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Dietary customs and habits in ancient towns

February 2nd is the Spring Festival Lantern Festival.

During the Spring Festival, every household gets up very early, vying to be the first to set off firecrackers to welcome the kitchen (commonly known as grounding the sky). Adults and children wear fashionable clothes, and there is a happy atmosphere. Eat vegetarian food (flat food, jiaozi, etc. ) All day. In the old society, people should wash their hands and burn incense before eating. Only after respecting heaven and earth, kitchen god and ancestors can the whole family eat. After dinner, new relatives will call their families to pay a New Year call, and acquaintances will meet and say "Happy New Year" or "Happy New Year" to each other. From this day on, children pay New Year greetings to their parents or neighbors, begging for candy, melon seeds and peanuts or accepting lucky money.

At noon on the Lantern Festival, the whole family get together and have a rich meal. In the evening, they eat Yuanxiao and light steamed lanterns (such as moon lanterns, zodiac lanterns, chicken lanterns and dragon lanterns). Take them to the front yard with a sieve during the day, then put the dragon lanterns on the wheat barn, the chicken lanterns on the chicken coop, and the rest on both sides of the gate. Lanterns are hung under the eaves in front of every household, and children are wandering around in groups of three or five, with bright lights everywhere. At the same time, every household set off fireworks, and the children ran to the fields in droves, lit bonfires and torches made of broom heads or firewood and threw them into the air. Some villages beat gongs and drums, play dragon lanterns, dance lions, walk on stilts, and go boating from house to house until late at night, commonly known as the Lantern Festival.

On February 2nd, there were two local stresses. One is "On February 2nd, the dragon looked up, and each son scraped the faucet". Barbers are as busy as a bee, not only earning a lot of money from shaving (shaving money is higher than usual), but also getting some gifts. The second is "On February 2nd, black dragon looked up". Adults get up early and use plant ash to spread circles around the barn. The bigger the barn, the better, which indicates a bumper harvest.

Two Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Before Tomb-Sweeping Day, we should add soil to our ancestral graves. In the morning in Tomb-Sweeping Day, willow branches are planted under the eaves of every household, and young women wear willow leaves on their heads to improve their eyesight. There is a saying that "Qingming does not wear willow, and when they die, they become rhubarb dog"; You should also eat boiled eggs for breakfast. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), state organs and schools carried out activities to sweep the tombs of revolutionary martyrs on this day, remembering the martyrs and enlightening future generations.

Three Dragon Boat Festival

In the morning, every family has moxa sticks under the eaves, and the little girl wears mugwort leaves on her head. There is a saying that "if you don't wear mugwort leaves during the Dragon Boat Festival, you will become an old turtle cover when you die". Eat zongzi, sugar cakes and fried dough sticks for breakfast (rich people also make realgar wine). Some people catch toads, saying that they can cure mumps by putting ink blocks in their mouths to dry and then grinding them into ink. In addition, the family also sews sachets and sachets for children and ties them around their ankles, wrists and necks with five-color thread, saying that they can avoid disasters.

Mid-Autumn Festival

At noon, the whole family enjoys a feast, drinks reunion wine and celebrates the harvest. Steam fire food in the afternoon (several people make moon cakes). In the evening, every family set up a case in the yard to burn incense, and placed Yue Bai with moon cakes, pomegranates, apples, pears, dates and other fruits. As soon as the moon came out, people immediately set off firecrackers and the children kowtowed to Yue Bai. Then the family sat around and enjoyed the moon while eating. The old man told fairy stories such as "Tang Minghuang visited the Moon Palace", "The Empress Dowager dragged medicine", "the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon", "WU GANG chopped osmanthus trees" and "Jade Rabbit mashed medicine".

New Year's Eve of Laba Festival in May.

Every household in Laba Festival cooks porridge with rice, tofu, vermicelli and carrots, which is called "laba rice", saying that eating it can avoid disaster. He also said that the pickles pickled with carrots on this day are delicious and will not go bad for a long time. There is also a saying that "after eating laba rice, I am busy with the new year's goods".

