The 15th day of the eighth lunar month is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China, commonly known as? August Festival? . Do you know the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in Chaoshan? The following is a detailed compilation of the relevant information about the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Chaoshan, hoping to help you!
Customs of Mid-Autumn Festival in Chaoshan 1. Appreciating the Moon and Eating Mooncakes in Yue Bai
There are customs of appreciating the Moon and eating mooncakes all over the Mid-Autumn Festival. There are two different stories about eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival: one is the story that Tang Taizong handed out moon cakes to hundreds of officials for tasting after winning the frontier expedition. On the other hand, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Central Plains people could not bear the cruel rule of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty and protested one after another. However, the officers and men of the imperial court were heavily guarded and it was very difficult to transmit news, so they wrote? Uprising on the fifteenth night of August? The note is hidden in the moon cake, and the rebels of all walks of life rise up when they see the word. Eating moon cakes in Chaoshan Mid-Autumn Festival mainly comes from this theory.
However, the Mid-Autumn Festival customs in Chaoshan area have unique local characteristics. There is a common saying:? Men don't have a full moon, women don't sacrifice stoves? , in the woman? Moon worshipper? At that time, the men will make an appointment with several friends, go to the balcony or climb high places, put on kung fu tea sets, boil water to make tea, enjoy tea while enjoying the moon, and taste moon cakes.
The Mid-Autumn Festival in Chaoshan area not only has the custom of eating moon cakes, but also presents them to each other, which promotes the development of Chaoshan _ cake making technology, from the initial family making to the specialized workshop making, and Chaoshan _ cake is also known as Chaozhou-style moon cakes. Yixi _ Cake, Sunan _ Cake and Guiyu _ Cake have long been well-known, and they have become one of the five national famous moon cakes, alongside Beijing-style moon cakes, Guangdong-style moon cakes, Soviet-style moon cakes and Tianjin-style moon cakes.
Mid-Autumn Festival has been a custom in Yue Bai since ancient times. From the Book of Rites? Autumn dusk and the moon? , is the god of Yue Bai, Chaoshan people called? Moon worshipper? . According to legend, the ugly women of the ancient State of Qi had no salt. When they were young, they were devout to Yue Bai. When they grew up, they entered the palace with superior moral character. Although she was not in favor, when she was enjoying the moon on August 15th of a certain year, the son of heaven saw her in the moonlight and thought she was beautiful, so he made her the queen, and the Mid-Autumn Festival Yue Bai came from this. Yue Bai in Chaoshan area originated from? The Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon? And in the middle of the month? Broken wood Weng? The legend. In the middle of the month, Chang 'e is famous for her beauty, so Yue Bai, a girl, wishes? Looks like Chang 'e, looks like a bright moon? ; Yue Bai, a woman in a boudoir, is looking forward to marrying a good husband; Especially in the past, there were many overseas Chinese in Chaoshan, and many women and their husbands were separated by oceans, so they missed each other for many years, so they borrowed Yue Bai's words.
When the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, housewives of every household are busy grinding glutinous rice into powder, then mixing it with white syrup and stirring it evenly, and then using wooden buns to press them into the hollowed parts. When it is compacted, it will become pieces of different shapes and sizes? Moon cake? . ? Moon cake? The patterns are beautiful and white as snow, and some moon cakes with strong animal shapes make children fondle them. And use white glutinous rice _ or add it? Yanmi? The bright red _ with peanuts and then made into sickles, rice spoons, rice barrels, rice ears and other products all symbolize the delicious harvest. In addition, there is another kind that is fried with peanuts and kneaded into a peach shape with maltose? Sweet pea peach? Especially crispy.
