What's the name of that thing that we Taizhou people 14 ate in the evening in Mandarin?

Eat bad soup on the fourteenth day of the first month

Yuanxiao, a traditional festival in China, originated in the Western Han Dynasty. Yuan means "start" and "first"; Night means "night". Therefore, the Lantern Festival (the fifteenth night of the first month) is the night of the first full moon in the New Year, and "the full moon begins with the full moon". If the Spring Festival is compared to a big drama, and New Year's Eve is the climax of this drama, then the Lantern Festival is the finale of this drama. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the Lantern Festival is very lively. There are falling stars and rain in a mirage, and the fire tree and silver flowers are around the clock, vividly showing the colorful and lively scene of the Lantern Festival. In a festive atmosphere, the curtain of the New Year Festival slowly falls, and a busy and hopeful year begins. However, in Taizhou, the Lantern Festival is one day earlier than other places. On the fourteenth day of the first month, every household eats bad soup that night. Why is the Lantern Festival in Taizhou so different from other parts of the country? There are many beautiful legends circulating among the people.

On the reform of dutiful son

Qin, a native of Linhai Chengguan in the Ming Dynasty, lost his mother and father at the age of five. He belonged to his uncle Qin Wensheng, and Qin Wen died a few days later. His aunt (stepmother), Mrs. Yang, raised him with great pains. In the twenty-third year of Jiajing (1554), Qin was only 27 years old and was a scholar, trying out countermeasures in the imperial court. When the cabinet minister came in the third place, Sejong of the Ming Dynasty prayed for rain in the suburban altar. Seeing its name, he was overjoyed. He was the first in his family and the top scholar. Qin used to be the history of Nanjing Ritual Department and the general school of Yongle Dadian. Qin is very respectful and filial to his aunt. Because my aunt believes in Buddhism, she should abstain from meat and vegetables on the first and fifteenth day of junior high school. In order to allow my aunt to spend the holidays with her family, she deliberately put forward the Lantern Festival one day and put off the Mid-Autumn Festival one day.

Similarly, the right assistant minister of Nanjing Ritual Department in the Ming Dynasty, Xie Duo (Taiping County) in imperial academy, Fang Guozhen (Huangyan County) separated from Taizhou, Wenzhou and Qingyuan (now Ningbo) in the late Yuan Dynasty, and Liu Ao, the magistrate of Taizhou in the Qing Dynasty, all changed their mother's filial piety to Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

Qi Jiguang's Anti-Japanese Theory

The trick said: When Qi Jiguang fought against the Japanese invaders in Taizhou, the secret leaked out, so General Qi played along and put forward the Lantern Festival one night in advance, killing the invading Japanese invaders in one fell swoop. Since then, the Lantern Festival has been changed to 14th.

Aimin said: According to legend, one year on the 14th day of the first month, Qi Jiguang led troops to Tao Zhu, which is near the sea. General Zhang Lidao, the grain delivery officer, reported before coming to the account that a large amount of rations could not be delivered until the next morning. When there was not enough food in the warehouse that night, he asked if he could borrow food from the city people. Qi Jiguang said that the people in Taozhu City have been plundered by the Japanese army many times. In order to support the Qigujun, they have been scrimping and saving. How to increase their burden? Let Zhang Lidao go back and find a way. Zhang Lidao thought about it and came up with a way to eat two meals at a time. He led the soldiers to grind the remaining grain into powder, add water to boil it into paste, and add various vegetables, meat, bean products and condiments to make delicious soup. All the soldiers drank this bad soup that night and the next morning. After the news came out, the people of Tao Zhu were very moved. To commemorate this event, Yuanxiao was changed to the 14th day of the first month, and rotten soup became the traditional food of Yuanxiao.

One year, on the 14th day of the first month, Qi Jiguang led the Qi army to defeat an invading enemy at the seaside. The enemy had no boat to go to sea and had to flee to the mainland. When they fled to Huangyan, it was getting late. They run around like SangGuQuan, some hiding in orange groves, some hiding in private houses. Qi Jiguang led the army to arrive, and the people lit candles to help the Qigujun search for the remnants of the enemy. At that time, inside and outside the city, every house and orange grove was brightly lit everywhere. The enemy had nowhere to hide, and they were all wiped out. In order to commemorate this event, people changed the Lantern Festival to the fourteenth night of the first month, and lit candles in front of and behind the house and inside and outside the orange grove, which later became a custom.

