Wenzhou Specialty
[Pancai Sauce] Wenzhou's famous specialty dish, wash and cut diagonally on both sides, marinate with soy sauce and black bean paste. It is also salted and can be eaten in two days. Add sugar, MSG and sesame oil when eating.
[Maqiao] formerly known as Qiaoshi, originated from the custom of folk women "begging for skill" from Vega on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Ma Qiao is made from high-quality flour, cane sugar, lard, salt, soda and other raw and auxiliary ingredients, which are modulated into a tongue shape, sprinkled with sesame seeds, and baked. The Maqiao produced by Wenzhou Bakery Factory won the Zhejiang Province Commercial Traditional Best Product Award in 1983.
[Wenzhou Beef Baked Slices] was founded in Fu Lu Shou Candy Shop on Wuma Street in the city in 1936. It was originally made by a Guangdong master and was sold for the first time to a large number of people. Demand exceeds supply. Since then, many beef roasting workshops have been opened in Wenzhou. After many innovations in production techniques and ingredients, the employees of Wenzhou Food Company have made baked beef slices with Wenzhou characteristics, which sell well at home and abroad. In 1982, it was rated as the best product in Zhejiang Province.
[Wenzhou Pork Floss] Lean pork with bones added with high-grade soy sauce, sugar and salt. It is made through five processes of raw material sorting, stewing, embryo blasting, frying and fluffing. The finished product is light yellow, fluffy, with slender and loose fibers, delicious and nutritious. In 1956, at the nine-province food exchange conference held in Shanghai, Wenzhou meat floss won first place in the overall score.
[Wenzhou Zhuangyuan Red] This wine has a history of more than 800 years and was once out of stock after liberation. In the autumn of 1988, Wenzhou Winery resumed production according to the secret recipe. The wine has a mellow taste, bright red color and is very popular. It has been exported to Japan, France, Spain, Singapore, Malaysia, the United States and other countries and Hong Kong.
[Wenzhou Sorghum Pork] It is said that it was created in the Guangjin Cured Meat Shop in Hengjing Lane, Wenzhou in the Qing Dynasty. Cut the pork breast into thin slices and mix with sugar, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, Shaoxing wine and refined salt. It is made by spreading and drying. It is round, translucent, uniform in thickness, crispy and delicious. The characteristic of never getting tired of eating.
[Changren Wonton] As early as the Song Dynasty, our country had the habit of eating wontons during the winter solstice. It is said that wealthy families were so extravagant that a bowl of wontons had more than ten flavors with different fillings, which was called "hundred-flavor wontons." 1930s. There was a man named Chen Libiao in Yueqing who hawked wontons along the streets in Wenzhou City and later set up a shop in Yufeng Bridge. The wonton skin is as thin as paper, filled with fresh meat, and shaped like clouds. The top ingredients include seaweed, egg shreds, meat floss, dried shrimps, and a clear and delicious soup, which is highly praised by customers.
[Wencheng Ramen] has a history of hundreds of years. The preparation method is: pour the white flour into a basin or wooden board, slowly add water, mix well, and then knead repeatedly with both hands until it forms a sticky dough. Cut into 1 cm wide and cover with a damp towel to prevent drying. After about 15 to 20 minutes, lift both ends of it with both hands and shake it while pulling it to extend it as desired. Some people stretch it until it is nearly one meter long, then merge it and thin it again until it is like cotton yarn, throw it into the boiling soup, boil it for a while and it will be cooked, pick it up and add seasonings and accessories, and then it can be eaten.
[Wencheng Fa Cai], also called "Cai Xin", is a traditional home-cooked dish. Wash the mustard greens and dry them in the sun until they are soft, cut them into fine pieces and spread them in the sun until no water seeps out when you pinch them with your hands. Add 3% to 4% salt and knead them evenly. Put them in a small-mouthed jar and press them tightly. Seal them tightly and place them upside down in a cool and clean place. They can be stored for 3 days. Does not deteriorate over the years. Its taste is sweet, sour, and fragrant.
