Hubei Spring Festival custom

Hubei people drink chicken soup for the first meal during the Spring Festival, symbolizing "Taiping Qingling". Among them, the main labor force also eats chicken feet, which means "grasping wealth in the New Year", and "promising young people" eats chicken wings, which means that they can fly high and their families eat chicken bones, which means "getting ahead". For the first meal, Zigui people eat sauteed Artemisia annua with sleeves, and take its homonym "Bai Hao" for good luck. Jingzhou, Shashi area, the first meal to eat eggs, meaning "true, auspicious." In case of guests, eat two half-cooked "poached eggs", and you can see the yolk through the protein, which means "gold is covered with silver, gold is covered with silver, and gold is covered with silver".

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In order to pay a New Year call to her new husband, the new son-in-law must endure the teasing of the Yue family and not get angry. The order of Huang Bei's New Year greetings is "family worship on the first day, mother-in-law worship on the second day and family worship on the third day". Those who lose their loved ones at home will write a dress on a wastebasket and stick it at the door, refusing to celebrate the New Year.

Get up early, people first worship heaven and earth, family gods and elders, and then go out to pay New Year greetings. It's called "Happy New Year, big or small". When a New Year visitor comes to our house, we must keep him here again and again and treat him with Ciba. As the saying goes, "Chinese New Year holidays make you feel awkward." New Year's greetings generally last until the third and fourth day.

People here also have the custom of judging the new year's output by the birds they hear on the first day of junior high school. Even birds sing first, and ducks should be raised; Magpie singing for the first time is suitable for raising chickens; At dawn, sparrows fly around noisily, which is a good year; People also think that hearing dogs barking on the first day is not a good sign.

On New Year's Eve 12, families should be prepared.

When the model is delivered to the door, it means that the new year will make a fortune.

On the second day of the second day, people don't sweep the floor, draw water, or even make a fire. The food is prepared in advance, which is called "pressing the old". It was not until the third day that I began to carry water and burn paper money by the well pool, saying that it was "buying water".

Take it down and burn it in the second day of junior high school. As the saying goes, "it burned on the third day.

Thesis, everyone is looking for physiology. "At the beginning of the new year, I used to write with a pen. In the past, I had to write a picture of' New Zhengzhao Snake Pen, everything is fine' on the wall.

It is the climax of the Spring Festival, when gongs and drums are loud, when there are no gongs and drums or when there are few gongs and drums, people regard tin cans as gongs and drums. therefore

There is a folk saying that "the tin can is knocked in the first half of the month".

Dragon Lantern Festival is

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The center of festival activities. People usually tie dragons from the eighth day, and also tie lions, floats, bamboo horses, stilts, platforms and other styles.

On this day, men, women and children travel together, enjoying themselves and singing all kinds of colorful words. Lotus-picking boats walk from village to village, singing whatever words they see, such as "Old people live longer, few people are safe, family affairs are satisfactory, and the four seasons are safe."

, deer and crane in the same spring, seven stars turn to fight, eight immortals come to the door, long-term wealth, ten blessings and other auspicious words.

On the night of the Lantern Festival,

There are also rumors in the local area that Seven Sisters invited each other and made up after the year.

The custom of. Seven sisters, whose local name is Zhang, are said to be the seventh daughter of the Jade Emperor. She is the cleverest and kindest. One day, Sister Qi learned that

There is a young man named Dong Mingyong in the territory (now Xiaogan). Because his family was poor and had no money to bury his dead father, he had to sell himself as a slave. Seven elder sisters were deeply moved, privately.

Yong Dong and I have been married for a hundred years, and we got married under the big locust tree. A regrettable job

At that time, the big locust tree was happy, saying that "a hundred years of harmony" meant "a hundred days of harmony", which led to the fate that Dong Yongliu's sisters only had a hundred days of harmony. Seventh Sister skillfully weaves 10 brocade, redeems Yong Dong, prepares to renovate her home, and loves their old leader. Unexpectedly, the jade emperor was very angry when he learned about it, and called Qimei back to the palace, so Qimei had to fly away reluctantly. Her knitting became a flying stone, and the loom remained on earth. People can still hear the sound of the loom "click, click" in the dead of night. On the fifteenth night of the first month of every year, girls dressed in costumes gather near the flying shuttle stone and hold sewing boxes for Qi Mei.

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Song. After singing Qiao Qi's songs, you should also ask about your quality of life, good luck, whether you can get married and so on. In addition, some people use glutinous rice flour to make the shape of goose eggs and let pregnant women burn "goose eggs" to occupy boys and girls. Cleavage gives birth to a girl and wart gives birth to a boy.

The local people also said that the fifteenth night of the first month is the day when mice marry women, and people can't make noise at home. The woman wanted to light a sesame oil lamp under the bed and said, "Please!" "

Look at those lights. "It is said that in this way, there will be no bug harassment within one year. People also throw bamboo baskets from the house to show the richness of cotton. Looking up, you will have a good harvest, but your servant will have a bad harvest.

In addition, there is an interesting custom in Xiaogan area. During the fifth watch, people shine fire on chestnuts, pears and other fruit trees, and beat the trunk with knives and axes as they shine. A man knocked and asked, "Is it knotted?" A man next to him replied, "knot!" It is said that if you do this, the branches will be covered with fruits in the new year.