The custom of Wenzhou people celebrating the Spring Festival

Eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter is called "solstice", commonly known as "winter festival" On this morning, every family will eat glutinous rice balls or sesame seeds. There are sweet sugar or sesame seeds in the dumplings, and there are preserved meat dumplings. However, glutinous rice should be cooked first, mashed into pieces, and then rolled in bean flour to make it stick with bean flour. This is a winter snack, commonly known as "rolling sesame".

Daonian cake is also called Daotang cake. Glutinous rice is mixed with some indica rice, brown sugar or white sugar, steamed, rammed and toughened in a mortar, and then made into a rectangle. Ryan is called "slow food".

If placed in a printing plate with different patterns, it can be pressed into sweet cakes with peony, flat peach, Kuixing, God of Wealth, champion, carp, unicorn and other patterns. , can also be made into ingots, weighing about 3kg at most. It can be placed on the long table with silver flowers in the middle hall or in every room. This is also called "making rice cakes", which means increasing year by year.

On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, every household should "worship the iron pot Buddha". It is said that this day is the day when Kitchen God reports the merits and demerits of ordinary people to the Jade Emperor. It is said that the kitchen god is greedy, and he will be silenced as long as he has sugar to eat, so maltose is indispensable to sacrifice to the kitchen god, so that the kitchen god will not speak ill of the jade emperor.

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Setting off firecrackers: In the early morning of the first day of junior high school, the first thing for every household is to set off firecrackers. The whole city is full of firecrackers, which symbolizes the farewell of the old and the welcome of the new, commonly known as "welcome". It is also customary to play "opening the door". Generally, a string of small firecrackers is put first, which is called the "Hundred Zi Bao". Two firecrackers were set off again, and only three firecrackers were set off, indicating that the plague of one year can be lifted and the New Year is coming.

It is required to ring three times, and the sound is loud and clear, which is the most auspicious. As the saying goes, the sooner you open the door, the better, which symbolizes that everything you do casually this year is smooth, the financial resources are abundant, and the farmers have a bumper harvest.

In some places, as soon as the gun was fired, they muttered: "Open the door and fire; When wealth comes, so does happiness. "Generally firecrackers and Lippi's skin are red. After the discharge, the paper flowers are all over the ground, and the clouds are bright and dazzling, forming a house full of auspicious colors and beaming. Firecrackers have been banned in cities and towns, but they can still be set off in rural areas and fishing islands.

References:

Spring Festival Customs _ Baidu Encyclopedia