Originally known as the "Benglong", the De'ang are one of the oldest ethnic groups living on the southwest border. They mainly live in Santai Mountain, Luxi County, Yunnan Province, and Junlang, Zhenkang County, etc. On September 17, 1985, the State Council approved the official name change to De'ang. The De'ang have their own language, but they do not have their own script, and use Dai and Chinese languages. They believe in the Run sect of Hinayana Buddhism. They are mainly engaged in agriculture, planting rice, corn, buckwheat, potatoes, etc., and are good at growing tea.

Deang Water Festival

Deang people also have Water Festival, time in the seventh day after the Qingming Festival, in addition to pouring water blessing and jumping elephant foot drum dance and other programs and the Dai Water Festival consistent, the Deang Water Festival is the most distinctive custom is to wash the hands of the elders to wash their feet. At that time, the young people of each family should prepare a basin of hot water, bring it and put it in the center of the hall, invite parents and other elders of the family to come out and sit on the hall, kowtow and ask for forgiveness from them for their unfiliality in the past year. The elders are also asked to review what they have not done enough to set an example for the younger generation during the year. The younger generation then washes the hands and feet of the elders while wishing each other a year of harmony and hard work. In the event of the death of a parent, older brothers and sisters and sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law become the recipients of the hand-washing and foot-washing.

This custom comes from an old legend: a disobedient son was working in the mountains on the seventh day after the Ching Ming Festival when he saw a nestling feeding its young, and felt something in his heart, and resolved to serve his mother well. At this time, his mother was walking up the hill to bring food to her son, and she accidentally slipped and fell. Her son rushed to help her, but she thought he was coming to beat her, so she ran headlong into a tree and died. The son regretted it, cut down the tree and carved it into a statue of his mother, and every year, on the seventh day after the Qingming Festival, he would dip the statue into warm water sprinkled with flower petals to clean it, which later evolved into a custom.

Customs

The majority of the Deang follow Hinayana Buddhism, and their religious beliefs and living customs are greatly influenced by the Dai. In the vast majority of villages there are their own Buddhist temples and offerings to the Lord Buddha, and there are small monks. All the little monks' fasting meals are given by the whole village people in turn. Among some of the Deang, there used to be the custom of not eating when you see a kill or hear a sound. Every holiday, mutual feast custom, no matter how many dishes on the banquet, there should be a bowl of fresh vegetables boiled in white, eaten when dipped in chili water to eat, a unique flavor.

Wedding customs

Deang young men and women should be beheaded at the engagement ceremony, if the chicken head and chicken identity into two halves, the two sides can not be reversed; if the woman does not agree with the marriage, you are not allowed to kill the chicken. The wedding usually takes place over three days, and within three days the whole village, men, women and children, should go to the bride and groom's home to congratulate the bride and groom's parents on both sides of the feast, and accompanied by songs, singing and laughing all night long.

Food customs

The vast majority of the De'ang people eat rice as their staple food, and in some areas, grains and potatoes are used as their staple food. All of them eat by steaming and stewing, and they are good at making all kinds of grain products, such as pea flour, tofu, rice flour, rice cake, poi, dumplings and so on.

Various types of vegetables, bamboo shoots is one of the four seasons of vegetables, in addition to fresh food, more processed into sour bamboo shoots or dried bamboo shoots to eat. The consumption of other vegetables, are accustomed to cooking and stewing with sour bamboo shoots. Sour bamboo shoots are very widely used, even in stewed chicken, stir-fried meat or cooking fish with sour bamboo shoots seasoning. Influenced by the local Han Chinese many Han Chinese flavor pickles, curd is also common on the table of the Deang small dishes.　

The De'ang people planted a long history of tea, tea in the De'ang people is not only a regular drink, but also the best gift for friends and relatives. De'ang people also drink sour tea, also known as wet tea, the ancient name of the valley tea or Gu tea. The flavor is sour and astringent, and it can quench the thirst. And have to relieve summer heat, heat, digestion effect. Drinking alcohol is mostly home-brewed bamboo rice wine.

Festivals

The traditional festivals of the Deang people are mostly related to Buddhist activities. For example, festivals such as the Water Splashing Festival, the Door Closing Festival, the Door Opening Festival, and the Burning of White Chai are dedicated to the Buddha.

