On the first day of the Spring Festival (the first day of the first month), every family kills castrated chicken chops in the morning to pay homage to their ancestors, dances lions in the ancestral hall, beats gongs and drums, and sets off firecrackers at noon when all villagers come to worship. The smoke of firecrackers flooded the whole ancestral hall. After setting off firecrackers, take the chicken home. When you get home, fry pig's feet, steam pig's feet and braised pork with sauerkraut, steam fish or fry braised fish and pork chicken. On the morning of New Year's Day, pay attention to the whole family sitting at the same table to eat, so as not to ruin the meal on the morning of New Year's Day. The Spring Festival in Shangmeizhujing Village only lasts (only does) the first day of the year, not the second day of the year. In some places, such as Pengjia and Lijia, it is the second day, not the first day. On the second day of the morning, you have to hurry to visit relatives and friends, and you have to get up in the middle of the night to kill chickens and ducks to worship the society and ancestors. Those relatives and friends who only celebrate (only do) the second day of the New Year's Day, but not the first day of the New Year's Day, can go to Meizhujing Village to play, and the afternoon of the New Year's Day is around 14, where it is very lively.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, I began to visit relatives. My new uncle usually goes back to her mother's house on the second day of the year. On the third day of the New Year's Eve, a general cleaning, poverty eradication and a farewell ceremony were held. I can't drag the floor from the beginning of the year to the third day! Generally, we don't visit relatives on New Year's Eve. You can visit relatives on the fourth, fifth and sixth day of the Lunar New Year! Some people have a holiday on the fifth or sixth day of the fifth lunar month (buying chickens and ducks to kill, frying zongzi to make a big meal) to worship social workers and grandparents to go out to work or send their children to school. Visiting relatives in the New Year usually ends on the 5th and 6th of the lunar calendar. Even if there is wine left, there is no meat to eat, which is the end of the New Year.
In the first month of the Lantern Festival 15, we eat dumplings, buy pork, kill chickens and ducks, cook chickens and ducks with pork, and fry zongzi to pay homage to the society and celebrate the New Year. Some children have to go out to school in advance, and those who work will rest in advance, so this festival can be celebrated if it is broken in advance.
During the Spring Festival (Blessing Festival) on the second day of the second lunar month, people in the village pay rice, buy fragrant paper, firecrackers and candles, and worship the public with pig's head meat, praying for good weather, good harvests, peace in the whole village and having dinner next to the public. Now, people who have lived in the countryside for a long time celebrate this festival. If they have gone out to work or moved out to live, some people are too lazy to go home to celebrate this festival. In addition, many people don't plow now, so this festival has evolved to the present.
Tomb-Sweeping Day kills chickens or geese, makes hairpins, cooks soup, and makes rice balls to sweep graves.
On the eighth day of April, Ciba Festival, Niu Soul Festival, Wang Yao Festival and Bathing Buddha Festival. Eating garbage on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month (Lasa @/ garbage choking). In Fangchenggang Port Area, some company canteens also make garbage and sell it to employees. April 8, according to legend, this day is also the birthday of Shennong Yaowang. Shennong has tasted hundreds of medicines, which can cure all diseases. Therefore, on this day, some women go to the suburbs to pick stinky vines (chicken manure vines), Chinese Pulsatilla, wild wormwood and other plants, wash and dry them with rice, then put the herbs and rice into a machine and grind them into powder, and then take them home to make Bazin, which can be kneaded into a nail-sized shape by hand or cut into strips and eaten in boiling sugar water, or put into a cake mold to make cookies, which is called "Lhasa". This day is also called the Bath Buddha Festival. It is said that the eighth day of April is Sakyamuni's birthday. The Chronicle of Jingchu said that Jingchu bathed the Buddha with fragrant soup from various temples on April 8, and * * * made Longhua. It is said that on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, eating glutinous sugar water made of herbs such as chicken manure vine and washing vegetation bath can drive away the evil spirits of the past and the past, and use vegetation bath to drive away the nuisance of poisonous insects, and cooperate with eating "garbage @" to truly achieve the effect of external application and oral administration and protect health. In some places, people also cook glutinous rice to feed cows and let them rest for a day. You can buy some junk food on the eighth day of April, or you can not celebrate this festival.