The Theory of Building Cities in Early Tang Dynasty

Construction: According to legend, Weichi Gong, a general in the early Tang Dynasty, recruited a large number of migrant workers to build Taizhou City. At the end of recent years, the weather is freezing and materials are scarce. Even the oyster mortar used for wall construction was seriously in short supply soon after construction started. Seeing that the progress of the project slowed down, an old farmer put forward a plan to mix rice flour and yellow mud to make slurry, and the viscosity effect was very good. It's really an attempt. Building a city is a heavy physical activity. A migrant worker ate the rice noodle paste made in the city because of hunger and cold, and dealt with it according to law. Weichi Gong (or Wei Chiliao, secretariat) is very kind to the people, so he mixed some rice flour paste with yellow mud to build a city, and some mixed with vegetables and bamboo shoots to make soup for migrant workers as snacks. The enthusiasm of migrant workers has been stimulated, and the speed of building cities has been greatly improved. So it happened on the fourteenth day of the first month, so the Lantern Festival in Taizhou was changed to fourteen, and it was rotten soup.

Similarly, there is another saying: the school day is the fourteenth day of the first month. It's freezing, snowing and dripping into ice, so that migrant workers' hands are numb and they can't even hold their tools. Despite the urging of municipal officials, the work efficiency is still very low. At this time, a migrant worker thought, it's really cold. Only drinking can keep out the cold. But migrant workers are poor, how can they afford alcohol? So he suggested to Zhucheng officials: "More wine in the old distiller's grains. Go to the winery to get some distiller's grains, add some vegetables and rice noodles, cook a few pots of soup for everyone to drink, warm up and work hard. " Hearing this, the Zhucheng official felt that it made sense, and immediately sent several people to get a few loads of distiller's grains and burned a lot of "rotten soup" for migrant workers to drink. After drinking bad soup, the migrant workers all had a fever, and they were full of energy, and the progress of building the city was very fast. After the city was founded, people kept the custom of eating bad soup on the fourteenth day of the first month to commemorate it. ]

Yan Jun said: Taizhou (near the sea) was often burned and looted by pirates in the early Tang Dynasty. At that time, Wei Chiliao (also known as General Weichi Gong) launched soldiers to build a city to guard against theft. When the construction started, it coincided with the folk Lantern Festival, and pirates scrambled to land in Taizhou Bay. When Wei Chi learned of the secretariat, he sent troops to suppress thieves and stepped up the construction of the city. There was a snowstorm that night, and the progress of building the city was very slow. The people got together to discuss what to cook in the evening and what to send to the soldiers who built the city. Some people say that sending food and wine can keep out the cold. However, it is stipulated in the History of Wei Chi that soldiers are not allowed to drink alcohol. Another man came up with a good idea: use new wine with bad taste as water, mix good food with powder and stir it into bad soup, which is delicious and keeps out the cold. Sure enough, the soldiers drank the bad soup, felt feverish all over, worked harder despite the cold, and the progress of building the city was greatly accelerated. Since then, the custom of eating bad soup on the Lantern Festival has been passed down in Taizhou. Similarly, there is a legend that does not involve pirates, but only "freezing the army in cold weather, which has become a story." )

Completion: Weichi Gong, the founding father of the early Tang Dynasty, organized a large number of migrant workers to build Taizhou City, which was completed on the 14th day of the first month. Migrant workers go home and their families reunite, but more than ten days have passed since the Spring Festival, and the delicious food is almost the same. Every family tries their best to save the rest of the new year's goods for cooking together. This is the so-called rotten soup, which has since become a custom.

Fang Guozhen's theory of defection.

