Speaking taboos
In the fishermen's home to eat, the fish is indispensable, to turn the fish over, you can not say turn over, you have to say "turn over" or "paddle over"; when eating dumplings, you can not say "down dumplings" should say "boiled dumplings"; after eating chopsticks should be placed on the table, not on the bowl; fishermen burning dumplings, not on the table. When eating dumplings, one should not say "dumplings" but "boiled dumplings"; chopsticks should be placed on the table after eating, not on the bowl; fishermen use coal as a fuel for cooking, but they don't say "coal" but "zazi" because, in their opinion, "coal" means "mold". "
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New boat eye-dotting
Fishermen see the fishing boat as their partner, is to rely on the survival of the dependence, therefore, the fishermen love and care for it, and endowed with the spirit of the past, the wooden fishing boat each boat do a pair of protruding out of the eyes like a big fish, the new boat was built, only painted eyes, not eyes, and so on the auspicious day, the owner of the boat will be banging gongs and drums and firecrackers, and personally eye-dotting for the new boat, the other fishermen will be Shouting the horn of good luck, the new red and green boat step by step from the shore to move down to the sea.
Festival offerings
Anciently, fishermen mainly honored the Dragon King, the Goddess of the Sea, and the God of Wealth, and made offerings according to certain festivals. On the night of New Year's Eve or the morning of the first day of the year, fishermen went to the temple of the Dragon King and the temple of the Goddess of the Sea to burn incense and bow to worship, or went to the seashore to set up offerings, burn incense and paper, and prayed to the gods to bless a year of peace; fishermen's homes are provided with the God of Fortune, and every time they go out to sea, fishermen have to put up three columns of incense according to the custom in order to ask for the gods to be able to bless them.
Sacrificing the God of Fishery
Fishermen first go out to sea to pull the net, when the fish caught, first of all to practice the big fish steamed in the plate, in the bow of the boat to lay wine burning incense, praying for the Dragon King blessing the sea to get rich. Several boats together to catch fish, whose boat first hit the fish, firecrackers, drums and gongs, and pick the biggest and best fish for the bow.
Observation of the Dragon Wind
The day of the twenty-fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, known as the "Dragon Wind Day" is said to be the Dragon King on this day to foretell the flavors of the year, the middle of the night, the fishermen get up to observe the weather, the size of the wind, the wind direction and the position and brightness of the stars, divining the weather for a year because the sea to do the job is not the most concerned about the rain, snow, sand and dust. The most important thing is not rain, snow, sand and dust, but the wind.
Rongcheng fishermen historically have the custom of the rain festival. As the saying goes, "Once the rain arrives, a hundred fish come ashore". Originally, the winter swim to the deep sea and the southern waters of the shrimp, yellowtail, scallop, mackerel, mackerel, pomfret ...... once the rain, and successively swam back to the Yellow Sea, the Bohai Sea for food and spawning. Rongcheng around the sea is the fish must pass through the place, this time more fish, fish, is the golden season of fishing. Thus, fishermen can go out to sea continuously for more than a month after the Grain Rain Festival. The traditional fishermen's festival is as grand as the New Year. In the days leading up to the festival, families are busy killing chickens and ducks, buying meat and making wine, and women steam jujube preserves, which symbolize good luck. Interestingly, the women who are skillful in making dough make white rabbits and steam them. In the morning of the rainy season, when their husbands come home from fishing with a big fish, they unexpectedly slip the white rabbit into his arms. "It is an old local custom to let their husbands carry the white rabbit as a symbol of good luck, so as to wish their loved ones a safe voyage and a good catch of fish. On the day of the rainy season, every house is filled with cigarettes and firecrackers. Fishermen carry the whole pig to the beach to set up offerings, sea prayers for a good harvest, to protect the peace. After the sacrifice, they or sit on the pit of the captain's house, or in the