The following is an article about the customs of Yueyang people, which explains the folk customs of Yueyang people very well. I hope it will help you:

There are many folk arts that people like to see and hear in Yueyang, such as dancing Tietian Lion in Linxiang, "Zhashi" in Miluo, and clam shell drama in Huarong.

Spring Festival

Yueyang, commonly known as "Chinese New Year", has the same customs as other parts of the motherland. Besides killing chickens and ducks, setting off firecrackers and posting Spring Festival couplets, it is very rich to eat "reunion dinner" on the 3th of the twelfth lunar month.

There must be fish in the twelve bowls, which shows that it is more than auspicious.

Before liberation, there were few fish in some areas. In order to have the dish of "thyme fish", a "thyme fish" was carved out of wood, put in a pot and sprinkled with chopped green onion, just like a real fish.

People attach great importance to the reunion dinner. People who go out are rushing home all the way, and their families wait and wait.

When having a reunion dinner, the door should be closed, which is intended to prevent the treasure from getting away.

Setting off a firecracker after a meal means that people have eaten the New Year's dinner and can move around.

Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional festival in China, also known as Duanyang Festival.

According to legend, Qu Yuan threw himself into the river to die for his country on this day. In order to express his memory, on Duanyang Day, there were stickers in Yueyang area (that is, poems were presented and pasted on the door wall, most of which were quatrains of five or seven words), and customs such as tying Ai people, hanging Chang Jian, drinking realgar wine, eating zongzi, steamed stuffed buns and carrying sachets were the most distinctive.

Minyan said, "It's better to be barren for a year than to lose the boat in May".

The dragon boat race is a distinctive sport with fierce scenes.

"Qu Yuan, a Chu man, has never stopped", and a large-scale dragon boat race is held every year.

In 1983, * * * allocated funds to repair the Quzi Temple in Guluo and held a dragon boat race in Guluo, with an audience of over 1,. In 1987, the first Quyuan Cup International Dragon Boat Race was held in Bajiao Lake, with an audience of 3,.

In 1998, the 4th Quyuan Cup International Dragon Boat Race was held in Nanhu City, with an audience of 6,.

Marriage custom

In the old society, there was no free marriage, and the old habits of concubinage, child bride, wife-making, and doll engagement were more common.

There are many rituals and customs in marriage: First, the engagement is made by the matchmaker, and it is regarded as the engagement after the parents agree to it through the horoscope.

the second is to get married, also known as going to the door, and choose a good day.

When getting married, there is a custom of crying to get married. Most of the lyrics are about the difficulties parents have in raising their children, scolding the matchmaker and how to treat people when they go to their husband's house.

In the new society, old customs are broken and marriage is free, but there are still some old bad habits in the countryside, such as bride price.

funeral customs

The ways to deal with the dead mainly include burial and funeral.

"Singing a nocturne" is a kind of funeral ceremony and also a mourning.

Old people and adults in Yueyang usually have funerals when they die. In some places in the countryside, the ancient custom of "singing nocturnes" is still preserved. After nightfall, singers take their filial sons around the coffin, beating drums and eulogizing songs, with a sad tone.

The contents of the lyrics are mostly negative thoughts that see through the world of mortals, as well as historical stories, life knowledge, or praise and achievements, virtues and parents' hardships.

overnight, besides singing, there were gongs and drums, whipping and bowing to the dead.

Relatives and friends spend the whole night listening to music by the coffin, which is commonly called "mourning" or "sitting at night".

Choose a cemetery, and build a grave with blue bricks and lime (overhead, with no doors closed).

After a person dies, put the coffin in the seat and close the door, which is the grave.

Some people go from meditation to death for decades.

Now, since the reform of funeral and interment and the call for cremation, the people have changed their old habits, and only a few remote villages still have such old habits.

Yueyang International Dragon Boat Festival:

Yueyang is the birthplace of dragon boat sports.

As early as the beginning of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in 278 BC, Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet, drowned himself in the Miluo River and died.

after hearing the news, the local people led boats to rescue Qu Yuan, and threw zongzi, steamed stuffed buns and other foods at the center of the river, begging the water monster not to devour Qu Yuan.

To commemorate this world cultural celebrity, people will hold a grand dragon boat race on the river every year, and every household will hang mugwort, calamus, set off realgar cannons and drink realgar wine to avoid evil spirits.

This activity continues to this day.

Since 1987, with the strong support of the State Sports Commission and the National Tourism Administration, Yueyang City has organized a large-scale Dragon Boat Festival (Race) in Nanhu, which integrates sports, culture, economy, trade and tourism. Now, it has successfully held 1 international Dragon Boat Festival (Race) activities, which has been identified by the National Tourism Administration as one of the 23 important festivals in China facing overseas markets.

junshan specialty silver needle tea:

junshan has three treasures, namely, bamboos, scarabs and silver needles.

This silver needle refers to Junshan Silver Needle Tea, which is well-known at home and abroad.

junshan is an island in Dongting lake, Yueyang city, Hunan province.

The soil on the island is fertile, mostly sandy, with an average annual temperature of 16-17 degrees, an annual rainfall of about 134mm and a relatively high relative humidity.

In spring and summer, the lake water evaporates, the clouds are diffuse, the island is densely forested, the natural environment is suitable for the growth of tea trees, and the mountains are all over the tea gardens.

there are two kinds of Yinzhen tea, green tea and yellow tea. It was mined three or four days before Qingming Festival, and made from the first round of tender buds of spring tea. The tender buds with a length of 25-3 mm should be selected, which are refined from a single tea bud through a special process. The appearance is even and neat. After brewing, the tea smells fragrant, and it is sweet, fresh and memorable.

junshan tea, which was first dried in Tang dynasty, was incorporated into tribute tea in Qing dynasty.

in Qing dynasty, junshan tea was divided into "pointed tea" and "velvet tea".

"Jian tea" is like a tea sword, with white hair, and it is called tribute tea, so it is called "Gong Jian".

junshan yinzhen tea has high aroma, mellow and refreshing taste, high yellow soup, strong and even buds, and a light yellow color.

after brewing, the bud rises to the surface of the water vertically in the soup, slowly sinks, rises and sinks again, and rises and falls three times, which becomes an interesting view.

junshan silver needle, with its superb quality and strange charm, has won great interest and high praise from Chinese and foreign tea scholars and tea tasters.

the junshan silver needle produced by Yueyang tea company in Hunan province caused a sensation in Leipzig Expo in 1954 and 1956, and won the gold medal in Leipzig Expo in 1956, which made it famous at home and abroad.

Since 198, it has been rated as a high-quality famous tea in Hunan Province for many times. In 1982, it was rated as a national high-quality famous tea by the Ministry of Commerce, and in 1983, it was awarded the quality product certificate by the Ministry of Foreign Trade.

In recent years, it has been exported to Japan, the United States, Hong Kong and Macao; There are a few sales in big cities such as Beijing in China.

Dayun Mountain Climbing Festival:

Dayun Mountain is 911.1 meters above sea level and has been opened as a national forest park.

Dayun Mountain has been a famous religious mountain in northern Hunan since ancient times, and there are many temples and Taoist temples. Every year, there are countless pilgrims who go up the mountain to pray for God and worship Buddha on March 3rd and September 9th of the lunar calendar.

Since 1999, Yueyang Tourism Bureau and Yueyang County * * * have organized the Chongyang Denggao Festival in Dayun Mountain, and the guests who come to visit and pay homage are in an endless stream.