●Do Sui means celebrating the new year. Because one year is one year old, Puxian people pay special attention to the word "do". When the twelfth lunar month arrives, people start to make preparations and prepare the "Sui" carefully, hoping for a good start in the new year. After a long period of time, Puxian people have subtly injected their own way of life and history and culture into the New Year customs.
●Sweeping and patrolling. After the second day of the twelfth lunar month, housewives usually choose two sunny days to "sweep and patrol". In Xinghua dialect, "chuan" and "xun" have the same pronunciation. Putian people used boats as their home in the early years, so the year-end cleaning is called "sweeping boats". On this day, brooms and other tools are brand new and pasted with red paper to show good luck; a ten-foot-long bamboo pole is also prepared, tied with reeds and straw, to clean high places; steamers and other kitchen utensils are also taken out and cleaned, so as to celebrate the New Year fresh and refreshing.
●The red dough of sweet potato is first made of glutinous rice flour and food red to make a skin. After stuffing, it is pressed into a shape with an upper arch and a flat lower part using a wooden mold engraved with twin children or harvest celebration patterns. Place banana leaves on top and steam until cooked. Red balls are an essential sacrifice in various sacrificial activities. The method of making "sweet potatoes" is similar to that of steamed buns: peel and mash cooked sweet potatoes, stir them with brown sugar and flour to ferment, and then steam them over high heat. The older generation likes to make things by themselves to seek good luck.
●Baitou couplets are a small piece of white paper pasted on the top of red paper Spring couplets. This custom originated from the Japanese invasion that occurred during the Spring Festival 300 years ago, and many families lost their loved ones. In order to mourn the deceased, people would leave a piece of white paper on top of the red couplets to express their condolences. Since then, the Putian people’s unique custom of posting “white-headed couplets” has been formed.
●Thirty-nine is the common name for New Year's Eve in Putian. At noon on this day, every family traditionally eats mixed rice noodles. The New Year's Eve dinner should be both sumptuous and auspicious. Before serving, eight or twelve plates of side dishes should be placed, including complete crabs (symbolizing perfection), fried oysters (the dialect homophonic for "Zenghuo"), fried crucian carp ( The dialect has the same pronunciation as "Ji Bao"), and there are also auspicious dish names such as beet balls and oranges. Main meals usually include traditional dishes such as shrimp (the dialect has the same pronunciation as "harmony"), braised noodles, lychee meat, gold cakes, peanut soup, etc. The whole family gathers around the fire to welcome the new year.
●Favorites At 29:01 of the twelfth lunar month, firecrackers sounded everywhere in Xinghua. Legend has it that on this day the Lord of the Land will report to heaven, which means that the old year is about to pass. People would set up an offering table in front of their homes or on their balconies, burn tributes of silver to thank heaven and earth, bid farewell to the old year, and hope that the gods would say good things in front of the Jade Emperor.
●In Puxian dialect, noodles and "ming" are homophones. The locally produced noodles are slender and flexible. The cooking method is to first place the fried kale on the bottom of the bowl and pour boiling water over it. The cooked noodles are then poured with braised soup, and then added with condiments: scrambled eggs, fried peanuts, peas, seaweed and various braised dishes, etc., which are full of color, aroma and taste. Eating noodles early on the first day of the new year means that you are one year older.
●Five-day Sui The "Spring Festival" of Putian people lasts from the first day to the fifth day of the lunar month, commonly known as "Five-day Sui". After eating noodles on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, men, women and children of all ages must put on new clothes, go out for "spring outing" entertainment, and visit relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings. If you don't enter the other party's door in the first grade of junior high school, you won't be able to come in the second grade of junior high school. According to records, before the Spring Festival one year during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese pirates captured Xinghua City and more than 30,000 people were killed. By the time Qi Jiguang led his army to recover, it was already the first day of the Lunar New Year. When people who had taken refuge in the mountains returned home one after another, they saw blood splattered on their doors and corpses lying in the streets. How could they want to celebrate the New Year? The second day of the Lunar New Year is a taboo day for Puxian people, thus forming the custom of not visiting the house on the second day of the Lunar New Year. On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the family gathers together to celebrate the "thirtieth anniversary" and redo the "big year" to celebrate the New Year again. It is not until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year that "making New Year's Eve" ends. Xu Xueshiwen
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Putian and Xianyou counties under the jurisdiction of Putian City were both part of the military, road and government of Xinghua in the four dynasties of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, so they were accustomed to It is only called Xinghua. According to Xinghua people's custom, starting from the early morning of the first lunar month of the Lunar New Year, relatives and friends visit each other's homes, which is called "New Year greetings" and say auspicious words. This custom is the same throughout China. But in Xinghua, the custom of "doing the New Year's Eve" and posting "white-fronted Spring Festival couplets" is still followed.
