Nine-nine Chongyang came again, yesterday the father and mother happily participated in the elderly party, the mother is nearly seventy, the father is more than seventy, the organization unit sent the elderly a box of Chongyang cakes. There are walnut crisps, mint cakes, hemp shortbreads, bean pastry, a full box, and the blessings of grace are abundant and rich.
Every year on the Chongyang Festival, the elderly are very happy, although these pastries for them because of physical reasons, can not eat a lot, but when they see it at a glance, they feel that they are valued and cared for. What a joy and joy they have received throughout their lives. The wrinkles on his face smiled into a splendid chrysanthemum in autumn. It turns out how simple it is to make the old man happy.
Jiujiu Chongyang, also known as Chongjiu Festival, Sunshine Autumn Festival, and "Stepping on Autumn", is a traditional festival in our ancient China. The celebration of chongyang festival generally includes activities such as traveling to enjoy autumn, ascending to the heights, viewing chrysanthemums, planting chrysanthemums, eating Chongyang cakes, and drinking chrysanthemum wine.
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Also known as Juyue. In the season when chrysanthemums are full of flowers, how does the exquisite old Ningbo celebrate the Chongyang Festival? Let's make small talk today.
Look at the words of Lao Cao. A charming text about Chongyang
Before the Chongyang Festival of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Baoyu's servant asked Aunt Song to send Shi Xiangyun two small filigree boxes, one containing two fresh fruits and the other containing a plate of osmanthus sugar steamed new chestnut flour cake.
Heavy sunshine season. Osmanthus blossoms and chestnuts ripen, and the rice is newly harvested, making this pastry naturally taste first-class.
When Ningbo people celebrate the Chongyang Festival, there are also such "filigree boxes", which are more colorful than those in the Garden. In the concept of Ningbo people, the Dragon Boat Festival is called the Son-in-Law's Festival, and the Chongyang Festival is the Festival of Filial Piety, which is a festival for children to honor their parents.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, the hairy-footed son-in-law has to pick up the Dragon Boat Festival, and the two baskets are carried in pairs. The Chongyang Festival also has a burden, and the old saying in Ningbo says, "Heavy Yang burden, only basket".
This basket is a cake bowl basket, which is red and separated by several layers. There are many things in the basket, one layer is filled with money wrapped in red paper, one layer is put wine, and the other layer is placed some fruits and chongyang cakes. Money is either a whole number or the last digit is nine, meaning long and long. Sending money is not the more the better, the meaning is on the line.
The type of wine is also very exquisite, it must be white wine or rice wine. Baijiu, also known as shochu, "burn" and "laugh", "less" harmonic sound, meaning that parents laugh and laugh, ten years less. Yellow wine, also known as old wine, means to wish the elderly to be old and strong, old and strong, and old to have fun.
In Yuyao, Zhenhai and other places, there is one more important object in the daughter's cake bowl basket: an old cloth. This old cloth was knitted by her daughter herself. Although it looks rough and dumb, it is an all-cotton texture that is warm and comfortable to wear. In the old days, old cloth was used to make underwear, which was worn all year round, and even the worn-out ones could also be used with a shoe sole, the kind of cloth shoes with a thousand layers of bottoms. Older people like older things, and this old cloth seems to have been replaced by modern delicate cotton cloth.
In the old days of Ningbo, "home spinning and weaving, village machine smell each other", the family sheets, quilt covers, basically knit themselves. I still remember the twill I wore when I was a child, with blue and white on it, knitted by my mother, and worn in cotton wool pants in winter, which was very warm, but it was a little bit fat, but it was the same at that time, and no one would laugh at it.
This piece of old cloth on the Chongyang Festival honors the parents, and once it is woven, it is the heart of filial piety that the children feed back.
On this day of the Chongyang Festival, crabs are also eaten.
Feng Zikai has a painting "Autumn Drinking Yellow Flower Wine", which shows a vase with two plump chrysanthemums inserted in the bottle, flanked by a wine glass and a fat crab. His old man is really a foodie, and the Chongyang Festival is the time when crabs are fat and yellow. When he eats crabs, he wears yellow flower wine, and there will never be a little crab meat left in the shell.
Every time he finished eating a crab, he also combined the furry things on the head of the crab claws to make a butterfly. Eat a few crabs and make a few butterflies. In the golden autumn, the walls of his house are always plastered with butterflies.
Ningbo people rely on the sea to eat the sea, and the kung fu of eating crabs is naturally not a problem. A crab foot, with a mouth, a sneak of kung fu, the whole crab meat to the tip of the tongue. It does not have to be assisted by any hammer and forceps. In the movie "Magic Kitchen", Zheng Xiuwen holds a delicate and small spoon, and eats crab meat one small spoon after another.
Ningbo people eat crab, the most common is steamed crab, and then poured with green onion oil, the meat is the wettest and delicious. There is also roasted crab, the roasted crab meat is particularly fragrant and chewy, which should have come from Zhoushan. Other ways to eat, there are braised crab, salted egg yolk crab, crab fried rice cake, red cream salted crab and so on.
Eat a few pieces of chongyang cake, smack the saltiness of the crab foot claws, taste the plump yellow of the crab, and stick it up in autumn to have a warm winter.
Taiwanese writer Zhang Xiaofeng mentioned in "Life Endowment" that there was once an ancient poet who ate the "cake" that must be eaten on the Chongyang Festival, but did not dare to put the word "cake" into the poem. The reason was that the word "cake" was not used in the Book of Poetry, so he did not dare to put the word "cake" in the verse.
Come to think of it, the word "cake" is indeed not as poetic as Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum, spring flowers and autumn moon. It is so really appropriate, it is fragrant when eaten in the mouth, and it is full when it is filled in the stomach. The pyrotechnic atmosphere is thick, and it is naturally not appreciated by poets, but it is also indispensable for the Chongyang Festival. Chongyang cake, the Han Dynasty, has been very exquisite in the Song Dynasty. The "Record of Dreams", which records the customs of Lin'an City in the Southern Song Dynasty, mentions that "this cake is steamed with sugar noodles" and "a small bunting flag" is planted on it.
Ningbo people's Chongyang cake is roughly divided into soft cake and hard cake. Soft cakes are kneaded with flour, sprinkled with sugar, mixed into a paste, and steamed on a steamer basket.
Those who sprinkle brown sugar are called yellow cakes, and those who sprinkle white sugar are called white cakes. There are also osmanthus cakes and chrysanthemum cakes, which are also soft cakes. Soft cakes are soft and sweet, and the teeth of the elderly are not good. If you change the hard cake and bite it down, the front teeth will come down and it will be bad.
Hard cakes are not useless. The printing cake is a kind of hard cake, which is stored longer than the soft cake, because when pressed on the carved printing cake board, the cake leaves a beautiful pattern on the cake. Fulu Shouxi, flower good full moon, auspicious ruyi, carp jumping dragon gate, two dragon play beads, five sons Dengke, magpie eyebrows... Eating these beautiful meanings into the stomach is the safest.
In the past, people who had a bit of copper tin would also go to ShengyangTai and Tank Duck Dog to buy color cakes, pine nut cakes, and water chestnut cakes to eat. Generally speaking, the cake eaten on the Chongyang Festival is the Chongyang cake. Eating Chongyang cake, in addition to the beautiful meaning of the printing cake pattern, there is also the saying of step by step, disease removal and fitness.
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