Introduction to the Customs of Chinese New Year's Day

1. Zhongyuan Festival, also known as the half of the seventh month, July 14th, Ancestor Festival, Bon Festival and Local Officials' Festival, is a major traditional festival in China. The main customs of the festival include ancestor worship, releasing river lanterns, sacrificing the dead, burning paper ingots, and sacrificing to the earth.

2, local customs:

(1) Hebei: Botou City, Nampi County on July 15 will bring fruit, dried meat, wine, money to the ancestors' graves. They also hold the hemp to go to the field stalks, which is called "building the heart". In Guangping County, fresh food is offered to ancestors on the Mid-Yuan Festival, and fruits and vegetables and steamed goats are prepared for grandchildren, known as "sending goats". On July 15 in Qinghe County, he goes to the grave to offer sacrifices and steams (2) Shanxi: the literati of Yonghe County offer sacrifices to Kuixing on this day. A family of shepherds in Changzi County slaughter sheep on the Mid-Yuan Festival. This is said to increase the production of sheep. The meat is also distributed to relatives, and those whose families are poor and have no sheep use steamed noodles instead of sheep shapes.

Farmers in Yangcheng County make cats, tigers, and grains out of cereal and sacrifice them in the fields, which is called "Hsingtian". People in Mayi County use wheat noodles in the shape of children on New Year's Day. Farmers in Xinxian County hang colorful paper on mountain ridges on the Mid-Yuan Festival.

(3) Henan: local officials in Shangqiu County in the Central Plains hang a paper flag at the door when they offer sacrifices. It is said to protect against insects. Mengjin County in the middle of the festival kite flying. July 15, Xixian painted a gray circle in front of the door and burned the paper inside the circle to pay tribute to the ancestors.

(4) Shandong: Long Island fishermen with wooden boards to make a boat, stick "XX with" note, or drop people monument, put on food, clothes, hats, shoes and socks and other paraphernalia, and then light candles. Married men put the boat into the sea.