Wenzhou folk have always had the traditional custom of pounding rice cakes for the Spring Festival, in order to carry forward the traditional culture, let the citizens feel the "New Year's flavor". Recently, the Confucius Cultural Auditorium in Kunyang Town, Pingyang County, carried out the activity of "pounding rice cakes to welcome the New Year".
At 9 o'clock in the morning, on the square of the cultural auditorium, the reporter saw that the stone grinder, steamer, mortar and other rice cake making tools were ready early. After the rice noodles were steamed, the volunteers put the steamed cake dough in a stone mortar and pounded it, one person lifted the "hammer" to pound the cake dough up and down, and the other person quickly turned the dough with his hands. Soon, the steaming brown sugar rice cake was made, and it smelled glutinous. After the rice cake is pounded, the children and parents who participated in the activity have gathered around the table and put the pounded rice cake into the mold to shape, some are made into ingots, and some are made into koi, which is lifelike, cute and interesting.
Everyone is gathered together, come here to add to the atmosphere of this New Year, in this glutinous rice fragrance, there is a strong New Year's flavor, and at the same time, it can also bring our friends and fellow villagers together to increase our hometown friendship." Dong Zhanbo, a native of Xinpingyang, is from Shandong, and he told reporters that there are some folk ways to celebrate the New Year in his hometown in Shandong, but it is the first time he has participated in pounding rice cakes, and he feels that it is very meaningful.
Rice cake is homophonic with "year high", so there is a beautiful meaning of "rice cake rice cake, year after year". The steaming rice cakes make people feel the strong flavor of the New Year in advance and become a beautiful scenery in the countryside.
The cultural hall is the "spiritual home" of our village, and it is also the best carrier to inherit and carry forward the traditional culture. Through the platform of the Cultural Auditorium, we can return to the flavors of the past New Year, let the villagers recall the previous Chinese New Year, and imagine the previous New Year's flavors," said Kong Xianliang, Secretary-General of the Confucius Cultural Auditorium Council.
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