Opening the door to the festival of the village with a temple to carry out the "Geli sacrifice" (to celebrate the harvest, happy to taste the new rice meaning), from the Dai calendar December 13 to start preparations for the pounding of new rice, cooking the new rice, rice cakes, and other activities, and to select the two pieces of rice cakes sent to the village of the public housing (dedicated for the village of the house for the festival with the housing), the next day the whole village to open the festival to the village to be The next day, the whole village will start the festival, to be made by the village of skilled craftsmen with bamboo gabions into a small room (Dai language called Gel listening), filled with rice cakes, carried by the crowd of small bamboo room to the temple pilgrimage.

Burning White Chai this day, each family to kill chickens and prepare wine, the whole village **** get together for a meal, each family should also make all kinds of glutinous rice cakes, wrapped in banana leaves, steamed and carry each other to give each other, each other to taste the flavor of the family, the newlyweds should bring sugar rice cakes to the village headman and the elders of the family to sue the worship.

The De'ang people also sacrificed to the family hall, Zhai God, God of the earth, the dragon, the valley mother and other sacrificial customs, which sacrificed to the dragon is the most interesting. Generally selected in the spring, when to kill pigs, chickens, by the priests painted paper dragon, people bowing, and then drink together picnic, drunkenness and scolding each other, give vent to the usual dissatisfaction between each other. No one is allowed to discourage them until they are exhausted, and then they apologize to each other the next day.

Edit paragraph Tibetan

Each ethnic group has its own unique culture and living habits, Tibetans are an ancient and passionate people, in the long history, but also formed their own habits and taboos in life.

1, when two long-time friends greet or chat with each other, your hands can't be on each other's shoulders.

2, you can't cross or step on other people's clothes, or put your own clothes on other people's clothes, or cross over people.

3. Women drying their clothes, especially pants, and underwear should not dry in places where people often pass by.

4. You cannot whistle or cry loudly in the house.

5. Outsiders must not mention the name of a deceased person in the presence of his relatives.

6. Work that should be done this year cannot be left for next year, such as twisting wool, knitting sweaters, weaving carpets, etc.

7, dusk, can not just go to people's homes, especially when people will have a pregnant woman in labor and just gave birth to a woman in labor or a seriously ill person, strangers can not go.

8. After noon, one must not take out any of the family's possessions.

9. When a stranger goes to the big mountains and cliffs and canyons that you have never been to before, he cannot make a loud noise.

10, you can't straddle or step on eating utensils, pots and pans, ladle pots and so on.

11, there are two people at home at the same time out of the house, and in the opposite direction, can not go out at the same time, must go out before and after and go out time to be separated.

12. Women are not allowed to comb and wash their hair at night, nor are they allowed to go out with their hair draped over their heads.

13. When using brooms and dustpans, they must not be passed directly from hand to hand, but must be placed on the ground first, and then another person must pick them up from the ground.

14, whenever friends and relatives to your home to visit or visit you, will take some ghee tea or barley wine and other items as a gift to you, the guests before leaving to load things out to you, can not be all vacated, you must leave a little bit of inside or change a little bit of their own food loaded.

15, there are chipped or cracked bowls all people can not be used to eat, and can not pour tea for guests.

Edit section Yi nationality

Yi Torch Festival is a traditional festival in all Yi regions, popular in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other Yi regions. The Bai, Naxi, Jinuo and Lahu ethnic groups also celebrate this festival. The Torch Festival on the 24th day of the 6th lunar month is the most solemn, the grandest, the most spectacular, the largest number of participants, the most rich ethnic characteristics of the festival, but also the feast of the whole people. The festival is held on the 24th or 25th day of the 6th lunar month, and lasts for three days.

June 24th of the lunar calendar, the Big Dipper handle on the finger, the Yi language branch of the nation are going to have a torch festival, some scholars believe that this section of the original system of the Yi calendar in October of an annual festival, the torch festival is also known as the star back to the festival, the proverbial "star back to the sky and the eve of the" that is equivalent to the new year of the Yi calendar. Therefore, it is also called the New Year. The Yi torch festival is also known as the Yi New Year. In the eyes of the Yi people, fire symbolizes light, justice, prosperity, and the powerful force that can destroy all evil. The Torch Festival is a festival of joy, love and happiness for the Yi people.

