Fengdu County over the Spring Festival customs and habits

One, the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar for the Spring Festival, formerly known as the "New Year", after the hour, set up incense in the courtyard dam, set up fruit offerings, burning incense and candles, families bowing towards the sky, firecrackers, in order to show that the old and welcome the new (formerly known as "out of the sky line"). Send God of Fortune people send "God of Fortune Figure" or "firewood", "gold and silver water", New Year's post, the host to give money. When people get up in the morning, they dress up, the younger generation kowtows to the elders to pay respect to the New Year, and the elders give lucky words to the younger generation, and give the children "New Year's money". Eat soup dumplings for breakfast, in the morning by the parents led children and grandchildren to the ancestral graves to burn paper and worship, firecrackers, hanging "grave floating". On this day, generally do not string of doors, friends and relatives meet, say "congratulations on wealth". Beginning of the second, friends and relatives send gifts to each other to celebrate the New Year. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government provided for the Spring Festival vacation, to carry out the activities of condolences to the families of martyrs and soldiers. Cadres and workers held a "reunion" to celebrate the New Year. Folk in addition to not sacrificing to God, do not send God of Fortune, the rest of the old customs. Second, the Lantern Festival is held on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Fengdu cities and towns have always had the custom of "haunting the Lantern Festival". On the night of this day, there are stilt walkers, colorful boats, singing lanterns, playing with dragons and lions and other activities. The hottest part of the Lantern Festival in both urban and rural areas is the burning of fire dragons, drums and gongs and firecrackers, which are deafening and crowded like the sea, and the dragons are sent to the sea late into the night (burning dragons). Rural areas have straw tie boat and paper money and burned to send the New Year, to show the end of the Spring Festival. Third, Ching Ming old times, generally in the Ching Ming Festival to the ancestral graves in front of hanging graves floating (hanging green), burn paper and firecrackers. Some also carry wine and food, and invite the children of the same family to go to the ancestors' graves to drink, "trekking", about the performance of the ancestors. Some of the combined family gathered in a place to do Qingming will, collective ancestor worship, *** into a meal. After the founding of the PRC, people in urban and rural areas still have the custom of sweeping their ancestors' graves on Qingming Festival. Institutions, schools, cadres, students to go to the martyrs' graves, planting trees, wreaths, and young people in the revolutionary tradition education. Fourth, the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar for the Dragon Boat Festival, hanging calamus and wormwood on the door of every house, eat zongzi at noon, drink xionghuang wine, and put sulfur smoke to expel snakes, insects and ants. People on the banks of the Yangtze River also rowing dragon boat on the river. After the founding of the country, in the old county town and high town organized a dragon boat race across the Yangtze River swimming competitions. Fifth, the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar for the Mid-Autumn Festival, most of them eat mochi. Legend has it that "if you don't play mochi in the Mid-Autumn Festival, your mother-in-law's children will not return home". At night, families gather in the courtyard dam, or drink wine, or eat mooncakes to enjoy the moon. In the old days, some young people used to go to other people's vegetable fields on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival to "touch the autumn". Will feel like a pillow like pumpkin (or winter melon), to give the family who want to give birth to a son (called "send head"), wishing them an early birth. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, many people still gather together on the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat mochi during the day and mooncakes at night. Customs such as "touching the fall" and "sending the head" have basically disappeared. Sixth, New Year's Eve Eve (Lunar New Year's Eve) before the 30th day of the lunar month, people make new clothes and socks, kill the pig, do New Year's Eve, stick door paintings, couplets, thoroughly cleaned inside and outside the room clean. Thirty days at noon, the family reunion to eat a sumptuous New Year's dinner. At night, the family sits around the stove until late at night (called the "New Year's Eve"), drinking tea, eating melon seeds, summing up the old year to talk about the New Year. In the olden days, on the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, the stove was sacrificed. Before dinner, every family should set up wine and rice in front of the god of the house, burn paper money, and invite the ancestors to celebrate the New Year, after which, a family will have New Year's dinner around the table, and then honor the god of wealth in the late night. The custom is now more abolished.