Marriage: commonly known as "red wedding". Before "May 4", the marriage is arranged by parents, the matchmaker, the bride, the groom to the wedding ceremony to open the bride red silk head cover to see each other. "After the May Fourth Movement, the matchmaker led the man to the woman to meet, known as "matchmaking", parents go to the other side to understand the situation, known as "checking the marriage". The parents went to the other party to find out more about them, which was called "inspecting the marriage". Then they went through the process of "combining the eight characters", "passing on the name", "announcing the date", and "initiating the matchmaking process", "welcome the bride", "receiving the bride", "worship" and other procedures, before becoming a great gift. In the old days, the bride with a sedan chair, and there is a sedan chair custom, that is, the sedan chair bearer to carry the sedan chair swaying badly, if the bride gave a red envelope or gift, the sedan chair carried very smoothly. Therefore, the bride before the sedan chair, generally hanging on the top of the sedan chair porcelain, as a gift to the sedan chair, to prevent the sedan chair. In the yellow material and other market towns may still see the sedan chair marriage ceremony. Wedding when there is a "family master" that is, "family" custom, "family master" commonly known as "burner", when the drama The face of the family will be painted as a big flower face, with a special high hat on the head, carrying a big pitchfork, hand-held gongs, escorted by close friends to the street, while walking and banging the gongs and shouting "fireman" declaration, the atmosphere is lively and extraordinary. The night of the wedding, guest guests laughing and having fun, commonly known as "haunted room", according to custom "three days regardless of size", except for pregnant women (commonly known as "four-eyed man") taboo into the cave outside of the etiquette, but avoid saying unlucky words. Auspicious words. Cave, there is a "Zancha" program, the bride and groom carried a tea tray to send tea, commonly known as "lifting the plate tea", guests must praise the tea before they can receive the drink, such as: "I want to praise, I will praise, the next year to give birth to a fat doll! ......". Holding a wedding is commonly known as "doing wedding". Friends and relatives to prepare gifts to praise the so-called "eat happy wine". Wedding banquet, the bride's family called "big relatives", by the bride's parents to sit in the guest of honor, commonly known as "sitting on the big side", "sit on the head", any elders have to give way to the accompaniment, commonly known as accompaniment "big relatives", commonly known as "maternal uncle", so the groom's uncle should also sit on the big side. Wedding dishes can not be on the grass carp. Wedding on the third day of the bride and groom back to the bride's family, called "back to the door", "back to the door" when the bride's family to prepare a banquet for friends and relatives, the groom called "new guest" was let into the upper seat. When the wedding was held, tea is also very delicate, there are people specializing in tea, "big relatives" into the door the first tea for the red ginger tea, the second for the sesame bean tea, the third for the jujube Qiao cake sesame tea, the fourth for the cinnamon ball boiled eggs. After the founding of New China, the wedding of the old custom is basically abolished, as long as the two love each other, you can register to get married.

Funeral: in the old days, called "white joy". For the funeral, there is a funeral, coffin, sacrifice, funeral, burial and other procedures. Filial son must wear hemp with filial piety, to meet the condolences of friends and relatives, filial son must kneel down. Invite Taoist priests to do things called "dojo". When friends and relatives prepare a gift to offer condolences, it is called "playing the dojo". During the mourning period, meals are not invited, and beets are not allowed on the table to show condolences, and tofu is the main dish, commonly known as "eating tofu" for mourning. Funeral said "on the mountain", the spiritual pivot on the road to do on the mountain dojo, there are bands, lions, etc. to send, drums, firecrackers, flags and streamers flying, bustling. The funeral procession does not take a shortcut, but around the road, many friends and relatives along the way to send off, and some even set up a road sacrifice, this time the filial son to kneel down, and prepare hand towels and other gifts to thank you. The new society has changed its customs, advocating simple burials and cremation.

