Jiangmen City people Spring Festival New Year's Day customs Daquan, the old Jiangmen City people Spring Festival New Year's Day traditional customs

Jiangmen City people Spring Festival New Year's custom book, the old Jiangmen City people Spring Festival New Year's traditional customs

The year 28 wash sloppy

This is a mantra that has been passed down to the present day, households to engage in sanitation, generally choose to the year 28, it is said that because this day is the day the Zaojun up to the sky to report on the Jade Emperor a year of life on earth. Each family then agreed to carry out a thorough cleaning, so that Zaojun see in the eyes and remember in the heart. This is the origin of the saying, "On the 28th day of the new year, wash the dirt".

Year 29 frying pile oil angle

This is the author's favorite childhood handicraft. Early in the morning, I could smell the aroma of rice, sizzling fried crispy immediately back to God. It turned out to be the mother in the steamed patty cake, fried oil angle, do frying pile. Many of the older generation said that most of the families in Jiangmen, especially in rural areas, have the habit of deep-frying fried piles and oil horns. Pan-fried pile, oil angle is a New Year's necessity, fried fried pile of oil angle is placed on the offering table, praying for "pan-fried pile on the stage, the wealth comes", "oil angle oil angle, gold and silver full of house". On New Year's Eve, every family puts up spring scrolls and hangs two tangerines and two sticks of garlic on the door frame.

The first day of the year fasting

The first day of the New Year, the new year's breath is particularly strong, but the public generally do not go to the grocery store, but only to eat New Year's Eve night leftover dishes, locally known as the "food food tail", which is meant to be eaten in the bitter sweet, thrifty and simple. In the early hours of the morning to worship the gods, kill chickens. Wake up, burn incense and set off firecrackers. Visiting each other on this day, regardless of price, called "New Year's greetings". The first day of the midday meal must eat fasting, with vermicelli, bamboo, hairy vegetables, mushrooms, etc. cooked into a pot of "Lohan Zhai", the year to eat the vegetarian dishes are eaten on this day, and then you can fish and meat. But modern urbanites are beginning to be keen on fasting, is no longer the old generation of the "heart of the dish".

The second day of the New Year

"New Year" word, disobedient children will always be parents this lesson, I used to be the second day of the New Year often be "New Year" -" The cane stewed pork knuckles". In fact, the original meaning is that the women of the family to preside over the "open pot", under the peanut oil, fried turnip cake, fried fish. On this day, each family makes offerings of a live carp, accompanied by a plate of lettuce and celery. The live carp is a symbol of good luck in the new year by leaping through the Dragon Gate like a carp. The lettuce symbolizes the sound of "making a fortune", while the celery indicates that hard work can make a fortune. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the lion dance pays homage to stores or companies, and people generally like to hang a red packet from a bunch of lettuce in a high place, so that the lion dance. It is commonly known as "Step by Step to Pick Green". Nowadays, people prefer to have their New Year's dinner in a restaurant, which is convenient, simple and delicious. Many rural villages still retain the custom of "release", buy live carp, with red paper over the eyes of the fish, after worship to the river pond release.

The third day of the Lunar New Year, Akaguchi

Akaguchi is the desire to avoid verbal disputes with people. It is reported that this day do not go to the New Year, some people said that the general day at home to rest, do not leave the house, young people are diluted these old ideas, basically out of the party to play. An old man told the author, people generally do not want to go to the New Year's Eve on the third day of the New Year, but also do not want others to come. If each other to pay tribute to the New Year easy to have a verbal conflict lead to conflict.

Walking flower market to turn big luck

Flower market before the year, is one of the most concerned about the topic of the public every year. Ms. Chen, a member of the public, told me, "Every year I will search the major flower market in Jiangmen, add new year flowers and oranges, buy a big peach blossom, the New Year turn big luck." For many young people, this has become a consumer habits and trends, even if you can not buy, but also to go to the hilarity, dip a little "sheep gas".

Kaiping Pancun Lantern Club

New Year's Day 13, Pancun villagers carried three sacrifices to umbrellas and colorful banners to open up the road, three large lanterns to take a different direction, different routes traveled around the Pancun forty-eight natural villages, every village, are the firecrackers, villagers danced with a lion or a golden dragon in the village to welcome, and together with the tour of the village. The villagers carried lanterns and danced village by village and venue by venue, surrounded by lion dancers and flag teams, amidst the clamor of gongs and drums, the joyous dance of the Rui lion and the sound of firecrackers, making the tour a very lively one. Many people working abroad, Hong Kong and Macao compatriots and overseas Chinese also traveled back to their hometowns to watch the lantern festival. To Kaiping over the Spring Festival friends, may also want to go to the lively, dip a bit of luck Oh.

Taishan Pumice Floating Color

Taishan Pumice Floating Color is a kind of folk culture and plastic arts that maintains traditional characteristics, which began in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, and has a history of more than 300 years so far, and it is a wonderful piece of Taishan folk customs and arts. The lineup includes lion dance, dragon dance, juggling big heads, gongs and drums, eight sounds, opera segments, bands, lanterns, martial arts teams, etc., highlighting the storytellers' masquerade parade performances. The special feature of the Fushi Piusi is that two children dressed as opera characters are carried on a "color cabinet" by four strong men in ancient warrior costumes. There are two "color boys" on each float, one on top and one on the bottom. The color boy sitting below is called "lower color", also called "screen"; the color boy standing three meters in the air on the color frame is called "upper color", also called "floating". Floating". In the eyes of the audience, the color seems to have no support, floating in the air, very magical.