La Bao, this day to eat La Bao congee, eight treasures rice (rich people with glutinous rice, lotus seeds, white fruits, roses, fungus, Gui Yuan, lychee, preserved fruits and sugar made, the average civilian with sweet potatoes, jujubes, peanuts, cowpeas, soybeans, mung beans, rice, millet boiled into). After honoring the gods for their own use, it is customary to keep a large bowl in the middle of the grain hoard, and then every day to cook mixed into some, until the Spring Festival, called "catching gas".
Lunar New Year's Eve 23, every family should sacrifice the stove. Out of the people on this day to rush home, evening incense, firecrackers, God, the "Zaojun" (like) removed and burned to send it "ascension", the custom is that "women do not sacrifice the stove", it must be The custom is that "women don't offer sacrifices to the stove", and it is necessary to have the male parent of a family as a representative to pray to the "Zaojun" for "good things to be said in heaven, and good luck to come back to the palace"; "sweeping the room on the 24th day" to welcome the Spring Festival's sanitary sweeping. "Twenty-five cut tofu; twenty-six cut meat; twenty-seven kill New Year's chickens" to prepare New Year's dishes; "twenty-eight paste gaga (Spring Festival couplets, door paintings); twenty-nine steamed buns", which is not only the staple food during the Spring Festival, but also one of the gifts necessary to see relatives. The new daughter-in-law in Bishui County goes to her mother's home in the Spring Festival and carries a big oil cake of 5 to 10 kilograms each, so she leaves behind the saying that the girl is an oil cake, and when she gives birth to a girl, she says, "Pick up a big oil cake.
Thirtieth package of flat food, 30th afternoon household dumplings, first to honor the gods, and then the whole family to eat. Lunar New Year's Eve" on the night of the 30th (or 29th), people have to stay up all night (all night), expressed attachment to the past year, also known as the "resignation". In the early morning, people in the courtyard all around the sesame stick ash or grass ash, called the spread of the year, began to worship God, burn incense, paper, firecrackers, point cypress fire. Then the whole family sits around the fireplace and celebrates the beginning of a new year by making dumplings and talking about family matters.
The first day of the first month is the highlight of the Spring Festival. Before dawn, firecrackers are set off, incense is burned in honor of the gods, and dumplings are eaten as the first reunion meal of the year. After breakfast, children and grandchildren first kowtow to their ancestors and the elderly, and then neighbors greet each other. Each family prepares peanuts, walnuts, jujubes, persimmons, and so on, to entertain guests and groups of children who come to "kowtow", and to the children of people with close relationships, but also to give the "New Year's" money.
Reunion. On the first day of the New Year's dinner, according to the family conditions, the preparation of sumptuous dishes, the whole family will eat, called the reunion seat. This day does not labor, "men do not take a broom, women do not move needle and thread", livestock rest, as the saying goes: "the first day of the New Year, mules and horses rest service.
The second day of the beginning of relatives, this day the newlyweds go to the father-in-law's home to pay their respects.
The third day of the Lunar New Year is the "Ghost Festival". Parents are in mourning, the daughter (son-in-law) should go back to her mother's home to sweep the grave, it is forbidden to go to other people's homes. From the second to the first nine, it is customary to congratulate relatives time, the general order is the first new after the old, the first close relatives after distant relatives. Xingyang, Sishui around the gift is mainly large white steamed buns (before liberation, more white flour to do skin wrapped persimmon skin, vegetable filling or sweet potato, said "rules", the actual lack of white flour, Guangwu around the area is to take the snacks. After the founding of the country, most of the same, in recent years have been changed to take snacks, the new son-in-law to see his father-in-law for the first year, but also add a "gift strip" (meat), a few packets of snacks and candies, and in recent years, add cigarettes, alcohol.
The fifth day of the first month is said to be "broken five". Means that the first day of the first month of the first four have a lot of taboos, such as the taboo on breaking bowls, pots, tanks and so on. Broken is said to be out of the "broken stubble", or rolled noodles to eat, is said to make up "holes". This is because in the past, the family owes a lot of debt, not good things, eat dumplings or noodles, no longer have a "broken stubble", or the debt owed (hole) to make up.
