Huilong "Taste New"

My hometown is in Huilong Town, Dazu County. It is a remote town where the custom of “taste new” is widely spread.

"Taste new", commonly known as "eat new." After the rice is mature in early June, before the harvest is harvested, choose a day. Every household will cut some new rice, crush it into new rice to make rice, and then make some vegetables and fruits. Some families will kill chickens and ducks, fishing. Shrimp, buy wine and meat. At noon, set up a feast for the wine, put the first meal of new rice together with the wine, in the hall, let the gods and ancestors taste, and then let the dog at home taste, indicating the source of drinking water, the harvest of food is not easy, and thank them for their blessing and praying In the coming year, the grain will be harvested. Finally, I will sit at a table and let the old man taste the first new rice. After that, everyone will have a toast and drink, say Geely, and respect the old and respect the old. But this meal must have a surplus, which means a good harvest every year, more than a year old.

Why do you want to respect the dog after respecting the ancestors of heaven and earth? That's because people have a unique worship for dogs. According to legend, many years ago, my hometown made a lot of water, and it was a few hundred kilometers around. After the flood receded, a wide river channel appeared. In the panic, people fled the danger and survived. They found that the grain was lost, there was no seed, and it was impossible to cultivate. Because at that time, they did not understand how to cross the river. There was a group of things in the river that swam to the shore. It was only when they found out that the dogs that had disappeared after the flood receded were back. Every dog's head was covered with rice seeds, and people were delighted and hungry. In the second year, the seeds sprouted, blossomed, and finally the fruit was born. We had rice with white flowers.

In the harvest season, in order to thank the few spiritual dogs who saved the folks, the first thing people have to do after a sacrifice is not to eat, but to feed the dog first, and wait until the dog finishes eating. Eat hands.

Therefore, my hometown---Huilong has the "Taste of New" when respecting the ancestors, and then respecting the dog, the third is the custom of eating.