tofu threads, bubble skin, shredded meat, branded egg skin threads, etc., and then add deep-fried vermicelli or back to the pot of the old fritters. For filling dishes must be fire fried, do not leave the soup, eat people with their favorite sandwich dishes for filling, like garlic can be smeared on the burrito skin some garlic paste, spicy people can be smeared with hot sauce, and then rolled into a tube, that is, into a "burrito" for eating.

Lishui burrito meat and vegetables, tough but not greasy, young and old alike, taste is quite good. Especially in the filling with fried noodles or old oil sticks, eat and fragrant and crispy, but also a different flavor, is indeed a popular food.

Recall that as a child over the Dragon Boat Festival, the family also loves to cook "pine flower roll cake", that is a small dough smeared with pine pollen ring into a round pancake put in a pot of rolled pancake crust, its color pinkish-yellow, when eating extra fragrant, when many farms are branded this kind of roll cake crust, has become a rarity nowadays.

According to the old man's words, said the original "silk cake", and dumplings, originally wrapped in silk dishes into the river for fish and shrimp to eat, so as not to harm the body of Qu Yuan, the falsehoods of this statement, are not documented, there is no way to prove.

In the past over the Dragon Boat Festival only have Lishui burrito, now has become the Lishui people seasonal flavors of the year-round meal, at the same time, the burrito has flowed to the surrounding areas, into the public generally love to eat one of the main meals. Some years ago, the author at home to the burrito as a staple food reception of several return to Li to visit friends and relatives of compatriots in Taiwan, we all say that we have not eaten for many years of the hometown of the burrito, eat while talking about the unique flavor of Lishui burrito, and said that foreign countries (including Taiwan) in the Dragon Boat Festival are wrapped in rice dumplings to eat rice dumplings, why is Lishui Dragon Boat Festival, but the branding of the burrito to eat a burrito? There is a Taiwan compatriot joked that if there is a "discerning knowledge of food" of the big money, can be Lishui burrito to be carefully packaged, in various places to open a chain of stores to expand the media publicity, and then also with McDonald's, hamburgers, this is said to be the table for laughs, but with the passage of time, it is also possible, because Lishui burrito is indeed a special custom! The flavor of a unique festival food, food is "soft culture", with the rise of the Chinese nation, soft power will gradually go global.

Lishui Dragon Boat Festival customs in addition to "eating burritos", there are still "send soup" custom, the so-called "soup" that is, gifts, every year to the Dragon Boat Festival, married out of the daughter to the parents to send gifts, gifts in addition to gift bags, gifts to the parents. Parents to send gifts, gifts in addition to gift bags, but also a knife of pork, Mingfu (cuttlefish) a catty, a catty of tofu skin. Receive "soup", parents should give their daughters back to the gift, back to the gift of things are wheat Li (plums), bushel fan (straw fan or paper fan), hand towels and so on. Lishui folk saying: "born not white, twice a year soup." It means that a daughter who marries out should give her parents two gifts a year, one is the Spring Festival "New Year's gift", and the other is the "Dragon Boat Festival gift" on the fifth day of May.

In addition, before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, Lishui children and teenagers in addition to the adult instructions to use xionghuang wine in the face of the "painting face" and spraying xionghuang wine in the corners of the walls of the house, etc., and love to go out into the countryside to pick grass stems to play the "fight grass".

The fight is also known as the "fight grass", for the folk games since ancient times. According to the examination, in the north and south dynasty Liang zong sec "jing chu yearly record" that there is "May 5, four people and spoiled grass, and there is a fight grass play" of the description. To the Tang Dynasty, fighting grass has been very prevalent, such as Liu pot of rice "Sui and Tang Dynasty" recorded "Princess Anle five days fighting grass"; Han E "age Hua Ji Li" recorded "Dragon Boat Festival, hut storage medicine, fighting grass"; Sima Tu "Lantern Poem" cloud: "" Ming Dynasty fighting grass should be more happy, the four people and spoil the grass "account. Tomorrow fight grass should be more happy, cut the lamp from sweeping eyebrows"; Bai Juyi "view children's play" poem said: "get dust and then fight grass, all day happy." Visible "fighting grass" play has been popular in the court and folk. To the Song Dynasty, fighting grass game in the folk more common, Fan Chengda "spring garden miscellaneous Xing Poem" cloud: "spring branch full of flowers in a mess, know is the children and grandchildren fighting grass to"; Liu Yong "Magnolia slow - Qingming" words in the chant: "full of fighting grass grass stepping on the grass people, the Yan Ye hand to meet". Visible popular in the Dragon Boat Festival "grass fighting game", has advanced to the spring March of Qingming. To the Qing Dynasty, fighting grass is still popular along the custom, such as "Dream of Red Mansions" sixty-two, there is a description of Xiang Ling, Fang Guan and other five people in the Grand View Garden in the scene of fighting grass.