The Torch Festival is an ancient and important traditional festival of the Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other ethnic groups, with profound folk cultural connotations, and is known as the "Oriental Carnival" at home and abroad. Different ethnic groups hold the Torch Festival at different times, mostly on the 24th day of the 6th month of the lunar calendar, and the main activities include bullfighting, sheep fighting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, song and dance performances, beauty contests, etc. In the new era, the Torch Festival has been recognized as the most important traditional festival in the world. In the new era, the torch festival has been endowed with new folkloric functions and produced new forms.

"Torch Festival" is celebrated *** for three days:

Torch Festival Day 1: Fire Offering. On this day, everyone wears their beloved dresses and is happy. Villages and hamlets will slaughter cows and sheep, set up banquets, various kinds of meat, sweet and fragrant wine, the fragrance of these scents overflowing, put it to honor the gods, the gods will also be full of praise. When night falls, people from neighboring villages will set up an altar at a place chosen by the old people, light the sacred fire by striking a stone in the traditional way, and have the Bimo (Yi folk priests) recite scriptures to offer the fire. Then, every family, adults and children will take the torch made of artemisia grass from the hands of Bimo, and roam around the corners of the fields, following the legend of Ash ugly woman who drove away insects with fire.　

The second day of the Torch Festival: passing the fire. Families gather under the sacred fire at the altar to hold a variety of traditional festival activities. The boys are expected to follow the example of the legendary Ati Raba, racing horses, wrestling, singing, bullfighting, goatfighting and cockfighting. The girls follow the example of the legendary Ashima, wearing beautiful clothes, holding up butter umbrellas, singing "Doloho" and dancing the Dada dance. On this day, the most important activity is the Yi beauty contest. Elderly people have to select the annual beauty contest from among the boys and girls according to the standards of the legendary Ati Raba, who is industrious, brave and handsome, and Ashima, who is kind, intelligent and beautiful. At nightfall, a pair of loving men and women, in the mountains, on the banks of the stream, under the yellow umbrellas, plucking the moon lyre, playing the mouth string, telling each other how much they love each other. Therefore, some people call the Liangshan Yi International Torch Festival the "Valentine's Day of the East".　

The third day of the festival: sending fire. This is the climax of the entire Liangshan Yi International Torch Festival. When night falls on this day, everyone will run around with torches in their hands. People will be in the hands of the torch together, forming a pile of huge bonfires, happy people will gather around the bonfire to sing, dance, the scene is extremely spectacular. Therefore, it is also known as the "Oriental Carnival Night".

The Yi people believe that the Torch Festival is to grow the ears of grain as thick as a torch. Later generations of this sacrificial fire to drive home in the field of ghosts and evil, in order to protect people and animals peace. During the festival, young men and women of all ethnic groups or light a torch made of pine wood, to the village field activities, while walking the pine incense scattered to the torch to the sky to pray for the New Year, in addition to the obscenity of the auspicious; or singing, dancing, horse racing, bullfighting, wrestling; or hold a grand bonfire party, all-night revelry. Now, people also take advantage of the opportunity to gather, socializing or lovers meeting, and in the festival to carry out trade activities.

Editing Hong Kong's New Year's Customs

Lunar New Year is traditionally a grand festival in China, and I believe that no Chinese person is unaware of it. However, celebrating Lunar New Year in Hong Kong is very different from the traditional one in terms of customs and atmosphere.

In recent years, very few Hong Kong people have traditionally put up Chinese New Year couplets and paintings in their homes during the Lunar New Year. Instead, they put up spring scrolls with the words "prosperous business" and "peace in and out of the country" in some stores or at home. In spite of this, the original intention of sticking the spring is the same as sticking the spring couplets and New Year's paintings, taking its auspicious meaning, hoping that everything will go well in the coming year, peace and security.

