What are the folk customs of Yuyao

Yuyao's festival customs mainly include:

Spring Festival - the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar for the Spring Festival. Zero hour, put "open the door cannon", sacrifice "heaven and earth God", early food bean tea, dumplings, rice cakes, dumplings, said "head smooth flow, reunion, year after year." Sacrifice to ancestors and pay respect to graves. People say "congratulations and wealth" to each other. Avoid using scissors, brooms, scales, lighting lamps (sleep before the evening); avoid saying "dead", "lose", "light" and so on. Dead people do not report the funeral, do not do the funeral, after the first five days to take care of. The whole fish is not to be eaten on the table, which is called "having a head and a tail, and eating leftovers." Dalan area also avoid sneezing in the morning, thought a year not key; avoid breaking bowls and lanterns during the day, if broken, then read "big bowl born small bowl, next year, born small herdsman," in order to discuss the color to solve the nightmare. The next day began to go to relatives, New Year's greetings, mutual gifts, to the children to pay the New Year's money, to the first month of the eighteenth stop. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the state regulations of the Spring Festival vacation for three days, Xing to the martyrs and military families to pay tribute to the New Year and gifts. Superstitious activities gradually reduced, walking relatives, worship the grave age still exists.

Lunar New Year's Lantern Festival - the first month of the lunar calendar on the 15th for the Lantern Festival, also known as the "Festival of Lights. Thirteen days to eighteen days, the clan ancestral hall hanging lights and colorful, door-to-door transfer car lamps, dance lion lamps, play lamp play, thirteen days for the night of the lamp, the girls wear ear wrapped feet. The girls wear ears and feet. Families get together to eat soup dumplings, which is called "Eating Lantern Festival". Since the middle of the Republic of China, this custom gradually disappeared. 1979 Lantern Festival revival. In 1979, the festival was revived. In that year, Yuyao City, "light show" colorful, Siamen Town, lion dance light activities stirring the nearby countryside.

Qingming Festival -- edge of the door into the willows, eat aiqing wheat berries, aiqing dough or dumplings, but also eat alfalfa (called "bright-eyed grass"). More than ten days before and after the festival, ancestor worship at the ancestral shrine, family graves. Young men and women in cities and towns go to the countryside to enjoy the colors of spring and visit places of interest, commonly known as "trekking". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the spring tour was gradually popularized, and martyrs' graves were swept. The tomb still exists.

Duanwu Festival - the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar for the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the "Duanyang Festival". Before the festival girls sewing all kinds of incense bags, chicken heart-shaped, diamond-shaped, zongzi-shaped, tiger-shaped, etc., filled with andrographis, camphor and other spices, or hanging in front of the bed or wear a small child's chest. Hanging in front of the moxa plant, plug calamus. At noon, food "five yellow" (andrographis paniculata, andrographis beans, eel, soybean, cucumber), flower cakes, dumplings, tea eggs, take the wine in the andrographis paniculata in the children's forehead painting "Wang" word. In the back door corner spraying andrographis wine, to wheat beard, mugwort leaf smoke, in order to remove filth and disinfection. City, Shi Yan (now belongs to Cixi City) around the dragon boat race. Today only exist to eat rice dumplings and tea eggs and so on.

Midwinter Festival - the 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar for the Midwinter Festival, commonly known as the "half of the 7th month", also known as the "Ghost Festival", to vegetarian sacrifices to ancestors, please eat! The festival is also known as the "Ghost Festival", and vegetarian food is offered to ancestors. July 13 to 18, monks and temples to do fasting, temples play Meilian theater, adjusting hanging, adjusting the impermanence, put fireworks, overcoming the ghosts. This custom is now abolished.

Mid-Autumn Festival - the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar for the Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as the "half of the eighth month". Before the festival, friends and relatives give each other moon cakes and other gifts. The night, the family reunion outdoor eating moon cakes, fruits to enjoy the moon, some also prepared wine and vegetables to drink. 70s began to rise collective moon. The old custom has been revived.

Chrysanthemum Festival - the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar for the Chrysanthemum Festival. On this day, climbing high, eating flower cake. Rural wrapped in rice dumplings, mountainous areas are eating "taro carrots braised chicken niang". This custom is rare today.

New Year's Eve - December 30 or 29 lunar New Year's Eve, commonly known as "thirty years of night", "New Year's Eve". In the old days, the lunar calendar December 20 to 30, called the day for the night, commonly known as "twenty night, twenty-one night, twenty-three night ...... thirty night (the month is small, twenty-nine said thirty years of night)". Twenty-three nights to send Zaojun to heaven, before this day to "dust" (now called cleaning). "Twenty-three nights" before dinner in front of the stove niche set up offerings Zaojun, tear down the Zaojun like burning towards the sky, said Zaojun sent to heaven, to New Year's Eve to replace the Zaojun new statue. This custom was gradually abolished after the founding of the country, but the cleaning has been insisted. Before and after the twenty-third night, make New Year's cake, do New Year's goods, prepare dishes for the New Year. On the "night of thirty years", set up a shadow hall to worship ancestors, cut and paste spring couplets and Yuanbao, double happiness characters, and decorate every house. In the evening, the year is divided into years, and a New Year's Eve dinner is eaten, with all the families reunited. Those who are not present for some reason have a cup and chopsticks to show that they are "reunited". Afterwards, the elders share the "New Year's money" with the younger ones. On that night, candles were lit, firecrackers were set off, and the family was reunited and entertained, which was called "observing the New Year". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, this custom still exists, but the superstitious activities are gradually reduced, the Spring Festival couplets are also new. 80's revival of firecrackers, watch the Spring Festival Gala TV program.