in Puyang county,
kowtowing to elders on the morning of the first day of the first year is more colorful in the new era
Like many places, people in Puyang county have to keep their old age on New Year's Eve, and the family get together to talk about their respective gains in the previous year and think about their plans for the coming year. On the morning of the first day of the lunar new year, as soon as the rooster crows, firecrackers will crackle from house to house. Old people also get up early and sit in their rooms waiting for the younger generation to pay a New Year call. I had dumplings for breakfast in the morning of the first day of junior high school. After dinner, the younger generation of the family gathered in large groups. After seeing the old man, they collectively knelt down and kowtowed to the elders to pay New Year greetings.
With regard to New Year greetings, people in Puyang County have the habit of "paying homage to their father-in-law on the first day, the second day and the fourth day of the third day". After the fourth day, minor relatives and friends pay New Year greetings to each other. Now, although the New Year greeting procedure has been simplified, many places still retain the habit of kowtowing to the elders by the younger generation.
the lantern festival in Puyang county is also very lively, and there is a saying among the people that the 15th day of the first month is like a year. Grab breakfast early and eat more dumplings, which symbolizes early planting and early harvest. After dark, every household decorated with lanterns, set off firecrackers, play with lanterns, watch lanterns, dance lions, play with dragons and set off fireworks. In the fifteenth night, noodles are made into various shapes of noodles, such as chicken, duck, goose, pig, wheat pile, etc., and placed at the gate, cowshed, pigsty, chicken pen and other places after night, symbolizing the prosperity of six animals in the new year.
different times, of course, the taste of the year is different. Now Puyang County, the Chinese New Year is more cultural. In order to let people have a good New Year, Puyang County has arranged a variety of activities and carefully cooked a cultural feast full of flavor. At present, rural mass cultural activities and folk customs performances have begun to tour in various towns and villages in Puyang County, warming up for the Lunar New Year in advance. On February 1, that is, from the eighth day of the first month of the Lunar Year of the Rat, the annual custom activities reached a climax. solve riddles on the lanterns and folk performances will be staged in the Chenghuang Temple in Puyang County, bringing together various forms of activities such as opera, acrobatics and yangko. At the same time, a special performance of traditional operas was held in Puyang Cultural Square. Friends who like go to the opera should not miss this feast of operas.
During the Spring Festival every year, traditional folk cultural performances are the most lively in Hongqi Road and Chenghuang Temple in Puyang County. Common folk performances, such as dragon dance, lion dance, yangko dance and waist drum beating, were staged in turn, which made the audience open their eyes and enjoy themselves, and became a scene of Puyang County's customs.
people in Puyang county are most proud of having a pot of rice with ten thousand people. In Houbadui Village, Wuxing Township, Puyang County, on the 18th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancient temple fair of Xianqiu will be opened, and it has been flourishing for thousands of years. At this time, the villagers in Shili Baxiang will join in the fun. Every year on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, the folks in Houbadui Village begin to prepare. Although Houbadui Village pays money for food every year, in order to pass on this tradition, they have always insisted on inheriting it.