In addition, lion dances and dragon lanterns are also seen in some villages and walled villages in the New Territories, and it is difficult to see large-scale lion and dragon lantern dances on the streets of the city in the New Year. As for the discharge of firecrackers, firecrackers, etc. in Hong Kong is prohibited, but since 1982 every year on the second day of the Lunar New Year night, in the Victoria Harbour will hold a grand fireworks display, which has become this decade to welcome the spring of a program.

Hong Kong is known as the "Gourmet Paradise", and there are many Chinese New Year customs related to food, and most families will have a "Lunar New Year dinner" during the Lunar New Year period, which is usually a feast at home, where the whole family gathers on New Year's Eve to enjoy the Dinner. After dinner, the first choice for a major program is believed to be the flower market, during the Lunar New Year, Hong Kong and Kowloon have a number of New Year's Eve markets, including Victoria Park's flower market is the largest and most lively. Hong Kong people are accustomed to the family after dinner to visit the flower market, New Year's Eve is even more crowded, shoulder to shoulder, everyone together to celebrate the festival.

In Hong Kong during the Lunar New Year, the happiest people are the children who receive "lai see", and during the Lunar New Year, you can hear the laughter of the "lai see" everywhere. "Lishui" was originally "good things", to take the big luck wide good intentions, but also become the Spring Festival with relatives indispensable custom.

Editing Macao New Year's Customs

Macao New Year's Customs have a unique flavor. One of the most traditional Chinese New Year's customs preserved in Macau is "thanking Zao". On the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, the Macau people send off the God of Stoves, which is called "thanking the God of Stoves". The Macanese traditionally use Zao candies to cover the mouth of the Zao God, so as to prevent the Zao God from saying bad words to the Jade Emperor. I have seen a Santa Claus statue in a Macau family's house on Flower Street in Macau, and strangely enough, the Santa Claus statue is pasted on the side of the coupling of "good words from heaven and good fortune from the house".

The Chinese New Year in Macau starts on the 28th day of the Lunar New Year, which means "easy to get rich" in Cantonese, and most business owners treat their employees to a "New Year's dinner" at the end of the year to signify their good fortune and good fortune. Macau's New Year's flavor can be truly felt on the 28th day of the Lunar New Year.

On New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve vigil and the flower market are the two major events for Macau people to celebrate the old and welcome the new. The New Year's Eve is to play mahjong, watch TV, chatting, *** enjoy the joy of family; probably influenced by the Western Christmas and Valentine's Day, the Lantern Festival Macao people also scramble to buy some auspicious flowers and trees to welcome the New Year, now has become a Macao custom. Macau in the Lantern Festival organized flower market, mostly peach blossoms, daffodils, potted bamboo, potted oranges, blossoms, wishing for peace, flowers and trees signify a new year's good prospects. Macau's flower market is held for three days, and these three days give endless comfort to the people of Macau who have been running around for a year.

The Chinese New Year day, the Macau people pay attention to the "Lai Shi", "Lai Shi" is the red envelope, this day the boss to see the staff, the elders to see the elders, and even married people to see the unmarried people have to "Lai Shi."" Li Shi" is purely for good luck. Macanese call the second day of the Lunar New Year "New Year's Eve". It is customary to have a "New Year" meal, which must be prepared with hairy vegetables, lettuce and carp, which is meant to bring wealth and prosperity. From the day of the "New Year", the Macau government allows civil servants to "bet" (gamble) for three days. After the "New Year", Macau returns to the traditional Chinese New Year customs until the Lantern Festival, which is also a time of fireworks and firecrackers, dragon and lion dances, and joyful celebrations.

Editing Taiwan's Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is a traditional folk festival of the Chinese nation with a long history and the grandest tradition. In Taiwan, which is separated from Fujian Province by a stretch of water, its history, culture, customs, living habits, relatives and so on are all inherited from the motherland, especially in the southern Fujian region, and thus the Spring Festival customs of the people on the island are naturally similar to those on the motherland.

Since the ancestors of the residents of the island (mostly Minnan and Hakka) went to Taiwan to develop, a long time ago and through many vicissitudes, the Spring Festival customs there have gradually formed some unique patterns and colors. Every lunar month 23 "sacrificial stove" day this day, Taiwan compatriots have to put on good clothes, in the home offerings of pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, fish and other livestock and seafood, as well as melons, sweets, tea and other offerings, and then burn incense firecrackers for the God of the stove to send off, hoping that its "heavenly word of good things". And from this day onwards, the "New Year" has begun.

