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Fried bacon with Artemisia selengensis: Artemisia selengensis is a weed near Poyang Lake. (Nanchang dialect) "Poyang Lake grass is the treasure of the city", "Artemisia selengensis in March, Artemisia selengensis in April and firewood in May" means that Artemisia selengensis is seasonal.
Three eggs and a bowl of noodles: rare guests should eat three eggs and a bowl of noodles when they enter the door. If you are a distinguished guest or a favorite nephew, you should also add a chicken leg to your noodles. Nanchang people are forbidden to treat guests with two eggs, which is the treatment for people who lead pigs. In this case, guests can eat one and leave one, so as not to be rude.
Call cousin all over the world: cousin is cousin. Since the Song Dynasty, there have been many talented people in Jiangxi, and many people have gone out to be officials, and the wind of wandering around the rivers and lakes and operating industry and trade has also prevailed. Nanchang people attach great importance to their homesickness, and when they meet in other places, they all call themselves "old cousins", and mainlanders also call them Jiangxi people's favorite names, which have continued to this day.
New Year greeting is a traditional folk custom in China, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express their best wishes to each other. In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "Happy New Year" was to pay New Year greetings to the elderly, including kowtowing to the elderly, congratulating them on a happy New Year and greeting their lives. In case of friends and relatives of the same generation, you should also salute and congratulate. Nanchang poet Lai Hu's poem "Early Spring": "The new calendar is only half open, and the pavilion is still bursting." I wrote the scene of burning bamboo poles in Nanchang during the Spring Festival. With the changes of the times, Nanchang people no longer set off firecrackers during the New Year. On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, Nanchang people began to celebrate the New Year. On New Year's Eve, the dinner on this day is called "family reunion". Everyone who is not at home should go home for New Year's Eve dinner. If something happens, the family should also set the table for them to show their reunion. On New Year's Eve, they must eat rice cakes, braised fish, fried rice noodles, eight-treasure rice and boiled soup. Their meanings are rising year by year, and there are fish every year, and the whole grain is abundant, with strings of rice and soup. On New Year's Eve, every household lights red candles all night, so there is a saying in Nanchang that "30 nights of fire, Lantern Festival in Yi Deng". According to the custom of Nanchang, the breakfast on the first day of New Year's Day is vegetarian, only eating pasta or vegetable rice without touching meat, which indicates a "vegetarian" year. On the first day and the second day, families began to visit relatives to pay New Year greetings. On the seventh day of the first month, Nanchang people called it "the seventh day", which is called "the seventh day is like a year". In the evening, the kitchen god was welcomed back to his residence, and the family also held a big banquet to celebrate. On the night of the Lantern Festival, lanterns are hung in front of every household, and the whole family get together to eat "Yuanxiao" (glutinous rice balls). Then they watched the dragon lanterns and set off fireworks. All the firecrackers in the house went out. More than 20 days have passed.
Nanchang people call it the Lantern Festival, and it will be lively after the fifteenth. In this world of Lantern Festival, both urban residents and rural residents must eat Yuanxiao, which symbolizes family reunion and happiness. After eating Yuanxiao, it began to make lights.
There are all kinds of dragon lanterns at the rural Lantern Festival in the surrounding counties of Nanchang, including dragon lanterns, bench lanterns, Guan Gong lanterns and lotus picking lanterns. The longest bench lamp consists of more than 1000 benches, with more than 1000 people. When dancing, the bench lights are uniform and spectacular. The Guan Gong lantern in Taiping Township, Wanli District is very beautiful. Now various folk songs and dances have been added to the Lantern Festival. On the night of Lantern Festival, every household hangs lights. The village lights stayed up all night, firecrackers and frolicking continued, and they quarreled all night until the sixteenth day of the first month. In a happy atmosphere, everyone began to dismantle the altar set up on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, put away the lights and hold a ceremony to send the gods. After the ceremony, the Spring Festival activities came to an end.
The Fairy Fair, also known as the Incense Fair, is a temple fair dedicated to Xu Xun. The most admired person in Nanchang is Xu Xun, who is called the Bodhisattva.
According to legend, about 1500 years ago, 136-year-old Xu Zhenjun ascended to heaven with his family of 42 people (including house, chicken and dog). In order to commemorate Xu Zhenjun, Nanchang designated the day when he ascended to heaven as his birthday. Therefore, every year, villagers in Gao 'an, Shanggao, Jing 'an, Fengxin, Fengcheng, Jinxian and other counties voluntarily fast and bathe, and organize villages and ethnic groups to form fairy clubs to worship and make long-term sacrifices in Xishan. There are many taboos in the immortal fairy society: 1, fasting for one week before sacrifice; 2, you must take a shower and change clothes; 3, hanging yellow on the shoulder into the sachet, beating gongs and drums. In order to get the incense of the head column in the early morning of the first day of August, worshippers need to arrive at the Wanshou Palace around the clock. Whoever gets the head column incense is considered the luckiest person, happier than winning the first prize.
The Chinese nation has the custom of climbing Mount Tai nine times, and Nanchang is equally popular. Longsha, a suburb of Nanchang, has been a scenic spot since the Jin and Southern Dynasties. According to the quotation in the music history of the Song Dynasty "Taiping Universe", "There is a dragon sand in the north, winding in the white, like a dragon, stretching for five or six miles, and the old custom climbed here on September 9."
The custom of climbing mountains on September 9 is very popular in Nanchang. People either climb Meiling or Wang Teng-ting, making friends by writing, and climbing to gather for a feast. The custom of climbing stairs in the ninth grade has been passed down for a long time.
Nanchang tea-picking opera
Nanchang tea-picking drama originated in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, which was composed of Nanchang folk "tea lantern" and "December tea-picking tune". Later, it absorbed and combined the folk dance of Nanchang. After the development stages of "Lantern Opera", "Dingban" and "Banban", it was officially named "Nanchang Tea Picking Opera" after liberation.
The tea-picking drama in Nanchang is humorous, beautiful and affectionate, with a strong local flavor in Nanchang. It often uses coincidence, exaggeration, misunderstanding and other methods to render the dramatic atmosphere. Especially the clever use of two-part allegorical sayings, lies, antonyms, graceful songs and rural proverbs in the lines makes the performance more interesting. Nanchang tea-picking opera is good at performing comedies and singing and dancing. Lively clowns and Xiao Dan are especially popular with the masses. The singing method of tea-picking drama requires both men and women to sing with real voices. There are four traditional plays: The Story of an Enemy, The Story of a Koo, The Story of a Sedan, and The Story of a Pumpkin, which are collectively called "Four Stories of Nanchang". They are all adapted from Nanchang folk stories.