Jieyang New Year's Customs

Life customs include: eating soup balls at the Winter Festival (also known as the New Year's Eve), rewarding the gods (thanking the god who made a wish at the beginning of the year or inviting the god who prayed for peace to be worshipped in your home), sacrificing to the God of the Stove (sending the God of the Stove and other deities to the heaven for the New Year's Day on the 24th of December of the lunar calendar), welcoming the spring festival on the eve of New Year's Eve (gathering around a fireplace on the eve of the New Year's Eve), the Spring Festival, welcoming the gods (on the 4th of the first lunar month), the Nianjiekou, Renmin Ri (the day of the seventh day of the first lunar month when the gods eat seven types of food), walking across the colorful bridges, breaking down the doorway of the building of the Zheng Wengzi lamp The first day of the first month of the year, the Lantern Festival, trekking (the sixteenth day of the first month of the year) and so on.

Customs of worship: the tour of the gods race, walking masters, lifting the king, jumping on the pyre, set up the stove, race pigs and goats, send incense to the boat pray for peace, the City God Temple will be and so on.

Tourism customs are: fireworks and fire dragon show, gongs and drums and flag parade, dance song, dance nine crocodiles, crane dance, golden lion worship, riddles, poems and couplets, and so on.

1. Zheng Wengzai Lanterns of Broken Door House: Zheng Wengzai Lanterns of Broken Door House is a provincial intangible cultural heritage of Guangdong, which has a history of more than four hundred years since it started during the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty. "Wengzai lamp" is a small figure made of clay painted with colorful costumes, put into a carved wooden cabinet, composed of historical, theatrical characters story screen lamp. There is a local proverb that says, "If you look at the Ong Chai Lanterns, you will hold a white brother and pray for prosperity in the New Year".

2. line color bridge: commonly known as line head bridge, is a traditional folk cultural activities in Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, the Lantern Festival. Before the festival, the urban banyan city of large and small bridges are colorful lights, colorful flags dressed up, men, women and children shoulder to shoulder, the degree of the bridge to pray for blessings, lively and extraordinary. In addition to Jieyang, Puning Hongyang, Lantern Festival also has "line color bridge" custom, sent to the working people's aspirations for a better life and simple aesthetic interests.

3. Yushen Saihui: Yushen Saihui is a grand traditional Chinese folklore activity in Chaoshan, Guangdong, which is usually held in the first and second months of the lunar calendar. During this period, the stores in towns and cities just send off the old year and open for business in the new spring; in the countryside, it is the gap between the fall harvest, winter planting and spring plowing, which is the season of agricultural idleness. This is also sandwiched between the Lantern Festival, some places to tour the gods and tour lanterns into one, more lively and spectacular.

4. Fire Pile Jumping: In the first month of the lunar calendar, villagers hold "Fire Pile Jumping" activities while paying homage to their ancestors, honoring the gods, and visiting the gods. The event is a symbol of the Chinese working people's wish to avoid calamities and good fortune.

5. Drums, gongs and flags parade: Drums, gongs and flags parade team size is quite large, the number of parade as few as three to four hundred people, more than a thousand people. Its composition is also quite complicated, the parade by the handsome girl carrying a pile of gold brocade cape in the forefront, followed by horse head gongs, the size of the five-front flag team, honor guards, waist drums, children's fire dragon torch team, the mother umbrella team, the play out of the team (also known as the "pendulum Tu Jing"), large and small New Year's Eve standard team, the Chiu Chow big drums and gongs team, the Pro Tans, to see the entire parade, to make people dazzled, back and forth, to see the whole parade. The whole procession will dazzle the eyes and bring back a lot of memories.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Jieyang Spring Festival Customs