"Eating Duck in Guiping?

Midwinter Festival of the eight laurels is better than spring, the Bon will be the dead souls

If you ask where the food is, you might as well eat duck lips in Gui Ping

Eating in Gui Ping: Why is the Midwinter Festival in Guangxi called the Duck Festival? The 14th of July is a ghost festival, and you have to eat ducks

The table full of rich chicken and duck dishes is the festival's greatest praise

The 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Chinese folk festival of the middle yuan. It is also called Zhongyuan Festival, Yu Lan Hui, also known as the Ghost Festival, and in Guangxi Guiping it is called ? July 14th? , this festival is a traditional day of folk worship of ancestors, mainly popular in the Han culture area.

The Mid-Yuan Festival? On this day, the earth's palace will open the gates of hell, so that the deceased relatives can go home and eat the earth again. People burn clothes and set out meat and wine to comfort the lonely souls and ghosts that roam the earth and to pray for their own success and safety throughout the year, which, together with the New Year's Eve, Ching Ming and Chung Yeung Festivals, make up the traditional Chinese festival of ancestor worship.

Guiping people, or Guangxi people celebrate ? July 14th? instead of ? Half of July? is due to historical reasons. I won't go into detail here. Every festival in China has different customs and diets, and there are regional differences, and what do Guiping people, or most people in Guangxi, eat on this day? Duck, of course! It has been said that no sheep can leave Ningxia alive, and similarly, no duck can survive the 14th of July in Guangxi.

So, in Guiping, Ghost Festival is also called Duck Festival!

Home-cooked style, delicious is the main thing

Why eat duck?

1, legend has it that the ancestors went home to visit their relatives on this day and had to cross the Naihe Bridge. The bridge is narrow and many people, one by one over some slow, and no boat can not cross how to do? So the people in the sunny world will send some ducks down, so that the ducks swimming to carry them back to meet earlier; ducks killed, the soul went down, the flesh how to do, only to be made into a dish to eat it!

2. I heard that eating ducks on ghost festivals can drive away evil spirits. Duck? is? The pressure? , take its harmonic, eat duck is to suppress the meaning of bad things.

3, in fact, the reason why we have to eat ducks on the Mid-Yuan Festival is because in the past, before planting early rice in rural Guangxi (including Guiping), every family would buy some ducks and raise them, and after cutting the paddy rice, they usually put the ducks in the paddy rice field, so that the ducks can eat the grains in the field, snails and earthworms. When it was time to plant the late rice, the ducks were getting fat and strong, and the farmers started to kill the ducks for the festival as a treat for themselves. As time went by, people became accustomed to eating ducks on this day;

4, there is also the fact that the Mid-Yuan Festival is when ducks are in season, which is just the right time to use them for rituals. Guangxi's countryside is full of water and swamps, which is convenient for duck breeding. In the past, people started raising ducks at the beginning of spring, i.e., in March or April, and about four to five months later, the ? Ghost Festival? This is the time when ducks grow. Because of the ancient life is more difficult, usually do not want to eat meat, only to festivals only want to open meat to kill to treat themselves. So a ghost festival families will kill ducks, eat ducks, over time also formed a tradition;

5, from the seasonal point of view, the Mid-Yuan Festival when Lingnan is at the time of? The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night. and duck is cool, suitable for people to nourish. So duck became the first choice, and this day became a difficult day for duck!

6, (this legend old drivers will be thrilled to see), it is said that the fourteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the heaviest day of the year in the yin gas, ancient women in order to aphrodisiacs, will be on this day to call a man to accompany their own night (called duck), but slowly found that the call for a man is too costly, a lot of poor families of women to eat duck to replace the custom of the call for a duck, evolved so far into the habit of eating duck.

Guiping County Records

No matter how it is said or customized, from the point of view of the people in the Yangwang world, duck is synonymous with a dish of delicacies, and for the ancestors in the netherworld, he is a means of transportation to and from! The Guiping County Records of the early Republic of China recorded that the first day before the middle of July is a festival ，，，， to send cold clothes,, and to give blood? Semi-finish? Souls without masters,,, cooking ducks is called articulated ducks ，，，， poses the role of ducks in the Mid-Yuan Festival.

Guiping people eat duck, really a variety of unique flavors. There are white cut lemon duck (which is considered the first taste of Guangxi flavor duck dishes), sour plum duck (stewed), fried duck with ginger and so on, these are not eaten in the provinces or said that rare specialty dishes! Eat once absolutely let you can not forget!

As for the wax blood duck, beer duck that is the flavor of Northwest Gui, roast duck is delicious, but daily have eaten, it will be on the sidelines during the holidays!

Guiping has an old saying: chicken year duck in pork tail. It means that you should eat chicken on New Year's Day, duck in the middle of the year, and pork on New Year's Eve.

This also reflects the ancient Guiping people's living habits, after the fall there is surplus food to raise chickens, New Year's Eve is just the time to go out. Ducks are raised after spring plowing, and can be eaten after the fall harvest. Pigs will be raised for a full year, treating people who have worked hard for a year!

This day, the duck is the main character, the supporting role is to set off the delicious duck meat! However, eating duck is delicious, slaughtering duck is a painful thing. Especially plucking duck feathers, can simply make people so depressed that they want to throw the duck away. Do not eat forget it.

Because, first with boiling water once can easily pluck the hair that is impossible thing, have the time if you might as well try it yourself? The first thing you need to do is to cut off the ducks (tang, the first tone). (Guangxi people on the slaughter of ducks called) plucking duck hair will let you pluck to doubt life, so? Therefore, the saying "I'd rather slaughter ten chickens than one duck" came into being. The saying "I'd rather subdue ten chickens than one duck" came into being.

If you don't have the skills, just take it to the farmer's market and let the owner process it!

Or many people will say, Guangxi people really know how to eat, the dog meat festival is very powerful, and now the duck festival has also taken off, in fact, you do not understand! Guangxi people have always been at the top of the food chain, they are the king of the eating world ah!

Come to Guangxi, come to Guiping, must do duck, eat duck oh!

July 14th day, in addition to duck, there are gray water rice dumplings and banana leaf patties to eat it, which are Guiping flavor characteristics of snacks, I believe you must not have eaten, heart? Then take action, eat in Guangxi, eat in Guiping!

Guangxi Guiping welcome you!

Here is Guangxi! Discover the food! Feel the food!