(1) On the first day of the first lunar month, people get up at dawn. The first thing they do is to fire the "opening cannon", which means the door is open.

Then, the old people were busy welcoming the gods and receiving the Stove King.

The next step is for everyone to sit around the dinner table and start making dumplings.

The family gathered around the table, talking and laughing, and their hands were busy, and the dumplings were wrapped in a short time.

In our place, when the adults are making dumplings on the morning of the first day of the new year, the children will stare at the dumplings intently. Maybe you are curious, why is this?

Because there's a little secret hidden in these dumplings.

what is it?

Let me reveal the answer to everyone!

Because when adults make dumplings, they put copper wallets symbolizing "blessings" into the dumplings. Whoever eats dumplings wrapped with money will have "good luck" and "blessings" with them this year!

From the second day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it is the time to visit relatives.

During this period, everyone will bring gifts and best wishes to visit relatives and friends’ homes to pay New Year greetings to each other.

Every time they arrive at a house, the host will prepare a sumptuous meal to entertain the guests, and everyone will toast to drink and send their blessings.

This is also the happiest time for children. Not only can they receive many blessings, but they can also receive big red envelopes.

(2) Yan'an has a vast territory, and the customs and language habits vary from place to place. However, the wedding arrangements in Yan'an are generally the same.

A large part of the elderly farmers in Yan'an believe in superstition and worship ghosts and gods.

As for when to get married, you must ask Mr. Yin and Yang to read your birth date and make sure the month is auspicious.

For example, "Roosters are in March, pigs are in September, rabbits are afraid of April and May"; "Snake and rabbit, monkeys are chasing pigs, and the two are not welcoming in the black year" and so on.

In fact, this is just a model that people come up with to constrain their behavior based on the zodiac signs. It has no scientific basis.

Things are different now. Young men and women are free to fall in love. No one is willing to engage in this kind of trick. A few parents with backward ideas can only do it behind others' backs.

They have decided on an auspicious day and time, and the man's family will place the Geng stickers on the girl's family, make a mark (put the written Geng stickers inside the clothes prepared for the bride), and give them to the woman together with the bride price.

This means: It’s time for the girl to get married!

Three days before the auspicious day, the bride goes door-to-door to pay homage to the elders in the clan, pours wine for the elders, and drinks with relatives and friends.

The groom's father crowns his son.

The next day, write on red paper "My baby name is ××, now I have a weak crown, so I will change my official name" and stick it on the door, indicating that I am an adult.

At the same time, the girl's family began to close the house, set up a banquet for her uncle, and invited the family members.

At this time, the girl to be married had already hidden in the boudoir and no longer appeared in public. She spent all day learning etiquette from her mother, making needlework, and talking about the love between mother and daughter.

The girl's heart was jumping like a little rabbit, and she was anxiously waiting for the auspicious day to get into the sedan chair and set off. But when it was time to get into the sedan chair, she cried loudly to show her love for her parents.