De 'ang people also celebrate the Songkran Festival. On the seventh day after Tomb-Sweeping Day, besides splashing water and praying and dancing like feet and drums, the most distinctive custom of the De 'ang Water-splashing Festival is to wash hands and feet for the elders. At that time, the younger generation of each family should prepare a pot of hot water and put it in the center of the hall, invite their parents and other elders to come out and sit in the hall, kowtow to them and ask them to forgive their filial piety in the past year. Elders should also review what they have not done enough in the past year and set an example for the younger generation. Later, the younger generation washed their hands and feet for their elders and wished each other a harmonious and hardworking atmosphere in the coming year. If parents die, brothers, sisters, sister-in-law and brother-in-law will become the object of washing hands and feet.
This custom comes from an old legend: On the seventh day after Tomb-Sweeping Day died, a disobedient son worked in the mountains. When he saw the scene of young birds feeding back, he realized something and decided to take good care of his mother. At this time, his mother came to the mountain to deliver food to her son and accidentally slipped. Her son came to help her, but she thought his son had come to hit her and ran into a tree. My son regretted it very much. He cut down the tree and carved it into a statue of his mother. Every year, on the seventh day after Tomb-Sweeping Day's death, he would wash the statue in warm water sprinkled with petals. Later it evolved into a custom.
[Edit this paragraph] Tibetan people
Every nation has its own unique culture and living habits. Tibetans are an ancient and enthusiastic people. In the long history, they also formed their own living habits and taboos.
1. When two friends meet each other after a long separation, you can't put your hand on each other's shoulder.
2. You can't cross or step on other people's clothes, nor can you put your own clothes on other people's clothes, let alone cross people.
3. Women should not hang clothes, especially pants and underwear, in places where people often pass by.
Don't whistle or cry loudly in the house.
When the family is not at home and the guests have just left, you can't sweep the floor or take out the garbage at noon and after sunset and on the first day of Tibetan New Year.
6, outsiders can't mention the name of the deceased in front of the relatives of the deceased.
7. What should be done this year can't be done next year, such as knitting wool, sweaters and carpets.
8. At dusk, you can't just go to people's homes, especially when people will have pregnant women who have given birth and newborn women or seriously ill patients. Strangers can't go.
9. After noon, you can't take out any property at home.
10, a stranger who has never been to a mountain, cliff and canyon, can't talk loudly.
1 1, tableware, pots, pans, etc. Can't cross or trample.
12. Two people at home go out at the same time, in opposite directions. They can't go out at the same time. They must go out before and after, and the time to go out should be separated.
13, women can't comb their hair and wash their hair at night and can't go out with their hair covered.
14. When using brooms and dustpans, you can't transfer them directly by hand. You must put them on the ground first, and then another person will pick them up from the ground.
15. Whenever relatives and friends visit your home, they will give you some butter tea or highland barley wine as a gift. When guests leave, they can't leave everything empty, so they have to leave some in it or change some of their own things to install.
16. A chipped or cracked bowl cannot be used for eating or pouring tea for guests.
[Edit this paragraph] Yi people
Torch Festival is a traditional festival in all Yi areas, which is popular in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other Yi areas. Bai, Naxi, Jinuo and Lahu also celebrate this festival. The Torch Festival on June 24th of the lunar calendar is the most grand, grand, spectacular and ethnic festival for the Yi people, and it is also a grand ceremony for all the people to participate. Torch Festival is usually held on June 24th or 25th of the lunar calendar for three days.
On June 24th of the lunar calendar, the bucket handle Big Dipper pointed out that all ethnic groups in the Yi language branch should celebrate the Torch Festival. Some scholars believe that this festival was originally an annual festival in the October calendar of the Yi people, and the Torch Festival is also called the Seven Stars Festival. There is a saying that "the stars return to the sky on New Year's Eve", which is equivalent to the New Year in the Yi calendar. Therefore, it is also called China New Year. Torch Festival of Yi people, that is, the Year of Yi people. In the eyes of Yi people, fire symbolizes light, justice and prosperity, and symbolizes a powerful force that can destroy all evil. Torch Festival is a festival of joy, love and happiness for Yi people.
Hong kong customs
Lunar New Year is a traditional grand festival in China, and I believe everyone in China doesn't know it. However, celebrating the Lunar New Year in Hong Kong is completely different from the traditional New Year in terms of customs and atmosphere.
In recent years, few Hong Kong people post Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures at home during the Lunar New Year. Instead, they posted slogans such as "Business is booming" and "Safe Access" in some shops or families. Even so, the original intention of posting Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures is the same as posting Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures. I hope everything will be smooth and safe in the new year.
