Matchmakers In the past, young men and women in Hakka could ask matchmakers to match up and talk about marriage after they were sixteen. Generally, the male parents entrust the media to the female family to act as matchmaker, and some female families invite the matchmaker to visit the male family first. After both parties agree to write Geng Tie, they should tell each other about birthdates. When you get back, please ask fortune tellers to match their horoscopes. If the eight characters hit it off and don't collide with each other, write a Geng Tie (a common name wedding list) and put it on the incense table. If there is no ominous sign within three days, the marriage will be settled (if the eight characters don't match, the man will return the woman's Geng Tie to her family). Making up a red list is also called opening a red wedding post, or telling a bride price. The man's parents, clan relatives and matchmaker go to the woman's house together to draw out the bride price that the man wants to give to the woman's house. In the process of opening a red bill, both parties will bargain and finally finalize it through negotiation. After the red list is opened, both men and women will exchange tokens such as rings and handkerchiefs. Engagement is also called big tie, that is, the marriage is formally confirmed. Young men and their parents are going to the women's house to send pig heads, fish, meat, etc., and the woman's parents, brothers and sisters-in-law, uncles and grandparents are all going to appear. After lunch, the girls will come out to meet, calling the male parents parents parents, and the two parents call each other in-laws. Housekeeping means that the woman goes to the man to see the family, some before the big tie, and some after the big tie. Besides girls and their parents, the woman's aunt and sisters will go, and more than a dozen people, large and small, will not take gifts, even if they bring a little, the man will not dare to pick them up. After the wedding is decided, the man should ask the fortune teller to choose the date of returning home, including the date and time when the bride goes out and the time when she returns home. In addition, the date when the woman cuts the red dress and the man makes the bed should also be chosen at the same time. One or two days after the bride delivers vegetables and carries a dowry, the man's family should ask the clan to send the dowry and fish, meat, poultry, noodles and other things stipulated in the red list to the woman's family, and bring the dowry and furniture back to the man's family when they come back. Greeting a bride is also called receiving a bride or going through the door. The day before the wedding, the man's family will go to more than ten people to meet their relatives at the woman's house. After the bride's family arrives, they eat snacks first, and then the bride's family takes them to the ancestral temple to burn incense to worship their ancestors. At noon or in the evening, the woman's family will hold a banquet to treat them. After the bride entered the hall with the sound of drum music, she began to worship the bride. The hall is decorated with incense tables, with parents and elders in the east, consorts in the west, relatives in the north and junior students in the south. Before meeting the bride, my husband will hang red on the groom and put a five-foot red cloth over him. When paying homage to the church, the groom stands on the left and the bride stands on the right. The ritual students (waiters) call: one worships heaven and earth, the other worships ancestors, the third worships Gaotang, and the four couples worship each other.
Finally, relatives meet and give the bride a red envelope. After the ceremony, the maid of honor led the bride into the new house with red roses. A noisy room is noisy in the lobby, a noisy room in the new house, and a noisy room in the lobby first and then in the new house. During the noisy period, firecrackers are set off every few minutes until midnight. It is the privilege of every new mother to have a confinement. There are different confinement customs in different places. In Hakka areas, after giving birth, Hakka women should stay in their rooms and recuperate until after the full moon (usually 3 days). During the confinement period, the parturient enjoys the most generous treatment: comprehensive service, good diet and adequate rest, becoming the central figure of the whole family, and there are also different customs. Drink chicken wine. During confinement, there are usually three meals and three snacks every day. What you eat is more exquisite. First, it should be nutritious and beneficial to the body and increase milk. Second, we should choose "warm, hot and flat" foods, and abstain from cold, raw and cold foods. Generally, we should eat dried plum, sweet potato leaves, bitter pulse and March vegetables, and do not eat other vegetables. Among the foods eaten by lying-in women, the most common and distinctive is chicken wine (including ginger, chicken and wine). Ginger needs old ginger, which is mostly used for cooking chicken and eggs. Cook the chicken, stir-fry the ginger in an oil pan, add glutinous rice wine and cook it with slow fire. On the day after delivery, you should eat chicken wine, preferably a big cock (called "rooster") that can dispel wind, dispel cold, remove blood stasis and promote blood circulation. After that, you should generally eat capons, especially if there are chickens that have not laid eggs. Hakka women usually eat ten to thirty chickens, more than ten kilograms of old ginger and more than thirty kilograms of glutinous rice wine during confinement. Take a leaf bath. During the confinement period, Hakka women don't do other housework except baby care, and often take a bath with some leaves (such as longan leaves), which is to disinfect and dispel wind. Tie a handkerchief. During confinement, due to puerperal weakness of qi and blood, flabby bones and muscles, pathogenic wind, cold and dampness are easy to enter, which can easily cause diseases such as colds, rheumatism, joint pain and diarrhea, so it is not allowed to wash hair and blow hair. Rural handkerchiefs are convenient, so they are folded several times and tied on the forehead, which just blocks the temples and can prevent wind. Hang the door curtain. After giving birth to a child, Hakka women should stay in the room and recuperate. Hanging the door curtain is mainly to "ward off evil spirits" and prohibit strangers from entering the maternity room. Strangers are afraid of "stepping on life" when they enter the room, which will cause baby's illness. In the maternity room, even one's own family members are generally not allowed to enter. Only the mother, mother-in-law, husband and other people who take care of the maternity are allowed to enter, and even the father and father-in-law of the maternity can't meet until the baby is full moon. Hakka women attach so much importance to confinement, one is to "carry on the family line", for the health and safety of babies and their mothers, and the other is because women are the main labor force of the family (in the old days, rural women were mainly engaged in agricultural production), so they must be ensured to have a good confinement, not to weaken their physique, and not to leave the root of the disease. Because of this, in Hakka rural areas, many women are still in their seventies and eighties, with strong backs and flexible hands and feet, and can engage in major rural labor. Nine kinds of "Nine Treasures" in Ruijin Jiubao are quite strange, which can be called "Nine Treasures".
