What are the types of traditional Chinese yearly festivals

The yearly festival folklore is a social and cultural phenomenon with broad content and wide coverage. Festivals can be categorized into agricultural ritual festivals, religious festivals, ethnic traditional festivals and so on. Folklore activities are divided into two categories: monotonous and comprehensive. Unitary refers to the simple purpose of festival activities; comprehensive festivals refer to the diversified purpose of festivals, including many folk activities. Tianjin folk are very particular about the festivals of the year, and they emphasize luxury, grandeur and abundance, sparing no expense on money and manpower. The festivals are held according to the lunar calendar and have been passed down to the present day. Spring festival? Spring Festivals Spring is the first of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar. It is the first of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, and is regarded by the Chinese people as the beginning of the spring season. Later on, it was changed to a festival called "Beating Spring" (打春), which is a way of urging farmers to cultivate their land by whipping their spring oxen. Spring Cow-Punching Originally, it was a prayer held by farmers to pray for a good harvest, but later it was introduced to the cities and became an important folklore activity for people to pray for blessings and drive away difficulties, accompanied by self-entertainment and self-excitement. There are paper oxen and clay oxen to be beaten. It is made by the local governor or village elders with high prestige to preside over and send people to make, in the spring day will be placed in an open field, rate people around the spring ox 3 times around the ox to worship. Then use the silk wrapped whip to the bull body to beat 3, is "playing spring bull", to urge people to spring back to the ground, hurry up farming. Whether it is a mud cow or a paper cow, are first tied with bamboo, wire, wicker and other good skeleton, or paste mud, or paste paper. If it is a mud cow, in the spring cow must be paste in the mud on the body of the cow off, the skeleton of the same paper cow burned until. At that time, people should set off firecrackers and beat gongs and drums to welcome the arrival of spring. Play spring woman, is in the spring before two or three days, by some good people face paint, do something coy and ugly, people jokingly called it "spring woman". In the marketplace to grab food and drink, called "spring woman grab spring". Playing the spring official is some of the hilarious people, usually invited some bald people dressed up, with a big red official clothes, riding backwards on the back of a cow, performances, they are sometimes dragged down by the people on the back of the cow, and sometimes will be thrown off the gauze hat, revealing the bald head, teasing people laugh. Welcome the Mang is to welcome the Mang God of the Spring Festival, the Mang is usually dressed up by real people, whose costumes are changed from time to time according to the yearly calendar, sometimes not wearing a hat, sometimes wearing shoes, or bare feet, bare feet, etc. The Mang is used to foretell the coming year's rainy season. Used to foretell the size of the future year's rain, how the year, etc.? Spring this day, folk preaching to eat spring cake, eat deep-fried spring rolls, some families do more spring willow, that is, with the egg spread piece of shredded, mixed with the spring leeks cut into small sections. Also pay attention to eat purple radish, called "bite spring", it is said to eat radish can make people not sleepy a year. Nowadays, the folk only retains the food customs, playing the spring cow, pretending to be a spring woman, pretending to be a spring official, welcoming the argyle and other folk activities have died out after the 1920s. However, traces of this custom can still be found in Yangliuqing New Year paintings or some daily auspicious paintings. Spring Festival The Spring Festival is one of the grandest and most lively national festivals in China with ancient traditions. The word "Spring Festival" has different meanings in ancient and modern times, the Qin and Han Dynasty refers to the general date of the Spring Festival after the Spring Festival, the Wei and Jin Dynasties is rarely used, after the Xinhai Revolution, the implementation of the solar calendar, the first day of January for the New Year, change the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar (Lunar Calendar) for the Spring Festival, which has been followed up to the present day. In terms of modern meaning, the Spring Festival has two concepts, one for the narrow sense, that is, only refers to the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, folk commonly known as "the first day of the year"; a broad sense, that is, referring to the general from the "first day of the year" to "break the fifth" of the "holiday". "the" New Year "customary activities, lasting five or six days. Tianjin folk used, not only is the concept of broad, and from the first into the waxing moon began to busy year, for the New Year to do all kinds of preparatory work. There is a folk saying: "After the Lunar New Year is the year". New Year's activities actually begin on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year and last until the sixteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, a period of nearly 40 days, all of which are spent celebrating the New Year or engaging in New Year's-related activities. The concept of Spring Festival is richer and longer than the broader...? The character trait of Tianjin people who love to be lively prompted the folk to devote great enthusiasm and interest to New Year's activities. In the old days, not only the rich merchants and businessmen celebrated the New Year, but also the ordinary poor people strived to have dumplings to spend the time to celebrate the old and welcome the new. