One person alley two ditch head three miles pier four step well five step bridge Lu Hongzha seven Buddha Hall eight miles temple nine Hua Shan ten miles Square - with the number connected to the name of a place to put burning fire put burning fire is commonly known as "shine caterpillar", also known as shine Tian Cai, is the hope that during the cotton planting in addition to all the pests, looking forward to the next year's harvest of the meaning of the word. On the 14th day of the first month, the farmers bunch of rice artemisia several put in the field, with flour dough made like cotton shaped about hundreds of things, adorned with knots, in the shape of open cotton. Will simulate flower stalks inserted all over the field. On the night of the Lantern Festival, hold a cypress branch in your hand with grass, burn one end of it, and dance around. While burning, they sing a song: "The first half of the first month, set fire to the fire. Other people's vegetables are still loaded, my family's vegetables on the street. Other people's vegetables are large copper coins, my family's vegetables are large plates of blue. Other people have raised a big one, but my family has raised a big one." I can see that "the evening wind is blowing in the mountain villages, and the burning fire is not as good as the fire brocade." It was a spectacular sight. Scholars: "On the night of the Lantern Festival, we met with the same group of people, standing high on the east mountain with many laughs. Do not like to watch the lights like to watch the burning, the village pointed to go red clouds." After the torch burned, the cotton oranges on the face of the fruit picked off the copy cooked, distributed to the children to eat, that can be free from disaster, the ashes can be fertilized. Nantong song: "February 2, every family with a daughter, pick artemisia, do cakes; not pick up the daughter, poor children; son-in-law does not come, meat turtle; daughter does not come, rotten legs." So February 2 is Nantong's daughter festival. On this day, all the married daughters will go back to their parents' home, and their parents to catch up with the joy of family. Dragon Boat Festival The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival. Noon for the summer is building Yin, May for the month of noon, because of the five days and called noon. Nantong ballad has: "May 5, foreign sugar dumplings over the New Year," ate the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, the party to send cotton clothes, "said. On this day, families eat dumplings, eat and vegetables at noon (with vermicelli, leeks, bean sprouts, egg skin silk, shrimp and copied together in the dish), garlic cloves burned yellowtail. This day under the eaves of the home, under the bed mat should be placed calamus, mugwort leaves to show that drive away evil spirits, and burning wormwood, Cangzhu, cypress branch smoke to ward off the epidemic. At noon sprinkled rhubarb wine indoors, according to go to kill insects and five poisons. Sprinkle andrographis wine on the hands, feet, face of the child, in the child's forehead with andrographis wine book "Wang" character, so that snakes, insects, hundred feet (centipede) no longer bite the child. On this day, the child should also wear a hundred rope (colorful wisps), incense bags, everywhere fragrant. July 7 The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar for the "Begging for coincidence festival", according to legend, this day is the sky of the Cowherd and Weaving Maiden magpie bridge meeting day. This night lying in the leek field quietly waiting, you can see the door to heaven opened, fairy music played, then take the brick will become gold. Women knotted strands to wear seven-hole needles, some people use gold and silver for the needle, Chen Gua Guo in the court to beg for coquettish. There is a happy child (spider) web on the melon, it is thought that the charm should be, the net sparse net dense, it will become a sign of how much skill. Nursery rhymes say, "On the seventh day of the seventh month, seven grandmothers (Nantong dialect, referring to married women) go to the bridge to beg". They hope that the fairies in the sky will make their hands more dexterous, and that they will be able to cut clouds and weave brocade with their own art of women's redness, making life on earth more beautiful. The love of birds is twisted in this day to cut the bird tongue, so that they can learn the human language, skillfully learn the tongue of the bird.