[Horseshoe pine] was first produced in Baixiang, Yueqing County, Wenzhou during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty. It is named after its shape like a horseshoe. It is made of flour and brown sugar and filled with sugar center, bacon cubes, shredded red melon, cooked sesame powder and osmanthus. The sides are slanted, and there are five openings. Press down with your hands to expose the candy center, stick it to the inner wall of the charcoal stove barrel at a high temperature of 200°C, and bake it with an open flame. It has the characteristics of crispy skin and soft heart.
[White Snake Shaobing] In the late Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a Shaobing shop opened by Zhang on the right side of the bell tower of Futoumen in Wenzhou City. The "Scallion Oil Heavy Crispy Shaobing" is made by adding 8.5 kilograms of lard to every 50 kilograms of flour to knead into crispy noodles; the filling is made of salted pork fat cubes, wine-soaked shrimps, sweet pickled melon grains, shredded Beijing winter vegetables, and chopped green onions. , mix with sesame oil. After forming, it is baked with charcoal. The baked biscuits are light yellow and crispy. Because the female shopkeeper likes to wear white clothes, she is known as the "White Lady" in "The Legend of White Snake", and the sesame cakes she makes are also named after her.
[Baixiang Fragrant Cake] Gongjiu brand fragrant cake was created by Gongjiu Nanbei Huo Company in Baixiang Town, Yueqing County. It has a history of more than 50 years. It uses glutinous rice flour as the main ingredient, sesame, marshmallow, and citrus cake as auxiliary ingredients. It is steamed and cooked. It is characterized by its white color, sweet taste, softness and crispness.
[Gift Cake] The large gift cakes in Wenzhou strive to cater to different levels of preferences in terms of plastic arts and pattern design. Children's birthday cakes are usually topped with cream and vivid images such as Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, and Twelve Living Coasts; birthday cakes for the elderly may have up to nine layers, with different auspicious patterns on each layer, and a rice sculpture in the center of the highest layer. The old longevity star has gorgeous colors and beautiful appearance.
[Siqian Wonton] Yongqiang Siqian Street Wonton was founded in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. The wonton skins are made from white flour and are as thin as cicada wings; the fillings are made from lean pork hind legs slaughtered on the same day. The owner of the shop has set strict rules for himself, only one bowl of wontons per pot of soup, no matter how good the business is, he will make no exception. Condiments include shredded eggs, seaweed, minced meat, chopped green onions, etc.
[Laojiuhan] Wenzhou's famous specialty wine is famous both at home and abroad for its steamed high-quality yellow rice wine. It was listed as a tribute in the late Qing Dynasty. The alcohol content of old rice wine is 64 degrees, the ester content is about 0.3%, and the wine output is only 1%. That is, 100 kilograms of high-quality rice wine only distills about 1 kilogram of wine. The quality is clear and mellow, and the fragrance lingers on the teeth and cheeks after drinking. It has good effects on promoting blood circulation, clearing the heart and dispelling heat. Laojiuhan produced by Wenzhou Winery won the silver medal at the National Food Expo in 1989.
[Zhijiao Candy] Late glutinous rice is cooked and sun-dried, mixed with sand and popped into popcorn, sieved, then added with syrup made from sugar and caramel, cooked sesame seeds, cooked peanut kernels, osmanthus, ginger, pork Oil, shape and cut into long cubes. Its characteristic is that it has many flavors. In the old days, there were also special salted sesame candies to celebrate the New Year. The ingredients and preparation method are basically the same as the sweet ones, except that sugar is not used and dried shrimps (chopped), chopped green onions and refined salt are added, giving it a unique flavor.
[Dengzhan Cake] In the late Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, two brothers, Chen Damu and Chen Suimu, who were from Wenzhou, set up a fried dengzhan cake stall at Doumen, Dongmen. The filling is pork leg and Huangyu shredded radish, the outer layer is mixed with new soybeans and rice flour paste, and fried with fresh lard. Because the cake is like a lamp, it is named. This product has a crispy outer skin, soft round edges, and a refreshing filling with a unique flavor.