On the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, offering sacrifices to stoves is called offering sacrifices to stoves or New Year's Day. In the evening, every household will put Chinese New Year's fish, meat, fruit and other things on the incense table to worship the kitchen god. First burn incense and kowtow, burn paper and paste silver ingots with kitchen horses, forage and small bows and arrows, and set off firecrackers at the same time. On New Year's Eve, the statue of the new kitchen god will be posted by the door, with couplets: "Go to heaven on the 23rd (4th) day, and descend to earth on the first day" or "Heaven speaks well and descend to earth in peace"; Horizontal approval of "the head of the family". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, people gradually eliminated superstition when offering sacrifices to stoves.

On New Year's Eve, on the last day of the twelfth lunar month (the 30th day of the first month and the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month), everyone gets up early to clean up and put up Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures (old pictures of the door gods and kitchen gods, and some even put on Zhong Kui). Adults and children all put on new clothes. At noon, I had a sumptuous meal and a farewell wine (in the old days, I kept burning incense all day, offering wine for meals and offering sacrifices to the Buddha), which was very unusual. In the evening, we eat jiaozi, melon seeds and peanuts, and the whole family will sit together. The elders will give the children "lucky money". At the same time, serve a bowl of plain food, take two steamed buns and reward the big livestock. There is a saying that "1000 hits 10000 scolds, 30 nights of meals". Farmers surnamed Sang in Yangmiao Village, Yangmiao Township, mostly celebrate the New Year on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, this village was called Yuchi Village, where an old man named Sang lived. The old couple led seven sons and rented 5 acres of land from the rich man's house to maintain their lives. One autumn, the old man sang was bitten by the yellow dog of the rich man's house. In a rage, his third son beat the dog's leg with bricks, tied it up by the rich man and sent it to the county government, beat it up, and stole five stones of wheat from home. The old man was so popular that he wrote a complaint and reported it to Fengyang House. Autumn goes to winter, and it is the end of the year. All the neighbors are busy with the Spring Festival, but the old man's house is deserted. The 5-year-old son asked, "Mom, when will our family celebrate the New Year?" Mom said, "Wait for Dad to come back for the New Year!" " On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, the old man sang lost his beard and won the lawsuit. The rich man returned all the wheat, and the family got together, killed chickens and prepared vegetables, and spent an early year happily. Since then, their descendants have celebrated the New Year on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month every year.

A marriage

After the betrothed old marriage was proposed by the matchmaker, the man handed the Geng stickers of both men and women (commonly known as "eight characters", that is, the date of birth) to the fortune teller for marriage. There are four situations in which you can't get married: (1) Women are five years older than men, and there is a saying that "women are five years older than their mothers"; (2) The genus does not match, and there is a saying that "dragons and tigers fight", "dogs and rabbits fight" and "two dragons have different beds"; (3) life is incompatible, and there is a saying that "Jia Zi B ugly gold is in the sea, and Bing Yin Ding ugly fire is in the furnace"; (4) within five clothes of the same family. If you are not in a hurry, the man prepares two pieces of red cloth (the rich buy silk fabrics, and the poor only buy linen or cotton fabrics) and silver ornaments, and gives them to the woman together with the female boxer stickers, which is called "returning the boxer". If the woman agrees to get engaged, she will usually buy the man a hat, two books, two pens and black ink. Then the man will send chickens, carp, fruits, pig hind legs and so on. For the benefit of chickens (carp). From engagement to marriage, men and women are not allowed to meet; If there is a man present, women should avoid it quickly to avoid being judged.