Before New Year's Eve, Taiwan compatriots also have to carry out a comprehensive cleaning and organizing the courtyard and living room, have to prepare for the New Year's goods, busy and happy.

On New Year's Eve, each family often first symbolizes the auspiciousness of the New Year, the content of the Spring Festival couplets, such as good luck, fortune and prosperity, pasted on their own doors and windows, grain hoards, pigsties, wells, etc., and then in the hall on the table set up offerings, incense and candles, in order to pay homage to their ancestors and to welcome them home to celebrate the New Year. From this point onwards, the sound of fireworks, firecrackers, lively, and continues until the morning of the first day of the New Year.

On New Year's Eve, the entire family of the island will gather together to eat New Year's Eve dinner (or "reunion dinner") around the fireplace or hot pot, which means that men, women, and children of all ages will sit around the fireplace. This meal is, of course, extraordinarily sumptuous.

New Year's Eve dinner, in addition to eating a symbol of family reunion of fish balls, meatballs and meaning of "eating chicken" meaning of chicken, as well as "longevity" of the leek, and a variety of local flavors of deep-fried food, dumplings, rice cakes, in particular, to eat the "tortoise bean paste rice cake" (a carved tortoise shape of a wooden mold pressed and made of inside the bean paste filling of the rice cake), there is a meaning of good life and prolonged life. In addition, there is also a savory radish rice cake, which is eaten warmed over a fire and then wrapped in seaweed. In addition to its role in solving the meat and fish, the role of taste, but also contains the next year, "good luck" wishes (Taiwan called the radish for the head of the vegetable, and the "head of the color" resonance).

After the New Year's Eve dinner, it is the elders to give their children and grandchildren "New Year's money" to give the method is also quite distinctive: older children, their "New Year's money" is pre-wrapped in red paper and handed to them; and young children's "New Year's money", it is the adults wrapped in red cord and tied into a small ring, set on their necks.

On the first day of the first month of the year, people will get up early, after dressing and washing up, will start a very humane way to pay tribute to each other, please, blessings, and visit friends and relatives or visit the park, etc., ushered in, lively and cozy. People are generally immersed in a festive atmosphere of joy, celebration, happiness and fulfillment.

The second day of the Lunar New Year is the day when the new son-in-law takes his wife to his husband's house to pay homage. Son-in-law to the door, the daughter back to her mother's home, naturally more fun.

The third day of the Lunar New Year is regarded as an unlucky day by Taiwanese compatriots. People tend not to go out, and eat and sleep early in the evening, which is a good opportunity to rest in the midst of the chaos.

On the fourth day of the month, it is the day to welcome the "God of the Zao" down to the earth, so naturally, it is another day to be lively.

From the fifth day of the first month of the lunar year, many people opened their businesses and went to work.

On the ninth day of the year, which is said to be the birthday of the "God of Heaven," every household prepares the best wine and food and burns incense and worships, performs plays and recites scriptures to wish the "God of Heaven" a happy birthday. This is the last day of the annual Spring Festival.

The Lantern Festival, which follows, is the last act of the Spring Festival. On this day, every family traditionally eats soup dumplings and enjoys lanterns. Under the full moon, all kinds of colored lanterns compete for brightness, and there are lion dances, dragon lanterns, welcome "drums" and other activities, colorful and dazzling. Especially those children full of childish fun, have hand-carried lanterns, chanting songs across the street, like fish swimming under the sea, for the lively and colorful Lantern Festival night to add to the icing on the cake!

The Chinese New Year in Taiwan originated in the mainland, and the way of celebrating the New Year is more similar to that in southern Fujian, especially among the Taiwanese who speak Minnan dialect.

Taiwanese New Year's activities begin on December 16 of the lunar calendar with the "Tailgate". On this day, every family will worship the landlord, especially businessmen, in order to pray for a new year's fortune, always with animal body, gold paper sacrifices, and offerings to share with colleagues to reward employees, which is called "food tail teeth. Eating the last teeth", will be dismissed employees, the employer to the chicken head to indicate that next year, please look for another job. Therefore, there is a proverb in Taiwan: "Eat the last teeth face worry worry, eat the first teeth to stroke the mouth beard". It means that the tailing meal is a matter of job retention.

