Weihaiwei's customs and traditions what ah ~~!

Chinese New Year: lunar New Year's Day, the door posted spring couplets, lanterns and colors, dress more table, wine and food, celebrate the New Year, family reunion.

Superior Yuan: the first month of the lunar calendar, the fifteenth for the Superior Yuan Festival, the night of which is called Yuanxiao. On this day, people have to do with the stone to the "surface lamp", the lamp around the pinch one to twelve folds, symbolizing the twelve months, and according to the whole family Zodiac pinch the "genus" with the surface, after steaming, every night "lamp "and" genus "are lit with candles, see the lanterns, and hanging colored lights at the gate, commonly known as" sightseeing "to celebrate the New Year's Eve. The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar pinch the Chinese zodiac, folk known as "pinch the genus child" traditional method is to use soybean flour for pinching the material of the Chinese zodiac. Modeling of small and exquisite mainly, the posture of the zodiac animal or standing, or lying, or running, or flying, all rely on improvisation, at will. But no matter how the shape should be designed and arranged with a vegetable seed or leaf, to symbolize "a bumper harvest", each zodiac animal is carrying a lamp bowl on its back, the bowl contains oil; and then insert a small stick wrapped with cotton wool, commonly known as "lamp twist". Difference in the shape of the lamp bowl: the horse and the pig is "Yuan Bao Bowl" for "gold dog and silver pig pack treasure to" the colorful. Other zodiac pack "twelve petals" lamp bowl, symbolizing the twelve months of the year.

In recent years, the pinching of the Chinese Zodiac was changed to white flour, look better, but also do not add lamp bowls, do not light to appreciate after the sharing of noodles, but also mobilize the family's atmosphere of joy.

February 2: commonly known as February 2 Dragon Heads Up, this day people use colored paper cut into dragons and phoenixes, flowers affixed to the station or window, known as the "windowpane flowers" this day people cut into squares of flower cloth and wear strings, known as the "small dragon's tail," hanging on the heads of small children and livestock. head.

Cold food: the day before the Qingming Festival, which is said to be cold food ban on fire, sweeping the tomb to pay homage, Weihai, only a few people (soap port) to this festival.

Qingming: people this day to the cemetery to visit ancestral graves, women steamed noodles Yan, to show that the spring warmth Yan to come.

Duanwu: this day people eat eggs, duck eggs, brown, and hanging on the door of the wormwood, garlic, peach branches and cloth don't monkeys, children's fingers and toes five-color line to drive away disasters and ominous, Zhong Kui is the god of the Dragon Boat Festival.

June 6: this day, people eat more buns, folk "June 6 to see the Valley Show, a big bowl of buns a packet of meat," the ballad, the rich and noble family more in this day tanning clothes, reading people are more in this day tanning books.

July 7: ancient myths, the cowherd and the weaving maiden in the day of the heavenly river will meet, this day people branding fruit, women set incense in the hall, to the weaving maiden star begging Zhiqiao, called "begging for coincidence".

Central yuan: the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, also known as the Ghost Festival, more offerings of fruits, snacks, offerings to remember the deceased, the sea fishermen, this night, the sea lamps, to recruit the souls of the dead, the merchants of this day for the "God of Wealth Festival", the God of Wealth Festival, and beg for wealth.

Mid-Autumn Festival: People eat mooncakes on this day, seeking reunion, after dinner, people eat mooncakes while enjoying the moon.

Chongyang: the first nine days of September on the lunar calendar, also known as the nine suns, the ancients steamed pastries, brewed chrysanthemum wine, climbed the field trip to open mind and get a high life.

October Half-Day: the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the descendants of the same family name on this day to the ancestral tomb of worship.

Winter Solstice: one of the twenty-four seasons, the arrival of the cold winter, called over much, this month there are sacrifices to ancestors at home.

La Ba Day: the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, is a festival of monks, to the folk, on this day we eat rice, beans, dates and other kinds of grain porridge, known as "La Ba congee".

Small year: December 23rd of the lunar calendar, each household to maltose, jujube Zaoshen sacrifice, known as the resignation of the stove. Wishing the god of the stove "good things in heaven and peace in the world".

