Guangxi Fangchenggang City, Fangcheng District, Maoling Township, Shangmei Zhu Path Village, the time of the festival and the packet to do 籺 [hé]/? (yè) , patties, pastries, cookies) are?

Guangxi Fangchenggang City, Fangchenggang City, Maoling Town, beautiful village committee on the Upper Meizhujing village of the year the main Lunar Calendar festival time, over the main festival year customs and habits, and do the package made quail (? / patties), sugar water, dishes are:

The first day of the Chinese New Year (the first day of the first month of the year): every family kills a large castrated chicken in the morning row of the year (New Year's Day) ancestor worship, in the ancestral shrine dance lions, gongs and drums, at noon and so on, all the people in the village to come to all the worship together together with a unified firecrackers, firecracker smoke are flooded with the whole temple ancestral shrine temple, after the release of the firecrackers on the unity of chicken to go home, return to the home on the fried pig's feet steamed pork feet buckled pork, do Sauerkraut pork, steamed fish or fried stewed fish, pork, chicken and duck fried noodles, do white cut chicken and do deep-fried quail (quail, the local dialect Cantonese pronunciation "@"). On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the family sat at the table to eat, the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year can not be soaked in soup to eat. In Shangmei Zhujing Village, the Spring Festival is only celebrated on the first day of the Lunar New Year, not the second day of the Lunar New Year. Some places such as Peng's and Li's family are doing the second day of the Lunar New Year, not the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year they still have to rush to visit friends and relatives, to get up in the middle of the night in the early hours of the morning to kill chickens and ducks to pay respect to the community, the ancestors it. Those Chinese New Year only (only do) the second day of the year, do not do the first day of the family and friends can go to play on the United States Zhujing Village Oh, where the first day of the New Year around 14:00 in the afternoon is very lively Oh.

The second day of the year began to go to visit relatives, the new aunt generally in the second day of the year back to her mother's home, the third day of the year sweeping, sweeping the poor ghosts, held to send the poor ghosts of the ceremony from the first day of the year until the third day of the year to sweep the floor! Generally the third day of the year single day are not to visit relatives. On the fourth, fifth and sixth days of the year, you can then go to visit your family! Some people at the beginning of the fifth or sixth of the year are scattered years (buy and kill chickens, ducks, fried dumplings to make a big meal to pay tribute to the community public, Zu Gong to the children to go out to work or go to school. Worship to visit relatives, generally worship to the fifth and sixth of the year, even if there is still wine left, there is no meat to eat, is the end of the year.

Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month to eat dumplings sugar water, buy pork, kill chickens or ducks, chickens and ducks and pork boiled together, fried rice dumplings to worship the community, ancestor scattered years. Some have sons and daughters to go out to school early ah, working in advance to do the scattered years, so this festival, if the early scattered years, but also can not.

Lunar February 2 Chunshe Festival (Prayer Festival), the whole village every household to pay rice, money to buy incense, paper, candles, pork to worship the community to pray for a year of wind and rain, grains, the village peace, in the worship of the community to get together next to the public. Now live in the countryside for a long time only this festival, if you have been out to work, or moved to live outside, some people are too lazy to go home for this festival, plus now many people do not plow the fields and planting, so this festival evolved to the present can not be.

The Qingming Festival kills chickens or geese, makes hair bowls, cooks rice in soup and pinches rice balls to sweep the graves.

On the eighth day of the fourth month, the Patty Festival, the Cow Soul Festival, the Medicine King Festival, and the Buddha Bathing Festival are celebrated. On the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, we eat garbage chokes (Lasa@/garbage chokes). In the port area of Fangchenggang City, some company canteens also do garbage @ sold to employees to eat. April 8, according to legend, this day is also the birth of Shennong, the king of medicine, Shennong tasted a hundred medicines, curing a hundred diseases. So some women in this day to the outskirts of the picking stink vine (chicken poop vine), white head, wild ai and other plants, add rice together with washing and drying, and then put the grass head medicine and rice together into the machine to beat the powder, and then take it home into a patty cake, you can pinch the hands into the shape of the size of the fingernail or cut into strips and put the sugar into the cooking sugar water to eat, but also can be put into the cake molds to make cookies to eat, the name of the food! "Lasa", said to be able to cure all diseases, garbage is to lower the fire. This day there is also said to bathe Buddha Festival, the legend says that the eighth day of April is Sakyamuni's birthday. "Jing Chu years and times," said Jing Chu to April 8, the temple incense soup bath Buddha, *** for the Dragon China. Legend has it that on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar to eat chicken poop vine and other grass-head medicines made of patty cake sugar water, washed the grass bath, you can get rid of the past evil, with the grass bath to drive away the nuisance of the poisonous insects, with the "garbage @" food, really do the role of the external dressings and internal service, to protect their own health. In some places, people also cook glutinous rice and feed it to the cows so that they can rest for a day. On the eighth day of the fourth month, you can buy some garbage and eat it, or you can skip the festival.

On the first day of May, pick mugwort leaves and hang them on the top of every window and doorway, and then pick some more mugwort leaves to rub the water and wash your face, which can prevent bee and mosquito bites!

