Of course, the reason for this to be traced back, can be referred to the Ming Jiajing 41 years, when the Japanese invasion of Putian, the local people were killed, and then the Qi family army won the Japanese, out of the people are back, but unfortunately, a lot of people died ...... At that time, it happened to be the second day of the first month, many families are busy for the deceased to take care of the aftermath of the string of people are to offer condolences. The first two days of the first month of the year are known as unlucky days in the Putian area.
Of course, this is only one of the customs.
After the 25th day of the Lunar New Year, the adults have to tell the children not to curse or fight with others, and the adults can't scold the children either.
In addition, before the year, families have to prepare these things for the New Year, such as: red dumplings, sweet potatoes, white cake, fried onion cakes, fried tofu, fried pork ribs, oranges, tea, wine, etc., and to kill J (ducks), kill pigs (sheep), kill fish, etc., the preparation of these is in order to sacrifice to the heavens and the earth, the gods, the ancestors, etc., to say goodbye to the New Year.
Lunar New Year's Eve 30 Zero Hour, in Putian's villages will sound firecrackers, and each family home will be set up in front of a tie with a gold thread embroidered table skirt of the table, the table will be placed on the five fruits, six fasting, three sacrifices and pasted with the blessing, fortune, longevity of the red paper flowers of the dry noodles, the whole family by the eldest leader, in turn, incense kneeling to worship the heavens and the earth, burned in front of the table of silver offerings, silver, once again set off the firecrackers. This table back step, is also replaced with the same set of offerings, kneeling ancestors, praying for the family's peace, happiness in the coming year, and finally, in front of the table once again burned up for silver, silver paper, firecrackers, said the end of the New Year's Resignation.
New Year's Day 30 At noon, every family is to eat powder, this powder is also groundnut flour, noodles, fried tofu, shredded meat, and greens, etc. Mixed into a paste, meaning the resignation of the past soup and water of the life of the unsatisfactory.
In addition, the most noteworthy is the New Year's Eve fireplace! Each family will hang a pair of red lanterns on the door, lanterns will be written above the owner's family name, the lights inside the home should be kept on, and then, the whole family gathered together to eat, of course, the meal is also very elaborate, each dish should have a moral, but also very sumptuous! The main thing is carp, shrimp, crab, sea oysters which are essential, the other dishes do not matter, depending on the family preferences and economic situation. There is also to say that the Putian people's kitchen tank will also raise a few live fish, said the annual surplus. (Some information from: Dancing Night Love Wolf) StraitsNet Huang Xiaoqun
Thanks to Romantic Horse Hovercraft for the invitation. Putian people in Fujian Province, the New Year's custom is as follows: every year before the Lunar New Year's Eve, families cleaned their homes, sweeping dust, sticking Spring Festival couplets, red hot for the New Year, in order to meet the New Year's Eve with a clean and hygienic new outlook. On the night of New Year's Eve, Xiantian Xianyou also has the custom of keeping the New Year's Eve, resigning from the New Year's Eve and sacrificing to heaven and earth, visiting the day of the dead with the white-fronted Spring Festival couplets, and making a big year. This is a traditional custom handed down in Putian, and every year on the New Year's Eve, the people of Putian, like the whole country, have the custom of eating Yuanxiao passed down to this day.
Putian as a maverick city has too many customs different from other places! The custom of the New Year's Eve around the stove, the New Year's Eve worship ancestors to worship heaven and earth, the first day of the first month must eat noodles, which is the most important is in order to always remember the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese were slaughtered on the second day of the first month does not go to the family, the first four (Xanyou is the first five) to do the custom of the big year! There is also the Lantern Festival on the first night of the first month, which is also to commemorate the year when Qi Jiguang chased the Japanese invaders, so that each soldier held up two torches to the Japanese invaders to create a lot of visualization of the soldiers, so as to scare off the Japanese invaders. The later generations have gradually evolved into the form of the lantern tour in honor of Qi Jiguang! There are also local deities such as Mazu and the theater master Lei Haiqing, as well as some exotic martyrs such as Yang Wulang, Zhang Gu, Xu Yuan, etc. Although superstitious, there are also local deities! Although with superstitious colors, but there is no lack of illustration of the people of Putu Xian on the praise of the martyrs! It is also to pray for peace and prosperity of the country, the wind and rain!
The first month is also known as the Oriental carnival! All the villages are holding a grand tour of the gods! It is worth seeing!
