Yiwu folk, whenever the wedding, housewarming, birthday, promotion, promotion and other festive occasions, friends and relatives always have to invite gifts and gifts back to the customary habits, has been continued to date. But treats and gifts in the rich and poor, the difference is very big, the rich scene is very big, feasts, rich dishes, and even take "sixteen HuiZhou" to entertain guests and VIPs. The poor, there is really no way, can only be a simple family feast to cope with the matter. Really have "rich people a seat wine, poor people half a year food", "Zhu Men wine and meat stink, the road has frozen dead bones" feeling. The "sixteen sinks sign" famous dishes, we have only heard, did not witness.
"Sixteen汇签" as Yiwu food culture, we seriously study and inheritance, the development of today's food industry should be beneficial. Traditional food culture has its own to learn from, heritage, in fact, "sixteen sinks sign" and today's feast dishes, compared to, really "little witch", not the same day. It is also an impact and criticism of some of today's inappropriate lifestyles and eating habits.
The "16 Hui Zhi" whole meal: refers to 4 cooked food, 4 seafood, 4 sweet soup, 4 snacks, plus 8 cold dishes.
Traditional feasts and celebrations of the past are most abundant in the "16 Huizhang", followed by the "12 Huizhang". The so-called "sink sign", that is, the master from the sign cylinder to choose 16 kinds of valuable dishes point bamboo stick, composed of "the whole seat", known as "sixteen sink sign". "Twelve Huizhi" like this, that is, omit 4 samples (in the "four seafood" in the omission of 2 samples, "four sweet soup" in the omission of 2 samples).
Open cabbage, green beans and shrimp, shredded wild rice with meat, asparagus and cashews
Sautéed slices of raw tripe, shredded eel, eel slices, scallions, crucian carp, crabmeat and scrambled egg
Fried rattlesnake, celery and chicken, sliced mushrooms and bamboo shoots (the above is a mixed stir-fry category)
Four hot dishes Choose four of the following dishes
Steamed chicken with mushrooms Steamed chicken with wood ear, steamed chicken with golden needles and fat hoofs, steamed snappers and steamed fish with noodles and hoof meat
Four Seafood Choose 4 from the following dishes
Dried scallops with asparagus and leeks, fish maw with cinnamon flower, silverfish, sliced pork and tamarind, vinegared shark's fin, sea cucumber with wood ear
Sweet Soups Choose 4 from the following sweet soups
Logical rice congee, coix seed with silver ear, cinnamon and ginseng, lotus seed with su ganodong, almonds with lily of the valley, and cinnamon flower with seasonal fruits
Snacks Choose 2 sweet or salty snacks from the following snacks
Small steamed buns with pork, soy bean curd and bean jam. Small steamed buns with meat Dumplings with bean paste Crystal red fruits Eight precious flowers with plums Steamed pork with lotus powder
Nian Gao (rice cake with 100 fruits) Pan-fried cake Glutinous cake with 100 fruits Rice cake with sesame seeds
Four cooked dishes, four seafood dishes, four sweet soups, and four dim sums, which are served one by one in an alternating manner. The last dish is "fried bighead carp head with tofu". This dish is not eaten as a rule and is called "leftover (fish)". For those who need to eat, the last bowl of soup is usually "broiled tofu with green vegetables" or "broiled asparagus with snow peas". Those who don't need to eat can stand up and say thank you when they see "fish head and tofu" on the table.
Top Ten Folk Customs:
Red and White Happiness
In the old days, it was a great joy for Yiwu folk to ask for a wife (to marry). A couple's marriage, from the hope of Nong, betrothal to the marriage, it takes less than half a year, more than three years, so that the woman to prepare the trousseau. Procedures are also more numerous: matchmaking, Wang Nong, betrothal, under the gift (bride-price), send the day, take the fruit (Xixiang said "tam pat powder"), resignation, back to the gift, the offspring of the silver, get up wine, pay respects to the ancestors, welcome the bride, the bride on the sedan chair, worship heaven and earth, banquets, haunted the new room (commonly known as "discussing fruit "), meet the in-laws, thank the matchmaker, etc., and many of the old rituals and customs are still continuing today.
Yiwu folklore is heavy on flesh and blood, honoring the elderly and filial piety. Family members are sick, full medical treatment, accompanied by around the clock, service tea, medicine in due course. Wash the patient's body, turn over diligently, and deal with excrement at any time. They are not tired of labor and do not frown at suffering. A hundred years later, filial son and daughter, filial son and daughter-in-law, passed down from generation to generation, has become a trend. the end of the twentieth century, Yiwu comprehensive implementation of cremation, urns placed in the cemetery. Cemeteries around the world are built in the mountains, funeral etiquette, in addition to not using coffins, generally according to the old customs.
Birthday, birthday
Every year, the date of birth, as a person's celebration, the family celebrates him (her), wishing health and longevity, eat the symbol of longevity of the egg Suo-mian, the whole family **** enjoy the joy. Every increase to the age of ten, the scale of the celebration is larger than the regular birthday. 60 years of age and above, every ten for the birthday birthday celebration, especially at the age of one hundred, the ancient name of the "people of Switzerland".
