Before and after the Lantern Festival, there was a custom of crossing the bridge in Chaoshan area, which was also recorded in the old local chronicles, such as the Records of Chaozhou County in Qing Shunzhi and Jieyang County in Ganlong: "Women in Shangyuan crossed the bridge and were called' crossing the river'".
In Jieyang area, on the Lantern Festival, men, women and children compete to "cross the bridge" and make a wish when crossing the bridge: my brother prays for a good wife in the future; The girl prayed for a good husband and a boy; The old man prayed for health and longevity; Children pray to grow up.
In Puning Hongyang, there is also the custom of "walking the bridge at fifteen nights". "Touqiao" is the Taiping Bridge with a history of more than 400 years. There are two stone lions on both sides of the railing. Every midnight snack, men, women and children have to cross the Taiping Bridge. Don't look back when crossing the bridge, or it will be unlucky to look back.
People crossing the Taiping Bridge also have the custom of touching the stone lion: children who are studying like to touch the nose of the stone lion, which means "touching the nose of the lion and writing elegant words"; Unmarried young men like to touch the lion's stomach and say, "Touch the lion's stomach and marry an elegant grandmother"; Only pregnant women like to touch the lion's ear, saying that they "touched the lion's ear and gave birth to a younger brother."
In addition, during the Lantern Festival, people in some places in Chaoshan have to pick banyan branches and bamboo leaves and put them in lintels, stoves and poultry houses to pray for the safety of the population and the prosperity of six animals. In some places, newlyweds have to swing under the old banyan tree in the village and let the villagers throw feces on it, saying that the more they throw, the more boys will be born this year.
In some places, the girl sneaked into the vegetable garden and sat down with a mustard tuber (cabbage), saying that she would "sit in a cabbage and marry a good husband in the future"; The young man secretly pushed down the toilet wall and said that he could marry Maya in the future.
In some places, there will be competitions among pigs, ducks, geese and chickens in the Lantern Festival, and there will be activities of wandering in the evening. In some places, farmers want to pick up the gray bricks or clods outside the house or in the field and put them in the pigsty at home, which is called "holding a big pig for fifteen nights" and praying for raising pigs to make a fortune.
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