What are the customs, architecture, diet and travel habits of Sihui?

First, the Spring Festival custom of Sihui-Before New Year's Eve, people in Sihui were busy preparing all kinds of new year's goods: buying chicken, duck and fish; Add new clothes; Newly purchased furniture and appliances; Buy New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets, etc. I especially want to buy oranges, green olives and other fruits as auspicious symbols. Welcome friends and relatives. Before the Chinese New Year, men want a new haircut and women want to "pull their faces". Nowadays, most women have haircuts and beauty treatments. Lunar calendar1February 24th is the day when "immortals" go to heaven to report their work. From that day on, every household was cleaning, packing things and bills, which was called "picking up". One or two days before New Year's Eve, every household is making all kinds of new year's goods. Families who go out on New Year's Eve have to rush home for reunion. On New Year's Eve, the whole family sat around the fire and had a reunion dinner. After dinner, adults give "lucky money" to children and their parents. At night, the farmer's water tank should be full of water, the rice tank should be full of rice, and the lights can't go out, which symbolizes the good omen of "more than one year old" and "more than one year old". The custom of vigil on New Year's Eve is very common. Waiting for the arrival of the new year, the New Year bell rings and firecrackers sound in every household. The first day of the first lunar month is called January Day, which is the head of the New Year and the beginning of spring. At the dawn of heaven, I heard guns. On the big table in the hall of every household, red plates are filled with good luck (oranges are bigger than oranges, so they are called good luck), green olives and various exquisite sweets. Decorated with lanterns in front of the door, the younger generation wishes the older generation tea. On this day, most families should be vegetarian, at least not eating meat for breakfast. After breakfast, adults and children go to relatives and friends' homes to pay New Year greetings with good luck, and the host and guest exchange blessings, congratulations on making a fortune and adding blessings. The host treats you with Daji, Betel nut (the ancient custom of honoring Betel nut is now changed to green olive) and * * * congou. The guest presents Daji to congratulate the host on his good luck, and the host wants to give it back with Daji, which is said to be a good wish. On the morning of New Year's Day, many lion dance classes and English song teams beat gongs and drums to pay New Year greetings to every household in every village, and the host set off firecrackers to welcome them. There are also hand-cranked evergreen leaves (commonly known as cash cows) or books, and auspicious sentences such as "lucky money becomes treasure" posted on people's doors; Or those who play suona, knock on bamboo boards, sing songs, make four sentences and say auspicious words from door to door to pay New Year greetings are all asking for some money. On the second and third days of junior high school, rural towns organized many cultural activities to celebrate the Spring Festival. In addition to putting up a theater shed to perform Chaozhou Opera, Mountain Opera and Shadow Play, there are also gongs and drums, tigers and lions, English singers and dragon dancers marching in the villages along the street. There are also movies, ball games, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, lantern riddles and so on. During the day and night, people flock to visit and enjoy it, creating a lively and joyful atmosphere for the Spring Festival. After all the houses in every household are decorated, New Year's Eve is coming. Therefore, housewives are busy preparing the most abundant and meaningful reunion dinner in a year. A family reunion dinner, as its name implies, is a family gathering for dinner during the Chinese New Year, and even the deceased ancestors will not forget it. Therefore, after a good reunion dinner, every household should first "worship their husbands" (worship their ancestors). When offering sacrifices to ancestors, the incense burner representing ancestors should be removed from the shrine, put on the altar, and then burn incense to pray and invite ancestors to dinner. Then all ages bowed down in turn, which fully demonstrated the traditional virtues of Sihui people, and filial piety was the first virtue. After the sacrifice, the food for ancestor worship was reheated, and a big table was set in the hall, and the whole family gathered around. This is a wonderful time for every family to get together. No matter how far apart the family is at ordinary times, or how many zits there are at ordinary times, we should talk and laugh at this time, and we should not say anything sad or make noise. After dinner, housewives were busy clearing the table, so a cleaning activity began. This time, we don't have to care too much about cleaning, just for cleaning. Unlike the time at the end of the year, you have to brush pine grass. Then he lit a fire in the stove and began to prepare the offering to God tomorrow-vegetarian food. There are many kinds of vegetarian dishes, including taro, sweet potato, jujube, peanut, taro and sweet potato. All the ingredients of vegetarian dishes should be prepared and dried at noon. When frying vegetarian dishes, put the iron pot and inject a lot of peanut oil when the fire is good. When the oil boils, mix these materials with the slurry and put them into the pan, which will make squeaks and bubbles