The new house on the truss
The old time to build a house, Yiwu people called the new house. Need to select the foundation, break the ground and set the base of a number of procedures, but also to choose an auspicious time, the time to be born with the owner of the birth of the phases, can not collide with each other.
Welcome Dragon Lantern
Yiwu folk currently have more than 400 dragon lanterns, mostly bench dragons, as well as adjusting the dragon lanterns (bamboo dragons and cloth dragons), as well as bead lamps, character lamps (such as welcome to the Hu Gong, Chen Bai twenty-five Xianggong) and so on. Traditional welcome dragon lanterns mainly in the Lantern Festival and Qingming Festival, the activities of the people "set incense case", lit one or three incense sticks, holding a row of lamps, kowtow to the Dragon King kneeling, praying to the Dragon King blessing on earth, in order to trillion in the coming year, good weather, the country and the people in peace, and so on.
Jia lifting stilts
Yangchuan Jia's ninth Azuma, Tang Zhenguan B end of the bachelor's degree, the officer of the Imperial Household, C wu (A.D. 646) returned to visit their ancestors, built Jia Dazhongzhi in the right corner of the Shuanglin Temple Hall. Every year on the eighteenth day of the first month will be held by the Yiwu Yangchuan Jia's natural villages take turns to do the big year of the big temple fair. On this day, Yiwu Yangchuan Jia villagers in addition to their own village ancestral hall to worship their ancestors, but also to the Haiyun Temple to worship Buddha. The turn of the big year of the "value of a" village villagers, carrying an exquisitely carved Fu Da Shi Buddha niche, nearly ten or dozens of "carry Jia Qiao", dragon and tiger flags, centipede flags, Qingdao flags to open the way, dozens of gunpowder cannons, pairs of large gongs ringing rhythmically in unison, carrying hundreds of pounds of heavy candles, banging gongs and beating the drums and beating the drums. heavy large candles, banging gongs and beating drums, to the Haiyun Temple to preside over this annual eighteen General Assembly.
New Year's Eve
The Spring Festival, or New Year's Eve, is one of China's most important traditional festivals. Yiwu attaches great importance to the New Year's Eve dinner, eating and drinking: firstly, steamed buns, which herald a big new year, and secondly, rice cakes, which symbolize a year's worth of food. At the same time, fish is also a must-eat. Fish and "Yu" resonance, symbolizing the auspicious celebration of surplus. The New Year's Eve dinner should also be burned a little bit more, eat a surplus of food, which symbolizes the surplus of successive years. During the all-night vigil, people also light the lamps in every room brightly to symbolize a red-hot year.
Ching Ming and Winter Solstice
In the Yiwu countryside during the Qingming Festival, willow branches are inserted in every door and window. Men, women and children have to get up early, to the field to walk around, known as "trekking", "picking the green air". Another custom is to go to the field to pick the Anna, the Anna washed and mashed, with a glutinous rice flour kneaded, made of a variety of "Qingming 馃". Qingming Festival also has the custom of sweeping graves, "on the tomb", "sacrifice to the emperor", "worship ancestors" and so on.
The Winter Solstice is similar to the Qingming Festival in that it is customary to burn incense, paper money, clothing, soil and fireworks.
August Mid-Autumn Festival
Yiwu Mid-Autumn Festival folklore are wrapped in zongzi, fried dried flour, killing chickens and ducks, eating moon cakes and other traditional customs. In the evening, each family with a small square table or group of bumps, rice sieve, etc. placed in the courtyard for the moon to enjoy the moon, also known as "worship the moon". Most of the offerings are pomegranates, jujubes, pears, watermelons, water chestnuts, pomelos, pomelo, bananas and other seasonal fruits, as well as mooncakes, rice dumplings, mochi and other food.
Chongyang Temple
Since the Southern Song Dynasty, Yiwu folk in the Chrysanthemum Festival Xing Zhanwai Hu Gong. In August and September of the lunar calendar, groups of people went on a pilgrimage to the upper rock to worship the statue of Hu Gong. A few days before the Chongyang Festival, that is, carry the statue of Hu Gong, to the De Sheng Yan He Lingxing Temple pilgrimage to pay homage to the statue of Hu Gong. Rock Cao Village, Yiting Tongshan Rock, Huaxi Zhu Gong Rock and Shangyang Hu Gong Temple are Xing Miaoli, Hu Gong Temple places are also popular theater.
Open new city
Yiwu city and rural towns and stores, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar to the fourth in addition to hotels, grocery stores and other stores commonly known as the "Changsheng store" business as usual, generally to the fifth day of the first month of the God of Fortune, before opening the door for business, commonly known as the "opening of the new city! ". On this day, the market in the town of rice, firewood, poultry and other markets, the same day the market. "Open new market" this day, the villagers need to catch up with the sale, called "catch the new market".