What are the customs of New Year's Eve in Fuan? The first one is the one that you have to do it!

1, New Year's Eve "to receive the New Year's driving"

New Year's Eve, according to the household donations of a certain amount of money, rice, by the priests on duty to buy three animals (pork, chicken, fish), blessed gift (seaweed, tofu, vermicelli, yellow cauliflower, etc.), tea and wine, joss sticks and candles, money, and patty cake, etc., sent to the village Shinto shrine to make offerings. After making full blessings, families put up spring couplets and seal altars and warehouses with strips of red paper to show that the warehouses are full.

2, the first day of the first day of the Lunar New Year

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, get up early in the morning, adults and children first drink a cup of sweet honey sugar tea, known as "do the New Year's Tea", which means "taste the sweetness". Do New Year's Tea, by the youngest daughter-in-law bubble nectar tea or icing sugar tea in order to honor, but also more than one, called "Timing Tea". We all drank up the sugar tea, but also wish everyone's life every day can be sweet.

3, the first day of breakfast vegetarian

Drinking "do new year's tea", the first meal of the Spring Festival, Fuan people indispensable "colorful" food is "red head vegetable noodles", meaning "Hong Hong", "red head vegetable noodles", "red head vegetable noodles", "red head vegetable noodles", "red head vegetable noodles", "red head vegetable noodles", "red head vegetable noodles", "red head vegetable noodles". It means "Hong (red) Luck in the head". The first time out in the New Year called "travel", to take the auspicious direction, symbolizing the work "good luck" wishes. When you get home, you eat a bowl of mochi soup, which is called "traveling" to take the meaning of "good luck". Eat rice cake, take "step by step to get high (cake)" meaning.

4, the second does not pay tribute to the New Year

Fuan the second day, commonly known as "do white year", "white year day", is to pay tribute to the dead day. The old county records have "two of the day, there is a new funeral home, set up a tribute to extend the hanging" records. The morning of this day, "white year" home gate filial piety lamps hanging high, the hall set up the spirit of the card, hanging couplets, for the pig's head and other offerings, candles and incense burning crying and sacrificing the dead, the whole family mourned.

5, the first five years of driving

"Crackling ......" on the fifth day of the first month, the She countryside on the slopes of a burst of firecrackers. It is the day when people rise at dawn to set off firecrackers and clean up. The firecrackers are set off from the inside out, and the firecrackers are set off as they go out the door. It is said that all unlucky things will be bombarded out, so that they are as far away as possible.

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