[Hibiscus Candy] was originally a famous snack of the Manchu people. It was improved by Wenzhou pastry chefs and became a Wenzhou specialty food. It is made into a dough with white flour and eggs, pressed into a uniform and thin pastry, fried into hibiscus slices in lard, then solidified with caramel syrup, sprinkled with sweet-scented osmanthus, and cut into pieces for sale. The finished product has overlapping petals, clear layers, wheat-yellow color, delicate and bright color, and is very popular.
[Li Datong Double-Cooked Cake] Created by Li Ruiqing, a famous pastry chef from Ruian, during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, it has a history of more than 100 years. It is made by mixing glutinous rice flour with white sugar or brown sugar, sifting evenly, sprinkling with sweet-scented osmanthus, shaping and cutting into pieces, and cooking twice. Its characteristics are: thin, soft, tough, fragrant and sweet, suitable for all ages. It is a famous tea snack in Wenzhou City.
[Yangmei wine] Yongjia is rich in bayberry, commonly known as "Nanxi plum", with an annual output of more than 10,000 tons. In addition to supplying the market, it is also mixed with liquor to make "yangmei wine" and sold to domestic and foreign markets. Bayberry wine is sweet but sour, has a pleasant taste, can resist the heat, and is a good summer wine.
[Xianqian Tangyuan] Xianqian Tangyuan has always been famous. There used to be more than 10 varieties, but now they only make the most popular hemp heart glutinous rice balls, lesha glutinous rice balls and fresh meat glutinous rice balls. The filling of Sesame Rice Balls is made from cooked sesame seeds, powdered sugar, and pork suet; the filling of Lesha Rice Balls is made from soybean flour, banana extract, and white sugar; the filling of Fresh Meat Rice Balls is minced hind leg meat of freshly slaughtered pigs. It is a custom in Wenzhou to give out county glutinous rice dumpling coupons and wedding candies to relatives and friends when getting engaged. :
[You egg] Glutinous rice flour dough, stuffed with hemp hearts or bean paste, dipped in white sesame seeds, fried, and turns yellow when cooked. They are shaped like duck eggs, slightly longer and hollow, and are called oil eggs; they are also stuffed with fresh pork and mushrooms, and are round like ping pong balls and slightly larger, called sesame balls. Li Datong, a century-old restaurant in Ruian, started out by making fried eggs and fried dough sticks.
[Hongqiao Mung Bean Cake] Hongqiao Mung Bean Cake was founded in Hongqiao Town, Yueqing County during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. It officially opened its store in the middle of Guangxu period. The store was named "Cai Risheng Nanhuo Cake and Candle Store". Mung bean cake is made from mung bean flour, fried glutinous rice flour, sugar, lard, tea oil, etc. in proportion. Soft texture, clear taste, sweet and delicious.
[Lotus Pastry] Add cooked lard to flour, roll into water-oil pastry and dry pastry respectively, open into multiple layers of pastry, wrap with bean paste filling, and make into a ball shape. Use a knife to carve the top into six large petals, heat the oil in a pan over low heat and fry until the petals are mature and open. The finished puff pastry layer turns out like lotus petals, crispy and sweet.
[Qiancang Early Broad Bean] Produced in Qiancang, Pingyang, it is characterized by its early season and freshness. When President Nixon visited China in 1972, it was specially sent to Beijing as a state banquet delicacy. Therefore it became famous overseas.
[Gel] Use yellow isinglass or the fat of other fish as raw material, add water (50 grams of dried isinglass plus 2500 grams of water), boil, dissolve and then cool. When eating, cut it into small pieces with a knife and season with soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, rice vinegar, sesame oil, pepper, etc. It has a cool, smooth taste and has a hangover-relieving effect.
