The Origin of Fuzhou Half Egg Festival

Hey, man, it's not half an egg, it's half a piece.

You are talking about "half-time" and "half-time"-grand rural celebrations-half-time has long been set up in the rural areas of suburban counties in Fuzhou. Most of the village's celebrations are held in the slack season after the summer harvest or the autumn harvest, all of which are held after July of the lunar calendar. For example, the seventh day of July in Guling, the fourth day of August in Xu Yi, the eighth day of August in Chengmen and the fifteenth day of September in Huai 'an are all rural celebration days. In some big villages, the village celebration day is divided into two days. For example, in houpu village, Wu Liting, the eastern suburb of Fuzhou, the first half of the village is scheduled for August 2 1 day, and the second half is scheduled for1October 16. Village Celebration Day is just half past the Lunar New Year, and this year has passed the "half stage", so the village celebration activity is called "doing half stage". At this time, the weather is sunny and the climate is pleasant. There are many leisure days in the country, which is just suitable for socializing. Neighboring villages do it for half a day at different times, once a year in each village, so that the villages can invite each other, the celebrations in the villages will continue, and the festive atmosphere will be lively and lasting. The villagers attach great importance to holding half a festival. In order to make the celebration in the village grand and decent, they prepared the banquet in the first half of the year, fattened chickens, ducks and pigs and brewed rice wine. When we meet on the road, we always remind each other or tell each other: "Come and do half a paragraph!" "The children in the village are more eager to do half a paragraph. I remember in the 1950s, in my childhood hometown of houpu village, the grand occasion of the first half of October 16th of the lunar calendar. It's late autumn, and the golden breeze is refreshing. The late rice in front of and behind the village has already been harvested, dried and put into storage. In the newly dried field, the children dug up the soil under the rice stubble and caught the fat loach hiding in the mud pit and preparing to hibernate. This loach naturally became a delicious food at half the banquet. In the evening, uncles, aunts and cousins from neighboring villages, as well as old uncles and cousins from Kuaizhou Village, came one after another. Colleagues from my father's shoe factory also arrived, and some guests also brought friends "privately". My classmate came as early as noon and tasted my mother's shrimp and mussel pot paste. At night, the steam lights at the end of the village came on, and the feast of village celebration began. At this time, whoever has more guests will be regarded as hospitable, sociable and "good at being a person" and will be respected. There were two tables of wine in my house, and my grandmother gave the guests the green red wine she brewed with "afternoon water" on May 5. The guests praised the wine as "very domineering, very domineering (great)!" "Don't laugh at farmers' muddy wine, good years to raise enough chickens and dolphins. "The whole village is immersed in a joyful atmosphere, and the sound of boxing and drinking is one after another. Friends and relatives get together to talk about family and friendship, so that the body and mind that have been exhausted for half a year can be relaxed. At the banquet, we will talk about business or Sang Ma, celebrate the bumper harvest of crops and the prosperity of six livestock, plan the spring ploughing in the coming year, and look forward to the good weather and peace and prosperity in the coming year. After a few rounds of wine, the moon is in the sky, and the guests are full of food and drink. On the way to the entrance to the village, people are buzzing and cherish each other. Walking in the moonlight, "every family is intoxicated. "Guests from afar stay overnight, not to mention. As a carrier and form of social activities, the "half-term" village celebration has strengthened the ties between villages and enhanced the friendship between relatives and friends. No gifts, no red envelopes, no feudal superstitious activities; You come to eat mine today, and I will eat yours tomorrow. We have equal opportunities, and each person only does it once a year. It is full of family ties between people, with the simple customs of Shan Ye and strong farmland flavor. This rural custom has been passed down to this day, which shows that it has certain adaptability and vitality. However, it is necessary to prevent the occurrence of extravagance and even gambling during the intermission, and to keep the rural style of this village original and simple, which is conducive to the normal exchanges between villages.