The annual "Sacrifice Pai" activity is a traditional custom of Xiaozhuxi people in Songyang, which has a history of more than 300 years. Although it is intermittent, it has not stopped for nearly 30 years. People in Xiaozhuxi worship the patron saint in this unique way, praying for good health and family happiness in the new year.
2. Invite immortals on New Year's Eve.
In the early morning of New Year's Eve, men, women and children went into battle together, brushing, cooking and cooking, each busy and orderly. Families with "New Year's Pig" use pig's head, while families without "New Year's Pig" use a knife of "ribs" instead, put it in a large iron pot and cook it with the killed cock.
The person in charge will move the cleaned table to the gate, put the cooked pig's head or pork, rooster and fish (that is, "three sacrifices"), add sugar cakes and tofu, light incense, pour rice wine, and the ceremony of welcoming the gods will begin. After eating and drinking enough, the god of heaven and earth burned a stack of paper money, set off a string of firecrackers, then put away the sacrifices and rushed to the ancestral temple, social house (land temple) and other places to worship one by one according to the same ceremony.
3. Light Show
Children are the main participants in the Lantern Festival, ranging from 10 to 13. Eight boys decorate eight figures on horseback. Due to the limitation of clothing size, boys who are taller than 1.2 meters can't play any more and must be replaced. In this way, the role changes quite frequently, and few children can play for three years in a row.
At first, the villagers made bamboo strips look like horses, then pasted the horses with various kinds of cotton paper, went to the mountains to find a kind of rattan called Gaoshanlong, braided it on an iron ring made of bamboo strips, and made it into a hat to wear on the dancers' heads. If there are no clothes, cut them with coarse cloth and let the painter draw patterns on them. On holidays, the villagers should take it out for a dance to exorcise evil spirits and bless peace.
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Songyang traditional special snacks
1, Pancakes: Eating pancakes during the Dragon Boat Festival is one of the traditional eating methods in Songyang. Songyang's pancakes are famous for their thin skin and fine stuffing, and are deeply loved by ordinary people.
2. Yellow rice fruit: Yellow rice fruit is made by burning a unique shrub on the high mountain of Songyang into ashes and extracting its juice. It has a unique color and taste, and it is a delicious food for Songyang traditional folk festivals or entertaining VIPs.
3, Qingming fruit: Songyang folk custom, eating green fruit in Qingming, can drive away evil and avoid poison. Its color is green, its taste is fresh, and it has the smell of wormwood, which makes it unique in food.
4. Maidou Rice: After Tomb-Sweeping Day, farmers will choose fresh Maidou grain and high-quality glutinous rice, add the ham heart or diced bacon smoked by bamboo leaves in Songyang and stew them together. They come in green, red and white, and they are delicious and mouth-watering. For farmers, entertaining guests is a delicacy.
Wu Fan: On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, Songyang people have the custom of eating Wu Fan. It is said that Ye Fashan invented Taoist health food, which is called "green rice". If eaten for a long time, it can prolong life and make your face radiant.
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