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Shidai Folklore? Detailed.

Shitai County

Diet: Rice is the main food, and flour is also eaten. On New Year's Day, the folder ate noodles, soup garden, glutinous rice poop, dumplings and so on. Cuisine tastes heavy, like sour and spicy, often with chili pepper as a condiment, winter home pickles, pickled meat, sun-dried vegetables, do tofu milk. Like to use the stove sand pot to eat stew, commonly known as "eat stove pot". Residents are accustomed to drinking green tea.

Habitat: folk architecture to brick and wood structure. The building is very careful about the orientation of the base of the house. In the old days, all the houses were built by Mr. Geography set up a compass to set the door, if the terrain is limited to the door to the door is not auspicious, then the door will be moved inward until the side on the "auspicious" direction. This custom is still fashionable in the countryside, focusing on the north-south. Building beams, folk as a major event, must choose an auspicious day and time, friends and relatives to send gifts to congratulate the house owners to feast on guests.

Etiquette: folk pay attention to etiquette, according to the county records, where "crown, marriage, funeral, sacrifice" are to send gifts, the name of the complicated. Now send gifts in addition to items, often add another red envelope. In addition, the folk wedding, funeral (commonly known as "red and white wedding) etiquette and customs are still cumbersome.

Wedding congratulations: friends and relatives send congratulatory couplets, cigarettes, wine, money and cakes to the man's family; to the woman's family to send clothing, quilts, pillows and grooming supplies, etc., known as "persuade to marry".

Funeral rites: friends and relatives to send incense foil, food, couplets, etc., children in-laws also send beans and rice. Now send cigarettes, wine, quilts, wreaths, the majority of people.

Longevity gift: the old man had a big birthday (usually 60 years old), friends and relatives generally send birthday couplets, birthday peaches, birthday noodles, tonic and clothing, birthday cake, and so on.

Monthly Gift: Before giving birth to a child without a full moon, friends and relatives gift old hen, eggs, noodles, glutinous rice, dried beans, children's clothing, etc., called "moon gift". Maternity in the first half of the month to eat in-laws relatives of food, the second half of the month to eat the mother's relatives to send food. Today, the gift of the month is still prevalent, but the maternal share of food has been abolished.

Build a house into the house gift: build a house, friends and relatives give red silk, cigarettes, wine and so on congratulations. When you live in a new house, the congratulatory couplet "happy housewarming". Friends and relatives to distribute rice to show that "Zhu Fa".

Anhui New Year's Eve customs

(1) Anhui Spring Festival is commonly known as the New Year, the festive atmosphere, no matter where the family, we have to rush home before New Year's Eve to reunite with relatives.

(2) The New Year's Eve dinner is the most sumptuous meal of the year. People in northern Anhui eat dumplings, while people in central and southern Anhui set off firecrackers, put up spring scrolls and offer sacrifices to their ancestors before the meal. The ancestor worship ceremony is quite elaborate, starting with the serving of dishes, which should be 10 plates and must include chicken and fish.

(3) Before the meal, the elders will give money to each child in a red paper bag, which is called "New Year's Money". After the meal, the whole family gathers around, eating melon seeds, peanuts, candy and chatting, watching CCTV's "Spring Festival Gala" until dawn, which is the "New Year's Eve".

(4) early in the morning on the first day of the year after getting up, open the door to firecrackers, sacrifices to the sky and earth, some places said to pick up the door god. Family reunion, congratulate each other, eat jujube, chestnut, tea, eggs, longevity noodles, and then go out to other elders to pay tribute to the New Year.

(5) the first day can not sweep the floor, tea should also be poured in a special pot, do not splash out, meaning not to sweep (splash) out of the wealth. This day is generally not labor, so there is a "rush thirty nights, leisure first day of the morning" said. Posting Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets, also known as door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc., it is neat, couplets, concise, sophisticated text depicting the background of the times, expressing the best wishes, is China's unique form of literature. Every Spring Festival, no matter in the city or rural areas, every family has to choose a big red spring couplets to paste on the door, to increase the festive atmosphere for the holiday. The window and upside down "lucky" word

In folk people also like to put a variety of paper cuttings on the window - window flowers. Window flowers not only set a festive mood, but also decorative, appreciative and practical in one. Paper cutting in China is a very popular folk art, for thousands of years by the people's favorite, because it is mostly pasted on the window, so it is also known as "window flowers". Window decoration with its unique generalization and exaggeration will be auspicious events, good wishes expressed to the fullest, will be decorated with festivals red hot and rich.

New Year's Paintings

The Spring Festival hanging stickers in urban and rural areas is also very common, thick black colorful New Year's paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the people's simple customs and beliefs, and holding their hopes for the future. New Year's paintings, like spring scrolls, originated from the "god of the door". New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year's activities, and the custom of keeping watch has a long history. The "Horse Lantern" is a folk entertainment activity in the southern Anhui province, mainly performing the heroes and generals of the Three Kingdoms, Tang and Song Dynasties, with a history of about 1,000 years. It is a big show for the rural people in the region to celebrate the New Year, which is indispensable and everlasting, providing rich nourishment for the spiritual life of the farmers, and reflecting the demand for carnivalization of the local farmers' festivals and their constant worship of heroes and heroines. In addition: (1) Anhui over the Spring Festival is commonly known as the New Year, the festive atmosphere is strong, no matter where the family is, they have to rush home before New Year's Eve to reunite with their loved ones.

(2) The New Year's Eve dinner is the most sumptuous meal of the year. People in northern Anhui eat dumplings, while people in central and southern Anhui set off firecrackers, put up spring scrolls and offer sacrifices to their ancestors before the meal. The ancestor worship ceremony is quite elaborate, starting with the serving of dishes, which should be 10 plates and must include chicken and fish.

(3) Before the meal, the elders will give money to each child in a red paper bag, which is called "New Year's Money". After the meal, the whole family gathers around, eating melon seeds, peanuts, candy and chatting, watching CCTV's "Spring Festival Gala" until dawn, which is the "New Year's Eve".

(4) early in the morning on the first day of the year after getting up, open the door to firecrackers, sacrifices to the sky and earth, some places said to pick up the door god. Family reunion, congratulate each other, eat jujube, chestnut, tea, eggs, longevity noodles, and then go out to other elders to pay tribute to the New Year.

(5) the first day can not sweep the floor, tea should also be poured in a special pot, do not splash out, meaning not to sweep (splash) out of the wealth. This day is generally not labor, so there is a "rush thirty nights, leisure first day of the morning," said.