What are the customs and habits in Fuzhou?

Also known as filial piety festival, send the poor festival. On the day of the festival, every household cooks nine porridge with glutinous rice and brown sugar, and puts red dates, peanuts, cowpeas, sesame seeds and water chestnut in it to sacrifice their ancestors as breakfast for the whole family. All married daughters should send Niu Jiuzhou back to their parents to honor their parents, that is, to wish them a safe ninth five-year plan.

The origin of this festival is said to be that the mother of ancient Manglietia was fierce and was sent to hell to suffer after her death. When Manglietia Manglietia grew up, every day, the food she gave her mother was eaten by kids. Later, he cooked a bowl of black porridge with black rice, and the kids were too scared to eat it. His mother finally ate the porridge sent by her son and was no longer hungry. Later, people named this day filial piety day.

Do the first day of the summer lunar calendar.

Because early spring is warm and cold, it is easy to get sick. In ancient times, in order to remind people, a "festival" ceremony was held on the first day of summer, which was called "making summer". Doing summer activities, such as picking plums and eating bamboo shoots, is different from ancient times to the present, with the aim of eliminating diseases and disasters. Nowadays, it is popular to make fixed-edge paste, fry "pancakes" and make "bowl cakes". Pancakes are fried with bean sprouts and rice paste in a special pot; Bowl cakes are made by adding fermented materials into rice slurry in a small bowl. Lin Zutao's poem in Qing Dynasty: "Spring flowers turn green and cloudy, catering to the wonderful cooking of dishes." Making a flower cake can blossom, and the reward comes from the neighbors first. "Flower cake is a bowl cake. This custom has been changed to eating fixed-edge paste.

Winter Festival Rubbing Pills Lunar Winter Solstice

Fuzhou's unique traditional seasonal customs symbolize family reunion.

On the night before the winter solstice, people will display auspicious offerings in front of the ancestral hall, such as Zanhua Shoumian. There is a bamboo basket on the desktop, which is filled with glutinous rice flour and decorated with oranges, red baskets and flowers of the four seasons. Then the whole family sat around the bamboo basket, rubbing pills and singing children's songs. There are two kinds of rubbing pills: rubbing balls and rubbing strips, which are rubbed into different shapes. Adults like to pinch auspicious items such as peaches and bats; Adults applaud what children pinch. For example, if you pinch a dog, you can sing "Dogs invest money", and if you pinch a turtle, you can sing "Guishou". Cook the kneaded pills and eat them with bean jelly.

Purdue Festival 65438+February 9th

Traditional festivals in suburban counties of Fuzhou. On this day, the chef prepares meals in the big open-air kitchen, and farmers in suburban counties invite relatives and friends to taste delicious food at home. More and more people are blessed, and the "open-air kitchen" has become a spectacular sight with great characteristics.

Ceremony Furnace 65438+February 23rd and 24th.

According to folklore, the Jade Emperor sent the Kitchen God down to earth to supervise the behavior of every household. Every year, he arrived on the fourth day of the first lunar month and set off for heaven on February 24th, 65,438 years ago. Sacrificing the kitchen stove is to bid farewell to the kitchen god. Fuzhou's stove festival is held in two days: 23 nights "meat stove festival", offering fish and wine, hoping that the kitchen god can cover up evil and promote good in front of the jade emperor; The 24-night "vegetarian stove" is only for fruits, vegetables, stove candy and stove cakes. For fear of the kitchen god getting drunk, for better or worse, talk nonsense. People pay special attention to the use of sugar in sacrificial stoves. After the sacrifice, a handful of candy was painted at the door of the stove, which means to stick the mouth of the kitchen god and let him talk less nonsense. As the saying goes, "Heaven speaks well, and the lower bound ensures peace".

Grandparents should give candy, biscuits and flower shells (masks) to their grandchildren before offering sacrifices to the stove. In the old society, medical skills were underdeveloped, and superstitious people thought that wearing a painted face shell could make the god of plague unable to see the true face of children and ward off evil spirits. At present, there is generally no ceremony to worship the kitchen god, but the custom of family banquets on holidays still exists. Kitchen candy and cake were renamed as "Nian Sugar and Nian Cake", and flower shells became children's toys during the Spring Festival.