Wuyi Folkways and Customs Essay? (400 words)

The sound of firecrackers is the first year of the year,

The spring breeze sends warmth to the people TuSu.　

Thousands of doors and thousands of pupils of the sun.　

The new peach is always replaced by the old one.　

Depicts the grand festive scene of the Spring Festival of our people. The sound of firecrackers is a sign of resignation and welcome to the new, the flow of the festive mood. Business people. Firecrackers have another meaning: they are in the New Year's Eve firecrackers is for the new year big hair big profit. However, according to the old custom that, to honor the God of Fortune to compete first, firecrackers to the back. Legend has it that for those who want to make a fortune, the firecrackers have to be set off at the end of the night to be considered sincere.　

My hometown of Zhejiang and many other parts of the country, the New Year have the same customs. For example:

Watch the New Year

China's folk in the New Year's Eve has the habit of watching the New Year's Eve, commonly known as "boiled year". Year-end vigil from the beginning of the New Year's Eve dinner, this New Year's Eve dinner to eat slowly, from the palm of the lamp into the table, some people have to eat until late at night. According to the record of "Jing Chu Yearly Records", there was a custom of having New Year's Eve dinner at least in the North and South Dynasties. The custom of keeping the New Year's Eve is a way of saying goodbye to the years that have gone by, as well as expressing hope for the coming New Year.　

Eating New Year's Eve dinner

Children playing with firecrackers, but also the housewives in the kitchen the busiest time, New Year's dishes are done a few days before, and New Year's Eve dinner always have to be in the kitchen on the day of the New Year's Eve to do out. In the north, the dumplings on the first day of the New Year are also wrapped up on the evening of the thirtieth. At this time the cutting boards of the families are thumping and busy chopping meat and vegetables. At this time, the sound of chopping boards coming out of every household, the sound of firecrackers coming out of the streets and alleys, small stores coming out of the "chopping and popping" sound of the abacus and the rhythmic sound of the accounts, mixed with the sound of laughter everywhere, one after another, the ocean is full of ears, interweaving into the New Year's Eve joyful music.　

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Besides these, my hometown has some different folk customs. Let me cite one of them.　

Shining the field silkworms

Also known as "burning the field silkworms" and "burning the field of wealth", it is a folk custom of praying for the New Year that is popular in the south of the Yangtze River. On the 25th day of the Lunar New Year, a torch is tied to a long pole and set up in a field, using the flame to divine the New Year, and a strong flame is an omen of a good harvest in the coming year.

The Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown

I was born in the south of the Yangtze River, and I am only interested in the Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown.

The Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown from the first day of May on the lunar calendar will be considered the beginning of the first day of the morning, get up early, the first day of the day to prepare the calamus aiye, with red paper and black line a tie a tie good, generally a calamus and a clump of aiye for a tie. Each two zhang for a pair, placed on both sides of the door, placed on both sides of the door will be particularly large, thicker. It is said that these calamus leaves are placed in order to drive away evil spirits, good peace to meet the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival. Door by door placed, set off a string of firecrackers, the Dragon Boat Festival odor can be smelled.

The housewife busy housewife to prepare the dumplings, wash and cut off the hard corner, Amoy good glutinous rice plus red beans, take out some of the fine with, please on the neighboring housewives to help tie up the dumplings, laughing and joking, a string of angular dumplings tie up the good. The next step is to cook in the pot, to be five or six hours later, the fragrance of the dumplings will be floating all over the hut small yard. Walking through the village, you can always smell this unique scent, which reminds you that the Dragon Boat Festival has come.

