How about Nanxun in Huzhou?

Nanxun Town, belonging to Nanxun District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, is located in the hinterland of China Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration and the south bank of Taihu Lake. It is the east gate of Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province and the seat of Nanxun District Committee of Huzhou City. The ancient town has a long history, more than 7000 years. It is a famous "land of plenty", "house of silk" and "state of culture" in the south of the Yangtze River. 199 1 was listed as the first historical and cultural city in Zhejiang province 15. The town is not only rich in human resources, developed transportation, but also a variety of Chinese and Western architecture. Now it has been promoted to "Nanxun Town Scenic Area", a national 5A-level tourist attraction, and it is also the only national 5A-level tourist attraction in Huzhou. Nanxun Town has a long history and unique culture, and enjoys many reputations, such as "Top Ten Charming Towns in China", "Famous Historical and Cultural Towns in China", "National Health Town", "China Lake Pen Capital", "the most concentrated area of ancient bridges in China" and "the first of six ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River".

Happy New Year, the first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival, formerly known as "Chinese New Year", which is the most solemn traditional festival. The day before was called New Year's Eve, commonly known as "New Year's Eve", and the whole family got together to eat "New Year's Eve". The bride presented shoes to her well-dressed elders and named them "Ci". The elders gave the bride and children lucky money and named it "Lucky Money". That night, there were activities, such as Bailly and meeting with Kitchen God. Starting from the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, people open doors, set off firecrackers and set off fireworks, burn incense and worship the gods, which is called "receiving heaven", and then worship their ancestors, Gao Xuedian, relatives and friends, and celebrate the New Year, which is collectively called "Chinese New Year". Modern times have been gradually simplified, and they no longer bow down. On the first day, I didn't have any guests, so I went out to "be happy with God". The next day, relatives and friends exchanged visits until the Lantern Festival.

Nanxun wedding custom, whenever Nanxun people get married, because the local people have made a fortune in the silk industry, every household will take silk as a wedding ceremony. Drink homemade mulberry wine, rice wine and the like at the wedding.

Lantern Festival takes the bridge, and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, commonly known as "the first half of the first month". Nanxun people have families to eat jiaozi, which means reunion. There are also various entertainment parks where interesting activities such as lantern riddles are held.

Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms, which merged with the Cold Food Festival after the Tang Dynasty. Sacrificing ancestors to sweep graves, washing hair and arranging flowers, and enjoying flowers in spring are everywhere. In Nanxun, there are many customs related to sericulture. The night before, on Qingming night, we made green balls, wrapped zongzi and worshipped the "White Tiger". Draw a bow and arrow with lime in front of the door to pray for silkworms to cook snails, and pick snails with needles, which is called "picking green".

Eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival. Every family makes zongzi, and friends and relatives give gifts to each other. According to legend, this custom originated from the commemoration of Qu Yuan, and the ancients regarded "heavy five" as an "evil day" with "poisonous gas and ghosts". So, hang a picture of Zhong Kui, stick a Shi Tian symbol, hang mugwort, calamus, peach branches and garlic in front of the door to ward off evil spirits, eat yellow croaker and drink realgar wine, and even fight poison with poison. Children wear tiger-shaped clothes, and women cut chestnuts to store realgar to show their strength. At noon, Cang Shu, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Carapax Trionycis and Olibanum are used to "smoke mosquitoes", realgar wine is sprayed in the corner, and quicklime water is sprinkled to repel insects, all of which have the nature of weeding.

On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, it is a hot summer day. There is a saying in Nanxun that "June 6th, duck eggs are cooked". This is a good time to expose insects and molds. Song dynasty was once designated as "the season of celestial pole". The reason is a dream carefully fabricated by Emperor Zhao Huan. Later generations felt bored, so they moved the traditional "book drying day" to the seventh day of July, where scholars dried books, monks and nuns in temples dried scrolls, and ordinary people dried clothes. It is a custom to take a bath in the river with cats and dogs every day. It is said that it can avoid lice and moths.

The Central Plains River Lantern Festival is held on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, and Nanxun is commonly known as "July and a half". On that day, Taoist temples offered prayers and fasted, Buddhist temples put "bonsai", Buddhism and Taoism held ceremonies, and people offered sacrifices to their ancestors, so it was also called "Ghost Festival". After the Southern Song Dynasty, the custom of entering the river lanterns in the Mid-Autumn Festival became popular. Make all kinds of flower-shaped lanterns with paper paste, light candles inside, support wooden boards, or paste them into boat shapes with all kinds of colored paper, light a little rush oil, and put them on boats near the water or in the river at night. Because of this, Buddhists "do good deeds", which Taoism calls "ghosts lead the way". -Information from the town newspaper.