Folk Customs of Jiujiang

Welcoming Spring in the Eastern Suburbs

Welcoming Spring on the day of Spring Festival is an important activity carried out by the Chinese forefathers on the day of Spring Festival, and it is an activity in which everyone from the Son of Heaven to the common people must take part. In the Zhou Dynasty, the Prince of Heaven personally led the three dukes and nine ministers to the eastern suburbs to welcome spring and pray for a good harvest. After returning, he rewarded his ministers, and gave the people the benefit of virtue and order. This kind of activity is bound to affect the common people, so that it becomes the spring activities of all the people for generations to come. In ancient times, the Spring Festival was first held in the eastern suburb because the god Jumang, who was worshipped in the Spring Festival, was the god of the east. Later on, the spring activities were not only held in the eastern suburbs, but also in the palace and in front of the government offices, and the contents of the activities became more and more abundant. In the Song Dynasty, "the day of spring, the following ministers, into the dynasty to congratulate" (Song Wu Zimu "Mengliang Records"), this spring festival, is also a kind of spring activities. In the Qing Dynasty, there is also the so-called "worship spring" custom: "spring day for the spring dynasty, the public and the people to celebrate, called 'worship spring. Powder for pills, sacrifices to the gods for the first, and its rituals are subdivided in the year dynasty, enclosure in the winter solstice" (qing gu lu "qing jia lu" "worship spring"). This "worship spring" activities, similar to the New Year's Day "New Year's Day", is also a spring activities. Spring ceremony, also known as the spring.

Spring post

Also known as spring post, spring end post, spring end post. This is a kind of in "spring" day cut post in the palace door tents on the book with poetry post. Poetry is close to the Palace, mostly for the stanzas, the text is beautiful, most of the content is to sing the praises of virtue, or the implication of the admonition. "Spring" day stick spring post, spring post for words, in the Song Dynasty was very popular.

Spring ox

The ox symbolizes the spring plowing on the day of spring. It is made of clay, pinched and glued with paper, and is also called the "earth cow". On the first day of spring, the Son of Heaven led his ministers to the eastern suburbs to welcome spring, and whipped the spring ox to show that he advised farming, and the people came out of the city to watch.

Biting Spring

Eating spring cakes on the day of spring is called "biting spring". Folk in the spring on this day to eat some of the spring fresh vegetables, not only for the prevention of disease, but also to meet the meaning of the new year. Tang "four times treasure mirror" recorded: "spring, food reed, spring cake, lettuce, the number of 'vegetable plate'." Visible Tang Dynasty people have begun to try spring plate, eat spring cake. The so-called spring pancake, also known as lotus leaf pancake, is actually a kind of hot noodle pancake - with two small pieces of water, the center of the oil, rolled into a pancake, after cooking can be uncovered into two. Spring pancakes are used to roll up vegetables to eat, and the vegetables include cooked and fried vegetables. In the old days, when eating spring pancakes, it was important to go to the box store to call "Su Pan" (also known as box vegetables). Box store is the meat store, the store sends people to send food to the home. Box compartment yard smoked tripe, pine nuts tripe, stove meat (a kind of hanging oven roast pork), clear sauce meat, smoked elbow, sauce elbow, sauce mouth strips, smoked chicken, soy sauce duck, etc., to eat when you need to change the knife and cut into thin threads, with a few kinds of home-style stir-fried vegetables (usually stir-fried leeks and sprouts, stir-fried spinach, vinegar-cooked mung bean sprouts, veggie fried vermicelli, spread eggs, etc., if there is a fresh listing of the "pheasant neck chive "Stir-fried shredded lean pork, and then with a spread of eggs, is more fresh and flavorful), rolled together into the spring pancakes to eat.