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government established a three-day vacation for the Spring Festival. To this day, the people still as in the past, in the New Year's preparations at all costs of energy and financial resources, in order to eat, wear, with the preparation of a rich and complete, the New Year's atmosphere to create a warm and red-hot. The first thing to do is to prepare the family's clothes for the New Year. As long as it is possible, the whole family should buy some clothes, hats, shoes and socks, and even the most difficult families have to buy clothes for the elderly and children. The general family roughly from the beginning of winter after the start of the operation, that is, the financial constraints of the family, and then late in the beginning of the month of wax to do. Then it is simmering "Lapa congee", bubble "Lapa vinegar", "Lunar New Year's Day 15 on the whole street (sound gai)", "twenty-three Zaowang master in heaven; On the twenty-fourth day, the house is swept; on the twenty-fifth day, the windows are glued; on the twenty-sixth day, the meat is stewed; on the twenty-seventh day, the rooster is slaughtered; on the twenty-eighth day, white flour is sent out; on the twenty-ninth day, money is put on the back; on the thirtieth day, all the families sit together in happiness. People were busy from the first day of Lunar New Year until the 30th day of the Lunar New Year. Generally speaking, after the 8th day of the Lunar New Year, the men started to buy New Year's goods. Lunar New Year goods is the festive life of food, not only the number of requirements on the rich, the quality of the requirements from the best. Although some daily necessities are not in short supply, but the purchase of a complete is for good luck, and seek to smooth. Such as dishes and chopsticks and other additions is to wish for the next year, life is rich, more people imported, people thriving. But also for the family of the elderly, children to buy things. There is a saying in Tianjin: "the daughter wants flowers, the boy wants guns, the old man wants a felt hat". Street for people to prepare for the New Year all kinds of New Year's Eve supplies on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year on all the market, commonly known as "on the whole street". In the Palace of Heavenly Empress Palace as the center of the Palace of the South, the Palace of the North Street, New Year's Eve stalls one by one, and in the wall plastered with "year in this" red paper strips, occupying a good boundary. Sell New Year's paintings, firecrackers, hanging money, windowpane, lanterns, face painting, pomegranate flowers, spring couplets, firecrackers, goldfish ...... lined up, everywhere is red and green, joyful. On the streets of the rice and noodles Zhuang, seafood stores, pickles garden, incense and candles, paper yards children's stores and other business has also entered a climax. Around the twentieth day of the Lunar New Year, most people began to buy fish, meat, vegetables and dried fruits, cakes and tea and other things. Because many of the small and medium-sized businessman family is after the twentieth of Lunar New Year to get the end of the year from the store "gift", or travelers to bring back the savings money, so buy New Year's Eve goods later. Therefore, most of the stores are busy until the afternoon of "Lunar New Year's Day". In this short 20 days, from the shopkeeper to the staff have to be busy from morning to night. 20's and 30's of the 20th century, Qianxiang Yi, Rui Fu Xiang, Yuanlong, Dun Qinglong and other silk fabrics; Fan Yonghe, Dachunlin, Guishunzhai, four far incense and other confectionery; and the Chengren paper yard child store, Wanxing tin rice noodle farms, Longchang seafood store, Zhengxingde tea and other famous old shop are full of customers all the day long, the market is tenfold. Stove Festival Lunar New Year's Eve is the day of the sacrifice of the stove, the folk said "small year". Folk legend has it that Zao Wang is the Jade Emperor sent to the earth to monitor each family to do good or evil spirits, at the end of each year to the Jade Emperor to report to the Jade Emperor the good and bad situation of the family over the year, a round trip takes seven days, so this day each family to Zao Wang send off. In the evening of this day, the parents of each family preside over the sacrifice of the stove, and the offerings are sugar gourd, sticky cake, grass and a bowl of water (the latter two offerings are for the use of Zao