Part 1 Customs I Know
Since I am a Zhuang myself, I know some Zhuang customs. The staple food of the Zhuang people is mainly rice and corn. Like to eat pickled sour food, to raw fish as a delicacy. Whenever there is a festival, they like to make five-color rice. Five-color rice is with red orchid grass, March flowers, Mimo flowers, maple leaves and other edible plants, the production of different colors of water juice dipped in glutinous rice, steamed black, red, yellow, purple, white five-color rice, this five-color rice, color, aroma and taste are excellent. Eating five-color rice is the meaning of wishing for a good harvest. Marriage customs: free love before marriage, the way to sing, throw the ball, playing wooden trough, catch the song Wei and so on. Funeral: the general line of burial, some areas have "picking bones reburial" custom, that is, after a number of years after the death of the burial of the bones will be picked out and put into the tile urn sealed and then buried. Festivals with more ethnic characteristics include the Mid-Yuan Festival, the Cow's Soul Festival, the March 3 Song Festival and the Eating Festival. The Cow Spirit Festival (also known as the Cow King Festival) is very distinctive and is mostly held on the day after the spring plowing. On this day, each family brings a basket of five-colored glutinous rice and a bunch of fresh grass to the cattle pen for the cattle to eat. It is said that, because of the plowing ox in the spring plowing by people scolding, whipping and lost soul, so that the ox can pick up the soul, to ensure the peace of the ox, but also in order to the ox a year of hard work to express condolences. In some places, the cattle soul festival this day to let the cattle rest. Etiquette and taboos: Zhuang hospitality, home guests, are in the hearty wine and rice hospitality; to the elderly tea, rice, are held with both hands to; the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar does not kill animals; some areas of the young women do not eat beef and dog meat; women give birth to children for the first three days (some of which is the first seven days), outsiders are not allowed to enter.
Part II Customs I Know
I know a lot of customs: there are the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and so on.
Let's start with the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is the largest of all festivals, the most ceremonial festival, the Spring Festival is also called "New Year". Even if you are thousands of miles away, you will try to come back to reunite with your family, and have a happy year of peace and beauty and reunion. Children are even happier at Chinese New Year, not only can they eat delicious food and wear beautiful clothes, but they can also get the New Year's money. There is a children's song I still remember: New Year's Day, New Year's Day, wear new clothes, wear a heart hat. The girl wants flowers, the boy wants cannons, crackling really lively.
A few days before the Chinese New Year, every family had to clean up and organize their houses.
On the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, people get up early in the morning, kill chickens and geese to make dumplings and make rice cakes. What's more, they hang New Year's paintings and put up Spring Festival couplets.
New Year's Eve dinner, very sumptuous, the family gathered around the New Year's Eve dinner, not lively! After New Year's Eve dinner, the family set off fireworks and watched the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, a happy and peaceful.
Then again, the Qingming Festival, which is the day of remembrance and mourning for the ancestors. Every Qingming, people sweep the graves of their ancestors, and schools will organize students to go to the Martyrs' Cemetery to visit the martyrs' graves.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a very prevalent and grand festival among the Chinese people, where zongzi are eaten and dragon boats are raced in honor of Qu Yuan. Inserting mugwort leaves and hanging scented sachets are also customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. Only now Xionghuang wine has been rarely seen.
It is really a beautiful thing to eat mooncakes and enjoy the bright moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, family reunion, looking up at a full moon, I can not help but think of Su Dongpo's poem: but wish people long, thousands of miles *** Canyuan Juan.
Part III Customs I Know
"The sound of firecrackers in a year except, the spring breeze sends warmth into the tusu". It's New Year's Eve again ...... New Year's Eve, so lively! People are very busy, sticking the couplets and hang the New Year's paintings; crackling firecrackers like frying sesame seeds in the pan one after another; "pop, pop, pop" sound of fireworks like Tiananmen Square held a grand celebration. They passed through the streets and alleys, through the skyscrapers, the dark night illuminated as day, everywhere overflowing with joyful scenes. I am looking forward to the Spring Festival. So what are the customs of the Spring Festival? Hurry to find out! "Wow, it smells good!" I just wanted to go out, but was attracted back by the smell. At a glance, it turned out to be my grandmother cooking wontons, I rushed into the kitchen and asked, "Grandma. Why are we eating wontons today?" Grandma said: "On New Year's Eve at 10 o'clock, we have to eat wontons, which is called "dumplings" (jiaozi). It's called "dumplings" (交子), to celebrate the change of the old and the new, and the arrival of the new year! Also, wontons harmonize with the word "won hoard". The bathroom is full of grains!" Oh, I know, I found a custom of "eating dumplings"! Outside the door, I saw a golden dragon rolling, so it is the Dragon Dance to pay tribute to the New Year ah! Look, the golden dragon in the hands of the dragon dancers constantly changing shape: rolling dragon, coiled dragon, the dragon body with the head of the ups and downs, wagging head and tail beautiful! Oh, how can I forget such an important custom? I have found another custom "dragon dance".
