Jingjiang was listed as an open area by the State Council, and joined the Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou Torch Belt, becoming an important "bridgehead" for Shanghai Pudong Development Zone and Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou Torch Belt to radiate to northern Jiangsu.
Jingjiang is a first-class strong city in the north of Jiangsu, leading the counties and cities in northern Jiangsu.
Jingjiang is a rare city in Jiangbei that speaks Wu dialect.
Jingjiang dialect belongs to Wu dialect-Taihu film-lamination.
Jingjiang culture belongs to Wu culture and culture, and Jingjiang people belong to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces.
custom
Temple Fair Custom: Jingjiang is a county with many temple fairs in history. At its peak, there were more than 65,438+060 temples, not including the land temples in every village.
Because there are many temples, there are naturally many temple fairs.
Temple fair is also called incense period, that is, the day when good men and women gather in the temple to burn incense.
Each temple has a different incense period.
Jingjiang has the saying "March 3rd, go to the lonely mountain".
There are four reminders in Chenghuang Temple: the 15th day of the first month, Tomb-Sweeping Day, July 30th and 10/day.
Other temples also have their own incense periods.
Temple fair is a sacred festival for good men and women.
On this day, they got up before dawn, fasted and bathed, put on clean and tidy clothes and walked to the temple with sachets on their backs.
The sachet is apricot yellow, with the words "pilgrimage to the mountains" on it, and it contains incense sticks and paper horses.
Spring Festival custom: On the first day of the first month, women don't cook breakfast on the stove, so as not to defile the gods. Let them take care of the children, so as not to cry. This painting has a good beginning.
Eating zongzi for breakfast is called "reunion"
For New Year greetings, peanuts, broad beans, melon seeds, sweets, etc. It is called "sweet mouth".
Eating wonton, jiaozi or leftover food on New Year's Eve means "more than a year".
In the afternoon, three or five people throw dice together, play cards and mahjong for fun, wash their hands and turn off the lights (the 18th day of the first month).
Throughout the day, people who "send the god of wealth" and "tune the black dragon" (begging in disguise) walked the streets, and folk cultural activities such as tuning dragon lanterns and dancing lions spread all over urban and rural areas.
In the evening, all families tell their children to go to bed early and don't turn on the light, which means not to interfere with the "rat marriage".
Households sweep the floor that night, but don't sweep the floor the next day. The next day is called a birthday.
Since the second day of junior high school, I have gone out to pay a New Year call.
The rule of New Year's greetings is to go first to close relatives, and then to distant relatives, which lasts until the seventh and eighth day of the seventh lunar month.
As the saying goes, "On the seventh and eighth day of the New Year, there is still wine left."
On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the god of wealth is respected, and merchant families in towns often offer sacrifices with heavy ceremonies.
Lantern Festival custom: Farmers make models of chickens, fish, pigs, ducks, cotton bags, fruits, etc. from rice scraps, color them and steam them, and offer them to the Buddha in the morning, burning incense and lighting candles, praying that "the five grains will be abundant and the six livestock will flourish".
Large market towns such as Beijing and Jishi also held lantern activities.
Dragon lanterns and flower boats in rural areas are also gathered in cities.
On this day, the temple is a natural incense period, and believers go to the temple to burn incense.
Young men and women, especially women, flock to the market to watch lights and plays.
Therefore, the girl born in the countryside is called "going to the streets on the first day of the first month".
On the 13th day of the first month, every family lights candles and holds lanterns in front of the Buddha at night. Neighbors got together and invited the "Nine Girls" to the Buddha and asked the girls about their stupidity and wisdom. Or invite "Tianhe girl", "ash pile girl" and "shit jar girl" to predict the good or bad luck of people and animals in those years.
If someone suffers from eye diseases, he also hopes to hang a "sky lantern" in the coming year.
tradition
String eight bombs, Jingjiang lecture, waist drum, mud dog, Gushan temple fair, little lion dance, lake boat swing, playing lotus township, yangko, dragon lantern dance and singing phoenix.
prescribe a diet
Breakfast is mainly porridge, soybean milk, bean curd, fried dough sticks, steamed rice, pancakes, steamed bread, sesame seed cakes and flour cakes.
The staple food of Chinese food is usually rice.
Light, delicious, not sweet or greasy.
The local area is close to the river and there are many aquatic products.
speciality
Jingjiang Dried Meat, Yangtze River Three Seasons, Crab Yellow Soup Bags, Mutton, Indica Porridge, Jishiluo Cake, Jiao, Maqiao Wonton, Chicken with Old Juice, Braised Toilet, Dumplings, Musk, Bamboo Shoots, Jinbo Wine, and Xiangsha Taro.