Introduction of tourism customs in Wuzhen

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. From the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, people open doors to set off firecrackers and burn incense to worship the gods, which is called "receiving heaven". Then they worship their ancestors, the Hall of Advanced Learning, relatives and friends, and celebrate the New Year, which is collectively called "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.

Yuanxiao takes the bridge

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, commonly known as "the fifth day of the first month". Wuzhen people have the custom of walking bridges, and they have to walk ten bridges on the road at night. The route cannot be repeated. This custom originated from a popular activity in the old society called "Walking Ten Bridges" or "Eliminating All Diseases". At that time, after the women were dressed neatly, they each walked in teams with a crock that usually decocted medicine. When crossing the bridge, they threw the crock into the river, thinking that this would ensure that there would be no diseases and disasters in the new year.

Tomb-Sweeping Day went for a spring outing.

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 Wuzhen, there are many customs related to sericulture. The night before, on Qingming night, we made green balls, wrapped zongzi and offered sacrifices to the "White Tiger". We draw bows and arrows with lime in front of the door, pray for silkworms, cook snails and pick snails with needles, which is called "picking green". In Tomb-Sweeping Day, sericulture farmers from four towns went to Putin Temple to burn incense and pray, and named it "Shi Xiang".

Eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival.

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Mid-Yuan 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, hung a picture of Zhong Kui, pasted the symbol of Shi Tian, hung mugwort leaves, calamus, peach branches and garlic in front of the door to ward off evil spirits, ate yellow croaker and drank realgar wine, and even snakes and insects fought 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.