Sixth grade book 2 unit 2 composition Fujian Province folk customs how to write

Fujian Spring Festival Customs

Minnan area of the countryside New Year's Eve customs appear to be different from the city. Rural farmhouse, room more doors, in addition to posting the Spring Festival couplets, the door on both sides of the room should be placed on the two circles of red paper stickers of the root cane, called "door cane", the dialect "cane" and "good" near sound, meaning that the It means to enter a good place. The tables in the hall are decorated with New Year's rice, New Year's vegetables, hair cakes, and inserted with "spring branches" tied with red and yellow paper, implying that the rice will be plentiful and auspicious for a long time to come. Each family should be the potato vine wood sticks stacked outside the gate, lit to be its smoke around the fire, men according to generation jumped over the pile of flames, while jumping and read: "Jump in to come, year after year of great wealth; jump out, no worries **** no worries; jumped over the East, grains to eat is not empty; jumped over the West, the money and silver rolled in." This is called "fire group", symbolizing the burning of the old year's evil, eliminating disasters over the luck, ushered in a clean, auspicious New Year. "Jumping fire group", we should use the new broom to clean the hall, after sweeping the broom dustpan together, the garbage heap door, I hope that wish to come out from the dustpan again, to help make a fortune. At the same time, we should collect some of the remaining ashes from the fire and add them to the charcoal stove, which is called "Tim Wong", symbolizing more prosperity. Parents rate children sitting around the stove, called "around the stove to observe the New Year", the best all-night vigil, it is said that this is for parents to add life. At this time, the elders to the younger generation to share the New Year's money, called "divided round". With the progress of society and the accelerated pace of life, some of the cumbersome customs in the countryside of southern Fujian have gradually been abolished, but the farmers look forward to a good year's `customs are still preserved. Especially "around the stove" in the cold winter months, the whole family around the warmth of the small stove, drink and talk about the old and look forward to the future, that is how cozy, how happy.

There are many folk customs, with the progress of the times, in recent years has changed greatly. In order to follow the customs of the countryside, the following:

On the first day of the first month, the door opens at dawn, Van incense burning explosion, said "Kai Zheng". Wake up in the morning to worship ancestors, is the day, the manure is not dumped outdoors.

The third day of the first month, for the mourning family fresh worry (i.e., burn new bed) day. Where the first day, two did not go to the friends of the house, is the day should not visit, visit is disrespectful. There is a proverb that "early in the first, early in the second, the first three sleepy A full", meaning that the third day of no guests to the door, no harm in getting up late. So how did this custom come about? According to legend, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese invaders occupied the outer islands of Xiamen. On the night of New Year's Eve, the officials and soldiers were busy with the New Year's Eve and neglected to guard the city, so the Japanese took the opportunity to attack the city, and the people and the army rose up to resist the enemy, and the battle raged for two days and three nights before the Japanese were defeated and retreated, but the casualties among the people and the army in the city were very heavy. On the third day of the first month, the people buried their friends and relatives, mourning the dead, crying, no time to visit other families to pay tribute to the New Year. The next year, the third day, Xiamen residents as a taboo day, over time, become a custom.

On the fourth day of the first month, the Buddha must burn paper and silk and horses, to receive the God, the Department to meet the December 24th to send the God.

On the ninth day of the first month, the Jade Emperor's birthday, the incense case to honor the gods. However, the mourning family has to stop worshiping for two years.

On the tenth day of the first month, the earth is born. On this day, no firewood is cut and no earth is dug. The gods are honored with ordinary objects.

On the thirteenth day of the first month, it is the birthday of Emperor Guansheng.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, the Lantern Festival is held on the birth anniversary of Sanguan Da Di.

Fujian New Year's Eve customs

Every place New Year's Eve customs are different, in the burst of firecrackers, we ushered in a festive holiday - Spring Festival.

Hometown is most lively on New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. First of all, on New Year's Eve night, the first is to honor the God of Heaven, to honor the God of Heaven is to be in the ZiZheng time (for the zero hour) to arrive, all around the sound of firecrackers into a piece, we that is, we have to set up a case in the home of the WanTang, set up the three sacrificial animals, fruits, tea and other tributes, and burned three columns of incense, light candles to worship the God of Heaven. This kind of worship to the God of Heaven is to continue until the fourth day of the lunar calendar. New Year's Eve. Not only to keep the New Year's Eve but also open the right, open the right is the New Year's Eve vigil to twelve o'clock, to welcome the New Year, in the son of the right time "to honor the God of Heaven" at the same time, set off fireworks, in order to celebrate, open the door to welcome the spring to welcome good luck, commonly known as the "open the right".

On the first day of the first month, first of all, Hezheng. Early in the morning, both men and women, young and old, everyone is to get up early, put on the new clothes have long been ready, breakfast, the family ate noodles and eggs, it is said to eat eggs to shell, meaning in addition to the bad luck, welcome auspicious, and the noodles symbolize the meaning of longevity. In the morning after breakfast that is to go out to visit neighbors and friends, friends and relatives are welcome with a smile, the first time we meet each other to say: "Congratulations". Is commonly known as "Hezheng", if there are children at the door as a guest, the host must serve candy, candied fruit or drink sweet tea, drink sweet tea, meaning that the door to the small guests "sweet" meaning. In order to show that the little guests have a sweet, sweet good start.

By the ninth, the Spring Festival is almost over, children go to school as usual, adults also go to work as usual.