哈尔滨英文导游词:哈尔滨民俗文化( 二 )


2、Girls smoking tobacco pipes. The winter in the Northeast is cold and long. People can not work in the field during the long winter. Beside playing cards, chatting, there are no outside activities. There for, they often smoke tobacco pipes to kill time, no matter men or women, young or old.
3、Hanging up the baby after it is born. This is an old way for taking care of newborn babies in the Northeast. The mother would be free to do other things when the baby was hung up in a cradle in which the baby could sleep. It is side the Northeast is the birthplace of the way of using cradle in China.
(传统民俗2:东北三宝)
Three Valuable of the Northeast
1、Ginseng is one of the best Chinese herbal medicines. It is known as the king among a hundred herbs.
2、The fur of a marten is known as the king of furs. Marten fur is fine, soft and durable. It is thick fur and flossy in color. It is an ideal material for elegant fur products. There are two kinds of martens in Heilongjiang Province, sable and mink. Sable fur is more expensive and used for small quantity of products. Such furs are a symbol of affluence. Sable furs are known as soft gold. The sable has three features. The fur gets warmer in the winds, the fur thaws the snow and rain will never wet the fur. There are historical records from this province that contributions of sable fur to different dynasties of the Central Plain.
【哈尔滨英文导游词:哈尔滨民俗文化】3、Deer-horn is a valuable medicine and nutrition supplement mainly derived from the red deer on Great Xing-an Mountain. The term deer-horn grow for about eighty days each year and the heavest of such horns takes place in July and August.

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