What should we eat during the 2021 Ghost Festival? Food culture of the Ghost Festival on July 15
The Ghost Festival is a special day. People choose to use special foods to eliminate negative energy, absorb dirt, and stay away from bad luck. So, what should we eat on the Ghost Festival in 2021? What does the food culture of the Ghost Festival on July 15th have to do with? What are the taboos and precautions in the lunar calendar for July? The special topic on the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2021 has also provided answers for you. You can click on Shuimo.com to check the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2021.What should we eat during the 2021 Ghost Festival?——Eat duck (go eat some roast duck to calm your nerves)“Duck” means “pressure”, which is a homonym for “pressure”. Eating duck is to suppress ghosts. Therefore, eating duck is a custom that is practiced all over the country during the Ghost Festival. ——Steamed Lamb In old Beijing and rural areas of North China, it is a popular custom for grandfathers and uncles to give live sheep to their nephews on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month. Legend has it that this custom is related to the legend of Chenxiang splitting the mountain to save his mother. After Chenxiang split the mountain to save his mother, he wanted to hunt down his uncle Erlangshen who abused his mother. In order to restore the friendship between brother and sister and uncle and nephew, Erlangshen would send Chenxiang a pair of live sheep (taking the homonym of Erlangshen and Chenxiang's mother's surname "Yang") on July 15th every year to restore the friendship between the two families. ——Eating dumplings In Tiantai, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, people eat dumplings during the Ghost Festival. According to legend, the dumpling rolls were left by Jigong: When Jigong was a monk at Guoqing Temple, he saw a lot of food left over from every meal and thought it was a waste. These dishes would be wrapped in hulatai skin and eaten at the next meal. This practice was loved by monks and thus spread among the people. Food culture of the Ghost Festival on July 15The food customs of the Zhongyuan Festival are closely related to the activities of ancestor worship and ghost worship on this day.July is the beginning of autumn, when some crops mature. People usually worship their ancestors and offer sacrifices with new rice to report the harvest to them. Volume 1 of Song Dynasty's "Dongjing Menghualu" said: "On the day before the Zhongyuan Festival, people buy lotus leaves and cover the table tops during sacrifices. They also buy hemp nests and tie them to the legs of the table to inform their ancestors of the autumn harvest." In some places, fruits unique to this time of year are prepared. During the Ghost Festival in Huilai County, Guangdong, seven kinds of fruits are made: bride's widow, lotus leaf bag, triangular building, hexagonal building, chicken ball, pomegranate and another common fruit. In Chao'an, Guangdong, a variety of fruits are also produced during the Ghost Festival. One of them is called "carp fruit". It is made by wrapping rice stuffing in glutinous rice skin and shaping it into the shape of a carp. The skin is red and it is used to embellish the festival's ancestor worship items. |
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