What are the special customs in Sanya during the Spring Festival?

In Hainan, there is a saying called "Mid-Autumn Festival, the fifteenth day of the first month". In other words, every year after the Mid-Autumn Festival, ordinary people are preparing for the New Year: castrating cocks and filling fat ducks ... As soon as they enter the end of December of the lunar calendar, the atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger!

The first act:

Issue "bordeaux" first, then "Shang Hong".

In Sanya, the 29th of the twelfth lunar month is the day to send "bordeaux". On this day, every household should use bamboo branches as brooms to clean the front and back of the house, and the incense burner should also be cleaned and replaced with new ashes. In the evening, people will light incense sticks and put wine and fruit as sacrifices to see "Gong Gong" off. It means to sweep away all unlucky, unclean and stale things.

In addition, on this day, Sanya people began to become "popular", posting Spring Festival couplets, red paper and door gods. All families should stick "Geely" red paper on their furniture, fruit trees and even cars to show good luck. Of course, these things are done by men, and women are not allowed to do it. After everything is ready, I am waiting for a happy New Year's Eve.

Act II:

Make brown sugar rice cakes on New Year's Eve.

Many cities and counties in Hainan have the custom of making brown sugar rice cakes before New Year's Eve, and Sanya is no exception, but Sanya's brown sugar rice cakes can be said to be a must among many rice cakes. Not only the workmanship is exquisite, but also the taste is unique.

The main material of Sanya brown sugar rice cake is glutinous rice flour. First, put glutinous rice flour into a basin and mix it with water, then melt the finely divided brown sugar into water, add it into the basin and stir vigorously until the mixture becomes uniform paste. But the biggest feature of Sanya rice cake is that when it is stirred, some coconut powder, peanuts and so on. Then steam it in a pot for a few hours. The steamed rice cake is very elastic, the color is sauce red, it tastes like soft candy, and it tastes excellent.

Now that life is getting better and better, you don't have to wait until New Year's Eve to eat rice cakes. You can buy them in the market at any time if you want. Nevertheless, during the China New Year, many Sanya people will make their own rice cakes and feel the atmosphere of the New Year.

Act III:

The whole family, old and young, get together to "keep watch"

In the past, no matter how difficult the money was, many people killed chickens and ducks on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, even if they borrowed money and rice. There are seven bowls of braised pork, pig's trotters, meat dishes, vegetarian dishes, bananas and oranges on the Eight Immortals table in front of the incense burner. After the ancestor worship ceremony, the children happily ran to set off firecrackers.

It must be remembered that the food on the table of the Eight Immortals must be cooled before it can be taken down, and then the whole family will get together for the New Year's Eve dinner. Chickens and ducks are inevitable, but this year is not a good year, and there are also "three fresh" (fresh fish, fresh meat and fresh fruit) on the table.

After the New Year's Eve, men, women and children should take a bath and put on new clothes to celebrate the New Year, which means to send the old and welcome the new. That night, the whole family got together to drink tea and eat sugar, and talked about "observing the old age" until midnight to set off firecrackers to welcome the arrival of the New Year.

On New Year's Eve, oil lamps are also lit in the living room and all rooms, commonly known as "lighting", which means "increasing wealth". From New Year's Eve, no matter day or night, it lasts until the dawn of the third day of New Year's Eve, which indicates good luck, peace and prosperity in the coming year.

Act IV:

Don't be jealous on New Year's Day.

New Year's Day is the most important day of the year. Drink a bowl of white sugar tea first in the morning and add two red dates, which means sweetness, beauty and prosperity. Then put the "three fresh" (fresh fish, fresh meat and fresh fruit) on the table to worship the ancestors.

And New Year's Day is also the most taboo, so many people generally don't go out and stay at home. First of all, you can't carry water, so you should fill the water tank on New Year's Eve, but now that every household uses tap water, there is no such scruples. Second, you can't sweep the floor, even if firecrackers and scraps of paper and shells are scattered all over the floor, you can't sweep them. If it is swept, say that the "God of Wealth" has been swept. In particular, don't scold each other, don't fight, don't break the tableware, which means to be kind, congratulate each other when you meet, and congratulate each other on making a fortune. The most taboo is to say unlucky things.

On the third day of New Year's Eve, it is a day to "send the poor". On this day, every household cleans up garbage, which means "from poverty to wealth". This day is also known as "red mouth". Therefore, there are generally no relatives and friends to visit on this day. Chicken and duck specially made for New Year's Eve dinner will be fried in a frying pan before eating, which means that there is still surplus from last year to this year, and it also means that one year has passed. Generally, I don't go out to buy food from the first day to the fifth day. From the second day to the sixth day, you can visit your family and pay New Year greetings to your elders, relatives or friends. Generally, there are oranges or orange leaves in gifts, indicating your good luck.

Act v:

Children must buy firecrackers during the Spring Festival.

In Sanya, New Year's Day is the day when married women return to their parents' homes to pay New Year greetings. On this day, unless they get married outside the province and can't come back, the husband must bring gifts and accompany his wife and children to their parents' home. All the gifts you bring are leisure, such as tonics, snacks, specialties and so on. But you must not miss an indispensable gift-firecrackers.

On this day, the rest of the family (especially the elders) will stay at home to receive congratulations. My parents-in-law are going to prepare a big meal. After arriving at the outer gate, the son-in-law handed the firecrackers to other relatives, and after the firecrackers were released, he could go in and pay a New Year call to the elderly and other relatives. According to reports, for many years, it has been a constant custom in Sanya to bring firecrackers abroad to celebrate the New Year. This is not only the need for politeness, but also a blessing to elders and other relatives. Some people even think that the longer firecrackers are set off, the more blessings there will be. So many son-in-law will buy a lot of firecrackers when they go home.

In the afternoon, when her daughter and son-in-law leave, her parents-in-law will "greet" her with candy and rice cakes wrapped in red paper. Throughout the folk activities of the third generation, whether it is giving away stoves, welcoming the gods, offering sacrifices to ancestors, eating New Year's Eve, giving lucky money, or paying New Year's greetings, it shows people's desire to pray for good luck and happiness and pursue a better life, and embodies the unique local national festival culture.

Yi family, also known as Yi people, Yi family, Yi family and so on. , is the ancient China southern water residents. It is said that it is named because they take boats as their home for many years, like eggs floating on salt water. Family members in Hainan are mainly concentrated in Haidian Port in Haikou, Lingshui Xincun Port, Yangtze River Tail, Hainan Sea, Baoping Port and Sanya Wang Lou Port. On the morning of October 30th, 65438/KLOC-0, Southern Metropolis Daily reporter came to Nannanhai, Sanya City, looking for family members living there. The reporter saw that the living customs of the Yi family have basically assimilated with the Han people on the shore, and the New Year is no exception. Many people believe in Christianity, but in the traditional Spring Festival, they also have to cut new clothes and buy new year's goods for the Spring Festival. People who believe in Taoism and Buddhism should burn incense and candles on the boat where they live and worship the heavens and the earth to worship their ancestors.

The biggest custom of the Yi family during the New Year is "begging". On the night of the first day of the first month, every household on the shore prepared a fast, waiting for the people who came to sing the poem "Begging for Food" on the second and third days of the first month. They went ashore in groups of three and five and sang the poem "Begging for Food" from door to door. These two days, men and women begging for food are wearing new clothes and holding red flowers and bamboo baskets in their hands. Their manners are polite, their voices are euphemistic and their words are auspicious.

However, nowadays, the custom of "begging" by young family members has gradually disappeared. Therefore, every year, "begging" is the elderly, and there is no usual lively scene.