In addition, lion dances and dragon lanterns will also appear in some villages and villages in the New Territories. It is difficult to see large-scale lion dances and dragon lanterns on the streets of urban areas in the New Year. As for setting off firecrackers and firecrackers, it is forbidden in Hong Kong. However, since 1982, a grand fireworks show has been held in Victoria Harbour on the second night of the Lunar New Year every year, which has been a program to welcome the Spring Festival for more than ten years.
Hong Kong is known as a "gourmet paradise". During the Spring Festival, there are many customs about eating. Most families will also have a "reunion dinner" during the Spring Festival, usually at home, and the whole family will get together for dinner on New Year's Eve. It is believed that the first choice for the big program after dinner is to visit the flower market. During the Lunar New Year, there are many fairs in Hong Kong and Kowloon, among which the flower market in Victoria Park is the largest and most lively. Hong Kong people are used to visiting the flower market after dinner. On New Year's Eve, people crowd each other and celebrate the festival together.
The happiest thing to spend the Lunar New Year in Hong Kong is to collect "profitable" children. Laughter and laughter can be heard everywhere during the Spring Festival. "Li" was originally a "good thing". Based on good luck and good will, it also became an indispensable custom with relatives during the Spring Festival.
[Edit this paragraph] Macao Customs
The old customs of Macao are very unique. "Xie Zao" is one of the most traditional China customs preserved in Macau. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, Macao people call it "Xie Zao". According to the tradition of China, Macau people also give the kitchen god sugar, saying that it is to paste the mouth of the kitchen god with sugar, so as not to speak ill of the kitchen god in front of the jade emperor. I saw a picture of Santa Claus on the stove of a Macao family in Flower Street, Macao. Strangely, the photo of Santa Claus was pasted with a couplet, which read "Heaven is good, return home with clothes on".
Macao people celebrate the New Year from the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, which is a homophonic word in Cantonese. Most business owners invite their employees to have a "reunion dinner" at the end of the year to show their prosperity and good luck. From the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, you can really feel the flavor of Macao.
On New Year's Eve, observing the New Year and visiting the flower market are two major events for Macao people to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Always play mahjong, watch TV, catch up and chat, and share family happiness; Perhaps influenced by Christmas and Valentine's Day in the west, Macao people are also scrambling to buy some auspicious flowers and trees to welcome the New Year, which has now become a custom in Macao. Macau holds a flower market on Lunar New Year's Eve, which mainly includes peach blossoms, daffodils, potted bamboos and potted oranges. Flowers are rich and prosperous. I wish peace. Flowers are auspicious for a bright future in the new year. The Macao Flower Market has been held for three days, which has brought endless comfort to Macao people who have been running around for a year.
During the Spring Festival, Macao people pay attention to "benefiting the market", which is a red envelope. On this day, the boss meets the employees, the elders meet the younger generation, and even the married meet the unmarried. They all want to "benefit the market". The "profit market" is purely to show good luck. Macao people call the second day of New Year's Day "Opening the Year". The custom is to eat "New Year's Eve". In order to make money and profit, the New Year's Eve must include Nostoc flagelliforme, lettuce and carp. From the "New Year" day, the Macao government will allow civil servants to "gamble" for three days. After the "New Year", Macau has completely returned to the traditional Chinese New Year custom in China. Until the Lantern Festival, it is also a festival of fireworks, playing with dragons and lions, and being in high spirits.
[Edit this paragraph] Some Spring Festival customs in Taiwan Province Province
The Spring Festival is a traditional folk festival with a long history of the Chinese nation. In Taiwan Province Province, which is separated from Fujian Province by water, its history, culture, customs, living habits and kinship are all in the same strain as Chinese mainland, especially in southern Fujian. Therefore, the Spring Festival customs of the people on the island are naturally similar to those of Chinese mainland.
Because the ancestors of Bao Dao residents (mainly Minnan people and Hakkas) went to Taiwan for development, it took a long time and experienced vicissitudes, and Taiwan Province's Spring Festival customs gradually formed some unique patterns and colors. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, compatriots in Taiwan Province Province should get dressed, provide livestock such as pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, fish and seafood at home, as well as offerings such as melons, sugar and fragrant tea, and then burn incense and set off firecrackers to see Kitchen God off, hoping that he would "speak well from the sky". From this day on, the "New Year" began.
Before New Year's Eve, compatriots in Taiwan Province Province had to clean and tidy their courtyard rooms in an all-round way. They were busy preparing for the Spring Festival.
