Shanxi (abbreviation: Jin, nickname: Sanjin, ancient name Hedong) is a provincial administrative region of the People's Republic of China and Taiyuan, the capital of China. It is one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation and is known as the "cradle of Chinese civilization" and the "China Museum of Ancient Culture". This small series has compiled the winter vacation schedule for primary and secondary schools in Shanxi in 2022 for your reference.
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Schedule of Winter Vacation for Primary and Secondary Schools in Shanxi in 2022
Spring Festival customs in Shanxi Province
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Schedule of Winter Vacation for Primary and Secondary Schools in Shanxi in 2022
The winter vacation time of primary and secondary schools is from February 22nd, 2022 to February 6th, 2022, and the start time of the spring semester in 2022 is February 7th, 2022.
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Spring Festival customs in Shanxi Province
First, the southern suburbs of Taiyuan-two months after the Chinese New Year.
From the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, every household in the village in the southern suburbs of Taiyuan began to enter the preparation process for the New Year. On this day, every family would fry corn, wheat, sorghum, soybeans, melon seeds, etc. in a pot, so as to pray that the next year's crops will be abundant and free from pests. After the grain was fried, the children filled their small pockets, and then the whole village visited each other, exchanging and tasting which mother's craft was the best. The fried grain was fragrant and crisp ... The smell of fried grain and the children's laughter echoed over the village, gently kicking off the new year.
On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, the climax of Chinese New Year is brewing to the extreme. On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, the male host at home will carry a big broom and carefully sweep the courtyard in front of the house. In the room behind him, ingenious women will use colorful papers such as pink, gold, green, sky blue and deep purple to cut out five-color paper with ears, which looks like a blooming flower in the evening of New Year's Eve. On the day of the New Year's Eve, jiaozi was not eaten, and jiaozi wrapped it up and cooked it on the morning of the first day of the lunar new year. This is called "eating rice for years", which means to get enough food and clothing year after year.
On the first day of the first month, the real New Year came. Throughout the day, the villagers would wander around to pay New Year's greetings. On the second day of the first month, in our place, it is the day when wanderers go home to worship their ancestors. The third day of the first month is the day when the married daughter returns to her family. On the fifth day of the first month, also known as "Breaking the Fifth Day", people set off a large number of fireworks and firecrackers to show that many taboos during the Chinese New Year were broken. There is a saying in my hometown that "it's a new year unless the first month comes". Throughout the first month, all families will keep visiting relatives or entertaining relatives and friends, and there will be laughter and laughter everywhere.
Second, Taiyuan Hexi-mutton jiaozi is full of flavor.
When it comes to the Spring Festival, the mutton jiaozi on the first day of the New Year's Day should be the most unforgettable thing for the old lady.
For this jiaozi, people often start preparing half a year in advance. In the hot summer of July, people with financial ability will start to choose sheep. Don't be particular about choosing sheep. According to the older generation of Taiyuan people, this sheep should not be fat or thin, nor should it be young or old, but should choose a "shelf sheep" whose bones have just grown and whose body has not yet begun to gain meat. When a sheep is selected, it is necessary to circle a sheepfold in the yard that is only enough for one sheep. After the "shelf sheep" is driven in, it is only necessary to feed them delicious and delicious. In this way, until the New Year's Eve. Half a year ago, the "shelf sheep" has grown fat and strong, and it is time for people to sharpen their knives. When the sheep is slaughtered, the mutton will be picked out, and the sheep's head, hoof and sheepskin will be placed separately.
On New Year's Eve, sheep's head, sheep's hoof and sheepskin became the protagonists of the night. The elders in the family will take out a sacrificial tray, arrange the sheep's head and four sheep's hooves like a whole sheep, and then cover the sacrificial tray with the whole sheepskin, leaving only the sheep's head and four sheep's hooves exposed. Then, it is a ceremony to worship the gods of heaven and earth. After the simple ceremony, the sacrificial plate will remain in the shrine until the whole New Year is over.