At the end of Yuan Dynasty, Fang Guozhen, a native of Huangyan, took over Taizhou, Qingyuan (now Ningbo) and Wenzhou. Fang Guozhen changed "Lantern Festival on the 14th day of the first month, Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16th" to prevent officers and men of the Yuan Dynasty and Zhu Yuanzhang's army from taking advantage of the festival to sneak attack. There is also a legend that his wife Dong Shi's birthday is on the 14th day of the first month, so Fang moved the Lantern Festival forward one night.

As far as the legend of the Lantern Festival custom in Taizhou is concerned, there are more than ten kinds, which are true or false. In my humble opinion, I think we should start with geographical distribution for textual research. So, the author made a survey: except for the descendants of Minnan fishermen in Wenling and Yuhuan counties and cities, all counties and cities in Taizhou regard the fourteenth day of the first month as Yuanxiao; Ninghai and Xiangshan counties in Ningbo also take the 14th day of the first month as the Lantern Festival. Since the establishment of Ninghai County in the first year of Jin Taikang (280), it has always belonged to Taizhou (Linhai County) and was not placed in Ningbo until 1958. Xiangshan County, however, was divided into Ninghai County and Jixian County in Yuezhou at that time in the first year of Shenlong in the Tang Dynasty (705). It was founded in Taizhou, and was changed to Mingzhou in the second year of Guangde (764) [in the 26th year of Kaiyuan (738)]. Therefore, the location of Lantern Festival on the 14th day of the first month is limited to Taizhou in the early Tang Dynasty, specifically, limited to the second year of Tang Guangde (768). After defining the custom area, we will study various legends.

On the theory of dutiful son changing religion. After winning the top prize in Qin, he began to serve as a middle-and lower-level civil servant such as Hanlin Xiuzhuan. Such a position does not seem to be enough to change the customs of national regions. At the age of 54, Qin served as the senior minister of Nanjing Ritual Department with great power, but his aunt has been dead for more than 20 years. Besides the Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, traditional festivals include the Spring Festival on July 15th and the first day of the first month. If it's for aunt's vegetarian diet, why only change the first two, not the last two? And August 16 is the Mid-Autumn Festival area, which is much larger than the Lantern Festival area on the 14th day of the first month. Why is it different? Textual research from the geographical spread and influence shows that Xie Duo, Fang Guozhen, Liu Ao and other dutiful sons have insufficient evidence.

On Festivals Changed by Qi Jiguang's Anti-Japanese War. During Jiajing period, the most active and rampant seasons of Japanese pirates were mainly from March to May in the lunar calendar after Tomb-Sweeping Day and from September to October in the lunar calendar after the Double Ninth Festival. I checked the history, Taizhou local chronicles and Qi Jiguang's related books, but I couldn't find any records of Qi Jiajun's fighting against Japan in Taizhou around the Lantern Festival. Therefore, the author thinks that the evidence of changing festivals to commemorate the Anti-Japanese War is also insufficient.

On Fang Guozhen's theory of defection. In September of 14th year of Yuan Dynasty (1354), our army captured Taizhou. 15 years, Qingyuan and Wenzhou were broken, and Qingyuan was celebrated in Kaifu, which was divided into Zhedong Third Road. There is a big difference between Sanlu area and the spread area of Lantern Festival custom, which can also be ruled out.