The pinching of the sugar man child is a traditional folk skills, has rarely seen. This thing is not only fun to look at, after playing can also eat, general children see all like, because usually not see, once seen on the refused to go, either pestering adults to buy or run back to ask for money, there is no money on the side of the eye around, fingers in the mouth, staring at the sugar man is how to change out. At this time, the master of the sugar man with a small shovel to take out a little sugar, put on the talcum powdered hand rubbing, quickly pinch out the characters to do the general shape, and then put on the talcum powder coated wooden mold, and then blow hard, a little while later to open the wooden mold, the desired sugar man will come out. In the evening, the sky, which had been silent, suddenly became bright and lively. A tail of fire rushes up to the sky, and in the roaring sound, a gorgeous and charming flower blooms in the night. The sound of firecrackers and dragons in all directions was exciting. Families gathered around the table to eat a sumptuous dinner. A warm, sweet feeling swept through us all. In this red-hot New Year, we were very happy to eat, play and have fun.
Part IV Customs I Know
My hometown is in Sichuan, where the customs of various festivals are different from other places!
The Spring Festival is the most solemn and lively traditional festival in China, commonly known as "New Year". The festival is held from the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. The majority of urban and rural areas before the festival began to prepare for the New Year's goods, kill pigs, sheep, rabbits, etc., the production of preserved meat, food shopping, new clothes, New Year's Eve, everyone dressed, hanging New Year's paintings, sticker couplets, New Year's Eve to eat New Year's Eve dinner, the first two, three began to go to relatives to pay tribute to New Year's Eve, ancestor worship and other activities. This is our Sichuan custom! Qingming Festival in mid-February of the year, around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar, mainly excursions, picnics; some of the ancestors on the tomb sweeping and other activities. This customary activity is also more common in urban and rural areas. This is our Sichuan customs! Yi Torch Festival: The Torch Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Yi people in Liangshan, Sichuan. The time is the 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year, families drink wine, eat lumps of meat, and kill livestock to sacrifice ancestors. People wear new clothes and carry out cultural and sports activities with national characteristics. Men take part in bullfighting, sheep, chicken, horse racing and wrestling; women sing, play the mouth string and moon zither. At night the torch in front of the house wandering around; the third night in groups holding torches all over the mountains and fields, the fire light, and then concentrated in one place to light a bonfire, playing the torch, drinking, singing and dancing, and continue to play until the end of the daybreak. This is our Sichuan custom! Our Sichuan customs are all very special, I love my hometown!
Part V Customs I Know
The Spring Festival is commonly known as "New Year's Day", the original name of "New Year's Day", the Sui Dynasty, Du Daiqing in the "Five Candles Treasure Tree", said: "The first month for the end of the month, the first day for the first day, also cloud the first day, also cloud the first day." The original meaning of "Yuan" is "head", which is later extended to "beginning", because this day is the first day of the year, the first day of spring, the first day of the first month, so it is called the "Sanyuan". "Sanyuan"; because this day is still the age of the dynasty, the month of the dynasty, the day of the dynasty, so also known as "three dynasties"; and because it is the first day of the first solstice, so it is also known as the "first solstice".
China is an ancient multi-ethnic country. Different historical periods of different ethnic groups have been based on their own cultural traditions and customs to determine their own New Year's Day, that is, changed to "Shosuo", change the first day of the first month of the time. Zhuanxu Emperor and the Xia Dynasty to the first month of Bengchun for the yuan, that is, the use of the summer calendar Jianyin, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar for the New Year's Day; the Shang Dynasty to use the Yin Calendar, the Yin Calendar Jianchou, the first day of the 12th month of the lunar calendar for the New Year's Day; the Zhou Dynasty to use the Zhou Calendar, the Zhou Calendar into the son of the first day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar as the New Year's Day; the Qin Dynasty to use the Qin Calendar, the Qin Calendar Jianhai, the first day of the lunar calendar for the New Year's Day; the pre-Xihan period still uses the Qin Calendar, the first year of the first year of the Han Dynasty Emperor Wu Emperor (104 AD) to Sima Qian In the early Western Han Dynasty, the Qin Calendar was still in use, and in the first year of the first lunar month of the Han Dynasty (104 AD), Emperor Wu changed to the Taichu Calendar created by Sima Qian and Luo Xia-tei, and then reused the Xia Calendar of Jianyin, with the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar as New Year's Day. Afterwards, except for Wang Mang and Wei Mingdi once changed to the Yin calendar of Jianchou, and Tang Wu Hou and Su Zong changed to the Zhou calendar of Jianzi, all dynasties used the summer calendar until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
The Xinhai Revolution overthrew the imperial system, Sun Yat-sen from Shanghai to Nanjing the day before the inauguration of the Nanjing Senate decided to change to the solar calendar, and the Republic of China chronology. However, the lunar calendar has been used for a long time, and is conducive to the arrangement of agricultural affairs, therefore, the people still prefer the lunar calendar.