Local Culture of Luzhi Town

Wearing

The underage children wear long life locks, collars, bracelets, anklets and other silver jewelry, but also in the bracelet hanging gold wooden fish, stone monkeys and so on, anklets mounted ringing bells and so on. Hat has "monk hat", "dog head cap", "U hood", etc., on the silver life star, Lohan, Baiji, silver word hat ornaments. 60's onwards, by the pompom hat, silk hat, square scarf Instead, hat decoration gradually disappeared. Girls have the habit of wearing earrings. Women who wear hair buns have hairpins, ruyi, pressure hair, silver combs, silver earrings, silk flowers, pompoms, flowers, etc. A hairpin is inserted horizontally in the bun, and the hairpin is placed on the top of the bun. A hairpin inserted horizontally in the bun is called a hairpin, which is also known as a ruyi. Pressing the hair of gold pressure hair, silver pressure hair, beads pressure hair, to distinguish between the rich and the poor. Jade is also more commonly known as "jasper hairpin".

After the founding of New China, women kept their hair short and braided, and their jewelry mainly consisted of hairpin clips, silk flowers, earrings, etc. After the 1980s, women also had corsages, necklaces, etc., and men had tie pins, etc. The fashionable ones wore rings and watches. Fashionable wear rings, watches. the mid-90s, waist wear BB became fashionable. 2000 years later, with the popularity of cell phones, the number of people wearing watches gradually decreased.

Diet

●Staple food

Rice is the main staple, with rice and noodle products. In the old days, gentlemen, businessmen and wealthy households had one congee and two meals. The average person ate congee (or soaked rice) in the morning and evening, and at noon for dinner. Farming, breakfast congee often add noodles (commonly known as "noodle mice"), cakes and other rice and noodle products, dinner half rice and half congee. In addition, vegetables and rice, egg fried rice is also a common staple food. Rice and vegetables cooked into a vegetable rice, mixed with lard, sticky and delicious, if mixed with soybeans, salted meat and other accessories is particularly good; rice and eggs fried into "egg fried rice", adults and children love to eat. Pasta to noodles, wontons for more. After the 1990s, it was generally a porridge and two rice dishes.

●Snacks

In spring, there are tightly leavened steamed buns, spring rolls, glutinous rice cakes, glutinous rice balls, siu mai, green dumplings, and lard cakes of various colors. In summer, there are shortcake, double-filled dumplings, various colors of dumplings, cold noodles, fried noodles, fried wontons, mint green bean cake. In the fall, there are qiaoguo, square cakes, honey cakes, rose lard cakes, moon cakes, meat moon dumplings, and Chongyang cakes. In winter, there are soup dumplings, five-color soup dumplings, soup dumplings, pumpkin cakes, and various kinds of rice cakes. Taro and pumpkin and other grains, production is also exquisite, taro often made into "sugar taro", "warm taro", "baked taro" and so on. Pumpkin cut into large pieces, without removing the skin, add water to cook crispy, add sugar and eat; or peeled, cut into small pieces, add water to cook rotten, and then add glutinous rice or rice flour paste to cook into "pumpkin porridge" or "pumpkin molten rice porridge".

●Snacks

In spring, there are five-spice tea eggs, happy eggs, sugar cut lotus root, and wine wine. Summer has green bean soup, cold ice water, oil blanch stinky dried tofu, sea snail. Autumn has sugar taro, cooked diamonds, raw fried white fruit, sugar fried chestnuts. In winter there are water tofu flower, sheep belly soup, red bean soup, chicken and duck blood soup. House building

There are mainly traditional steps such as reading feng shui, opening wooden stools, putting on beams and burning road heads.

