What are the special customs in Guangning?

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, please ask Mr. Feng Shui to choose an auspicious day before building a new house, including the date of construction, climbing the wall, opening the door, erecting the beam and entering the house. Before breaking ground, Taoist priests should be invited to clear the ground, which means to drive away evil spirits and ghosts, and then set the line for orientation. When masons and carpenters work on the wall, they install doors, comb mountains and put beams. The host family must provide drinks. The process of setting beam is the most solemn. Ask the Taoist priests to do things, paste red "blessings", hang red flowers, install "buckets" and "grain bags", set up the beams of the houses, throw oil, and let people squeeze and grab them to show prosperity, and then distribute the benefits. To build a new house, you have to enter the house on an auspicious day. This is called "tempering house". When entering the house, the whole family, men, women and children, led by the oldest, entered the house with a cage of chickens (hens with chicks) and took the best and more. Then everyone should take one thing in his hand, clothes, furniture and sundries, commonly known as "tempering room, enough on hand", which means that the family is rich and the population is prosperous. Boil sugar balls before entering the new house to get a sweet reunion. After that, a banquet was held to entertain the guests, called "please temper wine", and the rich also asked Bayin and the troupe to help celebrate.

After the founding of New China, building a new house reduced many complicated customs, but on the day when we moved into the new house, we still had the habit of giving gifts and setting banquets.

Agricultural production customs in Guangning. Farmers in Guangning used to wear ramie cloth, but ramie used a dye called indigo. Many villages and families grow Lan Qing, and each village has a retting pond. Lan Qing, after being harvested, is piled up in a pool and turned into indigo. Apart from personal use, it can also be transported to neighboring counties for sale and sold to dyeing houses all over the country for dyeing. At that time, every household would pray for a blue harvest; Bao jiaozi entertained relatives and friends and exchanged experiences in planting Lan Qing.