What folk customs or traditional cultures are there in Jiangsu?

Folk farming and solar terms customs in Jiangsu province carry out farming and arrange life according to the twenty-four solar terms. For example, "spring hits six or nine heads, and cows are full of fields", and it is cloudy on the first day of the New Year's Day. "When the year is old, the dark clouds are bald, and the high and low fields are cooked together." At the beginning of spring, people will hold activities such as exploring spring, picking spring, welcoming spring, playing spring, welcoming spring and "Spring Cattle Map". In summer, people who grow up in summer eat supplements and weigh themselves. In autumn, "thunder hits the autumn head and everything declines" and "clouds cover the sun on August 15, and the rain will clear up next year". In the cold winter, it is mainly the field management of "crops should be harvested, the land should be cultivated in winter" and "the grass beside the field should be clear in winter, with more fertilizer and less pests in the coming year". The solstice in winter is as big as a year. People eat rice cakes, wrap jiaozi, wear new clothes and offer sacrifices to their ancestors. The ritual custom of farming is to sow rice around Tomb-Sweeping Day, choose time and experienced old male farmers, and make speeches to please others. On the first day of transplanting, it was called "opening the seedling door". In addition to a set of procedures, but also sacrifice to the land god. If there is no rain, go to the Chenghuang Temple to pray for rain. In order to control pests and diseases, the torch was thrown away in the middle of the first month. If there are pests in Taihu Lake, put a broom in the field, which is called "sweeping insects", or invite General Liu Mengchun to go out for a cruise. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, there will be a Land Fair, a Young Seedling Fair, a Rice Flower Fair and a Qingfeng Fair.

Clothing custom Suzhou women like to wear Chinese-style big-breasted and double-breasted shirts in their early days. They often use blue and black fabrics as fabrics and wear long black skirts or waist bags as skirts. I like Baotou, Baotou and waist pocket are very particular. Baotou is often made of indigo cloth, with floral piping on both edges and white or black cloth on both corners. Baotou is embroidered with colorful patterns. There are fine pleats on both sides of the waist bag, tassels on the belt and five-color patterns embroidered on the waist bag. Fishermen in Taihu Lake like to wear double-breasted plaid homespun shirts.

The construction process of residential custom-made houses is very auspicious, from the selection of land, materials, dates, columns and beams to the completion celebration, all in accordance with the traditional mattress-laying method. If you choose a place, please ask the "Yin and Yang Master" to set the place and direction with the eight diagrams. On the third day of the first month, the forest was chosen as the pillar on the mountain, and the lower part was surrounded by red paper to worship the mountain god. When logging, the tree can't directly fall to the ground, nor is it stripped on the mountain. No crossing. Choose an auspicious day to board the beam, put a cross-section on the beam, put couplets on the pillars on both sides, shout "Good luck on the beam" when boarding the beam, set off firecrackers, sing "Song of the beam", and throw steamed buns and red dates down after boarding the beam. After the house is built, some pictures are often drawn on the walls and doors to ward off evil spirits, and some brick gatehouses engraved with historical stories and plant patterns will be built.