[Huang Tan Tang] is made of refined glutinous rice as raw material, fermented with malt, and added with sesame, peppermint oil, and raw nuts as seasonings to make crispy sugar shreds, hard candy bars, and various Style sugar cakes, sweet and delicious. This is the traditional folk food processing industry of Huangtan. It was very prosperous in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and was sold in southern Zhejiang and northern Fujian. It has a good reputation.
[Dajing Echeveria Paste] Made from wild Echeveria seeds, it is cool and refreshing, and is a thin frozen cold drink. People in Dajing Mountain in Yueqing have the habit of going up the mountain to pick Echeveria seeds every summer. In the early 1990s, hundreds of people from Dajing brought Echeveria seeds to Beijing every year and opened Echeveria paste cold drink stalls on the streets of Beijing, and the business was good.
[Dajingdong Rice Candy] The white glutinous rice is cooked and dried in the sun, and the grains are crystal clear. Popped into rice crackers, add sugar, syrup made from caramel and lard to make a shape, sprinkle with osmanthus, and let cool slightly. Cut into small long cubes. Sweet and crunchy, it is suitable for all ages. Because the glutinous rice cooked and dried is mostly chosen in winter when the sunshine is not strong and the climate is dry, it is called "winter rice candy".
[Hawthorn Cake] Take hawthorn juice, mix it with sugar and agar, freeze it into plates, and cut it into prisms or flat cubes for sale. Its taste is sweet and slightly sour, and it has the therapeutic value of eliminating accumulation, resolving stagnation and removing blood stasis. Wenzhou is most famous for its Wuwei and Laodian’s hawthorn cakes. In order to ensure freshness, each batch of products is sold out in one or two days.
[Wujia Pi Medicinal Wine] The Wujia Pi Medicinal Wine made by Wuweihe Laodian is made from high-quality sorghum wine, prepared according to ancient recipes, and added with rock sugar. The wine has a mellow taste and a pleasant medicinal aroma. It is comparable to Zhejiang Yandongguan Wujia Pi medicinal wine.
[Five Flavors and Yusheng] Yusheng is white sandalwood. White sandalwood, also known as small white belt, is a slender and flat fish. Wuweihe Laodian has a history of 60-70 years in making Yusheng. The shop uses a unique traditional recipe, using fresh leucorrhea as thin as flat noodles, which is marinated in a certain proportion with glutinous rice porridge, Huangyu shredded radish, red glutinous rice, salt, sugar, MSG, rice vinegar, etc. It is generally pickled during the spring flood period, sealed, unsealed in the dog days of the following year, and sold in bottles. Many overseas Chinese from Wenzhou and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan who return to their hometown to visit relatives often take a few bottles back with them as they regard it as a rare flavor of their hometown.
[Wumeixiang Cake] Also known as Five-Colored Fragrant Cake, it is a traditional snack in Wenzhou City and was created in the late 1960s. It is made of glutinous rice flour and refined white sugar as the main ingredients, processed into a cake plate and then steamed. There are five strips in a pack, with different colors. The red one is filled with osmanthus essence, the yellow one is with banana essence, the white one is filled with five spices (cloves, star anise, fennel, orange peel, peppercorns), and the black one is wrapped with black sesame powder. Each has its own flavor and is suitable for all ages. The Wuweixiang cake produced by Wenzhou Wuweihe Food Factory and Xianqian Food Factory has been rated as the best Wenzhou product and a high-quality product in Zhejiang Province.
[Nanxi Wheat Cake] Nanxi Wheat Cake was originally produced in Shatou, Yongjia. Shatou has always been a docking station for tourists to rest and wait for the tide. The wheat cakes here have a unique flavor, and travelers often prepare them as dry food. The original ingredients of a wheat cake are: half a pound of wheat flour, one egg, one tablespoon of vegetable oil, stir and knead thoroughly, form a concave shape, and embed pickles, fresh meat, cooked shrimps, and MSG. After wrapping, beat it into an oblate shape with a wooden mallet, place it on a flat-bottomed iron frying pan until both sides are white, and then transfer it to the oven to bake until hard. It's crunchy and fragrant, and it's a delicacy.
