1, playing rice-planting drums

Zhijiang rice area has been passed down the custom of playing rice-planting drums, this custom is in the rice-planting days, please a group of folk artists, in the field, banging gongs and drums, shouting rice-planting songs. Planting rice-planting drum performers are mainly singers and drummers, singers should have a good voice, sing a few days and nights not dumb. The tunes are mainly rice-planting songs with flexible lyrics.

2, mud hamlets

Mud hamlets popular in Zhijiang rice production area, rice planting people will be auspicious mud smeared on the body, called "mud hamlets", before the founding of the country, mostly mud "boss hamlets", that is, in the "host", "host", "host", "host", "host", "host", "host", "host", "host", "host", "host", "host", "host". "Dongdao" invited people to plant rice seedlings is almost finished, people will mud smeared in the "Dongdao" body, in order to "Dongdao" to congratulate, the cut seedlings grow smoothly until the harvest is full of silos, the The harvest will be full and the grain will be plentiful. Later, "Mud Cangzi" evolved into the planting of rice seedlings when people of all ages, men and women, throwing mud at each other, playful, until they became "mud people".

3, burning fire soil

Burning fire soil is Zhijiang farmers accumulate fertilizer a production practice. The method of burning fire soil is: board field hair, pond mud, silt, etc. Pick to the fire soil field, or take a layer of raw soil dry, and then dry the firewood. Burning time, the first dry soil piled up into a pile or long or square or round, about 1 foot thick, called "fire soil base".

4, sifting peanuts

Sifting peanuts is a production custom unique to Zhijiang Baileizhou. Sieve peanuts sieve are bamboo, divided into large and small sieve, large sieve caliber of about 2 meters, the sky angle, shaped like a bamboo fan, the periphery of the installation of many ancient copper coins, two two long Penny fixed, one end of the cross, the mouth edge up; small sieve of about 0.5 meters of the garden-shaped sieve. Size of the sieve holes in order not to miss the peanut fruit is appropriate.

5, living customs

Drinking tea and wine is an important part of the dietary practices of the Zhijiang people. Yichang's famous tea is the excuse mountain tea, Yuquansi cactus tea, deer garden tea, Yihong tea, etc. In the 20th century after the reform and opening up, and the introduction of new such as xiazhou Bifeng, Deng village green tea, Caihua Mao Jian, Xiao's tea, Ruan Dama tea, tea to the master, the tiger lion dragon buds, the political deposit of green tea, and other new brands of famous teas. Into the 21st century, with the development of urban construction, foreign exchanges increased, tea drinking culture has changed. Many people, especially young people, began to drink Iron Goddess of Mercy, Oolong Tea, Pu'er Tea, Bitter Tea, Kung Fu Tea.

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