How did the older generation in Shexian celebrate the Spring Festival?
Let's talk about Laba, the custom of the Spring Festival in Shexian County, Huangshan Mountain: the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is Laba Festival, which is today, hence the name "twelfth lunar month". As soon as the "Laba" is over and the Spring Festival is approaching, every household should start cleaning the dust at home from Laba. I ate Laba porridge that day and dried tofu in Yixian and Beixiang of Xiuning County, which is called Laba tofu. After Laba, families began to kill Nian pigs, and invited each other to eat pig-killing wine, make zongzi, make rice preserves, fry oil tofu (especially those just fried in oil pan with some sugar, which is crisp and delicious), stir-fry peanuts and broad beans, and make sesame sugar and frozen rice sugar. It is also necessary for people to arrange their own wedding activities on this day, so there is a folk saying: "Laba Laba is a good day, how many older women become older women?" Lunar New Year's Eve: December 24th of the lunar calendar, commonly known as "New Year's Day". Late the night before, every household had to offer sacrifices to stoves, commonly known as "sending stoves". Pray for the Kitchen God to put in a good word in front of the Jade Emperor and bless the family. In this small year, paintings of ancestors are hung in front of each ancestral hall, which records the names of ancestors in previous dynasties or draws portraits of ancestors. Set up a candlestick incense table, buy a tribute, and take your ancestors home for the New Year. From this day on, every household cleaned furniture, dismantled and washed bedding, swept away dust and greeted the New Year cleanly. New Year's Eve: As the saying goes, "Thirty nights in a hurry, the first day of leisure" and "the first day", I believe everyone will have a good understanding after listening to it. They will have New Year's Eve dinner, set off fireworks and set off firecrackers at midnight, which is not much different from other places. Spring Festival: On the first day of New Year's Day, everyone dresses up, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders, and everyone pays New Year greetings to their ancestors in turn. On this day, I pay attention to taboos, don't move knives and scissors, don't take needle and thread, don't fry in the pot (to avoid noise), and eat the leftovers from the 30 th anniversary, which is more than enough every year. Don't touch the broom, just leave the fireworks and firecrackers on New Year's Eve and the first day. Don't throw water at the door, don't break cups and bowls, and don't beat and scold children. Violating taboos is considered unlucky, and there will be disasters such as breaking money and getting sick this year. Lantern Festival: The fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, and every family eats Yuanxiao.