May 13th send sheep
Handan Zhanghe River on both sides of a custom, the 13th day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, grandparents and uncles to send sheep to the little nephews, in ancient times to send a live sheep, and now to send the white flour steamed noodles sheep. This custom is related to the myths and legends of Shenxiang split Erlang Shen used to pressure the three Virgin Mary Huashan, Shenxiang split the mountain to save his mother, to go to cut the head of Erlang Shen, but the three Virgin Mary care about brother and sister love, do not let Shenxiang go, Shenxiang to Erlang Shen to send two sheep to skin and eat meat, Yang Erlang know about this matter, send two live sheep to Shenxiang, this is precisely the thirteenth day of the fifth month of the Lunar Calendar. This custom later emerged on both sides of the Zhanghe River, send sheep and send the meaning of longevity, so this custom has been passed down to the present.
June 6 to honor the God of the Valley
In the west of Handan, Wuan, Shibuxian area around the sixth month of the lunar calendar to honor the God of the Valley of the custom. Taihangshan mountainous areas planted more valley, and planting time is earlier, if encountered God care, spring rain is good, often to the beginning of the lunar calendar June Valley out of the spike. So the local farmers every June 6 to look at their own land a piece of golden grain seedlings, the heart will be happy to open up. On the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, local families steamed buns, steamed bean buns, and the most popular meal is wrapped in rolls. To honor the god of grain is to be grateful to God for giving people grain, but also because of the legend that people are worried that the god of grain will take back the grain that people enjoy. On the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, peasants would bring incense and steamed buns to their fields to pray that the gods would not take back the grain from the earth, and that the gods would give their families a good harvest.
February 2 Begging for Coquettishness
On the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, there is a custom of begging for coquettishness in the villages near Magnetic State for the girls. On this day, the girls can be free to partner, dressed in good clothes, with a good millet, white flour, oil, salt and pots, bowls, pots, spoons and other tools, together on the mountain picnic, which is the magnetism of the state of the ancient passed down the "girl on February 2 to eat begging for coquettish rice" custom. The girls go to the mountain, find a suitable place for the picnic, then build a stove, set up a pot, cook rice, simmering millet, wrapping dumplings, boiled rice porridge can be. After the rice is cooked, the girls go to the bushes on the hillside and pick the red tip of a wild plant, and then they sit around the picnic pot with five, six, or a dozen of them and perform the begging ceremony. The ceremony is very charming, and each of the girls must perform it by covering the eyes of a girl with a cloth and letting her throw seven oh-needle tips into the rice pot, then letting her stir three times with her chopsticks in the pot, then picking up the rice with her chopsticks and eating it, only seven bites, and so on for each person, each of them having to make up seven oh-needle tips before picking up the rice to eat it to show that it's fair. In this ceremony, any girl who can eat the tip of the oh-needle will become a clever sister or clever sister, and will be highly appreciated by the village people, and more people will come to the door to ask for marriage. When the begging ceremony is over, the girls start the formal picnic and the day's entertainment.