the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

The first day of the first month is called "Spring Festival", commonly known as "Chinese New Year". In the early morning, every family set off fireworks to celebrate the New Year. After ancestor worship, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders. Breakfast 1 bowl of stir-fried dishes (mostly mustard) is eaten by the whole family, which means clear and auspicious. After dinner, city residents often go to relatives, friends or neighbors to congratulate each other on the Spring Festival. Rural people often go to ancestral halls to recruit new soldiers. Boys can get 1 double diced cakes, while girls only write their birthdays and names. Men don't carry water, women don't wash clothes, and they don't give injections.

From the second day to the fifteenth day (excluding the third day or the fourth day), we continue to visit relatives and friends every morning, and generally do not pay New Year greetings in the afternoon.

On the third day (the fourth day in some places), only relatives and friends who died last year will pay New Year greetings to the deceased; In the afternoon, everyone eats New Year's wine. After liberation, the custom of greeting the New Year still remains, but people no longer kneel when greeting their elders.

Beginning of Spring

Basically, it was the same as the whole country, but in the Qing Dynasty, the people and the government attached great importance to it. On this day, every household prepares a red note to welcome the Spring Festival and sticks it on the middle wall of the hall. When spring comes, they will explode, light candles, burn incense and pray for the world. The government must ask the poor or beggars to dress up as spring officials, sit in sedan chairs, and then March inside and outside the city with mud cows (paper cows coated with mud), and then hold a spring ploughing ceremony in the fields on the outskirts of Nanmen.

Yuanxiao snack

Every family is brightly lit, hung with lanterns, enjoying lanterns, playing with lanterns, and eating jiaozi; Men, women and children are more willing to go out and watch lanterns.

Qingming Festival

People go up the mountain to sweep the grave and put paper money on the top of the grave with clods, commonly known as "calling green" or "hanging paper" to remember their ancestors. There are also many young men and women who invite their partners to have an outing in the suburbs on this day.

Early summer

On this day, people must eat meat, which is called "supporting summer". It is said that eating meat in the long summer does not make you feel tired, and you will not be "afraid of summer" or "thin in summer". There is also a folk custom of weighing on this day.

Wujingjie

Commonly known as "festival" and "festival". On this day, Zhong Kui (folklore) is hung in front of every family hall, mugwort leaves and calamus are hung on both sides of the gate, and children hang "sachets" and "egg rolls" on their chests, with impatiens painted on their nails. I only eat glutinous rice healds, steamed bread and the like in the morning. Burn mugwort leaves indoors at noon to repel mosquitoes, and sprinkle realgar wine on walls, corners, water tanks and jars to prevent centipedes, scorpions and snakes from being hurt. Conditional locals can watch the dragon boat race. In the afternoon or evening, the whole family get together to drink.

June sixth

Commonly known as "taste a new day", the early-maturing early rice in suburban rural areas has been harvested. On this day, farmers kill chickens to buy meat to accompany meals and taste their hard-earned new valley, which is called "tasting the new". Anyone who has a family tree will take it out to bask in the sun on this day, which is called "opening the spectrum". If you have books at home, you will take them out to dry on this day. Housewives like to turn over all kinds of clothes on this day. It is said that they can avoid being eaten by insects.

Qixi Festival

Legend has it that this night is a good time for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet once a year. In the past, girls embroidered needles with red silk thread in the moonlight at night, and everyone called them "smart girls".

Ghosts'Festival

Commonly known as "July and a half", also known as "Ghost Festival". People burn paper money to worship the gods in memory of their dead families.

Mid-Autumn Festival

At noon, every family holds a banquet and has the habit of eating duck and cooking rice noodles. In the evening, the whole family get together to eat cakes and enjoy the moon. Teenagers like to build tile towers with broken tiles, which are called "tile lamps" and burn firewood in the towers. When the tile tower burns red, salt or kerosene is sprinkled on it, which sparks and glitters in an instant, keeping the audience out until night falls. This is called "burning the tower" or "burning the tile"

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Double Ninth Festival

Also known as "Double Ninth Festival". On this day, people like to climb mountains to enjoy chrysanthemums or fly kites, and steam glutinous rice to make wine on this day, which means "sweetness and long". This is an activity day for the elderly.

Spend the next year.

Every household holds banquets and drinks heavily, which is also called "Year of Yazi (local dialect, meaning children)". In the old society, anyone who was invited to dinner by the boss on this day hinted that he would not be hired in the coming year. All women who live in their parents' home should return to their husbands' home after the second year.

New Year's Eve

It is called "New Year". This is a traditional grand festival. Every family cleans the gate, puts up Spring Festival couplets, pictures of the door gods and auspicious little red notes. Someone put two sugar cane behind the door, which means that life is as high as sugar cane, and the more you eat, the sweeter you get. At the same time, light candles and burn incense. sonic boom worships heaven and earth and worships ancestors first. In the evening, the whole family will have a big wine dinner. Give a "lucky money" to minors after meals and stay up all night. This is called "keeping the age". At midnight, the door was slammed, calling it the "financial door".