Birth: babies are born to the shrine in front of the firecrackers, to the ancestors. Neighboring women hear the firecrackers, will come to congratulate the condolences, and were sent eggs, brown sugar, dry beans, dried bean curd, etc. to promote lactation. After delivery, the fetus clothes should be buried in a clay pot on a nearby mountain, meaning that the parents' lineage will never be separated from their hometown land. The baby's father should bring firecrackers and a chicken to his father-in-law's house on the same day to announce the joy of giving birth to a boy with a rooster, giving birth to a girl with a hen, and the family in-laws do not need to ask to know the birth of a boy or a girl. On the third day, the son-in-law picks up the mother-in-law to "do three Chao", the ancient name of "soup cake will". Grandparents bring to the already prepared baby rocking nest, sitting rail, etc., generally also have a baby jacket, jacket, single coat, cotton hug skirt, clip hug skirt, shoes, hats, etc., a pair, people sigh "Grandma hard to do ah"! Some also stay behind to take care of women in labor, called "accompanying the month". Three days, the elders of the women will be ai leaves, maple balls, eggs and other soup for the baby bath, called "wash three days". After bathing, the baby's whole body is rubbed with an egg roll to get rid of wind and to bless the baby's health. Friends and relatives give red paper to seal congratulations, go to the soup cake meeting, called "playing three Chao". The host family boiled eggs, on the red, distributed to the crowd, called eating red eggs, also known as eating roll ass egg. There are also full-moon wine, 100 days of wine, wine for the first birthday. Infant 100 days with carp to the baby's mouth and feed the custom of soup, called "meat", the week-old, some will be stationery, needle and thread, lipstick, calligraphy and painting and so on in the tray, so that babies to catch to measure their interests, called "catch week".

Birthday: after each birthday is called "long tail", parents always have to Vi to eggs, the so-called "adult birthday a meal, fine Saeki birthday an egg". 10 years old, 20 years old, etc. is called "total life", "whole life", "the whole life", "the whole life", "the whole life", "the whole life", "the whole life", "the whole life", "the whole life", "the whole life". 10 years old, 20 years old, etc. is called "total life", "whole life", the local birthday talk "male into female full", that is, men do the virtual age, women do the real age, to do the 60th birthday is considered to be reopening the flower armor, especially grand, known as the birthday boy, the birthday girl. Some take birthday platform, Chen Shou Peach, birthday candles, singing flower-drum opera, this time the longer the firecrackers burning time the better. When the feast, the first to eat birthday noodles, noodles, long and thin, symbolizing longevity, so the local birthday meal is called to eat noodles. 50 years old before the celebration of life, there are "men do not do three, women do not do four," that is, the male full of 29 years old, women full of 40 years old do not do life. Some birthdays go out to avoid guests, called hiding life. Qingming: Qingming is an ancient custom. Local custom, a few days before Ching Ming, by the elders to convene family members, with red and green colored paper roll hanging mountain sign, or do colorful banners. To Qingming, with offerings firecrackers, led by elders to the ancestors' graves, one by one, shoveling thorns and weeds on the tomb, reinforced soil. Each person in the top of the tomb inserted a Hangshan stick, and then in the worship ping put three sacrificial offerings, light incense and candles, burn money and paper, and firecrackers to offer sacrifices. This is called the Qingming hanging mountain. Hanging mountain return, some also family dinner to commemorate.

Summer: the local custom of eating Japonica Japonica, Japonica Japonica, also known as Japonica Tuozi, made of glutinous rice flour mixed with sage, eat fragrant and soft.

Summer solstice: "Jing Chu chronicle" has "summer solstice festival food brown" contained.

Chevron: The local custom of eating chicken in Chevron.

Winter Solstice: the beginning of the kang bacon, pork cured with salt for four or five days after hanging when the wind place, called the "winter solstice meat", referred to as "to the meat", also known as the wind blown meat. Then use wood chips, grain chaff, orange peel, peanut shells and other burning smoke fumigation, or hanging in the wood stove, stove above the fumigation, to the color of gold and red, distinctive flavor, can be retained until the next summer. Local winter solstice to eat dog meat and jujube lard glutinous rice, or kill chickens and ducks, called the winter solstice into the complement.

March 3: local "March 3, the ground beet boiled eggs" custom. Ground beet is chestnut, have eyesight, the function of the spleen and stomach.

Duanyang Festival: the local over the Danyang, the door of every household are hanging calamus, ai leaves to avoid evil, while preparing a lot of buns, dumplings, salt eggs, drink andrographis wine, after the meal will be wine spread wall corners, smearing children's foreheads, navels. Married daughter to her mother's family to send bushels, dumplings, buns, etc., men and women changed into holiday dress, to grandmother or other relatives to send the festival, see the dragon boat. After lunch, the Dragon King will be picked up on the bow of the boat, the race began. With the rhythm of the gongs and drums on board, the children suddenly bowed under the scratch, suddenly arm wave, rowing more and more fierce, bravely competing for the first, both sides of the stadium such as bleachers, crowded, a few gaps, the cannons, shouting, young and old, men and women, jumping and moving. Race to the evening is sound, the local custom in the end of the sun incense, mosquitoes, Cangzhu, rue incense, etc., in order to get rid of the epidemic; with licorice, honeysuckle, Shi Fu and other drugs boiled beans or eggs to eat, yellow material reservoir has hosted several "Dragon Boat Festival", in the local have a certain degree of influence.

