In addition to preparing delicious food during the Spring Festival, we usually prepare rice cakes, steamed cakes, clear fruits, eight-treasure vegetables, Jiangshan cakes, noodles, frozen rice candy and zongzi. Zongzi is not only a necessary food for the Dragon Boat Festival in Quzhou, but also a regular food for the New Year. It varies slightly from place to place. Longyou people like making cakes, Jiangshan people like zongzi, and Changshan people like making noodles. The main content is Chinese New Year, and it is generally not until 12 that firecrackers are set off to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new! Lucky money is still children's favorite.
Besides watching lanterns, we usually play with dragon lanterns during the Lantern Festival.
What Tomb-Sweeping Day wants to make is Qingming fruit, a kind of small round cake made of rice flour. This festival is about grave-sweeping, as Tomb-Sweeping Day said, three days before and seven days after.
Besides zongzi, liqueur is the main drink of the Dragon Boat Festival, and there are many kinds of snacks such as tea and snacks. Dragon Boat Festival is a very important festival for Quzhou people, so children in Quzhou must wear Chinese chestnuts and hats at that time, which is a custom brought by an allusion "Wang Zhi Jiao Jian".
In the long summer, farmers in Quzhou have the custom of eating wheat cakes, sesame cakes and fried dough sticks. Amaranth is an indispensable dish for this day, which is now the dish.
Chinese Valentine's Day is not important in Quzhou, but it is necessary in some places. Relatively speaking, the following festivals are much tighter!
July 30th is also called Ghost Festival. During this period, there are many local customs to make sesame cakes (also called steamed cakes), and some rural areas have to do Beijing tours (locally called Beijing tours). Laws vary from place to place, and graves must be swept after July 30th (Mid-Autumn Festival).
In the Mid-Autumn Festival, moon cakes are the most important food. In Quzhou, they don't have the popular Cantonese moon cakes. There are still folk customs of baking Su-style moon cakes and Hui-style moon cakes in rural areas of Quzhou, among which Du Zegui's flower moon cakes are the most distinctive, which are hollow moon cakes. However, with the development of the times and the integration of local flavor, local folk customs are gradually being diluted!
There are many people who want to climb mountains on the Double Ninth Festival, so climbing mountains is indispensable. Drinking is also a content, and making sesame cakes in various places may be related to the autumn harvest.
The solstice in winter is a very important festival in Quzhou. There is a saying in old Quzhou that "the winter solstice is as big as the year" or "the winter solstice should be in the year". On this day, there is also a saying that "some people ate and ate all night, while others ate and froze all night".
In Yao Jia, a rural area in the north of Quzhou, there is still the custom of June in rural areas, and there are allusions, usually on the 15th and 16th day of June in the lunar calendar. This year, the general was asked to hang the door to avoid disaster.
In addition, there is a special festival in Jiangshan to celebrate the harvest of the year. This festival is similar to a temple fair. It will be held for nearly a month, and the five grain gods and the city god will be carried from the county seat to the villages.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the temple fair began in rural Quzhou. Quzhou people are commonly known as the "Fair", which is similar to Masha Festival of Jiangshan people from Gaojia Fair on August 26th to Duhui and Lotus Fair in September. Every household should make zongzi and clear the fruit to receive guests. Everywhere the temple fair goes, it will be very lively and there will be delicious food, which has also attracted many merchants who are dedicated to rushing to the meeting.
Dress
So people in Quzhou at that time also had the habit of wearing soup cloth. A soup cloth around the waist is both a belt and a towel. People can also be separated by soup cloth. Dongxiang nationality is white soup cloth, while Beixiang nationality is blue soup cloth.