fishing port pier, the seaside beach get-together, large pieces of meat, big bowl of wine, boxing guessing order, drink to their heart's content, must want to - drunkenness. It is an ancient custom in fishing villages to drink a lot of wine on the Grain Rain Festival, and it is said that this is the only way to have good luck in the year. If the leftover wine to take home, the year will be bad luck. Since 1991, Rongcheng City to carry forward the traditional folk culture, promote the development of fisheries production, the prosperity of the emerging tourism industry for the purpose of combining traditional customs with the new ideas of the times, integration of tourism and economy as a whole, culture and entertainment with the prosperity of the commodity economy *** with the purpose of organizing the Fishermen's Festival, one every year, starting from April 20, the festival period of three days. The first festival was attended by 100,000 fishermen and Chinese and foreign guests. At the opening ceremony, more than 600 people performed a large group song and dance, "Fishermen Celebrate the Harvest," which included traditional dances such as "Niangniang Sends the Lights," "Bamboo Barrel Dance," "Running the Dry Boat," and "The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea. Fishermen have traditionally sacrificed to the sea, have invited Chinese and foreign visitors from afar to drink with them to celebrate the harvest, visitors can take this opportunity to the fishing village, into the fishermen's home, in the festive atmosphere of the customs, a glimpse of the fishing village style. At the same time, the fishermen carried out a number of competitions in the sea, such as rowing, sculling, pulling boats and weaving nets, which are rich in the characteristics of fishing villages. At night, in Shidao Harbor held a sea lantern festival. Rongcheng coast widely spread the story of the goddess of the sea to raise the red lamp for fishermen to navigate. In honor of the Goddess of the Sea, every year during the rainy season, every household hangs a lantern for good luck. According to this custom organized by the sea lantern festival. Everywhere shows the characteristics of the fishing village, more than 70 masterpieces of colored lanterns, arranged in the thousands of meters of the port coast, fireworks and water against the light, the scene is very spectacular, lamps in the "Carp Jump Dragon Gate", "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea," "Lotus Fairy Traditional themes such as "Carp Jump Dragon Gate", "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", "Lotus Fairy" and other traditional themes, but also reflect the reality of fishermen's lives, "modern fishing village" scenic group of lights. Flower exhibitions, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, local famous products, seafood exhibitions and economic and trade business fairs are also held during the festival. People who care about religious activities in the local Chisan Fahua Temple held a pilgrimage to worship Zhang Baogao and Yuanren Venerable Master.
Weihai dialect:
(1) the day, the ground, the sun is said to be the day. Venus said Maura star. Meteor said thief star. Rainbow reads reddish-red. Xia is said to burn red. Hail said Ling (read leng) son. Fog and rain said fog dew sprinkler. Eyes on the rain is said to sky clear rain, sunny day leakage. The wind is said to be contrary to the wind. Village said animal. Valley said hollow (read kuang). The mountain forest is said to be arashi. Plain said berth. The rock pile is said to be a rock boulder. Sea branch is said to harbor (read jiang). Pond said bay. The morning is said to be the first day of the week. At noon, it is said to be the morning. In the afternoon, it is said to be in the middle of the day, and in the morning, it is said to be in the middle of the day. Evening is said to be evening dark. Yesterday was night. A little while said no big, no big break. A large period of time is said to be the old time to rest, old a while. Just now said just (read jiang) just, only just. Suddenly said suddenly pull, big not see children, cold alone.
(2) address grandfather said grandfather. Grandmother said mother-in-law. Father said father, big. Uncle said grandfather. Auntie said big mom. Aunt said aunt, aunt mom. Grandfather is called Master. Grandmother said grandma. Auntie said real mother. Men call their wives their children's mothers, my family. A woman calls her husband her father, her husband's husband. You say that. The other two are the ones that are not.
