Economy
The textile industry is well developed.
Freshwater pearls, China's largest pearl market, known as the Pearl Township.
Cephalotaxus is also a local specialty.
Resources
Metal resources include gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, uranium, molybdenum, manganese and potassium.
Nonmetallic resources mainly include fluorite, marble, stone coal, limestone, phosphorus, kaolin, graphite, dikestone, dolomite, yellow sand and so on.
Botanical resources mainly include Fragrant Fruit Tree, Zhejiang Seven Zizi Flower, Cortex Eucommiae, Tianmu Mujiangzi, Tianmu Mulan, Au Leaf Houpu, Tianmu Purple Stem, Flowering Palm and so on.
The local specialties mainly include chestnut, Cephalotaxus, and ginkgo.
Culture and Education
Culturally, Zhuji is a family of cultivators and readers, and attaches great importance to education. Zhuji Middle School, a first-class key high school in Zhejiang Province.
People
Famous historical figures include Xishi; famous painters and calligraphers and literary figures such as Wang Lang, Chen Hongshou and Yang Weizhen; and famous scientists such as Zhao Zhongyao.
Diet
As a sub-county of Shaoxing, the diet is similar to that of the whole Shaoxing region, with yellow wine, moldy dried vegetables and stinky tofu being more popular. Famous local dishes include Xishi Tofu.
Attractions and Historic Sites
There are Xishi Temple, Wuhui, Xiaotianzhu, Douyan, Gouxian Mountain, Wunsa Stone, Donghuacheng Temple Pagoda, and Biancun Ancestral Hall.
Ten miles have different winds and a hundred miles have different customs. A nation, a region has distinctive marriage customs.
Zhuji was once the capital of Yue, has been more than 2,000 years of history, there are deep cultural deposits and historical heritage, it can be said that Zhuji folk wedding customs both the Chinese feudal society largely consistent etiquette rules, but also the unique regional color of Yue.
One, matchmaking in the old countryside in Zhuji, young men and women to the age of sixteen or eighteen years old, and even earlier, the parents of the previous generation will have to worry about their children's marriages. But these marriages must comply with the "parents' orders, the words of the matchmaker", must be in line with the "six rites" of the ceremony. Zhuji Minbao five-week commemorative book" has this record: marriage to the media, write red paper please in the female family, the female family to "allow post" to answer, the opening of the birth year, month and day of the "geng post", also known as the "day post". "
These are the first of their kind in the world.
Zhuji township asked few characters specializing in matchmaking, people say that matchmaking is "thirty-six lines outside the line of work". But the people also think that the matchmaking is a good thing, can adult beauty, so the matchmaking is still quite a lot of people. The Japanese book called the matchmaker "moon old man". The countryside commonly called "matchmaking big", jokingly called "eat three pots of bottles". The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and the second time I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley.
Matchmakers, most of whom are entrusted with the job of matchmaking, are often busy between men and women. When the time is ripe, the matchmaker to the men and women to discuss "Geng post", also commonly known as "dragon and phoenix post", that is, the names of the men and women, place of origin, birthdays, through the matchmaker, each other to the two families. Later, please fortune-teller push life divination, to see whether the two birthdays are compatible, if they are into. This pile of marriage good thing on the first step.
After the liberation, these complicated mattress rituals are basically abolished, urban and rural areas, between the units of young men and women increasingly interact. However, many young people still have to ask the "introducer" to help them get to know each other and fall in love. In the countryside, the two sides do not quite understand each other, there is also the process of matchmaking. The so-called blind date, there are "look at the girl" and "look at people" two ways.
"Look at the girl" is the matchmaker accompanied by a young man to the woman's home. The two sides meet, so that young men and women can see each other's character and appearance. Accompanied by the woman's father uncle or brother, through the tea and chat, observe the young man's speech and behavior, to understand the character character cultivation. It is natural for new guests to be invited to try a small snack. This is not a snack in the ordinary sense. If the woman is satisfied with the young man, must offer sweet dumplings, which has prayed for this marriage "reunion" meaning. If you do not quite like, what is the snack is not clear.
"Look at the family" is the girl to the male family as a guest. Generally by the female female family members to accompany the girl together. This is actually a comprehensive examination of the male family's economy, housing, environment, and neighborhood, and the success of the marriage depends largely on this action. After the eighties, with the development of the rural economy, changes in the concept of life, girls and boys contact more and more, the exchange of ideas and feelings is also increasingly active, such as if in love, the two sides know the roots. The old "blind date" custom will gradually exit the stage of history.
Three nine twenty-nine "origin
Ming Dynasty, Wang Jiajing small market near a village called irrigation lake, lived a smart and capable middle-aged man. The man all day picking a long basket, through the East Village to go West Village to sell his wholesale from abroad, "red and green lead thimble" or "thousand sheets of dried tofu" and other daily necessities. Because he can talk, hand and foot hardworking, business is really not wrong.
But, over time, the village women found that with this small goods engaged in transactions, accidentally will be deceived by his rhetoric, the heart is very bad taste.