On the first day of May, pick mugwort leaves and hang them on the top of every window and door. Then, pick some mugwort leaves and wash your face with water to prevent bees and mosquitoes from biting!
On the May Festival (Dragon Boat Festival), every household kills chickens and ducks, buys pork for ancestor worship, social workers, wraps horns with jiaozi (triangular salty red and blue fragrant meat with jiaozi, or wraps fried black sesame seeds with red heart and square beans with jiaozi on the meat strips), sweet grey water with jiaozi (cold jiaozi) and races dragon boats.
June 18 is Guanyin Festival, and Buddhist people buy candy to pay tribute to Guanyin, which is generally not a festival in June.
On July Festival (Mid-Autumn Festival in July 14, Duck Meat Festival), ducks were killed, scented paper candles and firecrackers were bought, colored paper was bought, paper-cut clothes were burned to carry clothes for ancestors, and sweet potato chips (white potato chips) were cooked. Nowadays, many people don't like eating, or don't have much time to cook.
At the beginning of August, 10 Lingtou Festival, many people in Shangmeizhujing Village did not celebrate Lingtou Festival, and some people just celebrated it. Even if they do, they just have a family dinner as a small holiday. The people in Shangmeizhujing Village belong to a small village, unlike Huangwutun Xixian Village, which is a big village, and it is as grand as the Chinese New Year or the wedding banquet.
On the Mid-Autumn Festival in August 15, families get together, watch the moon, eat moon cakes, fruits, have a family reunion dinner and sometimes skip dinner. There is generally no holiday in August.
On the Double Ninth Festival in September, climb to the top of the mountain to eat snacks and fruits. This festival was only celebrated when I was in primary school. Generally, primary school teachers team up to take students to a mountain top, buy some fruit snacks and water in advance, and climb to the top of the mountain to eat and watch the scenery. In their spare time, rural women also make cakes, bananas, peanuts and biscuits. You can't go through this festival without studying.
At the end of the year, 65438+ February 16, every family pays homage to the society and ancestors. Like the Spring Festival, every household should pay some money to buy pig's head, pork and fragrant paper, and have dinner together at the place where they worship the society. After dinner, everyone should take a few pigs home to eat. This is called "social meat". Usually three or four people work together, and four "club heads" cooperate with each other. Some go door-to-door to collect rice and money, some buy things, some cut branches and meat, some worship clubs, some prepare tableware and firewood to wash things, stir-fry and cook, and generally three or four households take turns to be "heads of clubs" together! Now, unlike in the past, many families live in the countryside to farm, because many young people now move to cities to work outside for a long time, and it is far from convenient to go back to the countryside when they are not at home during the Spring Festival and the 16 th winter festival of the twelfth lunar month, so they generally do not go home for the New Year (not to work as cooperatives). However, if it is their turn to become "the heads of cooperatives", some people ask their neighbors who have lived in the countryside for a long time to help them.
On the twenty-third and twenty-fourth day of the lunar calendar, we began to clean, dig ditches behind the house, cook and wash the leaves of zongzi, prepare stuffing for zongzi, and buy new year's goods for the New Year.
After the cleaning, I bought three chickens, ducks and pork, or five pig heads from door to door 30 nights before the end of the year. When I go to worship my father and grandfather, it is equivalent to making a wish (returning my blessing), because at the beginning of the Spring Festival, when I am ready to work outside, old people from all walks of life love to go to the ancestral temple and grandpa's incense burner to burn incense and pray for the safety of working outside, pray for a bumper harvest of crops and pray for people with livestock at home.
On New Year's Eve (New Year's Eve), I wrapped a hexagonal rice dumpling (the cooked rice dumpling weighs about three kilograms, and I will cook it a few days in advance if I have time), and killed chickens and ducks to worship the society and ancestors. In the evening, after dinner, parents put the lucky money in their trouser pockets before going to bed. In the morning, the whole village set off firecrackers together at 12: 00, and the sky was bright.
To sum up, because many people in Shangmeizhujing Village go out to buy houses or work outside for a long time, they usually celebrate the following festivals: the first day of the Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping, the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May, the Mid-Autumn Festival on July 14th, and New Year's Eve. Now we mainly celebrate these three or five festivals. Some young people who live or work outside the province don't go home to worship their ancestors and visit the society, Dragon Boat Festival and July Festival.