What are the Chinese New Year customs in Cixi?

Cixi Folk Customs

There are traditional folk customs in every part of the world, and of course Cixi is no exception. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is a traditional Chinese folk festival - Dragon Boat Festival. In Cixi, however, people generally call this festival "Donghong Festival", not called the Dragon Boat Festival. I learned from the old generation there are some folk sayings about the winter red festival: one, winter red flower cake summer solstice noodles, eat the elephant like the cattle in Jian. Second, winter red prunes hanging basket head, summer solstice prunes full of red. La snail toad to avoid winter red. The first thing you need to do is to eat the winter red dumplings, and then freeze them.

Donghong Festival

Cixi, including many areas of eastern Zhejiang, the Dragon Boat Festival called "Donghong Festival", it is difficult to prove, probably caused by the dialect of the "Dragon Boat" sound error. In addition to zongzi, Cixi also have the custom of eating noodles at the Dragon Boat Festival, the so-called "Donghong eat noodles, flies do not face".

Yangmei Festival

Cixi City Henghe Town is the famous hometown of Yangmei, the town of Yangmei planting area of 25,000 acres, with a total annual output of nearly 10,000 tons, the area and production of towns and villages in the country are ranked the top. 1996 by the relevant state departments named the "hometown of China's Yangmei".

Cixi City began to hold the first prune festival in 1989, the prune festival "plum as a medium, culture, economic results," not only become a major festival in Cixi City, but also attracted guests from all over China and overseas.

Expanded information:

Customs of Cixi summer rest:

New daughter-in-law back to her mother's home before the summer rest, the in-laws should be for the bride to prepare some gifts. To the in-laws, but also to the new daughter-in-law a certain number of "red packets", and cut out of kraft paper the size of the family shoe samples for the daughter-in-law to take with them.

The bride in the summer rest days, in addition to resting in the mother's home in addition to the main task for the in-laws of the whole family to do shoes. Often the bride, with the help of her mother, in accordance with the size of the shoe samples brought by the in-laws, for the husband's family in-laws, uncles, younger siblings to do a pair of new shoes, commonly known as "Tou Dai Shoes".

The meaning is that the bride's first time back to her mother's home made shoes, as a gift to honor her husband's family, but also the new daughter-in-law is very respectful of the husband's family expression of the meaning of the old, on the other hand, also show the bride's craftsmanship level.