What I know about customs and festivals

First: New Year's Customs

Time can really fly by! In the blink of an eye I have spent more than ten New Year's ...... This is not, the New Year is coming again.

On New Year's Eve, our family reunion, eat New Year's Eve dinner, which is our universal custom of New Year's Eve vigil. There are historical records, this custom first began in the North and South Dynasties, and then gradually prevailed, to the early Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong Li Shimin wrote a "New Year's Eve" poem: "Cold resignation from the winter snow, the warmth into the spring wind." Until today, our people are still accustomed to the New Year's Eve night vigil, outside the house when the firecrackers, indoor sitting around to watch TV, the family laughs and laughs ......

It is said that the earliest rice cakes are for the night of the New Year's Eve sacrifices to the gods, the year of the dynasty for the use of the ancestors, and later became the Spring Festival food.

We also have an indispensable delicacy at New Year's _ dumplings. Dumplings are eaten to take the meaning of "the year of the new year", "Zi" for "Zi Shi", and "dumplings" and "dumplings" resonate with the meaning of "joyful reunion", "the year of the new year", "the year of the new year" and "the year of the new year". It means "joyful reunion" and "good luck". But why is it indispensable? One of the reasons is that dumplings are shaped like a Yuanbao, and eating dumplings at Chinese New Year takes the meaning of "inviting wealth into the treasure", and the other is that dumplings have a filling, which makes it easy for people to put all kinds of auspicious things into the filling to send people's prayers for the new year. In some areas, people eat dumplings with some side dishes for good luck. For example, tofu is eaten to symbolize the happiness of the whole family; persimmon cake is eaten to symbolize the success of everything; and three fresh vegetables are eaten to symbolize the prosperity of three suns. Taiwanese people eat fish dumplings, meat dumplings and hairy vegetables to symbolize reunion and wealth.

We have to post the word "Fu" after sweeping the house on the 28th day of the Lunar New Year! The word "Fu" is now interpreted as "happiness", while in the past it meant "good fortune" and "good luck". Whether it is now or in the past, it is a symbol of people's desire for a happy life and their wish for a better future. Folk in order to more fully reflect this yearning and wishes, simply will "Fu" word upside down sticker, said "happiness has been down" "fortune has arrived. "Fu" word upside down in folklore there is a legend. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, used the word "Fu" as a code word to prepare for murder. Kindly Queen Ma in order to eliminate this disaster, the size of the city's families must be in the morning before the door in their own home posted a "Fu" character. Naturally, no one dared to disobey Empress Ma's order, so every house put up the word "Fu" on its door. One of the families could not read or write, so they put the word "Fu" upside down. The next day, the emperor sent people on the street to check, and found that all the families have posted the word "Fu", and there is a family to put the word "Fu" upside down. The emperor was furious at the report and immediately ordered the imperial guards to decapitate that family. Queen Ma saw that things are not good, busy to Zhu Yuan Zhang said: "that family knows that you visit today, deliberately put the word of blessing upside down, this is not the meaning of 'fortune'? When the emperor heard that it made sense, he ordered the release of the family, and a big disaster was finally eliminated. Since then, people have been posting the word "Fu" upside down, one for good luck, and the other in honor of Empress Ma.

During the Spring Festival, people in many areas like to put all kinds of paper cuttings on the windows_-window flowers. Window flowers not only set off a festive atmosphere, but also for people to bring the enjoyment of beauty, decorative, appreciative and practical in one.

Paper cutting is a very popular folk art, has been loved by people for thousands of years, because it is mostly pasted on the window, so people generally call it "window flowers". The content of the window flower is rich and the subject matter is wide-ranging. Since most of the buyers of the window flowers are farmers, there are quite a lot of window flowers showing the life of farmers, such as farming, weaving, fishing, shepherding, feeding pigs, raising chickens, etc. In addition, there are also myths and legends. In addition, there are myths and legends, opera stories and other subjects. In addition, birds, flowers, insects, fish and zodiac images are also very common.

Chinese folk "open door firecrackers" said. The first thing to do in the New Year is to set off firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new.

Firecrackers for China's specialty, its origin is very early, so far has a history of more than two thousand years. Nowadays, we generally believe that setting off firecrackers can create a festive atmosphere and is a kind of entertainment for festivals, which can bring joy and good fortune to people.

The second: and the Spring Festival related customs

"Firecrackers in the sound of a year in addition to the spring breeze to send warmth into the tusu". It's New Year's Eve again ...... New Year's Eve, so lively! People are busy, paste the couplets and hang the New Year's paintings; crackling firecrackers are like frying sesame seeds in the pot . One after another; "popping" fireworks sound like Tiananmen Square held a grand celebration. They passed through the streets and alleys, through the skyscrapers, the dark night illuminated as day, everywhere overflowing with joyful scenes. The Spring Festival is the most important time of the year. What are the customs of the Spring Festival? Hurry to find out! "Wow, it smells good!" I just wanted to go out, but was attracted back by the smell. At a glance, it turned out to be my grandmother cooking wontons, I rushed into the kitchen and asked, "Grandma. Why are we eating wontons today?" Grandma said, "On New Year's Eve, we eat wontons at 10:00 p.m., which is called "dumplings" (饺子), to celebrate the change of the old and the new, and to celebrate the change of the old and the new. It's called "dumplings" (交子), to celebrate the change of the old and the new, and the arrival of the new year! Also, wontons harmonize with the word "won hoard". The bathroom is full of grains!" Oh, I know, I found a custom _ "eating dumplings"! Outside the door, I saw a golden dragon rolling, so it is a dragon dance to pay tribute to the New Year! Look, the golden dragon in the hands of the dragon dancers constantly changing shape: rolling dragon, coiled dragon, the dragon body with the head of the ups and downs, wagging head and tail beautiful! Oh, how can I forget such an important custom? I found another custom _ "dragon dance".

