Chaoshan customs 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.