Fuqing festival customs information 200 words

Brush Brush Hall--Resignation of the Old and Welcome to the New Year Cleaning

Brush Brush Hall, known as "Brush Xian Xue Hall" to the people of Fuqing, is an indispensable part of every household in Fuqing. Every year in the lunar month, choose a sunny day, the whole family mobilized to the ceiling, halls, miscellaneous rooms, etc. clean, but also special carefully scrub windows and doors and furniture. One day can not finish can be divided into a few days, but must not leave a health dead ends.

It is said that the old-style Fuqing family annual cleaning work, wash the tool is not a general broom, but the collection of fresh bamboo leaves made of broom, with red paper tied to the head, the resonance of the "rich" "satisfied.

When you brush your hands, you have to rub the rice and eat it. When a family starts to do hygiene, the children look forward to eating the rubbed rice, because after doing hygiene, the family will give a pot of rubbed rice to each neighbor. When your family did the sanitation, they would give it back to others, and the relationship between neighbors was brought closer.

Purchasing New Year's goods and sacrificing to the stove

There are many different kinds of New Year's goods in old Fuqing, such as taro paste, spring rolls, meat swallows, and Buddha jumps over the wall, etc., but the most important ones are three things, which are prepared by both the poor and the rich, and those are zao sugar zaobao cake, mizi (pronounced zie), and rice cake.

In the old days, all the families in Fuqing had to buy new year's goods after they had prepared the above three kinds of new year's goods.

"Sacrifice stove sacrifice paste, a copper incense burner in front of the stove, Yuanbao is Nong pasted, gold pants is Nong paste, Zaojun up to the sky to speak good words, Zao Ma landing blessing Nong, blessing Nong father money to earn, blessing Nong milk money to grow, blessing Nong brother to discuss the brother and sister-in-law, blessing Nong study to become smart."

Legend has it that the Jade Emperor sends the God of the Stove to the earth to supervise the behavior of every household, good or bad, the fourth day of the first month of the lunar calendar each year, the year before the December 24, full of the end of the report on the sky, the sacrifice of the stove is the God of the Stove farewell.

In Fuqing sacrificial stove God has a pay attention to, to sacrifice twice, divided into "sacrifice vegetarian stove" and "sacrifice meat stove". On the 23rd day of the 12th month of the lunar calendar, people will take good wine and good food to entertain Zao Wang, called 'sacrifice meat stove'. However, they are afraid that when he goes to heaven, he will be full of alcohol and make the Jade Emperor unhappy, and he will also be drunk and report randomly, so when they send him to heaven on the 24th day of the 12th month of the lunar calendar, they will only take fruits, vegetables and other vegetarian food to entertain him, which is called "sacrificing to the vegetarian stove".

The festival is a prelude to the New Year! After the Zaosu festival, you can eat Zaosu candies and cakes. Mouse child (the scientific name of the inch date), Zaobao cake, Ma Sheng cake, money cake, red paper bag, fried rice cake, etc., when I was a child, I liked to eat. On the day of Zaosai, the adults were very busy, the family ate dinner early, and started to clean the pots and pans and the edges of the stove, and then took out the ten exquisite dishes prepared and placed them on the stove, lit incense and candles, poured rice wine, and set out the horseshoes and sugarcane, which represent the meaning of "sweetness and honey". When it gets dark, it's time to start the Zaoxing ceremony. We burned incense to the God of Zaos, made a wish, and then set off firecrackers. After all the procedures are over, the little ones start enjoying the Zao sugar and Zao cakes with great joy.

In ancient times, families with different status had different times to worship Zaos, which can be seen from the old Fuqing saying. "Officials three people four curved hooves five, sacrificing vegetables and meat in order. Cut the cane whip and burn the paper horse, send the king to ride to the blue sky." That is to say, the red gentry (people with official positions) family for the 23rd day of the lunar month, the compilation of rogues (civilians) for the 24th day of the lunar month, boat-dwelling people (water dwellers) for the 25th day of the lunar month.