[Dwarf Pancake] In the late period of the Anti-Japanese War, Wenzhou native Gu Jinfang set up a stall at the entrance of Wuma Street in the city to make pancakes. He was famous for his exquisite materials and exquisite production. People call the cake "dwarf cake" because of the short stature of the rice. This snack is made from pure glutinous rice from that year, ground into fine powder with water, and mixed with diced pork hip fat, sweet-scented osmanthus and white sugar. Cooked and cut into pieces, cooked and sold now. Its characteristics are soft and glutinous, sweet and salty, fragrant and delicious, so customers come one after another.
[Xincheng Dried Tofu] The dried tofu produced by Ruian Xincheng Gengchun Sauce Garden is famous for its delicious taste and aftertaste. It uses new beans of the year, which are soaked, ground, filtered, boiled, frozen, squeezed, and cut into pieces. It is made with double vats of soy sauce and spices, and is placed in a ventilated place to dry before being put on the market. Whenever the bus stops at Ruian Xincheng, Tangxia and other stops, there are many hawkers carrying baskets along the bus window selling goods, and buyers are enthusiastic.
[Fushou Cake] Fry and grind pure glutinous rice into powder, add sugar, caramel sugar, osmanthus and essence. After mixing well, use a mold to press it into butterflies, rings, Baizi, Fu, Lu, Shou, etc. The words "hi", with red and white colors in between, are used as mascots for weddings and festive gifts.
[Pancakes] Wenzhou people have the custom of eating pancakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Making pancakes is difficult. First, the proportion of flour and water must be appropriate. After mixing well, hold it in your hand without dropping it. Gently drag the batter into the iron frying pan and bake it into a pancake with a diameter of about 21 cm. , a piece of dough as thin as silk. Place the dough sheet on a flat plate, add stuffing made from shredded pork, shredded mushrooms, mung bean teeth, shredded eggs, shredded eel and stir-fried leeks, roll it into a cylindrical shape, and dip it into the fresh filling to eat.
Customs
Jewelry Dragon
In Wenzhou, Yueqing, Yongjia and other places, a kind of dragon lantern called "Jewelry Dragon" is popular. It is different from other dragon lanterns. The whole body is not in the shape of a dragon, but is based on the structure of a fish boat. The entire first frame is based on a curved wooden strip, and the top is tied with bamboo strips and silk paper to form a dragon boat. The length is 3 meters, the width is 3 meters, and the height is about 3 meters. There is a dragon head in the front, and the mouth part of the dragon head contains beads and beards, which are symbolic signs of the dragon. There is a dragon tail in the back, and there are 5-7 floors of pavilions on the "dragon body" in the middle. Small flags of various colors are placed on it. The left, right and rear of each layer are made of double wall structure. The inner wall is covered with light-transmitting white paper, and the outer wall is covered with light green or colorful fine-grained paper patterns. When the lamp is lit inside the dragon's belly, the light reflects on the surrounding carved paper. Colorful and dazzling. The entire dragon boat is decorated with more than 70 exquisitely crafted pavilions, and nearly 300 wonderful silk figures are decorated in the pavilions on each floor. It consists of more than 80 plays, most of which are based on "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Complete Story of Yue Shuo". Folks call it "dragon boat lantern", also known as "lou boat". The entire dragon lantern is also equipped with a wooden gear transmission device to connect all the absorbing figures together. By waving a hand under the lamp and operated by one person, all the silk figures can be moved, each performing different actions, which is full of fun and cuteness, showing strong local color and unique national art style. Jewelry dragons are ornamental dragon lanterns, designed for people to watch and generally not used for dance performances. When the jewelry dragon is out, there is also a lamp matching the dragon lantern, commonly known as the "Dragon Boat Moon" because its shape is like a waxing moon, hence the name. It is small in size, has no pavilions, and does not have paper-cut patterns. It only has a few dragon scales painted on the left and right sides of the lamp as a symbol.
