For every festival, food is essential. The food eaten during festivals represents many meanings, and most of them are closely related to people's lives. Do you know what food to eat during the Hungry Ghost Festival? Today, the editor is going to introduce these six traditional ghost festival foods. After reading them, are they the same as the customs in your hometown?
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1. Eating rice noodles On the day of the Ghost Festival, Dongguan has the custom of eating rice noodles, and almost every day Available throughout Dongguan. Of course, the methods of eating rice noodles are still different in different regions. Lai powder is a traditional food at the Dongguan Life Banquet, which means longevity, good fortune and longevity.
Dongguan is most famous for its roasted goose. The most important thing about roasting goose is a pot of delicious stock, which must be cooked with a whole chicken, large pieces of meat, large pieces of bones, and many special herbs and spices. When eating, blanch the rice noodles in hot water and put it into a bowl, then add a large spoonful of broth, and then cover the noodles with a layer of crispy skin and tender roast goose.
2. Steamed Noodle Sheep In old Beijing and rural areas of North China, it is a popular custom for grandfathers and uncles to give live sheep to their nephews on July 15th. Legend has it that this custom is related to the legend of Agarwood splitting the mountain to save his mother. After Chenxiang cut a mountain to save her mother, she wanted to hunt down her uncle Erlangshen who abused her. In order to restore the friendship between brother and sister and uncle and nephew, Erlangshen would give Chenxiang a pair of live sheep on July 15th every year. It is said that this was to take Erlangshen and Chenxiang. The homophonic pronunciation of the mother's surname "Yang" is to reunite the two families. From then on, the custom of giving live sheep to uncles remained among the people, and later gradually evolved into giving a pair of opposite sheep.
Another version of this folk custom is that the mother made a pair of sheep out of white flour for her married daughter. Of course, they had to be steamed, and the sheep's heads were wrapped with red cloth strips. The family will form a small team to deliver the sheep to the new uncle's house. The new uncle will cut the noodle sheep and hang the first cut piece with a red rope in the living room. This piece of "noodle mutton" will wait until the next year. It can only be removed when the new-faced sheep is delivered on July 15th. The meaning of this is "when old sheep see new sheep, there will be surplus food every year." After the new uncle cuts the sheep, he will eat the sheep's head, and the married girl will eat the sheep's feet. The rest will be distributed to the husband's elders and neighbors to show peace and harmony. Beautiful and beautiful, enjoy the joy and good luck.
3. Before the July 15th Festival of Eating Flower Buns, dough sculpture activities are popular among folk women, and the most intense activity is in northern Shanxi. A family is steaming steamed buns, and neighbors come to help. First, according to the actual number of people in the family, make a big steamed bun for each person.
The flower buns given to the younger generation should be kneaded into a flat shape, called noodle sheep, which means that the lamb kneels down to suck milk, hoping that the younger generation will not forget the nurturing grace of their parents; the flower buns given to the elders should be When kneaded into a human shape, it is called a noodle person, which means that the family is full of children and grandchildren, and longevity and happiness are achieved; when the steamed buns are given to ordinary people, they should be kneaded into a fish shape, which is called a noodle fish, which means that there will be more than one year after year.
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