Yiwu used to be a small county with farming as its mainstay. The long farming culture, seasonal and holiday customs have derived some proverbs, jingles and ballads with local characteristics.
Qingming Festival
"Qingming winter solstice, the first three and then four." The Qingming Winter Solstice went to the grave to worship the ancestors, and Yiwu people commonly called it "burning the squire". In Yiwu folklore, the burning of Tai Gong can be carried out as early as three days before the festival and as late as four days after the festival. During the Qingming period, snails are fat in the pond, so there is a saying that "a snail in Qingming is worth a goose". Tomb-Sweeping Day eats clear and crisp, and when it is cooked, it is mixed with wild wormwood tender head, and its color is blue, which indicates good luck in the coming year. "I have eaten Qingming, and I sit in the field every day." After Tomb-Sweeping Day, farm work began to increase. If you do something stupid in a short period of time after Tomb-Sweeping Day, you will often be teased by Yiwu people as "You lost your mind in Qingming?"
Dragon Boat Festival
"Dragon Boat Festival wonton summer solstice noodles, eating festival health." Yiwu old customs, the Dragon Boat Festival, only in the morning, so there is a saying that "the Dragon Boat Festival is before noon". In the past, farmers had the custom of "seeing off moth mothers" during the Dragon Boat Festival. Burn the midges to the suburbs with torches, read "moth mother, moth mother, send Nong to Dongyang, turn around and look at Chongyang", and then throw the torches on the ground and return. Generally speaking, midges began to disappear in the middle of September of the lunar calendar. So, on September 9, the moth stung the mortar. After the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather turned hot, so it is said that "after eating Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, quilts and jackets are easy to send".
June six
The sixth day of the sixth lunar month is said to be the hottest day of the year. "I'm so worried, I'm worried about a hot June." Yiwu folks have the old custom of "June 6th, dog bathing". "June 6th, no meat, a big furuncle poison". Legend has it that killing turtles and boiling juice will not freeze only on this day.
Mid-Autumn Festival
"In July and a half, jujube when meal. Mid-Autumn Festival in August, jujube to Suzhou. " In the old mid-July, Zizyphus jujuba, Zizyphus jujuba and Zizyphus jujuba in Yiwu matured one after another. After laying, they were processed into Nanzao and candied dates, which were sold to Suzhou and other places around mid-August. Enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Night. Children can't point at the moon, otherwise it will be regarded as disrespectful to the moon god and threatened by adults: "Aunt Moon will come to cut her ears!" "
New Year's Eve
As the year is approaching, Yiwu people call it "year to year". New Year's Eve is called "Thirty Nights". Thirty nights apart, you should speak auspicious words. Some words that are often used on weekdays are forbidden on the 30 th night and the Spring Festival, so we should put it another way. For example, "blow out" is changed to "circle"; "Kill" is changed to "kill"; Change "falling" to "rolling the ingot" and so on. In some places, there is a custom of begging for a seal on New Year's Eve. It is said that what children say unintentionally on the 30 th night can often be fulfilled in the coming year, so adults will try their best to get some auspicious words out of their children's mouths. For example, sprinkle some rice into the rice, and the child will say, "There are many grains"; Put the money on the ground and let the children pick it up on purpose. The children will say, "Wow!" "
In the old days, there was a folk song in Yiwu, which talked about a year's farming: a star, like a lamp. Two stars, go to the door. At the entrance of the platform, plant beans, bean shovels, plant seedlings in good order, plant water chestnuts, plant water chestnuts to get shells, pick water chestnuts, fill the boat with water chestnuts, row a boat and row it to Yiwu County in one row, in exchange for copper cymbals to buy noodles. Rope noodle head, hang bowl edge, I eat bowl shovel vegetable garden, mother eats bowl spinning kapok, daughter-in-law eats bowl watching rooster, rooster can't watch it well, and he is beaten three times a day.
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