According to the old Fuqing custom, grandparents would send their grandsons and granddaughters Zao sugar and Zao cakes as well as flowery masks on the day of Zao festival to express their love and affection.

Nowadays, very few people make their own mizi and buy it ready-made. In the old days, families used to make mizzi and sugar kuey teow (rice cake). The smell of New Year's Eve could be smelled in every step of the process: grinding the milk, washing the cauldron, and kneading the leaves of the kuey teow. Children would usually gather around their parents to observe the whole process of making mizi: soak the glutinous rice, grind the pulp with a stone mill and put it into a big white rice bag; press out the water with a stone or a chair to make the glutinous rice inside into a ball; pull out a piece of flattened, wrap it into the appropriate amount of brown sugar glutinous rice filling, close the mouth and roll it into a circle and press it onto a square of Yan Shan ginger leaf pads, and then put it into the steamer to be steamed; after it is taken out of the steamer, then use chopsticks to put on the red dots, which is a symbol of happiness and peace. The symbolism of peace and prosperity.

The original intention of making Mizi is to worship ancestors, and you can eat it until the first month of the year after you have made offerings to your ancestors on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, and it can be boiled or fried. The old Fuqing also has the custom of asking each other for rice, in order to ask for good luck. I only remember the Qingming Festival will eat this!

Nian gao (rice cake) has become an essential food for the Spring Festival because of the harmonic sound "nian gao" and its varied flavors.

Daughters who have gotten married have to send rice cakes to their parents' families every Spring Festival to thank them for their support. Of course, this is not enough, but also to give their parents grass carp, pig's trotters, thread noodles, duck eggs, lucky oranges and so on. These New Year's goods have a good meaning: send rice cake, I hope that the mother's family life is high every year; send grass carp, I hope that parents have more money every year; send pig's trotters, I hope that parents legs and feet healthy; send thread noodles, I hope that parents have a long and healthy life; send duck eggs, I hope that parents have peace and security; sent orange, I hope that the parents have a lot of good fortune.

In order to make the rice cake more delicious, the old Fuqing people like to make "gold wrapped in silver". They cut the rice cakes into pieces, dip them in beaten egg, and then fry them in a frying pan until the surface of the rice cakes becomes golden in color.

Doing small year: worship at least a whole day

The night before New Year's Eve is called "New Year's Eve" by people in the north, and "Doing small year" by people in Fuqing, which is the time to worship ancestors and heaven and earth. Yibaiyimu people say, sacrifices to ancestors, set offerings is a very tedious thing, to a whole day, do a small year for the family can be in the night of the New Year's Eve to get together.

"Doing a small year" on this day is an important activity is to worship, the morning to the hall of the ancestral hall sacrifice, noon to the home of the hall sacrifice, and in the afternoon to the room to sacrifice ...... on a thick futon, a kowtow two kowtow three kowtow, "worship", "worship", "worship", "worship", "worship", "worship", "worship", "worship", "worship", "worship", "worship" and so on. The "bye-bye" is endless, and the children who follow the adults are happy to do so.

New Year's Eve: New Year's Eve Dinner

There is an old saying in Fuqing: "A good boy doesn't make money all night long," which means: a good boy doesn't make money on the night of New Year's Eve. In the field of business, working Fuqing people, in the New Year's Eve before the New Year's Eve will certainly go home to eat a reunion dinner, "people do not Qi not open dinner. In the eyes of the old Fuqing people, the climax of the New Year's Eve is reflected in the New Year's Eve dinner.

Fuqing people's New Year's Eve dinner is very elaborate, sliced and fried rice cakes are a must. There are also chicken with red sauce, spring rolls, fried eel with bad sauce, mustard greens, fried white kuey teow with crab, duck soup, chicken soup, shrimp with nine joints, fried liver, mashed taro, and Pacific Bird's Nest, etc. The Pacific Bird's Nest is made of meat and bird's nest, with the addition of taro. Taiping Bird's Nest is a soup made of meat bird's nest and duck egg, which is called "egg" in Fuqing dialect, and the harmonic sound of duck egg is "suppressing chaos", which has the meaning of peace.