Customs of Jinmen Spring Festival

On the ninth day of the first month of each year, Kinmen people must go out with their families to burn incense at the 800-year-old Hai Yin Temple in Wu Tai. Along the way, acquaintances meet to congratulate each other on the Spring Festival, which is the most lively day during the Spring Festival. (Photo by Bai Le)

Strong clan, heavy blood.

When immigrants first set foot on the land of Kinmen, they took care of each other more closely in order to protect themselves. People who are familiar with the same clan, the same clan or moved together all live in one place, and many descendants continue to live in the same village or settle nearby, forming settlements over time.

Settlements and settlements often return to each other because of the simple folk customs of caring and helping each other in agricultural society. Especially when a family encounters a wedding, funeral and festive event, people with the same blood relatives, except those in the same village, do their best to help, thus creating clan characteristics handed down from generation to generation. Not only does daily etiquette attach importance to the concept of kinship, that is, even when applying for a job, holding a post or voting, it is often the first to consider whether the same clan is involved. Candidates from all walks of life mobilized clan forces to help each other, forming a force among clans and forming a unique election culture in Kinmen.

The mode of production is agriculture and fishery.

Due to the lack of natural resources, there are no industrial factories in Jinmen, and the mode of production is still dominated by agriculture and fisheries, especially agriculture. These plants include sorghum, corn, sweet potato, wheat, taro and a small amount of vegetables. Most of them can't feed themselves, and they often have to import from Taiwan Province Province. Among them, sorghum is specially used for brewing and is purchased by the government.

With the younger generation of immigrants studying and looking for jobs, most of the residents in Kinmen are old, weak, women and children. Except for some people engaged in military education and commerce, the vast majority of residents still make a living by farming. In recent years, because it is really difficult to eat and wear warm clothes, a part-time job has arisen, that is, male and female workers take part in the construction industry in their spare time before going to farm and fish in the fields. Most of the fishing is offshore fishing, but it still accounts for a very small number. The coastline is criss-crossed with rocky sand banks, and crustaceans and algae are flourishing. Most coastal families are engaged in sea otter farming. In your spare time, invite three or five relatives and friends to go to the sea to get otters. You can eat them yourself or sell people to make money. Cooking with this kind of midge, the "Midge duo" is not only a food lover in Kinmen, but also a favorite of tourists.

The way of hospitality has existed since ancient times.

Just like mellow sorghum, the hospitality of Jinmen residents has existed since ancient times. When you first enter people's homes, you must cook pasta for entertainment, which is called dim sum. It's time for another dinner. Not if you don't eat. Sometimes it's really overzealous. During the dinner, people still kept persuading people to drink and hold dishes, and warm hospitality often made people feel hard to refuse and wanted to support their stomachs. Especially when the whole chicken and fish are served, if the head of the chicken or the tail of the fish is accidentally pointed at it, it means that the host has shown the greatest courtesy. The pointed guest must have a drink and fold the head of the chicken or the tail of the fish with chopsticks, so that the guests at the same table can enjoy these two delicacies. This style of "goose head is fish tail" is still popular today. If you have the opportunity to eat at the same table with Jinmen people, don't make a fool of yourself because you don't know the rules!

Unfortunately, after the abolition of "Battlefield Government Affairs", there were frequent exchanges between Taiwan Province and Taiwan Province Province. First, it is influenced by the utilitarian atmosphere of industry and commerce in IN, and second, there are many contacts between friends and relatives, which really bothers local residents. This touching hospitality in agricultural society has been restrained a lot, and it can be expected that it will disappear with time. However, in the event of weddings, birthdays and birthdays in the village, the old etiquette is still respected, and cakes must be delivered one by one according to the "mouth furnace" (which is called the furnace by various families), and it is not allowed to be lost. (comprehensive)

These two surnames are linked.

Jinmen residents make a living by farming, and most weddings are arranged in the slack season; Because the marriage of two surnames has been regarded as an important event in life since ancient times, both men and women have to follow ancient rituals, which makes the wedding ceremony very complicated. Although there have been some changes in recent years, it is inseparable from the traditional model to a great extent. The following are introduced in turn:

(a) the preparation before engagement-divided into six steps:

1. Matchmaking (constellation)

Choose an auspicious day.

Step 3 order employment items

4. Wedding candy and cake

5. Engagement, tea and banquet

6. Introduction to the banquet

(2) Preparation before marriage-divided into nine steps:

1. Choose a good day.

Step 2 print the marriage notice

3. Decorate the new house, install the bed and turn over the shop.

Step 4 buy wedding supplies

Set up a banquet

Step 6 form a circle and worship it

7. kill pigs.

Lengthening face

9. Hang mother's and uncle's couplets, bride's lights and groom's lights.

(3) The wedding is divided into fourteen steps:

1. Best man, flower girl

2. Hi car (including sedan chair)

put on

4. Marriage between men and women

Bypass the street

6. Enter the door and worship God.

7. Send the bridal chamber and change the tea.

8. Change flowers and send tea

9. Worship temples and ancestral halls

10. Worship ancestors and churches

1 1. Touch chopsticks, fish for rice, worship the kitchen ruler, and cut rice and fruit.

12. phase separation (gift giving) and tea.

