Luzhou folk custom

Luzhou folks call the Spring Festival Chinese New Year, which generally lasts about six days from New Year's Eve to the fifth day of the first month. On New Year's Eve, people often put up Spring Festival couplets, hang colored lights, and clean rooms and courtyards to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. On New Year's Eve, every household sets off firecrackers and gets together to eat "New Year's Eve". "Have a meal? Prepare rich wine and food, worship ancestors before meals, and give lucky money to children after meals; Is the business "blocked"? " To the god of wealth? ; Farmers burn muck, smoky eagles, native silkworms, and fruit trees with red paper. And call it "Hello New Year's Eve?" . Then close the door (called Shoutiankan in the countryside). Since the mid-1980s, many families have watched CCTV Spring Festival Gala to celebrate New Year's Eve.

From the first day to the fifth day, "burning incense" and setting off firecrackers "next year" will start from the early morning of the first day. You must eat glutinous rice balls in the morning, which is also called "grabbing gold ingots". Each bowl has four, six, eight and twelve, which means "getting rich in four seasons", "getting rich in June" and "getting rich every month". Every acquaintance who leaves home will pay New Year greetings to each other and say good wishes. Noodle is usually served for lunch, and vegetarian dishes "red rape" and "green vegetables" are usually prepared for dinner, which means "wealth" and "clarity". The sixth day of the sixth lunar month and the fifth lunar month have passed, and all walks of life do their own things. Lantern Festival is on the fifteenth day of the first month. The main activities in the evening are dragon lantern dancing, dragon burning and lion dancing.

In other words, you must cook more rice on New Year's Eve. Here I will introduce its meaning in detail, especially in rural areas, where they attach the most importance to this custom. Why do you have to cook more meals on New Year's Eve? It means that the crops planted in the previous year can be eaten until the next year, so that future generations can have more food every year. In addition, on New Year's Eve, the altar containing rice at home must be filled with rice, which shows that by the end of the year, rice will still belong to Man Cang, and their efforts have been richly rewarded.

No matter what happens on the first day of the first month, you can't sweep the floor. First, you swept away the wealth. Second, if you sweep the floor on the first day, there will be endless things to do this year. Of course, this is just a custom. This custom seems to have almost died out in the late 1970s. Of course, I don't know how many people continue these customs. Anyway, I have been doing it according to these customs. I hope that future generations can continue these customs and it will be better to pass them on, because this is an intangible cultural heritage left by the people after all.