Around the stove: Eating New Year's Eve is called "Eating Twenty-nine". Most people like to eat hot pot (warm pot) and "around the stove" for family fun. Hot pot includes "Yipin Pot" (the whole pot has one grid), "Yuanyang Pot" (two grids) and "Four-color Pot" (four grids). A famous dish "Yipin Fu Gui" made from "Yipin Pot". The soup is pork or chicken and duck soup, and the main courses are gold ingots (eggs) and silver ingots (pigeon eggs). The whole hoof is called "He", the black stickleback cuttlefish tied with kelp is called "Wujin cuttlefish", the chicken and duck wings are called "Pengcheng Wan Li" and the winter bamboo shoots are called "Sheng". Because the hot pot is steaming, the food is tumbling, and the good ingredients of Tonga are constantly being added. As the saying goes, "the more you eat, the more you burn." Xiamen people pay special attention to seafood, such as silver carp (more than one year), oysters, red shrimp, pearl mussels, snails, kelp, laver tofu, and in recent years, there are beer hot pot, tofu hot pot, meatball hot pot and assorted hot pot.
Rice cakes: After eating rice cakes, everything goes well every year-year after year, year after year, year after year! I also wish the elders a long life. The rice cake, also called "rice cake", evolved from "sticky cake". Cheng Naizhai, a man of A Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem to explain the meaning of rice cakes: "How high people's hearts are, the sum of food is also." Take the year to win the year and pray for the year. Xiamen people call rice cakes "Guo". There are many kinds, such as sweet and salty, sweet ones are white sugar Guo, black (red) sugar Guo, and white gourd, red dates and peanuts. Salted melon (pumpkin) skin, vegetable head (radish) skin, sweet potato (sweet potato) skin, taro skin, as well as pork, shrimp skin, dried oysters, mushrooms, oil onions and so on. In addition, there are cold cakes, steamed cakes and bowls. ...
Pancakes: Pancakes are also a great invention of Xiamen people. Xiamen dialect has the same pronunciation as "po" and "bo", so it is also called "pancake". From the government to the people, "Mrs. Pancake" became "Beauty Pancake".
Round boy:
Eating jiaozi is also called Yuanxiao, and some places are called Tangyuan and jiaozi. It is said that eating Yuanxiao began in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and it was called a garden in the Song Dynasty, which means "reunion". A scholar in the Song Dynasty said that this kind of food was "wrapped in glutinous rice flour and bathed in fragrant soup", and praised it with the word 16: "A little glutinous rice flour, a little sugarcane paste; Bathing in the water is sweet and fragrant. " Zai Yuan in Xiamen has various local flavors, including sweet and salty, white hearts and stuffing, assorted dishes, red bean paste, jujube paste, bamboo shoots and lard.
The New Year customs in Fujian and Taiwan Province come down in one continuous line. In the past, there was a custom in Fujian and Taiwan: on the first day of fried New Year's Eve, everyone tasted a few mouthfuls of leftovers; Eating carp and vegetables together can make you rich.
The traditional custom in Xiamen is not to visit at home on the third day of the first month, but to worship the dead at home. There is a saying that "the first day is early, the second day is early, and the third day is full of food and clothing", which means that there are no guests at home on the third day, and it is okay to get up late. So how did this custom come from? According to legend, pirates occupied Wuyu, the outer island of Xiamen, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. One year on New Year's Eve, officers and men were busy celebrating the New Year and neglected their defense. A large number of Japanese pirates seized the opportunity to attack the city, and the soldiers and civilians rose up against the enemy. After two days and three nights of fierce fighting, the Japanese army was defeated, but the soldiers and civilians in the city suffered heavy casualties. On the third day, people buried their relatives and friends, mourned the dead and cried loudly, so they didn't have time to go to other families to pay New Year greetings. On the third day of the second year, Xiamen residents took this day as a taboo day, and over time, it became a routine. (Note: In the same way, this custom also exists in Fujian coastal areas, but at different times. For example, the Xianyou area in Putian, Fujian Province is the second day of the first month.
New Year Custom in Xiamen-New Year Spring Festival couplets
Red Spring Festival couplets are the most prosperous and brand-new weather at the beginning of the new year. Spring Festival couplets have flourished for more than 1000 years since the Five Dynasties. Every year, new peaches are exchanged for old ones, and the most sincere and beautiful wishes make us elated and full of hope for the world and people.