The 24th day of the Lunar Calendar is the day when the people send the god to heaven, the same as the 23rd day of the lunar month in southern Fujian to send the god of the stove. Offerings must have "sweet round" (dumplings), stick in the mouth of the stove, so that the God of the stove, "good words to heaven, bad words to the side". This day, but also cleaning, will be home all "bad luck" sweep away, so as to welcome the New Year.

New Year's Eve, Taiwan called "two nine all night", "thirty all night", depending on the size of the lunar December." All night" means the end of the year. Before it gets late, families prepare offerings such as sweet tangerines, sweet rice cakes, "spring rice" and "New Year's money". Chunyan" is a dish of rice with paper cut-outs of the Chinese character for "spring" inserted on the top of the rice served in a pointed shape. This is because "Chun" and "leftovers" sound alike in Southern Min dialects, meaning "there are leftovers every year, and you can't have enough food every year". In addition, in the back of the main door, put two vertical sugar cane with leaves, called "long years of sugar cane", to take the long and sweet, in order to "firm family luck auspicious" meaning.

Eating New Year's Eve dinner "around the stove", the eight immortal table placed under the new charcoal stove and a new sunflower fan, the fan and the stove on the red paper writing on the "spring" and "blessed" characters. When they gather around the stove, they have to say auspicious words, such as "Eat red dates, the year will be good! and "Eat New Year's rice, make money every year!" etc., there must be mustard on the table, called "long years of vegetables", symbolizing a long life. Some people also have "leeks" on the table, that is, "leeks" and "long" resonance, symbolizing longevity. Radish is also indispensable, Minnan called it "vegetable head", said "good luck" (good omen). There should also be chicken, which means "home", and "eating chicken to start a family" will boost the family's reputation. Around the stove" when the vegetables are not chopped with a knife, washed and boiled with the roots, eaten without biting off, but from head to tail, slowly eaten into the belly, in order to wish parents long life.

After the New Year's Eve dinner is the New Year's Eve celebration. In Taiwan, the "New Year's Eve" is also called the "Night of Longevity," symbolizing the younger generation's wish for the longevity of their parents. Once the "cross time" (12:00 midnight) is over and the first day of the year is over, people gather young and old to honor the gods with red and white rice cakes, pay homage to Gongmao (i.e., Zu Gong Zu Mao), and then set off firecrackers to welcome the spring and receive blessings.

The Taiwanese celebrate the New Year by making red turtle rice cakes, hair rice cakes, and vegetable rice cakes. Red turtle rice fruit in the shape of a tortoise, dyed red, on the tortoise armor seal, used to symbolize people's longevity. Every family uses this cake to honor the God of Heaven, who nurtures all things. If guests come to the door to pay their respects, they are invited to eat candies and sweet nuts, and say different auspicious words according to men and women, young and old. For example, children can say to the elderly, "Eat a sweet, and I wish you long life!" Between peers can say: "Eat a sweet, wish you make a lot of money!"

Edit section of Jiangsu Spring Festival

Spring Festival of Jiangsu folk, in addition to the Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year's paintings, the New Year's Eve, Lion Dance, the New Year's Eve and the same national customs, there are a number of unique customs, is now included in a number of them to the reader.

Suzhou New Year's Eve in the rice into the cooked water chestnuts, digging out when you eat, called "digging treasure", friends and relatives to come and go, bubble tea should be placed into the two green olives, said to drink "treasure tea", congratulations on wealth.

Wujin people on the morning of the first day of the year, the ancestral portrait hanging in the middle of the hall, for the tea fruit, rice cakes, a family of young and old people in order to perform the New Year's rites, known as the "worship God shadow". "They are not allowed to sweep from home to the outside, lest the "wealth", "Ruyi" swept out, only from the outside to the inside sweep.

Jiangning people have the Spring Festival "playing the drums" custom, by the flag to open the way, drummers and gongs to drums with all their strength, the third "night drums", the first seven "on the seven drums", thirteen to fifteen to play the "shoulder drums", the atmosphere is very enthusiastic.

