New Year's Eve Customs in Nanjing

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Nanjing New Year's customs

To luck, to win the lottery, looking forward to the next year

Wang Yongjian (the city of national folk culture protection engineering center consultant): the old Nanjing over the Spring Festival can be summed up in three words, nine words: to luck, to win the lottery, looking forward to the next year. On the day of New Year's Eve, the old Nanjing people have to worship their ancestors, observe the New Year's Eve, eat New Year's Eve dinner and so on. During the New Year's Eve celebration, a sweet soup, also known as Fukushou Soup, is eaten. This soup is made of red dates, lotus seeds, water chestnuts and other boiled products, taking the meaning of "increasing happiness and longevity". Eating dumplings on the first day of the year is not a tradition in Nanjing, but to eat "Yuanbao eggs" (that is, tea eggs), guests come, must eat one. In addition, the guests should be served a bowl of sugar water, in which a "happy dough" (the glutinous rice flour after steaming and drying, rolled into a ball), meaning sweet, sweet, happy.

Beginning on the 24th day of the lunar month

Zhou Ailing (president of the Jiangxinzhou Tourism Chamber of Commerce): Jiangxinzhou has been busy since the 24th day of the lunar month. We fry radish dumplings, tofu dumplings, make rice cakes, steam steamed buns, and prepare all kinds of dishes until the 30th day of the lunar month. Fish is a must for every family in Jiangxinzhou. On the night of the 30th, two carp and two chub fish are cooked. The cooked fish is put on the box at home and can only be eaten after the New Year's Day (Lantern Festival). In addition, each family must buy at least eight live crucian carp and keep them to symbolize that there will be fish every year. Starting at noon on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, families clean their doors and windows and put up spring couplets and window decorations. Then, they offer sacrifices to their ancestors, set off firecrackers, eat New Year's Eve dinner, make dumplings, and observe the New Year's Eve.

Running dragon lanterns in every township

Rui Jinggui (a member of the dragon lantern association of Helinfang Village, Honglan Township, Lishui County): In our Lishui, there is a custom of running dragon lanterns in every township and township on New Year's Day. We have a dragon lantern that is 40 meters long, ****18 sections, and requires 60 people to dance together. These 60 people, who are in every family in the village, have been passed down from the previous generation.

Wang Yongjian: Lishui is the hometown of Nanjing's dragon lanterns, there are dozens of dragon lanterns, the largest of which is hundreds of meters, the first big dragon in Jiangnan. This dragon lantern has to wait for the Shishu Lake water to dry up before it can dance on the lake bed, and the scene is very spectacular. In accordance with custom, the seventh is not out (dragon) lamp, the eighth only on the lamp, eighteen under the lamp

Nanjing people on the Spring Festival is extremely important, especially the "old Nanjing" people, for thousands of years, the traditional customs and habits from generation to generation, many of the customs still exist today. However, with the passage of time, social change, the improvement of material civilization, Nanjing people's customs and habits, but also in the continuous "with the times", which is also witnessed by the fact that ****.

When I was a child, I still remember the 24th day of the lunar month, "send the stove", and now every household in the city are all gas stoves, there are no niches for the God of the Stove? The market has long been no "stove sugar" supply. So this custom has long been dispensed with. To the New Year, in the past to visit each other is very necessary, what father-in-law and mother-in-law, uncles and uncles, aunts and uncles, cousins ...... run very lively, quite time-consuming and hurt energy. And now in addition to the essential must visit the New Year's Eve outside, all telephone worship, which is very obvious progress.

The past year before New Year's Eve, the families still have the habit of ancestor worship, and now gradually reduced, the current Nanjing City South "old Nanjing" and the Qingming Festival merged, to the Qingming Festival around the graves, nostalgic ancestors, and send condolences.

Today, the eighth on the lights, eighteen lights, in the Fuzimiao Lantern Festival this "major program" is still retained, the lights of the pattern is also increasing, the variety of changes is very great, the family hung a few red lights, is to add to the festive atmosphere. In the past, we used to play with rabbit lamps when we were young, with small candles inside, and if we were not careful, we would let the fire burn into the paper, and "ate rabbit meat" (meaning the lamp was burned). (referring to the lamp was burned) and now installed inside a small battery, there is no risk of being burned.

Nanjing people over the New Year there is a habit, very good, is "clean, clean and fresh over the Spring Festival", before the year will be thoroughly cleaned, used to be called "dusting". In the past, the old house, high beams, beams on the ash is very much, to use the chicken feather duster broom bundled in the dust on the bamboo pole, the project is not small. And now live in a flat, cleaning is much easier.

Nanjing people in the past traditionally have burned the custom of vegetarian broccoli, today many restaurants have ready to sell, small couples will not bother so much, one by one to buy, choose a good wash, only to the supermarket can be called to the ready cooked broccoli. But the south of the city has the elderly family still in the fried, and very elaborate, what the chestnut, soybean sprouts, lotus root, needle mushrooms, golden needles, fungus, celery, spinach, carrots, shredded ...... there are more than a dozen kinds of fried is the same as fried, and then summarize the mix. Soybean sprouts like "Ruyi", "capers" and "gathering wealth" resonance, so it is essential.

Customs in the first month, Nanjing people's "program" a lot of the first day of the year to the third, is the big year, New Year's Eve is the old and welcome the new, the past to use the fire bowl to warm up, the fire burned brightly, said the "prosperous development". The first five days to receive the God of Fortune. This kind of "program" has long been gradually faded, nowadays common with air conditioning, heaters, who still use the "fire pit" it, and then the God of Fortune light please is "please" not to rely on their own hard work to get rich! The God of Wealth is not to be invited, but to be rich by one's own hard work. However, the first month of the fifteenth for the "New Year", we are reunited to eat the Lantern Festival is still there. And it is still very popular.

The sixteenth day of the first month to climb the head of the city, is also there, and now more is to climb the China Gate Castle, Taicheng, Wudingmen area. The first month of the belly oil, climb the city, activities can help digestion to disease, as the so-called "walking disease". However, today's elderly people attach importance to health care, exercise, "walking disease" has long been limited to the sixteenth day of the first month.