It is said that the customs of Xiamen have gradually flourished since the city was built in the Ming Dynasty. According to Mr. Fang, in the old city of Xiamen, whenever the Spring Festival approaches, stalls are set up everywhere to sell Spring Festival couplets. Usually, people communicate with each other and often use couplets for entertainment. For this reason, the bookstore has specially compiled a version of couplets, such as Ya Dacheng engraved by Xiamen Wendetang on 1836, and collected more than 1000 couplets, including 154 couplets.
In recent years, most people in Xiamen have bought Spring Festival couplets from the market, and few people have written them themselves. Red paper and gold lettering are really beautiful, but the content of making money is inevitably monotonous. Therefore, before the Spring Festival this year, Xiamen City Couplet Association organized all parties in Xiamen to create and write a number of new Spring Festival couplets, such as "Welcome to urbanization, yearn for bay style", "Xiang' an warms the sun, flowers bloom and fall, beautiful scenery, birds and flowers smell", "Good health, excellent education, adherence to national policies, advocating honesty and invigorating folk customs", and "Luhaiwan" should not pay New Year greetings on the third day of the first month.
The traditional custom in Xiamen is not to visit at home on the third day of the first month, but to worship the dead at home. There is a saying that "the first day is early, the second day is early, and the third day is full of food and clothing", which means that there are no guests at home on the third day, and it is okay to get up late. So how did this custom come from? According to legend, pirates occupied Wuyu, the outer island of Xiamen, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. One year on New Year's Eve, officers and men were busy celebrating the New Year and neglected their defense. A large number of Japanese pirates seized the opportunity to attack the city, and the soldiers and civilians rose up against the enemy. After two days and three nights of fierce fighting, the Japanese army was defeated, but the soldiers and civilians in the city suffered heavy casualties. On the third day, people buried their relatives and friends, mourned the dead and cried loudly, so they didn't have time to go to other families to pay New Year greetings. On the third day of the second year, Xiamen residents took this day as a taboo day, and over time, it became a routine.
Fuming cake
There are also many stories of resisting oppression in Xiamen's folk food customs, such as "Fuming cake". According to legend, Tongan City was breached in the early Qing Dynasty, and the people rose up and fought flexibly with the Qing soldiers. A pastry shop in Chengguan is the contact point of the anti-Qing secret organization. Before each action, the host will make a special rice cake with a note clearly indicating the time, place and code of joint action. It was called "tomorrow cake" at that time. In order to prevent the secret from leaking out, this cake is not sold to children. There is a saying among Tongans that cowboys and children who collect pig manure should not eat tomorrow's cakes. "Fuming cake" is steamed with rice flour and white sugar, and later poria powder is added, so it is homonym for "Fuling cake". "born"
In the past, on the ninth day of the first lunar month, every household in Xiamen would burn incense and hang lanterns, file a confession and sincerely worship "God". The birth of Providence is illusory, but the formation of this festival has an interesting story. More than 300 years ago, the Qing army attacked Minnan, and in the case of weak strength, it abandoned the islands of Jin and Xia and retreated to Taiwan Province. Legend has it that in that year1February, the Qing government issued two orders: first, the people of the whole country asked every household to light lanterns and make colorful decorations on the first day of the first month. One is the "hair-shaving order", which requires people to change their habit of keeping all their hair. At that time, people all over the country were unwilling to change the habit of having full hair, thinking that cutting hair was a sign of treason and unfilial. As a result, a struggle against shaving quickly began. Due to strong opposition from the people, the order of lighting lanterns and tying colored ribbons on the first day of the first month was not carried out, so the Qing government had to announce the cancellation of the "haircut order" on the eighth day of the first month. People in Xiamen and neighboring counties were very happy after hearing the news. On the ninth day of the first month, they all killed pigs and sheep, lit lanterns, made decorations, burned incense and fired guns to celebrate the victory in the struggle against the "haircut order". When the officials of the Qing Dynasty knew this, they asked what festival it was, so people cleverly deceived them and said it was God's birthday. Celebrating every year, even the officials in southern Fujian are no exception, so the ninth day of the first month became "Tianshou".