Tonglu folk customs, what are the customs of Tonglu

There is a township in Tonglu called Gushan She Township, which is the only minority township in Hangzhou, and you can go there to learn about the folk customs of Tonglu, and there are some ancient towns, which are also very good. You can check it yourself

The folk customs are simple, and the Jiangnan season is more noisy than the New Year.

Go to the Tonglu County Library to check the Tonglu County Chronicles, which are very detailed.

Eat rice cakes during the New Year, and eat glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival.

1. The twenty-third day of the lunar month - send the stove Jun.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Chinese New Year's Eve, commonly known as "Stove Day", every household sends the Stove Bodhisattva to heaven, hoping that he will "say good things in heaven and keep peace in the lower realm". After Chinese New Year's Eve, the heavenly god Vega will be brought back in the early morning of New Year's Day, commonly known as "Stove".

On this day, every family burns red bean glutinous rice, first puts a big bowl in front of the stove, and then the whole family comes to eat. After eating, at dusk, everyone bows down. After worshipping, the statue of the stove king is invited down from the stove and put into a stove sedan chair.

2. The twenty-fourth day of the lunar month - dust.

The folk proverb says that "on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, dust and sweep the house". To welcome the New Year, for Tongxiang people, the most important thing is to "sweep the dust" and "worship ancestors". Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", the New Year dust sweep has the meaning of "removing Chen Buxin".

It means sweeping away all the "bad luck" and "bad luck" out of the door, and saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new with a new atmosphere.

3. The twenty-fifth day of the lunar month - push and grind tofu.

The folk proverb says: "On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, push and grind to make tofu." "In some places, there is also a custom of eating tofu dregs before Chinese New Year's Eve, and legend has it that after King Stove reports to the heavens, the Jade Emperor will visit the lower realm to see if each household is as King Stove played.

So every family ate tofu dregs to show their bitterness and hide from the Jade Emperor's punishment.

4. The twenty-sixth day of the lunar month - beating rice cakes.

To celebrate the New Year, rice cakes are indispensable. Especially in rural areas, on the sacrificial table, in addition to chicken, duck, fish, meat and fruits, the rice cake must be indispensable. During the Spring Festival, when people go to the homes of relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings, they often take a few pieces of rice cakes, which means "high every year".

There are many, many more to say.

1. Rice bun.

Tonglu people celebrate the New Year, and there is always a rice bun on the table. Rice bun, as the name suggests, is a fruit-like food made of rice, mainly made of rice flour, bread with a variety of vegetables, spring bamboo shoots, dried tofu, etc., is a traditional food that has been popular for a long time in Tonglu, especially in the rural areas of the south of the Yangtze River.

In Tonglu, rice bun is often called "reunion fruit", with the meaning of reunion, in the past, it was generally only in the Qingming, the season, the Spring Festival, the birthday and other major festivals and occasions, when the family reunited, will enjoy this food. Moreover, when the Tonglu people worship the ancestral gods in the traditional season, rice bun is also an indispensable offering on the table.

2. Rice cakes. Most of the rice cakes that people eat today are made by machining. Convenience is convenient, but it lacks the joy brought by the process of hand-beating rice cakes in the past. Nowadays, handmade rice cakes are beginning to appear in people's field of vision again.

3. Cable surface. In Tonglu Xinhe, whenever it is winter, the local people begin to make noodles for the Spring Festival and winter. Xinhesuo noodles, also known as longevity noodles, are one of the traditional folk foods in Tonglu. Whether it is a county town or a rural area, whenever there is a New Year's holiday, people entertain guests or give gifts on festivals, and there are always bundles of slender and white noodles.

Especially on the birthday of the elderly or the birth of a child at home, it is necessary to congratulate each other with a rope face, and the host wants to invite back and forth with egg noodles.