What are the customs in Zhanjiang

The Spring Festival in Zhanjiang

Like the rest of the country, the Spring Festival is the grandest and richest traditional festival among the people, but the Spring Festival in Zhanjiang also has local characteristics. The Spring Festival in rural areas usually takes about a month to prepare, starting in the middle of December on the lunar calendar, with preparations including house renovations, furniture purchases, new clothes, and various kinds of New Year's goods. New Year's goods include sugar, glutinous rice, New Year's paintings, couplets, candies, cookies, firecrackers and the like, and most of the money earned in a year is spent on the Spring Festival.

The most lively scenes on the 29th or 30th day of the year are the slaughter of pigs, catching fish in ponds, and catching the New Year's Eve Wei, with men, women, and children all out in force. In the evening, every household puts up "New Year's Red", both new year's paintings and traditional "door god", most of the couplets are related to fortune and so on, and the martyrs' families put up the couplets "Carry forward the tradition of the revolution and strive for greater glory" issued by the civil affairs department on the main door, and the kitchens, pigs and chickens put up the banners "sufficient food" and "prosperity of the six animals", etc. After the reunion dinner, they share the money to pay off the debts. After the reunion meal, the new year's money is divided. 12:00, every household firecrackers, to send off the old and welcome the new.

The first day of the Lunar New Year, the rural areas are generally popular three taboos: avoid killing, avoid pouring water, avoid sweeping the ground, part of the countryside is still accustomed to eating fasting. The second day of the year began to go to friends and relatives, you come and go. During this period, most villages and towns have lion dance, God, floating color parade, do opera, martial arts performances, ball games, etc., a variety of folk activities, has been extended for more than half a month.

In Zhanjiang, just after the Spring Festival, the rural villages around the "New Year's Eve" began one after another, accompanied by the dashing spring rain, in the villages and towns of the countryside on the road, everywhere you can hear from afar from a burst of vague drums and gongs, the sound of firecrackers. Since my childhood, I have heard about the custom of doing "New Year's Example" in Zhanjiang, which is no less lively and grand than the Spring Festival. In Zhanjiang, there is a "New Year's Example" that most people can not go home for the New Year, but "New Year's Example" when you must go home to reunite, so it can be seen how important to do "New Year's Example". Zhanjiang do "Nianliu" such a custom, in Guangdong Province and even the country is not rare, I heard that in the Qing Dynasty Zhanjiang do "Nianliu" has been popular. "Nianliu" is a local folk ritual to pray for good weather, prosperity and national peace. The grand finale of "Nianliu" is a variety of folk art performances, performances to the best of their ability, in order to win and get a year of good weather, a bumper crop, people and animals, to express people's good wishes.