Every year before the Lantern Festival, lantern makers are hired from various places and it takes two months to make a dragon lantern. When the Lantern Festival is approaching, dragon boat lanterns and other dragon lanterns come out for activities. The activity time is generally from the tenth to the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, a day and seven days and nights. People carry jewelry dragons and parade around villages and homes, beating gongs and drums and singing auspicious hymns. On the seventh night, as usual, the jeweled dragons in each village will be gathered in a nearby temple for "harvest mourning" (burning with fire), which is called sending the dragon to heaven and scattering it with sesame seeds and mung beans. Before the funeral, the villagers were asked to comment on the craftsmanship of each dragon lantern, especially the large fine-grained paper at the end of the dragon boat lantern (commonly known as the "dragon tail flower"). Whoever ranks first in the evaluation will be called "the dragon's tail flower". "Dragon Boat Brother" is a great honor.
It is no accident that dragon boat lanterns were born in Yueqing and other places in Wenzhou. First of all, Wenzhou is located on the southeast coast, and fishermen for generations have made a living by fishing in the sea. Fish boats are the lives of fishermen. Without the boats, fishermen have nothing. It is precisely because of their long-term production and life practices that they have deep feelings for fish boats that they can create this special dragon lantern, which is exactly the characteristic of marine culture. Specific reflection in folk lighting. Secondly, it is closely related to local arts and crafts. Yueqing's fine-grained paper cutting, which is famous throughout the country, is said to be related to the "dragon boat flower" on the dragon lantern. They complement each other, promote each other's development, and gradually make paper cutting widely used in people's lives. various fields, and finally became an independent art with regional characteristics. Dragon boat lanterns are not only wonderful lights for the Lantern Festival, but also an extremely exquisite work of art.
As a traditional lighting fixture of the Ming Dynasty, the jewelry dragon lantern has been handed down to this day for hundreds of years. It is very rare that it can be completely preserved to this day. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people of Wenzhou over the past dynasties. It is also a representative work of lighting in Wuyue area and is considered unique in the country.
Wenzhou Drum Ci
Wenzhou Drum Ci is a form of folk art popular in Wenzhou, southern Zhejiang. Because in the past, blind people practiced street fighting, so it is also called "blind Ci". ". According to the late famous artists Ji Songnian and Guan Huashan, Wenzhou Drum Ci "began in the Ming Dynasty and was formed by combining the music and lyrics of Hengyang Lixiang. Hengyang is now Pingyang; the music of Lixiang refers to folk tunes. The literati and clever blind artists who were in the field at that time inherited the mantle of ancient music, absorbed local folk tunes, and created the form of rap. After more than 200 years of development, it has also become more and more perfect in instrumental music and music.
Wenzhou Drum Ci can be divided into two types according to the way of singing: one is called "Ping Ci", which is used for weddings and weddings, entertaining guests, or admitting mistakes due to disputes, and the other is called "Big Ci" , also known as "Niang Niang Ci". Before liberation, they sang in temples dedicated to the goddess. When singing big words, beat the big drum and beat the big gong with one drum and one beat. The melody is high-pitched, rough and relatively primitive. Its main title is "Chen Shishiniang", which tells the story of Chen Shishi learning the law and destroying demons. It can be sung for several days and nights.
Wenzhou drum lyrics include both singing and speaking, with singing as the main focus. Its singing style and tunes have a strong flavor of southern folk songs. The basic tunes of the drum lyrics include dozens of styles such as Adagio, Flowing Water, and Tight Tempo. Since Wenzhou drum lyrics are sung in Wenzhou dialect (with Ruian language as the standard), the pronunciation is different in different places, and the singing styles also have their own characteristics. The singing methods can be divided into southern and northern schools. Southern tunes are more delicate and softer; Northern tunes are more rough and simple.