June 6: the ancient name of the day peddler festival, commonly known as "cup official birthday". Readers exposed to sunlight books and paintings, women turning precious clothes. Temple Ancestral Hall of the solarization of the scriptures and genealogy and bodhisattva robes, so this day is also known as the solar spectrum Festival, the proverb: "June 6, people tanning clothes and dragons tanning robes".

Chinese New Year's Day: July 15 called the Chinese New Year's Day, also known as the Ghost Festival, Ancestor Festival, is a large-scale ancestor festival, folklore, the first to fifteen in July, King of Hell opened the ghost gate, the ghosts of the netherworld Sydney back to the sun to enjoy the sacrifices, there is a common saying: "half of July, ghosts scurrying. Local rich or poor, the tenth of July began to burn incense and firecrackers, some kneeling outside the door "to receive the ancestors", called "to receive the old guests"; some will be on the shrine of the ancestors of the tablets please, three meals a day worship. Fourteen nights burned bags "to send the old guests", called "recommended package. Carried to the waterfront ritual burning. Along the river is also prevalent in the river lamps, river lamps with leather paper or bamboo leaves made of boat-shaped or lotus-shaped, on top of the oil lamp.

Mid-Autumn Festival: the local Mid-Autumn Festival to eat mooncakes, peanuts, such as the moon, and "steal the melon to send the child" custom. Under the moonlight, young people to steal pumpkins or winter squash in people's gardens, sent to the good-looking newlyweds or long-married infertile couples in bed, called "touching the fall", taking the meaning of the melon within the child.

The Chongyang Festival: the ancients believed that nine is the number of Yang, September 9, the sun and the moon are Yang, so the name Chongyang. This day more wine, called the sun or chrysanthemum wine. The local community is close to the action of climbing high and picking flowers. Chongyang Festival customs and longevity associated with this festival is also regarded as a festival of respect for the elderly. Miyin Temple behind the Vilu peak, once carried out a "hundred old man Chongyang ascension" activities.

The Spring Festival: the most important of the traditional festivals in a festival, the New Year shall be over half a month, that is, from the first year of the Lunar New Year on the twenty-fourth to the second year of the first month of the fifteenth Lantern Festival until.

Lunar month 24: commonly known as the "small year", the family rest dinner, quit stove. The day before, people have to do a big cleanup, called "playing the dust". Personal hygiene is also essential.

The last day of the year in the lunar calendar is New Year's Eve, and the meal eaten on New Year's Eve is called "New Year's Eve dinner", which generally means dinner. After the New Year's Eve dinner, the whole family at home, young and old, playing chess, playing cards, watching the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, waiting for the arrival of the New Year. When the New Year's bell rings, local firecrackers crack and fireworks go off in all directions, creating a deafening atmosphere of resignation and welcoming the new year.

Welcoming is another custom of the Spring Festival. The local New Year's Day pay attention to "the first pup, the first two Lang, the first three, the first four worship place." On the sixth day of the month, many businesses open their doors for good luck, and some people who work outside the city also choose this day to leave their homes and go out to work. To the first seven or eight, Changsha people talk about "seven do not go (read ke "go" sound), eight do not return", the first eight of this day, "eight" to take "hair! "meaning, factories work, business, all activities are back to normal. Later, acquaintances meet, each other said "please pay a late year!" To the fifteenth, generally do not mention the New Year. The fifteenth day of the first month, the ancient name of the Festival of the New Year, also known as the Festival of Lights. Changsha proverb: "the fire on the 30th night, the lanterns on the night of the Lantern Festival". The local lantern market is full of gimlet-paper lanterns, which are either hung in the courtyard or in the streets. On this day, families light candles in the corner of the stove, households cook the Lantern Festival, children are holding colorful lanterns to play. More lively is to catch the temple fair, singing opera, lion dance dragon, riding bamboo horse, etc., to welcome the spring cultural activities at this time to reach a climax, often noisy all night, so the name is haunted the Lantern Festival. One of the most common to dance dragon lanterns, often countryside dragon dance team to the city to perform, "dragon" wherever, drums and music, firecrackers, more than given to the package seal.