What are the customs in Yangzhou?

The customs in Yangzhou include mourning customs, warming the house with wine, visiting the house, Tomb-Sweeping Day, asking for sugar and so on.

1, funeral custom

The patient was dying, and the sons knelt down and kowtowed in turn. At the same time, he will light the headlights and footlights, cook a small bowl of half-baked rice for his feet (called "pouring the bowl"), and then buy cloth to break his filial piety. All the descendants of the dead will be Dai Xiao.

2. Warm family wine

There will be a greenhouse wine the night before the wedding. Please invite close relatives, such as brothers and sisters, good neighbors, and set up a few tables at home to have fun first.

3. Do you want sugar

On the morning of New Year's Day, there is a folk custom in Yangzhou. Adults and children have to go out to their neighbors' houses to pay New Year greetings to their elders. At this time, the busiest is the children. They go door to door in droves to ask for sugar, that is, they go door to door to pay New Year greetings to their elders.

They hold out fruit boxes prepared in advance and distribute all kinds of candy, cloud cakes, oranges, apples and so on to the children who come to visit the New Year. They also wish the children "get into college", "get rich" and "get married as soon as possible". The custom of begging for sugar inherits the fine tradition of respecting the old and loving the young of the Chinese nation.

Step 4 climb the door

On New Year's Eve, after dinner, the old Yangzhou lit incense burners and candles to observe the New Year. Adults and children put on new clothes, and the elders began to give lucky money to the younger generation. At this time, adults will close the door and let the children at home grab the latch behind the door and climb up. Because the old-fashioned door is made of wood, there are several cross bars from top to bottom behind the door with a latch switch in the middle. This custom is to climb the door.

5. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Qingming, there is a custom in old Yangzhou-one day without washing or drying. But some exquisite families don't wash and dry the day before Qingming Festival. The day before Qingming Festival is called Meng Qing, and basically they are not washed and dried. Tomb-Sweeping Day is for the souls of the dead to hang clothes. The living should not compete with them for the sun.