What are the special festivals in Fuzhou?

Fuzhou mainly has the following festivals: Spring Festival.

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

the Lantern Festival

Aojiujie

Qingming Festival

Dragon Boat Festival

Beggar's day

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

Double Ninth Festival

Winter Solstice

Sacrifice to the stove

New Year's Eve

The following is a description of "Aojiu Festival" and "Begging for Cleverness Festival":

Ao JIU Jie:

The 29th day of the first month is a unique traditional folk festival in Fuzhou. The "nine festivals" are also called "the last nine festivals" and "the filial piety festival". Early this morning, every household uses glutinous rice, brown sugar, peanuts, red dates, water chestnut, sesame seeds, longan and other raw materials to cook sweet porridge, which is called "lotus root wine porridge" to worship ancestors or give gifts to relatives and friends. Married daughters are also given a bowl of "Nine Porridges", and some even add too flat noodles, eggs, trotters and so on. And send them back to their parents to honor their parents. In addition, anyone who has reached the age of nine, such as nine, nineteen, twenty-nine, or multiples of nine, such as eighteen, twenty-seven and thirty-six, must eat a bowl of "Taiping" like a birthday to be safe and healthy.

"Ao Jiujie" comes from the legend of "Manglietia". It is said that there was a man named Mulian in ancient times. His mother was fierce before her death and was imprisoned in the underworld after her death. When he visited the prison, he often sent her food, but all of them were eaten by the guards. Later, he thought of a way to mix water chestnut, peanuts, red dates, longan, brown sugar and other raw materials with glutinous rice, cook it into sweet porridge, put it in a bowl, and sprinkle a handful of black sesame seeds to his mother. Seeing that the porridge was black, the jailer asked, "What is this?" Manglietia casually replied, "This is porridge." The guards think this porridge is unclean and dare not eat it. Therefore, Ou Jiuzhou was delivered to Mu Lian's mother. It happened to be the 29th day of the first month, and Manglietia's mother just turned 29 this year. According to folk custom, the first month is divided into "Sanjiu", the ninth day of the first month is called "Shangjiu", the 19th day is called "Zhongjiu", and the 29th day is called "Houjiu porridge". In the future, the color of porridge is black, which is called "Nine Porridge" to show filial piety to mother, also called "Nine Porridge". Whether it's the 29th or 29th of the first month, it's the day of Manglietia's mother's accident. Therefore, Fuzhou people taboo 9 th and think that "9" is a year of adversity. Therefore, anyone who meets the age of "nine" should eat a little more evenly, and a married daughter should give her parents a "nine" to ensure their safety and health.

Begging Festival:

On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Fuzhou is called Qiaoqi Festival, also known as in-laws Festival. Tanabata in July is the time when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the Magpie Bridge in myth.

On Tanabata, when women use seven words as a symbol of intelligence, they will show seven plates of melons and fruits, seven cups, seven incense sticks, seven needles and seven colors of silk thread. First, they saluted Vega seven times, and then sat cross-legged. Through the hazy moonlight, they compete to thread the needle, and whoever wears it quickly and attracts more people is the most skilled. Song Liang Kejia's "Three Mountains" contains: "How much do you know about colorful buildings? Until the end of the leak. " This custom is mostly done by government officials and rich wives. People are engaged in the activities of separating beans and becoming attached to them. Every household cooks broad beans and gives gifts to each other, chewing beans and chatting, so as to bury the hatchet and promote family harmony, affectionate relatives and friends, and harmonious neighborhood. Children learn to share beans, make friends and make up, which is full of childlike interest.

Food is the most important thing for people. Let's talk about Fuzhou's flavor snacks first:

Fuzhou snacks are rich and varied. Snacks that are often eaten all year round include "fixed-edge paste", apricot blossom powder, noodles, pancakes, taro, oyster sauce cakes, shrimp cakes, fish balls and so on. Dingbianhu dialect is called iron pot ding. Boil the fragrant clear soup in a tripod, pour the rice paste ground from rice on the tripod edge, cover the tripod, shovel out the cooked rice paste after one or two minutes, and then pour the rice paste on the tripod edge, so that the tripod paste will be cooked three or five times. Apricot blossom powder can be boiled or fried. If you fry food, mix it with garlic sauce. It tastes special. Noodles with noodles, first mix with delicious clear soup, mix with mashed potato powder, boil into a soup with a certain concentration, add pilaf, bamboo shoots, shrimp and egg flowers, and then put the noodles in a pot to cook. The taste of this noodle is very different from other cooked pasta. Salty porridge, cook porridge with glutinous rice and put it in.