Zhejiang Anji cats give birth to kittens. If someone wants to keep them, they can exchange them with salt. The cat is dead and must be hung on the tree.
Tajiks especially cherish food and salt, and those who step on salt and food with their feet are considered sinners. When you see salt and food falling on the ground, pick it up and put it on a high place where it is not easy to be trampled.
After Zhenyuan, Guizhou reported that the Dong youth in Beijing "begged for baskets", unmarried men and women tended to be mature in love and were ready to get engaged. The man should ask his familiar grandmother or aunt to be a "matchmaker" and go to the woman's house to get the consent of her parents. The matchmaker's gift to the matchmaker is very simple, that is, a piece of kraft paper wrapped in two things-half a catty of salt wrapped in yellow paper and two or two teas wrapped in white paper-is sent to the bride's parents. When the matchmaker sent this "brown paper bag", he realized that they had come to beg for a girl. After the matchmaker and the bride's family exchanged views on the spot, the bride's family accepted the gift to burn tea or not to burn tea, indicating whether they agreed or disagreed with the marriage. The woman took the "brown piece bag" and cooked it with salt, tea, glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour and lard. After being brought into the hall to worship the ancestors, she entertained the matchmaker, saying that the matchmaking was successful and the marriage was settled. If the bride does not accept this "brown film gift" and returns it to the matchmaker, it means that the bride does not agree to the engagement and the matchmaker falls through. Why do Dong people in Beijing use salt and tea as tokens of matchmaking? There is another pressure. It turns out that Dong people like to burn oil tea to entertain guests. The glutinous rice, glutinous rice and lard needed for burning camellia oleifera are produced locally by farmers themselves and can be self-sufficient. But reporting to Beijing does not produce salt. Nor does it produce tea. Located in a remote place, the traffic is inconvenient. Salt and tea are hard to buy, so they have become precious gifts. In addition, tea is sweet, which means this marriage is sweet and fragrant. It is beautiful for two families to get married. Salt is salty, which means that the girl to be pursued is virtuous (salty) and the man likes this girl very much. When Yao people entertain guests, chicken, meat and salt are placed in bowls in rows. Regardless of the host and guest, they should eat in turn and not eat indiscriminately. Every time a guest and an old man finish a bowl of rice, it is a woman who loads the rice. Salt plays a special role in Yao people's dietary customs. Yao area does not produce salt, but it cannot be short of salt. Salt is a great gift for Yao people to ask Taoist priests and their closest relatives, commonly known as "salt letter". Whoever receives the "salt letter" has to stay and keep the appointment on time, no matter how important it is.
At noon 12 o'clock on the Dragon Boat Festival in Quanzhou, every housewife often takes a little tea and salt, fry it in the pot until the salt turns black, and then wrap it up while it is hot as family medicinal tea. Whenever there is something wrong with the stomach during the summer heat, it is quite effective to brew and drink salt tea at noon.
Hakka people in Huiyang have the habit of scattering salt and rice when they pick up the bride. They put some salt, rice and black sesame seeds in the vessel in advance, that is, sprinkle some along the road on the way to pick up the bride. This is called offering sacrifices to the bridge god. Scattered along the road is to worship the road god, which is the custom of sprinkling salt and rice in Huizhou traditional wedding customs. The custom of sprinkling salty rice is actually a variation of the traditional wedding custom of China. "Paving grain beans" appeared in the Western Han Dynasty and prevailed in the north of Song Dynasty. Its traditional view is "eliminating three evils", that is, exorcising ghosts and evil spirits, which is not much different from Huiyang Hakka's "salted rice". It's just that "Sagudou" is mostly a relic in the north, but not common in the south, while Huiyang Hakka has it, which shows that the origin of Huiyang Hakka customs is very long.
Accepting talents, commonly known as bride price, is one of the wedding customs in southern Shanxi. The man should give the woman certain belongings, such as silver dollars, satin clothes, eight skirts, uppers, red and green handkerchiefs, etc. , generally means "perfect". The woman also gave some simple gifts in return, such as "the precious son of lotus peanut", a flour noodle, ten pomegranates, ten bags of bran wrapped in paper and salt. Its folk symbolic meaning is to wish you many children and grandchildren after marriage. After the salt is brought back to the man, it should be sprinkled on the in-laws and sister-in-law, indicating that there is a "strict (salt) law" between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law. The whole family, old and young, have the spirit of "Fu (Bran)". At the same time, salt is homophonic with life and contains the meaning of life. I hope the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are close. These gifts are light and heavy, and they are entrusted with the good wishes of the people.
