The citizens of this community, as men of Yue Fei Navy, Admiral of the Southern Song Dynasty. While they were drilling for Taihu, the wily Prime Minister Qin Hui Admiral falsely accused of treason and killed him. He heard the terrible news shocked the men of the Navy said it had no higher risk of death for a dumb ruling murderer and their employees. Having no house or land, used as warships and houses turned to fishing for their livelihood. Today fifty villages around Taihu has evolved from these ancestors.
A stroll along the shore, I saw a beautifully decorated boat. According to the crackle of fireworks, pointed to the slowness of the coast and anchor. Found to be consistent with the new economic policy, people were sold at reduced prices, the vessels belonging to the group of individual fishermen. The buyer, and held great feasts, to get started.
Invited by the owners of Jiayu Jiang, went on board at a glance. Chapters four color silk ribbons called Happy Happy Nails was nailed to the arches. Before the start of the new vessel, the owner of one of the skins nails for the carpenter to come to him and say, My dear host, there is a nail happy reluctance to which the State points out happy. Locals believe that a homeowner who has been a blessing to be prosperous and happy to buy more ships, too.
The horizontal wooden cabin on deck, the largest and brightest in every cabin, where Jiang was, chatted, ate and received visitors presented at the party. Stuck in the cabin door was a large red word luck . Eight dishes were set up for visitors, including steamed red rice boiled with red beans and glutinous rice, rice appeared bumpy cake bars, Boom Cake and a set of resources. The pool was a pyramid of ten different types of color plates: Carp, pomegranates, onions, bamboo etc. – Everything from rice flour glutionus the new hostess set up to represent all Chinese food are homonyms of desires.
After the departure of Jiang Jiayu, we come to another fishing vessel of twenty-four feet long and four wide, with seven poles.
In addition to this cabin was the kitchen, or cabin fire as she calls the fishermen. The furnace is a ceramic container with thick mud with a protective layer around the top. The fire was a deadly enemy of any fisherman. Although a stand of land was in the mouth of the stove, always ask to see a break in built fire boiled. At the same time be on the safe side, the fishermen had to reverse the door of names: the Jade Emperor, the mother of Jade, Tathagata, and Avalokitesvara carved all the blessings of the gods to help protect them. In the old days young women who were married for less than a month as the feet of fire and prohibited from visiting people in other vessels.
And when you eat all your vegetables on board, it could take a couple of spring onions from the pot as a condiment to add fish to fry.
In years when there were no weather forecasts did not require that communications equipment and fishermen, the weather conditions on the basis of their experiences and exchanged signals waving torches. With regard to vulnerability to risk and dependence on the generosity of nature, and of course, this ignorance is particularly susceptible to superstition. In the past, before issuing the first network to a new era, taking place in the network of a handful of beans, along with the ashes of the pool – a furnace in the bow. Good game would be up to the outcome.
Every time a new board has started, that fishermen are always a ceremony.
To proclaim the shell, they have eaten enough, but this is strictly forbidden in Taihu Lake, is for fishermen to be an invitation to be sunk. In the tenth lunar month every year, fishermen from going to the Temple of King Yu, the first king of the Xia Dynasty (BC 21c.-16c. AC). The first dynasty of China, slaughtering Pingtai Hills for Huxin Dayu Island (King Yu). According to legend, this winner-old water once reached Taihu and submit to the evil dragon, was locked in the dragon cave at the bottom of the lake, and before receiving a heavy iron pot pushed for the monster can not be restarted, storms, fishing vessels together. So he brought Dayu happiness and peace for the people of Taihu.
It is for villagers to slaughter chickens, and to submit regular special guests for the rare visitor. But fishermen from Lake Tai consider chickens Luch Dilling wrong. A look at the WY, I learned that in the old days, when the ship ill people are not able to find a doctor or go to get to a hospital to kill a chicken and idols Buddhist prayer for a speedy recovery. Place over the years, going to the slaughter of chickens was associated with the disease and was included in the list of taboo.
As for the education of children, fishermen had their own way of dealing: twelve vessels schoolchildren had rented with a teacher. The first month of training and all students were on a boat, the second month, another vessel, the third month, the third vessel. For each month of the year, the school moved.
It was built twenty years ago the government of the people in the new villages of fishermen. Thereafter, they could, the elderly live their lives without unbearable accompanied by shots that life can be on board, who is ill, doctors go to the local hospital to see and children should be going their own schools. However, it still applies to shed their traditions are still young and middle aged men and women from their homes.