Be a New Year
In November of the 41st year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese pirates invaded Xinghua, killing and looting. They retreated by the end of the first year of the following year. Corpses were everywhere in the city, and it was too horrible to see.
On the second day of the second lunar month, people who had gone to seek refuge came back one after another, feeling a mixture of sadness and joy. They were happy for the survivors and sad for the dead. At this time, relatives and friends rush to visit each other, then wipe away their tears, celebrate the Spring Festival again, make up for the New Year, and celebrate the liberation.
Since no one had celebrated New Year’s Eve, they decided to make up for it on the fourth night of the Lunar New Year. Later, in order to commemorate that tragic history, people agreed to use New Year's Eve as Little New Year's Eve, and the fourth day of the first lunar month as "New Year's Eve", also known as "Doing Big New Year" (Xianyou "does Big New Year" on the fifth day of the lunar month). The second day of the first lunar month is designated as the "Visiting the Dead Day". On this day, each other does not visit each other's homes to express condolences for the deceased relatives.
Later, because it was felt that it would be inconvenient not to visit each other during the Spring Festival, we adapted it so that if we had already visited relatives and friends’ houses to celebrate the New Year on the first day of the Lunar New Year, there would be no need to taboo on the second day of the Lunar New Year.
White-fronted Spring Couplets
Spring couplets all over the country are full of red, but Xinghua Spring Festival Couplets only have a two-inch-long white couplet, alternating with red and white, which is particularly eye-catching.
It is said that after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, they implemented a high-pressure policy and killed innocent people indiscriminately. Many families posted white couplets for funerals. It was the Spring Festival, and the Qing government forced every household to post red couplets to symbolize "the peace of the country and the people." When posting red couplets, some people intentionally left a small section of the white couplets on the door exposed to show their grief. Each family followed suit, and this became the custom of "white-fronted Spring couplets", which has been passed down to this day.
Lantern Festival
During the Spring Festival, the most anticipated one is the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival is another major festival immediately following the Chinese Spring Festival, and its date is on the first day of the first lunar month. On the 15th. But the people of Putian started the Lantern Festival activities which lasted for more than 20 days from the sixth day of the first lunar month. There are two main programs in the Lantern Festival: one is eating Lantern Festival, and the other is watching lanterns. Putian people turn these two contents into a large-scale carnival.
Putian people’s lanterns still retain the shape of this ancient palace lantern. In Putian, the Lantern Festival lights are completely different from those in the mainland. People do not watch the lanterns in a fixed place, but they parade around with their lanterns. It is speculated that it may be because this place was sparsely populated in ancient times. After immigrants from the Central Plains came here, they found that if they placed the lanterns in a fixed place, fewer people would come to watch, so they came up with a way to parade with lanterns. The cruise route is often very far, sometimes including several mountains or villages. Maybe this was a way for ancient Central Plains immigrants to show friendship to the local aborigines.
Eating Yuanxiao for Putian people is a grand communication ceremony among several villages.
After the route is prepared, the Lantern Festival parade begins. Usually people from several villages gather at the public temple in the community. From here, the parade to each village begins. . Some of the people in the team are farmers, some are company employees, and some are workers. Today, they all put down their work and gathered together to participate in this grand festival celebration. The scope of the parade is usually a circuit along the boundaries of several villages. The walking route is not always smooth. Sometimes deliberately detouring from the main road contains the meaning of overcoming difficulties. No matter how difficult the route designated by the Bodhisattva is, it must be followed. In the middle of the Lantern Festival parade ceremony, many Lantern Festivals are prepared in large pots in the villages passing by for everyone to eat during their break. The parade team happily ate Lantern Festival together, looking like a harmonious big family.
Jumping on the Brown Bridge
Jumping on the brown sedan chair is a mysterious Lantern Festival custom and ritual unique to Putian. It is usually held at the same time as the Lantern Festival, Puxian Opera and other festive programs. In the villages of Putian, the ceremony of jumping on the brown sedan chair is very grand, and it is a national activity that almost every household must participate in. Carefully selected young men were barefoot, carrying 7 to 9 brown sedan chairs, and danced around the fire. These bare feet would have to step over the fire later. In order to be able to safely step over the fire, they had to prepare physically and mentally by walking around the fire. The climax of the brown sedan chair ceremony is to jump through the fire with one's feet, which expresses the heroic and brave spirit of the Putian people.
