Shi Cun folk custom

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the local people were simple and honest, and they were industrious and generous in planting mulberry.

In the Republic of China, we were enemies, and * * * endured humiliation and hardship.

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic, they were thrifty. During the Cultural Revolution, they exposed each other, criticized each other, argued with each other and struggled with each other.

Nowadays, the wind of luxury and pleasure is spreading, and the public serves self-interest and eats and drinks; Burn incense and worship Buddha, pretend to be a ghost; Gambling and whoring, stealing and cheating, corruption and bribery are rampant, and the world is getting worse and worse, which needs to be corrected urgently. 1, Spring Festival; Every household will prepare new year's goods when the twelfth lunar month arrives. New year's goods include all kinds of meat, vegetables, rice cakes and vegetables.

On New Year's Eve, women pack jiaozi, men clean the courtyard, hang lanterns, paste couplets, door gods, kitchen gods, ancestral tablets of heaven and earth, and burn incense and sacrifice. Go to the ancestral grave at night. That is, going to the cemetery to invite ancestors home for the New Year. Bring hay or incense to the cemetery, burn paper one by one and set off firecrackers. And said that the old man and grandma went home to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival. Don't put out the hay when you go home. As you walked, you said that the old man and grandma had gone home to eat jiaozi. Leave a handful of hay at home and light the rest at the door. The boy took the hay to the ancestral tablet and lit it. And provide some food every day. Until the third or fifth day.

Meteor on New Year's Eve is a unique custom in the village and its vicinity, which has a history of hundreds of years. Since 20 10, this custom has gradually changed, and most of them worship ancestors and sweep graves. Afterwards, family members or relatives and friends have been drinking until the end of the year.

Shooting in the early morning of the first day, breakfast was jiaozi, and after dinner, I began to pay New Year greetings to my relatives, friends and elders. Only unmarried daughters don't go out to pay New Year's greetings. Go back to your mother's house on the second or third day, and visit relatives and friends on the fourth to twelfth day. Eat Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, and the Chinese New Year will be over. The first day to the sixth day of the first month is a legal holiday.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day went to visit the grave to worship his ancestors. It is usually carried out before the festival, adding soil to the tomb, burning paper money and offering sacrifices. Today is a legal holiday.

Dragon Boat Festival is a legal holiday.

4. Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, on July 15, to visit the grave to worship the ancestors, usually begins as soon as it enters July.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival, with moon cakes and fruits, is a legal holiday.

6. The old custom of sticking windows on the Double Ninth Festival is now extinct.

7. Worship ancestors On October 1st, usually in late September, people began to pay homage to their ancestors.

8. Make Laba porridge on Laba Festival and scatter the porridge in the courtyard of doors and windows.

9, the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as the kitchen god ascended to heaven, with honeydew melons and other sacrifices. So that Kitchen God can put in a good word in heaven and protect the health of the world.

Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are legal holidays. 1, 1 New Year's Day, commonly known as the year of the sun.

2.5 months 1 labor day.

3. 1 October 1 National Day

The above are legal holidays. In addition, in June 1 Children's Day, primary school students have a holiday. September 10, teachers have a holiday. 1. Before liberation, there was a local custom of sending numbers. That is, when a man reaches the age of fifteen, he will be given the number by his husband. Others put old words before his name. If the number is Luo Yi, others will call him Lao Yi. Over time, the original name is gone.

2. Before liberation, soak beans on New Year's Day and don't shave your head in the first month, otherwise you will die; Sorghum seeds fell on February 2, and it is said that red oil disease did not grow on this day; On this day, the chicken was also inserted with straw; There are three kinds of gourds in March, and it is said that there is no spot on this day; It is said that wearing wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival in May can ward off evil spirits; On July 7, the needle was used for cleverness; Stick a window and leave a hole on September 9.

3. In the old society, people went to Wudao Temple to see the temple after death; Go to grandma's temple to beg for children; Longwang Temple asks for rain; Mawang Temple asks for sick animals and so on.

4, the old custom, if you work in the field, the family will sprinkle some porridge on the ground before eating to show respect for the land god. When planting sweet potato seedlings, you can't ride on the ridge and grow carrots barefoot. When harvesting grain, you can't say unlucky things.

It depends on auspicious day for the villagers to break ground at home for construction. Please help them. Set off firecrackers on the beam and ask the dragon to pour wine on the beam. Peach bows, arrows and shovels are hung on the beams. Jiang Taigong was posted here, and all the evil spirits gave way to couplets. They criticized good luck. Red cloth is hung on the top, and firecrackers are set off at the beginning and completion for good luck. There are no velvet trees or maple trees in the yard. Mulberry is not planted in the front yard and willow is not planted in the back yard. Trees can't be planted on windows and so on.

6. Put dates, chestnuts, peanuts, etc. In the corner of the quilt at the wedding; Burn straw, throw wheat cake, take magic mirror, etc. This custom still exists.

7. Making rice cakes, dog stick, throwing money at the back, sweeping materials, throwing paper money along the road, burning horses, burning paper houses, etc. It's too complicated to elaborate. This custom still exists.

8, change the stick of tofu, two quick and two slow knocks; To dye cloth, you should knock on a small gong; Selling peanut oil, knocking sesame oil; Sell steamed bread and brag; Selling honeydew melons and knocking on gongs; Sharpen, cut and blow the horn; Sell needle and thread and shake it, wave after wave; Change the rattle; Run a company, etc.

9. There is also a saying that it is difficult to verify that people enter Jiazi grave at the age of 60. It is said that in the past, when people were 60 years old, they would live in prepared brick graves. If their children were filial, they would deliver meals on time. Otherwise, they will starve to death. It is said that this Jiazi grave is 200 meters north of the village Committee. In the old society, villagers often ate millet, miscellaneous noodles, cakes, burritos, elm leaves and elm money, vegetable porridge, rice porridge, acne, jiaozi, Niannaoer, steamed stuffed bun and so on. Vegetables eat cabbage, radish, pickles and so on in winter. Eat more beans, onions and zucchini in summer. Rarely eat meat.

At present, the staple food is rice, millet, noodles and jiaozi, while the dry food is steamed bread, steamed buns and pancakes. There are fresh vegetables and all kinds of meat (mainly pork, beef, mutton, chicken, fish, shrimp and so on) all year round. ) a steady stream.

Local specialty foods include Dingzhou braised pork, scones, sesame cakes, ground rolls, Guanaoer (folded cakes), Gelaohui (buckwheat noodles and sweet potato noodles), sticky cakes (millet and glutinous rice), vermicelli (sweet potato) and miscellaneous noodles.