Gansu Province, what are the customs of the Spring Festival?

Gansu Spring Festival customs after generations of inheritance, development and evolution, and into the times, more and more with distinctive local characteristics, rich human flavor, warm festive atmosphere. Located in the western interior of the Longyuan land, for a long time due to the differences in regional culture, so that the formation of a very different style of New Year's Eve. The Longyuan land style is very different from the New Year's custom.

Lanzhou social fire

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New Year's Eve is the first act of the Spring Festival. From early in the morning, the elders of the family get up early to start sweeping the yard, and at noon some of the hands and feet of the family began to wash the door, sticking couplets. There are a lot of rules for putting up the couplets, if it's next door or across the street, whoever puts up the couplets early, this family will have good luck this year. At dusk, the family sat around, *** into the New Year's Eve dinner. After the feast, the family together with a big board melon seeds, sip the "three Fortress" tea stay up late to observe the New Year's Eve, in order to live a long life. Zero for the occasion of the year, the old times to receive the God of Fortune, sacrificing heaven and earth. The old Lanzhou people pay attention to the water tank to pick full of water, known as loaded wealth water. But also in front of the gate, the yard sprinkled water, called sprinkle silver water, in order to symbolize people's desire to get rich.

On the morning of the first day, the whole family **** into the symbol of longevity of the noodles. The soup is made of diced meat, mushrooms, diced carrots, diced tofu, golden needles, fungus, green spinach and is cooked to perfection, with excellent color and flavor; the rolled out noodles are cut into thin and long noodles. After the meal, the children scramble to kowtow to the elders to pay tribute to the New Year, the elders present red paper sealed package of New Year's money.

On the second day of the month, the favorite friends and relatives to pay homage to each other, string East, West, has continued until the fourth day of the month. In the old days, Lanzhou people home to pay homage to a packet of pastries as a gift, the host first three cups of wine, and then make fragrant tea, four plates of sweets and melons, and at the end of the guests to eat.

The first five is known as broken five, eat buckwheat dough. Cooked with buckwheat into grits rice-like, burned on the shame, or vegetarian brine, or broth, seasoned with oil splash chili, garlic, vinegar, hot and sour, so that even days of greasy dishes eaten by the appetite of the people.

After the fifth, until the fifteenth or sixteenth, Lanzhou City, the New Year's Eve social fire on the dance up, ramp to the drums, dazzle into the eyes of the color, simple and elegant shape, fully embodies the characteristics of Lanzhou.

Lanzhou social fire team, which originated from the ancient god of praying for blessings, has a very elaborate queue and role. The first one is the wind lady and the rain master, which symbolizes the wish of praying for favorable wind and rain and good harvest. After that is the big head Luohan play Liu Cui. The system is a monk wearing a big head mask, around the flowery girl Liu Cui, playful and dance. Followed by the spring official sitting on the dragon bar. Spring official, for the spring of the official. Its image is quite similar to the drama of the ugly color: wearing a round winged hat, painted white eye sockets, eight-bearded, wearing a red robe, holding a folding fan, sitting in the master chair, quite comical and ridiculous. Then after the twelve or thirteen pairs of bamboo horses dressed in old-fashioned boys and girls, chest and back device yarn horse head, horse tail. After that is the "boat girl", and then push the car, the lion rolling embroidered balls, more Lanzhou's Taiping drum show.

Longdong send God of Wealth

According to folklore, the God of Wealth is a fictional character in the gods worshiped by the Taoists, the name Zhao Gongming, holding a steel whip, riding a black tiger, and its mighty, also known as Zhao Xuan Tan, commonly known as Zhao Gongyuan Shuai or Zhao Gong Bodhisattva, good at "eliminating plague and cut disease, to protect the well-being of the disaster avoidance, preside over the justice of the gods, the gods of the will. However, it is also believed that the god of wealth is the red-faced Guan Yunchang, holding a blue dragon crescent sword, wearing a red rabbit BMW, known in Chinese culture as the "righteousness" of the Lord Road.

In the rural areas of many places in the northwest, there has always been the annual custom of sending the God of Fortune. Wake up on the first day to go out to see the God of Fortune orientation, choose to go, according to the heavenly stem and earthly branches, to determine the God of Joy, the God of Fortune, the God of Noble is located in the direction. It is said that as soon as you go out on the first day of the year, you should walk towards the direction of the God of Wealth and the God of Happiness, and you will get rich and encounter joyful and auspicious events throughout the year.

Also in some places in Longdong, people believe that the second day is the God of Wealth Festival. The morning of this day, there are people going door to door to send or sell the God of Fortune statue, households are paying, do not want, can only say "already", taboo answer "do not", for good luck.

