In Chengcun Town, Yangxi County, the "Chinese Oyster Township", there is a traditional custom of eating oysters and drinking oyster soup in the New Year, which symbolizes the luck of "oysters" in the coming year, wealth and auspiciousness. Today, the reporter will take you to walk through the villages and towns to experience the "oyster taste" in Yangxi and feel the strong atmosphere of the New Year.
At the Oyster Wharf in Hongguang Village, the villagers boil oyster sauce together at home, and the steaming mist is accompanied by the fresh oyster fragrance that fills the air, bringing a unique "Yangxi New Year flavor" and lighting up the "fireworks" of the New Year. It is understood that handmade oyster sauce is a traditional craft in Hongguang Village, which has a history of nearly 200 years. To make oyster sauce, the raw material used is Chengcun oysters produced in the village's 10,000 acres of mangrove forests, and it takes several days to make a pot of pure oyster sauce.
Villager:The oysters are cooked, filtered out, concentrated to one-third of the original amount, and then left for more than 10 days, filtered after more than 10 days, and then boiled and concentrated to become oyster sauce. The process of our oyster sauce is more complicated.
In the traditional local culture, oyster sauce symbolizes good luck and abundance, and oyster sauce, a product made from Chengcun oysters, symbolizes the good meaning of "good deeds". During the Chinese New Year, the villagers use the ancient method to boil oyster sauce and make oyster sauce, and give the oyster sauce oyster sauce as a New Year's gift to relatives and friends, conveying good wishes.
Villager:During the Spring Festival, every household makes some oysters and oyster sauce and gives them to relatives and friends, implying good deeds. Good luck in the New Year, everyone got together for a meal and had a great time.
Zhang Xiaoye, Propaganda Committee of Chengcun Township Party Committee:The villagers of our town gather together to make oysters and oyster sauce to pray for good weather and a good harvest in the coming year. This kind of traditional folk customs enriches the spiritual life of the villagers and is also the inheritance of traditional culture.
It is understood that Chengcun oysters are a national geographical indication product with a long history and profound cultural heritage. From the land to the sea, from the sea to the dining table, the residents of Hongguang Village, Chengcun Town, have relied on the sea to eat the sea for generations, and have made a living by raising oysters, forming a unique oyster culture. During the Spring Festival, every household makes oysters, oyster sauce and other delicacies, and the lively and joyful scene makes people feel the strong flavor of the New Year and the human touch, and the "taste of home" is also interpreted more vividly here. During the Spring Festival, tourists can walk through Chengcun and taste authentic Chengcun oysters and feel the unique charm of this town.