The mutton that has been picked will be served at the end of the year. At this time, someone has chopped the mutton and added good seasoning. So the whole New Year's Eve, is a family sitting around the hot kang, happily wrapped mutton jiaozi. The first meal on New Year's Day is jiaozi, a mutton stuffing with a hometown flavor.
Third, Zuo Quan-Tofu Brain and Noodle Tea
During the Spring Festival, we should observe the Lunar New Year, eat jiaozi, and shoot firecrackers. My hometown is at the junction of Shanxi and Hebei, and the customs of the Spring Festival are almost the same as those of most northern regions. But there are two habits that are rarely seen in other places.
One is to eat brains before dawn on the first day of the New Year's Day. Brain is a famous food in Shanxi, made of astragalus, mutton, long yam, yellow rice wine, etc. It is said that it was invented by Fu Shan, which is regarded as a nourishing food. But the mind in my hometown is very simple, just stir-fry tofu and vermicelli, and sprinkle chopped green onion when eating. But why do you eat like this? Grandparents can't tell. Few other places have the custom of eating fried tofu on big festivals. It seems that only Sunan people have the habit of eating fried tofu with green onions on the winter solstice, but it should be just a coincidence that one is in Sunan and the other is in Jinzhong.
The other is drinking tea on the morning of the second day of New Year's Day. The habit of drinking morning tea in Guangdong is also called morning tea in Zuo Quan, but it is only enjoyed on the second day of the New Year's Day. Tea is not a tea market used in Guangdong, but a kind of "noodle tea" made by mixing millet flour and corn flour, which is boiled with water and has a special fragrance all over the house. In the noodle tea, you need to cook vegetarian jiaozi and tofu strips. In short, they are all vegetarian, and there is absolutely no meat. I have asked a lot of people, but I only know such a method of fried noodles tea in Hebei, but no one can tell the origin and stress of drinking noodles tea in the first month.
Four, Yuxian-light the grass to welcome the Year God.
On the morning of the first day of New Year's Day, every household holds a ceremony to greet God. It is about five o'clock in the morning. Before dawn, people light Niancao, which is prepared in the yard one day in advance. In fact, it is the straw of some crops. This is different from many places in Shanxi. Yuxian County is also a big coal-producing county, but it is not burning coal, but burning Niancao. I hope that through this ceremony, I can dispel the troubles and misfortunes of the past and pray for a bumper harvest in the coming year.
This pile of grass can burn for about half an hour. During this half an hour, the whole family has to get up, put on new clothes and hats, and then loudly say "Happy New Year" to their elders, as if the fortune of the new year is in the blessing sound before the first ray of sunshine comes. Everyone who receives the blessing will have a good mood and good luck for a year.
Then the adult men in the family began to set off firecrackers, which started almost at the same time. In a flash, the golden snake danced wildly, the silver tongue was flying, and there was a fire tree and silver flowers. So the first dawn of the new year came, and everything was renewed, and new hopes filled people's faces.
At dawn, the family went out in groups to pay New Year greetings to their family members and walked down the street. No matter who they met, it was a three-word greeting "Happy New Year". Originally, the younger generation was supposed to kowtow to the elders when they paid New Year greetings. Now, with the change of customs, this ceremony of bowing down was dispensed with, but there was no shortage of blessings for the New Year, and the villagers' days were getting more and more prosperous. At this time, the blessings were the most timely and powerful.
Arrived at the end of eight o' clock, people who go out to pay New Year's greetings come back one after another. At home, they have cooked potato and tofu, cooked steaming jiaozi, and of course, there are all kinds of dishes full of dishes. The first meal of the New Year is ready, and with everyone's sincere wishes, the appetite for eating will of course be exceptionally good.
Five, Xiangning-jujube steamed buns to send relatives and friends
The Spring Festival in Xiangning has inherited the warm and strong style of the whole southern Shanxi. According to the traditional custom of Xiangning, it is forbidden to cook with fire from the first day to the fifth day of the first month, so people should prepare pasta before the Spring Festival. But now the custom of "cooking without a fire" has changed, but the custom of preparing pasta years ago has survived.