When the more than 20 days of lively Lantern Festival activities are coming to an end, a large public temple in the community will take the lead and hold the final climax of the cultural parade.
It is a cultural parade that brings together various unique folk musical instruments in Putian. It is a large-scale cultural and artistic event. The primary school students standing on the float acted out the images of some dramatic characters and historical heroes, which was quite fairy-like. They also played some contemporary heroic model figures, such as the aerospace hero Yang Liwei and the Chinese women's volleyball team who won the world championship and brought glory to the country. They showed people's positive attitude and love for the country and life.
According to legend, at the end of the Lindun Campaign in which the anti-Japanese hero Qi Jiguang severely damaged the Japanese pirates, a general named Cao Dajin was ordered to intercept the fleeing enemies in a place called "Yingxian Village" in Putian. At the critical moment when he was seriously injured, he beat the sacrificial drum in the temple and encouraged the soldiers to fight the enemy bravely. After hearing the drums, the nearby villagers also came to help in the battle, and finally eliminated the Japanese pirates. Later, in order to commemorate this battle, Putian people gradually developed gongs and drums in the temple as an entertainment activity.
Putian’s drums have gradually formed their own style and performance methods over the course of more than 300 years of development. Probably because Putian's festival activities are often accompanied by grand parades, they usually put the drums used for directing performances on a flatbed cart and push them while walking, directing the performance of the queue and the rhythm of the music during the march. This is where the name "car drum" comes from. And because this drum originated from war, it was usually performed by men in the past. The drum teams in each village often held challenge competitions called "drum fighting".
After the 1950s, with the changes in the social system and the improvement of the status of Chinese women, many rural women also formed car and drum corps to compete with men. In the development process of women's drum performance, they added the flower umbrellas from the public temple to the drum performance to make it more vivid and beautiful. In recent years, women's drum troupes have spread all over Putian's countryside. They have developed many new dance moves, which make the drum performance add to the masculinity of men and the heroic appearance of women.
The Spring Festival for Putian people is rich, lively, lively and interesting. It contains not only the innocent happiness of the ancient Central Plains people passed down from the past, but also some variations caused by the local geographical environment, as well as the emotional memories engraved by the unique historical encounters of the Putian people. Celebrating the Spring Festival in Putian, you can not only experience novelties and surprises, but also feel the breadth and richness of the long-standing Chinese civilization.
Putian is a hometown of overseas Chinese. Being able to go home to celebrate the New Year has become the concern and expectation of overseas travelers in foreign lands
Rural folk customs - making new year's dinner, red dumplings and sweet potatoes
During the Chinese New Year, people in Putian have the custom of making "red dumplings" and "sweet potato cakes", firstly to honor their ancestors, secondly for seasonal good fortune, and thirdly for the prosperity, good luck, peace and reunion of the family. meaning.
The production of "red dough" skin requires some skills. After soaking the glutinous rice in water, pick it up and drain it, grind it into rice powder by hand (commonly known as "rice sacrifice"), sift it again and again to get the finest powder, dry it and set aside. When using, add an appropriate amount of boiling water and "food red" and knead together to form a pink dough, roll it into a round strip, and then pick it into equal pieces of dough with your hands.
The fillings of "red dumplings" are mostly sweet or salty. For sweet ones, just add brown sugar; for salty ones, add chopped green onion, shredded shiitake mushrooms and mashed fried peanuts to give it a unique local flavor. The fillings of "red dumplings" are divided into three categories: first, mung beans are used as filling (mung beans are cleaned and shelled to remove sand and impurities). Commonly called "mung bean stuffing"; one is filled with glutinous rice, commonly known as "glutinous rice stuffing"; one is filled with dry sweet potato powder, because in the past, mountainous areas and coastal areas produced little rice, and the staple food throughout the year was "sweet potato" and "sweet potato". Dry". Making dumplings with "dried sweet potato stuffing" during the "New Year's Day" is a simple folk custom that does not forget the hard days.
When making "red balls", housewives must divide the labor skillfully. The dough roll should be moderately thick and thin, not too thick or too thin; the dough filling should be uniform in size (grains), not too big or too small, and the two should be properly matched. Otherwise, after the dough is wrapped with stuffing and printed with the "red dough seal", sometimes it will be crushed, and sometimes it will be too small and unsightly.