Wang's mount). The purpose of both the sugar gourd and sticky cake offerings is to hope that the Zaoshenwang will go up to heaven and say good things, so that the sugar gourd and sticky cake will stick to the Zaoshenwang's mouth and make him talk less or not talk at all. Some people also put wine lees on the door of the stove to intoxicate the Zaowang, so that when he meets the Jade Emperor, he will be drunk and have nothing to say. Knocking sacrifice, paper ingot will be incinerated with the year Zaowang God code child, is said to be Zaowang on the sky to report duty, and firecrackers to send off the Zaowang master in the sky. Folk regulations for the sacrifice of women are not allowed to participate in the stove, girls are not allowed to eat the sacrificial sugar melon, it is said that if you eat it will be blackened mouth ring. Sweeping the house and crossing the water On the twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year, folk routinely sweep the house, commonly known as "sweeping the house over the water". Since New Year's is the last festival of the year and the beginning of a new year, families clean their homes. Some people in the waxing moon before the twenty-fourth choose a sunny warm days, cleaning, moving boxes and cabinets, sweeping off the four walls, corners and ceilings on the dust (commonly known as "sloppy gray"), clean windows, doors and glass, polishing tables, chairs, cabinets and kitchen and all over the copper ornaments, panels, plates, pots and pans, beat the lid and other cooking utensils should be shabu-shabu, require inside and outside Dusty, to some new weather to the old and welcome the new. The next day is the 25th day of the Lunar New Year, people have to use white powder and paper to paste the windows, leaving new eyes, and some also make roller blinds. Prepare New Year's dinner? Lunar New Year's Eve from 26 to 28 is the time people prepare New Year's Eve rice, New Year's Eve food. As the folk saying goes, "Twenty-six stewed meat; twenty-seven slaughtered rooster; twenty-eight white flour hair". Housewives to eat during the New Year's chicken, duck, fish, meat, preserved beans, vinegar cabbage and other dishes together, meat and vegetables, filled with home pots and small tanks. Lunar New Year's Eve, began steaming steamed buns, pot after pot, and in the steamed buns on the point of red dot, so as to wish the family prosperity. Various kinds of stuffed steamed food, rice cakes and other food should be placed in a special room, these foods are generally eaten until the festival of lights. Posting ▲ Lunar New Year's Eve 29 posting ▲ (▲ harmonic "have", meaning every day, as an expression of hope for the new year). On this day, people should put the Spring Festival couplets, fortune words, window decorations, hanging money, black waxed paper cut into fat pig arch cutouts, as well as indoor and outdoor New Year's Eve paintings, even the water tanks, boxes and cabinets should be pasted upside down on the word "Fook" to take the meaning of the "blessing". Families with Spring Festival couplets are mostly "loyalty to the family for a long time, poetry and books for a long time" and "one night even two years, five years into two years," etc., business more than posted "prosperous business through the four seas, the source of wealth up to the Three Rivers", some people in the bedroom door on the paste. Some people stick door children's paintings on their bedroom doors. There are also homes in the yard will be sesame straw sticky with yellow paper rolls folded into the shape of a treasure, saved into a bundle, above the spread, called the "Treasure Bowl", ready for New Year's Eve stepping on the age of (crushed), and borrowed "sesame blossoms and high" proverbs to wish the family road to prosperity. On the 30th day of the Lunar New Year (the 29th day of the Lunar New Year in Xiaojin is also called the 30th day of the Lunar New Year), in the morning, people will be neatly groomed and put on new clothes. At this time, parents offer the "God of Enrichment and Fortune," the "God of All Gods," the "God of All Gods," and the new God of the Year, Zao Wang, but no incense is allowed to be lit before the formal worship of the gods in the evening. Lunch is a sumptuous meal of dishes and rice, and in the evening, dumplings with meat filling are served in the meaning of "renewing the hand of the child". The meat filling of these dumplings is mainly pork, with eggs, shrimp, crab roe, sea cucumber, leeks, and so on. Generally, if a family member is out of town, he or she must return home to eat this reunion meal, so the folk also call this dumpling "reunion dumplings". After dinner, every family puts dried salted fish and hard-skinned pastries on the empty pots and basins after shabu-shabu, in order to take the meaning of "more happiness and more joy" and "more auspiciousness". After 9:00 p.m., the parents wash their hands after the crown to God and Buddha, ancestor incense bowing, the following people first male and then female salute, this time the women of foreign surnames can not enter the house, called "taboo", the same family women do not get the others to visit the door. There is another kind of "mother example": married daughter can not look at