When the night of March 5th comes and the Jade Rabbit rises, people will put a large table on the courtyard, the mouth of the embankment or the balcony, and then tie an arch on the square table with two sugar cane, which is called the Moon Palace Gate. When offering sacrifices to the moon, children are often asked to provide newly bought stationery? Pens, textbooks and schoolbags, etc., pray? Moon? Bless children to be smart in reading, get excellent grades and get ahead in the future. And pinch a little incense ash, carefully wrap it on red paper, and then use it? Inoue? (The water that has just been pumped from the well, the bucket can't touch the edge of the well when fetching water) Send clothes and say, what is this? Moon? Gifted? Elixir? Drinking it can make people smart and healthy. Young girls will also bring their own handicrafts to Yue Bai to pray for their ingenuity. Women will also put their newly bought cosmetics on the moon worshippers, hoping that they can look like them? Moon? Just as beautiful.
Just as the women are making arrangements to worship, the men are about three or five friends, climbing the mountains to look at the moon, putting Chaoshan tea utensils on the balcony, lighting the fire, enjoying tea and enjoying the moon, and enjoying themselves.
Chenghai County Records says: On the Mid-Autumn Festival, all families give mooncakes to each other. You must eat cooked taro and peel it off at a banquet to enjoy the moon. Skin a ghost? . People also use the sunny or dark weather this night to predict the rain or shine of the Lantern Festival. The proverb says: Clouds cover the autumn moon, and rain sprinkles the Lantern Festival. ?
Second, eat taro to worship ancestors.
There is a common saying in Chaoshan:? When the river is opposite to the mouth, does the taro eat it? . In August, it is the harvest season of taro, and farmers are used to worshipping their ancestors with taro. This is certainly related to farming, but there is also a popular folk legend: in 1279, Mongolian nobles destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty and established the Yuan Dynasty, which brutally ruled the Han people. Ma Fa defended Chaozhou against Yuan Dynasty. After the city was broken, the people were persecuted. In order not to forget the suffering of Hu people's rule, later generations took taro and? Hu tou? Homophonic, and shaped like a human head, in order to pay homage to ancestors, passed down from generation to generation, still exists today.
Third, burn the tile tower
Burn the tile kiln in mid-autumn night (i.e.? Burning tile tower? ) is another custom in Chaoshan. Tile kilns vary in height from 1 to 3 meters, and are made of broken tiles. Large tile kilns should be made of bricks after reaching a certain height, and then stacked with tiles. A kiln door should be left below the tile kiln for fuel delivery. In recent years, the tile kilns built in some places are all made of bricks, and the height of the tile kilns is more than 3 meters, which is two or three stories high, attracting people from all over the world to watch.
Tile kilns and tile kilns are mainly for men and children, and women generally don't take part. Fired tile kilns are usually on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, and the fuels are firewood, bamboo, straw, chaff, etc. When the tile kiln burns to a high level, rosin powder, salt, etc. can be poured to cheer.
The first kind of Mid-Autumn Festival food in Chaoshan is cakes. There are various kinds of moon cakes in Chaoshan, such as sweet, salty, meaty, assorted and multi-flavored. There are also cakes, soft cakes and cloud cakes, all of which are Mid-Autumn Festival cakes, which are good for hipsters to send relatives. It can be said that it is a custom for hipsters to send moon cakes to relatives. The Mid-Autumn Moon Cake is an annual traditional food for Chaoshan people. The traditional moon cakes in Chaoshan have the same feature, that is, most of them are round, which means a good omen. On the next day, no one in Chaoshan will taste the moon cake.
Second, the Mid-Autumn Festival in the tidal region, when the sky is crisp and the fruit is ripe, pomelo, persimmon, carambola, pineapple, pomegranate, olive and banana are another kind of food for the hipsters in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Third, agricultural taro and pumpkin are also popular with hipsters to make taro paste and melon pulp. Among them, the Mid-Autumn Moon Cake is an annual traditional food for hipsters. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is not a Chaoshan person who doesn't taste the moon cake. Although moon cakes can have various shapes and Chaoshan areas have their own characteristics, they all have the same feature, that is, they are required to be round. Taro, Ciba, etc. are also necessary for hipsters in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Home-cooked and Yue Bai's as mentioned earlier? When the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, housewives of all households are busy grinding glutinous rice into powder, then mixing it with white syrup and stirring it evenly, and then using wooden buns to press them into the hollowed parts. When it is compacted, it will become pieces of different shapes and sizes? Moon cake? . ? Moon cake? The patterns are beautiful and white as snow, and some moon cakes with strong animal shapes make children fondle them. And use white glutinous rice _ or add it? Yanmi? The bright red _ with peanuts and then made into sickles, rice spoons, rice barrels, rice ears and other products are all delicious food that symbolizes a bumper harvest. In addition, there is another kind that is fried with peanuts and kneaded into a peach shape with maltose? Sweet pea peach? Especially crispy. ? Wait a minute.