Steaming "jujube steamed buns" is the happiest thing for every household. During the Spring Festival, steaming jujube steamed buns is not only for their own consumption, but also the main gift when visiting relatives in the first month of the New Year. Therefore, when steaming steamed buns, the quantity is much more than usual. In rural areas, neighbors, three to five partners, help each other, often a family has to steam all day, until dark, the average household of more than 120 jujube steamed buns will be steamed. There are two kinds of jujube steamed buns, namely "big steamed buns" and "small steamed buns". "Big steamed buns" are for relatives and friends older than themselves, and "Little steamed buns" are for relatives and friends of the same generation. Jujube steamed buns look like a handful of gold "ruyi", and they are delicious. "Jujube steamed buns" is the closest to the "year" of Xiangning people. Everyone has jujube and flour, and it is the most common but most delicious to make jujube steamed buns.
Six, Shouyang-send poor soil for the New Year
The first day of the first lunar month is an ancient traditional festival in China, which has always been valued by people. In Shouyang County, people used to leave black charcoal wrapped in red paper around the gate. According to legend, red paper stands for Qin Qiong and black charcoal stands for Wei Chijingde, which means "ward off evil spirits". On New Year's Eve, every family here stays up all night, which is called "endure the year". The people who got up early the next morning lit fires, set off firecrackers, worshipped their elders, ate jiaozi and drank their brains. After dinner, I went out to visit my neighbors and elders, and everyone met to celebrate each other. During the four days from the first day to the fourth day, the sweeping soil was not poured out, and it was not poured out until the early morning of the fifth day, which was called "sending poor soil", and Beixiang people called it "sending five poor people".
Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, also known as "Lantern Festival". At that time, every family in Shouyang will be decorated with lanterns, and every village will be filled with drums and music. From the 14th day of the first month, archways will be erected in towns and lanterns will be hung. There are "Tata fires" in front of the shops of various businesses. Men and women wandering the streets and lanes are called "walking all kinds of diseases" On the sixteenth day of the first month, every village preached songs and dressed up as a miscellaneous play. Some people also make "wind cocks", which are also called "driving away waste" and "driving away plague".
During the 14th to 16th days of the first month of the first month, there was a lantern official yamen in the county seat of this county. The lantern official sat in an eight-sedan chair to simulate the patrol of the county official. The lantern official was like a clown, funny and full of fun, and there were many satires on the yamen. In Songta, the south township of the county, a fire was lit and firecrackers were set off at dawn on the 15th, which was called "receiving demigods". The 20th day of the first month is called "small filling", and its activity is similar to "sending five poor people" on the fifth day of the first month. On the 25th day of the first month, it is called "old warehouse filling", that is, the land is painted as a warehouse, and the grain is put on it, which symbolizes that the warehouse is full of food and clothing.
Seven, guangling-the whole village dispatched to meet XiShen.
The annual Spring Festival is coming, and the customs are the same year after year. In Guangling County, there are many unique customs and habits during the New Year, such as staying for the New Year's dinner, drinking sugar water, lighting a fire and offering sacrifices to the family gods, and one of the most important customs for every household is to welcome XiShen in the New Year. It has been circulating in the local area for thousands of years. It is said that only by burning incense and kowtowing to meet XiShen will wealth, luck and people flourish all the year round.
Every year, the arrival time of XiShen is calculated by some old gentlemen who know the Book of Changes and gossip, about one day from the first day to the fifth day of each year. On this morning, every family's adults and children should wear new clothes and take mules, horses, cows and sheep out of the house to meet XiShen. The traditional greeting method is not only to burn incense, kowtow and paper money, but also to set off firecrackers and pray silently, so that XiShen will follow him home. In recent years, with the continuous progress of society, except for some elderly people, they will follow the previous procedures to meet XiShen step by step. Most young people will go out to meet XiShen on that day, but they will no longer be as polite as the old people, set off firecrackers and bow, and will no longer bring livestock to meet XiShen, but cars, tractors, agricultural tricycles, motorcycles and electric cars.