When making "red dumplings", the housewife demonstrates and guides the women and children in rolling out the dough, kneading the fillings, printing, lining with "kuiye" (scientific name: "Linhe"), cutting off the excess corners, and placing them neatly in the cooking utensils , fasten the cooking lid, steam for about 25 minutes and then take it out of the oven and it is ready to eat.
The wood seal used in "Red Tuan" is commonly known as "Red Tuan". It is an exquisite handmade craft. The words "rich", "noble", "longevity", "happy" and so on are engraved in the impression, and there are also flower and bird patterns engraved around it, which means that "sweet potato" is the main material of "sweet potato", and fresh "sweet potato" is first made. Peel, wash, cut into pieces, steam, remove tendons and hard particles, chop into pure and soft "sweet potato puree", put it into a porcelain jar, add "rice sacrifice" and yeast dough, ferment and then add an appropriate amount Mix white sugar (or brown sugar) and alkali, then print carefully, add red dots on it, put it in a steamer and steam it until it is ready for food. The color red in "dianhong" also means that a family is prosperous, and "qi" (in dialect) means development and prosperity. "Sweet potato" is characterized by strong sweet potato flavor, soft fragrance and delicious taste. It is a seasonal and economical farm food.
"Red Rice Balls" and "Sweet Potato Rice Balls" are the unique food culture of Putian people during the "New Year".
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Putian City celebrates the New Year during the Spring Festival and “does the New Year”
The custom of “doing the New Year” in the first month is distributed throughout Putian City and adjacent to Putian Fu Xingcuo, Hui'an Suanling and other villages where Puxian dialect is popular. Only the people in Wuzhai Village, Youyang Town, Xianyou County do not do "Da Sui" on the first lunar month. This is because on the fifth day of the first lunar month in the 42nd year of Jiajing, Wu Tingzhu, a native of Wuzhai (then serving as the supervisor of the Xinghua Prefecture), died heroically in the anti-Japanese war. In order to commemorate him, people designated the fifth day of the first lunar month as the month of mourning, and held a ceremony to pay homage to the heroic spirit every year.
The reason why Putian people celebrate the Spring Festival uniquely has a long historical origin. According to the records of "Putian County Chronicles" and "Xianxi Chronicles", on November 29 of the lunar calendar in the 41st year of Jiaqing in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1562), just as the people of Putian were immersed in the joy of preparing for the Spring Festival, Japanese pirates suddenly invaded. Putian, Xianyou City was captured by Japanese pirates, and tens of thousands of civilians were killed in the resistance. For a time, corpses were scattered all over the ground, and thousands of families were in mourning. The peaceful Spring Festival celebration turned into a bloody disaster, and the people fled to the mountains one after another. It was not until Qi Jiguang's army defeated the Japanese pirates two months later that the people returned to collect the bones of their bereaved relatives and rebuild their burned-out homes. Since then, in order to commemorate this tragic history, the people of Putian used a unique folk custom to always remember the hatred of the country and the family. They chose to celebrate the Spring Festival on the day when Qi Jiajun regained the city, commonly known as "making the New Year" to distinguish it from "celebrating the New Year". ".
Because the Puxian people's custom of "doing the old age" has special historical significance and profound connotation, so from the 42nd year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1563 AD), Puxian people have practiced it from generation to generation almost without exception. It has been passed down for 445 years. This unique folk cultural phenomenon expresses the national sentiments of the Putian people who love their motherland and hometown, and hate foreign invaders. This folk activity is a vivid patriotic education activity and is unanimously recognized by the people of Putian. , the talent has been passed down to this day.
"New Year's Eve" is collectively known as "New Year's Eve", "Sui Sui", "Thirtieth Night", "Waiting the Fire", etc. among the people in Putian, even if it is the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month. It is called "Thirty Years", and the day before New Year's Eve is called "Little New Year's Eve".
Puxian people "Celebrate the New Year" on a night between the 20th of the twelfth lunar month and the New Year's Eve, usually on the 28th or 29th of the twelfth lunar month. Before the New Year, a lot of preparation work needs to be done. In order to make the New Year lively and prosperous, Puxian people, especially in rural areas, prepare "red dumplings" and "sweet potato cakes" (made with cooked sweet potatoes mashed and mixed with rice noodles, brown sugar, and yeast dough). ), pancakes, fried tofu, mandarin oranges, tea wine, etc., and also kill chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, fish, etc., which are called "three animals" in preparation for the "New Year" sacrifices to heaven and earth, gods, ancestors, etc. Use. At noon on this day, everyone eats "mixed noodles" (cooked together with sweet potato powder, longevity noodles, fried tofu, shredded pork, etc.).
