What to eat in Fujian Double Ninth Festival?
Putian eats Chongyang rice fruit
In Putian, Fujian, people follow the ancient custom of steaming nine layers of Chongyang rice fruit. In ancient China, there was a custom of eating bait on Double Ninth Festival, which is today's cake and rice fruit. Putian people worship ancestors more than Qingming, so there is a saying that there is a small Qingming in March and a big Qingming in September.
Eat nine heavy dishes in Fuzhou.
Chongyang mountain climbing, Fuzhou also has this traditional custom, but unlike other places, old Fuzhou Chongyang often carries sugar cane on his back when climbing mountains. Folklore experts pointed out: this is the implication of holding sugar cane higher and higher, and it places people's hope that the days will be prosperous day by day, and the children will grow taller and faster.
Among the traditional festivals and customs in Fuzhou, there are many customs related to eating. Chongyang is no exception. Old Fuzhou will eat nine fruits on the Double Ninth Festival, which is a kind of cake. In Fuzhou dialect, Gao is homophonic with cake, so it is essential for Chongyang to eat nine fruits. As the name implies, there are as many as nine layers of nine heavy incense. Because the production is complicated, only Chongyang can eat it in the old society.
Longyan eats edamame
Fujian Chongyang Festival is a gift of edamame from farmers' fields in Changting County, which is called edamame Festival. Flying kites on the Double Ninth Festival in Haicheng County is a play called Wind Tea. Longyan Hakka calls the Double Ninth Festival September Festival, and some villages call it Dou Wei Festival, which is considered as the last important festival in a year.
After the autumn harvest is completed, it enters the winter leisure, and the September Festival in rural areas is particularly grand. Every household cooks vegetables, lights, cakes and slaughters chickens and ducks. It is relatively simple for people in the city to celebrate this festival. Generally, we buy some pork for dinner, while others add some seasonal foods, such as stewed duck with chestnuts and potatoes wrapped in medicine.
What are the customs of Chongyang in western Fujian?
Crossing the sea of fire (only in some areas of Sanming)
The Houtang Temple Fair on September 9th every year is the most solemn festival for people in Houtang Natural Village, Houjiao Village, Nakamura. On this day, the industrious and simple villagers finished the vegetarian feast, prepared sacrifices one after another, and started the most important annual sacrificial ceremony of jumping copper, making preparations before the fire.
This temple is dedicated to the Hakka God Ouyang Xian Zhen. The villagers paved the ground with paper, poured a lot of charcoal on the paper and lit it. Some old people made a lampstand with two square tables, lit a candle in the wooden bucket of the lampstand, lit it with paper, and then lit the charcoal in the temple.
The charcoal fire lit slowly and the old man began to prepare for the ceremony. In the whole process of beating gongs and drums, the 70-year-old man danced with his eyes closed and the charcoal fire burned brightly. The scene is quite shocking.
Crossing the sea of fire, as a unique folk activity, is to pray for the babies in Siliba Township, get rid of diseases and eliminate disasters, and place infinite hopes on the villagers.