However, "Dream of Red Mansions" written in the book "fighting grass" for the rich and noble people to show off their talent "elegant fight", and Lishui in the Dragon Boat Festival is popular "fighting grass" to Grass as a toy "common bucket". There are three main ways to play: one is "break the child break", two is "pulling the cow's tendon", three is "pick up the sign".

The "break a break" is to use a kind of local name "calamus seed" grass for the game. Calamus seeds, also known as "break the child grass", Lishui mountains and fields can be seen everywhere, about feet high, the leaf is umbrella bone-shaped, small flower buds in the middle of the long stem three-pronged, the root block is shaped like a green onion, the smell of calamus aroma, so it is called "calamus seeds". When you play, first find a piece of grass with calamus seeds, pick the grass and remove the top leaves and rhizomes, a group of two people sitting on the ground, each grabbing a head, while breaking the nursery rhyme: two people sitting on the ground hand pinch grass / break the break don't know / you break the break the break the break the break the two ends of the silk connected / I break the break the break the break a link between the middle of the break a not match break the break in two halves / the luck do not good not to be counted / take the grass stems / for the ground / you break the break the break the break the break the break the break the break the break the break the break the strong break the break the break the break the fat / one, two, three, break the break / everyone look. I'm going to break it up and look at it. Read, two people that each other on the break, if the break into the two sides of a trace connected to the H-shaped, is the "child"; if the middle of only a trace connected to the N-shaped, then "raw", if not a trace of connection was broken in half, said the bad luck is not counted as two people hit each other on the palm of the hand to show that the punishment! The first step is to make sure that you have a good hand, and then you can do it again.

"Tugging on the bull's-eye" is also known as "generals and generals". Play is the use of poplar leaves petiole or other tough grass stems as toys, two people with grass stems hooked up to pull hard, was pulled off the loser, is a "small general" or "defeat", the winner for the "generals The winner is the "big general". Recall that as a child, I and my small friends love to play "pulling the bull's-eye", often go to the poplar tree to pick up and find the old leaves of the thick stems that fall, to leave the leaves and stems, used to pull each other to fight. In order to increase the toughness of the leaves and stems, often also have to process the production, such as mixing with tung oil and put on a slow fire on the grill, such as repeatedly kneaded after the turn on the green oil lamps in the soaking, and worse, even in the grass stems glued on a few ramie silk, so as to win the first try, but for a long time when it was revealed that it will be reprimanded by all of us, especially the children's companions have a few treasured in the pockets of the "generals" who easily do not go out to war! ", once the "fake" ripped off, it is really painful, had a red face for this, for a long time to ignore each other.

"Pick up the sign" also known as "pick grass stems", to participate in the game together to the field to collect a lot of hard and tough grass stems, cut off the length of about 10 centimeters of the "sign", from which Selected part of the two ends sharpened, dyed red or other colors, this sign is not only "pick up the sign" when picking grass stems of tools, in the counting can also be one for ten. Play this game, two or more people, using "rock-paper-scissors" or with a small piece of paper written on the "one, two, three, four" to "draw" the order of priority. Play, playmate according to the provisions of each "sign" a number of roots, and then handed over to the first "pick up the sign" person, this person with a hand pinch the grass sign, a release to let the grass stems scattered on the desktop or on the ground, and then pick up the hand, those stacked with the grass sign, it is used to sharpen the dyeing of the Those stacked grass stick, then use the sharp stained grass stick to pick open to pick up, pick when you have to be careful not to touch the other grass stick, if there is touching, then can not pick, that is to give way to another person, after playing depending on who get the most grass stick for the winner.

With the change of the times, the custom of the festival is also changing, such as Lishui Dragon Boat Festival custom "door inserted bushels" is still inherited, and "women as a cocoon tiger" (purse, scented sachets, etc.) has long since disappeared. That in the Dragon Boat Festival with xionghuang wine to the child painting face, spraying xionghuang to get rid of the evil spirits and drink xionghuang wine, etc. also in transmutation is not seen much, the daughter to her parents, "send soup" custom is still continued, but its gifts have been with the continuous improvement of living standards and with the times tends to be fashionable, such as sending health care products or higher-grade clothing, etc.. The grass as a toy "fighting grass" game, has long been replaced by colorful modern toys, disappeared in urban and rural areas. And the special flavor of the Lishui burrito, by the Dragon Boat Festival holiday meals into the people to adjust the taste of the food, from Lishui to the surrounding spread out, and from the family to the restaurant, became a holiday dinner and banquet guests a good product.