13. Banquet and bridal table

14. Noisy new house

(4) After marriage-in three steps:

1. Send face wash water to your in-laws.

2. Parenting and being a guest

cook

On the ninth day of the first month of each year, Kinmen people must go out with their families to burn incense at the 800-year-old Hai Yin Temple in Wu Tai. Along the way, acquaintances meet to congratulate each other on the Spring Festival, which is the most lively day during the Spring Festival. (Photo by Bai Le)

Strong clan, heavy blood.

When immigrants first set foot on the land of Kinmen, they took care of each other more closely in order to protect themselves. People who are familiar with the same clan, the same clan or moved together all live in one place, and many descendants continue to live in the same village or settle nearby, forming settlements over time.

Settlements and settlements often return to each other because of the simple folk customs of caring and helping each other in agricultural society. Especially when a family encounters a wedding, funeral and festive event, people with the same blood relatives, except those in the same village, do their best to help, thus creating clan characteristics handed down from generation to generation. Not only does daily etiquette attach importance to the concept of kinship, that is, even when applying for a job, holding a post or voting, it is often the first to consider whether the same clan is involved. Candidates from all walks of life mobilized clan forces to help each other, forming a force among clans and forming a unique election culture in Kinmen.

The mode of production is agriculture and fishery.

Due to the lack of natural resources, there are no industrial factories in Jinmen, and the mode of production is still dominated by agriculture and fisheries, especially agriculture. These plants include sorghum, corn, sweet potato, wheat, taro and a small amount of vegetables. Most of them can't feed themselves, and they often have to import from Taiwan Province Province. Among them, sorghum is specially used for brewing and is purchased by the government.

With the younger generation of immigrants studying and looking for jobs, most of the residents in Kinmen are old, weak, women and children. Except for some people engaged in military education and commerce, the vast majority of residents still make a living by farming. In recent years, because it is really difficult to eat and wear warm clothes, a part-time job has arisen, that is, male and female workers take part in the construction industry in their spare time before going to farm and fish in the fields. Most of the fishing is offshore fishing, but it still accounts for a very small number. The coastline is criss-crossed with rocky sand banks, and crustaceans and algae are flourishing. Most coastal families are engaged in sea otter farming. In your spare time, invite three or five relatives and friends to go to the sea to get otters. You can eat them yourself or sell people to make money. Cooking with this kind of midge, the "Midge duo" is not only a food lover in Kinmen, but also a favorite of tourists.

The way of hospitality has existed since ancient times.

Just like mellow sorghum, the hospitality of Jinmen residents has existed since ancient times. When you first enter people's homes, you must cook pasta for entertainment, which is called dim sum. It's time for another dinner. Not if you don't eat. Sometimes it's really overzealous. During the dinner, people still kept persuading people to drink and hold dishes, and warm hospitality often made people feel hard to refuse and wanted to support their stomachs. Especially when the whole chicken and fish are served, if the head of the chicken or the tail of the fish is accidentally pointed at it, it means that the host has shown the greatest courtesy. The pointed guest must have a drink and fold the head of the chicken or the tail of the fish with chopsticks, so that the guests at the same table can enjoy these two delicacies. This style of "goose head is fish tail" is still popular today. If you have the opportunity to eat at the same table with Jinmen people, don't make a fool of yourself because you don't know the rules!

Unfortunately, after the abolition of "Battlefield Government Affairs", there were frequent exchanges between Taiwan Province and Taiwan Province Province. First, it is influenced by the utilitarian atmosphere of industry and commerce in IN, and second, there are many contacts between friends and relatives, which really bothers local residents. This touching hospitality in agricultural society has been restrained a lot, and it can be expected that it will disappear with time. However, in the event of weddings, birthdays and birthdays in the village, the old etiquette is still respected, and cakes must be delivered one by one according to the "mouth furnace" (which is called the furnace by various families), and it is not allowed to be lost. (comprehensive)

These two surnames are linked.

Jinmen residents make a living by farming, and most weddings are arranged in the slack season; Because the marriage of two surnames has been regarded as an important event in life since ancient times, both men and women have to follow ancient rituals, which makes the wedding ceremony very complicated. Although there have been some changes in recent years, it is inseparable from the traditional model to a great extent. The following are introduced in turn:

(a) the preparation before engagement-divided into six steps:

1. Matchmaking (constellation)

Choose an auspicious day.

Step 3 order employment items

4. Wedding candy and cake

5. Engagement, tea and banquet

6. Introduction to the banquet

(2) Preparation before marriage-divided into nine steps:

1. Choose a good day.

Step 2 print the marriage notice

3. Decorate the new house, install the bed and turn over the shop.

Step 4 buy wedding supplies

Set up a banquet

Step 6 form a circle and worship it

7. kill pigs.

Lengthening face

9. Hang mother's and uncle's couplets, bride's lights and groom's lights.

(3) The wedding is divided into fourteen steps:

1. Best man, flower girl

2. Hi car (including sedan chair)

put on

4. Marriage between men and women

Bypass the street

6. Enter the door and worship God.

7. Send the bridal chamber and change the tea.

8. Change flowers and send tea

9. Worship temples and ancestral halls

10. Worship ancestors and churches

1 1. Touch chopsticks, fish for rice, worship the kitchen ruler, and cut rice and fruit.

12. phase separation (gift giving) and tea.

13. Banquet and bridal table

14. Noisy new house

(4) After marriage-in three steps:

1. Send face wash water to your in-laws.

2. Parenting and being a guest

cook