Source: CCTV news client
The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer
The taste of the year is getting stronger and stronger
Yesterday (February 5) was the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, which is also a small year in many parts of the south. After a small year is a big year. Whether in the countryside or the city, the red lanterns on the streets and the dazzling New Year goods have made the New Year flavor more and more intense.
Nanling, Anhui: Hanging lanterns, playing rice cakes, Jiangnan Water Town for a small New Year
Playing rice cakes every year is a happy year of grain abundance
This is the village of Xiali in Nanling County, Anhui Province, where local villagers are beating rice cakes in the most traditional way. Rice cakes mean "high every year", and also mean that life will get better and better in the coming year.
Unlike ordinary rice cakes, the rice cakes here are colorful. This is because in the process of production, grains and grains are added, which means that the next year can be smooth and the grains are abundant.
This is the "fried rice candy" that every household will eat during the New Year, which means "auspicious and full of halls".
Respond to the "local New Year" hometown "New Year's taste" express four parties
Most of the young people in The Village have been working outside the home all year round, and this year in response to the call for "Local New Year", these young people chose to celebrate the New Year at their place of work. The old people said that after these New Year goods are ready, they will pack boxes and send them to distant relatives, so that they can feel the "New Year's taste" of their hometown without going home.
Cut the window flowers to write the Spring Festival Reunion reunion for another year
Local cultural people are also cutting window flowers and writing Spring Festival for villagers.
Lujia Village, Guilin, Guangxi: The traditional New Year taste of a century-old village
In Lujia Village, a century-old village on the banks of the Taohua River in Guilin, Guangxi, villagers and tourists are celebrating the New Year in a lively manner, playing sticks, listening to colorful tunes, and dancing dragons and lions.
Dragon Dance Lion Dance Singing Colorful Tune Colorful Tuo Spring Festival Send Blessings
What is going on here is the traditional folk culture of the dragon and lion dance. Since they were young, they have begun to walk the streets and alleys, and carry out New Year greetings and blessing activities for villagers and merchants.
Taste traditional food Feel the folk culture of the ancient village
This is Guilin's specialty button meat, tofu stuffed, snail stuffed and rice cake.
Lujia Village has more than 300 years of history of making tofu, which is the process of grinding tofu with stone grinding, after some processes, soybeans will be made into sweet soy milk and tofu, and then made into tofu dumplings, fried tofu and other dishes, which also means reunion, more than every year.
In Guilin, there are also activities to welcome the New Year. Hand-beaten rice dumplings are very cumbersome, and the finished rice dumplings are delicious and chewy, which is also a must-have new year for locals every year.
This is made of maltose and traditional techniques of Guilin South Sugar, which not only tastes good, but also has a profound meaning, and it tastes happy to eat.
Making sand cakes and oil tea Guangxi traditional snacks add new year flavor
When it comes to the taste of the New Year, a very important part is the traditional specialties of the local and hometown New Year's Festival. The taste of food in memory is the nostalgia and new year taste on the tip of the tongue. In Guangxi, there are many New Year's festival foods with auspicious meanings such as "reunion happiness", "sweet and happy", "backgammon" and so on, which contain strong nostalgia and are also full of strong New Year flavor.
Longzhou: Traditional sand cake sweet sticky fragrance conveys the taste of family affection
Sand cake is a traditional pastry of the Zhuang people, with a long history of production technology and heritage. In Longzhou County, Guangxi, sand cake is a must-have pastry for the New Year, with a unique production process, select high-quality fragrant glutinous rice soaked and dried in water, fried until golden brown, beaten into glutinous rice flour, but also flat spread, put for a day, so that it is naturally damp, and then crushed by hand, sieved, repeatedly filtered powder, and finally made into soft and sweet glutinous sand cake.
Lin Xiumei, a villager in Xiajing Town, Longzhou County: If we don't eat sand cakes here, it is not the New Year, and we can't feel the taste of the New Year. Sand cake means to rise step by step in the New Year.
Sanjiang: Fried oil fruit playing oil tea In Dongzhai, a different kind of new year flavor
In Gaowu Village, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Guangxi, many fellow villagers put on beautiful ethnic costumes, and relatives and friends fried oil fruits, beat rice dumplings, and beat oil tea together. After the glutinous rice has been washed, soaked, crushed, kneaded, sugared, diced, fried and other processes, the golden crispy fried oil fruits are made, and whether the fried oil fruits are flavorful and crispy depends on the hands of the craftsmen. Guangxi oil tea is a must-use product for the Dong people to entertain guests, and fried oil fruit is one of the important ingredients.
Su Lanying, a villager in Pingwentun Village, Gaowu Village, Tongle Miao Nationality Township, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County: Making oil fruits during the New Year is to celebrate our great harvest this year and look forward to our prosperity in the coming year.
Foshan, Guangdong: Set up water flower shopping points to enjoy the flowers route to let the people feel the taste of the New Year
When the new year arrives, the new year flower market is also getting hotter and hotter. Buying New Year flowers in the New Year is a traditional Custom of Guangdong Spring Festival. This year, most of the traditional flower markets in Guangdong need to be cancelled due to epidemic prevention and control, but special water shopping points have been set up. Tourists only have to wave a wave on the shore and wait for the flower boat to dock before making a purchase.
In addition, the local government has also launched the "Buy Flowers and Enjoy Flowers" tourism route, and launched a variety of New Year consumption coupons, so that citizens and tourists can not only buy a variety of New Year flowers, but also fully feel the characteristics of Guangdong.
Xi'an, Shaanxi: Small Chinese New Year's Eve Flower lanterns light up the ancient city
February 4 is the Northern New Year, in Xi'an, Shaanxi, more than 1,400 years old on the city wall, people lit up ten thousand flower lanterns, on the ancient city wall presented a beautiful shape, so that citizens and tourists feel the rich New Year atmosphere.
A lamp lights up a city, and the flower lantern, as an important atmosphere element of the New Year festival, holds the memories of countless people for the year. In the small Chinese New Year's Eve, the 2021 Xi'an New Year Lantern Festival was launched in the form of online live broadcast on the ancient city wall.
Xi'an City Wall is the largest and most complete preserved ancient city wall in China, with a history of more than 1400 years. As soon as you enter the Yongning Gate Urn City, you will be greeted by a light group with the theme of ginkgo biloba trees, which are 15 meters high, changing colors with music, full of technology and fashion. Clustered next to the ginkgo trees, there are the four treasures of Qinling, giant pandas, golden snub-nosed monkeys, crested ibises, and antelopes, vividly showing the picture of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
Yan Jie, spokesperson of Xi'an City Wall Scenic Area: In the Shengshihuazhang District, there is a group of colorful lanterns with the five ox figures of the famous Tang Dynasty painter Han Di as the inspiration for the creation of the elements, called the five bull figures, in addition to the five cattle representing the farming culture of Tang culture, a cow with a very modern sense of science and technology called "Endeavor Cow" was also added, and these six cows wish the motherland prosperity and national peace and security.