her mother's home lights, or will be harmful (light fang) death of the family. In addition to this, a bowl of rice, rice cakes and fruits are offered to the gods and ancestors. The rice offering is a bowl of rice with red dates on top and a pomegranate flower made of red silk or red paper. The rice offering is not eaten until after the New Year, and it is said that the whole family will be blessed by eating the rice offering. New Year's cake is a symbol of a better life year after year. After worshiping the gods and ancestors, the lamps and candles are kept on, and the incense burns continuously until dawn. Night 12 o'clock for the "whole God down" time, each family to firecrackers, this time marking the old year has gone, the new year is coming, the family elders to elders congratulate the new year kowtow, elders to give the children the new year's money, and then began to observe the new year. Children more dressed in new clothes and hats, girls head with red velvet silk flowers, groups of three to five lanterns, singing children's songs, firecrackers. Older women in the family also wear red silk pomegranate flowers on their heads. In addition to the lamps and candles incense must be careful care, adults generally want to adhere to the "New Year's Eve", playing cards, chess, eating sweets. Women are busy making vegetarian dumplings for the first day of the year. These vegetarian dumplings are stuffed with gluten, dried herbs, eggs, bean sprouts, and vermicelli. After wrapping the dumplings, covered with yellow paper, to eat some at midnight, when the day is about to dawn, but also cook some of the offerings, burning incense and bowing to worship, and at this time will be enshrined in the whole God God code child incineration, commonly known as the "hair of the big paper". It is said to send all the gods to the world, welcome the new Zaojun down to the world, the new Zaowang God code will be re-supplied in the Zaowang niche. At this time, every family firecrackers (legend has it that the original firecrackers were set off to expel evil spirits, and later became a way of expression of people's prayers for good luck and prosperity, known as the "crash away from the evil"). 1930s outside the North Gate of Bamboo Alley, the estimated clothing street area, the various businesses competing, colored lanterns, fireworks. New Year's Eve night street selling sugar pier, candy, cakes and other non-stop night, the night of the New Year's Eve folk there are many taboos, not allowed to say unlucky words, especially the taboo "no more", "less", "dead! ", "finished" and other language. Also not allowed to sweep the floor, pouring water, for fear of sweeping away the wealth, pouring away. If there are porcelain and other items broken, you must immediately say "broken (years and years) peace" to drive away ominous. Lunar New Year's Eve is a festive day, but it is a "pass", because the practice of debt collectors must be in the year before the debt, if the debtor to get through the day (generally within the first month of the fifteenth does not collect debts) is the same as escaping a pass, so that there is a respite to pay off the debt of the margin. Therefore, the general business firms have to send people with lanterns to call the account, after dawn still do not turn off the lights, continue to call. Some debtors are unable to pay, they try to avoid, until the day after dawn, the street pedestrians more and more, because it is the first day of the New Year, even if the two sides to meet again, but also no longer mention the matter of the bill, have to wait for the fifteenth day of the first month after the reminder, so there is a folk saying: "avoid the first day of the first year, but not the fifteenth." The Purple Nun Sacrifice Sacrificing Zigu is a sacrificial activity for girls. The girls in the girls' quarters use silk and other cloth to make small clothes and pants, and sew them into special "small cloth dolls," which are homemade statues of the goddess Zigu. On New Year's Day, the girls put the purple nun idol for the toilet or bucket, once to the night of the first month of the 15th night divination, but also to recount their own sad feelings. Zigu, that is, pit three nuns, folk commonly known as "horse manure mother". This is the old custom of Jianghuai introduced to Tianjin, after the middle of the Qing Dynasty in the city natives lost the inheritance. Worshipping the New Year on the first day of the first month On the first day of the first month of the Chinese New Year, vegetarian dumplings made on the night of the 30th day of the Chinese New Year are eaten in order to celebrate the purity of the year. On this day, people generally enjoy themselves at home, do not go out and go to bed early at night. Later, there are folk in the morning on the first day of the custom of ascending the heights, for good luck. In the old days, tianjin urban area is mostly cottage, the place to climb the main bell pavilion, drum tower and yu huang pavilion, etc., people to climb the high to seek good luck and high rise. To the 1940s, the folk began in the early New Year's Day neighbors and friends to pay tribute to each other. To "good new year", "congratulations on wealth" and other auspicious