After the wedding ceremony is decided, both parties prepare wedding supplies, the woman handles the dowry, and the man arranges the new house. On the wedding day, the man carried a sedan chair (a red sedan chair used by the poor) and prepared a bride price for the woman, such as cock, carp, pork, fruit, big steamed bread and double altar wine. Before the bride gets on the sedan chair, she should twist the hair off her face with red thread, commonly known as "opening her face" and put it in a bun; Wear a red coat to give you a long life (some wear red clothes, red skirts and "red hijab" on their heads, and a few rich women wear scarves, glasses, vases and embroidered shoes); Then sit in a chair, and your brother or uncle will carry you into a sedan chair. I wish you a chair at your husband's house. There is a red quilt in the car, with dates, peanuts (meaning "early birth") and walnuts (meaning "harmony between husband and wife") at the four corners of the quilt. The quilt can't be worn in May-July, which will make it "five apart and seven scattered". Condoms are for old and young women. When you get on the sedan chair, you should cry a few times to show that you are reluctant to part with your parents. The sedan chair was carried away with firecrackers. There are bands (commonly known as "ringing hands"), honor guards and armed guards in front of the sedan chair of the rich family. Generally, there is only one band in front of the sedan chair, followed by a dowry (the best one is "full son", the middle one is "small six pieces", and the worst one is "one load to carry"). The sedan chair was carried to the door, and the suona gongs and drums rang amid firecrackers. The bride, with the help of two bridesmaids, stepped on the paved new reed mat with the jade bottle containing miscellaneous grains (there is a saying that "the couple can't get out of the sedan chair with empty arms") given by the bride-to-be. The man first sent two people to upload on the mat (one by one, there is a saying of "carrying on the family line") and went to the bridal chamber. At the same time, men of the same age throw grain, dates, copper coins and so on. Singing "the song of scattering accounts" on the bride's head (commonly known as scattering accounts) makes people laugh. The bride sulks and lowers her head. Some brides deliberately take one step and take three steps back, trying to be exhausted. There is an incense table at the entrance of the bridal chamber. On the incense table, there is a basket filled with miscellaneous grains (wishing the bride can do farm work), with a mirror (distinguishing new people from demons) and a steel scale (the rope, wood and iron on the scale can ward off evil spirits). The bride stood side by side with the groom before she came to the incense table. After the priest shouted "Worship Heaven and Earth", she kowtowed three times and went into the outer room of the bridal chamber. The priest shouted "Two Worshipments to Gaotang!" After the "husband and wife worship", they all kowtowed three times and then went into the inner room. On the third, sixth or twelfth day after marriage, the woman comes to take the bride back, commonly known as "returning to the door".

The marriage customs of the local Hui people are basically the same as those of the Han people. In the old canon, Hui people were not allowed to marry foreigners. If there are special circumstances, foreigners must sincerely believe in Islam. At present, there are about 1/3 Hui-Han marriages in the county. After marriage, they all respect the customs and habits of the Hui people, and both sides also give gifts according to the customs of the Hui people. After the Hui men and women are engaged, the woman chooses "the main hemp day" and then goes to the mosque to recite the scriptures, which is called "tying the female buckle". On the wedding day, the imam must preside over the wedding to prevent the bride from crying; The next day, the imam was invited to go to the grave with the bride and groom, which was called "going to the happy grave".

Erxiqing

Three days after the bride gives birth to the baby, the bride's family will give 1 chicken according to the sex of the baby; 9 days or 12 days, parents will give "milk gifts", including wheat flour, prickly heat, brown sugar, hens, bags, clothes, shoes and hats, sleeping cars, small bicycles and toys. Menstruation, sister-in-law, menstruation, menstruation and other relatives should also give gifts. The husband's family gave a banquet to reward relatives and friends who gave gifts, and distributed red-dot steamed buns and red eggs to show their joy.

When the baby turns one year old on his birthday, his grandmother and aunt will give him a "wedding gift", and his father's relatives and friends will also give him clothes, cloth, shoes and hats, pens, toys, food and other things to express warm congratulations, while the man will hold a birthday party to entertain guests.

Birthday In the old society, there was a local custom of celebrating ten days and birthdays. When the rich live to be 63, 73 or 83 years old, they must celebrate their birthdays, and relatives and friends should send shroud and birthday gifts; When the poor live to be 63 or 73 years old, the daughter will send a big carp to celebrate her birthday. As the saying goes, "Sixty-three, seventy-three, eat a carp and run away." Especially the 66-year-old "ten years old" is very important. Relatives of the younger generation, especially daughters, should send gifts such as 6 1 kg big steamed buns, 36 red-dot steamed buns, 66 jiaozi, 3 kg 6 Liang pork to celebrate their birthdays. Others send at least 6 big steamed buns and 3 kg of 6 Liang pork. Birthday celebrations are generally arranged on the sixth day of the first month or the sixteenth day of the first month, so that the elderly can spend the "tenth day" in order to live a long and healthy life.

There are many kinds of local gifts. When the new house is completed, relatives and friends will send a "wind-pressing ceremony" to the neighborhood. From the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC) to the 1970s, this custom was almost abolished, and it was gradually restored in 1980s. At the same time, "Congratulations on joining the army" and "Congratulations on entering a higher school" were added.