First, the Spring Festival customs of Sihui-before New Year's Eve, people at Sihui were busy preparing for all kinds of new year's goods: buying chickens, geese, ducks and fish; Add new clothes; Newly purchased furniture and utensils; Buy New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets, etc. In particular, I want to buy oranges, green olives and other fruits as a symbol of good luck and welcome friends and relatives. Before the Chinese New Year, men must have a new haircut and women must "pull their faces". Nowadays, women mostly have a haircut and beauty. December 24th of the lunar calendar is the time when the "gods" go to heaven to report their work. Since that day, every household has been cleaning up, cleaning things and bills, which is called "picking up". One or two days before New Year's Eve, every household makes all kinds of products for the Chinese New Year. Families who go out on New Year's Eve have to rush home for reunion. On New Year's Eve, the whole family gathered around the stove for a reunion dinner. After dinner, adults give "lucky money" to children and their parents. In the evening, the farmer's water tank should be filled with water, the rice tank should be filled with rice, and the lights can't be put out, which symbolizes the good omen of "more than one year old" and "continuous cooking every year". The custom of keeping watch on New Year's Eve is very common. Waiting for the arrival of the new year, the New Year bell rings and every household rings firecrackers. The first day of the first lunar month is called Yuanri, which is the head of the new year and the beginning of spring. At the dawn of heaven, the sound of guns is heard. On the big table in every household hall, red plates are filled with good luck (that is, oranges are bigger than oranges, so they are called good luck), green olives and all kinds of exquisite sweets. Lights are decorated in front of the door, and the younger generation wishes the older generation tea. On this day, most families should be vegetarian, at least they don't eat meat for breakfast. After breakfast, adults and children take Daji to their relatives and friends' homes to pay New Year greetings, and the host and guest exchange good wishes for each other, and congratulate them on making a fortune and adding blessings. The host treats you with Daji, betel nut (the ancient custom respects betel nut, but now it is replaced by green olive), and * * * congou. The guests present Daji to congratulate the host on his good luck, and the host wants to return it with Daji, which is said to be a good wish in return. On the morning of the first day of the lunar new year, many lion dance classes and English song teams beat gongs and drums to pay homage to every household in each village, and the host set off firecrackers to welcome them. There are also hand-cranked evergreen leaves (commonly known as cash cows) or hand-held books with auspicious sentences such as "lucky money into treasure" posted on people's doors; Or those who play suona, knock on bamboo boards, sing songs, make four sentences and say auspicious words to celebrate the New Year from house to house, all take advantage of asking for some money. On the second and third day of the second and third day, many cultural activities were organized in rural towns to celebrate the Spring Festival. In addition to setting up a theater shed to perform Chaozhou opera, mountain opera and shadow play, there were also big gongs and drums teams, tiger and lion teams, English song teams and dragon dance teams marching and performing in villages along the street. There are also movies, ball games, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, riddles and so on. During the day and night, people flocked to enjoy the tour and watch, and there was a lively and joyful atmosphere of Spring Festival. New Year's Eve is approaching after every household's house is dressed up completely. As a result, housewives are busy preparing for the most abundant and meaningful reunion dinner in a year. The reunion dinner, as its name implies, is a family gathering for dinner during the Chinese New Year, and even the deceased ancestors will not forget it. Therefore, after making a good reunion dinner, every household must first "worship her husband" (worship ancestors). When offering sacrifices to ancestors, the incense burner representing ancestors should be removed from the shrine and placed on the altar, and then incense should be burned to pray and the ancestors should be invited to dine. Then all ages bow down in order, which fully shows the traditional virtues of Sihui people who are cautious to the end and pursue the distance, and all the virtues's filial piety comes first. After the sacrifice, the food for ancestor worship was reheated, a big table was set in the hall, and the whole family was surrounded. This was a beautiful moment for each family to reunite. No matter how far apart a family is at ordinary times, or how many pimples there are at ordinary times, they should also laugh and laugh at this time, and can't say anything sad or noisy. After dinner, housewives were busy clearing the table, so a big cleaning activity began. This time, we don't have to pay much attention to cleaning, it's just for cleaning. Unlike the one at the end of the year, we have to brush with pine branches and grass. Then he made a fire in the stove and began to prepare the offering for tomorrow's sacrifice to God-vegetarian food. There are many kinds of vegetarian dishes, such as taro, sweet potato, jujube, peanut, taro and sweet potato. All the ingredients for vegetarian dishes should be ready at noon next week and let them dry. When frying vegetarian dishes, when the fire is ready, put an iron pot and inject a lot of peanut oil. When the oil boils, mix these materials with powder slurry and put them in