When people in Shangzhou drink "Yuanfa Soup", the lights come on, and the whole family drinks noodle soup, which shows that the bride has become attached to the whole family. There are four poached eggs in the groom's bowl and four poached eggs in the bride's bowl. When seasoning, sister-in-law or elder sister put too much pepper and salt in the bride's bowl, so the bride must endure eating, and no leftovers are allowed.
This is an ancient custom in Yuhuan Fishing Village, Zhejiang Province. The sedan chair is married to her husband's family, placed in front of the brazier, sprinkled with salt, and the bride crosses the basin, thinking that it can break evil spirits. It has been abolished now.
Someone in Tiantai village, Zhejiang province has nameless swelling and pain, so the old woman is asked to wipe the swelling and pain with fried salt or rice vinegar and yellow wine in her hair, which is called "catching ghost arrows". After a few times, she can recover.
"Silkworm Birthday" in Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province is a unique custom in Silkworm Township. In the past, silkworm farmers in Tongxiang always held birthday ceremonies for silkworms in December of the lunar calendar every year. On this day, people mix pumpkins and glutinous rice flour to make yellow cocoons, commonly known as cocoons. Fill bowls and pots with thousands of vegetarian dishes, such as dried tofu, so as to light candles, burn incense and worship in front of the kitchen god. Then, the master will take out the silkworm eggs collected at home, sprinkle some salt grains (commonly known as salted eggs) and wrap them up. When it is sent to the kitchen on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, take out the silkworm eggs, shake off the salt particles, rinse them with water, and hang them in the shade to dry. It can be hatched in Grain Rain next year. It is said that if you give a silkworm a birthday, it will be disease-free and the cocoon will be as big and strong as a cocoon ring. There is such a record in Pu Yuanzhi of the Republic of China: "The custom of the twelfth lunar month is called silkworm life, and the cocoon ring is called powder bait to worship the stove." A Qing poet Chen Zi once wrote a "Cocoon Round Song": "Golden eggs and pigeons are round, and hot soup is boiling in a small pot. This year's birthday is full of powder cocoons, and there will be 100 thousand cocoons on the mountain next year. " It can be seen that this custom has been circulating for a long time. In fact, asking the Kitchen God to celebrate the silkworm's birthday can't eliminate the silkworm disease, but sprinkling some salt particles on the silkworm eggs can not only sterilize and disinfect, but also stimulate the silkworm eggs, which is of great benefit to hatching in the future.
The monks in Shaolin Temple save salt in cooking, which is said to be because they get rid of sweat beads.
Jing people have many taboos in their production and life, such as fishing nets on the beach and bowls on the boat. On the first and fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people are forbidden to borrow fire and salt from outside.
In some areas of Guangdong, the people gave salt a lovely nickname called "Shang Wei". Yiyang cinnabar salted egg is a convenient food suitable for both travel and home. People eat salted eggs the most in spring and summer, especially during the Dragon Boat Festival. Eating salted eggs has become a custom. As the saying goes, "Eating salted eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival will destroy the stone", which means that eating salted eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival can not only clear away heat and detoxify, but also strengthen the leg strength and crush the stone. Therefore, Hong Kong and Macao compatriots highly admire this custom, and they must choose to eat the famous brand cinnabar salted eggs produced in Yiyang during the Dragon Boat Festival.
On the grassland in northern Tibet, there is a special custom called carrying salt. According to tradition, every year at the turn of winter and spring, herders in northern Tibet will lead hundreds of yaks into the grasslands further north. Their destination is the salt lake in the north, where they will extract bags of salt and then carry it back to their hometown with yaks. This kind of salt transportation takes as little as one month and as much as two or three months. The purpose of salt mining activities of herdsmen in northern Tibet is not only to eat for themselves, but also to exchange agricultural products with residents in agricultural areas. Northern Tibet is not suitable for agricultural production due to climatic and environmental reasons, and agricultural production can only be carried out in the Yarlung Zangbo River basin in the south. In order to obtain food and other agricultural products, the ancestors of herdsmen in northern Tibet thought of exchanging salt with farmers. Slowly, this kind of exchange became a custom of communication between pastoral areas and agricultural areas in Tibet, called salt and grain exchange. People in rural areas of Qinghai generally don't drink green tea and rarely drink black tea. Instead, I like brown and slightly astringent Fu tea cooked in copper pots, aluminum pots or ceramic pots. I generally like to drink tea from Yiyang and Linxiang in Hunan. Fu tea is pressed tea, which looks like a brick, commonly known as "brick tea" or "Fu brick". When cooking tea, you usually add a little salt to the tea, which is slightly salty and called "green tea". People in rural areas of Qinghai often say: "People who have no money are ghosts. Tea is salt-free and water-like. "