Nantong people have the custom of inserting sesame stalks, holly, and cypress branches in front of their homes or halls, meaning that life is blossoming and evergreen.

Huaiyin people also have the sixth day of the child "baked head wind" custom. It is the night to take the child to the field open space lit torches, for the child to drive away the disease, baked while singing: "baked head, wake up the brain, baked feet, step corrective, baked belly is not diarrhea, full of body are baked all over, the disease never see."

Wuxi fishermen on the eighth day of the year by boat to the West Mountain to worship the custom of Yuwang Temple, praying for the blessing of the God of Water, sacrificing ao fine Buddha, called "on?"

The custom gradually faded after the demolition of the Yuwang Temple.

During the Spring Festival, there are many taboos in the old customs in Jiangsu, such as the first day of the year does not move the scissors, lest the verbal dispute; do not move the knife, so as not to kill; do not eat rice, for fear of going out to meet the rain; do not sweep the floor for fear of sweeping away the wealth and so on. With the popularization of scientific knowledge, there are a lot of unscientific customs have gradually been forgotten; healthy and useful entertainment and leisure activities, but has been continued.

Edit paragraph Guilin Spring Festival customs

From the "New Year's Eve" to New Year's Eve:

The Spring Festival stepped on the lunar calendar on December 24, zero hour bell, into the city and countryside of Guilin. This day is the Guilin people's "New Year's Eve", also known as the "New Year's Eve". On this day, people slaughter dogs and ducks to celebrate the arrival of the Spring Festival. The firecrackers on this day, with the people to send Zaowang master "to the sky to say good things" wish crackling, the sound of the high world. People believe that the God of the stove is the master of the family, a family of good and evil merits and demerits are in charge of it, so the end of each year, we must send the God of the stove to the sky to the Jade Emperor, for the whole family to lower the blessing from disaster. The ceremony of sacrificing to the God of Zaos is mostly done by the elders of the family, who put candies on the head of the stove to sacrifice to the God of Zaos, praying that the God of Zaos "says good things in heaven and descends to the earth with good luck". The purpose of sacrificing candies to Zaoshen is to make the candies "stick" to Zaoshen's mouth, so that his sweet mouth can say good things and not cause disasters on earth. After New Year's Eve, firecrackers are set off to bring the Zaoshendi down to earth. This is the ancient custom of Guilin "New Year's Eve", and now even if the firecrackers are fired, it is only a remnant of the ancient custom of the ceremony.

From the 24th to the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, people are busy shopping for new year's goods and cleaning up inside and outside their homes to welcome the new year with cleanliness. There are many kinds of traditional foods for the festival, and they have good wishes: on the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year, people steam rice cakes, which are sweet and sweet, meat and vegetarian, and eat them to make their lives and work flourish in the new year, so that they can rise higher and higher.

New Year's Eve dinner, people like to get together as a family, the dishes must have "round", "happy", to take its meaning of reunion, happy. On this night, thousands of people are at home to observe the New Year. During the vigil, the charcoal fire in the fire pit is burned red-hot to symbolize the prosperity of life year after year. When the zero hour arrives, young and old are filled with joy and welcome the New Year with the sound of firecrackers. The sound of the firecrackers, one after another, until late at night, people still do not sleep, the fire is still strong, is to go to rest, but also will not forget to nestle the fire pot fire, leaving kindling, and so on tomorrow morning to light a good fire on the pot. New Year's fire is like human life, it is a good omen for the New Year's prosperity, family prosperity. People have such a deep affection for fire, perhaps because the fire has brought civilization and warmth to mankind. Love of fire is like love of one's own life, especially in the New Year. Early in the morning on the first day of the New Year, people scramble to get up early to open the door, with the warm sound of firecrackers to meet the God of Fortune's grandfather's presence. Neighbors, friends, and colleagues, the first thing they say when they meet is to wish a good new year. Children pay New Year's greetings to adults, and adults give children New Year's money. The Spring Festival is a good time for people to enhance their feelings and consolidate their friendships. People pay tribute to each other, have fun, look back on the past and look forward to the future, and have a strong sense of humor.