Pinching sugar man child is a traditional folk skills, has rarely seen. This thing is not only fun to look at, after playing can also eat, the general children see all like, because usually can not see, once seen on the refused to go, either pestering adults to buy is to run back to ask for money, there is no money on the side of the eye around the finger in the mouth, staring at the sugar is how to become out of the people. At this time, the master of the sugar man with a small shovel to take out a little sugar, put on the talcum powdered hand rubbing, quickly pinch out the characters to do the general shape, and then put on the talcum powder coated wooden mold, and then blow hard, a little while later to open the wooden mold, the desired sugar man will come out. In the evening, the sky, which was originally silent, suddenly became bright and lively. A tail of firelight rushed up to the sky, the roaring sound, a gorgeous, charming flowers bloomed in the night. The sound of firecrackers and dragons in all directions was exciting. Families gathered around the table to eat a sumptuous dinner. A warm, sweet feeling swept through us all. In this red-hot New Year, we were very happy to eat, play and have fun.

Third: Interesting Customs

This summer vacation, I traveled to Guilin, Guangxi with my mom, dad and brother. During the tour, I found that the Yao people in Guilin, Guangxi have a lot of very interesting customs.

Students, do you know! If you go to the Yao people one day to play, see a little girl wearing a beautiful silver collar around her neck, and this silver collar outsiders can not touch, which means she is not married. Because each Yao girl was born, parents will order for her to do this silver collar for her to wear, only to her wedding day to his husband for the solution down. So, if you see no silver collar on the neck, it means she has been married.

If you want to ask a Yao girl how old she is, you should ask: "How long has your family drowned in sour fish" and she will tell you how long she has been drowning, and that is her age. If you say, "How old are you?" She would ignore you. Originally, they were born from the day, her parents must go to the street to buy a big fish drowning, until her wedding day, the fish can be taken out to do to her uncle to eat, no one else can eat.

If you are a young man, one day you go to the Yao tribe to play, you can be la! If a girl stepped on your foot, you must not be angry also put her foot. Because, she put your foot is to indicate that she likes you, put the more heavy shows that she is more like you. If you step on her too, it means you like her too and agree to marry her, then her family will invite all the elders of the village to betroth her, and you won't be able to leave! Be careful! What if a young man has a crush on a girl? He will sing under the bamboo floor where the girl lives at night, and if the girl likes him, she will duet with him, and if the girl doesn't like her, she will sprinkle a pot of cold water down, and then he will leave in a good mood.

Students, you say the Yao customs interesting?

Fourth: Hometown Customs

My hometown is in Sichuan, where the customs of various festivals are different from other places!

The Spring Festival is the most solemn and lively traditional festival in China, commonly known as "New Year". The festival is held from the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. The majority of urban and rural areas before the festival began to prepare for the New Year's goods, kill pigs, sheep, rabbits, etc., the production of preserved meat, food shopping, new clothes, New Year's Eve, everyone dressed, hanging New Year's paintings, sticker couplets, New Year's Eve to eat New Year's Eve dinner, the first two, three began to go to relatives to pay tribute to New Year's Eve, ancestor worship and other activities. This is our Sichuan custom! Qingming Festival in mid-February of the year, around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar, mainly excursions, picnics; some of the ancestors on the tomb sweeping and other activities. This customary activity is also more common in urban and rural areas. This is our Sichuan customs! Yi Torch Festival: The Torch Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Yi people in Liangshan, Sichuan. The time is the 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year, families drink wine, eat lumps of meat, and kill livestock to sacrifice ancestors. People wear new clothes and carry out cultural and sports activities with national characteristics. Men take part in bullfighting, sheep, chicken, horse racing and wrestling; women sing, play the mouth string and moon zither. At night the torch in front of the house wandering around; the third night in groups holding torches all over the mountains and fields, the fire light, and then concentrated in one place to light a bonfire, playing the torch, drinking, singing and dancing, and continue to play until the end of the daybreak. This is our Sichuan custom! Our Sichuan customs are all very special, I love my hometown!

Fifth: the first day of the first month of the New Year to pay homage to the New Year / account for the year / gather wealth

Spring Festival is commonly known as "New Year's Day", originally known as "New Year's Day", the Sui dynasty Du Taiqing in the "Five Candles Treasure Dictionary", said: "The first month for the end of the month, the first day for the first day, also cloud the first day, also cloud the first day." The original meaning of "Yuan" is "head", which is later extended to "beginning", because this day is the first day of the year, the first day of spring, the first day of the first month, so it is called the "Sanyuan". "Sanyuan"; because this day is still the age of the dynasty, the month of the dynasty, the day of the dynasty, so also known as "three dynasties"; and because it is the first day of the first solstice, so it is also known as the "first solstice".