Wenzhou Drum Ci is good at lyricism and narrative. Its sentences are slang and easy to understand. It is also rich in mass vocabulary and folk proverbs. The form of the song is "Zheshuer", "Novel", "Ministry" and other three types. Its syntactic structure is basically a seven-character sentence, but sometimes five-character sentences and folded boards are also used. Its literary style is generally composed of verses and verses alternately with verses and verses. Singing rhyme pays great attention to natural rhymes and harmonious syllables, maintaining the characteristics of folk rap music.
The main instruments used in Wenzhou drum lyrics singing include flat drum, three-grain board, cow tendon qin, xiaobaoyue, etc. Therefore, the biggest feature of the performance is that one person can play four to six instruments during a single performance. At the same time, one person must play various roles (currently male and female duets are used), and it is required to pronounce clearly and portray the characters in detail. The plot must be explained in detail, and the character's personality and demeanor must be accurately grasped. One person can shape a variety of characters with different personalities, and can imitate various sounds to enhance the atmosphere.
The themes of Wenzhou drum lyrics are mostly based on folk legends and historical novels, most of which express family joys and sorrows and love stories. There are more than 400 volumes of traditional repertoire, large and small, such as "Chen Shishi", "Shuo Yue", "Fen Zhuang Lou", "Double Face", etc.
Wenzhou Daoqing
The form of Wenzhou Daoqing is simple, and artists usually take selfies and sing to themselves. The singer holds two bamboo boards in his left hand, and holds a bamboo tube stretched with thin lard skin with his elbow, while singing the song while tapping the tube with his fingers and beating the knots with bamboo. There are singles and pairs. One person sings the lyrics, and the other person sings the supporting vocals after the ending words, and uses "婽婷" to support the singing to give the singer a break. The lyrics are composed of seven-character sentences, and there are also five-character sentences. They are mainly sung, with some dialogue. The repertoire includes "Gaoji and Wu Sanchun", "The Legend of Parrot", etc. The stories are vivid, the vocabulary is rich, and metaphors are often used to highlight the environment and describe the characters' personalities.
Wenzhou Kun Opera
Wenzhou Kun Opera is a genre of Kun Opera in southern my country. It is also called "Yong Kun" because it is popular in the Yongjia area. It is basically similar to Suzhou Kun Opera, but the melody is slightly tighter, the rhythm is fast, and the lyrics are mostly in Wenzhou dialect. The main accompaniment is the flute, whose melody is simple, soft, touching and touching, and its rhythm and speed are sung according to a fixed tune. The regulations are very strict. Its repertoire includes "The Legend of Pipa", "Leifeng Pagoda", "The Legend of Lianlian", etc. The performance art is simple, natural and lively. The earliest classes were named "Tongfu" and "Pinyu".
Eating the New Year's Eve Wine
On New Year's Eve, families gather together to have a wine dinner, or invite friends and relatives to eat together and drink happily, which is called "the New Year's Eve". Because New Year's Eve is the dividing line between the old and new years, eating Fensui wine means that the old and new years are separated on this night. Therefore, no matter whether you are rich or poor, you should try to make this meal as sumptuous as possible. Wenzhou people are very particular about eating "New Year's Eve dinner", also known as "New Year's Eve dinner". The most important thing to pay attention to when eating is auspiciousness. Generally, ten cinnabar tall red bowls are used at the banquet to hold ten kinds of cold dishes, which are called "Shiquan". In addition to chicken and meat, there must be peanuts (called knots), citrus (called good luck), carp (called jumping over the dragon's door), tofu (called house cleaning), etc., and each bowl must have a thinly sliced ??round shape. A carrot head is placed on the top to show favor. In addition, taro and fish must not be missing from the main dishes served in the middle. In Wenzhou dialect, the homophones of taro are "yu" and "yu", which means that if you eat taro, your family will have more than enough income next year and you will gradually become rich. Eating fish also symbolizes "abundance every year". The first dish on the table must be rice cakes, which means "every year of prosperity" (nowadays, "noodles" are also used to mean "longevity"), and the last dish must be "eight-treasure rice", which symbolizes "getting rich and bringing treasures".
