What are the traditional New Year's Eve folklore in Yuyao?

Yuyao New Year's traditional folklore:

1, December 20, the beginning of the "day" called "night", reminding everyone to tighten things, do not delay the New Year. On the night of December 23, housewives had the task of welcoming the New Year every day.

2. On the twenty-third night, also known as "New Year's Eve", the god of the stove is sent in the evening.

3. On the night of the 24th, dusting (i.e., cleaning of the entire household) and cleaning of the vessels for the rituals were performed.

4. On the twenty-fifth night, water is collected to make sure all the water tanks in the house are full. The windows and doors were glued, and all the wooden windows were given new window paper. In the evening, "wash the tiger's feet" to make the feet strong and healthy.

5. On the night of the 26th, preparations for the New Year continue, but avoid killing.

6, twenty-seventh to twenty-ninth night, the preparation of blessings, ancestor worship with three animals (chicken, fish, pork), five animals (plus mutton, geese) and other blessings. The center hall or the main entrance to paste New Year's paintings, spring couplets, fortune, especially pay attention to the old custom of Yuyao fortune can not be pasted upside down.

7, Qingming Festival, Yuyao people in the Qingming period, will go to the mountains and fields to pick mugwort, home made of green and tender dumplings and Qingming wheat berries, sticky rice aroma through the smell of grass, to the festival added a thought.

8, New Year's Eve, in the hall or the main entrance to paste New Year's paintings, spring couplets, the word "blessed", pay particular attention to the old custom of Yuyao, "blessed" can not be posted upside down. And please Bodhisattva, thank you for the year, the blessing shall have male family members to preside over, in order to maintain silence, some people women, children to avoid. If the blessing is made with three or five animals, when slaughtering chickens and geese, attention should be paid to leaving a few long hairs on the tail. Carp must be alive, blessing the end of the release.

9, Mid-Autumn Festival, Ningbo area Mid-Autumn Festival is scheduled for August 16, Mid-Autumn Festival, and during the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are also invited to the moon nuns, burning incense, dragon boat races, boat lanterns and other activities.

10, Lantern Festival, the 14th night of the first month of the night of Yao West Yao North area farmers tied torches, to their own fields to shine bad insects; women have invited 'defecation tank girl' (toilet God) custom. Yao south mountain area around the custom of worshipping the "immortal nun".