Chinese New Year

The first day of the first month of the lunar year is called "Chinese New Year", commonly known as "New Year". In the early hours of the morning, every house sets off fireworks to celebrate the New Year. After worshiping their ancestors, the younger generation pays homage to their elders. Breakfast, fried greens (mostly mustard-based) 1 bowl of family **** food, the meaning of Qing Qing Ji Ji. After the meal, urban residents go to friends and relatives or neighbors to congratulate each other on the Spring Festival; rural people more to the ancestral shrine on the new Ding, born boys can receive Ding cake 1 pair, born girls only note down the birth date, name. The man does not pick water, the woman does not laundry, do not move the needle and thread.

The second to fifteenth of every morning (excluding the third or fourth), continue to visit friends and relatives, but generally do not pay homage to the New Year in the afternoon.

The third (individual places on the fourth) this day, only to the previous year, there are elders deceased relatives and friends of the family to the spirits of the dead; in the afternoon, the family ate the New Year's Eve wine. After the liberation, the custom of paying tribute to the New Year is still retained, but no longer kneel down when paying tribute to the elders.

Lichun

Basically, it is the same as the whole country, while in the Qing Dynasty, the folk and the government attached great importance to it. On this day, families are ready to welcome the spring to receive the blessing of the red paper strips, pasted in the hall in the middle of the wall, to be the spring moment, sounding explosions, candles, incense, pray for heaven and earth to seek blessings; the government shall ask the poor or beggars dressed up as spring officials, sitting in a sedan chair, after the mud with mud cattle (paper cattle coated with mud), after the parade in and around the city, the southern gate to the outskirts of the field to hold a ceremony of spring ploughing.

The night of the Lantern Festival

Households are illuminated with lanterns, and there are hanging lanterns, enjoying lanterns, playing with lanterns, and households eat dumplings; men and women, young and old, would like to go out to watch the lanterns.

Ching Ming Festival

People go to the mountains to sweep the graves and use the earth to press the paper money on the top of the graves, commonly known as "calling the green" or "hanging paper", in order to remember their ancestors. There are also many young men and women who invite their partners to go trekking in the countryside on this day.

Summer

On this day, people must eat meat, said "support the summer", said the summer ate meat, do not feel tired, will not be "afraid of summer" and "thin summer". Folk also weigh the custom of this day.

Jing Wu Festival

Commonly known as the "Festival", "Festival". On this day, hanging in front of the family hall Duanjiao Gong (folklore is Zhong Kui), both sides of the door hanging moxa leaves, calamus, children chest hanging "incense bag", "egg", with the wind fairy flowers will be dyed red fingernails. In the morning, we only eat glutinous rice, buns and so on. At noon, in the indoor burning leaves smoked to drive away mosquitoes, will be sprinkled all over the walls, corners of the house and water tanks, altars, cans where people placed, to prevent centipedes, scorpions, snakes for the damage, the conditions of the local masses to watch the dragon boat races. In the afternoon or evening, the family reunion drinking.

June 6

Commonly known as "Tasting Day". The early harvesting of early rice in the countryside on the outskirts of the city has already begun. Farmers on this day to kill chickens to buy meat to accompany the meal, taste their hard work of cultivation harvest of the new grain, called "tasting the new". Where there is a genealogy of the family, are taken out on this day in the sun under the sun, said "open spectrum". The family has a collection of books are also taken out on this day to turn the sun. Housewives, like this day to turn over a variety of clothing, it is said to be free of moths.

The Beggar's Nest

Legend has it that this night is the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden meet once a year. In the old days, young girls who succeeded in threading embroidery needles with red silk thread in the moonlight on this night were called "skillful girls".

Midwinter Festival

Commonly known as the "half of the seventh month", also known as the "ghost festival". Folks burn paper money to honor the gods to remember their deceased family members.

Mid-Autumn Festival

At noon, families hold banquets and gatherings, and it is customary to eat duck meat boiled with rice noodles; in the evening, the whole family gathers to eat cakes and enjoy the moon. Teenagers like to use broken tiles to stack tile tower called "tile lamp", tower burning firewood. When the tower burned red, sprinkled with salt or kerosene, sparks suddenly splashed, bright and eye-catching, viewers such as a jam, until the end of the night, the party dispersed, known as the "burning tower" or "burning tile

Light".

The Chongyang Festival

Also known as the "Festival of the Ninth". On this day, people like to climb up to admire chrysanthemums or fly kites, and most of them steam glutinous rice to make wine on this day, which means "sweet and long". It is now a day of activities for the Elderly Day.

Small year

Every family hosts a banquet and drinks, also known as the "Saeko (local dialect, the meaning of the child) year". In the old days, where the boss was invited to go to the feast on this day, implying that the next year will no longer be employed. Any woman who lives in her mother's home should return to her mother-in-law's home after the New Year.

New Year's Eve

Said "New Year's Eve". It is a grand traditional holiday. Families clean their homes, put up spring scrolls, stick on pictures of the God of the Door and small red paper strips for good luck. Some people put two sugarcane behind the door of their house, which means that life is as high as sugarcane, and the more you live, the sweeter it is. At the same time, candles, incense and firecrackers are lit to honor heaven and earth, and ancestors are sacrificed. In the evening, all the family members gather together and have a meal with wine. After the meal, minors are given "New Year's money" and stay awake all night, called "keeping the New Year's Eve". Midnight, the sound explosion off the door, said "sealing the door of wealth".