Following the custom of welcoming XiShen for many years, in addition to the symbolic meaning of "welcoming XiShen into the house and blessing the wealth of the family", this day is also a big gathering day for the whole village. Generally, each village will form a relatively fixed place to meet XiShen, and all the people in the village will go out to meet XiShen here. At this particular time and place, people who work outside, are sick all the year round, and don't like to go out can all meet. In addition to asking each other questions and saying congratulations, everyone will also talk about whose life is getting better and better, whose children have been admitted to the university, and whose years have been ostentatious. On this day, there is a taboo that no one can say unlucky things.
Young people will also compare with each other whose new clothes look good and have grades, who bought a car, who took the mobile phone and who changed the motorcycle. This day is still the day when people see new wives. The new wives married in the village the year before and those brought back by people who work outside will go out to meet XiShen, and the villagers can enjoy it unscrupulously. Old women, girls and aunts will also judge the new wives. Near noon, the whole village will reluctantly disperse in laughter.
Eight, Fangshan-worship the water god and pray for a bumper harvest
The annual customs in Linxian and Fangshan have been displayed since the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, when the traditional ancient temple fair will be held in the county. At 8 o'clock in the morning, every household will send their own carefully-made steamed buns to the temple fair for display, including the Chinese zodiac, the poultry and livestock, the flowers and trees, and the pine crane, which symbolize the prosperity of people. Everything is lifelike. The temple fair will attract many people who buy new year's goods to watch and see whose steamed buns are good and whose craftsmanship is fine.
On New Year's Eve, families stay up all night, commonly known as "old age". When the rooster crows, they start to burn incense, light lamps, set off fireworks, pick up spirits, and then the whole family pays New Year greetings to each other.
On the morning of New Year's Day, local rural families all go to the well to worship the water god. In the village, most of the water flows out from the cracks in the rocks. In order to pray for continuous water supply, the whole village will present a tribute made of white flour in front of the well. The children, on the other hand, are wearing flower bags and "necklaces" of red dates, garlic and soybeans around their necks, which means auspiciousness and hope for a bumper harvest all the year round.
After worshipping the water god, the yangko team took the stage. Most of the villages will perform "Daoqiang Opera", which has been circulating for hundreds of years. The actors are organized by the villagers who like this activity. Many actors are elderly people in the village, with all kinds of costumes and props. Accompanied by the fascinating "Daoqiang Opera", a series of activities, such as umbrella-head yangko, meeting rules and suona playing, constitute the "carnival" of the local folk culture here.
Nine, Jiangxian County-Don't forget to pay homage to your ancestors during the New Year.
Hedong land is the center of Yellow River civilization and the gathering place of Yellow River culture. Therefore, Jinnan has a long tradition of annual customs, and there are also many. The annual "ancestor worship" in Jiangxian County, commonly known as "offering sacrifices to God", is the most grand.
The Lord of God painted on a coarse scroll painting, with a pair of couplets on the left and right, saying, "To pursue a long life, all of my heart must be prudent for three years" and criticizing "to pursue a long life" horizontally. It means to miss your ancestors. The usual paintings of the gods are rolled up and stored, and they are not taken out until the Spring Festival or when there are weddings and funerals at home. They are usually stored and hung in the eldest son's home. After eating jiaozi early on the morning of New Year's Day, the family set out to "offer the Lord of God".
Usually, the men of a family make arrangements, and the women don't intervene. After all kinds of offerings are placed on the table, the men stand in rows according to their generations, first offering incense, then kowtowing, and then burning paper to propose a toast. You should kowtow to your ancestors three times first, and then the younger generation will pay a New Year call to the elders. After the New Year, the whole family set off firecrackers in the courtyard to celebrate. After offering the Lord, I began to pay a New Year call to my neighbor's house. When I pay a New Year call, I also kowtow to my elders and neighbors in front of the Lord. When I kowtow, I still kowtow to the Lord first, and then I can pay a New Year call. The same is true when visiting relatives' homes.
