"From year to year, Northeast Changchun is too lively, and every household has ice lamps, paper cuts, and sticky bean bags." A few days ago, a reporter from China City Daily interviewed Cao Baoming, a well-known cultural scholar and folklore expert in Jilin Province, to further understand the authentic traditional culture of Changchun. "As the saying goes: 'From year to year, when the cake and sugar are sacrificed, the girl wants flowers, the boy wants cannons, the old man has a big felt hat, and the old lady eats sticky bean buns.'" Nowadays, in the northeast Of china, Changchun New Year, this has become a unique fashion. Cao Baoming said.
Residents of Changchun City, Jilin Province, went to the battle to pack spring festival sticky bean buns. Courtesy of Cao Baoming
According to reports, in the traditional farming customs of northeast China, every New Year, every household must wrap sticky bean bags. Because Changchun is a city formed by farmers in North China after breaking into the Kanto Region, and it is also an important area of farming culture in Northeast China, it is common to make full use of local agricultural resources and the custom of sticking bean buns for the New Year.
The China City Daily reporter learned that the production of sticky bean bags requires raw materials such as rhubarb rice, glutinous rice, and red kidney beans. In Changchun, yellow rice is abundant throughout the mountains. Near the Spring Festival, Changchun people will ask each other: Is your family panning for rice? How much rice did his family dig for? Therefore, "tao rice" in Changchun symbolizes the New Year.
Cao Baoming recalled that many years ago, there was no real fine grain in Changchun, and the sticky bean bun was the fine grain in everyone's mouth. Nowadays, although people's living conditions are better, while eating rice and white noodles, they still miss the sweet and simple yellow rice bean buns. As a result, sticky bean buns have become a traditional annual food that Changchun people still attach great importance to.
"Bao bean bun, too big year, every family kang likes; wrapped out of the bean bun on the pot steaming, the aroma of cold wind sweet heart." For the people of Changchun, after the bean bag is wrapped, you can rejoice in the New Year. Cao Baoming said that many children and young people in Changchun will follow their grandparents to practice bean bags. Everyone told stories while packing, and the atmosphere was harmonious and harmonious.
It is worth mentioning that when the Changchun people pack bean buns in the New Year, they also have to wrap up a "bean bag king", which has a smiling face made of beans on it, so that people feel festive and auspicious.
Reporter: Juanhua Hu