The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month is a fun day. The children put on new clothes and shoes, with a fragrant bag hanging on their chests, which must contain a red-dyed cooked salted egg, and one or two cooked salted eggs in their hands. They get together and the egg-crashing contest begins. Two children holding a cooked salted egg, head-on impact with each other, snap, an egg cracked, intact egg and followed closely and other eggs bumping. Frustration, joy, and defiance play out in the children's cries. As usual, every family should put a small table in front of the entrance of the hall, set up dumplings, eggs, will also set up a bowl of boiled noodles and a few red buns, pious and respectful, the Dragon Boat Festival even officially debut. Noon, the family must set off firecrackers, collect all the caltrops placed at the door of the leaves, eat up the boiled garlic cloves, Figure a smooth and smooth. Adults to receive guests, eating rice dumplings dipped in sugar has a unique flavor, tea eggs are everyone likes to eat, take an easy to shell, take a bite, fragrant, crispy and crunchy, taste great, but it is not advisable to eat more.

After lunch, some people will rush to see the dragon boat race, shouting, paddling, shouting conveys a spirit, a power, but also a civilized and friendly.

With the dispersal of the dragon boat races, the Dragon Boat Festival also drew to a close. "Children look forward to the New Year, adults look forward to the festival". Once the Dragon Boat Festival was over, the adults were busy with this summer's harvest.

Our village's dragon dance

"Dangdangdang, clangdang, dongdangclang ......" Look, a long and big dancing dragon is walking step by step towards the entrance of the village.

The dragon pearl looked very brilliant and dazzling under the sunlight; there was also a ring of fire-like red flame around it, and the dragon pearl was still burning inside. The long dragon wanted to catch this dragon pearl and swallow it, wanting to make his power grow greatly, so he followed it closely.

This martial dragon was very large, probably about a dozen meters long. It was clad in golden scales and had a pair of beady eyes that you looked into and were completely mesmerized by. Between the front of its nose and the back of its mouth were two long, thin whiskers, and on top of the whiskers were two small red bun-like things.

With a burst of firecrackers, with a chorus of singing, and with a beating of drums, the dragon dance began!

As soon as the drums began to beat loudly, the dragonball swayed violently from side to side, rushing forward frantically, trying to shake off the dragon. The more the dragon ball tried to shake off the dragon, the more the dragon tried to catch it. I stood upstairs to see it is like a circle after circle of big golden waves, one wave after another, rise and fall, simply can make you look dazzling, all of a sudden fell into this golden sea, the whole space is yours, limbs swing at will, never subject to any constraints.

With a few shouts and chants, the dancing dragons entered the courtyard of the residents, and danced happily inside, attracting wealth and bringing peace and good luck to the hosts. After a while, with the sound of another burst of firecrackers, the dancing dragon flew past again in a lively manner ......

The Spring Festival in my hometown

The Spring Festival in my hometown is a little different from the one in Beijing, in that it takes place over three years in my hometown.

A few days before the New Year, you must prepare enough food, clothing and supplies for the New Year. On the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, we first cleaned up the house, and every room was cleaned up. The evening was very lively, every house set off firecrackers, every family rushed to make delicious New Year's dishes, and the smell of wine and meat wafted everywhere. After dinner, the children and their friends played with fireworks, and they set off all kinds of fireworks, which were very beautiful.

After the New Year is over, the twenty-sixth day of the New Year comes. This night is also very lively, the children are eating, playing, fun, firecrackers, fireworks, laughter loaded with the New Year.

New Year's Eve finally came, this day is very lively. In the afternoon, my mother was busy in the kitchen, fried a lot of delicious dishes, I saw these dishes, wafted out a burst of flavor, not to salivate. My dad and I put up couplets and two lanterns outside the door, while my brother watched TV in his room. In the evening, mom fried the food, dad took out the firecrackers to set off, and then our family gathered around the table to eat a reunion dinner. The dishes on the table were all my favorites, including hot pot, braised pork, soup and some other dishes, and our family ate them with laughter. After dinner, my brother and I went outside to set off fireworks. The bright night sky was even more beautiful with our fireworks. The fireworks, such as sky cannons and butterflies, decorated the night sky of New Year's Eve, as well as our laughter, and even more so, our happy life.

Twenty-four small year, twenty-six big year, thirty New Year's Eve, three years one after another, a year than a year lively and festive. We are happy to be immersed in the dense atmosphere of the Spring Festival.

Packing dumplings

Hometown people pack dumplings is not as simple as we see, which, and how much sweat and wisdom condensed?

