What are the customs of Lu Xun's hometown?

Lu Xun's hometown is Shaoxing, about Shaoxing customs are introduced as follows:

Spring Festival:

The first year of the Chinese Lunar Year is known as the Spring Festival, the Spring Festival is also known as the Lunar (lunar) Year, the Spring Festival is commonly known as the "New Year", is the most solemn and lively folk in China, an ancient traditional festival, symbolizing unity, prosperity, and a festival of new hopes for the future. It symbolizes unity and prosperity, and is a festival of new hopes for the future. According to records, the Chinese people have been celebrating the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years, starting with Yu Shun. Festival festivities to last a month, before the first day of the first month of the stove, ancestor worship and other ceremonies; festival in the children's New Year's money, friends and relatives to pay tribute to the New Year and other ceremonies; festival half a month after the Lantern Festival, when the lanterns all over the city, the streets full of tourists, the unprecedented, after the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is considered to be the end of the.

Pounding rice cakes:

Every year at New Year's Eve, when new rice cakes are on the market, many families have the custom of eating rice cakes at the Spring Festival to take the auspicious meaning of "Niannian Gao" (yearly high) and "Niangao" (longevity). From the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, almost every family pounds rice cakes. Pounding rice cakes is actually the process of making rice cakes by hand, the main tools are wooden pestle and mortar, mortar and pestle, wooden steamer, printing plate, the main procedure is to beat the cake flower, burn the wok, beat the hammer, pull down the mortar, rub the cake ball, print the rice cake ...... Finally, the rice cake is folded into a neat stack, and the whole pounding of the rice cake is completed. During this period, the house is filled with fragrance and laughter, and the scene is so lively and red-hot that you can hardly forget it.

Pulling Sugar:

Pulling sugar is a popular old Shaoxing custom that is said to have originated in the Ming Dynasty. Sugar pulling requires considerable strength, the general sugar pulling master scooped a bucket of snow-white sugar, poured into the pot, heating, stirring, sugar into sugar juice, sugar juice was quickly pulled into a long strip of soft white sugar, thick hot sugar in the hands of the master up and down, comfortable as if around the wool, and finally cut into small pieces, a chew, sweet, fragrant, soft, hot, so that your heart are warm.

Wrapped dumplings:

Shaoxing has always had the custom of eating dumplings, every family will be wrapped in dumplings, especially during the Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival, eating dumplings is one of the traditional customs. Legend has it that the earliest zongzi is due to the townspeople in the river after qu yuan cast, fear of fish and shrimp in the river ate the body of qu yuan, is a bamboo leaf package of glutinous rice thrown into the river, want to make qu yuan body intact, and later wrapped in food in addition to glutinous rice, but also add pork, peanuts, salted eggs and other fillings, evolved into the modern zongzi. Wrapped zongzi more with Ruo leaf, its handmade fine, skillful, its style is diverse, axe-shaped, triangular, cylindrical, etc., wrapped the tighter the more flavorful.

Eat tea

Old Shaoxing folk tea store "eat tea" custom. This is actually a widely popular in the community, mediation of civil disputes in the civil spontaneous activities. Shaoxing tea store in the old days, all over the streets and alleys of urban and rural towns. Among them, there are several valves larger, higher pattern, such as the Shaoxing city cloth industry will be inside the "suitable hut", Baozhu bridge side of the "first floor" and so on, eat tea tea store, most of the choice there.

In the old society, the people are most afraid of lawsuits, they know "towards the south of the Yamen eight open, no money to come in," the mystery, so, between the people, once a dispute, would rather go to the tea store to eat tea.

Eat tea, always by both parties voluntarily invited a group of neighbors, friends and relatives, informed people gathered in a tea store. In the old days, the tea store, both the people drink tea, listening to sing, talk about the entertainment, resting place, but also civil discussion of right and wrong, judgment of straight, mediation disputes, the place of peace. Wherever the neighborhood, neighbors, relatives and friends of the house sale, lease, property in and out of the dispute, water irrigation rights and interests, forest development, logging, and marriage, family separation, analysis of property and other disputes, most of the traditional customs to the tea store to solve. According to the rules, to be invited by both parties to the "tea guests" to arrive, "Dr. Tea" (waiter) to each "tea guests" steeped in a bowl of tea with a lid on the top of the stewed bowl of stewed bowl of tea, to sit at the "horse head table". To sit on the "horse head table" on the "mediation facilitator" to brew a pot of good "Longjing". Then, first by both parties to the public statement of the matter and their respective reasons, and put forward the request to deal with the views. "Tea guests" on the basis of both sides of the statement, the second according to witnessed or heard the facts, each express their own views, analysis, judgment, reasoning, to find out who is right and who is wrong. Neither can they take sides, nor can they protect their shortcomings.

Old Shaoxing tea store's general pattern, close to the store entrance tent table head place, always arranged a pair of tables, commonly known as "horse head table", as the name suggests, not without the "horse is looking forward to" meaning. Therefore, the general tea guest is never dare to sit on the horse head table. Qualified to sit, must be in the local seniority, prestige, fairness, respect, have a certain prestige and appeal of the local celebrities. When eating tea, he always acted as the role of host, that is, of course, the referee. When the "tea guest" they express their own views or put forward proposals for dealing with the approach, "referee" on the horse's head on the table to comprehensively articulate their personal insights, on the spot, who is right and who is wrong, a gavel to determine the sound, and "tea guests "They have taken a position, support the ruling, say something such as" a store king words thud on the count! and so on. The party that is not justified, it will be responsible for paying all the "tea guests", including sitting at the horse-head table of the host of the tea, equivalent to the court to pay the legal fees in general. Afterwards, according to the "referee" ruling implementation, no more objections. Generally speaking, this kind of folk mediation will often be carried out successfully. Of course, there are also inevitably barbaric people, on the spot, do not accept the ruling, and even bad language, fighting. But this kind of people in any case can not fight the public opinion, and ultimately have to eat the second tea to admit their faults and admit defeat, so as to resolve the dispute. This "eating tea" is a customary local rules, public opinion is tied to, often better than the official judgment, has a strong deterrent effect.

Shaoxing to eat tea this custom, from when, a moment is no way to find out. But according to local history, created in the late Qing Dynasty, "the first floor" had to eat tea and fight "case". The general theory of the circulation, and Shaoxing masters related. Because the master after the return, often influential in the local, they are more proficient in law, so eat tea in the Ming and Qing dynasties and even the most prevalent civil period, which also coincides with the "Shaoxing master" rise and fall of history. Some people think that after the late Ming Dynasty, the government in the people have lost prestige, but is a good opportunity for civil mediation should be born. It seems that this is not unreasonable.

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