On New Year's Eve, every household begins to "say goodbye" to the New Year. The sound of firecrackers is heard in the countryside. In front of the courtyard, there is an offering table tied with a gold thread embroidered table skirt. On the table are placed "Five Fruits", "Five Fruits" and "Five Fruits". "Liu Zhai", "Three Sacrifice" and the trunk noodles with red paper flowers of "Fu, Lu, Longevity", the whole family, led by the eldest, hold incense and kneel down to worship the heaven, earth and ancestors, praying for the safety of the whole family and happiness in the coming year. Then, "tribute silver" and "silver paper" were burned in front of the offering table, and firecrackers were set off again to announce the end of the "New Year's Eve".
"Surrounding the fire" on New Year's Eve is the most common folk custom in my country. However, there are many unique customs in Puxian people's "fire surround".
On New Year's Eve, the "fire round" begins. The halls of every household in Puxian are brightly lit. The whole family, men, women, old and young, eat and drink at the same table. Everyone gathers together, laughing and chatting, and enjoying family happiness. In some villages in Puxian, those who pay more attention to ancient practices will burn charcoal red and put it in the oven. Placing it under the dining table symbolizes the closeness, reunion and prosperity of the family. This may be the origin of the "circle around the stove".
When people in Puxian "encircle the stove", most of the dishes on the table have auspicious meanings and are very rich. Among the dishes, crucian carp (common name "crucian carp", homophonic to "jack treasure") , crabs (must be "complete", meaning perfect), shrimps (homophonic for "harmony", a family is harmonious, and harmony brings wealth), sweet meatballs (called "soft baby" in Puxian dialect, which means life is good) (It’s sweet and delicious), the above four dishes are essential. Other dishes, depending on the economic status of each family, generally include pork, chicken (duck) meat, mutton, braised tofu, stewed fried tofu, fried rice noodles, etc. A few live crucian carp should also be kept in the water tank in the kitchen, which means "surplus every year." Puxian people attach great importance to family ties. On weekdays, everyone is busy outside, but during the Chinese New Year, the family has to do everything possible to get home to reunite. On New Year's Eve, "circling the fire" is a time for relatives to gather together. Therefore, in order to miss their loved ones, if someone really cannot make it home during the "circling the fire", then a bowl should be prepared for them on the dining table. Of chopsticks.
After "circling the fire", the older generation divided New Year's money among unmarried men and women under the age of 16; there are also children who give New Year's money to their father, mother, grandfather, and grandma; there are also husbands who give New Year's money to their unemployed wives. The original meaning of giving money as a gift during the New Year: 1. To the children who have grown one year older; 2. To show filial piety to the elders; 3. To express the love between husband and wife to the wife; 4. To give money as a gift to the New Year, which means "to suppress evil spirits", that is, to Disasters mean to drive away evil spirits; 5. It is also a financial subsidy. On New Year's Eve, Puxian also has the custom of "keeping the year old". In the old days, some poor people went to the City God's Temple to watch a play on New Year's Eve to avoid debts. In this way, creditors would not dare to collect debts in front of the City God. This custom was called "watching Lu opera". Puxian folk proverbs have "Thirty nights to watch Lu opera" ". But now most families use the evening of the 30th to sit together happily, eating melon seeds and watching the wonderful "Spring Festival Gala" attentively until late at night.
The Puxian area has "good customs and a legacy of Qilu in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty". Historically, the Puxian area was one of the gathering places and places where the "Eight Tribes of People from Fujian Province" gathered and spread. Therefore, Puxian people have developed colorful traditional customs for thousands of years. To this day, there are still very unique customs among Puxian people. For example, if you don't use the knife on the night of the New Year's Eve, you are worried about attracting murderous intent; It is auspicious and agreed to become "taboo". There is also a special custom in Putian, which is to "do the New Year on the fourth or fifth day of the first lunar month." Every year on the fourth or fifth day of the first lunar month, it is said among the people in Putian that every household "does the New Year again", which is commonly known as "doing the New Year's Eve". This custom has a tragic history in Putian. According to the "Putian County Chronicle", in the 41st year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1562 AD), Japanese pirates invaded Fujian and occupied places such as Hengyu in Ningde, Niutian in Fuqing and Lindun in Putian, and established camps. They were burning, killing and looting. Putian City was captured by Japanese pirates at midnight on November 29th of the lunar calendar and occupied it for two months. The city of Putian was burned to the ground, and more than 10,000 people were killed or injured. At that time, men, women and children in Putian resisted atrocities and had their tongues cut off and their shins cut off, or burned or crucified to death by the Japanese pirates. Their inhumane atrocities shocked the country and abroad.
