About the rainy season customs and traditions of the whole introduction about the rainy season customs and traditions of the whole

1. On the day of the rain, there is a very interesting activity called "La Bao Bao" in the folklore. (BaoBao is godfather)

2, people used to have a child for their children to ask God for the habit, to see how their children's fate, need to find a godfather. And the purpose of finding a godfather is to make the son or daughter grow up smoothly and healthily. (This may also be related to the previous medical conditions, because the medical conditions are not good, a lot of children sick simply can not be cured. (This may also have something to do with the previous medical conditions, because medical conditions are not good, many children are sick can not be cured, so the need to take advantage of the godfather's blessing to bring up the child) and so there is a rainy day LaBaoBao activities. This action year after year, and long become a side of the custom.

3, and the rain festival pull godfather, meaning to take "rain and dew moist easy to grow" meaning. Western Sichuan folk this day there is a specific place to pull Godfather. On this day, no matter how sunny or rainy it is, the parents who want to pull the godfather hand-carried loaded with good wine, food, incense, wax and paper money of the rattan, and took the child in the crowd to go through to find the object of the prospective godfather. If you want your child to grow up with knowledge, you can pull a man of letters as godfather; if your child is thin and weak, you can pull a tall and strong man as godfather. Once someone is pulled as a "godfather", some can earn off on the run, some pulling can not get out of the pull, most of them will be happy to agree to, but also think that this is someone else to trust themselves, and therefore their own destiny will be better. After pulling the puller even called: "a dry in-laws", set up to bring food, incense and wax, called the child "quickly worship godfather, bowing"; "please godfather drink and eat food", "please godfather to give the dry food", "please godfather to give the dry food", "please godfather to give the dry food", "please godfather to give the dry food", "please godfather to give the dry food", "please godfather to give the dry food". "Please dry relatives to give a name to the doll", LaBaoBao even successful. After the breakup, there are also perennial walk called "perennial dry relatives", but also after the breakup there is no communication called "passing dry relatives.

4, rain festival back to the mother's house is another custom popular in western Sichuan area. Folk to the rainy season, married daughters have to bring gifts back to the bride's home to visit their parents. Women who have given birth to children, must bring canned meat, chairs and other gifts to thank their parents for their parenting. For women who have not been pregnant for a long time, their mothers sew a pair of red pants for them and wear them close to their bodies, which is said to help them get pregnant and have children as soon as possible. This custom is still popular in rural areas.