Putian's "July Half of July" custom, do you know?

▲ Putian Jinyu (Xu Qian/Photography)

Photography: Zhang Li Hai Reef Xu Qian Rouge Lin Hanzi Flute, etc.

On the ninth day of the ninth day, gold and water drip;

Eleven twelve, Jin Yan tastes taste;

Thirty -four, pick it up.

Zhongyuan Festival: 2022/8/12

(Ren Yinnian July 15th)

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The 15th day of the lunar calendar is the Central Yuan Festival, commonly known as the "Ghost Festival". Folklore experts said that China Yuan Festival is an important folk festival in Putian, and the festival etiquette is the most particular in the province.

In July of the lunar calendar every year, adults always tell children to go out in the evening. How much do you know about July and half customs and taboos of Putian?

The ancestor sacrifice the filial piety Putian Zhongyuan Festival is particular

▲ Stills of the Xianxian opera "Save Save Mother" (Sea Reef/Photography)

Lin Chengbin, a folklore expert in Putian City, said, "July and Half of them", a very important festival in the Xianxian area. Like the whole country, the Xianxian Zhongyuan Festival is also the main purpose of sacrificing ancestors and filial piety. Different from other regions, the holidays continue from July 11th in the lunar calendar to July 16th.

▲ Putian Jinyu (Rouge/Photography)

Putian Zhongyuan Festival's ancestral customs, folk rumors: "On the ninth day, gold and water dripping; 112, Jin Yan tasted the taste; 134, pick it up."

Golden cricket

▲ Jin Yan (Lin Han/Photography)

Before the Xianxian Zhongyuan Festival, every year on July and 12th in the lunar calendar, every family must make a kind of glutinous rice with glutinous rice and "golden water", that is, the steamed pupa of alkaline water. Because of the golden color, it is called this kind of food. For "Jin Yan", this is the main festival food in the Central Yuan Festival.

▲ Putian Jinyu (Zi Di/Photography)

Netizens said that the "golden water" of making Jinyu is generally used in early straw, commonly known as Purakama, gray filter fluid, and the effect is better. Jinshui can drink, relieve heat and gastrointestinal discomfort.

▲ Putian Jinyu (Zi Di/Photography)

The golden cricket is tender and soft. It cannot be cut with a knife, but cuts with threads, dipped in white sugar and honey, and has a flavor. After fried, the taste is better.

▲ Putian Jinyu (Zi Di/Photography)

Horse cake

▲ Putian horse cake ("Nostalgia for forgetting")

In Putian, in July, there are also customs for making "horse cakes" and "print cakes" (also called "white cake"). Putian's horse cake (also known as "mint cake", or "treasure cake"). The horse cake was originally a durable multi -layer rice cake steamed in a mint in a steamer. Its approach was based on the Ming Dynasty, and it is no longer a mint leaves.

Today, the best cakes of horses cakes are the top salty heads of Hanjiang and forests in Wutang. Another netizen said that the horse cakes in Xiuyu Yuetang are also delicious.

Printed cake

▲ Putian print cake (Zi Di/Photography)

▲ Putian print cake (Zi Di/Photography)

▲ Xianyou white cake (tension/photography)

Send a paper

On the 13th and fourteen of the lunar calendar, the woman who had married, if the parents died, or the death of the party, the leader and the children returned to the mother's family to cry. The sacrifices include fruit and pig heads, trotters, golden crickets, mint cakes and paper foil. In the first year, after receiving the gifts, the gift was returned. Generally, a pair of red lanterns, ten bowls, and "car chair sedan" for baby sitting were given, so that the daughter would pick home to express the happiness and sweet life, so it is called "Pick up. Come and pick. "

▲ Burn paper money

In the "Putian Literature and History Information", the July Half Customs of Putian was recorded. "Woman to marry a woman, his parents have been stunned or one person is first, and a woman must be picked back with a basket of women. In the thirteenth lunar calendar. If the parents are alive, the daughter and their son -in -law are taboo to visit relatives. So when they enter the country, do not let relatives cause an embarrassing situation. It is not passed down from generation to generation, but the sacrifice industry is specified as the use of paper delivery, although it has been delivered for a long time. "

Send the "first New Year's paper", and the maiden family will return to the gift after receiving the gift. There are different customs in each township, such as: a red lantern, a piece of Jiang mother, a pork planting bag, a winter melon, one bamboo chair, one white cane, one plate of rice and mung beans, etc. Paste red paper, which means auspicious. At noon on the 13th day, the mother -in -law of the mother had to put on her own sacrifice "please ask the male mother" to return, and then put on the sacrifice picked by the daughter. There must be pork and pork feet in the sacrifice, and then the mother of the mother was called. The first year's paper and sacrifice cannot be worshiped with the cake. In the future, my daughter does not need to reply to the gift every year, and I don't need to pay a day in advance. Some people have a daughter, and others will interest and say that there will be pig feet to eat in the future, and one of the pig feet will be sent to the first year paper.

Worship

▲ Stills of the Xianxian Opera "Save Save Mother"

▲ Sacrifice Mom (Zi Di/Photography)

On July 15th of the lunar calendar, the main sacrifice day, also known as the "worship mother". On this day, the whole family gathered together to worship ancestors. Putian folk experts introduced that because of the hot weather, the people of the Xianxian were commonly known as "the hot mother".

Water lamp

On the day of the Zhongyuan Festival, the temples of the Xianxian will also hold the Bon Fa Conference in the morning, and the over -the -appreciation ritual in the afternoon or evening will be held. The customs of "water lamps" on the candle drift water are used to pin their grief. On July 16th of the lunar calendar, each family was sacrificed for "sending a public mother".

The Northern Song Dynasty has been seen in the seventh day to the present

▲ The Xianxian opera "Mu Lian Save Mother"

Puppet show

▲ The Xianxian opera "Mu Lian Save Mother" (Sea Reef/Photography) ▲ The Xianxian opera "Save Save Mother" (Sea Reef/Photography)

▲ The Xianxian opera "Save Save Mother" (Sea Reef/Photography)

Source: Meizhou Daily Huang Lingyan, Putian Tourism Network

Responsible editor: Yang Meiqin

Editor: Lin Rongyou

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