This project has the following characteristics:
1. It is unique, and the custom of "doing the old age" is unique in the country.
2. It is instructive and provides enlightenment to future generations.
3. It is harmonious, advocating unity, internal harmony and fending off external enemies.
Fourth, it is inheritable. It is generally popular in Puxian area and is passed down from generation to generation.
5. It is historic. The custom of "doing the New Year's Eve" contains a painful local and national history.
6. Identity. This customary activity is recognized by the people of Puxian, and its special value and significance are also highly recognized by experts in history and folklore.
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Putian people celebrate the New Year: making red dumplings and sweet potato cakes
During the Chinese New Year, Putian folk have the custom of making "red dumplings" and "sweet potato cakes". It means honoring ancestors, secondly it means seasonal blessings, and thirdly it means a prosperous family, good luck, great peace and great reunion.
The production of "red dough" skin requires some skills. After soaking the glutinous rice in water, pick it up and drain it, grind it into rice powder by hand (commonly known as "rice sacrifice"), sift it again and again to get the finest powder, dry it and set aside. When using, add an appropriate amount of boiling water and "food red" and knead together to form a pink dough, roll it into a round strip, and then pick it into equal pieces of dough with your hands.
The fillings of "red dumplings" are mostly sweet or salty. For sweet ones, just add brown sugar; for salty ones, add chopped green onion, shredded shiitake mushrooms and mashed fried peanuts to give it a unique local flavor. The fillings of "red dumplings" are divided into three categories: first, mung beans are used as filling (mung beans are cleaned and shelled to remove sand and impurities). Commonly called "mung bean stuffing"; one is filled with glutinous rice, commonly known as "glutinous rice stuffing"; one is filled with dry sweet potato powder, because in the past, mountainous areas and coastal areas produced little rice, and the staple food throughout the year was "sweet potato" and "sweet potato". Dry". Making dumplings with "dried sweet potato stuffing" during the "New Year's Day" is a simple folk custom that does not forget the hard days.
When making "red balls", housewives must divide the labor skillfully. The dough roll should be moderately thick and thin, not too thick or too thin; the dough filling should be uniform in size (grains), not too big or too small, and the two should be properly matched. Otherwise, after the dough is wrapped with stuffing and printed with the "red dough seal", sometimes it will be crushed, and sometimes it will be too small and unsightly. When making "red dumplings", the housewife demonstrates and guides the women and children in rolling out the dough, kneading the fillings, printing, lining with "kuiye" (scientific name: "Linhe"), cutting off the excess corners, and neatly placing them in the cooking utensils , fasten the cooking lid, steam for about 25 minutes and then take it out of the oven and it is ready to eat.
The wood seal used in "Red Tuan" is commonly known as "Red Tuan". It is an exquisite handmade craft. The words "rich", "noble", "longevity", "happy" and so on are engraved in the impression, and there are also flower and bird patterns engraved around it, which means that "sweet potato" is the main material of "sweet potato", and fresh "sweet potato" is first made. Peel, wash, cut into pieces, steam and remove the tendons and hard bits from the potatoes, chop into pure and soft "sweet potato puree", put it into a porcelain jar, add "rice sacrifice" and yeast dough, ferment and then add an appropriate amount of it. Mix white sugar (or brown sugar) and alkali, then print carefully, add red dots on it, put it in a steamer and steam it until it is ready for food. The word "dianhong" red also means that a family is prosperous, and "qi" (dialect) means development and prosperity. "Sweet potato" is characterized by strong sweet potato flavor, soft fragrance and delicious taste. It is a seasonal and economical farm food.
"Red Rice Balls" and "Sweet Potato Rice Balls" are the unique food culture of Putian people during the "New Year".
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Traditional folk customs are rich in the New Year
Puyang is filled with scenes of preparing to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. Many elderly people follow traditional customs, and some are busy preparing sacrificial items. They perform New Year sacrificial ceremonies, worship heaven and earth, and thank parents-in-law. Some are busy making "red dumplings" and "sweet potato rises". Everyone hopes to bring good luck to their families in the traditional customs passed down from generation to generation and passed down year after year. This strong New Year flavor has become a unique New Year custom in our city. Xu Xueshi Text/Pictures