On New Year's Eve, every household often sticks Spring Festival couplets on their doors and windows, grain depots, pigsty, well platforms and other places, which symbolize good luck in the New Year, all the best, and make a fortune, and then puts offerings and incense candles on the table in the hall to worship their ancestors and welcome them to "go home for the New Year". Since then, the sound of setting off fireworks and firecrackers has been one after another, and it has been very lively until the morning of the New Year's Day.
On New Year's Eve, the whole family on the island will get together to "surround the stove", that is, a family of men, women and children will sit around the stove or hot pot and have a New Year's Eve dinner (or "reunion dinner"). Of course, this meal should be exceptionally rich.
In the New Year's Eve dinner, besides eating fish balls and meatballs symbolizing family reunion, chicken which means "starting from eating chicken" and leek which means "longevity", there are all kinds of fried foods with local flavor, glutinous rice balls and rice cakes, especially eating "tortoise bean paste rice cake" (a kind of rice cake made by pressing a wooden mold engraved with tortoise shape and filled with bean paste), which can prolong life. In addition, there is a kind of salted radish rice cake, which needs to be baked and heated before it can be wrapped with laver. It not only has the function of removing meat and fishy smell and adjusting taste, but also contains the wish of "good color head" in the coming year (radish is called vegetable head in Taiwan Province Province, which is homophonic with "color head").
After the New Year's Eve, even the elders give their children "lucky money", which is quite distinctive: for older children, "lucky money" is pre-wrapped in red paper and handed to them; Children's "lucky money" is wrapped in red rope in advance, tied into a small collar and worn around their necks.
On the first day of the first month, people will get up early, get dressed and wash, and then begin to greet each other, express their respect and blessings, visit relatives and friends or visit parks. Very lively and pleasant. People are generally immersed in the festive atmosphere of joy, celebration, happiness and happiness.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, it was the new son-in-law who took his wife to visit her husband's family. It is naturally more interesting for the son-in-law to come to the door and the daughter to return to her family.
The third day is regarded as an unlucky day by compatriots in Taiwan Province Province. People don't go out much, eat early and go to bed early at night, which is also a good opportunity to stay away from the noise and rest.
The fourth day is the day to welcome the kitchen god to earth, and it will naturally be very lively.
Since the fifth day of the lunar new year, many people have started to do business, and everyone who goes to work has gone to work.
On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, according to legend, it is God's birthday. Every family should prepare the best wine and food, burn incense and worship, and recite scriptures to celebrate God's birthday. This is the last day of the annual Spring Festival travel rush.
Since then, the "Lantern Festival" that followed is the last scene of the whole Spring Festival. On this day, every household should eat glutinous rice balls and enjoy lanterns according to traditional habits. Under the full moon, all kinds of lanterns are shining, and there are activities such as lion dancing, playing dragon lanterns and welcoming drums, which are wonderful and dazzling. Especially those children who are full of childlike interest, have been carrying lanterns and chanting songs across the street, like fish swimming at the bottom of the sea, adding icing on the cake to the lively Lantern Festival night!
The folk Spring Festival in Taiwan Province Province originated in Chinese mainland, especially for people in Taiwan Province Province who speak Minnan dialect, the way to celebrate the Spring Festival is more similar to that in southern Fujian.
People's Chinese New Year activities in Taiwan Province Province began with "Tail Teeth" in 65438+February 65438+June. On this day, every household should pay tribute to the landlord, especially the businessman. In order to make a fortune in the new year, they should make sacrifices with sacrificial bodies and gold paper, and share the sacrifices with colleagues to reward employees. This is called "eating tail teeth". When eating their tails, the employees who are about to be fired are pointed at each other by their employers, saying that they should find another job next year. Therefore, there is a proverb in Taiwan Province Province: "Eat your tail teeth and worry, eat your head teeth and caress your mouth and beard". Tail-toothed rice is related to work or stay.
The 24th lunar month is the day when people send gods to heaven, just like the 23rd twelfth lunar month in southern Fujian. There must be "glutinous rice balls" (glutinous rice balls) in the sacrifice, which are stuck at the mouth of the stove, so that the kitchen god can "say good things to the sky and bad things to one side". On this day, we have to clean up and sweep away all the "bad luck" at home, so as to welcome the New Year.
