Chinese New Year is a tradition, a custom and a memory ... Every place in Hubei has its own unique customs.

Hubei has unique customs

1. People in Hubei drink chicken soup for the first meal in the Spring Festival

which symbolizes "peace and tranquility". Drinking chicken soup for the first meal in the New Year can bring good luck and blessings to their families. People who eat chicken separately are also very particular about it. People who are masters of the family should eat chicken bones, which means "getting ahead"; The main labor force eats chicken feet, which means "grasping money in the New Year"; "Promising young people" want to eat chicken wings, which means that they can "spread their wings and fly high".

Eat chicken in the New Year because the word "chicken" means "auspicious" and "sacrifice", which is simple and easy to understand, and goes deep into people's hearts. Eating chicken in the New Year is for good luck. Chicken wings, meaning flying high, the apprentice. Drinking chicken soup for the first meal during the Spring Festival symbolizes "peace in Thailand". Among them, the main labor force also eats chicken feet, which means "grasping wealth in the New Year", and "promising young people" eat chicken wings, which means they can fly high, while family members eat chicken bones, which means "getting ahead".

People continue this custom and traditional culture by eating chicken during the New Year. Drinking chicken soup during the New Year symbolizes the peace of Qingtai; In Jiangxi area, eating soup on the seventh day of the first month of each year means a year of good fortune. Soup soup is dominated by water, water is wealth, and soup soup is full of utensils, which symbolizes that money is full. A hot New Year's Warm Soup on "New Year's Eve" not only makes the New Year's Eve enjoyable, but also symbolizes the prosperity of the new year and the auspicious meaning of happy ever after.

2. People in Zigui, Hubei Province eat deep-fried Artemisia annua for the first meal

Take its homonym "Baihao" for good luck. In Jingzhou and Shashi, Hubei, eating eggs for the first meal means "real, good luck". In case of guests, you should eat two soft-boiled "poached eggs" whose yolk can be seen through the protein, which means "Gold wrapped in silver, gold wrapped in silver, gold gets silver".

I know that Artemisia ordosica can be used to make Artemisia ordosica Baba. There is a tradition in southern Anhui. After grinding glutinous rice and Artemisia ordosica into powder, add stuffing such as bacon and sour bamboo shoots to make chubby buns. But they eat around Tomb-Sweeping Day, while Zigui people start in the Spring Festival.

3. In Shashi and Jingzhou, Hubei Province, there is a peculiar custom of eating the first meal in the new year, that is, eating poached eggs

This means that in the new year, families can be "real and lucky". Not only family members, friends and relatives come, but also join the ranks of eating eggs, and the number should be increased to two, and the choice of eggs is also very particular. It must be poached eggs that are very soft and can see the yolk through the protein, which means "silver is wrapped in gold, gold is wrapped in silver, and gold gets silver". In the new year, everyone will have a good fortune. Here, I remind everyone not to be greedy for egg yolk, especially those with high cholesterol ~,

4, Huangshi, Hubei; Wedding room layout

There is a basic requirement in the wedding room layout in Huangshi wedding custom, that is, whether it is a building or a house in a rural home, we should choose the comprehensive decoration of red in bedding, curtains, bedding and quilts, so as to win a very good lottery.

Of course, there have been many changes in modern beds and quilts, but the man must prepare a set of ordinary silk quilts with men's red and women's green at home, which is the basic wedding preparation and should be folded on the bed. When the bride sits late for Li Fu, there should be a cushion in the middle of the bed for sitting, which is a key point in the layout of the wedding room.

5. Enshi: Killing the Year Pig and Ciba

There are many ethnic minorities such as Tujia, Miao and Dong in Enshi, where the national culture is like a wonderful flower, showing its unique charm.

In Enshi, preparations for the New Year are probably started after the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month. Almost every household will kill pigs, and neighbors will be invited to eat blister soup at home during the feast and pig killing, which is also the time for children to look forward to.

In addition to killing Nian pig, it's just making Ciba. The glutinous rice that has just come out of the pot is very delicious. Put it in a printing box, and then press it hard, and it becomes a round, round glutinous rice with many beautiful patterns. Every family in Enshi has a variety of Yin He with different patterns, and there are words such as Fu Lu Shou Xi.

6. Wuhan: From "Yi Tian" on New Year's Eve to

New Year's Eve in the morning, people in Wuhan have to put up couplets, put up blessings and stick grilles, worship their ancestors, have a family reunion dinner, and sit around, talking while eating, until the bell is turned. As soon as zero o'clock arrives, firecrackers will be set off, and the younger generation will pay New Year greetings to their elders, who will give them the prepared lucky money.

As soon as the whip is released at dawn on the first day of the first month, you can go out with the door half open (seal the door and leave one end on the door). I went out to pay a New Year call.

New Year greetings are also paid attention to in Wuhan. On the first day of the lunar calendar, people pay homage to their grandparents and uncles. On the second day, I worshipped my maternal grandparents; Parents-in-law who worship their wives in the third grade; Worship relatives and friends on the fourth day; The fifth day is the birthday of the God of Wealth, and the shops resume business to pick up the God of Wealth (quite a lot of business people go to Guiyuan Temple to burn incense and pray for the new year's wealth). It is called "sending the poor" to dump the garbage accumulated in the first day on the sixth day of the sixth day.

7. Huanggang: You can't wash your hair and take a bath on the first day of New Year's Eve.

In Huanggang, on New Year's Eve, you will stick a pair of oranges and silvers in the morning, and you will keep your birthday at night. By midnight, people will set off fireworks to celebrate. From midnight to dawn, there are almost fireworks, and the noise is one after another!

As for the Chinese New Year's schedule, it is the custom in Huanggang area to pay New Year's greetings in one's own village on the first day of New Year's Day, and to visit one's grandfather and uncle on the second day. You can't wash your hair and take a bath, sweep the garbage out of your house, and you can't break the ground on the first day. But also eat the dishes left over from the New Year's Eve to show that there is more than one year.

8. Huangshi: Fish with the "Sanquan" reunion dinner can't eat

The Spring Festival in Huangshi basically begins on New Year's Eve. On this day, the whole family got together and had a big reunion dinner. Generally, we should use "Sanquan" (whole chicken, whole fish and whole duck), "Sangao" (fish cake, meat cake and mutton cake) and "Sanwan" (fish ball, meatball and lotus root ball) for the New Year's dinner. In recent years, people put a hot pot in the middle of the table, which is steaming, adding to the festive atmosphere.

meals are usually served before dark, and sometimes in the evening. Before eating, people light firecrackers outside the door, and then close the door to prepare for dinner.

Before the Spring Festival in Wuhan, there were absolutely three foods, three cakes and three pills on the dinner table. These three foods refer to whole chicken, whole fish and whole duck respectively, and the whole cake refers to fish cake, meat cake and mutton cake, and the three pills refer to fish balls, meatballs and lotus root balls. There is no pill, no fish, no soup. Now everyone likes to put a hot pot in the middle of the table, set off firecrackers, and the whole family will sit around the group and have a steaming dinner. It's really fun!

Before everyone sits around the dining table, the old-fashioned family should first offer sacrifices to their ancestors, and put some bowls and chopsticks on them to invite them to the table. After the ancestor worship ceremony, everyone began to eat at the table. Fish is not allowed to be eaten in order to pray for more than one year. The family ate and talked, laughing and laughing happily.