In my hometown, before the Dragon Boat Festival, I must go to the dumplings, for the rural people, this is a big deal.

Early in the morning, busy picking dumplings. Father said: "picking rice dumpling leaves can pay attention to, to choose a wide and thick, so that you are not afraid to break, if you use a large, a boil on the break. Because the big leaves are very thin, easy to break." Everyone picking can be very skillful, in a short time to bring a large basket of dumpling leaves.

Don't think that after picking the leaves of the rice dumplings will be fine, there is another big thing waiting for you, that is, adjusting the glutinous rice. First of all, the washed glutinous rice with some alkali, and then and, alkali should be appropriate, and so on glutinous rice all yellow and then add filling. My father put some cut up lean meat and add it to make it even, which is good for the glutinous rice.

All ready to stop, and now have to wrap the dumplings, the father picked up three dumpling leaves, a large two small, and a pointed up, a pointed down. After placing the dumpling leaves, rolled into a pointed tube, hand held firmly, spooned a few spoons of glutinous rice, using chopsticks to press the glutinous rice, and spooned a spoonful of glutinous rice, leaving 2 centimeters deep. My father wrapped it up and tied it tightly with a string, which made a small dumpling. My father told me that people who have kung fu can also wrap the dumplings into "sharp cow horns", "round leather ball" and so on. My father told me to cut off the tip of the leaves of the dumplings for fear of cooking when the tip of the other dumplings broken.

The Dragon Boat Festival is coming, and everyone is busy cooking rice dumplings, and the smell of rice dumplings is wafting everywhere on the streets.

The fragrant rice dumplings on the table, a few of us children scrambled, afraid of being snatched by others, took the rice dumplings to eat. "Aigoo, Aigoo, really hot!" I put the dumplings on the table, see others eat with gusto, also eat up, feel unusually fragrant.

Eating a dumpling contains a lot of wisdom and sweat ah!

Fireworks

On the night of the New Year's Eve, our family had an early reunion dinner. Mom brought a box of fireworks from the room. My sister and I clapped our hands and screamed, "Oh, fireworks! Fireworks!" We rushed to open the box to take a look: ah, all kinds of fireworks filled the box, there are "rockets", "mice", "flower baskets", "firebird "

Sister, I'm not sure if you've ever seen a firework before, but I'm sure you've never seen one before.

Sister couldn't wait to light the first fireworks with a burning incense, "whoosh --" sound, fireworks like a rocket, flying into the sky, let out red sparks. I lit the second fireworks, "hiss--" sound, fireworks on the ground spinning, blooming flowers, and will change colors, first red, then yellow, and finally turned green, beautiful!

We laughed and screamed ...... with joy, causing the adults and children in our neighborhood to run out to watch. We set off one after another, and finally, I lit a firework that looked like a lantern hanging on a bamboo pole. It flew up in the air and spun around and floated down a ribbon that said, "Happy Chinese New Year," and everyone was so happy to see it that they danced around.

We had so much fun that we refused to leave until late at night.

I learned how to make dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival

"May 5, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Racing, Drumming, Dragon Boat Customs for Thousands of Years." Singing the nursery rhyme, the Dragon Boat Festival has come to me again.

The second day of May, I came to my neighbor's home, saw the aunt is wrapping dumplings, a piece of rice dumpling leaves, glutinous rice through the hands of the aunt wrapped into a small lovely dumplings. I said curiously, "Auntie, I also want to learn to pack rice dumplings." Auntie smiled and said: "Packing rice dumplings is a delicate work, hand work, you look easy to do difficult." "I will learn it by heart." "That's good, you first take a close look at how I pack? Then try wrapping it yourself." Big Mom agreed readily.

