1. What are the Spring Festival customs in Yancheng?
1, a busy year
Just like folk songs, people in old Yancheng have been busy preparing glutinous rice flour and ground noodles since the twelfth lunar month. After the twelfth lunar month, steamed rice cakes, cakes and fried rice began. Some people also put red stamps on rice cakes. After the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, people should "please" incense sticks and bodhisattvas. Rich people will also write the dates, brown sugar, fried fruits and big cakes they want to buy on paper, which is called "playing the annual ticket". As the Spring Festival approaches, every household will buy fish. There is also the custom of buying catfish in Xixiang, Yancheng, which means "more than one year".
2, send the stove to connect the stove
Yancheng people collectively refer to sending and receiving stoves as sacrificial stoves, and the Spring Festival begins with sacrificial stoves. In the past, there was a special "kitchen god" in every kitchen of ordinary people. People call it "Siming Bodhisattva" or "the stove master Siming", who is responsible for managing the stove of every household. "Twenty-three" in folk songs; "Melon stick" refers to the sacrificial furnace on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month. There is also a folk saying called "official, three people, four boatmen, five", that is, the official held a kitchen sacrifice on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, people's homes on the 24th and boat people on the 25th.
3. Dust
After the stove was delivered, people began to prepare for the New Year, that is, from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve. This day is called "Spring Festival", also called "Dust Day" or "Dust Day".
4. The pressing age
The 30th or 29th of the twelfth lunar month is called "Thirty Nights", and the whole family should get together and have a "Shoujiu". After dinner, the elders at home usually wrap the money in red paper and give it to their children and grandchildren to express their blessings; Some people give lucky money to the younger generation on the morning of New Year's Day, which is called "pocketing the money", indicating that there is no shortage of money for the New Year. All these, collectively referred to as "lucky money", are intended to ward off evil spirits and wish good health and all the best in the new year.
Secondly, the customs related to it are
A few days before the Spring Festival, adults and children take a bath and change clothes. Every family cleans the house, commonly known as "dust removal".
Twenty-four nights in the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as "twenty-four nights", burn incense and light candles to pay homage to the kitchen god, commonly known as "sending the kitchen god to heaven to play", or "sending the kitchen stove" for short.
The 30th day of the twelfth lunar month (the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month) is called "Thirty Nights" or New Year's Eve. That night, the whole family got together to eat "old wine", also called "old wine", and gave the children "lucky money"
Some people stay up all night, which is called "keeping the old age".
Some old farmers will also go outdoors to observe the stars and determine the abundance and sorrow of the coming year. This is called "observing the year".
Some people print lime marks on the front and back of the house, commonly known as "rice hoard", wishing a bumper harvest in the coming year.