What are the customs and traditions of Yueqing?

The folk traditions of Yueqing are as follows:\x0d\ 1. Yueqing's old bazaar customs have been inherited to this day, the main ones are: Puqi every year from the first to the fifth day of September: Dajing every ten days of three, six, nine; Hongqiao every ten days of the third eight; Furong every ten days of the second seven: Bashi every year in March the tenth, etc. The market is the most popular in Yueqing. \x0d\ 2. In Yueqing, "New Year's Eve" is commonly known as "29th dusk" or "30th dusk". To celebrate this festival. Households have to prepare a variety of New Year's food, such as pounding rice cakes, so also known as the New Year's cake for "pounding cake". Before pounding rice cake, must choose a day to dust the house, commonly known as "dusting new" or "new". For the New Year's Eve dinner, the ancestors are first sacrificed, commonly known as the "New Year's Eve Festival". Then to sacrifice the remaining dishes to hold a meal, commonly known as "to eat the year-end wine". \x0d\ 3. Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth month of May, is commonly known as Chongwu Festival, also known as Danyang Festival. The Qingjiang River as the boundary, the main food eaten on this day in the north of the river for the "tin cake", the south of the river for the dumplings. Dragon Boat Festival in Yue Cheng and Liu City area and the custom of dragon boat racing, in Yue Qing used to call the dragon boat water dragon, not called the dragon boat. Avoid confusion with the name of a kind of lamp at the Lantern Festival. \x0d\ 4. Yueqing famous cakes and foods are Baixiang Gongji Xiangcao, Dajing Zhengji frozen rice candy, Hongqiao Cai Risheng mung bean cake, Lecheng within the sugar cake and so on. \x0d\ 5. The performances of Yueqing City Lantern Festival include: Nanyue Stilts, Puqi Lifting Pavilion, Qionghua, Thousand Autumn Festival, Shimen Lions, Highland Rolling Dragons, County East Bench Dragons, Temple Front Jewelry Dragons, Sulu Stall Dragons, Fish Lanterns, River Lanterns, Horse Lanterns, etc. \x0d\ 6. Yueqing folk songs are many, can be divided into: mountain songs (such as "to the bird", "tea picking tune", "throw song"), field songs (also known as "field poetry ask" or "field poetry ask" or "field poetry ask" or "field poetry ask"). Field songs (also called "field poetry" or "field poetry", such as "long work sigh", "" December sigh bitter ", etc.). Fishing songs (e.g. "Qingjiang Horn", ""Fishing for Fish", Shenjiang Horn"), pastoral songs, children's songs are five kinds. \x0d\ 7. Yueqing city and countryside passed down the main varieties of music and art are "drum words", "Daoxiang", "Lotus", "fighting song (" counterpart white). The main varieties of Chinese Opera are "Drums", "Daoxiang", "Lotus Flower", "Fighting Songs", "Counterparts", "Playing Flower Drums", "Twin Hammers", "Selling Techniques" and so on. \x0d\ 8. Yueqing folk dances include: Sidu Big Cat Dance - performed when welcoming Wang Shipeng Rongtu, accompanied by percussion instruments such as drums and hairpins, and accompanied by an honor guard and parade, the dance movements are relatively monotonous, but the momentum is grand. Water Rising Smoking Pipe Dance - performance of beggars catching snakes, accompanied by "Clothes Lahan" tunes. Performers holding a long-handled pipe, wearing a small cap. Dressed in a long shirt, a scruffy look. Because of the humor of its tunes, it has been adapted many times to participate in the Wenzhou area and won awards. \x0d\ 9. "Doing theater" is a common name inherent in Yueqing. In the old days, Yueqing, where the temple, the word hall most of the theater, and irregular performances, commonly known as "do play". The performances at that time can be categorized into the following according to their common names: Dragon Lantern Opera, Yangshan Opera, Rice Straw Pond Opera, Finished Spectrum Opera, and Temple God Birthday Opera. \x0d\ In addition, the book "Traditional Folklore of Yueqing" (by Nan Weiran and Nan Xiangbei) published by Zhejiang Photographic Publishing House focuses on a cross-section of Yueqing society during the Republic of China period, tracing the local customs of that time, such as the yearly festivals, economic folklore, life customs, life rituals, and folkloric amusement and arts, and depicting a more complete picture of the customs of Yueqing. This book can be a good reference for understanding the customs of Yueqing.