words to greet each other. Folk also have "a good New Year, did not let the rats bite" greeting gag proverb. On weekdays, the good words called "New Year's words". This custom continues to this day. To honor the God of Wealth? On the second day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the people pay homage to the God of Wealth. At dawn, the master of the house washes himself and then honors the God of Wealth. Early in the morning, the waterman who picks water throws a bunch of firewood tied with red rope and labeled with a "real big gold bar" paper strip to the households and stores in the yard or in front of the door, which means "sending wealth" (harmonizing with the sound of "firewood"), implying that the host family will be rich in the New Year. ), implying that the main family has a great source of wealth in the New Year. Because the residents of the old days rely on the waterman to carry water from house to house to send water, so the waterman has to send a quart of water to each family, shouting in front of the door, "Into the wealth into the water to come!" So, the family to receive the wealth of water to warmly receive the waterman, generally do not give money at that time, to wait until after the first five and then calculate the account. In addition, most of the people in this day to invite "full Keren 'open market'", full Keren into the house after reading the auspicious words, wishing a year of wishes. From then on until around the Lantern Festival, relatives and friends still pay New Year's greetings and give children New Year's money. The "market" also marks the lifting of taboos against women. 20 century 40-50 years after the rise in the second day, married daughters to go back to their parents' home, aunts to pay homage to the old father-in-law, mother-in-law. Even if the elders of the mother's family have passed away, married girls can go to the mother's brother and sister's family reunion, the right to go home. On the second day of the diet at noon are generally fishing noodles, the evening to prepare a banquet to entertain the aunts. Nowadays, some folk families still follow the custom of "honoring the God of Wealth", but the phenomenon of sending wealth and water no longer exists. On the other hand, it has become a custom to go back to the mother's house on the second day of the lunar month, which is jokingly called "Auntie's Day". "Hezi" to the home to earn the third day of the first month, the traditional food custom is to package Hezi, mostly for the three fresh fillings, and to provide the God of Wealth. Since the first to the third, the folk heritage food custom said "the first dumplings the second noodles, the third Hezi to home to earn", Hezi also symbolizes the family reunion, developed and prosperous, so in addition to the third to eat Hezi, the folk also pay attention to in the first eight, the first nine of these two days to eat Hezi, in order to take the "Hezi plus eight the more you eat, the more hair! ", "Hapuzi plus nine the more you eat, the more you have" of good luck. There are also in the first month of the eleventh day of the first month to eat, said the Hepatz corner. Broken five? The fifth day of the first month, commonly known as "broken five", also known as "splash dirt". Folk have "send poor soil", "pinch small people" custom. In the old days, every family should get up on the fifth day, after getting up, open the kang mat, clean the dust at the bottom of the kang, and then use the paper to cut a silhouette of a woman's likeness, called the "poor lady" like, put on the dust, with the dustpan handfuls of out, pouring on the street, while pouring firecrackers, in order to vibrate away from the poor gas, vibrate away from the poor lady who came to look for a place to live! This is called "sending the poor" by the folk. In addition, in the early morning of this day, each family will also be the New Year's Eve accumulation of dirty things thrown away, sewage splash off. This is because the "broken five" the two words and "splash dirt" harmony, people wear new clothes for New Year's Eve, cleaned up inside and outside the house, dirt and sewage can not be like weekdays thrown and splashed, for fear of offending the gods, so the first few days of the spoils of accumulation, once the first five Splash out together. Nowadays this custom no longer exists. People generally do not pour dirty water on the night of New Year's Eve, the first one can lift the taboo. Folk special attention is "broken five" pinch small people custom. On this day, every family should be wrapped dumplings, drive away the evil, pinch the little man. Housewives chopping vegetables or meat with a knife, while chopping, mouth to chant "chopping villain", in order to vent their hatred of the villain who said bad things. When wrapping dumplings, housewives should also carefully pinch the dumpling skin, without revealing any gaps, for fear that the dumplings will break when cooked. This action is called "pinching the mouth of the villain", which means to pinch the mouth of the villain who said something bad, so that he will not talk nonsense, which is a kind of folklore activity for oneself and family members to pray for good luck, which is still inherited today. Market