Comprehensive practical activities on the topic of "hometown's Spring Festival

Customs--Taizhou New Year's Customs?

The Spring Festival is one of the oldest, most festive, warmest and most desirable traditional festivals of the Chinese people. In the Spring Festival, distant travelers return to their hometowns to return to their parents, and fathers who go out to work bring back a year's hard-earned money to reunite with their wives and children. Compared with foreign festivals, or even with ordinary Chinese festivals, the Spring Festival highlights a family and reflects a love. Home is the harbor for all family members, and love is the bond that holds them together.

In addition to this strong family love, the Spring Festival also represents festivity and auspicious omens. From the family firecrackers, thank you for the year, to the dragon and lion dances in the New Year, everyone's face is full of happy smiles, the whole of China is immersed in a festive and peaceful atmosphere. Precisely because of the tradition, there is the influence of traditional culture.?

It is said that three miles of different winds, ten miles of different customs. Although Taizhou is not a large area, the Spring Festival customs can be quite a lot. Taizhou people in the New Year Lantern in the end what folk style, folk customs? As a Taizhou people can not not know.

Linhai people over the Spring Festival, Lantern custom?

The Spring Festival customs?

In Linhai, the Spring Festival usually lasts from the first day of the first month to the eighth day of the first month. This is what is meant by the popular saying, "When the year of our Lord passes the eighth day of the month, the soup is not enough for us to drink", which has been passed down in the folklore of Zhangjiadu.

Before dawn on the first day of the New Year, cannonballs were fired. After the dawn, each family inserted candles, incense burning paper money, with tea and fruit offerings to heaven and earth, the family hall ancestors.

Breakfast on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the former Chengguan ate dumplings, Dongxiang are eating glutinous rice and red dates porridge, coastal fishing townships are eating "longevity noodles", the Northwest Township Hill people have eaten tofu porridge. Duqiao, on the plate and other places, the first day of the morning meal men burn, used to eat "vegetable head rice". On the fourth day of the month, the folk prepared sacrificial sweet, burn paper horse paste new "stove Division", called "receiving stove God".

The first day, Linhai in the past there are many taboos: such as not allowed to sweep the floor, not allowed to pour water on the ground, not allowed to move the knife, do not move the needle and thread, do not work, do not do business, are not allowed to curse, not allowed to collect debts, are not allowed to fight, even if there is usually a grudge on this day to live in harmony.

The eighth day of the first month is commonly known as "on the eight", in the past is also Zhangjiadu "open market" day, every household on the eighth morning meal to cook rice to eat, called "on the eight rice". After the last eight, folk New Year's worship activities even come to an end. But the official end of the first month of activities, but also after the first month of the fourteenth, because people fourteen night "lanterns", "receiving God of Fortune", the God of Fortune out of the street after the end of the announcement.

The Spring Festival activities in Jiaojiang and around the country are largely the same, the same part is not more than posting couplets, fireworks, pay tribute to each other until the first month of the 15th lantern.

According to "Haimen Township" records, "the first day of the first month of the old calendar, every family is sticking Spring Festival couplets. Doorway set incense, placed cakes and fruits for the gods. Men and women, young and old, all new clothes, have to the temple to burn incense, firecracker sound, rumbling ears. Families are to dumplings, rice cakes, dumplings filled with food; cake to take the high rise, the group to take the meaning of reunion." Because the first day of the first month taboo knife, so the cake must be cut on New Year's Eve, the first morning to eat rice cakes metaphor for "high rise", at noon to eat dumplings metaphor for reunion, and at night to eat rice dumplings metaphor for undressing to sleep a whole night. And gamblers are most jealous of this day to eat rice dumplings, he was afraid that this year's gambling luck is not good, was stripped of a whole light.

Jiaojiang and Taizhou, like all over the same, from the late Qing Dynasty began to rise on the day of the Spring Festival to go to the ancestral graves of "worship tomb years" of the custom, which is taken from the past to worship the ancestors of the custom of the portrait. On this day, all the family members bring the objects to pay respect to the ancestors and go to the ancestors' graves in the countryside or on the mountains to pay respect to the ancestors. On this day, the field visitors than shoulder to shoulder, a steady stream of land, a great spectacle, this activity not only to the ancestors to express nostalgia and respect, but also to go to the countryside and mountains to move the muscles and bones, to absorb fresh air, it is really two birds with one stone.

"On the morning of the second day of the first month of the hometown are with powdered hooves, wine and meat offerings, called 'New Year', said to meet the new God of Wealth, are scrambling, even in the middle of the night line, the sound of firecrackers, all night long. After the New Year, the new relatives, routinely have to pro-knock year, the host family wine reception, and must also knock" ("Haimen Township Zhi - year").

