What are the customs in Yangzhou

Customs in Yangzhou are funeral customs, warming wine, climbing the door, Qingming Festival, to sugar and other customs.

1, funeral customs

the sick will breathe, the son in turn kneeling down to kowtow to the end, while lighting the head and foot lamps, cooking a small bowl of half-cooked rice for the feet (known as the "inverted bowl"), and then buy a cloth broken filial piety, the deceased, the younger generation of all wearing filial piety.

2, warming wine

The night before the wedding day is to do warming wine, invited on the very close relatives such as siblings and good neighbors around the neighborhood, set up a few tables in the house, the first lively up.

3, to sugar

The first morning of the New Year, Yangzhou folk adults and children go out to the surrounding neighborhood home to the elders of the New Year's custom, this time the busiest is the children, they are in groups to go from door to door to sugar, that is, from door to door to the elders of the New Year's.

They are the most busy children, they go from door to door to sugar, that is, door to door to go to the elders of the New Year.

They hold out the fruit box prepared in advance to the children to come to pay New Year's greetings to the distribution of various colors of candy, cloud cake, oranges, apples, etc., but also wishing the children to "go to college", "wealth and prosperity", "early to marry Mamma! "and so on. To sugar this custom is inherited by the Chinese people to honor the fine tradition of loving the young.

4, climb the door

The night of the New Year's Eve, after dinner, the old Yangzhou to point on the incense burner candles to keep the New Year's Eve, adults and children put on new clothes, the elders began to give the younger generation to send the New Year's money. At this time, adults will close the door, so that small children at home to grab the latch behind the door to climb up, because the old-fashioned door is wooden, the door from top to bottom behind a few horizontal wood, the center and the latch switch, this custom is to climb the door.

5, Qingming Festival

Qingming, the old Yangzhou has a custom - a day does not wash the sun, however, some of the family, in the day before the Qingming does not wash the sun, the day before the Qingming is called Qingming, basically do not wash the sun. Qingming this day is to be reserved exclusively for the souls of the dead sun clothes, the living do not and they grab the sun.