Customs and Culture of Xixian People's Government Network

Xixian County is located in the southern edge of the Huanghuai River Basin, and its dialect belongs to the northern dialect, at the same time, it incorporates some elements of Wu Chu dialect. Generally speaking, Xixian dialect is one of the Jianghuai sub-dialects in the northern dialect. With the continuous progress of society and foreign exchange, Putonghua is gradually popularized and widely used in official business, business and performances. Since ancient times, New Year greetings have been called "New Year greetings" through mutual greetings, visiting relatives and friends, and respecting teachers. From the first day to the sixteenth day, New Year greetings are welcome. The first day to the fifth day is the peak of New Year greetings. After the 16th day of the first month, New Year greetings are called "Old Year". After the first month, it is no longer called New Year's greetings. The order of paying New Year greetings to the main relatives is: "the first uncle, the second uncle, and the third day to worship the father-in-law", that is, the first and second days to pay New Year greetings to the elders and grandmothers at home. After the fourth day, underage relatives and friends began to worship each other. When visiting the New Year, most people will bring several packages of cakes, brown sugar and other gifts. The new son-in-law will bring rich gifts to his parents-in-law in the first New Year (returned intact). When he comes home, the host will prepare a sumptuous banquet. When he left, the host only received some gifts, and the rest was used as the "bottom of the basket". The host will also give new son-in-law and children lucky money. It is impolite for peers or friends to go to their elders' homes to pay a new year call first, and the new year caller will pay a return visit. The New Year greeting ceremony for the younger generation is "kowtowing" and the worship ceremony for the peers is "bowing". Modern New Year greetings are changed to shake hands and say hello. During the Spring Festival, elders give lucky money to younger generations, especially children, also known as lucky money. Since the reform and opening up, with the improvement of most people's living standards, many people give their children a lot of lucky money during the New Year, ranging from several hundred yuan to several thousand yuan. And comparing with each other, this phenomenon is both wasteful and uncivilized, and it is easy to affect the growth of children. Wedding etiquette, since the reform and opening up, the basic form of the new wedding etiquette in Xixian County, marriage needs to be registered with the civil affairs department with the ID cards of both parties before the marriage certificate can take effect. At the wedding ceremony, the officiating ceremony, witnesses and witnesses spoke. The newlyweds bowed to the comrades attending the meeting. The newlyweds bowed to each other, introduced their love stories, invited comrades to eat wedding candy, and toasted the guests to show mutual respect and care in the future. There is also a form of tourism marriage, that is, after the newlyweds get the marriage certificate, the public organizes or allows them to move freely and spend their wedding leave in big cities or famous mountains and rivers, which is called "honeymoon". However, in rural areas, there is still an ancient engagement custom in which matchmakers act as matchmakers and parents are powerful owners. Parents often regard women as the most important and ask suitors for a lot of money. The other party is poor, and the daughter-in-law is heavily in debt when she gets home. Some people from poor families are eager for wives and are ingenious. They came up with a unique trick to change their relatives. Both families have children, and exchanging daughters-in-law of the same age can reduce a lot of bride price, but it often leads to bad consequences because of bad feelings. Giving birth to a boy is called great joy, and giving birth to a girl is called Xiao Xi. No matter big or small, relatives and friends should give gifts to each other, and the host will hold a banquet to give gifts. Gifts mainly include fried dough sticks, jiaozi, eggs, hens, brown sugar, children's clothes, and most of them are money. Women's maternity leave is generally one month, so it is called "confinement" and "full moon" after January. During confinement, women are forbidden to enter other people's homes, let alone their doors. People who make mistakes should apologize and let them burn paper, incense and set off firecrackers. This is called a "sacrificial room". It is forbidden for women to build houses in their parents' homes for giving birth to children (except those adopted by their wives). Building a house is an important event in life. After years of savings and material preparation, I choose a suitable foundation and design a beautiful and affordable style. I hope to build a house that is durable, safe and comfortable to live in, avoid accidents in construction and life, and achieve good luck again and again. Therefore, when the beams are placed or capped, we will stick couplets (with red paper or HongLing, written with the words "Jiang Taigong is here, everything is forbidden" or "auspicious photos") and scatter them in Grain Rain. When building a house, you must set up a drinking stove. After you move into the new house, your relatives and friends bring more meat and wine to congratulate you on your move, commonly known as "burning the bottom of the pot", and now most of them are giving money. There are even some elegant people who whitewash their reputation, and then raise funds to carve plaques, made of wood, written in red and low gold, and the big book "Ruiying Huatang" adds luster to the new house. Since1the early 1990s, some migrant workers have returned to their villages to build new houses, but they left after being built for many years, resulting in empty houses and waste. Friends and relatives have sent gifts or money home to congratulate themselves on opening a business, being admitted to a secondary school, joining the army, becoming a full member, being promoted, and being sent abroad. When people are celebrating, they will whip the masses and hold banquets. This kind of gift, compared with each other, is getting heavier and heavier, which has caused an important burden on daily expenses. Some people are already heavily in debt because of this. Funeral, since the reform and opening up, all the urban areas of Xixian County have been cremated, and rural and national policies allow (for example, because of different religious beliefs) to give priority to burial. If there is a funeral at home, please ask the undertaker first. Xixian county is commonly known as burial, which is negotiated by * * *. There are usually three days of mourning (there are also four to seven days), and relatives and friends will handle the funeral. After cremation, the urn was buried in the grave. After that, a funeral banquet was held to thank you.