Chengdu Folk Customs and Customs Introduction

Introduction of Folk Customs in Chengdu

Introduction of Folk Customs in Chengdu, Chengdu is also a city known as the "Land of Heavenly Capital", with a very long and rich history, and has deposited a lot of excellent folk traditions and cultures from the ancient times to the present day, exuding unique folk customs, the following is the introduction of Chengdu Folk Customs.

Chengdu Folk Customs

Chengdu Folklore Introduction 1

1, food

Sichuan cuisine, a variety of dishes, taste fresh mellow and heavy, known for good use of spicy and spicy, and its special cooking methods and rich local flavor, is one of China's four major cuisines. Chengdu Pixian Douban is known as the "soul of Sichuan cuisine", is an essential part of Sichuan cuisine.

2, handicraft

Sichuan embroidery, also known as "Sichuan embroidery", is a general term for embroidery products centered in Chengdu. Produced in Chengdu, Sichuan, Mianyang and other places. Shu embroidery and Su embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Guangdong embroidery, known as China's four famous embroidery. According to documents, the earliest king of Shu, Silkworm Cong, already knew how to breed silkworms. At the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, Shu Brocade and Shu Embroidery were already famous all over the world as rare and expensive silk fabrics.

Shu brocade, produced in Chengdu brocade silk fabrics. Because of its long history and unique craftsmanship, Shu brocade has the reputation of being the first of the four famous brocades in China. Because of the Han Dynasty, Chengdu brocade weaving industry has been very developed, the imperial court in Chengdu has specialized in brocade weaving officials, so Chengdu is known as "brocade official city", referred to as "brocade city".

3, Dragon Boat Festival dumplings Spring Festival package

New Year's Eve dumplings, mostly meat dumplings. Just made bacon, is the star of the dumplings. Soak the glutinous rice in water, and mix it with red beans boiled until it is about to penetrate the heart and half-fat and thin bacon cut into granules, mix in salt and pepper flour to be ready.

4, mahjong

National essence, but Sichuan is the actual universal popularity. Less not into Sichuan, Sichuan people know how to live, weekdays to get together to talk about gossip tasting tea, set up a few tables of mahjong, Sichuan people will be consumed in the time on the square table but very enjoyable.

Expanded information:

1, Chengdu has the Wuhou Temple, Dufu Cao Tang, Yongling, Wangjianglou, Qingyang Palace, Wenshu Temple, Ming Shu Wang Ling, Zhaojue Temple, and other historical attractions and cultural landscapes. Chengdu is also the habitat of giant pandas in Sichuan, with a giant panda base.

2. There are five religions in Chengdu, including Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism and Christianity. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, during the reign of Emperor Shun, Zhang Daoling created the Five-Double-Meter Religion in Heming Mountain, Dayi, Chengdu, which was the beginning of Taoism in China. Buddhism was introduced to Chengdu at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Chengdu Folklore 2

Folklore of Chengdu

1. Fish Market

Although Chengdu is not a city of water, and there are very few species of aquatic products. But because of the Jinjiang River and the settlement of Yuxi, the old Chengdu people are not worried about the lack of fish to eat. Now the loach and eel are expensive, but at that time, the average person can afford to eat. There was no shortage of carp. In addition to the fish sellers who walked the streets, there were also fish and shrimp markets in Chengdu on Nanmen Street and Huguangkuan Street. Chengdu people's diet prefers pork to light shrimp and fish, so fish cooking is relatively simple, and the basic practices are available in Sichuan cuisine recipes.

2. Bamboo

Bamboo is commonly distributed in *. Plants, but also * people often used to prepare a variety of containers items raw materials. Bamboo is not used in *, in the dry * will burst and fall apart. However, in Chengdu, bamboo utensils can also break after a long time of use. For the broken parts of the bamboo ware, you can wait for the bamboo repairer to go around the streets and yell, and then all of them will be as good as new. A bamboo repairer with a bundle of bamboo, gimlets, and tools can go anywhere and everywhere without worrying about finding business.

3, cool mats

Chengdu's summer is also relatively hot and humid. Old Chengdu then summer, there are specialized "sell cool" occupation, some children in the teahouse barber store and other public **** place dedicated to other people fan cool, and sell ice powder and so on, there are people who will go to the special complementary fan and cooler. Cooling mats are inevitably an indispensable item in the old Chengdu summer, cooling mats are prepared using bamboo gabion strips, which will become smoother over time and make sleeping on them more comfortable. The old Chengdu people are not willing to throw away, but will ask a special master to repair.

4. Bucket

There was no running water in the old Chengdu, and to drink water, it was necessary to use a bucket to carry water from the well to the river.

At that time, the daily necessities of the old Chengdu people were all durable consumer goods, which were not changed for decades, and some of them became heirlooms directly. Buckets were no exception, and they were wooden buckets.

The wooden bucket leaks or falls apart, the small problem of their own hands to solve, the big problem of specialized masters to solve the problem.

