Source: Life on a String Author: Peace Tree I remember many years ago in Kunyang city school days, Kunming, ao the two students for those of us from the head of "Minnan dialect" and is always full of contradictory moods. One hand, they had to admit, "Oh, the rich head of people Duman," On the one hand they did not forget to add a "but-head style is that we do not place a very Pingyang Jesus," Let's dumbfounding. In fact, the head of the magnificent style Cantabile dream, poetic painting, come in handy, have a deep flavor ... ...
Shueiduei leisurely head in vertical and horizontal streams, water sufficient, by definition called the "head." Bo, head of people are using Shueiduei Tsuishine, Shueiduei generally located in the river quay thatched room, and outside the building with flume, the impact of diversion canal attracted streams of wood under the wheels, to make it non-stop rotation, driven stone pestle stone mortars in the attack of rice, or drive large stone milling. When the river water level is low, people tend to be placed in the stream is equipped with irrigation bamboo and bamboo leaves circular cylinder car, to promote the use of water to stream onto the work of canal driven stone pestle. In the power supply was still not common era, the people of Tsuishine Shueiduei to the head or the paper has brought great convenience to the development of height, only to head just a 1000-meter-long bixi in its river port on it since the last while There next followed by Shi Jing pestle, oil truck pestle, South Gate pestle, quay four Shueiduei pestle. When the power supply gradually into the ordinary household, the rolling Rice Mill gradually replaced the Shueiduei status, and accompanied by splashed water sound, light incense Shueiduei rice in the river shore were also gradually disappeared. However, when the head of people referred to "six pestle" These words have become the names, the mind will flash a faint nostalgia and love that weave over the old Shueiduei to.
77 to give a "clever"
Every seventh day before and after the Lunar New Year in July, the water in New Town where his daughter married people, they have to prepare food to her daughter on a 5-like "sending clever," respectively, is made of rice flour mixed with brown sugar, sesame, "clever food" and "Ma mouth ", melon seeds, peanuts and fried fennel cooked beans, daughter, son-in-family blessing Meaning of ingenuity, happy happy. In particular, that Metric "the cleverest food", or the system for the fat-Fu shape, tongue, finger-like, or dip dyed colored pigments, or a folder on the candy hearts hemp hearts, indeed, recruit people like, head to the streets there is a specially crafted Ma mouth pastry decades old shop has an endless stream customers. With the development of the times in recent years, her parents give her daughter "Send clever" content is also gradually be transformed into water, jelly, beverage, candy and other items of. A similar style also head of the Dragon Boat Festival the following year, newly-married couple in marriage before the man give wife's father at home to send large yellow croaker, longevity noodles and other gifts, while the woman was sent home to give son new clothes, electric fans, air-conditioning and other "to send Dragon Boat Festival, "a salute.
Year old children had birthday celebrations head (head commonly referred to as "Big Day") is often the first major celebration of his life. On this day, small "long life" to wear grandma clothes sent a new hat, wear gold or silver, long life circle, longevity lock, bracelets and anklets, the boys wearing tiger-head shoes, meaning to embolden Qu Xie, girls wearing lotus shoes, which means beautiful Pingting. Then, at home, there are lucky enough to draft their elders Fu, the first stepped out on the ground of a pair of red turtle wheat, and then step on the red turtle chair placed in wheat, the final step on the table of red turtle wheat, meaning BBK l If a child learning to walk faster, you can embark on the red turtle wheat few times, to better attract adults praise. Red foot tortoise wheat, the rule should be put there Pengchu books, brush, abacus and other objects of grasping weeks disk, let the children a choice material to predict its future direction, as selected books, meaning clear to their children learned in the future, the election in the brush clear to superior literary talent in the future, making the calculations made clear in the future of good business savvy and so on, have a good population of different color.
WATER LANTERNS old dream, every lunar July 15 that the Hungry Ghost Festival, Water Town wealthy families will be raising funds to do "universal" People, by the monks set up the altar, chanting, put flame mouth, called "O-bon" . The evening, went to the bixi let WATER LANTERNS, that for the release souls from purgatory the souls of drowned persons. WATER LANTERNS, such as the size of those jobs, in order to log-chip dipping the bottom of the tung oil, surrounded by paste with red, green and other colors of paper, in the home white candle, lit one by one into the water, allowed to drift downstream. Lex Service shining little, rather like the Silver Star to do the dumping in the river, near the water, when one candle faint shadow each other, they sway of Health posture, just as full of colorful river resplendent lotus blossom, landscape Shashi blurred moving. With the progressive development of the times, which with a certain superstitious practices fade into the head of the history of the man-river bright WATER LANTERNS are no longer today's "small head" who see the.
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