Opening On the sixth day of the first month (also in some cases on the eighth day of the first month), the streets of the market stores open, all the shopkeepers gathered in front of the firecrackers, stores and households to pay the first day of the first of a variety of incidental expenses. Lantern Festival The fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Shangyuan Festival, also known as the "Lantern Festival", commonly known as the "Lantern Festival". In the old days, Tianjin people usually celebrated the Lantern Festival from the 14th to the 16th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, which lasted for three days. Inside and outside the city halls, people's homes and stores, through the streets are decorated with lanterns and lanterns, and torches are set off. At night, people went out on the streets, enjoying the lanterns, or tasting paintings, or guessing Wenhu. On this day, the folk all kinds of flowers will also be more street performances. Stilts, drums, lion dance and other street lamps and lanterns, adding color to the festival. Eating Lantern Festival On the fifteenth day of the first month, we have to eat Tangyuan, which is called "Yuanxiao" in the native language of Jin, and there are two kinds of noodles: glutinous rice (called "Jiangmian" in Jin) and sorghum (called "Kibu-mian" in Jin). The ones sold in pastry stores are made of glutinous rice. Lantern filling varieties, so called "assorted soup yuan", made with a dustpan shake system, cooked fluffy and delicious. Generally home-made are sorghum flour, is wrapped in sugar filling and then tumbled by hand, slightly hard after cooking. On this day, folk preaching in front of the statue of God or the door of the house on the lotus leaf pier for the previous day's steamed hairy hedgehogs, rats pack Yuanbao noodle. Pendulum offerings for the elderly at home, preaching before the afternoon offerings of hedgehogs, rats head outward, after the afternoon turn around head inward, meaning that the Yuanbao pack back home. Cooking Lanterns before dinner should be first for the gods and ancestors. Uncle send lights? On the fifteenth day of the first month, the folk uncle to nephews to send the custom of the lamp. In the old days, it was customary to send "duck"-shaped lamps, taking the meaning of its harmonic "betting on the child" to pray for the nephew's well-being. The "nephew's lantern - shine uncle (harmonic 'old')" also has the meaning of wishing nephews a long life. So far, this custom does not decline, and the types of lamps are becoming more and more, goldfish lamps, thistles lamps, etc. to take the rich and auspicious symbolism. Walking away from a hundred diseases? The first two days of the first month of the fifteenth and sixteenth, the folk "walk a hundred diseases" custom. Especially on the sixteenth day of the first month, women not only return to their mothers' homes, but also travel in groups, while enjoying the lights and stroll, while the line "walk" in addition to a hundred diseases, folk believe that in the "walk a hundred diseases", it must be across three rivers, across three bridges, but also "touch nails", in order to seek good luck to get rid of diseases. "Touch the nail" is to use their hands to touch the bridge on the nail or temple door on the nail. Because the "nail" and "Ding" resonance, and "Ding" and symbolizes the man, so women, especially women who are not pregnant must sincerely touch the nail, in order to seek the heir, so that their family business is prosperous, there are The "Ding" also symbolizes a man. Nowadays, the Festival of Lights is still celebrated with great pomp and circumstance, but some of the customs have been simplified. Filling of Barns Festival The 25th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Barn Filling Festival, commonly known as the "Big Barn Filling". It is preceded on the 10th day of the first month by the "Small Barn Filling Festival," also known as the "Food Filling Festival. It is a festival that has grown from rural to urban areas. The festival is also known as the "Hoarding" festival. The big filling of the barn is the authentic day of the festival. In the old days, city dwellers and farmers in suburban counties held different folk activities on this day. Citizens in the first month of the twenty-fourth after dinner, with lime, chalk or ash carbon in the yard in the middle of drawing a diameter of about 2 feet to 3 feet or so of the old copper type circle, money holes were written around the "gold and silver full of hoarding" 4 words, some of the money holes in the writing of the word "hoarding". Toward the lower end of the circle outside the door, and then draw a ladder, and then put a bag of rice in the middle of the circle, with a brick pressure, called "grain hoard" or "rice hoard". At the same time, in the middle of the ground in the residential house, also draw a set of the same, put foreign money in the circle, some put copper, wrapped in paper cuts hanging money, with bricks pressed, called "money hoard", these activities are collectively referred to as "playing the hoard to fill the warehouse". In the morning of the following day, the rice bags and wallets pressed into the hoard were taken out and placed