Festival time

Spring Festival The first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival, commonly known as the Spring Festival. Before the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), there were many red tape and serious feudal superstitions. After Laba, clean the dust on auspicious days. After retiring from the kitchen on the 23 rd of the twelfth lunar month, I began to be busy with Chinese New Year, making jujube cakes and so on. On the 29th, the gate was closed, and Spring Festival couplets, window grilles, house numbers and genealogy were posted. On the morning of the 30th, dinner was served. In the afternoon, I went to the ancestral grave to "send the hanging child" and invited my ancestors to go home for the New Year. There is a "horse-tied pile" at the door, and straw is spread across the courtyard. At about ten o'clock in the evening, I picked up the stove, asked God and sprinkled Chen (wheat seedlings were scattered on the ground in the middle). In the middle of the night, "hair", ancestor worship, god worship, firecrackers. The whole family has been worshipping since childhood, and they have to give their elders lucky money after worshipping. Then, we will drink farewell wine and eat more jiaozi. At dawn, family members or neighbors pay New Year greetings to each other. The first morning, I ate "Qian jiaozi". On the third day, I was sent to God at dawn. During festivals, relatives and friends visit each other. In the countryside, please ask your daughter-in-law and son-in-law, * * * He Xinchun. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), etiquette followed, superstitious activities were abolished and revived in the 1980s.

Lantern Festival The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called Lantern Festival, also known as "Shangyuan Festival" and "Lantern Festival". The family used carrot wax oil as a lamp and sent it to the ancestral graves and courtyard corners. There is a custom of setting off fireworks at night. Children set off fireworks to "relieve boredom". During the festival, it was very lively, playing yangko and dancing dragon lanterns.

February 2, commonly known as Xiaolong looked up. Men cut their hair more than this day. Farmers fry beans, called "scorpion beans", which means anti-virus insects. Play "grain hoard" (scatter plant ash into several matching circles, with grains scattered inside) and pray for a good year. The old custom of going to the land temple to worship the land god has been abolished.

Tomb-Sweeping Day offered sacrifices to sweep the grave, adding soil and pressing paper. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, institutions and schools will visit graves on this day. In the past, the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day was regarded as the Cold Food Festival, and it was forbidden to make a fire to eat cold food, so it was customary to swing.

Dragon Boat Festival The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival. We eat zongzi and boiled eggs. The children tied their ankles and wrists with colorful threads. In the morning, "dew is pulled out" and wormwood is hung on the door to avoid the plague. The new daughter-in-law "sends the Dragon Boat Festival" and brings the zongzi from her family to her husband's family and neighbors.

On June 6th, it is an old custom to eat fried noodles and expose clothes. A new husband is "new" when he arrives at his in-laws' house.

Before July 7th, it was called "Begging for Qiaojie Festival". Zhaoyuan celebrates this festival on the sixth day of July. As the saying goes, "people who are far away are impatient and hold the sixth day of the seventh day." Making "smart cakes" in festivals and putting them on by children are called "wearing small fruits". In the old society, women gave birth to "smart buds" (sprouting from grains), offered sacrifices to their sisters (weavers) and begged weavers to give them skillful hands.

July 15, formerly known as Mid-Autumn Festival, is also called Ghost Festival, and lanterns are hung to light the way for ghosts. On this night, we hung our ancestors' genealogy and ate jiaozi.

Mid-Autumn Festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th of the lunar calendar. Friends and relatives give moon cakes, roast chicken and other gifts. In the evening, enjoy the moon and share moon cakes.

October 1st, the first day of the 10th lunar month, is an autumn festival to add soil to the grave and worship the first tomb.

The solstice of winter is commonly known as winter, and there is also the custom of hanging genealogy for ancestors. Eat steamed stuffed bun at noon and jiaozi at night.

Laba is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as Laba. Drink Laba porridge and suppress Laba garlic.

The 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is the focus of resignation, also known as off-year holiday. Steamed sticky cakes, with honeydew melons, and burned kitchen gods.

In addition to traditional festivals, some commemorative Gregorian calendar festivals are increasingly accepted by the county people, but the scope and depth of activities are different. There are mainly New Year's Day, Women's Day, International Labor Day, Youth Day, Children's Day, Party's Birthday, Army Day, Teacher's Day, National Day and Arbor Day.