5, hit the straw shoes

The old Chengdu shoes are simple straw shoes, no gorgeous appearance, only the use of the inner. Chengdu is a granary, cereal grass, wheat grass, seedling grass is very much, hitting the straw shoes, cover the straw house, woven straw hat, bundled goods, woven straw mat of raw materials. There are stores that sell straw sandals in the countryside.

6, on behalf of the guests to risk rice

The old Chengdu service industry is a variety of meticulous and thoughtful, one of which is to risk rice on behalf of the guests. Customers with a bowl of cold rice, the museum will use the noodle soup will be hot and steaming rice and do not charge a penny. If you still have a few bucks in your pocket, you can also have a bowl of vegetarian noodles, fat intestines, cold noodles and other dishes. This way of eating is probably unheard of today. The abundance of this kind of trivial business also shows that there were many greedy city dwellers in the old Chengdu who lacked a livelihood. Nowadays, of course, there is no need for these industries to exist, but the human touch should not disappear.

Chengdu festival customs

Chengdu Lantern Festival

The first month of the fifteenth. Chengdu Lantern Festival is a traditional folklore event developed on the basis of the Lantern Appreciation custom of the Lantern Festival. Since 1962, Chengdu resumed the Spring Festival Lantern Festival, which lasted for one month. During the Lantern Festival, the park has folk music, acrobatics, juggling performances; there are a variety of local flavor snacks; there are casting sugar man's tandem, selling windmills of the grass handle, each Lantern Festival visitors are more than a million people.

Chengdu Flower Festival

January every year. The Chengdu Flower Festival began in the Tang and Song dynasties and has a history of more than a thousand years. The address of the festival is located in Chengdu outside the west gate of the Qingyang Palace, legend has it that the birthday of the founder of Taoism, Li Laojun, is the fifteenth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, so since the Tang Dynasty, the folk held an annual temple fair here. And because the February in Chengdu is the weather is sunny, pleasant spring, flowers bloom season, so it is also rumored that February 15 is the birthday of the flowers, therefore, every year in February and held here in the flower fair.

At that time, Chengdu near the state-run, collective flower nurseries and the majority of flower farmers, will be their own hard work to cultivate valuable flowers, home planted potted flowers, bonsai, etc. transported to the Qingyang Palace, scaffolding to support the tent, set up stalls and points of sale, for exhibition.

Xinjin Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon boat racing is one of the traditional customs of the people of China*. Although Chengdu is north of *, it is also a place of water, so the history of dragon boat racing is also very long. Until the 1960s, dragon boat racing in Chengdu took place in the Jinjiang River section by Wangjiang Park. However, after the 1970s, the river in the city was no longer suitable for dragon boat races. Therefore, the South River in Xinjin County, Chengdu, with its superior geographical conditions, will be the dragon boat event more and more red-hot. In addition to the dragon boat race and other traditional programs, but also increased the dragon boat modeling show, colorful boat night tour.

Chengdu Folklore Introduction 3

1, Dragon Boat Festival dumplings Spring Festival package

New Year's Eve dumplings, mostly meat dumplings. Just do a good job of bacon, is the star of the dumplings. Soak the glutinous rice in water, and mix it with red beans boiled until it is about to penetrate the heart and half-fat and thin bacon cut into granules, mix in salt and pepper flour.

2, go people households

Popular in Sichuan all over. Folk in all cases of New Year's festivals or marriage, new homes inaugurated and other circumstances. All to relatives to visit the door, known as walking people household. At that time, generally take pig's feet, a lot of their own can not afford to buy gifts, good wine and other gifts, wearing the usual can not afford to go to the clothes. The host family cut meat and buy wine, hospitality.

2, "People's Day" Cao Tang worship Du Fu

"People's Day" (the seventh day of the first month) tour of Cao Tang's custom, originated in the Tang Dynasty." Every year, the "Human Day" has become a special day for Chengdu people to visit the Cao Tang and honor the poet Du Fu.

3. Lovers' "Stealing" on the 15th day of the first month

According to Chengdu's traditional custom, a young man who fell in love with a neighboring girl could go to the girl's family's vegetable field to steal a few handfuls of greens on the night of the 15th day of the first month in order to express his love. When the girl finds out that her own vegetables have been stolen, she will know that a young man is in love with her, and her heart will be filled with joy and longing.

4, spring herdsman said spring

Han Chinese social customs. Popular in all parts of Sichuan. Time before and after the Spring Festival. In the old days, the spring herdsmen wore a black hat, dressed in official clothes, the left hand holds a wooden carving of the spring cow, the right hand to take the spring stick; spring herdsmen, the same attire and ordinary people, the difference is that the body back a cattle prod. They climbed the mountains and waded through the water, traveled to the countryside, every place, they will make up some auspicious songs to sing. After singing, they give a red paper printed cattle inspection map to the host family. After the inspection, the householders have to send some money to the inspector as a reward.

5, send gifts

Han Chinese social customs. Popular in Sichuan. Folk whenever the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other major festivals, married out of the daughter with a son-in-law, separated from another son with a daughter-in-law, with gifts to go home to visit their parents. Friends and relatives also send gifts to each other during these festivals. The custom is still popular, but the gifts have changed with the development of the times.