famous products of Chaoshan _ Cake Shop 1. Yixi _ Cake
Yixi is an ancient town in the east corner of Chaozhou, which existed in the Qing Dynasty? Chaodong Xiongzhen? Good name. Yixi _ Cake is especially famous for Fanhe Shengda _ Cake. Fan Hesheng is a cake shop in Yixi Town in the late Qing Dynasty, which has a history of more than 16 years. Today, Fan Chaojin, the head of Fan Hesheng _ Cake, is over 6 years old, the third generation descendant of Fan Hesheng, and has inherited the good craftsmanship of making _ Cake from his ancestors. The most prominent features of Yixi Da _ cake are uniform skin, fine and smooth stuffing, sweet and refreshing entrance, and palatable cold throat. It is these outstanding advantages of Yixi Big Cake that make it famous in East Guangdong and Southeast Asia. There are two main reasons why Yixi Da _ cake has the above outstanding flavor characteristics. First, pay attention to materials. The main raw material, lard, must be fried with the pig _ of Chaozhou local pig, because such lard tastes extremely fragrant. Second, the production is exquisite. The whole production process of Yixi Da _ cake is made by traditional manual operation, and the process is very complicated, but each process is very elegant and meticulous. In the Chaozhou area in the past, there were? Yixi _ cake and bean stuffing is hidden for the New Year? Legend has it that after the bean stuffing of Yixi _ cake is made, it must be put into a pottery jar and buried in the soil for several months before it is dug out and made into a cake. It is for this reason that Yixi Da _ cake has the characteristics of refreshing and cooling throat.
2. Sunan _ Cake
Chenghai Sunan _ Cake has a history of over 1 years. During the reign of Emperor Guangxu in Tongzhi of Qing Dynasty, there was a family in Lianyang (that is, southern Jiangsu) township called? Kenyu? No.1 pastry shop has become a minor celebrity in the local area. It mainly produces traditional products such as cakes and soft cakes. By the third generation, it was the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, and its owner was a little literate, fond of thinking and innovation. He came up with many ideas and secret recipes to improve the quality of products. For example, the key to determining whether a big cake is delicious is the crust and the stuffing. The crust should be crisp, and the stuffing should be sweet but not greasy, cool and residue-free. He got inspiration from the brewing technology. Good wine needs to be stored in a kiln, which has been stored for a long time, and its wine is Mika. He believes that the same is true of cake stuffing. The stuffing that is first ground is very angry, and there are particles even when it is finely ground. The entrance is not cool, but too much sugar is thick and greasy, and too little sugar is tasteless. He decided to learn from the method of storing wine in the kiln, so he took advantage of the local opportunity to dry fish in the pond before and after the winter solstice every year, and ordered the workers to put the big water tank into the dried pond first, put the ground cake stuffing into the big water tank, then seal it and wait until the pond was drained again. The pond became his natural cold storage, and the cake stuffing could be stored in a lower temperature environment. This is not easy to deteriorate under sealing and low temperature. The cake stuffing of Jianyu should be stored for at least one year, that is, it should be taken out and processed into large cakes after the pond is dried again in the next year. In this way, the products, whether big cakes, small cakes, glutinous rice soft cakes or other pastry products, have a very different taste than those stored in ponds. The entrance is cool, lubricated and slag-free, soft and without anger, just right sweet and light, which is very popular among customers. It is said that the cake stuffing of Jianyu can sometimes be stored for up to two years! Later, the pastry workshops in Lianyang area all learned from his experience, which made the pastry in Lianyang area unique in Chaoshan area.
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