Ten, Tunliu-second day grandma third day uncle
In Tunliu County, the Chinese New Year is not a day, but a time period, that is, from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to the fifth day of the first month of the following year. The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as "off-year", is the time for every household to clean up and the beginning of the New Year. Legend has it that at five o'clock on this day, Master Kitchen God, who will keep his family safe for one year, will return to the Heavenly Palace to sue the Jade Emperor. He chose to clean up at this time so as not to offend Master Kitchen God. Since then, people have begun to prepare for the New Year. Grinding bean curd, steamed flower cake, fried fritters and chopped dumpling stuffing are four essential items. After intense preparation, on New Year's Eve, after making the final preparations, the family will devote themselves to the last job before the New Year-posting Spring Festival couplets.
On New Year's Eve, the whole family ate jiaozi, watched the party, cracked melon seeds and talked about home. Anxious people have begun to invite friends to visit their homes.
On the first day of the lunar new year, people who have let off firecrackers and had breakfast, worked hard for a year and were exhausted began to relax completely: the men and women played mahjong in a circle to relax; Women besieged the city, chatting and laughing; Children dressed in new clothes, playing with each other; Old people get together, reminisce about the past and show their true feelings.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, people began to visit relatives. It is immutable to go to grandma's house on the second day and uncle's house on the third day. In a blink of an eye, it is the fifth day. On this day, the whole family, old and young, have dinner together and have the "closing ceremony" of the New Year-eating and selling. In this way, even if the New Year is over, people who are more diligent will begin to renovate the furniture used on the ground and plan new plans for the New Year.
Eleven, the eldest son-on the second day of the Lunar New Year's Day, "Chasing the Festival"
The Spring Festival in my hometown is an old movie hanging in a long and narrow memory. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, it is played repeatedly in my mind, giving people kindness and warmth.
As the most grand celebration festival in a year, the Spring Festival in my hometown, Zhangzi County, follows the customs handed down from the times and begins on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. On this day, every household offered sesame candy to the kitchen god through a grand ceremony of offering sacrifices to the kitchen god, hoping that he would "say good things in heaven and return to the palace for good luck" in the coming year. After holding the sacrificial stove, they officially began to prepare for the New Year. Every year, from the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve, people call it "Spring Festival Day". Everyone should concentrate on bathing, washing and cleaning, get rid of the bad luck of the year, and stick up the door gods and Spring Festival couplets to prepare for the coming Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, every family will sit together and watch the vigil in jiaozi, waiting for the New Year's bell to ring. When the clock strikes 0: 00 in the morning, everyone will rush to the yard and hang long firecrackers outside the door to ignite the hope and joy of the year.
On the morning of the first day of the first month, every family will meet at the land temple in the village to offer offerings to the land god, hoping for peace and happiness in a year and a rolling fortune. The second day is the day of offering sacrifices to ancestors. The bride's family who got married in the past year will also come to her daughter's house to give her daughter-in-law a New Year gift on this day, commonly known as "Chasing the Festival". From the first day to the fifth day, everyone will pay New Year greetings to each other and wish each other good luck. The sixth day is the day when the married daughter-in-law returns to her mother's house. From the sixth day, the village will organize "Yangko Team" and "Lions Team" to pay New Year greetings to every household until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.
Twelve, Datong-Spring Festival is a prosperous fire
Datong is rich in coal resources, and it is bound to have various contacts with local people's clothing, food, housing and transportation. Therefore, the role of coal has penetrated into the customs and people's feelings as far back as ancient times, and building a prosperous fire is a local custom.
On New Year's Eve, every household should build a tower with large pieces of coal in front of the courtyard, which is called Wanghuo, to congratulate the prosperity throughout the year. Put firewood in it, and write a big red note on it, "Angry to the sky". At midnight, when firecrackers are ringing, light the flourishing fire. After ignition, the flame spouted from countless small holes, which was like a floating picture, both to keep out the cold and spectacular. Adults and children gather in a circle, some play games, some set off firecrackers, and all men, women and children will come to warm themselves up in order to "soar into the sky."
