Composition of folk customs in Yangquan

Shui people: celebrate the New Year on the first ugly day of April (December of the lunar calendar) in the water calendar, which is called Su Nianxi in water language. On this day, men, women and children dressed up, sang and laughed, boiled red eggs and steamed red glutinous rice for their children, wishing them healthy growth, and people were immersed in a festive atmosphere.

The Shui people take rice as the staple food and like waxy food. In addition, they also grow some miscellaneous grains such as wheat, corn, millet, barnyard grass, sweet potato and rice beans as supplementary food.

Shui farmers are not good at growing vegetables, so the variety of vegetables is rather monotonous, and green vegetables, broad-leaved vegetables and leeks are the most common vegetables. Aquarium pays more attention to aquaculture and fishery, so all kinds of livestock, poultry and aquatic products provide necessary meat food for aquarium life.

Sour soup of Shui nationality is very distinctive, including spicy acid (made of pepper), hairy acid (made of tomato), fish acid (made of fish and shrimp), stinky acid (made of pig and ox bones) and so on. Among them, spicy acid is the most commonly used. Spicy acid is made from fresh red pepper. The preparation method is as follows: clean fresh red pepper, add water and grind it into slurry with a mill, add a lot of sweet wine (or glutinous rice porridge), put it in a pickle jar, seal it, and ferment it to get delicious sour soup. When eating, all kinds of vegetables, such as cabbage, green vegetables, tender bamboo shoots, large-leaf leeks and wide vegetables, are cooked, and appropriate acid is put in and boiled. Paste Chili noodles, salt and scoop a little vegetable soup to make it dip in water. When eating vegetables, you should eat it with water, which is delicious and very appetizing. There is very little cooking, and we eat "hot pot" all year round. A large pot of sour soup dipped in water is almost a daily dish. Even if there are occasional tofu, meat or fish, it is customary to add them to dishes and cook them in a pot dipped in water.

Shui people love to drink, and every family will bake rice wine. On New Year's Day, celebrations or visits by relatives and friends, it is inseparable from entertaining guests with wine. Aquarium hospitality has a long tradition, and taking turns is the cultural expression of hospitality.

Dress

Shui men wear blue shirts with large lapels and small hats with melon skins, while the elderly wear long gowns, head wrapped with lining cloth and feet wrapped with leggings. Women wear blue-green, black-blue, round neck, lapel, wide sleeve jacket, trousers, knotted waist and embroidered blue cloth shoes.

since the 194s, men's wear of Shui nationality has not been much different from the surrounding Han costumes, but women's clothing still retains distinctive national characteristics. Shui Jia Bu (Jiuqian Qing Bu) woven by Shui women is fine and uniform in yarn quality, and the dyed blue, blue and green are deep and washable, which was famous as early as a hundred years ago. The original printing and dyeing technology of soybean milk painting by Shui people has a history of more than 7 years, and its printing and dyeing products are deeply loved by the masses.

Women's clothes of the Shui nationality are mostly sewn with Shuijia cloth, and there is no collar, big skirt, semi-gown or gown. Long gowns are knee-high and generally do not have embroidered edges. Festivals and wedding costumes are completely different from usual. The shoulders and cuffs on the wedding dress, embroidered ribbons on the knees of trousers, and colorful patterns on the turban. Wear a silver crown on the head and a silver collar on the neck. Wear a silver bracelet on the wrist, a silver elegant collar on the chest, silver earrings on the earlobe and embroidered shoes on the feet. Brides are often beautifully dressed and elegant. In addition, women's embroidered suspenders are more artistic. It is said to be a "belt", but it is actually a gorgeous embroidered "T"-shaped "curtain" with belts on both sides of the upper end. The size of the "curtain" can wrap children. It is made by winding a white ponytail with white silk thread, adding silk threads of other colors, embroidering various patterns respectively, and finally splicing the embroidered patterns onto the strap fabric. Straps are beautiful and practical, and they are the best gifts for mothers to give their married daughters.

Before marriage, Shui women like to make casual gowns out of light blue, green or gray cloth, and the tops are mostly made of satin. The sleeves of the clothes are all shrunk than in the past, which makes them look neat and curvy. Embroidered apron on the chest and long towel wrapped in green and white cloth on the head are elegant and quiet. Married women's cuffs, shoulders and trouser cuffs are decorated with a blue lace. Long hair is combed into a plate on the top of the head and fixed by inserting a comb from the right side. Some women wear white scarves horizontally outside their headscarves, and some directly use plaid square headscarves to wrap their heads, which is traditional and fashionable.

Wedding etiquette

The wedding custom of the Shui nationality has a strong traditional color, and it pays attention to the marriage by the media. Before marriage, young men and women can make friends and fall in love by taking advantage of festivals and singing activities at fairs. Even if you are free to fall in love, you must be married by the media, otherwise it is not polite and will be discriminated against. After young men and women fall in love, they should ask someone to tell their parents. If the parents express their willingness, the man will invite the matchmaker to the woman's house to give gifts and betrothal, and choose an auspicious day to send someone to carry the piglets to the woman's house to "eat a little wine." When the official wedding ceremony is held, the big pig is carried to the woman's house to "eat big wine". A toast song should be sung at the banquet. Every time the hostess sings a song, the guests have to drink a glass of wine to show their hospitality by getting drunk. Family members of both men and women do not participate in the wedding reception and farewell. Except in a few places, the bride's brother carries the bride to her husband's house, most of them are dressed brides walking in front with a red umbrella deliberately torn open, followed by the best man, bridesmaids and long queues carrying dowry. Generally, I leave my mother's house at noon and enter my husband's house at six or seven o'clock in the evening. I can't enter the door until the auspicious time. The relatives of the groom's family go out to avoid before the bride enters the house, and the bride can't go home until she enters the house. On the wedding night, the bridesmaid stays with the bride, and the bride goes back to her family the next day. After the wedding, the groom will invite the bride back and start the life of husband and wife. Some brides spend as long as a month or two on their first visit, which is called "sitting at home". In fact, it is a remnant of the marriage custom of "staying at home". On the way to the bride's wedding, thunder is the most taboo, so the wedding is held in autumn and winter.

The first thing that a Shui girl should accomplish after getting married is to carry water.