Does anyone know what customs Hunan has? Like festivals or ordinary life or something.

There are many traditional festivals in Hunan with various forms of expression. Traditional festivals are common in all ethnic groups and regions, including New Year, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, June 6th and Mid-Autumn Festival, and many distinctive festivals.

Festival. The 24th of the twelfth lunar month (from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month in some areas and Tujia people) to the 30th of the twelfth lunar month is a traditional festival that all parts of southern Hunan attach great importance to. According to legend, the 24th is the day when Kitchen God went to heaven. It is an old custom to prepare sacrificial fruit for the stove on the evening of 23rd, and ask the kitchen god to say more nice things when playing in the sky. On the 24th, the family got together for the "off-year" and cleaned the stadium on the 28th. The most solemn occasion is the New Year's Eve of the twelfth lunar month, and the wanderers go back to their hometown and have a reunion dinner, which is called New Year's Eve. The New Year's Eve dinner is very rich, with chicken, duck, fish, eggs and vegetables, full of cups and lamps, but many places still retain traditional and unique recipes. Fish is an indispensable dish for every household, which means "more than one year"; Chenzhou people like to eat sour radish and pork liver and intestines, which symbolizes that people should have liver and intestines; Hongjiang area likes to eat spring powder, which is covered with fish, meat, chicken, duck, hoof flower and ginger to show yes-men. Some people also have a bowl of four-season onion mixed with tofu, which means "four distinct seasons, good luck and good luck". On New Year's Eve, there is a folk custom, that is, watching the New Year's Eve, and the whole family sitting around the fire to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Many places have the habit of burning wood for fire, and take the homonym of "wealth head", hoping for good luck in the New Year.

Spring Festival. Old customs generally last from the first day of the first month to the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. When the rooster crows on the first day of Xinzheng, firecrackers are set off in front of the hall, which is called "opening the door" and "opening the door". Lighting candles to worship heaven, earth and ancestors, and then going out to worship heaven and five parties, called "going out" or "going out" festivals are even more colorful, and the most lively is playing dragon lanterns. There are many kinds of dragon lanterns, including long dragon, old dragon, young dragon, ao dragon and grass dragon. Playing with dragon lanterns usually means turning off the lights on the fifth day, turning off the lights on the fifteenth day, marching between streets and alleys, and dancing when there are many people. In Chenxi area of western Hunan, some people play with dragon lanterns until the 30th day of the first month, and they will visit dozens of villages with the same surname around them, commonly known as "player lanterns". On the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, all families will eat Yuanxiao to show their reunion and harmony.

On the morning of the first day of the first month of the first month, we will eat fried rice cakes, pay New Year greetings to our neighbors, pay New Year greetings to our married daughters on the second day of the first month, and have five packages of jiaozi and fifteen yuan dumplings on the fifth day of May.

Boiled eggs with shepherd's purse on March 3rd.

On the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May, the dumplings are stuffed with mugwort leaves and boiled with mugwort leaves to take a bath. The son-in-law sent jiaozi to the Yue family. Shao Dong also called the fifth day of May Dragon Boat Festival and the fifteenth day of May Dragon Boat Festival. Dumplings are also very popular, but not as popular as Dragon Boat Festival.

There is a new custom of early rice harvesting in June, which is rare now.

On the seventh day of July, a child worships Xiangqiao as his mother, which is called Qiaomu. It is said that such children can thrive. The Mid-Autumn Festival begins around July 10, and firecrackers are set off to burn paper money to welcome the deceased ancestors, and 14 firecrackers are set off to burn paper money to send them away. During the period, paper is burned every day, and cooked mung beans are used as stuffing to make glutinous rice Baba, which is called Tung Leaf Baba.

Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th.

Double Ninth Festival in September, just to respect the elderly.

1February 24th is called off-year, and everyone cleans and celebrates. After the off-year, I began to kill pigs. It is said that all the dead after off-year were mistaken for pigs by Yan, so the funeral cheats were not issued until the fifth day of the following year. On New Year's Eve, the whole family is reunited, and in the countryside, the New Year is celebrated at noon.

In addition, the Shaoyang custom banquet was held at noon. There are many different customs in Yueyang, Hunan. For example, there are several cities and counties in Yueyang. It can be said that every place has different customs. You must be a foreigner. But you are the son-in-law of Yueyang, right? Hehe, actually, Chinese New Year is very simple. Have fun. Generally, whether you know it or not, when people tell you to pay a New Year call, you should at least give back a gift. There is another way to wrap red envelopes for children on New Year's Eve, and that is MIMI. How much you want to pack depends on your own mind. The most important thing is that old people should never say the word "death" during the New Year, otherwise others will feel unlucky. Just say more auspicious words.