What are the living habits of Maoming people?

Looking for Maoming s custom of providing for the aged;

1. Eat Ai (begging) on poor days?

The last day of the first lunar month is "Authentic Festival", which means the end of the first lunar month. "Authentic Festival" has another meaning in Maoming, because the local "authentic" and "authentic" are homophonic, and "authentic" means "steaming poverty", which means bringing poor patients from into thin air. On this day, every household in rural areas drinks mugwort tea, inserts mugwort flowers and eats mugwort (begging for food)? . People go to the fields to pick wormwood, take it home, wash it, dry it, rub it into velvet, cook it in a pot, rub it dry, and rub it into wormwood (rice begging) with rice flour and brown sugar. Artemisia argyi has the functions of removing dust and deposits, eliminating disasters and ward off evil spirits; So Ai () is also called "poor, eat" poor? ",can make the body healthy, no disease and little pain, people like to eat it.

2. Cooking (begging) on 26th and 7th every year.

People in our city do this every year on December 26th or 27th of the lunar calendar? Eating habits. According to legend, Maoming used to be a barren land and no crops were born. Then came a group of people who escaped from the war. Seeing that the mountains here are continuous and there is no smoke, they will take root and open up wasteland and thrive. At first, people could only grow some miscellaneous grains such as potatoes to satisfy their hunger. In order to make full use of grain, people pound miscellaneous grains into powder with a mallet, add water, stir them into paste, and cook them to increase their volume several times, making them into cassava paste, corn paste and other foods. Later, people successfully planted rice on this land and got good harvests again and again. In order to celebrate the bumper harvest and change the taste, people pound rice into powder according to the previous method, and add simple fillings such as vegetables to make food with a certain shape and taste, which is called "begging for rice". At the beginning, people only used stem rice (commonly known as "glutinous rice") powder? Later, it was found that glutinous rice flour was more sticky, easier to shape and better in taste, so it was specially made with glutinous rice flour (rice begging), which gradually became a custom year after year.

There are many styles of glutinous rice (rice begging) in Maoming, including boiled soup (rice begging), vegetable bag (rice begging), longevity peach (rice begging), water (rice begging), sugar paste, sugar board (rice begging), hammer tart (rice begging), grey water zongzi, Ai (rice begging) and so on. Various (begging) practices are different, shapes are different, eating methods are different, and tastes are different. A few days before the Spring Festival every year, that is, on the 26th and 7th of the twelfth lunar month, people in our city began to beg for rice. On the one hand, it means to send the old and welcome the new, on the other hand, it can also prepare some. To "celebrate the New Year" (that is, to spend the old and new years at home) in order to pray for a bumper harvest and a better life in the coming year.

3. Post Spring Festival couplets to celebrate New Year's Eve.

The last day of December in the lunar calendar is New Year's Eve, which is called New Year's Eve or New Year's Eve in Maoming. On this day, the production activities in rural areas basically stopped, and every household began to paste Spring Festival couplets and door gods, and put Li on their doorknobs. Kitchen stoves, water tanks, pigsty, cowshed and grain barrel should also begin to stick a piece of Zhang Xiaohong paper to show good luck. There are also some sacrificial activities, such as preparing tables for chicken, pork and fish, burning paper and incense to worship ancestral temples, temples, countries, ancestors, kitchen gods and so on.

On the New Year's Eve, the family sat together for a reunion dinner. The reunion dinner is basically the most abundant meal of the year. People who go out usually go home for the New Year and have dinner with their families. When eating, if someone in the family goes out and doesn't come home, 1 seat and 1 pair of chopsticks should be reserved for those who go out to express their feelings, and a part of the reunion dinner should be reserved for the next day (that is, the next year). There are many dishes in the reunion dinner, but there must be fish, which means more than a year.

After the reunion dinner is done, every family should worship their ancestors first. After the sacrifice, the food for ancestor worship was reheated, and a big table was set in the hall, and the whole family gathered around. This is a wonderful time for every family to get together.

That night, elders will give their children lucky money and put some raw garlic, mushrooms, sugar cane and glutinous rice at home? , fried piles, fruits, steamed sugar cages, etc. This is called "release the year", which means that the coming year will be full of happiness and longevity, sweet and beautiful, safe and happy. In addition, every house in the family should be lit, and the whole family should sit together to support the elderly. Until the end of the year and the beginning of the year, every household set off fireworks and firecrackers to show farewell to the old and welcome the new.

4.23 years to send the chef to sweep the dust.

On December 23 of the lunar calendar, Maoming area is commonly known as "New Year's Eve", also known as "Kitchen Festival". Every household prepares tea, wine, vegetarian dishes, fruits and desserts, burns paper in the kitchen to offer sacrifices to the stove, sends it to the sky, and then cleans it up from the inside out.

