Reunion dinner: Every New Year's Eve, the whole family will get together for dinner, commonly known as "Reunion dinner". The food is very rich. There are big fish and meat to make all kinds of delicious dishes. The whole family toasts each other, and women and children also want to drink a little wine to show the joy of the whole family. Most of the rice is steamed with wooden retort, which means that there is plenty of food, wine and food, which means that the coming year will be auspicious and well-fed.

shepherd's purse eggs: on the third day of March every year in the lunar calendar, most people use rapeseed to boil eggs, add brown sugar, and each person eats one or three (single) eggs, which not only rewards youth, but also nourishes the body. Potatoes is a common name of shepherd's purse, which contains a variety of amino acids, vitamins, protein, calcium, phosphorus and iron, and is cool.

long summer eggs: Every time in long summer, every household has the custom of eating boiled eggs and rice seeds. Rice seeds are commonly called "dried rice seeds". They are boiled and fried with rice paste, kneaded into spherical rice seeds, and shaped like dumplings. Put soup in lard or bacon, and then boil the dried rice seeds, and everyone eats one or two bowls. According to legend, long summer ate a group of eggs and dried it to strengthen his body and bones, and his actions were vigorous. There is a common saying that "long summer eats eggs and stones are trampled; Long summer eats it, and the stones are crushed.

Mid-Autumn Festival: the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, commonly known as "Bao Shao Festival" or "Ghost Festival". In the old custom, since the beginning of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, people have been firing guns and burning candles to welcome the return of the ancestors. On the evening of the 13th to 14th, paper money was sealed and packages were burned. In some mountainous areas, some people donated money to the temple to hold the "Meng Lan Hui", and for 3 to 5 days, they carried out activities such as Mengshan, setting off flames and setting off river lanterns to cross over the ghosts.

Double Ninth Festival refers to the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. Also known as the festival for the elderly. People have the habit of climbing mountains. Huilongshan, Biyun Peak and Fuqiu Mountain are the most visited places in China. Before and after this festival, there are many strong winds, so there is a saying in the countryside that "every year on September 9, there is nothing to go to the river."

Extended information

Yiyang, alias "Silver City", "Lido" and "Badminton Hometown", is a prefecture-level city in Hunan Province, located on the south bank of Dongting Lake in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, in the north of Hunan Province, at the eastern end of Xuefeng Mountain and other veins. It is one of the core cities around Dongting Lake eco-economic circle and one of the 3+5 urban agglomerations of Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, and has successively won provincial garden cities, national forest cities and other cities.

the geographical coordinates of Yiyang are 27 58 ˊ 38 "to 29 31 ˊ 42" north latitude and 11 43 ˊ 2 "to 112 55' 48" east longitude. The longest distance from east to west is 217 kilometers, and the widest distance from north to south is 173 kilometers. From the map, Yiyang looks like a head looking east and crouching on the ground. It borders on the Yangtze River in the north, Shishou County in Hubei Province, Changde City and Huaihua City in the west and southwest, Loudi City in the south, Yueyang City and Changsha City in the east and southeast. Taohuajiang nuclear power station is located in the west of Yiyang City, 4km upstream of Zishui.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yiyang