In the Qin'an Zhongshan, five camps and other places that the fifth is the God of Fortune Day, a year of fortune is the God of Fortune decided, so the fifth day we are busy organizing banquets, hospitality God of Fortune. On this day, people will sweep some dust from their homes and pour it outside the village, which means "sending poor women", and at the same time, they will sprinkle the soil from outside into all corners of the room, which is called "inviting rich women". Then every family makes offerings, puts coins and banknotes on the table to dedicate to the God of Wealth, and burns the statue of the God of Wealth at dinner time, and then the whole family celebrates. Sending the God of Wealth reflects the people's desire to be rich and prosperous.

Qin'an lantern riddles

Qin'an lantern riddles activities are mainly concentrated in the Lantern Festival, which has a fairly long history. It existed and developed freely before the liberation, and was organized and held by the government and relevant departments only after the liberation.

The Lantern Festival, the county and part of the townships are revered to watch the lantern riddles. Generally in the first month of the lunar calendar fourteen began, to the end of the sixteen seventeen, known as the inverted lights, more for the night, less for the day. Common handmade lamps are palace lanterns, lanterns, yarn lamps and other hundreds of kinds, thousands of forms, a wide range. Some places also take colorful lights door. Lantern Festival night, the county authorities or larger towns are used to hold a broken word riddle activities. Character riddle content is mostly a combination of creative and traditional, written on a long strip of colorful paper, pasted on a variety of lanterns, people while watching the lanterns, while guessing the riddles, colorful. After the liberation, the development of riddles faster, the county cultural center every year to organize riddles will be held in March 1998, the county riddles association was established, the study of the exchange of riddles activities, such as content and methodology. The activities in the county are more concentrated in the Taishan Temple and the county Federation of Trade Unions and other places.

Qin'an County Cultural Center told reporters that in most townships and villages, but also point pots and lanterns, actually "lights" another form, pots and pans commonly used buckwheat steamed into a smooth type of round, open the edge of the clippers cut into a variety of patterns. Inside the nest drops of oil, put immersed in cotton wicks, 1 per person, after the point to see the "lights", who has more lights means who's destiny and fortune the better. Lamps commonly used cornmeal made of conical. With a houma pole wrapped in cotton or yellow paper cut paper strips, soaked in oil and then inserted. They are lit and placed on top of doors, stoves and animal troughs. Home doors and eaves in front of the hanging lanterns, children voluntarily organized lantern team, scurrying around, celebrating the festival.

Zhouqu welcome mother-in-law

"The 19th day of the first month of the year to welcome mother-in-law" (Zhuoqu called the Holy Mother of God as mother-in-law) is a Zhuoqu County legacy of a folkloric activities with a strong local color, is the culmination of the entire first month of the activities, as if the Zhuoqu County Mardi Gras. It has a history of five hundred years from now, absorbing the essence of Tibetan Buddhism and Taoism in the process of its development and evolution, and the function of the priesthood has been expanding, expanding from the previous single welcoming the birth of a child, begging for a child and asking for a child to today's blessing of a side of the peace, praying for blessings and avoiding calamities of the folklore activities.

"The 19th day of the first month to welcome the mother-in-law" is the county four streets, two passes and nearby villages in the 16 temples enshrined in the 16 "mother-in-law" gathered together to tour the streets, blessing, accepting the bowing of a folkloric ceremony. The morning of the 19th day of the first month, the temples will be their own mother-in-law and sedan chair carefully dressed up, the mother-in-law dressed in a new, phoenix crown, cape, jewelry, sedan chair surrounded by glass square lamps, incense purse, rich and magnificent. Nine o'clock in the evening 16 grannies first converge to the east of the city on the north section of Camelback Mountain East Gate, in order to enter the city, 16 grannies sedan chair lights, like a star long dragon, from the sky. Each sedan chair with colored flags to open the way, followed by gongs and drums, to the door of each family to stay a few minutes, to accept the bowing, each family burned incense into the horse, sounding cannons, offering wine and tea. Where the sedan chair stops, the new daughter-in-laws go so far as to pick the purse hanging in front of the sedan chair in the hope of giving a child, people scramble to drill the sedan chair, meaning to eliminate disasters and blessing of peace. From the North Street to the West Street under the mouth of the 16 sedan chair "mother-in-law" team the most complete lot, after the West Road 4 sedan chair out of the West Gate and return, the rest of the parade along the street, respectively, back to the temple. At this time has come to 3:30 in the morning, to this point, "welcome mother-in-law" ceremony came to an end.

"The 19th day of the first month to meet the mother-in-law" is different from other forms of folklore, is a diversified, comprehensive art reproduction body, gathered religion, faith, blessing, entertainment as one, is the Qiang and Han, Tibetan and Han people and the witness of the rapprochement. Nowadays, in order to meet the development needs of the society, this custom also keeps conforming to the trend of development, changing itself, perfecting itself, responding to the call of the local government, often adding new contents of the times, and it has become a festival that combines economy, culture, religion, tourism and entertainment, and it plays an important role in the life of Zhouqu people.