Hakka customs

There are mainly La Worship, Stove, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Social Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival. Among festivals, the Spring Festival is the grandest, which is called Hakka Spring Festival and Hakka Year. Hakka folk song festival and Hakka fireworks are all Hakka festivals.

The annual leave begins on the 25th of February/KLOC-0. After the annual leave, farmers stop working in the fields, and those with big gongs and drums can start fighting. The sound of gongs and drums may be heard in every village. Every household began to prepare firewood, cooking oil and Chinese New Year food, and purchased pork, chickens and ducks, fried tofu, steamed rice cakes and preserved rice.

In particular, every household should carry out a general cleaning, cleaning doors, windows, floors, furniture and so on. That is, the so-called "sweeping dust" or "beating coal" ("beating coal" means dust after fire and smoke), men, women and children should have their hair cut, take a bath, put on new or clean clothes and spend the New Year cleanly. In the meantime, neighbors should not scold each other or say unlucky things.

Extended data:

1. Influenced by Confucianism, Hakkas gradually formed cultural and psychological consciousness in the process of moving south, striving for survival and prosperity. Hakka people attach great importance to lottery tickets or omens in their lives.

2. The names of shops and factories run by Hakkas generally use words such as Chang, Long, Xing, Li, Qin, He, Feng, Fa, Sheng and Mao, and their meanings can be imagined.

3. Reading for a way out is a fashion passed down from generation to generation by Hakkas. Many primary school names, such as Qiyou, Yumin, Pei Yi, Wende, Xuan Ming, Peiying, Yusi, Zhongxing and Wenfeng. , all contain the desire to be a useful person. On the first day of school every year, parents should give celery, green onions, garlic, chicken, eggs and so on. To their children who are studying.

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