What are the customs of Yangzhou?

Yangzhou customs are "climb the door", "walk the big game", asking for sugar, the next year Chen and other customs and habits.

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1, climb the door

The night of the New Year's Eve, after dinner, the old Yangzhou to light incense burners and candles to observe the New Year, adults and children to put on new clothes, the elders began to give the younger generation of 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, behind the door from top to bottom there are a few horizontal logs, and the middle of the latch switch, this custom is to climb the door.

Elderly people say that the small man thirty nights to climb the door can grow long, climb fast to grow fast, climb high to grow high. More children's home children also started each other race, both exercise the body, but also increased the festive atmosphere.

2, go big game

Thirty night, the elders are going to put the cloud cake, apples, oranges, etc. at the head of everyone's bed for the first morning of the new year to get up and eat, eat cloud cake to take the meaning of "high cool", eat apples to take the meaning of "peace and security! "These customs are found in many parts of the country, but eating oranges has a unique Yangzhou symbol.

Because in Yangzhou dialect, luck is called "bureau gas", lucky is called "go bureau", orange "orange" and bureau gas "bureau" harmonized, so gift

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 door to door to sugar, that is, go door to door to the elders of the New Year.

The elders looked at the children with young faces and listened to the children shouting "big mom," "big," "dad," "grandma," and in a "big," "big," "dad," "grandma! ", in a "congratulations on wealth" "congratulations on good health, mental strength" blessings, they took out the pre-prepared fruit box to come to pay New Year's visit to the children to distribute a variety of candies, cakes, oranges, apples, etc., but also wishing The children "go to college", "wealth and prosperity", "early marriage Mamma" and so on. To sugar this custom is inherited by the Chinese people to honor the fine tradition of loving the young.

4, the next year Chen

The first morning of the New Year to eat round and noodles, round meaning reunion, noodles meaning long, the first day of the New Year at noon is not a new meal, but the leftovers of the thirty night out of the leftovers and eat it again, which is called "the next year Chen", according to the old man that the first day of the New Year to the fifth of this five days! The year in the middle of the year can not make new meals, symbolizing the annual food surplus.

5, sweeping to gather wealth

The first day of the year folk do not make Xing sweeping, the second day of the first month before you can sweep, this day sweeping also has to pay attention to: broom to sweep from the gate to the house, rather than the usual dust and garbage towards the door, the second day of the year, so that sweeping is to be the first day of the year to gather together the wealth of the family sweeping, first piled up in a place and then only to be swept out.