Offering sacrifices to stoves is a custom that has great influence and spread widely among the people in our city. In the past, almost every kitchen had a kitchen god. People call this god "the Bodhisattva who commands life" or "the stove commands life". It is said that he is the "Nine-day East Chef Commanding the Kitchen Palace" sealed by the Jade Emperor, who is responsible for managing the kitchen fires of various families and is worshipped as the patron saint of the family. Kitchen shrines are mostly located in the north or east of the kitchen, with the idol of Kitchen God in the middle. Some people who don't have the niche of the Kitchen King even put the idol directly on the wall. Some gods only draw a kitchen god, while others have two men and women. The goddess is called "Grandma Chef". Most of the statues of Kitchen God are also printed with the calendar of this year, which reads the words "Oriental chef is in charge", "guardian of the world" and "head of the family" to show the status of Kitchen God. On both sides, there are couplets of "Heaven says yes, and the lower bound is safe". On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people prepare tea, wine, fruit, etc., burn paper to offer sacrifices to the kitchen, and send the kitchen ruler to the Western Heaven to show their respect for the kitchen ruler.

It is a traditional habit of our people to sweep the dust before the Spring Festival. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean up, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, remove bedding curtains, clean the courtyard, dust off cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels. In the streets and alleys, every household is filled with the atmosphere of being busy, happy to do sanitation and clean up for the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival in China, commonly known as "Chinese New Year" and "Lunar New Year", is the most prosperous festival for Han people in China. It is understood that in the Shang Dynasty, the first day of each year began in December of the lunar calendar, and the Qin Dynasty and Han Dynasty began in October of the lunar calendar. In the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, taichu calendar was adopted, and the first month of Meng Chun was defined as the beginning of the year. 19 1 1 year. After the Revolution of 1911, the Gregorian calendar was adopted, and the first day of the first lunar month was renamed the Spring Festival, which is still in use today.

In Maoming, western Guangdong, Chinese New Year generally refers to the period from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to the end of the month. The main local customs include offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust, making rice begging, pasting Spring Festival couplets, offering sacrifices to gods, having a reunion dinner, setting off fireworks, giving lucky money, keeping old age, paying dividends as money, making annual rules, singing big plays, eating Ai (rice begging) and so on.

5. Make the annual drama

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, commonly known as the Year in our city. But the date of Maoming varies from place to place every year, usually from the second day of the first month to the end of the month, and in some places it is February of the lunar calendar. The rest of the "Autumn Festival" is held every month, and the annual festival is usually the same day in a village, at least two days. There are several villages nearby, and the annual festivals are held on the same day. Most of the annual festivals are around the Lantern Festival.

The annual festival is the biggest festival for people in Maoming area. In rural areas, it is called "New Year's Day is greater than Spring Festival" and it is also the most distinctive festival in Maoming. During the Chinese New Year, every household is decorated with lanterns and colorful buildings, colorful galleries and galleries. The roadside is covered with colorful flags, firecrackers and gongs and drums come and go, and all kinds of folk art performances are presented to the public. Cantonese opera, movies, songs and dances, puppet shows, tea-picking shows, zaju and various entertainment activities have appeared one after another. Among them, Cantonese opera is the most popular. Cantonese opera, commonly known locally as "drama", is a must-perform program every year. Generally, the performance lasts for several days throughout the year, and the audience is endless. In addition, the lion dance class is also a necessary item for the annual festival.

The main purpose of this year's Fa Conference is to offer sacrifices to God, go around God, put the clock on, serve the country, and pray for good weather, prosperity of all industries, and peace of the country and the people. During the Spring Festival in a village, people from the surrounding villages come to watch the excitement, and every household holds a banquet to entertain relatives and friends, whether they know them or not.

6. During the Spring Festival, dividends are lion dances.

The first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival, which is the beginning of a new year, also called "New Year", and it is the most grand festival. Since ancient times, Maoming people have celebrated the Spring Festival, which generally lasts from the first day of the lunar new year to the fifth and sixth days of the lunar new year. In the early morning of the first day, firecrackers were set off everywhere to celebrate. When a child gets up in the morning, he will first pay a New Year call to his elders, who will send him "profit is money" to show good luck. People pay New Year greetings to each other, and when they meet, they say such auspicious words as "Congratulations on making a fortune" and "adding happiness and longevity", wishing all the best and smooth sailing in the new year. In some parts of our city, there are many taboos on this day, such as: being a vegetarian, not taking out the garbage, not arguing, not asking others for debts and money, filling the water tank with water, keeping the fire in the stove, married women not staying at home, not damaging household appliances, and so on.

During the Spring Festival, festivals, temple fairs, banquets, greeting the gods, celebrating the New Year, enjoying flowers and lighting lanterns are held in various places. Playing Taiping drum, lion dancing, lantern dancing, roller boating and dragon dancing are widely carried out in urban and rural areas, among which lion dancing is the most popular. In rural areas, lion dance classes go to every village and every family to dance lions, play kung fu and celebrate the New Year. In the town, the lion-awakening class goes through the streets to some shops or units, beating gongs and drums and dancing lions to celebrate the New Year, wishing the units prosperity and business prosperity.