Everyone is very curious about the local traditional culture and traditional cultural characteristics of each province.

After a long history, the province has continued to develop and inherit over the long years, and there have been many rich folk cultural interactions, thus forming the local cultural characteristics that we are familiar with.

I have sorted out the relevant content and hope it will be helpful to you.

1. What are the traditional cultural elements of Lu'an? 1. Residence. In the old days, the western Anhui area was based on agriculture and resettlement.

When building a house, it is required to be wide in front and high in the back. "The house sits on a green mountain, a land of dragons and tigers, and the door faces the green water Phoenix Pond" (mountain behind and water in front), "I would rather have a green dragon ten thousand feet high than a white tiger looking up" (high on the left and low on the right)

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Doors should usually be oriented southeast or southwest, avoid facing south or facing north, and avoid clashing with gables, chimneys, water flows, toilets, or roads.

In ancient times, if there was a stone tablet in front of the residence of a wealthy official in a town, there was a stone tablet at the entrance of an intersection or alley, which was said to be "Taishan Stone Gandeng", which was said to be able to dispel evil spirits and eliminate disasters.

2. Diet In the old days, people in the areas along the Huaihe River mostly ate wheat, beans, and potatoes. In the mountainous areas, people mostly ate corn, wheat, and yam. In the Weifan and hilly areas, people mostly ate rice.

People in both urban and rural areas have the habit of processing food by themselves, such as pickling poultry and eggs before Tomb Sweeping Day, making bean paste during the rainy season, pickling cauliflower and radish after the Beginning of Winter, pickling fish, meat and poultry after the Winter Solstice, and making glutinous rice cakes before the Spring Festival.

Lu'an people have always been hospitable. In the old days, banquet dishes usually had eight or ten kinds of dishes, which were called "Eight Seas" and "Ten Seas".

3. Marriage In the old days, marriages depended on "the orders of parents and the words of matchmakers." In terms of marriage, there were generally four steps: proposal, engagement, date (selected marriage date) and marriage. The importance of the betrothal gift and the complexity of the procedures

Jane, based on the economic basis of both parties, after negotiation between the man and the woman, the man respects the woman's opinion more.

The proposal of marriage is also called "proposing a matchmaker"; the engagement is also called "writing a letter"; the marriage is also called "consummating the marriage".

On the day of the wedding, the man prepares a sedan chair, new clothes, and gifts, and the matchmaker leads a wedding team to deliver them to the woman's home.

The bride gets up early to "cry for marriage" and eats a "separated family meal". After that, her relatives carry her to the sedan. The dowry goes forward, followed by the sedan.

After walking around to the groom's house, the bride is helped up from the red cloth bag to the front of the hall to perform the ceremony. Then she enters the bridal chamber, drinks the consummation wine, and makes the wedding ceremony.

In order to heighten the festive atmosphere, there is a custom of "happy words". One person sings congratulations and everyone says hello. Guests can also play and amuse the newlyweds appropriately. It is said that "there is no big or small thing in the three days of the wedding."

After the wedding, there are still things like going back home and getting married.

4. Funeral generally goes through four stages: death, funeral, coffin placement (wrapped in straw or placed in a cabinet made of bricks) and burial.

When a person is about to die, his children should rush to the deceased to see them off (commonly known as "sending off the elderly").

The coffin was laid for 1-3 years before being buried.

With the development of funeral civilization, the cremation rate has gradually increased, and funeral procedures have been simplified.

5. Childbirth: On the second day after the birth of a child, the mother-in-law must be informed of the good news. On the third day, the mother must be fumigated with moxa water and the baby must be bathed, which is called "Washing Three".

When a child is one month old, relatives and friends should be invited to drink "full moon wine".

On the first birthday (commonly known as "Zhuzhou"), relatives and friends send congratulations.

When you are 10 years old, some people do it for their 10th birthday.

When a person reaches the age of 60, children should do "sixtieth birthday celebrations" (do nine instead of ten) for their parents.

From now on, birthday celebrations will also be held on birthdays, but they are generally not as grand as those on tenth birthdays.

(6) Etiquette: The main etiquette and customs in the old days include: welcoming guests, bowing to the host when they go out, guests in front of the host and behind the host, letting the guests take their seats after entering the room, and offering tea and cigarettes.

The seating capacity is 8 or 10 people. The number of seats depends on the stitching on the tabletop. If the stitching is straight towards the door, the left side of the nave is the top and the right side is the second.

When offering cigarettes, wine, rice, tea and other items, they should be held in both hands with a focused expression and without squinting.

When meeting, common people greet each other and bow hands; uncommon people greet each other without wearing hats; young people and juniors should greet relatives and friends first when meeting them.

2. Traditional cultural characteristics and customs of Lu'an (1) Playing with torches and touching autumn during the Mid-Autumn Festival. After the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner, both urban and rural areas in Lu'an City have the custom of drinking tea and admiring the moon, and teenagers have to play until midnight.

In the countryside, there is a custom of playing with torches.

That night, people used flax straw, mugwort, straw, etc. to make torches that were more than ten feet long. After lighting them, they held them high and happily ran to the edge of the village, the road, or the fields. They either played fire dragons or danced fire lions, galloping and leaping.

Echoes from near and far.

"Touching Autumn" is also one of the traditional activities on Mid-Autumn Festival night in the countryside.

At night, people can sneak into vegetable gardens and crop fields at will and pick fruits, peppers, soybeans, corn, cotton, and radishes, whether they belong to Zhang Sanjia or Li Sijia.

As the saying goes, "If you touch a winter melon, you will have a boy; if you touch a loofah, you will have a girl; if you touch a hot pepper, it won't hurt your eyes." After that, they would pull out soybean stalks and burn edamame on the roadside to eat.

Therefore, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can often see puddles of dust on the roadsides and fields in the countryside.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, wealthy families in cities and towns still have the spirit of "walking on the moon".

Three poles after the moon rose, the gong and drum troupes set out one after another to walk through the streets and alleys in the moonlight, knocking and banging as they walked. They never tired of it until they returned home after enjoying themselves until late at night.

(2) Pawn wine and moonlight. In the old days, on the fifteenth day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar every year, there was a custom in urban and rural areas of Shouxian County of "drinking Pawn wine" and "drinking moonlight".

Based on the understanding of the laws of the moon, people believe that only on November 15th of the year at midnight the moon is directly facing this place, shining directly on people but leaving no shadow on the ground, so it is called "Dangtou".