Nowadays, the custom of flourishing fire has developed again in Datong. Not only during the Chinese New Year, but also during weddings and funerals or major festivals on weekdays, and some are born in winter to keep warm; Some are lucky in summer. If the scale of Wanghuo is grand and the shape is exquisite, the Wanghuo in the New Year is the most important. It has four characteristics: first, excellent coal preparation. Pre-select high-quality raw coal before the Lantern Festival, dig it out mechanically or manually, and then carefully cut it into neat squares;
Second, the shape is beautiful. Master Gao Ming must be hired to build Wanghuo into a vase with a small bottom, a big belly, a top and an empty inside. Only in this way can it burn completely without Wanghuo collapsing. Third, it is increasing year by year. In order to achieve the metaphor that year after year is better than year, it is required that when building a fire, it should be higher than the previous year every year. The specific size of the increase depends on the expectations of the owner. Fourth, the scale is huge. Every year, 50 or 60 huge fires are built in the streets of the city, the largest of which is made of 80 tons of coal, which is as high as 30 feet, which can be described as huge.
Thirteen, Wenxi-Steamed steamed buns for the New Year
During the Chinese New Year, it is essential for people who are happy to smell flowers to steam steamed buns, which means good luck and good luck in life.
The production of flower steamed buns is very particular. First, the first-class wheat is selected, and the floating dust, stones, sundries, etc. are screened with an iron sieve slightly larger than the washbasin, and then poured into a container filled with clear water for careful elutriation for two or three times, then poured into a bamboo basket that can drain water, and then watered on it. This process is called coagulation. It is said that coagulation can improve the quality of flour and is a link that cannot be underestimated. Mix a proper amount of refined powder into the fermented flour, pour warm water and mix well, and then knead. After kneading the dough, use small scissors, a small comb and other tools to start formal kneading. There are no teaching materials and no designs for kneading steamed buns. They are all taught by artists from generation to generation, and the appearance is all in their minds. I saw that they had a plan in mind, and after some rubbing, twisting, rolling, cutting, pinching, pulling, pressing, picking and rolling, flowers, birds, insects, birds and animals were vividly transformed from their hands.
Once the shape is shaped, the next step is to wake up the bun, that is, make it weak. Put the kneaded dough plastic product in the cage of the kang, cover it with a cotton mattress, keep a certain temperature, steam it in the pot after it is ready to be inflated. The steaming process is also very knowledgeable. Like China's martial arts, there is a set of ways, such as what water is opened on the cage, the cage is sealed, the gas is filled in an urgent fire, the steam is divided into large and small parts, and the gas is released from the cage. When you get out of the cage, you should paint the food while it is hot, so the color is gorgeous and not easy to fade. When it is ready to dry, it is necessary to use bamboo sticks to combine the auxiliary parts with the petals set off. In this way, after stippling, painting, combination and collocation, the flour products that were just sketched have been flowered in red leaves and green, Fengxiang fish swam, and snakes roared, which is lifelike.
Fourteen, hongdong temple fair is the most lively.
More people in Hongdong than on New Year's Eve began to set off all kinds of fireworks, which resounded through the earth. The guns in the county fluctuated continuously, and the louder the fireworks, the more it symbolized the prosperity and good luck in the coming year. The activities on New Year's Eve are also varied-putting up thousands (depending on the size of the thousand, the number is 2579), setting up a table for the heavens and the earth, resigning the year, keeping the year, welcoming the year, etc., and such celebrations are one after another.
It is said that the first day of the first month is the broom birthday, and people in Hongdong don't use brooms on this day, otherwise it will attract the "broom star" and lead to bad luck. If you have to sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside to the inside. On this day, you can't throw water on the garbage, for fear of breaking the money. Clean the courtyard before New Year's Eve and take out all the rubbish. Hongdong people also avoid knives and implements during the New Year. On the 30th of the New Year, they prepare materials for three meals a day on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and every meal on the first day will be left with leftovers, so that there should be more than one year.
