What are the folk customs in Xinyang, Henan?

In Guangshan County, Huangchuan County, Shangcheng County and Xinxian County (except Jianhe and Guojiahe) of Xinyang City, it is a custom to send lanterns to deceased relatives on the fifteenth day of the first month. On this day every year, no matter how far away from home, people will try their best to get home, just to send a lantern in front of their loved ones' graves to express their nostalgia and gratitude to their ancestors.

There is a local saying that "the fifteenth day of the first month is like the New Year" and "the fire of thirty is the light of the fifteenth", that is, you can not return to the New Year, but you must return on the fifteenth day of the first month, which shows the grand ceremony of sending lights.

Sending lanterns during the Tenth Five-Year Plan is a unique traditional folk custom in Guangzhou (now Huangchuan County, Guangshan County, Shangcheng County and Xinxian County of Xinyang City). It is said that the custom of sending lanterns began in the early Ming Dynasty, and it is said that this custom is related to Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The custom of sending lanterns has become the most solemn ceremony to commemorate ancestors in Guangshan, Huangchuan, Shangcheng and Xinxian.

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Xinyang diet: Xinyang is located in the south of Huaihe River and north of Yangtze River, which is a typical Jianghuai area and the only area in Henan Province where rice is the staple food. There are also Jianghuai characteristics in various eating habits and cooking techniques.

After thousands of years of accumulation and development, Xinyang cuisine, with its original flavor, freshness, crispness and freshness, is popular all over the country 16 provinces and 56 cities. Luoshan large intestine soup, fresh fish in wooden barrels in shopping malls, Xinyang hot soup, Xinyang Ciba, Huangchuan Guangzong noodles, Huangchuan soft-shelled turtle, Huangchuan Huanggang fish soup, egg filling cakes, etc. Xinyang is rich in Nanwan fish, and Xinyang grilled fish naturally becomes a famous snack in Xinyang.

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