1. Taishan Spring Festival Customs

Since ancient times, people have attached great importance to the relationship between customs and education, customs and politics, and among customs, seasonal customs are particularly valued. In Taishan, there are festivals almost every month.

the first month

The most important festival in the first month is the Spring Festival. Taishan people call the Spring Festival Chinese New Year, which is divided into three stages: before, after and after.

December 23rd of the lunar calendar to the day before New Year's Eve is the pre-year stage, during which all preparations are made for the Chinese New Year. There is a folk song in Taishan: Twenty-three stoves are provided, twenty-four pig troughs are provided, twenty-five dishes are washed and cleaned, twenty-six women put on oil, dye their hair and wash their hair, twenty-seven women buy new year's dishes while they are at the fair, and twenty-nine nights fry and cook new year's cakes.

Chinese New Year: from New Year's Eve to the second day of the first month

From New Year's Eve to the second day of the first month is the Chinese New Year stage. The 3th day of the twelfth lunar month is New Year's Eve at night. On New Year's Eve, every household posts Spring Festival couplets, hangs money, sets off firecrackers, makes rich dishes and worships ancestors. And take Master Kitchen Jun back to his place. Pick up the God of Wealth at midnight. In addition, on New Year's Eve, after the reunion dinner, everyone bathes and changes clothes, and should prepare the dishes on the first day of the New Year. According to the custom, it is forbidden to use tools and clean the courtyard on the first day of the New Year. The first day of the first lunar month is the "Spring Festival", which is also the climax of the New Year. On this day, from the early hours of the morning, every household burned incense, lit candles, set off firecrackers, worshipped ancestors in Gongzhai, and opened the door to receive Fu Yingchun. It's night, sleepless with lights, commonly known as "shou sui".

on the first day of the lunar new year, breakfast is vegetarian dishes such as green vegetables, tofu, vermicelli and arrowhead mushrooms, which is called "fasting" and indicates "piety". There are also cakes made for "fasting", which means "Dafa". After breakfast, people go out to congratulate each other, pay homage to the New Year, and the elders give gifts to the children. On this day, if you break the dishes, don't say "broken" or "broken" and other unlucky words, just say "flowering"; Chopsticks fell to the ground and only said "happy".

the second day of the first month is the opening day. Early this morning, every household cleaned, and according to the custom, it was only allowed to sweep from the door, in order not to sweep the good fortune out of the door. After lunch, the lion dance teams from urban and rural areas were invited to celebrate the New Year, adding to the atmosphere of Spring Festival.

years later: from the third day of the first month to the third day of the Lantern Festival

The old custom is "Hungry Ghost Day", which is forbidden to visit relatives and friends, but this custom has long been out of date, because with the progress of the times, people seldom get together for the Spring Festival, so they can't miss a day.

The seventh day of the seventh day, commonly known as "People's Day", is a festive day. According to the Chronicle of Jingchu's Years, "the first to tenth day of the first month is divided into one chicken, two dogs, three pigs, four sheep, five cows, six horses, seven people, eight grains, nine millet and ten wheat", and there is a saying that "on the tenth day of the first month, Enigmatic, ten of them are prosperous". On this day, every family slaughters chickens and eats festive meals, meaning "Good World (Chicken)".

on the eighth day of the first month, the homonym "hair" appears, and enterprises and businesses often choose this day to open their doors and open the market to welcome the rolling customers and financial resources.

At the age of thirteen, the ancients believed that things were perceived by the heart. Therefore, students should be allowed to eat chopped green onion porridge before the start of school. The hollow homonym of chopped green onion is "connected with the heart". When the heart is connected, people will become smart and their studies will grow. Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, Taicheng people eat "oil rice" on this day-cooked rice with glutinous rice, and then mixed with fried vegetables, fruits, bacon and shrimp, which is almost "eight treasures rice".

People's Day is followed by Lantern Festival, also known as "Shangyuan Festival" and "Lantern Festival". Taishan people call it "the 15th day of the first month". At night, fireworks are set off, gongs and drums are played, eight tones are played, lions are danced, and solve riddles on the lanterns is eaten.

2, Taishan characteristics-gone with the wind

During the Spring Festival, the hometown of overseas Chinese in Wuyi was full of jubilation, and there were various arts and crafts in the streets and lanes, and there were various cultural and sports activities such as lion dancing and dragon lantern playing. Among them, the floating color of pumice in Taishan is particularly eye-catching Gone with the wind is a historical story character decorated by boys and girls, whose shape is fixed on a color cabinet, carried by people and performed in the street with music. Piaose has a long history, with a history of more than 63 years. It is one of the representatives of folk Piaose art in China. It integrates sculpture, painting, music, forging, literature and other arts, and is famous for its "small size, exquisiteness and elegance". It is colorful in simplicity and graceful in elegance. People happily celebrate the Spring Festival.

3. The mouth-watering Taishan specialty

Taishan has become a hometown of food, which is inseparable from its unique geographical and historical conditions. With a coastline of 587 kilometers, Taishan is very rich in seafood. Common shellfish, shrimps, crabs and oysters abound, and rare ones such as lobster, grouper and abalone are also common. In addition, most towns in Taishan have their own local products, such as Duhu cauliflower, red-skinned wax gourd, white sand tide radish, Sijiufan, Shuibu pig, Dajiang wind eel and so on, which provide rich food resources for the hometown of overseas Chinese.

behind the rich food resources are long-standing food allusions, which are well known, such as rice of Monopterus albus in Shuibu, wen cun Wuwei Goose, Taishan Fresh Oyster Banquet, Dojo Goose in Doosan, dog meat in Sijiu Beef Bone Soup, and cat meat in Shuibu.