People are most keen to visit temple fairs during the Spring Festival. There are more than 20 temples in Hongtong City, and the most lively places in the Spring Festival every year are: Chenghuang Temple, Laoye Temple, Fire Temple, Qianfo Temple, Lv Zu Temple, Erlang Temple, Confucian Temple, etc. The temples are decorated with lanterns and colorful incense. Children are attracted by colorful windmills made of paper, kites, tigers and rabbits made of clay, chickens and ducks made of clay, girls' favorite play of "wrapping honey", boys' glass-made "glass boom boom boom" to blow, and "sugar blower" is also very popular. Guo Puyu, a folk artist in Hongtong Subao, is a descendant of "Sugar Blower", and there are firecrackers that are broken by hand, also known as "smashing guns".
Fifteen, Taigu Society is booming
The first item in Taigu's folk celebration of the Spring Festival is to pick up the gods. Originally intended to welcome the gods of heaven and earth and share happiness with the people, today it has become the main symbol of welcoming the new year and saying goodbye to the old. First of all, the content is to light a prosperous fire, burn grass and set off firecrackers. Wanghuo is located in the local hospital, and Niancao is placed outside the door, which should be lit by parents themselves. After getting up, you can't go out rashly. You must first light a firecracker and stick it out of the door to explode, which is called an open-circuit gun. Igniting a prosperous fire should be called making a prosperous fire, and getting rich, prosperous and prosperous. When the long hair is on fire at home, the children put on new clothes and set off firecrackers around the fire. The women cleaned up the housework and arranged the offerings to the gods of heaven and earth and the ancestors. At this moment, every village, firecrackers are everywhere, and the Wan Li sky is ringing.
Happy New Year is the climax of Spring Festival activities. In the old customs, three kneels and nine knocks were emphasized, but now most places bow respectfully and salute, and some only knock on one head. When the younger generation pays New Year greetings to the elders, the elders smile and accept the gifts with pleasure. After the new year's worship, the elders should give the younger generation lucky money. The intention is to protect future generations and be healthy and blessed. If there is a newly married daughter-in-law at home, the elders must give the new daughter-in-law lucky money, ranging from tens to hundreds of yuan, depending on their own economic situation. Mother-in-law also wants to give the new daughter-in-law a piece of fine cloth, hoping that her daughter-in-law will inherit the needle. On the Spring Festival, every family is used to eating jiaozi. Jiaozi homophonic slot is an ancient coin. Jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. Yuanbao is a large gold and silver ingot in ancient times.
Eating jiaozi on New Year's Day means getting rich all year round. When people cook jiaozi, they pay attention to the taboo of blowing cold air, so they don't pull the wind box, and they burn it all by firewood. Burning firewood pays attention to burning sesame stalks. On the one hand, the sweet sound of sesame stalk burning is like a series of rich sounds, and on the other hand, it takes the metaphor of sesame blossom rising day by day. Jiaozi's boiling is said to be earned, not broken. Before eating, you should fire a gun to show your knowledge. The first bowl of rice should be offered to ancestors and gods. Parents should be asked to sit first when the whole family is seated. The first cup of wine should be made by parents. When filling a meal, you should not let the pot be empty, but leave food for watching the pot, which means inexhaustible. Some people eat jiaozi wrapped in lotus seeds, indicating that there are more than one year; Eating jiaozi wrapped in red dates means good luck early; Jiaozi, who is eating a bag of money, said that money is booming.
From the afternoon of the Spring Festival, the traditional village fire or yangko started to be formally performed. First of all, entertain in the village and go door to door to celebrate the New Year. The host's family will treat them with cigarettes and candy. People who suffered casualties and diseases in the last year should invite the Shehuo team to perform in the hospital, which is called Chongxi. People who have married their daughters-in-law and given birth to children in the last year should also invite the Shehuo team to perform in the hospital, which is called a celebration. Congxi and Congxi, the host's hospitality is particularly generous. After the New Year's greetings in our village, we have to go to neighboring villages for activities until the Lantern Festival reaches its climax. People who don't participate in social fire activities carry out recreational activities such as chess, poker and mahjong. The county will hold the Spring Festival long-distance running activities, with a large number of participants, ranging from elderly people over 60 years old to teenagers wearing red scarves, which is unprecedented in excitement.