Only to see the big mom pick up two or three pieces of rice dumpling leaves cross a small side folded, hands from the outside of the rice dumpling leaves rolled up, a conical rice dumpling leaves tube is ready. She prepared the glutinous rice and red beans a spoonful of a spoonful to load, to be almost full, and then bring a chopstick to make a forceful one by one to insert the glutinous rice in the rice dumplings tube, and sure enough that glutinous rice down a little bit, she added a little bit of glutinous rice, and then pressed tightly. Then she quickly put the tube above the rice dumpling leaves against the package up, the sharp corners protruding, but also with the hand pressure, so that the sharp corners do not flow out of glutinous rice. Finally, she tied the wrapped rice dumplings with a rope, sometimes biting one end of the rope with her teeth and tying it. She said: "If the rope is not tied tightly, when the rice dumplings are cooked, the rice dumplings will burst and flow out of the glutinous rice, and then the dumplings will not be wrapped properly. So package rice dumplings look easy, do up difficult"

I watched for a while to learn to pack up rice dumplings, I took a good three rice dumpling leaves folded, to the outside a volume, hey, really became a cone, a hand holding the cone, a hand to the glutinous rice loaded in, to be full, I also learned to use chopsticks inserted tightly, and then add some glutinous rice. I then slowly folded the two sides of the head of the rice dumpling leaves wrapped up, hey, how not angular? I opened it up and wrapped it again, but it was still not angular, and the shape was unusually ugly. I can only ask for help, "said it, look easy to do difficult." Auntie took over my hands of the dumplings, re-wrapped, then I carefully see her pack up, both sides of the dumpling leaf edge folded package, the hand side of the flattening pressure into the corner to. I suddenly realized seems to understand.

I again re-packed the dumplings to, in the dumpling leaves folded package up, the heart of the pressure flattened into a corner, but no matter how I heart, the dumpling leaves always seem to not listen to my call, the beautiful sharp corners of the hand always do not appear in my hands. After a few efforts, finally finally wrapped up two ugly shape of the dumplings to, but also a kind of comfort me.

Looking at these two ugly rice dumplings, I really understand that some things are really easy to look at, but difficult to do ah.

Folkways and customs

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The Spring Festival in Xiushui

In my hometown, Xiushui, the Spring Festival kicks off on the first day of the lunar month.

Every family makes smoked meat on this day. The so-called smoked meat is pork sprinkled with salt and put on smoke to a certain degree. On this day, I will help my mother to dry the smoked bacon and look forward to New Year's Eve.　　

On this day, people also make "whistles". The "whistle" is not the kind used by physical education teachers. "

The noodles are made from starch ground from sweet potatoes, and the whistles can be filled with mushrooms, bok choy, or asparagus, but no matter what the filling is, it's always a special treat. Xiushui's "whistle" is famous, especially by the people of Jiujiang's favorite.

Later in the day the adults were busy all day to the market to purchase, to bring home a wealth of New Year's goods, and the market, the goods are all kinds of dazzling; vendors in the yelling, buyers and sellers in the bargaining, the children in the enjoyment of playing ...... all this constitutes a sound and colorful celebration of the New Year's Day picture.　　

New Year's Eve is really lively. My father and I put up spring scrolls and New Year's paintings; my grandfather was on the steps killing chickens and geese, and my grandmother and mother were busy in the kitchen;. In the evening, the family sat around the table and ate the hot New Year's Eve dinner, not to mention how cozy it was.　

After the meal, Grandpa took me, carrying a homemade red lantern, to every house to say goodbye. There is also a good way to say New Year's Eve: to the elderly, I will say "I wish you blessings like the East Sea, longevity than South Mountain"; to the children, I have to say "study hard, every day up"; to the man of the house, I have to say "prosperity, all the best! "I'm very happy to be here. The enthusiastic hosts praised me for my sweet mouth, and grabbed a large handful of candy and stuffed it into my hand. Every time we go to a house, the host stayed us a cup of chrysanthemum tea, the warmth of the people in the fragrance of the tea flying.　　

New Year's Eve this day, no matter how late I play, my mother will not blame me, because the New Year can not commit anger. I played until 12 o'clock, my mother urged me to go to bed, perhaps too tired, I fell asleep.

Without realizing it, a new year had crept in.　　

The Spring Festival in Wuning

The Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China. But when it comes to the customs of my hometown, there is a lot to talk about! Here I will be a "tour guide", to introduce you to the Wuning how to celebrate the Spring Festival!　　

