City related information:
Chinese Name: Maoming City
Foreign language names: Maoming, Maoming
Alias: Southern Petroleum City
Administrative category: prefecture-level cities
Region: South China, China?
Government Resident: No.2, Liu Youcheng Road, Maonan District
Location: Southwest of Guangdong Province, east of the middle reaches of Jianjiang River.
Dialects: Cantonese-Maoming vernacular, Hakka-Ya dialect, Minnan-Li dialect, etc.
Famous scenic spots: Fushanling, Hutou Mountain, Jifang Island, China First Beach, Sendai Temple, Yushui Gu Quan, etc.
Local customs:
1, eat mugwort leaves in the off-season:
The last day of the first lunar month is "Authentic Festival", which means the end of the first lunar month. "Authentic Festival" has another meaning in Maoming, because the local "authentic" and "authentic" are homophonic, and "authentic" means "steaming poverty", which means bringing poor patients from into thin air. On this day, every household in rural areas drinks mugwort tea, inserts mugwort flowers and eats mugwort.
People go to the fields to pick wormwood, take it home, wash it, dry it, rub it into velvet, put it in a pot, rub it dry, and rub it into wormwood leaves with rice flour and brown sugar. Artemisia argyi has the functions of removing dust and deposits, eliminating disasters and ward off evil spirits; Therefore, Huang Ai is also called "the poor". Eating "the poor" can make people healthy, and people like to eat it very much.
Cook on the 2nd, 26th and 7th.
Maoming people have the habit of cooking every year on the 26th or 27th day of the twelfth lunar month.
3. Post Spring Festival couplets on New Year's Eve to keep lucky money.
The last day of December in the lunar calendar is New Year's Eve, which is called New Year's Eve or New Year's Eve in Maoming. On this day, the production activities in rural areas basically stopped, and every household began to paste Spring Festival couplets and door gods, and put Li on their doorknobs. Kitchen stoves, water tanks, pigsty, cowshed and grain barrel should also begin to stick a piece of Zhang Xiaohong paper to show good luck.
There are also some sacrificial activities, such as preparing tables for chicken, pork and fish, burning paper and incense to worship ancestral temples, temples, countries, ancestors, kitchen gods and so on.