Manchu customs and human feelings

Manchu traditional folk house style in Manchu folk house. Houses in rural areas are mostly grass-topped earth walls, with thick roofs and open rooms, which are quite like pockets, so they are commonly called pocket houses. The indoor kang is surrounded on three sides, namely, north, west and south, commonly known as Wanzi Kang, and cabinets, boxes and bedding are placed on the northwest wall. Most of the windows face south to west, and Korean paper is used to shelter them from the wind and rain. There are three rooms in the house, the middle room is open, and the kitchen stove is closed to prevent wild animals from crashing into it. There are Manchu chimneys one meter away on both sides of the gable. Most of them have no courtyard walls and east and west wings, but are surrounded by fences or straws and fed by pigs, sheep, cows and dogs. At present, there are still many such old houses in ten Manchu townships in Horqin Right Front Banner and Harqin Banner. The traditional houses of Manchu in Suiyuan City (now the new urban area of Hohhot) are official houses (barracks) with saddle roofs. Generally, the courtyard area of each Eight Banners soldier is 3: 3, and the rooms are 2 and a half, all of which are south windows and middle doors. The back houses on both sides are Nankang, with ancestral boards on the west wall, courtyard walls outside the house and gatehouses at the gate. There is a shadow wall 3 meters outside the door, and there is a Buddhist shrine behind the wall. On one side of the house is an arrow path connecting the toilet and the stable behind the house. This kind of barracks is still reserved.

Screen wall is a part of Manchu traditional houses. Also known as the shadow wall. Its formula is mostly one line. It is about 5 feet high, 6 feet wide and over 1 foot thick. Generally, it is a Shi Zhuan structure (there are bricks embedded outside the earth wall). Based on stone, the wall is made of large blue bricks, and the wall is at most a saddle-shaped tile roof. The front wall is flat, with auspicious patterns and wishful paintings. There are many shrines on the opposite wall to worship the land god. The screen walls are all placed about 3 meters at the gate of the courtyard. Now there are many preserved Manchu traditional houses in the new urban area of Hohhot.

Manchu Marriage Custom In the old society, Manchu marriage was extremely important and even. Marriage customs are also very complicated. The overall process is: 1. Blind date, including proposing relatives, seeing each other and changing the eight-character stickers; 2. Make a decision, including putting a small decision (under a small tea) and magnifying the decision (under a big tea); 3. Marriage, including date selection, gift giving, invitation, makeup, marriage and wedding; 4. Going back to the door, including ancestor worship, recognizing relatives, and crossing the moon. Nowadays, many customs have changed and new things have appeared, but some traditional marriage customs still exist in Manchu inhabited areas in eastern Inner Mongolia.

Archery at the unique wedding of Manchu brides. When the groom is newly married, he must sit in a wedding sedan chair to marry the bride. When the sedan chair will arrive at the door of the bridal chamber, the groom will not wait for the bride to get off the sedan chair, but will shoot three arrows at the bride, which means to remove the bride's "red evil spirit", but this is a false shot, and the arrows only hit the front of the sedan chair. Then the groom will shoot four arrows at the four corners of the wedding room. After the filming, the bride was allowed to get off the sedan chair and get into the saddle (meaning peace). After worshipping heaven and earth, the groom must take off the bride's hijab with his arrow. Shooting the bride with an arrow bears traces of the ancient custom of the Manchu ancestor, Nuzhen. This kind of marriage custom is typical in Caonian Manchu Township in Liangcheng County, Inner Mongolia and Shi Jia Manchu Township in Harqin Banner, and it remained until the 1960s. Eating descendants is one of the traditional marriage customs of Manchu. The bride and groom need to eat children's cakes after completing all kinds of etiquette on the wedding day (jiaozi). The baby of the child is prepared by the woman's house and sent to the man's house by the wife with the dowry. It's slightly smaller than the usual jiaozi. Dumpling stuffing is made of pork, onion, ginger, oil, etc. Dumpling skin is made of fine powder and wrapped in a crescent shape. There is also a kind of common name called roe deer, which needs to be divided into two to take the meaning of harmony between husband and wife.

Manchu Shuimi Manchu traditional flavor food. The practice is to put sorghum rice, corn residue (corn residue) or millet into a pot and cook them, then take them out with a colander and soak them in newly picked well water, and repeat them two or three times. Eat with fried sauce and various vegetables or wild vegetables, such as shallots, small root garlic, Chinese cabbage, coriander, spinach, water spinach, old woman, sake koji, Artemisia annua and so on. It tastes cool and can relieve summer heat.

Subobo Manchu traditional flavor pasta. Commonly known as sticky mouse. The preparation method comprises grinding Oryza Glutinosa into flour, kneading with clear water, and scalding to make preparation. Then take a proper amount of adzuki beans, wash and cook them to make bean stuffing. Soak the cotyledons of Perilla frutescens (millet, with oval leaves and serrated top leaves, which can be used as medicine, have the effect of diminishing inflammation and removing fire, and are delicious) in boiling water. Roll the flour into thin skin with a rolling pin with a diameter of about 10 cm, wrap the bean stuffing into a jiaozi shape, wrap it with oiled perilla leaves, and steam it in a pot with high fire. This dietary custom is popular in Manchu inhabited areas in eastern Inner Mongolia.

Mill wine is one of the traditional Manchu drinks. Also called rice wine. Manchu families often take this as a sacrifice and drink it at ordinary times. The method is to wash and cook glutinous rice (yellow rice can also be used) and take it out of the pot to cool. Then add a proper amount of distiller's yeast to the water to boil and rub it fine. Put the cold rice into a jar, mix it with distiller's yeast, and then pour in water and mix well. After several days of sealing, the floating "White Mongolia" in the altar was skimmed off and the altar mouth was sealed again. After a certain period of time, you can open the altar to drink.

Manchu traditional food candied fruit. The production method is to stir-fry white sugar into a sugar color, add a proper amount of water, white sugar and honey, cook until it is thick, peel and remove seeds, cut apples, pears, oranges, hawthorn, apricots, peaches, dark plums and carrots into pieces, and put them into honey juice to make them adhere evenly. The Manchu community in Inner Mongolia still maintains the tradition of eating and making candied fruit.