Two, Lantern Festival Lantern Festival is called the Festival of Lights, also known as the Festival of the New Year, the traditional custom is the first month of the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteen three days, and the fifteenth is the main holiday. Sixteen to eat fried food, to the downtown area to play, commonly known as "oil six" or "tour six". During the festival, as usual, the county is 3 big plays, during the day, the townships "story" (various forms of cultural performances on the street) have to enter the city race, Jiangtou lions, car factory dry boat, Longquan carts, stilts, the West Street back song, elbow song, a variety of flowers, lively and unusual, the evening dragon lanterns rotating flying, firecrackers, people such as a tidal wave of people, traveled throughout the East, South, West 3 Guan, and finally concentrated in the City God Temple performance before dispersing. In most of the conditions of the countryside, but also organized literary team in the village streets and lanes performance.
After the founding of New China, especially since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the ****, with the improvement of people's lives, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is even more colorful, the townships of the selected program to the county report performance, presenting a peace of the world scene.
Three, under the small year under the first month of the nineteenth small year, as the saying goes: nineteen, seal. Breakfast family to eat dumplings, called the "seal", meaning that the festival is over, and will enter the agricultural activities, that day, during the day to burn incense to honor the gods, the evening lanterns, due to the lack of moonlight, fireworks lights more dazzling.
Four, February 2, "February 2, the dragon carries the head", meaning that the arrival of spring floods, farming is gradually busy. At this time, the weather turned warm, gradually spring thunder, hibernating animals will come out of the earth activities, this day to eat popcorn, fried beans, fried food at noon.
Fifth, Qingming Festival Qingming Festival as "one of the twenty-four festivals", the masses have the habit of going out on this day to trekking and sweeping graves, and thus also become one of the four ghosts in the year (the third day of the first month, Ching Ming, July 15, the first day of October). On this day, each family will go to the grave of the ancestors, buried more than three years to "add graves", hanging red, white and yellow paper flag on the grave, such as the deceased's children are many, who hangs a long time ago to show who's filial piety piety, there is a "early Ching Ming, the late October 1, July 15 on the day," said, Ching Ming, the late October 1, the 15th in the day, the day, the day, the day, the day, the day, the day, and the day, the day, the day, the day, the day. "said, Qingming Festival a few days before the grave, the latest can not be more than the Qingming Festival at noon, said the deceased reported that farming is busy, can not be sacrificed at the time of the meaning.
Sixth, Dragon Boat Festival The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the people of China to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan threw himself into the river festival, commonly known as the Dragon Boat Festival. People are accustomed to door inserted Ai branch, wearing a scented bag, eat rice dumplings, fried sugar cake, near the river residents will also put the dumplings into the river, intended to feed the fish, so that they do not harm the remains of Qu Yuan. In this day before sunrise, people also want to the countryside to collect farzhi, psyllium, ai, cat's eye and other heat detoxification of herbs, ready to use as a solution to the summer heat toxins, small children wearing painted scorpions, centipedes, frogs, snakes, yellow clothes, neck and neck, neck and feet, tethered to five-color line, intended to avoid venomous insect bites.
Seven, Tanabata, that is, the seventh night of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, according to legend for the Cowherd, the Weaving Maiden magpie bridge meeting day, known as the Chinese Valentine's Day. On this night, the young women to the moon threading needle, to the dexterity of the Weaving Maiden for advice, so also known as the "Begging for coincidence festival".
Eighth, July 15 July 15 on the lunar calendar, known as the Ghost Festival. At this time, every family prepared offerings to the tomb of the ancestors, in the old days, near the river villages at night, but also put the river lamps, with broomcorn millet poles tied into small squares, the top of the inserted wrapped in oil-foamed cotton wool bamboo sticks, lit up and put into the river, drifting along the water, full of lights, intended to overdose the drowning ghosts in the water.
Nine, the Mid-Autumn Festival commonly known as "August 15". On the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, the sky is high, the moon shines brightly, people have the custom of enjoying the moon. Before the festival friends and relatives to send each other moon cakes, wishing a happy holiday, there are married daughters to send the custom of moon cakes, moon cakes steamed round, in the folder jujube, meaning to pray for nephews as soon as possible to do the rich and powerful, moon cakes the largest diameter of one foot seven inches.
Ten, Chongyang Festival on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, known as the "nine", also known as "Chongyang". Because nine for the number of Yang, and harmonic long, high and cool in autumn is suitable for hiking and climbing, and in recent years has been designated as the National Elderly Day.
Eleven, the first day of October This is the last day of the year to sweep the tomb. As the saying goes, "October 1, the evening grave", after October 1, the agricultural work has been done, into the agricultural season, there is time to recall the ancestral virtues, to express condolences.
Twelve, the winter solstice is one of the 24 festivals, commonly known as the "cross nine". Season into the winter, families are accustomed to eating dumplings, said not to freeze the ears.