What folk customs are there in Dongyang?

The Spring Festival begins in the twelfth lunar month, and farmers are busy killing pigs, making candy, buying new year's goods, removing dust and pasting Spring Festival couplets, commonly known as "the twelfth busy month". On New Year's Eve, the whole family will get together in Xie Nian, have New Year's Eve dinner and celebrate the New Year. The ceremony in Xie Nian is the heaviest, with pig heads, chickens and ducks, glutinous rice sausages and so on. On the table of the Eight Immortals, burn incense and paper, fire a gun, kneel three times and knock nine times. On New Year's Day, friends and neighbors congratulated each other and had New Year's soup for dinner, in order to win the grand prize of "farming every year"; Eating rice cakes is getting better every year. On the second day of February, New Year's greetings began, and after the eighth day of the first month, lanterns were decorated to make fun of the Lantern Festival.

The day before spring, farmers rushed to get water, make winter rice candy, fry fish jelly and so on. When beginning of spring handed over, firecrackers exploded in the air, and red banners such as "Welcome to the Spring Festival" and "Everything will be fine during the Spring Festival" were posted.

There is a proverb in Dongyang: "As soon as the winter solstice arrives in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the emperor Lao Zi will go home", which fully shows that Dongyang people attach importance to Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as Ghost Festival, whenever this festival, people in Dongyang, no matter how far they are, no matter how busy they are at work, have to rush home to pay homage to their ancestors' graves. Dongyang people generally pay homage to their ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day in two ways. One is to put baked tofu, yellow wine, Qingming fruit, Qingming sheep, rice, cook the meat, tofu granules and other foods in front of the grave, and worship with three sticks of incense. Then, some money used by Yin officials was burned to the owner of the tomb. At the same time, press paper on each grave, cut off the weeds on the grave and add some soil. The other is to press the grave, find out the weeds on the grave, burn Mingbi and Buddhist scriptures, set off some firecrackers and go home for sacrifice.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, people have the habit of eating zongzi, inserting mugwort leaves, wrapping zongzi and splashing realgar wine. Eating zongzi is to commemorate Qu Yuan, inserting mugwort leaves and splashing realgar wine is to drive away evil spirits, send plague and detoxify. Although people no longer believe in the superstition of exorcising evil spirits and eliminating epidemics, as a traditional culture, the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival has continued.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival, the old custom is to worship ancestors Yue Bai, sit in a family group, share moon cakes, and let scholars sit and admire the moon. The shop has dinner and a pay cut. Nowadays, people spend the Mid-Autumn Festival by visiting relatives and friends and exchanging moon cakes and fruits, while enjoying the moon is a kind of enjoyment for a few people.

There are many temple fairs in Dongyang. During the temple fair, good men believe in women and burn incense to worship Buddha; All kinds of acrobatics, each showing its ability; Businessmen and vendors gathered, and north and south groceries was crowded with people. The biggest activities of the temple fair are welcoming Buddha and acting. Dongyang people worship Gong Hu the Great (Hu Ze) the most. August 13 is the birthday of "Gong Hu Dida", which is the same day. There are Gong Hu temple fairs in Ning Wu, Weishan, Hengdian, Qianxiang and Nanma, especially in Shanglushemukeng and Hengdian Chaoshui Temple.

Dongyang's market is divided into trading places such as grain, cattle, piglets, bamboo and wood, agricultural furniture, yarn, firewood, vegetables, department stores and salt. During the Republic of China, the county rice market, Huxi bean market, silk market, Hengdianbu market, pig market, Huangtianfan bull market, Qianxiang salt market and rice market. Hengdian sold more than a thousand pigs in each city, and sold three or four hundred cows in each city before and after Qingming. Thousands of tons of salt and rice are sold to every city in thousands of townships. In the mid-1980s, a number of influential and sought-after professional markets were formed. 1988, there are 36 comprehensive markets and 66 specialized markets in the whole region. Average daily booth 18922. Among the specialized markets, there are 17 grain markets, 19 piglet markets, 10 cattle markets, 7 timber markets, 4 commodity markets, 2 means of production markets, and 1 market for shredded grass, straw mats, Chinese herbal medicines, fruits, non-staple foods and plastics. There are 9 specialized markets in the urban area.

In addition, Dongyang's markets include Qianxiang Chinese herbal medicine market, Fang Jun straw mat market, Huangtianfan cattle market, Huaxi plastic market, small commodity market and Ning Wu means of production market.