Sheyang's special food, scenery, ancient customs, myths and history.

Matchmaking, also known as matchmaking, is to make a good relationship between men and women through matchmaking.

Inviting the media is generally a man's business. If the woman also intends to get married, the two sides can send people to visit each other.

Sometimes the woman's condition is dominant, and even the matchmaker can be entrusted to introduce her, so that the man can "insert the door backwards", which is called "adoption".

In ancient times, the matchmaker was also called "Yue Lao" and "Matchmaker".

Matchmaking really requires a skill.

The matchmaker should not only be familiar with the basic situation of both men and women and their families, but also be able to reflect the situation to both men and women and their parents basically and accurately, so that both sides can fully understand each other's strengths and reach a marriage agreement happily.

That is, if you want to have a matchmaker's mouth.

To be a matchmaker, you should be diligent in running errands. From the day you start to match men and women, you should always pass on each other's wishes and demands to prevent unexpected changes.

Both men and women have the custom of entertaining matchmakers.

The matchmaker must guide the next day and call it "round media" or "media".

The amount of money to thank the media depends on the economic situation of the owner, but no matter how much, it must be sealed with red paper, which is the so-called "red envelope".

Spend the winter

Winter solstice, also known as winter festival and overwintering, originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and has continued to this day.

Lu even said that the winter solstice is as big as a year.

This shows that the ancients attached great importance to the winter solstice.

People think that the winter solstice is a natural transformation of Yin and Yang and a blessing from heaven. On the solstice of winter, the government will hold a celebration ceremony called "Happy Winter", which is a routine festival.

In Yanfu area, winter solstice is generally called winter, which can be divided into big winter and small winter. Xiaodong is the day before the solstice winter, and people are used to eating beans and millet cooked with red beans and red melons.

On the solstice of winter, people will make cakes and steamed cakes, and large families will kill pigs and sheep and take their married daughters home for dinner.

The popular folk saying "Happy New Year in winter" and "It's too cold to eat cakes in winter; Eating cake in winter will not burn if it is too cold.

After thousands of years of development, a unique seasonal diet culture has been formed from winter solstice to Sunday.

Wonton, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, red bean porridge and millet rice cakes can all be used as winter holiday food.

"Winter solstice annual banquet" includes eating winter solstice meat, serving it to the winter solstice group, and worshiping winter with wonton.

Eating wonton in winter solstice began as a sacrifice to ancestors, and then it became popular in winter solstice. There is a folk proverb "The solstice in winter is Wonton Noodles, and the solstice in summer".

Eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter is also a traditional custom. "Round" means "reunion" and "perfection". Eating jiaozi in winter solstice is also called "winter solstice group".

In the north, there is a custom of eating dog meat and mutton from winter to Sunday, because the weather enters the coldest period from winter to the future. Chinese medicine believes that mutton and dog meat have aphrodisiac and tonic effects, and the folk have the custom of tonic from winter to Sunday.

In Shandong, there is also a saying that "it is impossible to get to jiaozi on the solstice in winter, and no one cares if his ears are frozen off". Therefore, on the solstice of winter, every family should eat jiaozi.