However, most of the businessmen to the fifth day of the first month of the sacrifice of the God of Fortune, according to legend, the fifth day of the first month of the God of Fortune's birthday, to the fifth, wherever the hope of a prosperous source of wealth of the people, routinely must have livestock to receive the God, the businessman particularly solemn, especially the day of the opening of the market, the gongs and firecrackers, livestock gift Bibi Chen to compete for the first for the benefit of the market, will rise early to meet the. In the past, Jiaojiang is known as the "Little Shanghai", commercially developed, businessmen, so the fifth day of the festival God of Wealth is particularly prosperous, is the day, incense cases full of street, firecrackers, everyone arched his hand to congratulate the words of good luck, the street is full of festive and auspicious and hopeful color.

The last major activity of the Spring Festival is the fifteenth night of the Lantern Festival, that is, the Lantern Festival. The 15th day of the first month, commonly known as the first yuan, and the 15th of July in the yuan, the 15th of October, known as the three yuan. It is also known as the Lantern Festival, which means the first night of the full moon. On the Yuan Zhang Lantern began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty, passed on to today's real more than a thousand years carry on!

Jiaojiang New Year's Eve midnight lanterns will be more or less the same as all over the world, merchants in the doorway hanging a variety of colorful lanterns to pay God and entertain the people, and in the eaves covered with a variety of colors of cloth to protect the lanterns. Jiaojiang is located in the harbor, there are a large number of dockworkers and fishermen, they are active and lively, so the focus of the night activities is "haunted lanterns", and one of the most violent is the "nick small master. In the past, people in Jiaojiang called the temple idol "Master" and the small idol "Little Master". Jiaojiang people to have in the middle of the first month of the night to open lights to welcome the custom of the gods, that is, the so-called "nick small old man" activities.

In order to welcome the god at midnight of the first lunar month, every temple in Jiaojiang is equipped with a small statue of the god for welcoming. Out of the welcome seat is two large bamboo bars tied in the middle of a cushion, like a lift with a mountain slider, the idol is sitting on this cushion, carried on the shoulders of a strong young man in a group of the temple location of the young people to participate in the tour of the welcome activities under the guard. On the night of the first month of the fifteenth, the street business households with lanterns and colorful, everywhere bright, the whole street illuminated as if day. Eat the Lantern Festival of the people, the old and the young have to the street, the street is a sea of people, shoulder to shoulder, excited, all the people in the streets.

No more than a small master of the lead is two dragons, with the noisy sound of gongs and drums, the two big dragons in the dazzling lights and sky-shattering firecrackers flying, and then out of the welcome of the idol team. I don't know what era, I don't know is a fixed rule, the whole Haimen temple only allowed thirteen idols can enter this procession, and the first one must be the Yangfu temple of Yangfu master. The rest are, in order, Wu Sheng Temple, Tin Hau Temple, Long Xiang Temple, Nanmen Temple, Hou Yen Palace, former Yen Palace, God of Wealth Temple, Shi Gong Temple ....... According to the general customs around the world, Wusheng Temple of Guan Yu has been enshrined as "Guan Di Shengjun", called the emperor, should be the first, however, in Jiaojiang, even if it is the "emperor", in the eyes of the people, but also have to yield to the protection of the territory of peace in the eyes of the Yangfu master. Guan Di Temple of Zhou Lun for the second, why? Because Guan Yu has been the "emperor", the emperor has the dignity of the emperor, so they do not go out, only to send his horseman "Zhou Cang" on his behalf to meet, and the people with the meaning of the table.

Lifting the statue and protecting the statue of the gods are young and vigorous, we do not want their own stretch like backward, every year, often for who is first and who is after a lot of trouble, and sometimes there will be a fight, however, the "Yangfu master" of the chief position, but no one dares to come to the fight, which is a good example of the Yangfu master in the hearts of the masses of the people of the Haimen prestige. The other custom is to start a firecracker battle. The back of the little old man and guard the little old man of the people shall barefoot wearing straw shoes, and all the firecrackers along the street are not towards the sky and thrown to their feet, a moment of the sound of artillery ear-shattering fire bursts, lively and extraordinary. They have to withstand the firecrackers fried and keep welcoming the God of the well of the team however to show that they are a good man, even if their feet were blown to the blood also in spite of. The climax of the whole trip is the last stop in front of the Yangfu Temple for the masses to see the time, the entire North and South Xinjiao Street here the most expansive, the audience is also the most concentrated. Thirteen red and green small masters in the main streets of Haimen to meet the tour of a circle to the end here, where all the small masters are in order to line up for the masses to enjoy, the middle of the street is a dragon dance, lion dance, flower drums, Hercules and other activities, the temple's gongs and drums team here together to play, the people have been prepared firecrackers to focus on the place to set off the street set off a burst of high tide. The end of the trip is the banner of the Yangfu master back to the temple, then the rest of the young masters also play their own drums and gongs back to their homes, the entire trip to the end of the Yangfu temple in front of the firecracker confetti can be leveled to the edge of the street, which shows the number of firecrackers.

After the activities of the first half of the first month, business is normal, farmers prepare for the spring plowing, the various trades vendors and small craftsmen have also begun the preparation of their livelihoods for a year, a Spring Festival activities before the final declaration of the end