Eat Chaoshan soft cake on Tanabata.
Specific practices:
1, first take a pot and pour half a bowl of water to boil, then pour a little oil, take a big spoon in your right hand, slowly pour powder in your left hand and slowly pour powder in your right hand, and stir until it becomes a ball. Two hands covered with powder take the ball to the basin, then pour the powder and knead it into a non-stick ball.
2. Turn the thin bag into the desired filling, slowly put it into the already high-temperature oil pan, and fry it slowly! Turn over more!
3, well, it's a soft cake.
The significance of Tanabata custom in Chaoshan
On the seventh day of July, this is our Valentine's Day in China. Lovers confessed to each other because of the legend that the cowherd and the weaver girl met at the magpie bridge. In Chaoshan, besides Valentine's Day, Tanabata has another meaning:
On this day, married daughters will also inherit the custom of "going to children's parties", visit their parents with gifts and reunite with their brothers and sisters.
On this day,/kloc-children over 0/5 years old will hold an "out of the garden" adult ceremony;
This day, which is the birthday of in-laws, is often called "in-laws' birthday". All families with children under the age of 15 should visit their in-laws at home.
This festival with multiple meanings almost runs through important life nodes from growth, love to family and is interpreted as a warm day.
Tanabata Valentine's Day Chaoshan characteristic custom adult ceremony "out of the garden"
Going out of the garden is an adult ceremony in Chaoshan area. In the eyes of Chaoshan people, underage children are like living in a garden. When you reach adulthood (65,438+05 years old in nominal age and 65,438+06 years old in Hailufeng area), you have to "leave the garden", which means that you can live independently as an adult.
On the day of leaving the garden, treat the children as adults, sit in a big position at the dinner table, put a plate of chicken in the middle of the table, and the head of the chicken faces the children, and the children eat the head of the chicken. There is a saying: "I bit a chicken's head" which means I left the garden.
In addition to fish, meat and eggs, there are spring vegetables (meaning leftover), leeks (longevity and permanence of leeks), thick vegetables (getting along with everyone), big vegetables (getting bigger and taller after eating), fish (meaning someone helps), and most importantly, a bowl of pig liver, pig heart, pig intestines, pig stomach and pig lungs.
It means to let children get rid of bad habits such as playfulness and naughty, and put on new intestines, because hipsters call reasonable people "having stomachs". From then on, I bid farewell to my wonderful childhood and embarked on the course of adulthood.
The previous custom was to skip the glue. Glue skimming is made of bamboo, which contains products, candy and peanuts. In order to jump out of the garden wall, the children had to jump back and forth many times. 2/kloc-in the first half of the 20th century, children leaving the garden had to wear waist pockets sewn by their mothers, and there were twelve longan grains and twenty Shunzhi copper coins in the waist pockets, indicating peace and wealth.
In some places in Chaoshan, twelve kinds of flowers should be picked and soaked in water to bathe the children, so as to wash away the fragrance and childishness. When you leave the garden, you should prepare three birds' meat and food for your relatives, especially grandma's house. Grandma's family and relatives should feed clothes or cloth so that your child can put on new clothes and become a brand-new adult.
In Chaoshan, Tanabata is a festival with multiple meanings for local people. This day is not only Valentine's Day, but also/kloc-the adult ceremony for children over 0/5 years old, or the day when married women return to their parents' homes. Therefore, Chaoshan people attach great importance to Tanabata. On that day, Chaoshan people will eat a special Chaoshan soft cake to celebrate Tanabata.
Tanabata Valentine's Day Chaoshan Characteristic Custom "Worship in-laws"
Chaoshan people have the custom of "worshipping in-laws" on Tanabata. The "in-laws" here do not refer to the children's parents-in-law, but refer to the legendary patron saint of children. "In-laws" is also called "bed god", and in the south it is called "in-laws" or "in-laws". Some people say it refers to Zhou Wenwang and his wife. Because there is an ancient treasure in Zhou Wenwang, they regard Zhou Wenwang as an in-laws to pay homage, which means many offspring and long-term melons, and pray that children will be happy, easy to raise, lucky and smart. There is also a saying that "in-laws" refers to an old woman in Chaoshan in the Song Dynasty. It is said that the worship of "in-laws" began in the Song Dynasty because he saved the life of the prince and was chased by the court as the "protector" of the children. Besides, there are other legends, so I won't list them one by one. There is no way to prove right or wrong, but it is not difficult to understand that Chaoshan people regard Tanabata as a day for their children to worship their in-laws. By worshipping in-laws, I hope my children will be smart and lively. In-laws' gifts are also very particular, mostly auspicious things symbolizing peace and happiness, such as pomegranate flowers, eggs and glutinous rice balls. , from which some vivid and interesting proverbs and sayings are derived. For example, children who are naughty and active are often called "in-laws worship crabs". Because crabs have "six feet and two claws", they are used to ridicule children who are disobedient, naughty and restless.