1, diet
Shandong daily dietary customs, as a whole, belongs to the northern type, its distinctive personality, unique diet and cooking techniques, in China's food culture occupies an important position. Its distinctive personality, unique food style and cooking skills occupy an important position in China's food culture. The flavor of its dishes is known as one of the four major flavors in China, and is named "Lu Cuisine", which is famous both at home and abroad.
Shandong daily diet, seasonal customs, has a deep cultural heritage, especially daily dietary practices, is the closest to the people's lives of the intangible cultural heritage.
2. Residence
The residents of Shandong have various forms of residence, such as scattered residence, courtyard, triad, mansion and manor. Diaspora compounds do not have courtyard walls and gates, not connected to the right and left neighboring houses, but a household, a household and the boundaries between households are clearly defined, and each housing platform is a separate yard. This kind of scattered courtyard is mostly found in the Yellow River beach area and the northwestern plains of Lu.
3. Dialect
Shandong dialect is the unique cultural heritage of Shandong people. Although Shandong dialect belongs to the northern dialect, it has its own unique personality in pronunciation and differs greatly from the northern dialects represented by Beijing dialect and Northeast dialect.
Shandong New Year's Customs
1. Resignation of the Stove
Like other regions, the "New Year's Eve" of the people of Shandong begins on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, the "New Year's Day." The "New Year's Day" is a time when the people of Shandong celebrate the New Year with their children. "Xiaonian", the old days called "quit stove day". Legend has it that this is the day when the Zaowang master goes up to the sky to report to the Jade Emperor about the situation of the family. Therefore, on this day, people should be in the home "sacrificial stove", set up offerings to the God of the stove, sent to the sky to report on their work, in order to pray for good luck.
On this day, the home will also carry out a comprehensive cleaning, known as "dust sweeping". "Dust sweeping" means that all the old "bad luck", "poor luck" to sweep away, so as to meet the new face of the New Year's blessings into the door.
2, posting Spring Festival couplets, posting Fu
New Year's Eve posting Spring Festival couplets, Fu, is a Chinese tradition, Shandong is no exception. On the 30th day of the New Year, from the moment you get up in the morning, all kinds of New Year's activities start in sequence, which is the busiest and happiest day of the year. Putting up spring couplets and lucky charms is usually done on the morning of the New Year's Eve in Shandong.
3, please family hall
New Year's Eve busy day, to the evening, the main event of the day began - please family hall. "Please Jiatang", that is, to hold a ceremony to the deceased ancestors, relatives invited home for the New Year, in Shandong, this is the most solemn and serious annual activities on the thirtieth day of the New Year.
Extended Information:
Religion:
There are five main religions in Shandong Province: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Christianity (Protestantism).
Buddhism and Taoism have a history of more than a thousand years in Shandong, and Islam has developed mainly since the 13th century with the migration of Hui Muslims to Shandong. Catholicism and Christianity spread rapidly, mainly after the Opium War.
In 1990, there were 1.2 million believers, 3,040 places of religious activity and 2,578 religious clergymen in Shandong province.
Diet:
Lu Cuisine is an important part of China's food culture, one of the eight major Chinese cuisines, with its fresh, salty and crunchy flavor, unique flavor, and fine production is renowned at home and abroad. The province's geographic differences, thus forming the coastal Jiaodong cuisine and inland Jinan cuisine, as well as a self-contained system of the Kongfu cuisine three systems. After the Song Dynasty, it became one of the representatives of "Northern Food". From Qilu to Jinggi, from Guan'an to Guanwai, the influence has reached the Yellow River Basin and Northeast China, and it has a broad dietary mass base. Lu Cuisine is one of the most widely covered local flavor dishes in China, spreading all over Beijing, Tianjin, Tangshan and the three northeastern provinces.
Reference:Shandong-Baidu Encyclopedia