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The customs of Yangzhou

The folk customs of the ancient city of Yangzhou are full of local characteristics, pure and elegant, and intoxicating. If you observe the people's customs, you will have fun. If you visit Yangzhou at the right time, please do as the Romans do.

The folk customs of the ancient city of Yangzhou are full of local characteristics, pure and elegant, and intoxicating. If you observe the people's customs, you will have fun. If you visit Yangzhou at the right time, please do as the Romans do.

Weiyang Lantern Festival-"Looking at Jiangnan with a Hundred Words" says: "Yangzhou is good, Lantern Festival. The crimson wax is full of family banquets, the golden dragon is downtown, and the flower drums are on stilts. " On the 13th day of the first lunar month, the lantern festival is called Lantern Festival. The annual traditional Weiyang Lantern Festival was held at this time. Yangzhou flower-tying lantern integrates the skills of color-tying, pasting, poetry, painting and calligraphy, weaving, paper-cutting and embroidery. There are many styles of lamps, such as simple and popular Yuanbao lamp, watermelon lamp, rabbit lamp, toad lamp, lotus lamp ... complicated craft boat lamp, dragon lamp, birthday lamp, Kirin lamp ... and Yangzhou specialty glass lamp. Weiyang Lantern Festival is also combined with solve riddles on the lanterns, which is called lantern riddle. The custom in Yangzhou is to eat jiaozi on the 13th and 15th nights and noodles on the 18th night, commonly known as "jiaozi puts lanterns and noodles put lights on, and the New Year is celebrated on the 15th day of the first month."

February 2 nd-the dragon looks up in February, the weather is getting warmer, the spring is budding, and spring ploughing is about to begin. Yangzhou folk custom, the married daughter takes her children back to her mother's house on the second day of February. Therefore, there is a saying in Yangzhou that "on February 2, the dragon rises, and every family brings a live monkey (grandson)".

Baihua Birthday-also known as Huachao, February 12th of the lunar calendar is Baihua Birthday. Yangzhou is a custom. During the Flower Dynasty, red cloth strips were tied on the branches every day, which was called hanging red to pray for the prosperity and beauty of flowers.

March 3-March 3 is also a traditional outing day. There is a folk saying that "shepherd's purse flowers compete for peony on March 3". Pick a pick, pick shepherd's purse, wrap jiaozi, or wrap jiaozi, all of which are especially delicious. In addition, March 3rd is the party day of Jiangdu Shenxian Temple.

Changxia tried something new-Xia Zhishi was established, and the fruits and vegetables planted in the early days matured and put on the market. Born and raised in Yangzhou, people tasted "new" in summer, including new bamboo shoots, green beans, cherries, flowering radishes, shad or salted duck eggs. In addition, Yangzhou people also have the habit of calling themselves in the summer and eating tea eggs and mung bean cakes. It is said that eating tea eggs on this day can keep him from heatstroke in summer.

Dragon Boat Festival-commonly known as "May Festival" in Yangzhou, is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. A few days before May Day, every household was busy making zongzi. Zongzi is made by wrapping glutinous rice with fresh reed leaves (commonly known as Zongluo), and some are mixed with broad bean petals, red beans, red dates, fresh meat, bacon, sausages and ham. Which ones are more delicious. On this day, Yangzhou people take a bath with herbal water, eat "Twelve Red" and drink realgar wine for lunch, smoke with wormwood indoors, insert Aipu to ward off evil spirits and row dragon boats.

Sunbathing on June 6-There is a saying in Yangzhou that "on June 6, every family basks in red and green". This custom is no longer limited to the sixth day of June. As long as you enter the dog days, you can dry your clothes, so it is also called "sunbathing". "Red and green" refers to brightly colored clothes. On June 6th, Yangzhou also had the habit of eating jiaozi, saying that eating jiaozi on this day would not lead to summer.

June 19th Guanyin Club-According to legend, June 19th of the lunar calendar is the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Men and women who believe in Buddhism in four townships and eight towns of Yangzhou have to rush to Guanyin Mountain to burn incense. People are like a tidal wave, and they are very lively. On the way up the mountain, some particularly devout believers tied paper to their knees and knocked their heads after three steps. June 19 was a sunny day, but people began to burn incense on the first day of June and did not finish burning incense until after June 20.

Begging for Qiao Festival-the seventh day of July, according to legend, is the day when cowherd and weaver girl meet. Yangzhou people have the custom of seeing clever clouds on the seventh day of July and threading needles under the moon. In the past, children born on the seventh day of July were usually named Qiao.