How did you spend the Spring Festival in Linhai?

The Spring Festival is the oldest, most festive, warmest and most desirable traditional festival in China, which generally lasts from the Lunar New Year to the eighth day. Traditionally, the first to the third day of junior high school are regarded as positive years, and festival activities begin on New Year's Eve or even the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. During the Spring Festival, tourists from afar return to their hometown and parents, and the father who goes out to work brings back a year's hard-earned money to reunite with his wife and children.

Lunar calendar1the evening of February 30th (February 29th of the lunar calendar) is a day of reunion. Anyone who goes out to work, do business, etc. There are no special circumstances, try to go home before this day. The last one will arrive before New Year's Eve, and the family will be reunited and sit on the "Shounian". At the same time, we also pay attention to the pairing of basket, rice screen, chaff screen and reed for good luck. The family get together and sit together to "keep watch". It is customary for elders to give lucky money to their children and grandchildren for good luck.

Over time, every household in Daimon Masaru opened, and countless firecrackers and fireworks exploded at the same time, commonly known as "firing". In the past, the "open-door cannon" was used to drive away the evil spirits of mandrills. In modern times, it only means "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new" and "auspicious omen". "Setting off firecrackers, catching up with the world and making morning tea" are the three things at the beginning of the new year. When connecting heaven and earth, put three plates of tea, fruit and rice on the Eight Immortals table, set the incense burner, light incense and light candles. Even heaven and earth, also known as even New Year, means to wish the old year and the new year and good luck.

For breakfast on New Year's Day, in the past, Chengguan ate glutinous rice and red date porridge, Dongxiang ate "longevity noodles" in coastal fishing villages, and some villagers in Northwest Village ate tofu porridge. In Du Qiao, Shangpan and other places, men make breakfast on the first day and are used to eating "vegetable head rice". On the fourth day, people prepare sacrifices, burn paper horses and paste a new "chef" called "Kitchen God".

According to the traditional custom, they put on new clothes and shoes on the first day, went out to visit friends, exchanged auspicious words, and some even went to the temple to worship Buddha together, so as to wish peace for one year and make a fortune in all seasons. Eat well on the first day of the year, that is to say, eat well on the first day of the year and eat well later. Generally, they eat pork, steamed bread and rice cakes, and some even make "glutinous rice balls" to express reunion.

On the first day of junior high school, there were many taboos in the past: no sweeping the floor, no pouring water on the ground, no knife, no needlework, no work, no business, no swearing, no debt collection, no fighting, and we should live in harmony even on this usual day of hatred.

The eighth day of the first month, commonly known as "Shangba", used to be the day when Zhangjiadu opened its market. On the eighth day, every household cooks rice for breakfast, which is called "Shangba rice". After the eighth day, folk New Year greetings will come to an end.

Lantern Festival is the Lantern Festival. The main activity is to decorate and watch lanterns. Hanging lights is usually on the fourteenth night. People in Linhai Yuanxiao don't eat jiaozi, but eat soup. There is also the custom of eating soup at midnight. The so-called soup is to stir-fry shredded pork, shredded winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus, fresh clams, dried tofu, oil bubbles, Sichuan bean boards, spinach and the like in a pot, then mix the water into rice flour and boil it into a paste. Because of the variety of raw materials, it tastes delicious. I also eat sweet soup in the evening, which is made of mountain flour with lotus seeds, candied dates and longan meat. According to legend, when Weichi Gong built the wall of Taizhou in the Tang Dynasty, the weather was extremely cold, often dripping into ice. However, the soldiers who built the city are still wearing thin clothes and are difficult to support. At this time, in order to comfort the soldiers who built the city, the people took out the rice, distiller's grains and other foods that they could not bear to eat at home at ordinary times, then mixed them together, added vegetables and other things, and then took them out and sent them to the construction site when they were cooked into a paste. This kind of food not only tastes good, but also can supplement calories to keep out the cold. People call this kind of food bad soup. On this day, it is Yuanxiao. Later, with the change of time, the soup was also mixed with a little shredded pork and the like. Because of the rich raw materials, this soup is often a big pot when stirred, enough for the whole family to eat several meals. According to the Records of Linhai County, Qin, the champion of Linhai in Ming Dynasty, changed the Lantern Festival to 14 in order to let his mother and family enjoy the delicious food. From generation to generation, it is recognized that "the fourteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, and every family has a bad clam tune". At present, only Ningbo, Wenzhou and Taizhou have this habit.