Whenever the Spring Festival arrives, the whole county of Wuning will be lively. Street households, are hung with red lanterns, everywhere happy. The streets are full of toys and sticky rice poi, and big stores are holding riddle-guessing activities in front of ...... the most attractive thing to me is the lanterns. In other places called "lantern exhibition", we Wuning people call it "lanterns", Wuning colorful lanterns, thus the name.　　

Speaking of lanterns, that variety, not general more. Lion lamps, horse lamps, clam shell lamps, flower drum lamps, dragon lamps ...... countless. So when the lanterns start, the lanterns will always be crowded with people next to them, all just to take a look at the wonderful colorful lanterns.　　

The "dragon lanterns" are the most famous among them. With bamboo, wood, paper, cloth, etc. tied into a tube, generally 9 to 11 sections. Candle burning which is called "bright dragon". If watching lanterns is what our children like, then watching theater is the favorite of adults.　　

Wuning's theater is most famous for its "tea-picking opera". To be honest, I like the tune, but I don't like the words. Because that word is always talking about "people planting tea, hoeing tea, picking tea ......" listen to all the tired of listening, who will like that kind of old tune, clichéd words of the play ah! Of course, this is only for us children to say, for adults is a kind of enjoyment.

Theatre actors often wear the ancient costume, embroidered with a variety of tea flowers, the color is mostly red and green. Actors holding paper fans, very much a noble gentleman's demeanor. But we laugh at the weird clothes. One of the most sung lines in the tea-picking opera by the actors is "Picking tea in the first month of the year, I am too lazy to spin yarn, I am dedicated to picking tea." The beautiful tea song with peculiar costumes is one of the important reasons why the tea-picking opera attracts people.　　

At night, there will be a dragon and phoenix dance on the street, which is very lively and often wins applause. We had to watch the dragon dance before we could go home, for God's sake! I remember that every dragon dance would end at 12 o'clock at the earliest, and that's just part of it. So I tried not to go out on that night. Often, I hid at home and ate our Wuning staple food, salty water poi. The snow-white poi is mixed with salty water, steamed in a "poi sieve" and served with bacon!　　

Through my introduction, you should have some understanding of Wuning Spring Festival customs! You are welcome to visit my hometown sometime, preferably during the Spring Festival, so be sure to take a look!　　

Customs in my hometown: organizing funerals

In my hometown, if someone passed away, we had to put a white sheet on his room, put a white pillowcase on it, and spread the sheet very, very flat and then put the dead person flat on it. My mother told me that this was done so that the deceased loved ones could revisit their familiar places after they had gone to the other world.　　

In our remote mountainous region, we still have coffin burials. On the day of the burial, the whole village came to see the deceased off after he or she was buried in the coffin. The coffin was carried on a truck, and the whole family sat around the coffin, while the truck drove up the hill and the people beat gongs and drums. I heard that this is for the sake of the wake.　　

The truck drove up a big hill and dug a big hole in the hill, and after people carried the coffin in, every relative had to watch the coffin being buried. Mom said that if they didn't, they would be disrespecting the dead, and the dead would be haunted by their ghosts after they died. After seeing the coffin buried, the people who saw the deceased off returned to the house and opened the room of the deceased, they would find the bed sheet wrinkled.　　

March 3 Ancestor Worship

In our hometown, March 3 is a particularly important day.　　

On that day, every family would do one thing - worship their ancestors. At dusk, each of us takes the "money" that has been prepared and burns it. We burned incense, burned money, kowtowed, and picked out the best parts of all the dishes and put them in a bowl to honor our departed ancestors. After burning the incense, we have to go home immediately and cannot step out of the house for the whole night. I heard that the ancestors have to come out to collect money on this day, and if they bump into a ghost, they will get sick the next day.

Legend has it that on March 3, the son of the family who burns the most money is the most filial.　　

Thus, in our village, the funeral and ancestor worship are more lively than New Year's Day

This is the first time in the history of the village.