Build a boat to build a general small farm boat etiquette is relatively simple, only the launch of a new boat when the preparation of three animals "Zai Lutou". To build a large farm boat or a koan help to play the new boat is more solemn. Before building a boat, please ask Mr. Yin and Yang to divine and choose a day to start the work. In the ship base to sacrifice the ship god, carpenter saw a section of wood wrapped in red paper, the owner of the ship to invite the shipwright, send money for joy, set the "start wine", also known as "open wooden stool wine. Before the ship beam by the shipwright and the ship owner's eldest son with a bucket of ink in the bottom of the ship popped out the center line, called "fixed round", in the bottom of the ship "Jailey market", on the ship beam to do "fixed star wine". On the wax gate board drink "on the wax gate wine". When the boat is about to be launched after it is built, it is the most solemn, and it is necessary to invite guests to a banquet. Boat owners in the new bow nailed to the red and green silk ribbons, pasted couplets, choose an auspicious date and time, prepare three animals "Zai Lu Tou", firecrackers, the new boat by the crowd to push and support the slow launching of the boat. Some people in the boat boat to the new boat splash water to show that the wind and water, business is booming, as expected to generate wealth. On this day, friends and relatives came to send gifts to congratulate the shipowner set up a "completion of the wine" banquet.

Bridge

Bridge first measured and calculated the materials used to open the stone mountain to order stone, to be stone blanks transported to the bridge, choose an auspicious day to break ground for construction. Under the pile before the sacrifice to the earth god, avoiding the viewing of the Chinese zodiac, to hedge the line, hit the bridge pile with a dead dog or paper cut out of the portrait of a man thrown into the water to suppress the evil spirits. Bridge mason and then the rough stone processing on the spot stacked into the bridge, during the construction of the bridge, children wearing red cloth or peach tree sign, written on the "stone bridge stone monk, since the creation of their own when the quick turn home, since the bridge to hold the pile," words and phrases, adults do not allow children to go to see the bridge, especially piling is not allowed to go to see, meant to avoid evil spirits. Folk Song

Farmers sing in the field is called the mountain song, some call the field song, fishermen sing called fishing song. At the end of the Republic of China, most of the songs sung were love songs, and a few reflected the class struggle. After the founding of New China, the folk songs had new contents, such as "Six Sample Machines" and "Strolling in the New Town", etc. Since 1998, the boatwomen on the boat in the ancient town of Danghu have sung Wu songs while sculling.

Xuanzhu

Xuanzhu was developed from the influence of the monks' "common lectures" in the Tang Dynasty, the "scriptures" in the Song Dynasty, and the drums, gongs, operas, and miscellaneous dramas of the later generations, and then it was used in the Ming Dynasty during the Zhengde period (1506-1521), when it was first used in the Ming Dynasty. In the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty (1506-1521), the name "Xuanzhu" was first used, and the book was published. During the Daoguang and Xianfeng years of the Qing Dynasty, Xuan scrolls were spread to Luzhi. Luzhi Xuan scrolls are divided into two types: wooden fish Xuan scrolls and silk string Xuan scrolls. Xuan scrolls, also known as hanging scrolls, are songs that preach Buddhism, and the stories in them always urge people to accumulate virtue and do good deeds. Folk "do life", "children shave their heads", "chanting Buddha", "payment of blood stains" and other folk activities, often invite the Declare the scrolls people. Generally two people Xuan volume, with wooden fish, copper chime accompaniment, according to the "treasure volume" script, there are talking and singing; a few people Xuan volume, sub roles in rap, similar to the form of the hall name. After the reform and opening up, folk Xuanju resurrection, the emergence of a number of young farmers Xuanju artists.

Dance

Republic of China period, Luzhi temple fair, out of the meeting, out of the lights and other folk customs activities, there are step on the high warp, dance dragon lanterns, mussel dance, Lotus Flower Drop (that is, playing Lianzhang), swinging lake boat, picking the flower baskets and other folk dances. After the founding of New China, parades and rallies, the emergence of playing the waist drum, drum team, twisting rice-planting songs, the Red Army Dance and other forms. After the reform and opening up, aerobics, fitness exercises and health work were popular among the people, and since 1998, the performance of Luji Water Town Cultural Art Troupe has become a brand program of playing Lianzhang, picking flower baskets, and performing in water town costumes, and in early 2008, square dance emerged in Luji Town, which has become the fitness dance of Luji women.