The streets and alleys, a team of New Year's Eve lion dance side line, very active, many children follow the lion team to see the lion New Year's Eve hustle and bustle. When the lions came to a store door, the owner will light firecrackers to meet, the lions in front of the door to the owner of the salute, the leader also went up to the owner of the arch bow to the New Year blessings. The lion's humane New Year's greeting and the leader's auspicious words will make the owner's heart happy and the store's business will be prosperous. The lion dances in the sound of firecrackers, dancing out of a good luck, dancing out of a strong wind. Its big head of joy, broad forehead, big eyes, raised nose, square mouth, golden-red hair, its image of both mighty and naive, amusing. See the lion robust and courageous, out of the cave, across the bridge, in the head up chaotic clouds flying over, head down, "ten thousand feet deep" on the bridge to rise up to God's might. At this time the lion drums such as stormy, thrilling and wonderful lion performance thrilling. Then it is up and down the mountain, drinking water and eating green, step on the star walk pile, on the ladder, nine days to catch the moon, etc., the lion head, lion tail with the tacit understanding. Dance to the sound time, stacked Luohan picking green, the lion picked green after nodding to the audience bowing. And then hair, cut the collar, quite interesting. Drums stop, the lion from the nine days Guanghan straight down, shocked the audience, to be fixed eyes, the lion is stable in the hands of all the Luohan, is looking back at the moon. This stunt in the silence of the heart, won the applause of the audience.

Lion New Year's Day is a favorite traditional project of Guilin people, so every Spring Festival eve, the lion team will be dressed up, practicing the traditional routine of lion dance. Once the Spring Festival arrives, the lion shakes its spirit and dances on the street to pay New Year's greetings to people or stores. The lion walks all the way to dance all the way, jumping, intruding, Rin, roar, step, leap and other performances in a lively manner. The lion's big head monk, big head doll step three twisted, teasing the lion's monkey monkey full of energy, the lion team's gongs and drums, to add to the joy of Guilin, bring the melting of spring.

The lion's New Year's greeting is accompanied by an auspicious lion song:

Three points of yellow on the lion's head, today's worship on your hall, congratulations to the master of the house to have a noble son, all over the world to make a name for themselves.

Three points of green on the lion's head, today to pay homage to your court, congratulations on the good fortune of the master's family, and add to the wealth and add to the family.

The lion's tail is a ball, and it comes to your house to worship the pig and the cow. Congratulations to the master of the house, the pig will be big soon, and you will have food and clothes without any worries.

The lion's eyes are bewildered, congratulations on your family's good fortune, the six animals will prosper, there will be geese, ducks and chickens.

The lion song has been passed down in the folklore for thousands of years, and it has been a blessing to the neighbors every year in the Spring Festival, making people happy. In the lively New Year's greetings, unknowingly to the Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival in Guilin in the past, from the thirteenth day of the first month onwards, there are dragon lanterns out. The dragon lanterns traveled through the streets and lanes for three nights, and wherever they went, families set off firecrackers, burned incense and lit candles, praying that the dragon lanterns would bring good luck and prosperity. Dragon lantern parade there are a variety of shengxiao drum music, stilts, card lamps, gongs and drums shed together on the streets, forming a vast dragon lantern parade, the scene is very spectacular. On the night of the festival, the lanterns are lit up all night long, which together with the flying dragon lanterns turn Guilin into a city that never sleeps.

Nowadays, the custom of lighting lanterns on the night of the Lantern Festival is still preserved in Guilin. On the night of the Lantern Festival, you can see the lanterns from a height, which is very refreshing. The flickering lights converge into a river of lights, as if the Milky Way in the sky falls several times. The light or quiet, or flow, flash leap in tall buildings, open in the green leaves, so that the night sky of Guilin brilliant. At this time the halls and rooms of families, all the lights are shining brightly, and the whole family sits under the lights and eats osmanthus sugar-centered Lanterns, peanut and sesame Lanterns ...... that sweet, fragrant traditional food, so that every family is immersed in the joy of the festival. "New Year's Eve fire, fifteen lights", New Year's Eve fire pots red hot, and this fifteen lights, including lanterns, halls of the big red candles and so on all bright, to be sixteen early firecrackers to send away the family god before all extinguished.