May Festival (Dragon Boat Festival), every family kills chickens and ducks, buy pork to worship the ancestors, the community, packaged ram's horn rice dumplings (triangular savory red, blue and fragrant meat dumplings, do not put red and blue to put the black sesame into the fried aroma of the rotten smear in the meat to do the rice dumplings on the heart of the 4 Angle Bean Dumplings), the sweet gray water rice dumplings (cool rice dumplings), rowing dragon boat races.

June 18 Guanyin Dan Festival, people who believe in Buddhism to buy candy tribute to Guanyin, June is generally not a festival.

July Festival (July 14 in the Yuan Festival, Duck Festival), kill ducks, buy incense and paper candles and cannons, five-color paper, cut paper clothes burned to the ancestors back clothing and do white potato quail (white mochi) to eat, now there are many people do not like to eat, or not much time to do, generally do not do white potato quail to eat, remember when I was a child in July 14 Festival, parents often do to eat, so miss the childhood ah, when I was a child every New Year's Day, parents will do some of the quail to eat. I remember when I was a kid, my parents used to do it every New Year's Eve, so I miss my childhood, and my parents used to do it every New Year's Eve.

August 10 Lingtou Festival, in the village of Shangmei Zhujing, there are many people do not Lingtou Festival, some people have just, even if they have also as a small festival as a family dinner only. The people of Shangmei Zhujing Village belong to a small village, unlike Huang Yutun Xixian Village, which is a large village to live like the Spring Festival or to do so grandly.

On August 15, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a family reunion, where we watch the moon at night, eat mooncakes, fruits, and have a reunion dinner, and sometimes we don't get together for dinner. August is generally not a festival.

September Chongyang Festival, climbed up to the top of the mountain to eat snacks and fruits. In the past, when I was in elementary school, I had this festival, usually by elementary school teachers teamed up to take students to climb a mountain peak, buy some fruit snacks in advance, water, climbed to the top of the mountain while watching the scenery while eating. Rural women also make hair cakes, banana cakes, peanut candies, and cookies to eat in their spare time. If you don't study, you don't usually go to this festival.

At the end of the lunar calendar December 16, Winter Social Festival (also Fukushi Festival) to worship the community, ancestor, like the Spring Social Festival, families pay money to buy pig head, pork, incense and paper, candles and candles money together to worship the community where the gathering, after the gathering of meals, each person also have to lead a few two pig head meat to eat at home, called the "social meat". General "do society" are three or four people to do together, four "head of the community" division of labor, some door-to-door rice and money, some buy things, some cut the community meat, some worship the God of the community, some preparation of cutlery and firewood to wash things, stir-frying and cooking, generally three or four households! Usually, three or four households take turns to be the "head of the community"! Nowadays, unlike in the past, every family lives in the countryside and farms a lot, because nowadays there are a lot of young people who have moved to live in the city and work outside for a long time, and it is inconvenient to go back to the countryside during the Spring Festival and the 16th of Lunar New Year Winter Festival, so they usually don't go home to celebrate the festival (not to be a social), but if it is their turn to be the "head of the community", some people will The first thing you need to do is to ask your neighbors who have been living in the countryside for a long time to help you out.

On the 23rd and 24th of the lunar calendar, they start cleaning, digging ditches behind the houses, boiling rice dumplings, washing rice dumpling leaves, preparing the fillings for the rice dumplings, and buying New Year's goods for the New Year.

After the cleaning, the end of 30 nights before the end of the door-to-door and in addition to buy chickens, ducks, pork and three raw, or pig head five raw, and so on to pay respect to the community, Zu Gong, is equivalent to return the wish (also blessed), because at the beginning of the year after the Chinese New Year a few years to prepare for the outside world of work, the old people of the family love to go to the ancestral ancestral ancestral hall, the community incense burner there to pray for blessings and wishes for blessings to go out to work peace, planting of the prayers of the grains and the family has livestock to pray for people to work, the family has livestock to pray for people to work. Raise livestock to pray for the people and six animals peace and prosperity and other good wishes!

Year 30 night (New Year's Eve) package hexagonal long rice dumplings (boiled long rice dumplings about three pounds a, free people will be a few days ahead of the package of boiled rice dumplings), kill chickens and ducks to worship the community, ancestor, the evening after New Year's Eve dinner, before going to bed, parents issued the New Year's Eve money to the children in their pants pockets inside the bed, wait until 12:00 am and a few seconds when the whole village together with the firecrackers, released to the sky is brightly finished.

Summarizing on the United States on the bead Jing village because now there are many people are out of the city to buy a house to live or long-term working outside the reason, now generally the main over the following festivals: Spring Festival on the first day of the New Year, Ching Ming Festival sweeping graves, the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth of May, the 14th of July in the New Year's Day, the year 30 night (New Year's Eve), now the popularity of the main on the 3 to 5 festivals, some of them moved out of the outside world to live or work in other provinces! Young people, the Dragon Boat Festival and the July Festival also do not go home to worship ancestors and worship society, in the local do not go home to worship ancestors and worship society, it is equivalent to not a festival.