What are the traditional festivals in Huzhou?

New Year's Eve is the end and beginning of the year, so it is inevitable to get together and have a big meal to celebrate. In China, the New Year's Eve dinner is usually cooked by men in the family, which means that women in the family have been busy with housework for a year, and the last meal of the year is hosted by men to express their gratitude and comfort to the woman. New Year's Eve dinner is usually rich, but there are usually several dishes:

Fish means "more than a year". But carp is generally used instead of silver carp and bighead carp (bighead carp is also called silver carp here), and the pronunciation of "silver carp" is the same as "pity", so it is a taboo to call it so during the Chinese New Year.

The rice cake, called "getting higher every year", gets higher every year after eating it.

Eggs are called "auspicious eggs" and are very lucky after eating.

Jujube, known as "sweet", will make everything sweet when eaten.

Generally speaking, vegetarian dishes are not touched at New Year's Eve. Even if there is, it just means a kind of good luck. For example, mushrooms sound like "time is up" and taro means "here it is", which means that this kind of food can go well and make a fortune in the coming year. This is also a simple and beautiful wish.

New Year's Day

In the early morning of the first day, the first thing to do when getting up is to drink a glass of sugar water. I hope this year is as sweet as sugar water. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, we don't need fire. We mainly eat all kinds of cooked cakes prepared a few days ago, such as jiaozi, wonton and leftovers from the New Year's Eve dinner, also to avoid waste.

Grade?Four

On the fourth day, a ceremony was held to pick up the god of wealth and three cakes were presented. Everyone wants to eat rice cakes, which shows that business is booming and rising year by year.

the Lantern Festival

Generally speaking, the arrival of the Lantern Festival also means the end of the Spring Festival, and the walk between relatives and friends will end on this day. Like other places, it is our tradition to eat Yuanxiao on the Lantern Festival.

On the third day of March

I don't know what festival it is, but on this day, every family will go to the fields to pick wild vegetables to eat. Children, on the other hand, went for a picnic that day, went to other people's homes to ask for rice and eggs, collected firewood, dug bamboo shoots and picked broad beans themselves, and cooked them and ate them in magpie nests (even if they couldn't find them).

Qingming Festival

During the Qingming period, in addition to sweeping graves and offering sacrifices to ancestors, Qingming dumplings were also eaten. Qingming Mariko is usually blue, but the dye used is not Ai Qing, but pumpkin leaves. Because there were no pumpkin leaves at that time, they were picked and pickled last year.

Early summer

On the day of long summer, everyone took salted duck eggs and went to play "touching eggs" with other children to see who had the hardest salted duck eggs. At that time, potatoes were just edible, so every household would eat potatoes with seasonal dishes. Bamboo shoots have just fallen into the market, so you can go to the bamboo garden to dig bamboo shoots that day, no matter who owns them. There is also eating a kind of cake, which is made of rice flour, divided into three colors: white, yellow and green, and then tied together and cut into columns, which is called "supporting the cake", which means that it will not spread around the waist after eating.

Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival is as traditional as other places. Eating zongzi on that day is in memory of Qu Yuan. Huzhou's oldest zongzi is also famous. There is also eating mung bean cake with bean paste made of peas in the middle, which is very sweet. Generally speaking, we should also eat "three yellows" and "Huang Wu", such as cucumber, Huangshan, yellow croaker and salted eggs. There is also eating garlic to ward off evil spirits.

The sixth day of June

This day is called "cat and dog birthday", and cats and dogs should take a bath and have a good meal on this day. In addition, it is said that the god of wealth will take out gold ingots to bask in the sun on this day, so every household will eat wonton that day. Wonton is auspicious because its shape is similar to an ingot.

Chinese Valentine's Day; Qixi Festival

Huzhou people lack romance, so they don't care about Valentine's Day in China.

The new moon in July

There are three days, which are called "Ghost Festival". This day is a sacrifice to ancestors. Children have the priority to taste the sacrifices after paying homage to their ancestors, because they think that what their ancestors eat after they enjoy will bless their children to become healthy and intelligent.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Like all over the country, people get together to eat moon cakes. Generally speaking, the packaged Cantonese-style and Soviet-style moon cakes are usually just given to each other as gifts, and they are usually baked moon cakes.

Double Ninth Festival

Same as tanabata, but. Anyway, I haven't heard that Huzhou people celebrate Chongyang.

Winter solstice

There are three festivals for ancestor worship: Tomb-Sweeping Day, Ghost Festival and Winter Solstice. On this day, you usually eat jiaozi. Besides, everyone should eat a chicken to supplement their health, which is called "winter solstice tonic".