What are the Chaoshan customs?

1. Winter Festival: In the old custom, gods and ancestors were sacrificed in the winter festival, and the whole family ate sweet glutinous rice balls to show their reunion and happiness. On another winter solstice, there are ancestors, eating sweet pills and going to the grave to sweep the grave.

2. Fatigue: The worship of land leads to the appearance of the God of Land. Chaozhou people worships the land god in shops, homes and factories.

3. Chaoshan marriage customs: Chaoshan marriage customs paid more attention to the Ming media in the old society. Although the customs vary from place to place, the more consistent expressions and ceremonies are marriage proposal, engagement, hiring, inviting guests and welcoming guests, commonly known as the Six Rites.

4. Chandelier custom: From the eleventh to the eighteenth day of the first month, especially the Lantern Festival, every household in Chaoshan has the custom of putting lights on chandeliers.

5. Going out of the garden: Going out of the garden is a unique rite of passage in Chaoshan area. Every family of boys and girls aged 65,438+05 will prepare three kinds of fruits (chicken, duck and pork) to bid farewell to their parents-in-law (commonly known as parents-in-law) on the Mid-Autumn Festival on the seventh day of the seventh month and the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, indicating that their children can leave the garden when they grow up.

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, when the bright moon rises, women will set up incense tables in the courtyard, at the entrance or on the balcony, place offerings, and wait for the moon mother to be complete. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, pomelo, persimmon, carambola, pomegranate, sweet potato, pineapple, Lin Ling, taro and other fruits and vegetables appeared together, and people dedicated these products to Moon Niang.

Mothers with children at school will also put their newly bought stationery and exercise books on the altar, praying that Mother Moon will bless their children to learn smart, get excellent grades and get ahead in the future.

Yue Bai has placed people's good wishes. The woman in the boudoir is looking forward to marrying a good husband. There is a ballad in Chaoshan: "Moon Goddess on Mid-Autumn Night." Deep worship, reunion. A good husband makes a good marriage. Reunion this year, reunion next year, reunion every year. "