Lianjiang folk custom

Spring Festival: It is the biggest traditional festival in China. Usually, it begins with the "offering sacrifices to the stove" on February 24th of the lunar calendar/KLOC-0, and the festive atmosphere gradually becomes strong, reaching its climax on the reunion night on New Year's Eve. After the first day of the first month, it is leisure time, and the Spring Festival ends on the fifteenth day of the first month.

Cereal Festival: On the evening of February 24th, Lunar New Year/KLOC-0, cakes and fruits are prepared for the farewell party, and the kitchen gods are prayed to say good things and bless the family. After the sacrifice, the atmosphere of the Spring Festival gradually became strong. Every household began to prepare new year's goods, steamed rice cakes, posted Spring Festival couplets, and sent the old to welcome the new. During this period, the old custom son-in-law often sent new year's goods to her parents-in-law, commonly known as "year by year". People who go out to work and do business also go home for the New Year.

New Year's Eve: New Year's Eve is divided into "small times" and "big times". The twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month (28th month) is called "childhood", and folklore mainly worships Mrs. Linshui. Lunar calendar1February 30th (February 29th) is the "Great Harmony Year", which is mainly dedicated to ancestors. This is the richest day of the year. After the reform and opening up, more than one family will sit around to watch the Spring Festival Gala or watch a vigil to welcome the New Year.

Spring Festival: commonly known as "Chinese New Year". This is the biggest festival for the people of the county. At 0: 00 on the first day of the first month, firecrackers are set off and the city gate is opened, commonly known as "opening the city gate", which indicates the beginning of a new year. Many government agencies and units hold tea parties, group meetings and other activities on the first day of junior high school to wish and encourage each other. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, people visit relatives and friends, and the host entertains guests with rice cakes, sweets, melon seeds, oranges, peanuts and cigarettes, or cooks them as snacks. Elders also give their children "lucky money". Married women often take their husbands and children back to their parents' homes on this day. In the third and fourth grades, arrange your own entertainment activities or visit friends. Say "Happy New Year", "Best wishes" and "Congratulations on getting rich" to each other. The morning of the fifth day is called "receiving God early", and every household lights incense and shoots guns in the morning to welcome the "God of Wealth". It's still a little fragrant. I'll shoot it at night.

Lantern Festival: The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, which is one of the most lively festivals in the county. From the seventh and eighth day of the first month, lanterns are given,/kloc-lanterns played by children under 6 years old are presented by their mothers and uncles. In the first year, the bride's family gave her newly-married daughter a "Guanyin pine nut" lamp, in the second year, a "lotus pot lamp" and in the third year, an "auspicious lamp". The 13th or 14th day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, and the 15th day is the Lantern Festival.

Wine Boiling Festival: On the 29th day of the first month, every household cooks "wine boiling porridge" with thousands of kinds of food, such as glutinous rice, brown sugar, rice, sweet potato, peanut kernel, beans, red dates, dried longan and grapes, to worship the gods and ancestors and give them to their elders and relatives, so it is also called "filial piety porridge".

Shangsi Festival: On the third day of March, it is called Shangsi, and a string of shepherd's purse, commonly known as "Imperial Cuisine", is inserted on both sides of each wedge to show ominous. March 3rd is a traditional festival of She nationality in Wu Fan. On this day every year, she people, men and women, old and young, get up early to pick the leaves or fruits of Wu Fan trees, cook them into Wu Fan with rice, offer sacrifices to their ancestors and make breakfast. After dinner, they held a singing contest, which was very lively. After the founding of New China, it was changed to cook glutinous rice, adding lard, red dates, sugar, peanuts, sesame and other ingredients, which made it more sweet and delicious.

Tomb-Sweeping Day: For the traditional ancestor worship festival, every family sweeps graves, refreshes tombstones, places sacrifices, burns money, presses paper money, and brings back two pine branches to hang at the door when going down the mountain to show their grief. Organs and schools organize cadres, workers and students to pay homage to the martyrs cemetery to show their memory of the revolutionary martyrs.

The Long Summer Festival is one of the traditional 24 solar terms. Japanese families mix bean sprouts, leeks, or brown sugar with rice paste and fry them into salty and sweet "summer cakes". The straw mats and cotton mats on the bed were removed from the same day to prevent wet fleas and lice.

Dragon Boat Festival: It is one of the most lively festivals with rich contents. First, at noon on the fifth day, calamus and Artemisia annua are inserted on both sides of each threshold to ward off evil spirits and attract wealth; The second is to follow the legacy of "educational zongzi" in Tang Dynasty, and wrap bamboo leaves with glutinous rice, peanuts, beans, red dates or lean meat to make zongzi; The third is to drink a small amount of "realgar wine". And spray medicine in the corner, daub realgar powder on the child's head and ears to detoxify, and put realgar in the well and water tank to detoxify, and detonate the "realgar gun" to cherish the gas; The fourth is to post "Afternoon Book", which is extremely rare since liberation; The fifth is to prepare "afternoon tea".

Seven Qiao Festival: the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, also known as the Seven Qiao Festival. In the morning, Liansu cooked glutinous rice porridge with black red beans and brown sugar, offering sacrifices to Mrs. Tanabata and ancestors, and praying for the wisdom and peace of children.

Mid-Autumn Festival: July 15th of the lunar calendar. Even the custom calls it "July and a half" festival, and each family chooses a day to prepare wine to worship their ancestors to show filial piety.

Mid-Autumn Festival: The 15th day of the eighth lunar month is a traditional family reunion festival. Before the festival, relatives and friends exchange moon cakes (many younger generations respect their elders), and even children under 16 are given flowers and cakes by their uncles. On the evening of August 15, every family held a banquet and got together.

Double Ninth Festival: On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, Japanese men, women and children often go hiking. Fufu, Yuhua, Bao Hua, Yuquan, Yunju, Shimen, Shishan and Guantou Qingzhi Mountain outside the suburbs are the main climbing places. Young men, women and children also carry kites (commonly known as "paper kites") and fly them at the top of the mountain.

Winter Festival: One of the traditional twenty-four solar terms, it is also a festival to worship ancestors. On the night before the winter solstice, every household will make salty and sweet Yuanxiao pills (commonly known as "oil flat") as the main meal and give them to relatives. On the solstice night of winter, the whole family is reunited, and Fuju, celery, green garlic and red chopsticks are placed in front of the ancestral tablets, which are equivalent to disks or bamboo rafts.