in the oil pan. Huang Chengcheng is especially attractive when cooking. At this time, if there are guests at home, the hostess will offer a dish of freshly fried vegetarian dishes, and then soak in mellow congou tea, so that you can taste the delicious snacks of Sihui. Sending lucky money is an important part of the Spring Festival custom of Sihui. The elders should give money to the younger generation, and the younger generation who can earn money should also give money to the elders. Money can't be sent directly to wait for a while, but it should be packed in a profit bag or a red paper bag. This is commonly known as "pressing the abdomen and waist", which means that from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, the pockets will be full of reality and wealth. What is particularly interesting is that when a child sleeps, his parents will put a large bill in his belly pocket and bring it back after waking up. Paying New Year greetings and sending oranges is also called "paying homage to righteousness". In the early morning of the first day of junior high school, people get up and put on new clothes. The first thing they do is to pay homage to themselves. It is often the younger generation who wishes the elders first, and then the elders give their expectations to the younger generation. After breakfast, each of them pays a New Year call to relatives and friends. Second, the special diet of Sihui-Sihui Seto, commonly known as Fenzai, originated from Qingtang folk. First, the sticky rice noodles are stirred into paste with proper amount of water, and then served in a special rice noodle bowl. Several small holes in the bottom of the onion paste bowl quickly flow into the boiling water in the pot to form a round strip. After cooking, pick it up with a sieve and soak it in clear water (commonly known as "supercooled river"). When eating, take a big fire from the pot, add a proper amount of soup, add Seto powder, and add accessories such as soy sauce, pepper, diced meat, onion and garlic. Tea-oil chicken, the must-eat thing when you meet for the fourth time is tea-oil chicken, which you must eat in Zhenshan. Zhenshan Six Ancestors Temple is a thousand-year-old temple dedicated to the true body of Six Ancestors Huineng. There are many country restaurants nearby. Camellia oil chicken is the top grade of chicken, and wild camellia oil is a rare edible oil unique to China, which has a special oil flavor. The yield is very small, and it is a treasure in tea oil. This camellia oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids and contains no cholesterol. Its nutritional value even exceeds that of olive oil, and it has the effects of promoting fluid production, dredging collaterals, promoting blood circulation and detoxifying. In ancient times, it was the main ingredient of Jinchuang medicine, and the Yao people always regarded it as a tonic for lying-in women, which attracted much attention and always served as a tribute. Tea oil has a high boiling point. Tea-oil chicken cooked with tea oil is delicious, tender and tasteless. It is a famous food of Sihui. From the perspective of modern nutrition and pharmacology, it is a green and healthy product with nourishing, beautifying and detoxification effects. "Didou" Roasted Meat with Charcoal: Eating homemade roasted meat with Charcoal is very popular in Didou Town, Sihui City. Every "market day", every household will slaughter their pigs and burn them with charcoal. When they were almost burned, they took them to the market to sell. Because it's crisp and tender, people from other towns also come to buy it, and the stall can be closed before 9 o'clock. This ethos spread to all towns and became a flavor. Wudu stone snail, also known as "fairy snail", is a specialty of Sihui. It is praised by diners all over the world for its tough taste and delicious meat. There is a saying that "it is not the fourth time to meet without tasting snails." This kind of stone snail is very similar to ordinary stone snail, but it is slender and darker than ordinary stone snail. The biggest feature is that the tip of the screw shell seems to be hinged off and plugged with cement. According to legend, this fairy snail is the descendant of a stone snail who was driven away by "Liu Li" (the nickname of the local unscrupulous dude) after Wen hinged his shell on the mountain. Because snails can only grow in clean and pollution-free mountain streams, the output is less, so the price is more expensive. In pubs and restaurants, if the snail's shell is round, the color is light and the meat is sloppy, it is mostly the deception of the shopkeeper. Baisha bamboo shoots are a specialty of Baisha Village, Qingtang Town, Sihui City. Villagers use the unique sandy cotton fields along the Suijiang River to cultivate fresh bamboo shoots, which are harvested in summer. Bamboo shoots are big and fleshy, tender and crisp. Suitable for cooking or seasoning, sliced and stewed with duck and pork slices, refreshing and fragrant, with appetizing effect. Fried crucian carp, the side of crucian carp is a variety of crucian carp. Different from ordinary crucian carp, one side of its body is bluish white, while the other side is burnt yellow, like frying in a pot, which tastes more fragrant and fresh than ordinary crucian carp. Of course, the price is also many times higher About the origin of this fish, the legend is the same as that of the stone snail. When Xian Zhen fried the crucian carp in the pot, people gave the snail a hinge, and "Liu Li" came. With Xian Zhen gone, the fish and snails returned to the water and became the fairy tales of Zhenshan.