Hakka ancient residence and high mountains and peaks form a unique tourist destination. The Hakka ancient buildings and Tongboshan tourism in the ancient village of Mixi in Ruijin have become characteristic brands. Mixi Hakka ancient residential group is a key historical relic protection unit in Ruijin, and Mixi Village is listed as a famous historical village in Jiangxi Province. It is the hometown of scholar Luo Yougao (Zitaishan) during the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, and the well-preserved Hakka ancient buildings in Qing Dynasty mainly include wooden archway, Jiexiaofang, Ningxiufeng Tower, Roche Grand Ancestral Hall and Luotaishan Tomb. It is listed as one of the ten scenic spots in Ruijin. Tongbo Mountain is located in the northwest of Jiubao Town, 4 kilometers away from the urban area, bordering Ningdu and Yudu. It is one of the eight scenic spots in Ruijin, and is known as the "first peak of Jinjiang". Standing on the peak, you can see Ruijin and Yudu. On the top of the mountain, there is the Temple of Zhaoling King and a large number of Ming Dynasty stone carvings. According to legend, there were 36 temples in the mountains and there were as many as a thousand monks. In the past, tea trees were widely planted. "In spring, tea pickers sang in response to each other", which became a scene of "copper bowl tea songs". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many literati left many poems here. In addition, Shiluoling, Huanxi Reservoir and Shalong Reservoir are also good places for leisure.
Nine kinds of "Nine Treasures" in Ruijin Jiubao are quite peculiar and can be called "Nine Treasures"
First, the taro in Shankeng Village is soft as tofu after being cooked.
Second, the ginger planted by Cikeng Group in Luotian Village is golden in color, without ginger residue, and the knife incision does not change color for a long time.
Third, the sugar cane planted in the dam of Futian Village is sweet and crisp.
fourth, a strange pine grows in the dung basket nest of the fishery farm, and nine treetops are born in the same tree, which is called Kowloon-tailed pine, which is really rare.
5. The carrots planted in Huang Du Village are red on the outside and white on the inside, and the meat is very crisp, which is bigger than other carrots.
6. The peanuts planted by the Yadaoshi Group in Yangmei Village are shaken before drying, but not after drying.
7. The tobacco leaves planted in Qingxi are dried and kneaded into a ball, and they are still flat and wrinkle-free after being released.
8. In Tongbo Mountain, Liantang Village, there is a kind of square bamboo with a round bottom that looks like chopsticks.
The sweet potato planted in a farmland behind Jiubao Middle School needs no watering in case of drought, and the fruit is extra large, sweet and crisp. 1. Rice fruits such as sweet potato leaf rice fruit, loach fish vegetable rice fruit, mugwort leaf rice fruit, banana rice fruit, spinach rice fruit, bean leaf rice fruit, cabbage rice fruit, Chinese New Year yellow rice fruit, rice fruit, yam rice fruit, gourd rice fruit, etc. 2. Tofu fried bean curd, bamboo-roasted bean curd, soy sauce dried bean curd, sour bean curd, braised bean curd, etc. 3. Broth beef soup, bean curd, etc. Hakka brewing health wine, etc. 5. Rice frozen fairy rice frozen, hanging eggplant rice frozen, fairy grass rice frozen (green, Also known as rice tofu), lime rice jelly, sour water lime rice jelly six, meatballs, vegetable balls, glutinous rice balls, soup meatballs, fish balls, etc. Seven, fried and fried fruits, glutinous rice strips, fried cakes, fried dumplings, taro dumplings, taro buns, sweet potato buns, sauerkraut buns, bean cakes, hard fruits, sugar-soaked hemp seven, roe buns, fried. Cucumber (pear melon), delicious kudzu (cold potato), persimmon, persimmon flower, sugarcane, chestnut, water chestnut, waxberry, Puangzi (eggplant), Guangdong fruit (myrtle), etc.
X. Other clear soup wonton, old autumn rice, beef soup rice, snow bean soup, dried noodles.