"Eating Duck in Guiping? Half of July" The Eight Gui Scenery of the Ghost Ghost Festival is more beautiful than the spring, and the Bon Festival celebrates the souls of the dead. If you ask where to find delicious food, you might as well eat duck lips in Guiping: Why is the Guangxi Ghost Ghost Festival called the Duck Festival?

On the 14th day of the seventh lunar month, we still have to eat ducks. A table full of sumptuous chicken and duck delicacies is the festival’s greatest compliment to people. The 15th day of the seventh lunar month is the traditional Chinese Ghost Festival.

It is also called the Ghost Festival and the Bon Festival. It is also called the Ghost Festival among the people. In Guiping, Guangxi, it is called "July 14". This festival is a traditional folk day to worship ancestors and is mainly popular in Han culture areas.

Hungry Ghost Festival? On this day, the underground palace will open the door to hell, and deceased relatives can go home and enjoy the fireworks of the world again.

People burn clothes and arrange wine and meat to comfort the ghosts wandering around the world, and pray for their own success and safety throughout the year. It, together with New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival and Double Ninth Festival, forms a traditional Chinese ancestor worship festival.

Guiping people, or Guangxi people celebrate July 14th instead of July half due to historical inheritance.

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The customs and food of each festival in China are different, and there are also differences between regions. What do people in Guiping, or most Guangxi people, eat on this day?

Of course it’s a duck!

Some people say: No sheep can leave Ningxia alive, and similarly, no duck can survive July 14th in Guangxi.

Therefore, in Guiping, Ghost Festival is also called Duck Festival!

Home-cooked dishes, deliciousness is the most important. Why eat duck?

1. It is said that our ancestors went home to visit relatives on this day and had to cross the Naihe Bridge.

What should I do if the bridge is narrow and there are many people, so it is a bit slow to cross one by one, and there is no boat?

So people in the mortal world sent some ducks down so that the ducks could swim and carry them back to get together early. After the ducks were killed and their souls were gone, what to do with their bodies? They could only make them into dishes!

2. I heard that eating ducks during the Ghost Festival can ward off evil spirits; "duck" means "pressure", which is homophonic. Eating ducks means to suppress bad things.

3. In fact, the reason why ducks are eaten during the Ghost Festival is because in the past, before early rice was planted in rural areas of Guangxi (including Guiping), every household would buy some ducks to raise. After harvesting the rice, they usually put the ducks away.

Go to the rice fields and let the ducks eat the millet, snails and earthworms in the fields.

When late rice was planted, the ducks were getting fat and strong. In order to reward themselves, farmers began to kill ducks for the festival.

As time went by, people became accustomed to eating ducks on this day; 4. Also, the Hungry Ghost Festival coincides with the season of ducks, which is used for sacrifices.

The rural areas of Guangxi have lots of water, which is convenient for duck breeding.

In the past, people started raising ducks at the beginning of spring, that is, in March or April. About four to five months later, during the Ghost Festival, this was the growing season for ducks.

Because people in ancient times had a difficult life, they were reluctant to eat meat on weekdays. Only during festivals were they willing to eat meat and kill animals to reward themselves.

So when the Ghost Festival comes, every household kills and eats ducks, and over time a tradition has been formed; 5. In terms of seasonality, Lingnan is experiencing "autumn dryness" during the Ghost Festival, and ducks are cool and suitable for people to nourish.

So the duck became the first choice, and this day became a difficult day for the duck!

6. (Old drivers will be excited after reading this legend.) It is said that the 14th day of the seventh lunar month is the day with the heaviest yin energy of the year. In order to strengthen yang, ancient women would ask a man to spend the night with them on this day (called

Duck), but gradually found that calling men was too expensive, many women from poor families replaced the custom of calling ducks with duck meat, and it has evolved into the habit of eating duck meat to this day.

Guiping County Chronicle No matter what the saying or custom is, from the perspective of people in the upper world, ducks are synonymous with delicacies, and for the ancestors in the underworld, he is a means of transportation!

The "Guiping County Chronicle" in the early years of the Republic of China records: The day before the Yuan Dynasty in the seventh month is the festival,,,,, send cold clothes,,,, give blood?

, clarifying the role of ducks in the Ghost Festival.

People in Guiping eat duck in a variety of ways with unique tastes.

There are white-cut lemon duck (this is considered the first Guangxi-style duck dish), duck with sour plums (braised), stir-fried duck with ginger, etc. These are special delicacies that are not available or rare in other provinces!

You will never forget it once you eat it!

As for the bacon duck and beer duck, they are the flavors of northwest Guangxi. Although roast duck is delicious, it is eaten every day, so it should be put on the back burner during festivals!

There is an old saying in Guiping: In the Year of the Rooster, ducks are served with pork tails.

It means eating chicken on New Year’s Day, duck on the middle of the year, and pork on New Year’s Eve.

This also reflects the living habits of the ancient Guiping people. After autumn, there was enough food to raise chickens, and the Chinese New Year was just the time to put them out.

Ducks are raised after spring plowing and can be eaten after autumn harvest.

The pigs are raised for one year, and they are a reward for the people who have worked hard for a year!

On this day, duck is the protagonist, and the supporting role is to bring out the deliciousness of duck meat!

However, eating ducks is delicious, but slaughtering ducks is a painful thing.

Especially plucking duck feathers can make people so depressed that they want to throw the duck away.

Forget it if you don’t want to eat.