Marriage and childbearing class
Change wonton to eat wonton. The former is called "wonton", which is not a general meaning, but another name for modeling steamed buns in Chengcheng County. On the wedding day, men and women exchange and become part of the wedding ceremony. Usually the man gives the woman a chicken-shaped bun, indicating that the cock crows and is diligent in farming; The woman gave the man a tiger-shaped bun, hoping that her husband would be angry. The wonton mentioned by the latter is the real wonton. In Weibei area, when a man goes to a woman's house for a blind date, he must eat wonton, so in some places, "Have you eaten wonton" is synonymous with engagement.
Colored prisoners. This is a bad habit that women are extremely despised in the old society, and it is popular in Hancheng and Chengcheng. The prisoner refers to the wife. In the old society, the daughter-in-law was regarded as a prisoner, and she was not allowed to go out at will after entering the door, that is, the bride was not allowed to cross the water (that is, the eaves) when her family sent her off. So engagement is called a prisoner, and marrying a woman is a prisoner. The word "color" is "seeking", which evolved from Sei (color) under the influence of sharp tone change and ei rhyme change. Huayin and Baishui take the original meaning of the word "suo" and still call it Suo's daughter-in-law.
Liao daughter-in-law used to be popular in Fuping, Tongguan and Pucheng. On the eve of the wedding, young men of the same age as the groom will spend the night in the new house, which is called a barn. The next day, when the bride's sedan chair arrived at her parents' house, she baked it inside and out with a torch. When the bride arrives at her husband's house in a sedan chair, she sprinkles lime on the sedan chair for a week, then wraps the sedan chair with torches, red-hot shovels and firecrackers for a week, and then makes a fire at the gate. The bride can jump over the fire before entering the bridal chamber. This habit is a vulgar custom that discriminates against women, but it also contains the desire to drive away disease and evil.
Flower girl. In the old wedding ceremony, the priest was presided over by the groom's brother or a boy among his relatives. Its duty is to hold thorns tied with 12 pieces of red cloth, go out to meet the sedan chair before it enters the village, and guide it into the groom's house. Popular in Hancheng and Heyang.
Wear headlines. The headline is a strip headdress with nine silver or bronze chickens, which is worn on the bride's head for good luck when she gets married. It was popular in Chengcheng area in the old days.
Get a broom. Tie two pomegranates to the new broom with a red rope. On the wedding night, the best man faced the bride and groom sitting on the kang in the bridal chamber, patting the broom and reciting children's songs to the effect that "clap clap, dust, dust, villagers listen to me read songs." Red rope, green handkerchief, give birth to a fat doll next year. Zhazha corner, red rope, running all over the yard. One shot gives birth to a hundred; A speck of dust makes ten thousand. Don't shoot or dust, just give birth to two. "This custom is still popular in Chengcheng area.
Send a slot "jiaozi" is a steamed stuffed bun, which is the homonym of "foot stop". Twenty days before labor, a woman sent dozens of slots from her family to discourage her daughter from walking to ensure prenatal safety. This habit is popular in Hancheng and Heyang.
Transition. Huayin and Tongguan are popular festivals to celebrate the full moon of newborns. On the second day after the baby's full moon, grandparents will take him for a walk in the wheat field, then go to school for a walk and then go home, which means to let him see more about the world, learn more and pray for his growth and success.
Stick your teeth. After the transition, the newborn was taken back to her mother's house by her mother. When I came back, grandma tied a string of teeth-piercing buns and hung them around the baby's neck, wishing him a tooth as soon as possible. This kind of tooth-piercing steamed bread is made of small steamed buns with animal and plant shapes and falls into the long life lock.
prescribe a diet
Big knife face. The food in Weinan is mainly pasta, so we attach importance to noodle making and spend time and energy. The big knife noodle refers to rolling the kneaded hard noodles into thin slices and cutting them into noodles with a big knife weighing 10 kg, hence the name. Popular in Huayin and Tongguan.
Rafter Steamed Bread The traditional food in Pucheng area is called Rafter Steamed Bread, because it must be squeezed with a rafter (thick stick) for eight times before it can be shaped. It is named because it looks like a rafter.
Eat soup and steamed bread. In many places in Weinan, drinking soup is an important part of daily diet, so drinking soup is synonymous with eating breakfast (Hancheng) and dinner (the whole region). Hua county soaked the steamed bread for breakfast in porridge, which was called drinking steamed bread; Tongguan breakfast is called paomo.
Drink soup. The pronoun of "eating seats" in rural areas of Pucheng. In the past, when local banquets were held, the dishes were mainly soup, which was served in bowls, so it was called soup. Now it has been gradually changed to cooking, but the name is still in use.
Old bowl club. In the old society, due to the low living standard of farmers and the lack of food, three meals a day were carried to the door with rice bowls, basking in the sun in winter and enjoying the cool in summer, and every household got together to eat and chat, hence the name Old Bowl Club. After the improvement of farmers' living standards, they gradually abandoned this habit and ate around the table instead.
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Roast Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi is a residence. After the new house is completed, the host will hold a banquet to celebrate and set off firecrackers. This is called baking Zhuangzi. Popular in Weinan city.
Meetings and parties. In ancient Weinan, there was a market specializing in trade. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, temple fairs gradually evolved into commercial gatherings, from temples to villages and towns. After that, it will coexist with the collection: the former is held once a year, with a large scale and many trading projects, and is the predecessor of the contemporary material exchange meeting. The latter is small in scale, specializing in management, such as grain collection and livestock collection. The town is fixed for a few days every month. Nowadays, parties and meetings are usually confused in various places. In most places, gathering is called meeting, Chengcheng is meeting and Fuping is temple.