What traditional food does Shanxi Double Ninth Festival eat?
The Double Ninth Festival in Shanxi is very special in diet. On this day, we will eat jiaozi, steamed dumplings with oatmeal and Double Ninth Festival cake. Let's focus on Chongyang cake, which Shanxi people call flower cake, hair cake and chrysanthemum cake. The custom of eating Chongyang cake has been very common in the Song Dynasty, and it has been inherited since the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Shanxi is the hometown of pasta, and Chongyang cake is one of the traditional varieties of pasta cakes in Shanxi. There are jujube paste, ginkgo, pine nuts, apricots and so on. , and each layer is filled with nine layers, symbolizing the nine heavens; Some people also make two lambs on the cake, which means Double Ninth Festival.
Shanxi still attaches importance to the homonym of cakes. Every household will eat cakes on the Double Ninth Festival. When the child comes back from school or work, mother will bring you a plate of cake and ask you to eat it. If you don't take care of eating, they will be very unhappy and have to force you to eat, even if it is a bite.
Unique Customs of Chongyang in Shanxi Province
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The folk custom in Taiyuan thinks that nine is an unlucky number, and there is a saying among the people that someone will suffer if they meet nine. Therefore, Taiyuan people usually wear red clothes and wear red belts to avoid disasters in nine years, and the Double Ninth Festival coincides with the Double Ninth Festival. This habit of advocating red to avoid disasters is still circulating in Shanxi.
Hold a temple fair
During the Double Ninth Festival, Wanrong County will hold a traditional temple fair in Jiwang Mountain, and people who rush to the meeting will like climbing mountains very much. The Double Ninth Festival in Xiangning County was closed, a school in tianquan county. The teacher led the students to go hiking, and many parents also took the opportunity to climb the mountain and watch autumn scenery.
Feast host
On September 9, according to the old custom, each village led a team, organized villagers to kill a sheep for cooking, and warmly treated Mr. Wang. At the same time, discuss the teaching in the village next year, or continue to hire, or ask for another master. Today, most school teachers are public officials, and many rural areas are still used to entertaining teachers on this day.
Women rest.
On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, rural women are used to taking a day off and not doing farm work. Married daughters are used to going back to their parents' homes for the holidays.
Why is the Double Ninth Festival also called Daughter's Day?
Gan Bao's "Sou Shen Ji" says: There is a man in Quanjiao County of Huainan who married Xie Jia in the same county. Because Xie Jia is a rich boy, her mother-in-law is cruel, cruel and abusive, forcing her to do heavy housework and often being scolded and beaten.
Shi Ding finally couldn't bear it, and hanged himself on the Double Ninth Festival. After his death, he hugged Wu Zhu tightly and said, "A wife works hard every day and can't rest. Please don't let your husband's family work again on the Double Ninth Festival. " .
Therefore, Jiangnan people give women a day off every Double Ninth Festival, which is called a rest day. This woman named Shi Ding built a shrine for offering sacrifices, called Dinggu Temple. After the Double Ninth Festival, parents will take their married daughters home to eat flower cakes. In the Ming Dynasty, the Double Ninth Festival was even called Daughter's Day.