Nanchang city flowers, moon and gold side of Ruixiang, city trees, camphor tree, music, Caicha opera (Nanchang's traditional way of opera), the local language, Gan dialect representative of the language "Nanchang dialect".
Quinoa fried bacon: quinoa is a wild grass at the edge of Poyang Lake, (Nanchang dialect) "the grass of Poyang Lake is the treasure of the city people", "quinoa in March, artemesia in April, and firewood in May" means quinoa has a strong seasonality.
Three eggs in a bowl of noodles: rare guests first eat three eggs in a bowl of noodles, such as guests or favored nephews, but also in the noodles with a chicken leg. Nanchang people taboo two eggs to treat guests, which is the treatment of the pig wheel, guests in this case can eat a stay one, to avoid criticizing the gift.
Walk all over the world called the old table: the old table is a cousin. Since the Song Dynasty, Jiangxi talent, go out for the official is very much, go to the jiangsu, the wind is also prevalent in the industry and trade. Nanchang people value the local community, meet in the field are called "old table", the provinces are also the old table for the Gan people love to call, has continued to this day.
New Year's greeting is a traditional Chinese folk custom, which is a way for people to greet the new year and express their good wishes to each other. In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "New Year's greeting" was to pay respects to the elders, including bowing to them, congratulating them on a happy New Year, and greeting them on a good life, etc. When there were relatives and friends of the same generation, they would also pay respects to the elders. When there are relatives and friends of the same generation, they should also bow to congratulate them. Nanchang poet Lai Guan's "Early Spring" poem: "The new calendar will only be half-paper open, small pavilion is still gathered popping pole ash." Written at the time of the Nanchang Spring Festival burning bamboo poles. With the change of the times Nanchang people do not burn firecrackers on New Year's Eve, to the 24th day of the lunar month, Nanchang people began to "New Year's Eve". Lunar New Year's Eve, this day's dinner is called "Family Fun", every family member out of the home to rush home to eat New Year's Eve dinner, if something can not come back, family members should also be set up for its tableware to show that there is no shortage of reunion, over the New Year's Day this meal must be eaten rice cakes, braised fish, fried rice noodles, eight treasures of rice, boiled paste, the meaning of which is, in turn, year after year, year after year fish Grain harvest, rice into strings, eight treasures into the wealth, wealth every year; New Year's Eve, every household to red candles shine high, all night, so Nanchang has "thirty nights of fire, Lantern night lights. Breakfast on the first day of the year, in accordance with Nanchang's custom to eat vegetarian, only eat noodles or vegetables and rice, do not dip meat, heralded a year of "vegetarian". The first day, the second day, each family began to visit relatives to pay tribute to the New Year. The seventh day of the first month, Nanchang people call it "on the seven", "on the seven big like the year," said the evening to meet the God of the stove to return to the position, the family also hosted a feast to celebrate. Lantern Festival night, hanging lanterns in front of every house, the family gathered together to eat "Lantern" (dumplings), followed by dragon lanterns, fireworks, firecrackers in the house are all light, more than 20 days of the year is considered finished.
Nanchang people over the Lantern Festival is called the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth but also sixteen. This day and night, both urban residents and rural households, must eat the Lantern Festival, symbolizing the reunion of the whole family, happiness. After eating the Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival will begin.
Nanchang neighboring counties in rural Lantern Festival lanterns, a variety of lanterns, dragon lanterns, bench lamps, Guan Gong lamps, Cailian lamps and so on. The longest bench light consists of more than 1,000 benches, and there are more than 1,000 people. When the bench lamps dance, they are neat and uniform, which is very spectacular. The Guan Gong Lantern in Taiping Township, Wanli District is very beautiful. Nowadays, the folk Lantern Festival has added various folk songs and dances. On the night of the Lantern Festival, lanterns are hung in every house. Village lights all night long, the sound of firecrackers, the sound of playfulness, to the night, until the sixteenth of the first month, in the joyful atmosphere, we began to set the 24th of Lunar New Year's Eve to remove the table will be lighted to put away, held to send God's activities, to send God is finished, the New Year's activities also came to an end.
Chaoxian will also be known as the honoring of incense will be dedicated to Xu Xun's temple. The most worshipped person in Nanchang is Xu Xun, who is called the Bodhisattva of Fortune.
Legend has it that about 1,500 years ago, the 136-year-old Xu Zhenjun and his family of 42 people (even houses, chickens and dogs) ascended to heaven together. In order to commemorate Xu Zhenjun, the people of Nanchang commonly designated the day of his ascension as his birthday. For this reason every year, Gao'an, Shanggao, Jing'an, Fengxin, Fengcheng, Jinxian and other counties of the townspeople, voluntary fasting and bathing, organized to the township, village, clan as a group, composed of Chaoxian will go to Xishan Wanshou pilgrimage to pay homage to, incense. Wanshou Chaoxian will have many taboos: 1, before the pilgrimage need to fast for a week; 2, must be bathed to change clothes; 3, slanting yellow incense bag on the shoulder to go in a group with gongs and drums. In order to be able to get the first pillar of incense in the early morning of the first day of August, pilgrims need to be rushed around the clock to Wanshougong. Anyone who gets the first joss stick is considered the luckiest person and is happier than if he or she had won the first prize.
The Chinese nation has always been the custom of the nine high, Nanchang is also popular. Longsha on the outskirts of Nanchang City, since the Jin Dynasty, since the Southern Dynasties, is the resort of climbing. According to the Song Dynasty music history "Taiping Huan Yu Ji" quoted that: "the north has Longsha, heaps of Fushi winding, white and high, and looks like a dragon shape, even five or six miles, the old custom of September 9 to ascend the place."
The custom of ascending on September 9, Nanchang area is extremely prevalent. People or climb the Meiling, or Tengwang Pavilion, in order to text will be friends, high gathering feast. The custom of climbing high on the ninth day of the ninth month, a long inheritance.
Nanchang Tea Casting Opera
Nanchang Tea Casting Opera originated in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, and was formed by the combination of "Tea Lights" and "December Tea Casting Tune" of the Nanchang folk. Later, it absorbed the folk dance of Nanchang area and combined with it. Roughly through the "lamp play", "three-legged class", "half class" and other stages of development, after the liberation of the official name for the "Nanchang tea-picking opera".
The Nanchang Tea Casting Opera is a witty and amusing performance, with beautiful and affectionate singing and a rich Nanchang local flavor. It often uses coincidence, exaggeration, misunderstanding and other techniques to render the dramatic atmosphere. Especially in the lines of those hiatus, wrong language, antonym, Wanqu language and the clever use of the countryside, so that the performance is more interesting and lively. Nanchang Tea Casting Opera is good at comedy, song and dance. Lively clowns and small Dan, especially loved by the masses, tea-picking opera singing method requires men and women to sing with real voice, the traditional preserved repertoire of the four records: "Ming Grievance Record", "Koo Record", "Sedan Chair Record", "Pumpkin Record", collectively known as the "Nanchang Four Records". They are taken from the Nanchang folk tales.