The traditional folklore activities theme essay 600 words or so

Wenzhou open door cannon: the first morning of the first day, the first thing every family is scrambling to hit the "open door cannon", the whole city a firecracker sound, symbolizing the old to welcome the new and pick up the blessing, commonly known as "catching the year". Playing the "door cannon" also has the practice, generally is the first small firecrackers a string, called "100 children gun"; and then put a double sound of big firecrackers, big firecrackers only three hair, meaning that can be lifted a year of plague plague obscurity, and said to receive the New Year. Requirements for three shots are loud, loud and clear sound, the most auspicious. Common belief that playing "open the door cannon" the sooner the better, symbolizing that this year, do whatever will go smoothly, such as the intention to get rich, planting people will have a bumper crop. Some places in the open door when the cannon, but also read in the mouth: "open the door, fire the cannon; wealth is also to, hi also to." General firecrackers of the outer skin and the inner skin are a color red, after burning paper flowers all over the ground, Can in the cloud brocade, forming a full color, joyful. Now firecrackers have been banned in towns, but in rural areas and fishing islands can still be set off.　Worshiping the six gods: After opening the door to firecrackers, men and women in each family put on new clothes. The housewife burns Buddha tea, and offers various offerings in Jiangxi porcelain bowls to the incense burner. Ancestors' images are hung in the center hall, and the ancestors are worshipped first, followed by the six gods (the God of Stove, the God of the Eaves, the Master of the White Tiger, the God of the Well, the God of the Land, and the God of Wealth). Folk believe that these six gods and goddesses are the protectors of each family, and they are worshipped in the New Year to pray for the safety of the population and the prosperity of the family throughout the year.　Receive three gods: after worshiping the six gods, and in the atrium set up a small square table, a bowl of rice, covered with red paper, around the sticky solid, placed on the table, burning incense and candles, worship, called "receive three gods" (i.e., Taoism's Yu Qing, Shang Qing, Tai Qing), after the sacrifice moved indoors until the fourth day of the first month of the new year, to send the gods to withdraw from the seat.　Ancestor worship: In the old days, at noon on the first day of the first month, in Dongtou County, each family should worship their ancestors. The ceremony is hosted by the housewife. First, offerings are listed, wine cups and chopsticks are set up, and yellow wine is poured into the wine compotes. A bench should be placed in the center of the god and the offering table, then red candles are lit and incense is burned on the incense burners of all the shrines for the ancestors, the three gods, the land god, the stove god, and so on. When the red candle has burned about three-quarters of the way through or the incense will be burned out, then start burning "gold paper" (a kind of gold foil, folded into the shape of a treasure of paper money, the common belief that after the chanting of scripture to be effective), set off firecrackers. Finally, the food is removed, and the chairs in front of the offering table are moved before the food is removed. When worshipping the ancestors, the gifts on the offering table are not allowed to be moved; all offerings that have been worshipped, with the exception of pastries and fruits, must be re-cooked or steam-heated before they are eaten. Otherwise, they are considered disrespectful to the gods and ancestors.　Line incense: early in the morning on the first day of the first month, the old "line incense" custom. The city's civil and military officials, the crown with a moped, full deacon, sounding a gong to open the way to the temple line incense, the prestige of the ceremony is very prosperous, each family and the elderly and family members of the day is not yet light, has been bathed and dressed, competing first rushed to the community temple or nearby temples to open the temple door and burn the first incense, incense lamps, and some even so much as the New Year's Eve do not sleep, in the temple to keep and so on. Ohio time, hurry to burn incense, show piety. Common belief that the first person rushed to point on the incense is the most auspicious, so there is a race to be the first to point the first pair of candles custom. As the saying goes, "Whoever opens the temple door earliest, this year must earn big silver." Elderly people go to temples to worship the temple god, mainly pray for blessing the new year auspicious, the whole family peace. But because of the class, industry, gender, age and other different, come to worship the god of the people are endless, there is to do business to get rich, there is to seek agricultural harvest, there is to seek children to renew the heir, and so on. Larger temples such as Dongou Wang Temple, worshipers should give the temple blessing red packets, such as prayers, the first day of every year, the rich, to use up to more than a hundred pounds of large candles to return the wish.　Kaizheng: in the old days in dongtou island, every family thirty night watch to c d time or so, are to hold "Kaizheng" ceremony. It is presided over by the head of the family or the person in charge of the family's production and life. The presiding officer should be "purified" (i.e., to abstain from sex on New Year's Eve) and bathe the whole body, and should not touch anything dirty before the "opening of the main". The table is placed in front of the door or in the patio, and two benches should be padded on the foot of the table to make the table elevated. Offerings are three animals, fish, fruit, pastries, vegetarian noodles, etc., on both sides of a pair of foot-long red candles, commonly known as "overnight". Kaizheng", the presiding officer lit "overnight", burning incense three columns, the whole family kneeling, palms together to ask the sky, a devout prayer, praying for God's blessings, blessing the whole family in the new year, peace, wealth, all the best. After the prayer, the whole family stood in silence for a while, and then burned "gold paper" firecrackers. Finally, the withdrawal of food. 80's, has been the "open positive" time advanced to midnight zero hour, accompanied by CCTV ringing the New Year's bell. Ceremony is also more simple, some just firecrackers, fireworks. But more firecrackers, especially the "hundreds of guns", and even several thousand strings together, the sound is loud, long, lively and unusual.　Worship Tea: On the morning of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, Dongtou Island still retains a custom called worship tea. The tea is made of jujubes, cinnamon balls, rice cakes and other sweet tea called "jujube tea", which takes its auspicious meaning: jujubes - more and more prosperous days, cinnamon balls - family reunion, safe and smooth, rice cakes - step by step. Worship tea" is divided into two parts: one is to worship the ancestors, a small bowl, offered to the God of the stove in front of the statue; the second is to worship the God of the stove, are to burn incense and candles, burn gold paper, firecrackers. After worshiping the tea, each member of the family will have a bowl to drink. Because the first meal of the New Year is to drink soup, so, in the days to come, or go out, or work at home, if the rain is blocked, people will be "the first day of the first month of the soup," this self-deprecating. After drinking tea, and then burn line noodles to eat, commonly known as "longevity noodles", both Figure auspicious, wishing the whole family a long life, but also because of the tea is not enough to eat, as food, can be harvested in one fell swoop.