Marquee
Marquee is also called "marquee" and "marquee". Horse lanterns are made of paper in the shape of a horse and are also called "bamboo horse lanterns". It is divided into two parts, the horse's head and the horse's body, which are tied in front and behind the belly of the horse lantern dancer. The person is in the middle and walks like a horse. It is commonly known as the "horse-headed army". Generally there are 8 horses, including 6 white horses and 2 rouge horses (red horses). Around the Lantern Festival, most boys in urban areas are composed of ten to thirteen years old. Each person has a horse's head tied with paper on his chest, a small bell hanging under it, and a horse's tail tied with paper behind his back, tied with a belt, and starts running. It can swing up and down, left and right, the horse bell jingles, and it holds a bamboo pole in its hand as a whip. At night, candles are lit on the horse's head and the middle of its tail. During the performance, one or two children act as stable boys, calling the horse team and performing. The children sang while running, and combined with dance movements, formed various formations such as "triangle", "chain", and "scissors". The band played in unison and the tunes were melodious. Most marquees are performed in the open space in front of the house or in the nave. After the performance, the host gives tangerines, fried rice, candles, etc., and some also give money and silver medals. There is a poem by Guo Zhongyue of the Qing Dynasty that goes: "Singing the joy of the New Year, the whole city is competing to perform the Lantern Festival. The rolling dragons and horses are noisy all night long, and the fire trees and silver flowers are burning."
Seafood Food Customs
There are many islands along the coast of Wenzhou City, with vast fishing grounds and rich aquatic resources. There are dozens of species of seawater fish alone. There are more than one million acres of shallow sea shoals with soft texture, suitable for cultivating shellfish, algae, fish, shrimp, etc. The territory is crisscrossed by rivers and water networks, and is rich in fish products. Four folk ways to eat seafood:
The cooked food method generally uses boiling, steaming, stewing, stir-frying, frying, etc. to cook fish and shrimp into various dishes, and often use fresh ingredients with pickled foods. Steam or stew together, such as using fresh pickles and yellow croaker to make stewed yellow croaker. The soup is milky white, the fish is fat and tender, and contains vegetable aroma, which is fresh and delicious; or the crucian carp is fried in oil, which is fresh and crispy. The raw food method is to wash and chop live river crabs, mix them with sugar, vinegar, ginger, and pepper.
The raw food method is to use live river crabs, wash them, and soak them in wine, sugar, ginger, etc. After cooking for a while, you can eat it raw, commonly known as "drunken shrimp"; use a small fish called Baidan, add brown sugar and salt to make raw fish for dinner, commonly known as "Yu Sheng"; and oyster meat can also be eaten raw. Dip in a little sauce, vinegar, minced ginger, etc., and it tastes delicious.
The dry curing method is such as cutting open the fresh yellow croaker and drying it in the sun, which is the famous "white croaker", which is delicious; "Preserved", also like sea anchovy, a kind of small fish, about half an inch long, as thin as hair, dried into silk, golden color, very delicious, can be fried with eggs, mixed with pickles, or soaked in soup. Another example is processing and drying fresh mussels, which is the famous "Gonggan", also called "dried mussels". The mussel meat is large and fat. When eating, remove the shells and hairs on both sides, and then add radish and seaweed to cook together. It is especially delicious. This kind of dried and cured seafood can not only be stored for a long time, but also has a unique flavor.
The pickling method uses salt or distiller's grains to make seafood, and stores it in a tank as a year-round dish. For example, marinate the whole crab for a few days and then it is ready to eat; or take the meat and crab roe and chop it into a meat sauce. Add salt to marinate, take it out on the same day, mix with rice vinegar and white sugar and eat, such as jellyfish, sea anchovies, fried fish, etc. Hidden for a long time. Use distiller's grains to make bad fish, such as bad hairtail, bad cuttlefish, bad yellow croaker, bad eel tube, etc. The fish that has been processed through distiller's grains has a mellow flavor, is crispy and hygienic, and is not easy to deteriorate.