Shanxi Spring Festival customs:

1. Taiyuan:

(1) king of people on the 23rd, and the 24th is the day of cleaning, commonly known as "Hu Cleaning Day". Since then, the preparations for the year have reached a climax. I have something to do every day, and I have plans every day ((pasting, referring to all kinds of couplets, New Year pictures, window grilles, door gods, etc.)). I have been busy until the afternoon of New Year's Eve, and then I will clean the outdoor again, that is, I will start to get new clothes and hats, wrap jiaozi, and prepare incense, lights and other items to welcome the gods.

(2) On New Year's Eve, families stay up all night, commonly known as "old age". When the rooster crows, it starts to burn incense, light lamps, set offerings, set off fireworks, receive gods and worship ancestors, and then the family pays New Year greetings to each other. Children kowtow to their elders to pay New Year greetings, and elders give them lucky money for good luck. According to the traditional custom, we should have breakfast before the sun comes out. After breakfast, I went out to pay New Year's greetings, and my relatives went to the church, and those who were sparse threw thorns, and met on the way, bowing and nodding, exchanging auspicious words.

(3) On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, it is commonly known as "Breaking Five". As the folk saying goes, it is convenient to travel on the sixth lunar month, and residents are not allowed to visit relatives until the opening of the business on the sixth lunar month. The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is commonly known as "People's Day". As the saying goes, sunny days will benefit population reproduction. After the evening of the eighth day of the eighth lunar month, they offered sacrifices to the star gods, lit seven lamps in the courtyard, symbolizing the Big Dipper, and worshipped in the north, so as to get a good year. The tenth day is commonly known as "ten motionless days", and it is said that the day mouse marries.

From 13th to 16th, the Lantern Festival is celebrated. Within a few days, the night lights are brilliant, and the community fires are yangko, which is very lively, commonly known as "Lantern Festival". Twenty is commonly known as "small adding positions", and twenty-five is "old adding positions". The East-West Rice Market has set up a position of warehouse officials, and people go to sacrifice and set off sparks. After the Tiancang Festival, the excitement during the Spring Festival ended.

2. Jinyang:

(1) On New Year's Eve, there should be a fire, a bundle of grass and cypress leaves on the door.

(2) On the first day of the lunar new year, there is a custom of eating boiled pumpkins. It is called "eating a melon." At the end of the year, it is cooked with millet and put in a bowl to worship ancestors, commonly known as "fishing for rice every other year".

(3) Sweeping the courtyard and clearing the garbage on the fifth day of the fifth day is commonly known as "sweeping the poor".

3. Gujiao Mountain Area:

(1) On New Year's Eve, the ancestral gods are hung up, and every household in the clan should give an offering. In that year, a chicken was given to the endogenous boy's home, and a pot of wine was given to the girl's home.

(2) On the morning of the third grade, the whole family get together to pay homage to their ancestors, and the younger generation kowtows to their elders, commonly known as "the number of generations", and then get together and eat offerings. In the afternoon, send the gods to the entrance of the village, face the ancestors, burn incense and kowtow, and set off firecrackers, which is commonly called "sending the gods".

(3) Clean the indoor courtyard in the afternoon of the fourth day, and send the dirty people outside the village at dawn on the fifth day, burning incense and setting off firecrackers to show off the poor. The meal on this day is steamed oat flour or steamed bread, which is commonly called "distillation of poor gas"

(4) In the early morning of the 1th day of the first month, grain-like food made of naked oats flour is offered in the courtyard, incense and paper are burned, firecrackers are set off, and heaven and earth are prayed for a bumper harvest.

(5) On the 15th day of the first month, besides the Lantern Festival, there is also the custom of seeing off the god of plague. Villages in Wudao Temple or Crossroads offer memorial tablets for athel Loren, set fire to towers, and provide oil noodles and steamed bread.

4. Datong:

On New Year's Eve of the Spring Festival, every household should build a tower in front of the courtyard with large pieces of coal, which is called Wanghuo, in order to be lucky and congratulate the prosperity throughout the year. Put firewood in it, and write a big red note on it, "The spirit is soaring to the sky". At midnight, when firecrackers are ringing, light the flourishing fire. After ignition, the flame spouted from countless small holes, which was like a floating picture, both to keep out the cold and spectacular.

Adults and children gather in a circle, some play games, some set off firecrackers, and all men, women and children will come to warm themselves, in order to "soar to the sky".

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