Customs and Traditions of Shuyang Province, Suqian City

One, food

Shuyang County is a traditional Huaiyang cuisine area, and the traditional food is highly localized. Local cuisine is characterized by its emphasis on knife work, light taste and lack of spiciness. They are good at stewing, roasting, and braising, and they pay particular attention to the freshness and tenderness of their ingredients. The traditional dishes include soft fried long fish, braised lion's head, cuttlefish cake and so on.

Second, language

Shuyang County dialect belongs to the Jianghuai official language Hongchao piece of Haisi small piece, including Haizhou dialect and Sizhou dialect, the language and tone of the county vary from place to place, and the formation of a distinctive local opera, such as Huaihai Opera, boy play, etc., as well as qinshu, fast board, drums and gongs, and other varieties of music and art.

Three, festivals

The New Year is the grandest. Late December of the lunar calendar, people are busy shopping for New Year's goods, food, use, wear are in the scope of the purchase, the market is crowded. On the twentieth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, the traditional custom is for every household to clean and dismantle its bedding. Twenty-six, seven, each family to steam buns, grinding tofu, do meat round, kill chickens and fish, rush to do New Year's food.

Must have carp (commonly known as red fish), take the meaning of auspicious surplus. Before New Year's Eve, adults and children should also bathe in dust to welcome the New Year. Early in the morning on New Year's Eve, each family in front of the door not far away with broken grass, wheat shells burn a pile of fire. At noon, every family is busy doing the most sumptuous lunch of the year, but before the meal need to do two things, one is to "land master" burning paper, said to honor God; two is to their own family before the three generations of the dead burning paper, said ancestor worship.

Three, sacrificial stove

The lunar calendar, December 23 or 24, according to legend, this day is the day of Zao Wang Zao to the sky to report his duties. On this night, every family should "send the stove", the practice is: will be posted in the niche or the wall of the Zaowang image on both sides of the portrait there is a couplet, "the good word in heaven, the lower world to protect the peace". When sending the stove, people look serious, burn incense and foil, kowtow and worship.

Fifth, Cultural Practices

The Huaihai Opera, gongs and drums, children's plays, and playing the yangqin **** together constitute the cultural practices of Shuyang. In particular, the children's play is unique and colorful. It contains cow songs and ramming songs and has a strong local flavor. The singing is high-pitched and colloquial. Most of the children's play is to teach people to do good works, even if it is to perform some of the play to open the altar to drive away the ghosts, but also to publicize for people to be good and virtuous, by the local people's welcome.