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Are there any special customs or holiday taboos in Jining?

Spring Festival The first day of the first month of the summer calendar is the Spring Festival, also known as the "old calendar year". Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, every household had to light candles, burn incense, "gold ingots" (paper money), set off firecrackers, respect heaven and earth and worship ancestors. They eat jiaozi in the early hours of the morning. Men, women and children, dressed neatly, guard their ancestors, and the younger generation visits each other to pay New Year greetings, first their own families, then their neighbors, ancestors and elders. In the group, they worship each other. From the second day to the fourteenth day, relatives and friends exchange greetings. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, fewer and fewer people invite the Lord, erect statues, kowtow, burn incense and burn "gold ingots" during the Spring Festival. Instead, they are reunited with their families, encouraged by their neighbors, meet relatives and friends, and carry out cultural, recreational and military activities. Lantern Festival is the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, also called "Lantern Festival". In the old society, firecrackers were set off every day, and noodles were steamed at night to burn incense and gold, and immortals were burned. China has the custom of Lantern Festival. Colored lights are hung indoors at the gate, and surface lights are scattered in the corners of grain depots, pits, wells, mills and quadrangles. Twelve lamps were placed on the incense table in the yard in monthly order. Young people put flower tubes and throw fireworks, which is very lively. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the custom of steaming noodles lamps was gradually abandoned. During the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, people have recreational activities, mainly writing and performing modern dramas. In the 1960s, performing model operas became popular. Before the Lantern Festival, the county held a three-day fireworks party, and all townships (towns) held fireworks parties. February 2, that is, February 2, was called "Spring Dragon Festival" and "Dragon Head-Up Day" in ancient times. In the early hours of the morning, farmers use plant ash to form gardens indoors, courtyards, threshing floors and other places. This is called "hoarding". In the center of the "hoard", whole grains were put in order to wish a "bumper harvest". At the same time, every household fried "scorpion claws" (beans). One of the 24 solar terms in Tomb-Sweeping Day. In the morning, every family grows willows and eats wheat kernel soup and white eggs for breakfast. In the morning, people of all ages go to ancestral graves to pay homage, weed and add soil. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, more government officials and school teachers and students visited graves than Tomb-Sweeping Day. Dragon Boat Festival: The fifth day of May is the Dragon Boat Festival, also called "Duanyang Festival". In the Qing Dynasty, during the Dragon Boat Festival, Ai Hu was hung on every door. June 6th is an ancient custom. On this day, wheat gifts are held, farmers prepare fresh fruits for sacrifice, steam steamed bread with new wheat flour, set up incense tables to worship God and pray for a bumper harvest. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, people mostly dried clothes, weighed cows and ate vegetable bags. The seventh day of July is the seventh day of July, which means "begging for cleverness". In the old customs, unmarried women often prepare flowers and fruits every day, begging for wisdom from the weaver girl. Some watch the cowherd and the weaver girl meet under the grape trellis for fun. Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Mid-Autumn Festival". In the old society, people often set up incense tables and offered offerings to the moon to pray for longevity, which was called "offering sacrifices to the moon". After the festival, the whole family sat around the yard to share offerings, talk about the sky and enjoy the moon, commonly known as the "full moon." After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the custom of "full moon" continues to this day. October 1st, commonly known as "Ghost Festival", is a day when many people pay homage to their ancestors and add soil to graves. Laba Festival is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In the morning, millet and red dates are often used to cook porridge, which is called "Laba porridge". Some people also spread Laba porridge on fruit trees for a bumper harvest next year. In ancient times, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month was the day of offering sacrifices to the kitchen god. It is a day to clean the kitchen, burn incense foil and offer offerings (caramel) after sunset, which is called "the god of offering sacrifices to the kitchen". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, no one offered sacrifices to the kitchen god, but the custom of sweeping dust on this day still exists. New Year's Eve, the last day of the twelfth lunar month is New Year's Eve. On this day, every household sweeps the courtyard, puts up Spring Festival couplets and burns paper on the grave. On New Year's Eve, lanterns are hung at the door, candles are lit indoors, incense tables are set up, dishes are set up, and heaven and earth are worshipped and ancestors are worshipped. The whole family has a reunion dinner and gives the children "lucky money"; Knowing that he has been invited to drink "farewell wine"; Old people stay up late, which is called "keeping old". Since the 1980s, people have watched more TV programs, such as the Spring Festival Gala.