New Year's Eve: the last day of Lunar New Year's Day, New Year's Eve is the night of the last day of the year in the lunar calendar, the middle of the night day sacrifices to the sky and the earth, ghosts and gods, ancestors. Night to New Year's Eve, the night of the festival, the big end and so on. New Year's Eve zero is the watershed of the two years, in addition to the day of many activities, there are three major features: one is ringing firecrackers; two is red (posting Spring Festival couplets); three is the fire (light the lamp and the year). New Year's Day ancestor worship ceremony is the most solemn, in the afternoon the genealogy of the names of those who do not have and hanging, ready incense burners, lanterns, long velvet, paper table, firecrackers and other things. To dusk when the beginning of the invitation to the ancestors, to the evening, people began to hand-packed dumplings, this day's dumplings are different from what we usually eat, in the dumpling filling, people intentionally put coins or jujubes and dumplings filled with the side, if eaten by anyone who eats any of them, it means that the person is very lucky, and predicts that the luck of the year is also very good.

On this day, the whole family gathers together to eat dumplings and set off firecrackers; they stay up all night to observe the New Year's Eve, and the parents give money to their children and grandchildren to observe the New Year's Eve.

Lichun: Shandong all over the "bite spring" "taste spring" custom, in Weihai, we generally say "play spring" in the countryside, people believe that the spring bite of raw radish, can eliminate spring sleepiness, it is said that whoever is the first to bite a raw radish, can eliminate spring sleepiness, it is said that whoever is the first to bite a raw radish, can eliminate spring sleepiness. Can eliminate spring sleepiness, it is said that whoever bites the radish at that moment of spring, who will be youthful and immortal, "taste spring" is similar to "biting the spring" only to eat the spring cake and spring plate, this custom as early as in the north and south dynasty period, Du Fu Du Fu's "spring day spring plate fine lettuce" is about "tasting spring". However, modern people have used noodles, dumplings instead of spring pancakes, spring plate, called "spring dumplings playing spring noodles".

Summer Solstice: this day, Shandong, commonly eat noodles, commonly known as "water noodles", "winter solstice dumplings summer solstice noodles" proverb.

Autumn: the day of autumn, Jiaodong region, women and children collected rowan leaves or tung leaves, cut a variety of patterns, or inserted in the temples, or to wear on the chest, in the autumn, the weather is still very hot, but some places people are taboo in the day of the bath in the fall, that the day of the bath in the fall is unlucky, will grow prickly heat or diarrhea. Weihai people's wedding customs

Generally before the marriage to be fixed, Yantai people called Tongzhi, that is, to set a specific date of marriage. Then some customs for the marriage can be agreed upon. Of course, Yantai has some small customs of marriage and betrothal, you do not have to do it according to, as long as both parents feel good on it. If that's what you want to know then you can leave me a message. Personally, I think it's better to do something new.

Yantai has a local rules, marriage is to wear red shoes, in fact, we do not like red shoes, after the also can not wear, but generally the old man is picking this, comb, copper basin, mirror, and red baggage, these are the day of the wedding to take, but also for the groom to buy clothes and shoes, to the mother-in-law to buy shoes. Prepare a red basin, inside the mirror, comb, soap box, soap, a pair of each. Then tie two peanuts, two chestnuts, two cinnamon balls, two ........ What else? I forgot. Basin also put red packets, I forget.

Finally, wrap the red basin with a red wrapper. When you enter the in-laws' home, someone has to take it from the bridesmaids. It's called "receiving blessings".

In fact, a place a custom, not too much to say. In addition, there will be a red box, I forgot what to put.

Only remember to the in-laws, father-in-law with a rolling pin wrapped in red cloth in the box around the beating, and then open. Then he would put the money he had prepared for the press box inside.

Weihai by the sea, say a few fishermen's customs

Talking taboos

In the fishermen's home to eat, the fish is essential, to turn the fish on its side, you can not say that the turn over, to say "turn over" or "row over"; When eating dumplings, you can't say "dumplings", you should say "boiled dumplings"; chopsticks should be put on the table after eating, not on the bowl; fishermen use coal as a fuel for cooking, but they don't say "coal" and say "zazi" because, in their opinion, "coal" is "mold". "

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New boat eye-dotting

Fishermen see the fishing boat as their partner, is to rely on the survival of the dependence, therefore, the fishermen love and care for it, and endowed with the spirit of the past, the wooden fishing boat each boat do a pair of protruding out of the eyes like a big fish, the new boat was built, only painted eyes, not eyes, and so on the auspicious day, the owner of the boat will be banging gongs and drums and firecrackers, and personally eye-dotting for the new boat, the other fishermen will be Shouting the horn of good luck, the new red and green boat step by step from the shore to move down to the sea.