1, into the waxing moon, first of all, tailgate worship to eat a big meal.
2, home cleaning. Big cleaning inside and out, forget the number.
3, make red dough. I remember the red coloring of the skin, the filling of red bean sweet filling, glutinous rice sweet filling, glutinous rice mushroom meat savory filling. The amount you make every year is a bit too much.
4, do brine tofu. The next day, the soybean soaked overnight, the next day to beat into pulp, a family to help, to two people over, a person to boil water.
5, fried food, generally is onion cakes, tofu bubble, tofu balls, groundnut balls, taro sea oyster cake, doughnuts, river rice sticks, scallops, lychee meat ...
6, the day of the 28th of the lunar calendar, the old couplets are torn up, and put on the new couplets. The kitchen stove should be labeled with new couplets, new stove paintings, and new stove flowers.
7, 30th day at noon to start going around to worship, such as the landlord, the old house of the tablets, the village temple everywhere ... ... offerings are those fried food.
8, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve dinner, lo mein, oyster soup, fried cauliflower, duck soup, chicken soup, ... this day will kill seven or eight chickens and ducks, killed put in the refrigerator, said the first day of the year can not be killed. New Year's Eve chickens and ducks will be eaten until they are afraid [cover your face], and on this day they will ruffle their feathers until they are shivering. New Year's Eve dinner is finished, to pile up a pile of fire , take a fire to the stove mouth, the kitchen to open the lights, the door back door to open the lights.
9, the first morning very early to go to the old house to worship, offerings is the most of the year, full of old house hall. Many tables, is the New Year's fried food ...
The first morning to eat vegetarian, eat thread noodles, spinach, spinach head can not be cut loose, the significance of long life. Some people will have boiled eggs, two eggs per person. After eating, go to the spring tour, go to the temple in the mountains, or go to the street. If you have a relative whose birthday is 59-100 years old, the age of 9 or 0, you have to buy a cannon to set off, and you have to give a red envelope. If it is the parents birthday, to buy from head to toe new clothes shoes and socks hat set, to pick up six plates of tandem, to have a whole big pig leg, thread noodles two layers, two boxes of cookies, eggs and firecrackers, if the female birthday, the plate should be put on the right amount of inserted in the head of the paper flowers.
10, the second day of the year can not go back to the mother's home, usually outside activities.
11, on the third day of the year, began to go around to congratulate the birthday banquet, generally run to the eighth day of the year. Congratulate the birthday banquet than the wedding banquet simple point, general home cooking. If you have fewer relatives, you may be able to kill chickens and ducks, stew, and eat thread noodles. If you have a lot of friends and relatives, you will be able to have a grand banquet.
12, the first five nights and do a big year, and the New Year's Eve, and eat a big meal.
13, the sixth morning and eat noodles, spinach, eggs.
14, the Lantern Festival before the tour, the old house full of tables, families draw lots to do offerings, usually chicken, duck, fish, meat and sheep, fruit, flowers, plastic flowers, cookies, red dough, all kinds of vegetarian ..., a year more than a year of beautiful, waiting for the tour of the light of the Bodhisattva to enjoy. Generally set up two or three days, one of the joys of childhood, is to go to various villages to see this kind of table, the whole sheep, chickens and ducks, a whole pig's head, a variety of cookies and candies. Colorful, dazzling.
After the tour of the lanterns, firecrackers, after the Lantern Festival, the year is over.
Putian people call New Year's Eve "do year", and there are a lot of customs. If you have relatives and friends in Putian, you will find that they usually do not go out on the second day of the New Year! This is very strange, right? Normally, the second day of the Lunar New Year is a good day for us to visit friends and relatives, but this place has this unknown secret.
We Putian New Year's Eve are more grand, especially the Lantern Festival, Mazu tour of the sea of people, New Year's Eve wear red clothes to do red dough, hanging red lanterns, but in recent years the big shape of the gun ban, especially Putian people are business, the first few years of earning a lot of money to put the gun more than 100,000 yuan, Putian Lantern Festival can be renewed to the end of the first month until the end of the first month, very lively, the Putian people in the early part of the first month of February do not meet friends and relatives, the second day of this year's sun absolutely can not walk to visit friends and relatives, can only be at home, the first two days of the sun can not go out to see friends and relatives.
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The first day of the festival is the first day of the year.