Composition of Yangquan Folk Custom

Aquarium: Lunar New Year is celebrated in April (65438+ February) 1 ugly day, which is called Sunianxi in water language. On this day, men, women and children dressed up, sang and laughed, boiled red eggs and steamed red glutinous rice for their children, wishing them healthy growth, and people were immersed in a festive atmosphere.

Shui people take rice as their staple food and like glutinous food. In addition, the Shui people also grow some miscellaneous grains such as wheat, corn, millet, barnyard grass, sweet potato and Mi Dou as supplementary food.

Shui farmers are not good at growing vegetables, so the varieties of vegetables are monotonous, and the most common ones are green vegetables, wide vegetables and big-leaf leeks. Aquarium pays more attention to aquaculture and fishery, so all kinds of livestock and aquatic products provide necessary meat food for aquarium life.

The sour soup of the aquarium is very distinctive, including spicy acid (made of pepper), hairy acid (made of tomato), fish acid (made of fish and shrimp) and stinky acid (made of pig and beef bones). Among them, spicy acid is the most commonly used. Spicy acid is made from fresh red pepper. The preparation method is as follows: clean fresh red pepper, add water and grind it into pulp with a mill, add a lot of sweet wine (or glutinous rice porridge), put it in a pickle jar, seal and ferment to get delicious sour soup. When eating, all kinds of vegetables, such as Chinese cabbage, green vegetables, tender bamboo shoots, large-leaf leeks, wide-leaf vegetables, etc., are cooked and boiled with proper amount of acid. Paste Chili noodles, salt, and scoop a little vegetable soup to dip it in water. When eating vegetables, you should use water to eat them. They are delicious and appetizing. Cooking is rare, and I eat "hot pot" all year round. A large pot of sour soup dipped in water is almost a daily dish. Even if there is tofu, meat or fish occasionally, it is customary to add it to the dish and boil it in a pot.

Shui people love to drink, and every family will bake rice wine. Chinese New Year, celebrations or visiting relatives and friends are all inseparable from entertaining guests with wine. Aquarium hospitality has a long tradition, and taking turns is the cultural expression of hospitality.

Dress

Shui men wear blue shirts with big collars and small hats with melon skins, while old people wear long gowns with linings on their heads and leggings on their feet. Women wear blue-green, black-blue, round neck, lapels, wide-sleeved tops, trousers, knotted waist and embroidered blue cloth shoes.

Since the 1940s, the men's wear of the Shui nationality is not much different from that of the surrounding Han nationality, but women's wear still retains distinctive national characteristics. The yarn quality of Shuijia cloth (9000 Qing Bu) woven by Shui women is fine and uniform, and the dyed blue, blue and green are deep and washable, which has been well-known as early as a hundred years ago. The original printing and dyeing process of Shui soybean milk painting has a history of more than 700 years, and its printing and dyeing products are deeply loved by the masses.

Women's dresses of Shui nationality are mostly sewn with water armor cloth, without collars, big skirts, semi-gowns and long gowns. Robes are knee-length and generally have no embroidered edges. Holiday and wedding costumes are completely different from usual. Shoulders and cuffs on wedding dresses, embroidered ribbons on trousers and knees, and colorful patterns on headscarves. Wear a silver crown on your head and a silver collar around your neck. Wear a silver bracelet on your wrist, a silver elegant collar on your chest, silver earrings on your earlobe, and embroidered shoes on your feet. Brides usually dress up beautifully and elegantly. In addition, women's embroidered suspenders are more artistic. It is said to be a "belt", but it is actually a gorgeous embroidered "T"-shaped "curtain" with belts on both sides of the upper end. The curtain is big enough to wrap the child. It is made by winding a white ponytail with white silk thread, adding silk threads of other colors, respectively embroidering various patterns, and finally splicing the embroidered patterns onto the strap fabric. Straps are beautiful and practical, and they are the best gifts for mothers to give to their married daughters.

Before marriage, Shui women like to make leisure robes with light blue, green or gray fabrics, and their tops are mostly satin. The sleeves of the clothes have shrunk compared with the past, and they look neat and curvy. Embroidered apron on the chest and long towel wrapped in green and white cloth on the head are elegant and quiet. The cuffs, shoulders and trouser cuffs of married women are decorated with blue lace. Long hair is combed into a coil on the top of the head and inserted into the comb from the right to fix it. Some women wear white scarves horizontally outside headscarves, and some directly wrap their heads with plaid square scarves, which is traditional and fashionable.

Wedding customs and etiquette

The marriage custom of the Shui nationality has a strong traditional color and pays attention to the marriage of the Ming media. Before marriage, young men and women can make friends and fall in love by singing in festivals and fairs. Even if it is a free love, it must be a marriage reported by the media, otherwise it is impolite and will be discriminated against. Young men and women should ask someone to tell their parents after they fall in love. If the parents show their willingness, the man invites the matchmaker to the woman's house to give gifts and betrothal, and chooses an auspicious day to send someone to carry the piglets to the woman's house to "eat some wine." At the formal wedding ceremony, the big pig was carried to the woman's house to "eat big wine". Toast song should be sung at the party. Every time the hostess sings a song, the guests have to drink a glass of wine to show their hospitality by getting drunk. Family members of both men and women do not attend wedding banquets and send-offs. Except for a few places where the bride's brother carries the bride to her in-laws' house, most of them are dressed brides walking in front with a deliberately torn red umbrella, followed by the best man, bridesmaids and long queues carrying dowry. Usually leave her family at noon and enter her husband's house at six or seven in the evening. I can't enter the door until it's auspicious. Relatives of the groom's family go out to hide before the bride enters the house, and the bride can't go home until she enters the house. On the wedding night, the bridesmaid accompanied the bride, and the bride returned to her family the next day. After the wedding, the groom will invite the bride back and start the life of husband and wife. Some brides visit for the first time for a month or two, which is called "sitting at home". In fact, it is a remnant of the custom of "curtilage" marriage. On the way to the bride's wedding, thunder is the most taboo, so the wedding is held in autumn and winter.

The first thing an aquarium girl should do after getting married is to carry water.