Festival offerings

Anciently, fishermen mainly honored the Dragon King, the Goddess of the Sea, and the God of Wealth, and made offerings according to certain festivals. On the night of New Year's Eve or the morning of the first day of the year, fishermen went to the temple of the Dragon King and the temple of the Goddess of the Sea to burn incense and bow to worship, or went to the seashore to set up offerings, burn incense and paper, and prayed to the gods to bless a year of peace; fishermen's homes are provided with the God of Fortune, and every time they go out to sea, fishermen have to put up three columns of incense according to the custom in order to ask for the gods to be able to bless them.

Sacrificing the God of Fishery

Fishermen go out to sea for the first time to haul in nets, and when they catch a fish, the first thing they do is to practice steaming the fish on a plate, and then lay down some wine and burn incense in the bow of the boat to pray that the Dragon King will bless them with a fortune at sea. Several boats together to catch fish, whose boat first hit the fish, firecrackers, drums and gongs, and pick the biggest and best fish for the bow.

Observation of the Dragon Wind

Every year on the 25th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, known as the "Dragon Wind Day" is said to be the Dragon King on this day to foretell the flavors of the year, the middle of the night, the fishermen get up to observe the weather, the size of the wind, the wind direction and the position and brightness of the stars, divining the weather for the year, because the sea to do the business is not the most concerned about the rain, snow, sand and dust. The most important thing is not rain, snow, sand and dust, but the wind.

Rongcheng fishermen historically have the custom of the rain festival. As the saying goes, "Once the rain arrives, a hundred fish come ashore". Originally, the winter swim to the deep sea and the southern waters of the shrimp, yellowtail, scallop, mackerel, mackerel, pomfret ...... once the rain, and successively swam back to the Yellow Sea, the Bohai Sea for food and spawning. Rongcheng around the sea is the fish must pass through the place, this time more fish, fish, is the golden season of fishing. Thus, fishermen can go out to sea continuously for more than a month after the Grain Rain Festival. The traditional fishermen's festival is as grand as the New Year. In the days leading up to the festival, families are busy killing chickens and ducks, buying meat and making wine, and women steam jujube preserves, a symbol of good fortune. Interestingly, the women who are skillful in making dough make white rabbits and steam them. In the morning of the rainy season, when their husbands come home from fishing with a big fish, they unexpectedly slip the white rabbit into his arms. "It is an old local custom to let their husbands carry the white rabbit as a symbol of good luck, so as to wish their loved ones a safe voyage and a good catch of fish. On the day of the rainy season, every house is filled with cigarettes and firecrackers. Fishermen carry the whole pig to the beach to set up offerings, sea prayers for a good harvest, to protect the peace. After the sacrifice, they or sit on the pit of the captain's house, or in the fishing port pier, the seaside beach get-together, large pieces of meat, big bowl of wine, boxing guessing order, drink to their heart's content, must want to - drunkenness. It is an ancient custom in fishing villages to drink a lot of wine on the Grain Rain Festival, and it is said that this is the only way to have good luck in the year. If the leftover wine to take home, the year will be bad luck. Since 1991, Rongcheng City to carry forward the traditional folk culture, promote the development of fisheries production, the prosperity of the emerging tourism industry for the purpose of combining traditional customs with the new ideas of the times, integration of tourism and economy as a whole, culture and entertainment with the prosperity of the commodity economy *** with the purpose of organizing the Fishermen's Festival, one every year, starting from April 20, the festival period of three days. The first festival was attended by 100,000 fishermen and Chinese and foreign guests. At the opening ceremony, more than 600 people performed a large group song and dance, "Fishermen Celebrate the Harvest", which included traditional dances such as "Niangniang Sends the Lights", "Bamboo Barrel Dance", "Running the Dry Boat", and "The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea". Fishermen have traditionally sacrificed to the sea, have invited Chinese and foreign visitors from afar to drink with them to celebrate the harvest, visitors can take this opportunity to the fishing village, into the fishermen's home, in the festive atmosphere of the customs, a glimpse of the fishing village style. At the same time, the fishermen carried out a number of competitions in the sea, such as rowing, sculling, pulling boats and weaving nets, which are rich in the characteristics of fishing villages. At night, in Shidao Harbor held a sea lantern festival. Rongcheng coast widely spread the story of the goddess of the sea to raise the red lamp for fishermen to navigate. In honor of the Goddess of the Sea, every year during the rainy season, every household hangs a lantern for good luck. According to this custom organized by the sea lantern festival. Everywhere shows the characteristics of the fishing village, more than 70 masterpieces of colored lanterns, arranged in the thousands of meters of the port coast, fireworks and water light backdrop, the scene is very spectacular, the lights in the "Carp Jump Dragon Door", "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea," "Lotus Fairy Traditional themes such as "Carp Jump Dragon Gate", "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", "Lotus Fairy" and other traditional themes, but also reflect the reality of fishermen's lives, "modern fishing village" scenery group lights. Flower exhibitions, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, local famous products, seafood exhibitions and economic and trade business fairs are also held during the festival. People who care about religious activities in the local Chisan Fahua Temple held a pilgrimage to worship Zhang Baogao and Yuanren Venerable Master.