under the corner of the kang mat in the house until they were taken out at night. Residents of the money hoard when wrapped copper used to cut paper hanging money can not be new, but to use the Spring Festival pasted the old hanging money, mostly used on the "great wealth", "grains" and other auspicious words hanging money, in order to symbolize good luck. Steamed Buns Some people, in the fill warehouse festival steamed bread. Steam first kneaded the shape of the steamed buns placed in the cage drawer, and then fingers on the top of each steamed bun to press a pit, which is called "day warehouse". Steam steamed buns, open the cage drawer cover, first look at the small pit (day warehouse) whether there is water, such as full of water, symbolizing this year's year is good, is a good year; such as water is not full, is the general year; such as no water, it is predicted that the sky will be a drought, food shortages, people say that this is a "dry warehouse", generally want to steam a drawer of steamed buns to try a back to achieve the mental Food and taboos? Food and taboos? On this day, eat rice, boiled fish soup, the intention is to foretell a good year, the grain back to the warehouse. Rich families also eat steamed salted fish (i.e., pressure cooker fish). There are also homes to drink mixed noodle soup, eat meat and potatoes head, symbolizing a bumper crop. These should be the folk saying "big hoard full of small hoard flow". There are also a few eat steamed bread. Most people also eat a folk snack - bean filling fried cake, in order to take a round sweet auspicious. On this day, the family must sleep early, the night there is a noise must not be disturbed, said the "mice marry". On this day, women were not allowed to do needlework. Nowadays, every time to fill the warehouse festival, rural families still have this folk custom, but it is not so standardized. Some old-fashioned families in the city mostly wrap some coins or whole money in the old hanging money used in the Spring Festival and put them under the bed covers. Some simpler families only eat rice and fish soup for the festival. February 2 Tianjin folklore has a proverb that says, "On February 2, the dragon raises its head, the big barn is full, and the small barn flows." It means that this is the day when the Dragon King shows his head and it will rain, and from then on, the rain will gradually increase. Citing the Dragon of Money In the olden days, housewives would wake up early in the morning, hit the edge of the bed with their shoes or brooms, and recite softly, "February 2, the dragon carries its head up, and scorpions and centipedes don't show their heads". Along with reading, picking up the dustpan holding stove ash and grain chaff out of the gate to run to the river, to the river and then turn around and walk back, while walking while spreading grass ash, grain chaff, intentionally curved into the courtyard, straight to the side of the water tank, and then around the water tank to spread a circle, the name of the "lead to the money dragon," meaning that the lead dragon to go home, the snakes and scorpions and other bugs do not dare to come out to hurt people, and life and live in abundance. Then steamed rice cakes, said welcome to the dragon's arrival, at the same time that the steam death of pests, so that they no longer spoil crops. Paint the Cang? On the afternoon of the second day of February, farmers in the outskirts of the city hold a ceremony called "Painting Barns". This ceremony is performed by an older person, whose hand carries a dustpan and scatters ashes on the grain yard and courtyard. First sprinkle the top of the barn, then sprinkle the barn belly, then sprinkle the barn door. After scattering, the children and grandchildren to grab some grains and cereals placed in the warehouse, the top of the paper and then add a brick or slate pressure, as a sign of the warehouse food intact, undamaged, praying for a new year of rain and wind, a bumper crop. In addition, February 2 is also considered to be the land god's birthday, the land temple are incense. Food and Taboos? The food for this day is fried casserole, pancakes, scrambled eggs and bean sprouts. Stew is a cold noodle, cut into pieces and fried, then mixed with sesame sauce, vinegar, garlic, sesame oil and other ingredients. The purpose of frying casserole is to kill all pests. The pancakes are called "dragon scale pancakes" to protect the dragon or to strengthen the dragon's scales and keep them intact. Bean sprouts are eaten as a symbol of the glory of all things and a happy life in the future. Evening also do noodles, called "dragon beard noodles", that is, to protect the dragon's beard does not hurt the meaning. Some Han Chinese people's home cooking pig's head, in order to wait for the dragon to wake up after the arrival, to bring happiness to the whole family. This day to avoid women doing needlework, to prevent the needle to stab the dragon's eyes, stabbing the dragon body. Prevailing men shave their heads on this day of good luck. Nowadays, tianjin city and countryside still inherited the old custom of dragon head, but most people just eat the festival meal only. This day shaved head and haircut the wind is increasingly prosperous.