What are the festivals and customs in Chaoshan

Customs in Chaoshan include: Bon Festival, Mid-Autumn Pagoda Burning, People's Festival, Laogai, and Chandelier Customs.

1. Bon Festival

The festival falls on the 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar every year, and is also known as the Bon Festival and the Zhong Yuan Festival. It should be noted that, in a certain sense, the Mid-Yuan Festival belongs to Taoism, the Bon Festival to Buddhism, and the Festival of Ancestor Worship on the half of the seventh month to folk secularism. In some places, the festival is commonly known as the Ghost Festival, Shi Kuo, Zhai Kuo, the Earth official festival.

2, Mid-Autumn burning tower

Mid-Autumn burning tower is the annual Mid-Autumn lunar August 14, Wo City villages will be assigned to build a tower, the tower height generally ranging from 1.5 meters, the village is a large tower, the bottom of the tower to be made of bricks, most of the body of the tower with broken tiles into a tower height of about 3/4, and then stacked with tiles garden capping, the bottom of the tower shall be before and after the door of the tower to leave a front gate for the fuel used to put in the back door for pulling out the fire ash. The back door is used to pull out the fire ash. At night, the fire will be lit and burned, the fuel is straw and husk, etc., mainly collected by young people with gongs and drums to each house.

3, People's Day

People's Day, also known as People's Day, People's Celebration Day, Population Day, People's Seventh Day, etc., the seventh day of the first month of the Lunar New Year every year, is an ancient Chinese traditional festival. Legend has it that Nuwa first created the world, after making animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, goats, cows and horses, created people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind. Han Dynasty began to human day festival custom, after the Wei and Jin Dynasty began to emphasize.

4, Laohai

"Laohai" folklore originated in Chaozhou people's incomparable worship of the land, the worship of the land led to the emergence of the "God of the land". God of the land, the ancients called "society", the Chaozhou people will be called the land God or Bogong (it is worth mentioning that the Chaozhou people in the stores, homes, factories, will be enshrined in the land God, in the Ming Weng Tea House can also be seen), "Laohai" this folk activity in Chaozhou The folklore of "Laogai" has been passed down in Chaozhou for thousands of years.

5. The custom of hanging lanterns

From the eleventh day of the first lunar month to the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, especially on the day of the Lantern Festival, every family in Chaoshan has the custom of lighting lanterns and hanging lanterns. Because the Chiu Chow language "light" and "ding" have the same sound, light the lamp and add the ding is close to the sound, so the Chiu Chow people think that light the lamp that is a good omen for adding the ding. Lantern this day, people have to carry lanterns, prepared paper and silver incense and candles, to the countryside in the temple fire, back to hang in the family shrine and bedside, which is called "hanging happy lights".