On New Year's Eve, Taiwan Province Province is called "29" and "30", depending on the size of the twelfth lunar month. "Xun" means the end of the year Before it gets late, every household will prepare some sacrifices, such as sweet oranges, sweet rice cakes, "spring rice" and "lucky money". "Spring rice" means inserting paper-cut spring characters on pointed rice. Because "spring" and "surplus" are homophonic in Minnan language, which means "there is more food every year, and there are endless meals every year". In addition, behind the gate, two sugarcane plants with leaves are placed vertically, which means "firm family luck and good luck".
When eating New Year's Eve, there are new charcoal stoves and new sunflower fans under the square table, and the words "Spring" and "Happiness" written in red paper are affixed to the fans and stoves. Say auspicious words around the stove, such as "eat red dates, every year is good!" " "Eat New Year's Eve every year and earn money every year!" Wait, there must be mustard on the table, called "long-year dish", which symbolizes longevity. Some people also want "leek" on the dining table, that is, "leek" and "long" are homophonic, symbolizing longevity. Radish is also indispensable, which is called "vegetable head" in Minnan dialect, meaning "good color head" (good omen). There is also chicken, the homonym of chicken "home" and "starting from eating chicken", which can greatly enhance the voice of home. The vegetables around the stove were not chopped with a knife. Wash it and cook it with roots, so it won't be bitten off when you eat it. Instead, they are slowly eaten into their stomachs from beginning to end to wish their parents a long life.
After the New Year's Eve dinner, it is the birthday celebration. In Taiwan Province Province, "Shounian" is also called "Longevity Night", which symbolizes that the younger generation wants their parents to live a long life. As soon as the "handover time" (12 midnight) passes, people gather young and old to worship the gods with red and white rice cakes, and then set off firecrackers to welcome the New Year.
In Taiwan Province Province, during the Spring Festival, we will also make red turtle rice fruit, fat rice fruit and cauliflower rice fruit as rice cakes. The red turtle rice fruit looks like a turtle, and the outside is dyed red and stamped with the tortoise shell seal, which symbolizes people's longevity and aging. Every family uses this cake to worship the god who raised everything. If guests come to pay New Year's greetings, please eat sweets and sweets, and say different auspicious words according to men, women and children. For example, a child can say to the old man, "Have a dessert and wish you a long life!" " Peer can say, "Have a sweet meal and wish you a lot of money!"
[Edit this paragraph] Interesting Jiangsu Spring Festival customs
During the Spring Festival, in addition to posting Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year pictures, observing the new year, dancing lions and paying New Year greetings, Jiangsu folks have some unique customs, just like the whole country. Now the number of collections is for readers to see.
Suzhou people put cooked water chestnuts in their New Year's Eve meals and dig them out when they eat, which is called "digging gold ingots". When friends and relatives come and go, two green olives should be put in the tea, which is called "gold ingot tea". Congratulations on getting rich.
On the morning of the first day of the new year, Wujin people hang portraits of their ancestors in nave, offering them tea fruits and rice cakes, and the whole family pays New Year greetings in turn. This is called "worshipping the shadow of God." They are not allowed to sweep the floor from home, because they are afraid of sweeping out "wealth" and "wishful thinking", so they can only sweep from the outside to the inside.
Jiangning people have the custom of "beating the drums" during the Spring Festival. The flag is open, and the members of the gongs and drums team beat drums everywhere to entertain. On the third day, "playing the night drum", on the seventh day, "playing the seven drums" and from 13th to 15th, the atmosphere was warm.
Nantong people have the custom of planting sesame stalks, holly and cypress branches at home or in front of the church, which means that life is blooming every day and greener every year.
Huaiyin people also have the custom of "roasting the head wind" for their children on the sixth day. At night, I took my children to the fields to light torches to drive away the pathogenic factors for them. While roasting, singing: "Roast my head, wake up, roast my feet, keep my feet straight, roast my stomach without diarrhea, roast all over my body, and the disease will never be seen."
On the eighth day of the eighth lunar month, Wuxi fishermen took a boat to the Western Hills to worship the Wang Yu Temple, pray for the protection of the water god, and offer sacrifices to the Ao Jing Giant Buddha. This is called "going up?" After the Wang Yu Temple was demolished, this custom gradually became indifferent.
During the Spring Festival, there are still many taboos in Jiangsu's old customs, such as not moving scissors on the first day of the New Year's Day to avoid disputes with each other; Don't move the kitchen knife to avoid being killed; Don't eat porridge, afraid of going out in the rain; Don't sweep the floor, afraid of sweeping away wealth and so on. With the popularization of scientific knowledge, many unscientific customs are gradually forgotten; Healthy and beneficial entertainment and leisure activities have been going on. You can use these materials in order.