In this way, the formation of the Lantern Festival custom left the saying of building a city. Taizhou was originally a coastal county. In the ninth year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (589), it merged with Yongjia County to form a county (later changed to Weizhou). In the fourth year of Tang Wude (62 1), Jiangnan area entered the territory of Tang Dynasty, and then the counties were renamed. The original coastal county broke away from the closed state and was set as Taizhou, and the city was built immediately. Taizhou City was founded at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and was built by the new scene of the county commander to resist the rebels in Sun En and rely on Gulong Mountain. Small scope, large-scale expansion in the early Tang Dynasty. The time of building the city is consistent with the spread of folklore and the custom of taking the fourteenth day of the first month as the Lantern Festival. From the concept of time and space, there is no doubt that the story happened in the early Tang Dynasty, so the author agrees with the theory of building a city. There are several legends about building cities. Among them, anti-piracy theory lacks evidence, and local chronicles have no war records of this period. The fourteenth day of the first month began to say that the time was later than the historical materials; Completeness theory only involves a few families, and its influence seems to be even smaller. Therefore, the author thinks that it is more reasonable for the story to happen during the project, and the story of soldiers or migrant workers stealing rice noodle paste is more credible. However, when later generations built the city, they found the remains of rice flour mixed with soil, so the author tends to the latter legend. As for whether Weichi Gong, the legendary city builder in history, has ever been to Taizhou, only the first article in Eight Poems on Hanging Bones in Taizhou is called "Old City of Weichi", which seems to be a proof that Weichi Gong has established Taizhou as its capital, but there is no strong evidence from the old and new Tang books and other documents; Whether there was Wei Chi who dazzled him in the early Tang Dynasty also lacked relevant historical materials. From the legendary point of view, the author is humble. In order to pursue the celebrity effect, it is not bad to press Weichi Gong.

To sum up, according to the relevant historical materials and legends, the legends of Taizhou Lantern Festival can be sorted out as follows: In November of the fourth year of Tang Wude (62 1), Jiangnan entered the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and the area around Linhai County in the Six Dynasties was designated as Taizhou, and the founding general Weichi Gong built Taizhou City in Taizhou. Due to the complex terrain of Taizhou Branch, which is surrounded by mountains on one side and water on three sides, landslides often occur in the early stage of construction. One night, Weichi Gong fell asleep in distress. In his dream, he saw a deer repeatedly jump on his bed and push his body with its hoof. When he was angry, he woke up to find the dawn coming. There was a heavy snow at night, and there was a striking deer hoofprint on the snow. As the deer followed, it found that it had just circled a big circle. Weichi Gong was pleasantly surprised. He ordered people to build a city in the footsteps of deer, and the project was very smooth, so Taizhou Fucheng was also called Lucheng. To commemorate the deer's teaching, Weichi Gong ordered his men to paint the deer's hoofprint with flour and then bake it. Due to the exposure of the sun, the snow melted a little, and the protruding hoof model was not like a deer's hoof, but like a sheep's hoof, so a flavor snack called "sheep's hoof" was handed down from Fucheng. With the acceleration of the project progress, the oyster ash needed for the project could not be supplied, and Weichi Gong felt very distressed. An old man suggested adding yellow mud to rice flour and stirring it into slurry, which would have a good effect. This is a good attempt. Because it is cold winter, building a city is heavy physical labor. On the 14th day of the first month, a migrant worker was hungry and cold, and stole rice noodle paste for building a city. Someone found out and reported to Weichi Gong that Weichi Gong was very kind to the people and had a brainwave. He arranged to grind more rice noodles, some of which were used as nutritional strengthening materials, and some of them were mixed with distiller's grains, bamboo shoots, meat and vegetables to make soup for migrant workers as snacks. Now the enthusiasm of migrant workers has been greatly stimulated, and the speed of building cities has been accelerated. To commemorate this event, Taizhou people changed the Lantern Festival to the 14th day of the first month one day earlier, and it became a custom for every household to cook rotten soup.

Now there is a saying in Taizhou that "the 14th day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, and every family has a difficult experience". Every family eats bad soup on the night of Lantern Festival. The so-called "rotten soup" is to fry shredded pork, shredded winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus, fresh clams, dried bean curd, oil bubble, tofu, Sichuan bean board, spinach (or mustard) in a pot, then mix the water with rice flour, boil it, and make it into a paste, which is very delicious. After eating rotten soup, everyone said they had eaten rich soup when they met, and they also went to each other's house to eat rich soup. Then, people took to the streets, watched lanterns, set off fireworks, watched lion dances and solve riddles on the lanterns … and joined the Lantern Festival. When I go home late at night, I will warm a bowl of hot soup and drink a few bowls before I fall asleep contentedly.

The above is taken from People's Daily Online by Lu Ruping.

But in Taizhou, different places have different names. Tiantai is called paste wax boiling, Xianju is called soup, Sanmen is called rotten soup, and some people are called mountain powder paste, and so on.