One day, the small goods man came to the small mountain village under the Du Nai Ling hawking yell. There is a village girl happy to run to, happy to buy 9 strands of cotton thread, each strand of 3 coins. The village girl picked a good line one by one count. Then a frown, plan on the heart, everyone suspects that he is greedy for a small advantage, secretly playing tricks. Today let me try. So the village girl boldly shouted: "Guests alas, 9 stranded wire, 3 coins 1 stranded. So three nine twenty-nine right?" She said while handing over folded into a section of 25 copper plate. The small goods man heard full of love, took the money counted without counting cast into the small bamboo pocket to hide the copper money. Walked to the entrance of the alley, the village girl grabbed the small goods man's long vegetable basket, impatiently called complained, miscalculation, give more money. In the face of the facts, the little shopkeeper was forced to return the overcharged 2 coins. When he withdrew the 2 coins he thought he had overcharged, the village girl couldn't help but smile and said solemnly: "No need to return it, I tried you on purpose, I only gave you 25 coins, and I still have to make up for the 2 coins I gave you! Because of greed, you do not even count the money I gave you, next time it is better to be honest!
Since then, Zhuji folk to "three nine twenty-nine" a phrase to ridicule and rebuke those who want to covet a small profit and the result of the wrong brain ride confused people, until now, the circulation is unending.
Small customs in the countryside
Zhuji is known for its deep cultural deposits, and therefore scattered in the folk of the small customs, but also contains the flavor of the cultivation and study of the family, although not seen in the past, but also uninterrupted, and has been passed down to the present day. Today, choose one or two small customs, for knowledge and appreciation.
▲Whenever a relative sends us a grown-up chicken (which can also be purchased) to keep, the housewife will carry the chicken in her hand, and then she will take the chicken to the hospital, where it will be eaten. The woman will always carry the chicken in one hand and wrap it around her crotch for three or five times, alternating between the two hands. It is said that such a wrap can prevent strange chickens from wandering around and getting lost.
▲In order to eliminate rats, cats, especially big cats, are brought into the house. Instead of sending the cat directly to the home, the cat is placed in the back window at the foot of the wall, and then a rope is lowered from the upstairs back window to secure the cage, and then slowly suspended up, and then lifted the cage and released the cat to have a good meal. This way, the cat will not escape from its mother's house and sneak out of the house.
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Zhuji folk custom, the daughter of the new marriage as a daughter-in-law, the next year Qingming, the parents to take items to visit their daughters. On the one hand, it means that parents love their daughters y, and on the other hand, it is for their daughters to raise their face.
Looking at the girl items are quite abundant, in addition to some ordinary Yan Yue fruit, reunion fruit, there are many pomegranate fruit, generation fruit, which symbolizes the reproduction of children and grandchildren, from generation to generation; there are sedan chair fruit, double cherry fruit, double-headed mandarin ducks fruit, is to wish that husband and wife love, old age; there are longevity peach fruit, Yuan Bao fruit, is looking forward to the home of the old generation of good health and good health, good fortune and longevity. These fruits, together with candies, fried rice cakes, water chestnuts, sugar cane, etc., are put together into a basket, which is picked up by the parents and brothers and taken to the daughter's home.
Subsequent to the Dragon Boat Festival, the mother's family will prepare mung bean cake, tea eggs, May peaches, Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings, and dozens of finely woven wheatgrass fans to visit their daughters. The in-laws, on the other hand, will be the mother's family picked gifts to the neighbors, close friends and relatives, to show that harmony, mutual help and sincere greetings.
Celebrating Birthdays
Zhuji custom "birthday" and "birthday" is a big deal. The so-called "birthday" is the name of a person who is between 1 and 30 years of age, and after 50 years of age, it can be called "birthday".
The baby croaked, parents and elders, is undoubtedly a great joy, to the age of one year, the grandmother's family picked clothes, shoes and hats, dumplings, pastries, fruit and eggs to visit. The host family will be fruit, eggs and pastries, put in a small plate, and presented to the neighbors, polite neighbors are given back a small amount of money to congratulate, commonly known as "centennial money". Celebrate the birthday of the first to tell everyone about the joy, the second to enhance the friendship between neighbors. Thereafter, 10 years old, 20 years old, by grandparents or uncles, aunts and uncles to send some clothes and shoes and socks, to celebrate. 30 years old, 40 years old due to the life of the career, family development of the prime time, generally busy, the birthday is ignored.
To the age of 50, if the grandparents, daughter and son-in-law will be in the year of 49, to bring a basket head, send clothes, shoes and hats, in order to show filial piety. 60 years old, 70 years old birthday celebration is still very popular. Another 63 years old, there is a "carp to cross the beach" said the son-in-law daughter to buy a large carp to parents. 66 years old, the daughter to send 66 pieces of roasted meat to parents, because of zhuji ancient custom in the "sixty-six, Yama wants to eat meat," the language. It is said that only the daughter to honor this kind of filial piety, the old man can get through the fate of the disaster.
80, 90-year-old old man, the village known as the longevity of the elderly, children and grandchildren, of course, are also happy to celebrate, the scene is lively.