Weihai dialect:

(1) the day, the ground, the sun is said to be the day. Venus said Maura star. Meteor said thief star. Rainbow reads reddish-red. Xia is said to burn red. Hail said Ling (read leng) son. Fog and rain said fog dew sprinkler. Eyes on the rain is said to sky clear rain, sunny day leakage. The wind is said to be contrary to the wind. Village said animal. Valley said hollow (read kuang). The mountain forest is said to be arashi. Plain said berth. The rock pile is said to be a rock boulder. Sea branch is said to harbor (read jiang). Pond said bay. The morning is said to be the first day of the week. At noon, it is said to be the morning. In the afternoon, it is said to be in the middle of the day, and in the morning, it is said to be in the middle of the day. In the evening, it is said to be dark. Yesterday was night. A little while said no big, no big break. A large period of time is said to be the old time to rest, old a while. Just now said just (read jiang) just, only just. Suddenly said suddenly pull, big not see children, cold alone.

(2) address grandfather said grandfather. Grandmother said mother-in-law. Father said father, big. Uncle said grandfather. Auntie said big mom. Aunt said aunt, aunt mom. Grandfather is called Master. Grandmother said grandma. Auntie said real mother. Men call their wives their children's mothers, my family. A woman calls her husband her father, her husband's husband. You say that. The other two are the ones that are not.

(3) Personnel, action Engaged to be married is said to break kiss. The first thing you need to do is to get together and work together. The first thing I'd like to say is that I'd like to be close to you, and I'd like to see you. To be estranged is said to be a relative. Hating is said to be a blessing and a nuisance. Trouble is said to be bad. Asking for help is said to be urgent. Conceding defeat is said to be a straw chicken. Unexpectedly said that I did not expect to see. I don't care to listen to it, I don't listen to it, I don't listen to it. Not often said that the code. Not careful said play with the ear mixing. Various reasons are said to be three, seven, and four. Many said ZhuoShi. Deception said bear people, coaxing people. Taunting is said to be impetuous. Bullying is said to be strong, look at the bear. A good joke is said to be playful, away from the theater. It is good to tease and cheat people, and it is said that the monkey is slippery. Not serious said to play horse flow. Not doing his job is said to flow ball. Stubbornness is called obstinacy. Spreading falsehoods is said to be in the middle of the mouth and tongue. Behind the scenes is said to be chattering. Stingy said stingy, clip Qi. Muddle said two paste. Short hearted said less page liver, half pull shaggy (biao). Silly said shaggy. Simple and stupid said two tiger, two not rash. Cutting is said to be hinged. Spoiled said defeat fold. The fall is said to knock (ka). Chopsticks said to clip the food said to be. Smell is said to listen to the flavor. Come to play is said to stand.

(4) food, cooking steamed buns, round said paradox, rectangular said rolls, two pointed said curium. Cake is said to poop. Barley fried noodles is said to burnt noodles. Fritters said Ma Teng. Eat said bite (read dai). Eating is said to eat rice, sip rice. Steaming is said to cook in a small amount of water.

(5) the shape of the object, the color hard said nail hard. Soft said thin soft. Round said dough. Rolling hot said square rolling old hot. Cool is said to be cold. Bright said shiny. Red is red. Transparent red. Yellow is burnt yellow. Blue is blood blue. White is white. Black is said to ink black, black. Green is said to be blood green.

(6) animals, birds, birds, insects bull said bullock, cow said set. Male donkey said donkey, female donkey said grass donkey. Small pig said tied pig (sold tied legs). Half a big pig said Klang. Ducks said ducks. Pigeon said pigeon. Crow said black crow. The hundred souls are said to be the old family roar. The bat is called Yuanbao bat. The jumping frog is said to be green. Barking frogs are said to be swollen drums. The toad said scabies. Tadpole said Gege dang. Grasshopper said grasshopper (read guai) son. Cicada said know (read jie). Cicada larvae said ant la monkey. Spider said leleju. Ants said nymph ants look. Praying mantis said knife mantis. The human stinging caterpillar is said to peel the stinging hair. Pike crab said flying crab. Crab said red armor red.