China is an ancient multi-ethnic country. Different historical periods of different ethnic groups have been based on their own cultural traditions and customs to determine their own New Year's Day, that is, changed to "Shosuo", change the first day of the first month of the time. Zhuanxu Emperor and the Xia Dynasty to the first month of Bengchun for the yuan, that is, the use of the summer calendar Jianyin, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar for the New Year's Day; the Shang Dynasty to use the Yin Calendar, the Yin Calendar Jianshou, the first day of December of the lunar calendar for the New Year's Day; the Zhou Dynasty to use the Zhou Calendar, the Zhou Calendar into the son of the first day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar as the New Year's Day; the Qin Dynasty to use the Qin Calendar, the Qin Calendar Jianhai, the first day of the lunar calendar for the New Year's Day; the pre-Xihan period still uses the Qin Calendar, the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the first year of the first year of the first year of the first year of the first month of the first month of the first month of the Han Emperor Tai Chou (104 years AD) In the early Western Han Dynasty, the Qin Calendar was still used, but in the first year of the first lunar month (104 A.D.), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty switched to the Taichu Calendar created by Sima Qian and Luo Xia-tei, and then the Xia Calendar was reintroduced, with the first day of the first lunar month as New Year's Day. Afterwards, except for Wang Mang and Wei Mingdi, who once changed to the Yin calendar of Jianchou, and Tang Wu Hou and Su Zong, who changed to the Zhou calendar of Jianzi, all dynasties used the summer calendar until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

The Xinhai Revolution overthrew the imperial system, Sun Yat-sen from Shanghai to Nanjing the day before the inauguration of the Nanjing Senate decided to change to the solar calendar, and the Republic of China chronology. However, the lunar calendar has been used for a long time, and is conducive to the arrangement of agricultural affairs, therefore, the people still prefer the lunar calendar.

Sixth: the customs and folklore of my hometown

There are some customs in my hometown, no matter who can not change.

Today, I would like to introduce some customs of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang.

The Uyghur people are characterized by their flower hats. They are very particular about wearing flower hats. Different ages and different occasions require them to wear different flower hats. The male elderly generally wear Batam flower hat and Tulufan flower and so on. Batam flower hat is a pattern with Batam nuclear deformation and add a pattern, its pattern gesture rich and diverse, mostly white flowers on a black background, the feeling of solemnity, simple, generous. Tulufan flower cap is characterized by flower big bottom empty small, and the color is red and bright, gorgeous. Girls, women are very like and then the flower cap, that is, gold and silver wire embroidered flower cap, the embroidered flowers are more three-dimensional, glittering in the sun, giving a person a sense of luxury and dignity. Ili flower cap, is popular in the Ili region of a generous, elegant, little boys, little girls like flower cap. Five-petal flower cap, Uyghur language called "white Xitaradopa". The general flower cap is sewn with four petals, but this kind of flower cap has one more petal than the general flower cap, and the cap is smaller and the pattern is simpler. 来自：作文大全 Uyghur people live in houses that are generally built of mud. Lighted by skylights, the houses have fireplaces and flat roofs for drying fruits and grains. The diet is based on pasta, corn and rice. Daily food includes: scones, melons, noodles, grabs, tea and milk.

Uyghur is a hospitable people who can sing and dance well, I like Xinjiang Uyghur.

Seventh: What I Know About Dragon Boat Festival

The customs and origins of the Dragon Boat Festival were told to me by my father, and the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year is the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival in China. On this day, people should insert "five ends": calamus, mugwort, pomegranate flowers, garlic and dragon boat flowers. Dragon Boat Festival is also known as heavy five, many customs are also related to the "five", such as red, yellow, blue, white and black five colors of silk thread tied around the neck, wrists and ankles of children, known as the "long-life wisp"; the South over the Dragon Boat Festival to eat "five yellow": yellow fish, cucumber, xionghuang wine and dumplings wrapped with yellow bean petals. (I only remember the four yellow) scholars Wen Yiduo that the Dragon Boat Festival is four or five thousand years ago, the southern ethnic minorities to commemorate the Dragon God's festival. There is also a poignant legend about the Dragon Boat Festival, in which a filial daughter, Cao E, threw herself into the river to save her father. Cao E is the Eastern Han Dynasty Shangyu people, when Cao E was only fourteen years old, his father drowned in the river, many days do not see the body of the surface, Cao E along the river side of the weeping side to look for, never see the body of his father, seventeen days later, that is, on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, she threw herself into the river to look for, five days later, she held out the body of his father, was rumored to be a myth! Every year on Dragon Boat Festival I can eat the fragrant dumplings, will sing a children's song "May 5, is the Dragon Boat Festival, inserted wormwood, wear scented bags, eat dumplings, sprinkle sugar, dragon boat launching joyful."