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(Youxi customarily calls it "July and a Half" and "Ghost Festival")
Zhongyuan Festival, youxi people commonly known as "July and a half", that is, the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, also known as the ghost festival. Originally a religious festival, Taoism believed that it was the decline of the japanese officials, the determination of good and evil in the world, and the blessing of fasting; Buddhism was called the "Menglan Bon Society" to honor the ancestors, saying that Shakyamuni's disciple Mu Lian once set up a bagel fruit to provide for the monks of the ten directions, and save the mother from hanging upside down. Later, it evolved into a folk ancestor worship day, and families posthumously recommended ancestral spirits.
In Youxi, what are the customs of the Zhongyuan Festival?
Sacrifice to ancestors
Youxi people attach great importance to the "July and a Half", and regard the first to fifteenth days of July as the "July Festival". It is said that in the chaotic times of ancient times, the people avoided the chaotic mountainous areas, and people with different surnames met each other in hardship, loved each other, and took turns to celebrate the festival, so the days of the "July Festival" in Youxi folk are different.
The main event of this festival is to go to the ancestral shrine in the afternoon to worship the ancestors and remember the dead. Different villages have different surnames, and the time of ancestor worship is also different, and there are ancestor worshippers on the first, ninth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth days of the first month. She's villagers on July 12.
It is said that the ancestors of the dead will return home once during this time, so it is essential to worship the ancestors. When offerings to ancestors, ducks, japonica rice japonica, salted indica rice, or nine-layered rice are slaughtered. The food of the July Festival is salted indica rice grits (commonly known as salty rice grits, golden grits) and bu duck.
In Youxi, what are the food customs of the Zhongyuan Festival
Eat golden kway
"July and a Half" is an important festival for the people of Youxi to celebrate the New Year, and its representative food is golden rice. It is also necessary to make "Pudu", overdo the undead, and use gold kwayts or rice balls (similar to the sacrificial effect of northern steamed buns) to give to the lone soul wild ghosts to eat.
Golden rice is the main offering of Youxi folk through the "July and a half", which is to soak the rice and grind it into a thick rice syrup, add the right amount of salt and edible alkali to heat it in the pot to make it condense into a paste, and then knead it into a moderately sized oval ball, and then steam it. After the formation, the shape is round and golden, so it is called "Golden Kun". Also because of its salty taste, it is also called "salty kun".
The 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar. In Youxi, almost every household makes gold kway. Golden and splendid golden kun, soft and tender in the mouth, full of elasticity, delicious and delicious. The rounded "kun pellet" also means that the first and second half of the year is round and rolling, and the family and things are smooth. People will place gold, pork, fruits, etc. in their own halls or go to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors and pray for blessings.
Eat duck
July and a half "In addition to eating golden rice, bu duck (a local specialty dish that is cooked and then smoked after the whole duck is cooked) is also a common food.
Eat fat cakes
Youxi people also eat fat cakes on the Zhongyuan Festival, also known as "hair cakes", which are folk festival foods and are often used for sacrifices.
Source: Fujian Weiyouxi editors and finishing
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