the pan, and it will squeak and bubble in the oil pan. When cooked, Huang Chengcheng is especially attractive. At this time, if there are guests at home, the hostess will offer a plate of newly fried vegetarian food, and then soak in mellow congou, so that you can taste the delicious food of the famous Sihui snack. Sending lucky money to send lucky money is an important part of the Spring Festival custom of Sihui. Older people should give money to their younger generations, and younger generations who can earn money should also send money to their elders. The money can't be sent directly to wait for a while, but should be packed in a profit-making package or read in a red paper package. This is commonly known as "pressing the belly and waist", which means that from the beginning to the end of the year, the pockets will be full of reality and wealth. What's particularly interesting is that when a child goes to bed, his parents will put a large bill in his belly pocket and get it back after waking up. New Year's greetings, sending oranges to pay New Year's greetings, are also called "worshipping righteousness". In the early morning of the first day of junior high school, when people get up and put on new clothes, the first thing they do is to pay homage to themselves. Often, the younger generation wishes their elders first, and then the elders give their expectations to the younger generation. After breakfast, they each pay a New Year call to their relatives and friends. Second, the special diet of Sihui-Sihui Seto, commonly known as Fenzai, originated from Qingtang folk. First, the sticky rice flour is stirred with proper amount of clear water to form a paste, and then it is served in a special rice flour bowl. Several small holes in the bottom of the paste onion bowl quickly flow into the boiling water in the pot to form round strips. After being cooked, it is picked up with a sieve and soaked in clear water (commonly known as "supercooled river"). When eating, take a strong fire from the pot, add a proper amount of soup, and then add seto powder, with soy sauce, pepper, diced meat, onion and garlic as accessories. Tea-oil chicken, the must-try thing at the fourth meeting is tea-oil chicken, which must be eaten in Zhenshan. The Sixth Ancestor Temple in Zhenshan is a thousand-year-old temple dedicated to the true body of the Sixth Ancestor Hui Neng. There are many rural restaurants nearby. Tea-oil chicken is the top grade of chicken, and wild camellia oil is a rare edible oil unique to China, with a special oil fragrance. It produces very little, and it is a treasure in tea oil. This camellia oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids and contains no cholesterol. Its nutritional value even exceeds that of olive oil, and it has the effects of promoting fluid production, dredging collaterals, promoting blood circulation and detoxifying. In ancient times, it was the main ingredient of Jin Chuang medicine, and Yao people have always used it as a tonic for lying-in women, which is highly valued and has always been used as a tribute. Tea oil has a high boiling point. Tea oil chicken cooked with tea oil is delicious, tender and odorless. It is a famous food in Sihui. From the perspective of modern nutrition and pharmacology, it is a green and healthy product with nourishing, beautifying and detoxification. "Didou" Charcoal Roasted Meat: Didou Town, Sihui City, is popular for eating homemade Charcoal Roasted Meat. Every "market day", families slaughter their pigs and burn them with charcoal. When they are almost burned, they take them to the market and sell them. Because they are crispy and tender, people from other towns also come to buy them, and they can close the stalls before 9 o'clock. This ethos has spread to various towns and become a flavor. Wudu stone snail, also known as "fairy snail", is a specialty of Sihui. It is praised by diners all over the world for its tough taste and delicious meat. There is a saying that "if you don't taste the snail, you won't count as the fourth meeting". This stone snail is like a common stone snail, but it is slender and its color is darker than that of the common stone snail. The biggest feature is that the tip of the screw shell seems to be hinged off and plugged with cement. According to legend, this fairy snail is a descendant of the stone snail who came back to the water after the "fat dog" (the nickname of the local unscrupulous dude) came to chase it away after Wen Zhenxian hinged its shell on the mountain. Because the snail can only grow in the mountain stream with clear water and no pollution, the output is less, so the price is more expensive. In pubs and restaurants, if the snail is round in shell, light in color and sloppy in meat, it is mostly the shopkeeper's deception. Baisha bamboo shoots are a specialty of Baisha Village, qingtang town, Sihui City. Villagers use the unique sandy cotton soil along the Suijiang River to cultivate fresh bamboo shoots, which are harvested in summer. The bamboo shoots are big, fleshy, tender and crisp. It is suitable for cooking or seasoning, cut into thin slices and stewed with duck and pork slices, which is refreshing and fragrant and has an appetizing effect. Fried crucian carp, the side of crucian carp is a variety of crucian carp, which is different from ordinary crucian carp in that one side of its body is bluish white, while the other side is burnt yellow, like being fried in a pot, which tastes more fragrant and fresh than ordinary crucian carp. Of course, the price is also many times higher. About the origin of this fish, the legend is the same as that of the stone snail. When Zhenxian put the crucian carp in the pot and fried it, people hinged the stone snail, and the "fat dog" came. Zhenxian left, and the fish and snails returned to the water, which became the fairy trace of Zhenshan.