(7) tin inlaid tea Weihai tin inlaid tea nearly a hundred years of history, it is the Yixing zisha pottery for pots, tin forging, sculpture, inlaid, polished, after a dozen processes. Refined into a handicraft. Tin inlaid tea set was founded in the late Qing Dynasty. 1890, around the local Gujiatong Village, Valley Baohe, Valley and brothers in the East Pier near the copper and tin store, the two experimented for many years to create a tin inlaid process, the products are very fast sales abroad. 1984, the Valley family descendants of the Valley Zuwei to return to their ancestral home, the capital to open the "Weihai tin inlaid craftsmen," so that the tin inlaid tea sets. Tea set reappeared. Weihai tin inlaid tea set, inlaid parts of exquisite, beautiful tin pattern, pattern has "eight immortals across the sea", "dragon and phoenix", "pine and crane" and so on many kinds of.

(8) Folk Food Wendeng and Lushan, mountainous and near the sea, folk food is often both mountainous and coastal characteristics.

Weihai local customs - Rongcheng Ba Ba

Corn cakes are found in many places in the north. Rongcheng's bean-flour poi is a member of the corncake family, and is also a treasure in this family. New corn and new soybeans mixed three to two, ground on the stone mill, that is, with new noodles under the pot. It is not good if the grain is not new, it is not good if it is ground on a machine mill, it is not good if the corn and soybeans are ground separately and then mixed, and it is not good if the ground flour is stored for a little while. When doing poop, first half-boiling water to scald the noodles, not too much water, and water and repeatedly after the fist pounding pestle and mortar, and from time to time to add a little cold water, so that the noodles in the growth of white foam, proverb: "to be sweet, a hundred fists." When the white foam is full of pots, pinch a small amount of noodles, use a bowl to hold water, put the noodles in the water, if it is scattered and sinking, that is, then mixed and pounded until the noodles are fully mixed with the foam, pinch the noodles and put them in the bowl to float and not sink, which is qualified. Before making poi, add water to the iron pot, not too much, heating to the sound of water, dough two or three times to form (if repeated dough, the face is hard, not good), one by one paste in the pot, because the face is soft, poi paste in the pot, will be down - sinking, slightly flattened at the top end, the bottom end of the shape of the rounded full. Always burn water in a slow and steady fire, and when the poi is cooked, it will be burnt at the pot and will be soft and sweet. If the fish is simmered at the same time, the poi and the fish come out of the pot together, and the lower end of the poi is oily and stained, and you can eat the poi with the fish, which is also rare in fishing villages.

Weihai customs and traditions - kelp grass house

Rongcheng and other coastal, there are many slender kelp grass, fresh, green and lovely, by the tide rolled into a ball on the beach, after drying into a purple-brown color, strands of pliable. Coastal residents take it to thatch the house. Room thatched grass is extremely thick, the two slopes are very steep, the ridge is rounded, live up to the winter warm and cool in the summer, not elsewhere in the simple straw room can be compared. The shape, color, group layout of this straw house has a unique interest, many painters, photographers fell in love at first sight, and refused to leave. Painter Wu Guanzhong in Rongcheng kelp straw house made many sketches, but also left a record of the text: "Seaside very few trees cover, that yellow-gray and green-gray hard reefs and stone houses on the hard gang gang protruding in the blue sea. Raging sea crashed into the hard reef, who did not retreat, which nurtured the character of the fishermen, but also is the reason why people come from afar to find the sea fishing village. A glance at the fisherman's yard, immediately give you square, stable, heavy feeling. Large stones into a rugged wall, the selection of materials with the square on the round, solid wall pattern rules also has the flexibility, simple in the United States, composed of a square, round, horizontal, diagonal, large, small, curved, straight stone symphony. Triangular large mountain wall in the overall tone of the square courtyard painted a rich geometric changes, it shoulders the roof of the house covered with a thick layer of grass roof. That kind of algae seaweed with antiseptic, can withstand decades, to keep warm in winter and cool in summer, and that the soft texture of the grass, reconciled with the hard stone, but also to make the roof slightly gently curved body. Some people will waste fishing nets set on the grass roof, probably wind, as if the women's hairnet, but also add a few points of beauty!" The advantages of this kind of grass house is too much, the performance in recent years in the construction of new housing wave, still can not be eliminated soon it. Rongcheng's Slangdao Township, Madao Township, Chengshan Township and other places are still preserved can