1, noodles
10/day, people will not only send warm clothes to the dead for the winter, but also carry out some traditional activities symbolizing winter. People improve their lives, and buckwheat noodles and oatmeal noodles are very popular in mountainous areas. The custom of eating noodles on Hanyi Festival has a long history.
2.lamb cake
"October, burning eyebrows." This is a Hakka proverb, which says that every household will make Ciba on the first day of the tenth lunar month every year. The first day of October coincides with the end of autumn harvest. Hard-working Hakkas will grind the freshly harvested glutinous rice into powder, rub it and steam it, and add peanuts, sesame seeds, sugar and other fillings to make seasonal food Bazan to comfort the whole family and celebrate the harvest.
3. Red bean rice
Later generations took the first day of October as a mourning day and took red bean rice as a drink. There is still a legend in Dafeng, Jiangsu, to the effect that there was once a cowherd who was hacked to death by the landlord for fighting with the landlord, and the rice scattered on the ground was dyed red with blood. This day is the first day of October. From then on, the poor will eat red bean rice on the first day of October to commemorate him, and there are nursery rhymes to prove it: "In October, watch the cows run home; If you refuse to leave, the landlord will whip you with three plows and a thin knife. "
The skin of red beans is dense and firm, so it needs to be soaked in advance, otherwise it will be difficult to steam out. The traditional practice of red bean rice is to soak red beans in water for several hours in advance, and sometimes it is necessary to cook red beans in advance and then cook them with rice. Now you can soak the red beans (or not) in advance, and then cook them directly in the pressure cooker. After half an hour, the soft and sweet red bean rice can be cooked.
Step 4: Go against the trend.
In the traditional customs of Huizhou, "October Dynasty" is a traditional festival, the birthday of cattle, and also a traditional festival of offering sacrifices to cattle in Huizhou. On this day, Huizhou people want to eat a traditional food called "inverted paste". Huizhou people believe that cows should be comforted for their hard work for mankind for a year.
In addition to making some inverted cakes to worship the cow god, some farmers also wrap the leaves in inverted cakes and feed them to the cow, praying that it will be strong and healthy. Besides eating the rest, I will give it to my relatives and friends. Over time, it has become one of the most representative traditional folk foods in Huizhou.
5. jiaozi
There is a saying in Luoyang: "On October 1st, oil sounds." This means that on the first day of 10, people will cook and fry food, chop meat and wrap jiaozi, and prepare food for ancestor worship. Most of Huantai lived in civil "fried stuffing" to worship their ancestors.
There is a folk saying that "jiaozi will not freeze your ears on the winter solstice", which comes from the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing. He saw that people's ears were frozen in the cold, so he used bread to drive away the cold and cooked it into Joule soup to cure people's ears. Usually, the fillings in jiaozi are carefully prepared, and this reasonable nutritional collocation can play a nourishing and health-preserving role. In addition to essential meat and vegetables, condiments such as garlic can also improve the body's resistance.
Why do you want to eat inverted dishes at Hanyi Festival?
In the traditional customs of Huizhou, "October Dynasty" is a traditional festival, the birthday of cattle, and also a traditional festival of offering sacrifices to cattle in Huizhou. On this day, Huizhou people want to eat a traditional food called "inverted paste". Huizhou people believe that cows should be comforted for their hard work for mankind for a year.
In addition to making some inverted cakes to worship the cow god, some farmers also wrap the leaves in inverted cakes and feed them to the cow, praying that it will be strong and healthy. Besides eating the rest, I will give it to my relatives and friends. Over time, it has become one of the most representative traditional folk foods in Huizhou.