(3) Personnel, action Engaged to be married is said to break kiss. The first thing you need to do is to get together and work together. The first thing I'd like to say is that I'd like to be close to you, and I'd like to see you. To be estranged is said to be a relative. Hating is said to be a blessing and a nuisance. Trouble is said to be bad. Asking for help is said to be urgent. Conceding defeat is said to be a straw chicken. Unexpectedly said that I did not expect to see. I don't care to listen to it, I don't listen to it, I don't listen to it. Not often said that the code. Not careful said to play with the ear mixing. Various reasons are said to be three sevens and seven kudzu. Many said ZhuoShi. Deception said bear people, coaxing people. Taunt said impetuous slander. Bullying is said to be strong, look at the bear. A good joke is said to be playful, away from the theater. Good to tease and cheat people said monkey slippery. Not serious said to play horse flow. Not doing his job is said to flow ball. Stubbornness is called obstinacy. Spreading falsehoods is said to be in the middle of the mouth and tongue. Behind the scenes is said to be chattering. Stingy said stingy, clip Qi. Muddle said two paste. Short hearted said less page liver, half pull shaggy (biao). Silly said shaggy. Simple and stupid said two tiger, two not rash. Cutting is said to be hinged. Spoiled said defeat fold. The fall is said to knock (ka). Chopsticks said to clip the food said to be. Smell is said to listen to the flavor. Come to play is said to stand.
(4) food, cooking steamed buns, round said paradox, rectangular said rolls, two pointed said curium. Cake is said to poa. Barley fried noodles is said to burnt noodles. Fritters said Ma Teng. Eat said bite (read dai). Eating is said to eat rice, sip rice. Steaming is said to cook in a small amount of water.
(5) the shape of the object, the color hard said nail hard. Soft said thin soft. Round said dough. Rolling hot said square rolling old hot. Cool is said to be cold. Bright said shiny. Red is red. Transparent red. Yellow is burnt yellow. Blue is blood blue. White is white. Black is said to ink black, black. Green is said to be blood green.
(6) animals, birds, birds, insects bull said bullock, cow said set. Male donkey said donkey, female donkey said grass donkey. Small pig said tied pig (sold tied legs). Half a big pig said Klang. Ducks said ducks. Pigeon said pigeon. Crow said black crow. The hundred souls are said to be the old family roar. The bat is called Yuanbao bat. The jumping frog is said to be green. Barking frogs are said to be swollen drums. The toad said scabies. Tadpole said Gege dang. Grasshopper said grasshopper (read guai) son. Cicada said know (read jie). Cicada larvae said ant la monkey. Spider said leleju. Ants said nymph ants look. Praying mantis said knife mantis. The human stinging caterpillar is said to peel the stinging hair. Pike crab said flying crab. Crab said red armor red.
(7) tin inlaid tea Weihai tin inlaid tea nearly a hundred years of history, it is the Yixing zisha pottery for pots, tin forging, sculpture, inlaid, polished, after a dozen processes. Refined into a handicraft. Tin inlaid tea set was founded in the late Qing Dynasty. 1890, around the local Gujiatong Village, Valley Baohe, Valley and brothers in the East Pier near the copper and tin store, the two experimented for many years to create a tin inlaid process, the products are very fast sales abroad. 1984, the Valley family descendants of the Valley Zuwei to return to their ancestral home, the capital to open the "Weihai tin inlaid craftsmen," so that the tin inlaid tea sets. Tea set reappeared. Weihai tin inlaid tea set, inlaid parts of exquisite, beautiful tin pattern, pattern has "eight immortals across the sea", "dragon and phoenix", "pine and crane" and so on many kinds of.
(8) Folk Food Wendeng and Lushan, mountainous and near the sea, folk food is often both mountainous and coastal characteristics.
