Shaanxi Spring Festival custom

The customs of Shaanxi Spring Festival are: grabbing incense, running mules, turning nine songs, beating drums to welcome the spring and dancing fire.

1, grab the first column of incense

It is natural to worship ancestors at the beginning of the new year, and this tradition is also highly valued in Xifu. Therefore, on New Year's Day, grabbing incense is a custom that many villages attach great importance to. Snatching incense is to see who goes to worship ancestors first. Most people get up at two or three o'clock to worship ancestors.

Step 2 drive a mule car

Running mule carts is the custom of Weinan ancestors to "pray for a good year" and celebrate the harvest. Mule teams will be organized on holidays or when there are weddings, funerals, full moons, birthdays and other festive activities, which are very lively.

3. Go to Jiuqu

This folk activity is usually held around New Year's Eve. Local villagers set up nine Yellow River arrays in the form of colored lights in the open space next to the village. Local villagers shuttled through a sea of colorful lights according to the rules, laughing and laughing, and their faces were full of infinite yearning for a better life.

4. Wardrums for Spring Festival

Hukou Drum originated from the majestic Hukou Waterfall and spread in Hukou Town along the Yellow River in Yichuan County. Young people in northern Shaanxi are drumming deafening drums, prancing and dancing. Shouts, gongs and drums complement the roaring Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River, and man and nature are integrated.

5, social fire dance

Social fire is a special kind of social fire, which takes the dramatic role standing on the high platform beam as the performance form. In the past, it was carried by people (now it is mostly carried by vehicles). It brings together the essence of various folk social fires, which is unique to the urban and rural areas of Yangxian County in southern Shaanxi and has a history of 300 years.