What are the customs in Meizhou?

1. The Spring Festival is customarily called Chinese New Year, and it is the most grand traditional folk festival of Xingning people. Xingning people who go out to work in the New Year will go home for the New Year. People are busy preparing new year's dishes, new year's goods, seasonal cakes and fruits, brewing old wine with Hakka characteristics, and making fried dumplings or golden balls made of glutinous rice (Tangning, Ningzhong, Ningxin and other towns are called frying pans, which are called cutting piles when they are used for dry or fasting). On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, people in Xingning pay great attention to omens, and are not allowed to swear or say unlucky things. As the saying goes: when you enter the new year, you will talk well. The first day of the first month. Early in the morning (0: 00), people have three offerings, fruit cakes and incense sticks to pay tribute to Marshal Zhao Gong and set off firecrackers to welcome the God of Wealth, so they are used to setting off firecrackers in the middle of the night on New Year's Eve. At dawn, people gathered in the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors, and the ceremony was solemn. Since 1950s, this custom has been gradually abolished. Sacrificial ceremonies are also relatively simple. Few people share the same sacrifice, but every village and every house pays homage to it separately. Most of them are attended by elders, and young people seldom know its ceremony and content. The second day and the fourth day are the third day of visiting relatives and friends, commonly known as Poor People's Day. People don't go out as guests on this day. Now the old customs have changed. As usual, the third day is a guest, and there are many entertainment and sports activities on this day. On the fifth day of the first month, annual divination is called, indicating that a year has passed. As the saying goes, after the third grade, everyone has an idea. 2. Watching lanterns is a unique traditional festival in parts of Xingning and Wuhua, which is equivalent to the Lantern Festival. The time varies from the eighth day of the first month to the sixteenth day of the first month, depending on the situation of each clan and village, with the eleventh and twelfth days of the first month as the most. During the period, there are lanterns before the Lantern Festival (from the fifth day to the tenth day of the first month) and warm lanterns after the festival (from the 16th to the 28th day of the first month). The northern part of Xingning, where Hakkas live together, is mainly mountainous. Its buildings are mainly quadrangular buildings, and the village is rectangular and has a two-story structure. Because of the geographical relationship, villages are built by mountains and generally have ponds. Hakka is a typical self-sufficient economy. Without fish ponds, it is difficult to eat fish. According to the old man, when the quadrangle was built, the cost was extremely amazing, especially the slurry and mud used for wall building were all glutinous rice slurry! The wall built in this way is extremely strong, and it is difficult for ordinary nails to drive in. Hakka dwellings in Xingning are mainly divided into two styles: North Mountain and South Water. The south is similar to a water town, with enclosure dragon house as the main structure. There is a grain flat in front of the enclosure dragon house, which is mainly used for drying crops and weddings. In front of Heping, there is a pond for fish farming, laundry and fire prevention. In summer, it has become a paradise for children to swim. In front of most villages, there is a small river for farmland irrigation. There are fish and shrimp in the river. There is a dense private bamboo forest behind the house, where all kinds of birds live and live in peace with people. The environment of Hakkas is the Han nationality with similar folk culture. Historically, they gradually moved southward from the Yellow River Basin, and then most of them lived on the border of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi. Now Xingning is in Gondor, which was the residence of Baiyue nationality in ancient times. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Han nationality in the Central Plains gradually moved south and merged with the local aborigines. According to the investigation of the national conditions of 100 counties and cities in China, most of the residents in Xingning are descendants of immigrants from the Central Plains who migrated and settled here in the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. For thousands of years, the Hakka ancestors in Xingning have inherited and carried forward the fine traditions of the Chinese nation, worked hard and thrived. In the long years of living, they have combined the Central Plains culture with the ancient Lingnan culture, created splendid local culture, integrated the Hakka spirit with local characteristics, and bred many famous Hakka representatives.

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