What are the holiday customs in Zhejiang?

On February 6, 2005, in Haining, Zhejiang, people were preparing rice cakes for the Spring Festival. The custom of making rice cakes has a long history in Haining, Zhejiang. At the end of the lunar calendar every year, there is a custom of making and eating rice cakes in rural areas. Every household will grind glutinous rice into powder and make rice cakes as traditional gifts for visiting relatives and friends in the New Year. Therefore, the "rice cake" has become a "good mouth color" for folks to wish their relatives and friends to climb high every year.

Playing rice cakes is a science as well as a technology. It is difficult to make rice cakes before they are cooked. If you don't play well, it won't taste delicate, and it won't be stored for a long time, so it is easy to crack. In rural areas such as Chang 'an, Ding Qiao and Maqiao in Haining City, the custom of beating rice cakes with stone mortar is still preserved. Before the end of each year, every household would try their best to make rice cakes by themselves. However, with the decrease of rural labor force in recent years, the work of making rice cakes is time-consuming and laborious. People's villages in some places spontaneously formed rice cake teams and concentrated on making rice cakes for farmers for ten and a half months. Two years ago, six people, including Chu Linxi from five groups in Chu Shi Village of Chang 'an Town, spontaneously formed the rice cake team in the village. Washing rice, grinding rice, burning fire, steaming, steaming, cake making and red light form a production line, which solves the problem of making villagers' rice cakes. According to Chu Linxi, the head chef in charge of steaming, the rice cake starts at the beginning of 65438+February in the lunar calendar every year and ends on February 27th in the lunar calendar/kloc-0. Now we use 17 to 18 steamer every day on average. After half a month, it is estimated that more than 9,000 kilograms of rice cakes will be used for the group and foreign villagers.