What are the folkways and customs of Henan?

Hundred Clothes and Hundred Meals: Hundred Clothes is a kind of baby clothes, which is made of pieces of cloth contributed by one hundred families, so it is called Hundred Clothes. The size and color of the cloth is generally not too elaborate, but the blue is the best. Because of the "blue" harmonic "block", as long as there are blue cloth, demons and monsters will not take away the child. Folk to protect the growth of the baby custom in addition to wear a hundred clothes, there are children to eat a hundred rice habits. Where the child is more spoiled family, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the grandfather holding the grandchildren under the age of one, pretending to be beggars look like, hand-held broken bowl, begging along the street. Begging for food to 100 families. They will be begging for buns, vegetables, rice braised together, boiled into thin rice, let the child eat. It is said that in this way the child will be sheltered by the 100 families and be spared from disaster.

Red Eggs for Annunciation: In some areas of the Central Plains, after the birth of a baby, the baby's father will be eager to tell the child's grandmother the good news, which is called annunciation. The gifts are also a sign of good news. Red eggs are often brought at the time of annunciation. When a child is born in a family, the hard-boiled eggs are painted red.

The activities that are usually carried out in the cave house include biting apples, biting candies, walking on a log bridge, and singing by husband and wife.

Dragon Head Raising Festival, the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar is a traditional Han Chinese festival. Folk believe that this day is the day the dragon wants to ascend to heaven, so it is called "Dragon Head Raising Festival" or "Green Dragon Festival". On this day, women in rural Henan generally do not move the scissors, do not do needlework, for fear of moving the knife and cut the dragon body. During this festival, people go to the fields to pick wild vegetables, make dumplings, fry pancakes, stir-fry soybeans, fry bacon, steam jujube buns, and improve the life of the festival has become an important content. Among the many food and customary activities, this day has the most people spreading pancakes and eating fried beans. Folk believe that this day is the birthday of the Dragon King of the East China Sea, and the pancake is the tire coat of the Dragon King. Eating pancakes is to chew disaster for the Dragon King, and throwing pancakes is to bury the tire coat of the Dragon King.

The Zhongyue Temple Fair, which takes place on the tenth day of the third lunar month in spring and the beginning of the tenth lunar month in fall, lasts for 10 days. The theme of the temple fair is popular in the region of a child-seeking custom, people commonly known as "tethering dolls". Most of the women who are infertile after marriage have to participate in this activity during the temple fair.

Sanmenxia City, Henan Province, the "hundred Buddha top light", performed around the Lantern Festival.

Huaiyang grand grand Tai Hao mausoleum temple fair, every year since the lunar calendar, January 2, to March 3, the end of a month.

The Pangu Temple Fair is held in March every year. The main purpose of the local worship of Pangu is to pray for rain, seek children, and protect the peace. Legend has it that Pangu has the right to conduct three private rains. Therefore, when the people need rain, as long as they beg to Pangu, Pangu will be able to fulfill people's wishes. There is also a saying among local mountain people that Pangu loves cleanliness, and after the March 3 temple fair, a rain shower will wash the mountain to wash away the filth that people leave on the mountain. During the temple fair the reason why people seek children to Pangu, but also because Pangu master Pangu milk pinch mud people reproduce human beings.