Weihai local customs - Rongcheng Ba Ba
Corn cakes are found in many places in the north. Rongcheng's soybean-flour poi is a member of the corncake family, and is also a treasure in this family. New corn and new soybeans mixed three to two, ground on a stone mill, that is, with new noodles under the pot. It is not good if the grain is not new, it is not good if it is ground on a machine mill, it is not good if the corn and soybeans are ground separately and then mixed, and it is not good if the ground flour is stored for a little while. When doing poop, first half-boiling water to scald the noodles, not too much water, and water and repeatedly after the fist pounding pestle and mortar, and from time to time to add a little cold water, so that the noodles in the growth of white foam, proverb: "to be sweet, a hundred fists." When the white foam is full of pots, pinch a small amount of noodles, use a bowl to hold water, put the noodles in the water, if it is scattered and sinking, that is, then mix and pound until the noodles are fully mixed with the foam, pinch the noodles and put them in the bowl to float and not sink, which is qualified. Before making poi, add water to the iron pot, not too much, heating to the sound of water, dough two or three times to form (if repeated dough, the face is hard, not good), one by one paste in the pot, because the face is soft, poi paste in the pot, will be down - sinking, slightly flattened at the top end, the bottom end of the shape of the rounded full. Always burn water in a slow and steady fire, and when the poi is cooked, it will be burnt at the pot and will be soft and sweet. If the fish is simmered at the same time, the poi and the fish come out of the pot together, and the lower end of the poi is oily and stained, and you can eat the poi with the fish, which is also rare in fishing villages.
Weihai customs - kelp grass room
Rongcheng and other coastal, there are many long and thin kelp grass, fresh, green and lovely, by the tide rolled into a ball on the beach, after drying into a purple-brown color, strands of pliable. Coastal residents take it to thatch the house. Room thatched grass is extremely thick, the two slopes are very steep, the ridge is rounded, live up to the winter warm and cool in the summer, not elsewhere in the simple straw room can be compared. The shape, color, group layout of this straw house has a unique interest, many painters, photographers fell in love at first sight, and refused to leave. Painter Wu Guanzhong in Rongcheng kelp straw house made many sketches, but also left a record of the text: "Seaside very few trees cover, that yellow-gray and green-gray hard reefs and stone houses on the hard gang gang protruding in the blue sea. Raging sea crashed into the hard reef, who did not retreat, which nurtures the character of the fishermen, but also is the reason why people come from afar to find the sea fishing village. A glance at the fisherman's yard, immediately give you square, stable, heavy feeling. Large stones into a rugged wall, the selection of materials with the square on the round, solid wall pattern rules also have the flexibility, simple in the United States, composed of a square, round, horizontal, diagonal, large, small, curved, straight stone symphony. Triangular large mountain wall in the overall tone of the square courtyard painted a rich geometric changes, it shoulders the roof of the house covered with a thick layer of grass roof. That kind of algae seagrass with antiseptic, can withstand decades, to keep warm in winter and cool in summer, and that the soft texture of the grass, reconciled with the hard stone, but also to make the roof slightly gently curved body. Some people will waste fishing nets set on the grass roof, probably wind, as if the women's hairnet, but also add a few points of beauty!" The advantages of this kind of grass house is too much, the performance in recent years in the construction of new housing wave, still can not be eliminated soon it. Rongcheng's Slangdao Township, Madao Township, Chengshan Township and other places are still retained in the picture of a large swath of kelp grass houses. Wedding customs of Weihai people
Generally, before getting married, you have to fix the marriage, which is called Tongri by Yantai people, that is to say, you have to set a specific date for the marriage. Then some customs for the marriage can be agreed upon. Of course, Yantai has some small customs of marriage and betrothal, you do not have to do it according to, as long as both parents feel good on it. If that's what you want to know then you can leave me a message. Personally, I think it's better to do something new.
Yantai has a local rules, marriage is to wear red shoes, in fact, we do not like red shoes, after the also can not wear, but generally the old man is picking this, comb, copper basin, mirror, and red baggage, these are the day of the wedding to take, but also for the groom to buy clothes and shoes, to the mother-in-law to buy shoes. Prepare a red basin, inside the mirror, comb, soap box, soap, a pair of each. Then tie two peanuts, two chestnuts, two cinnamon balls, two ........ What else? I forgot. Basin also put red packets, I forget.
Finally, wrap the red basin with a red wrapper. When you enter the in-laws' home, someone has to take it from the bridesmaids. It's called "receiving blessings".
In fact, a place a custom, not too much to say. In addition, there will be a red box, I forgot what to put.
Only remember to the in-laws, father-in-law with a rolling pin wrapped in red cloth in the box around the beating, and then open. And then put the prepared press box money inside.