Shun Net - Ji'nan Daily reporter Liu Wen
the second of the year, the reporter was invited to the Shanghai Suzhou River's cousin home for the new year. The Spring Festival of Shanghai people feels different flavors.
the year of Shanghai people has to start with eating. The northern people will pickle Laba garlic on the eight day of the first month of the lunar month. When they eat dumplings on New Year's Eve, Shanghai people like to make cakes and eat with dumplings. From the day of the lunar new year, Shanghai people almost every day will wear glutinous rice flour, do all kinds of dessert, bitten, crisp and soft, but also very soft, like the character of the people of Shanghai, soft in the belt. Dessert is an essential food for Shanghai people's new year's Eve dinner. It's as important as dumplings. We are very particular about the process of making desserts, and there will be mistakes in one step, which will affect the taste. The uncle said that the Shanghai people who live on the Suzhou river will do fish in addition to dessert. The master of the cousin is a rare sweet onion burning carp, which is related to the local customs and habits. Wusong River (Shanghai section called Suzhou River) used to produce bass in the past, and Cao Cao used Wusong River bass to entertain guests. But for a long time, the water quality of Suzhou river is not good and the living standard of the coastal residents is not high. In order to pick up the gods, the common people begin to make carp with the homophony of carp. The carp was not the product of the Suzhou River, but carp carp When you get out of the water and wear a silk rope and stick red paper, your head and tail are raised like a big treasure. So you don't eat bass. Every time I talk about the Suzhou River, my uncle is like a story telling. He grew up by the river. He also witnessed the joys and sorrows of the Shanghai people and the Suzhou river.
the Suzhou River, originated in Taihu, was once the main water traffic line from Shanghai to southern Jiangsu and an important channel in Shanghai. After the opening of Shanghai in the middle of nineteenth Century, the Suzhou river became the only way for the export of silk and tea in Suzhou and Yangzhou. Later, along with the development of the concession, the Suzhou riverside built big and small. The factory has become one of the cradles of modern Chinese industry. The development of industry also makes the pollution of the Suzhou river become more and more serious. After the founding of new China, the Suzhou river fish and shrimp are extinct for a long time. The river water appears black and smelly, which seriously affects the urban landscape of Shanghai and the life of the citizens. Uncle Chen said: the Suzhou river has been damaged for 30 years, and many residents have moved away. Since the reform and opening up, workers in various parts of the country have gathered here, and the customs and habits of many old Shanghai have changed. But the Suzhou river began to govern from the end of the 90s of the last century, and the citizens have been very concerned, and almost every day people are standing up and watching the situation. When they come to World Expo, the water is clean. Nowadays, the Suzhou river has become one of the main leisure places for the citizens of Shanghai at the same time of ensuring the safety of flood control.
Chinese have always had the habit of living in the water, and those who are water dependent have their own unique customs. Once upon a time, these rivers lost their true colors for various reasons, and the customs of the residents along the river were also lost. Now, with the proposal of the national policy for the construction of ecological civilization, the state's attention to water ecology will give these rivers a new mission, and those customs that have disappeared will also be restored.