[ Edit this paragraph] Traditional snacks of local conditions and customs

In traditional folk festivals in Genghe Town, urban and rural residents often bring their own traditional festive snacks, which are the following:

Rice flour, dumplings, fried dumplings, soup balls, steamed dumplings, sticky rice corners, noodles corners, pink spring, taro, taro cakes, radish cakes and so on. Among them, Heshui Seto Rice Flour and steamed rice dumplings are well-known snacks. In the 24 Gaoming Food Festival Competition, it won the title of Gaoming Top Ten Snacks.

There are also some delicious foods in Genghe Town, such as Heshuihe dog meat and delicious crispy mountain snails.

customs of the year

(1) Spring Festival

Residents in Genghe Town call New Year's Eve and Spring Festival (the first day of the lunar calendar) Chinese New Year. Before the festival, villagers, whether rich or poor, tried their best to buy new year's goods and prepare holiday foods, including steamed zongzi, powdered spring, fried dumplings, oil angle and fried rice cakes. On New Year's Eve, the whole family has a reunion dinner together. On the first day of the lunar new year, people wear bright clothes and say "congratulations on getting rich" when they meet each other. The elders pay dividends to the younger generation. Everyone smiles and avoids quarrels. Every village beats gongs and drums, and lions come to every household to pay New Year's greetings. On this day, people are forbidden to clean, work hard, and don't visit relatives and friends. The second day of the year to the sixth day of the year is the day to visit relatives and friends.

(2) Tomb-Sweeping Day

Qingming Festival is a festival for every family in Genghe Town to remember their deceased relatives. Local people have the habit of paying homage to ancestral graves on Qingming Day, commonly known as "walking in the right direction". People bring roast pigs, cakes and incense candles to the ancestral graves to pay homage, and pray for the family to be safe while remembering their old friends. Since the funeral reform, people have changed from paying homage to ancestral graves to paying homage to cemeteries.

(3) On the third day of the second lunar month, on the festival of eating horns

, all households make horns (snacks) to entertain visiting relatives and friends (most of them are married women who go back to their parents' homes to eat horns). The types of horns are oil angle, sticky rice horn and mugwort horn (Ai is homophonic with "get", which means that eating mugwort horn will make them strong, work hard and be motivated).

(4) March 3rd

Some villages will cook fried cakes on the third day of the third lunar month, which means family harmony and unity.

(5) Ghost Festival

On the 14th day of the seventh lunar month, commonly known as the Orchid Festival, it is also called Ghost Festival. At night, women burn incense candles, sprinkle wine, rice and fruit, and burn five-color clothes and papers in front of and behind their houses. However, some villages in Heshui don't celebrate the festival on July 14th of the lunar calendar. They burn incense and clothes before July 14th of the lunar calendar.

(6) Winter Solstice

On the day of the winter solstice, it is more suitable for people to eat soup pills (also called winter pills). In ancient times, there was a saying that "the winter is a big New Year". Previously married women were not allowed to celebrate holidays at their parents' homes. In some villages, there was a custom of "eating raw fish and dog meat on the winter solstice".

There are other festivals, such as the Lantern Festival, the eighth day of April, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Double Ninth Festival, which are celebrated in much the same way as other towns and villages.