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What are the customs in Wuhan for the New Year?

1, lively drop-step on the lotus boat

On the first day of the first month of the first month, when you make a colorful boat, tie it into a boat shape with several thin bamboo poles, paste it with white paper, and cut out auspicious patterns with colored paper for decoration. There are auspicious dragon and phoenix flowers and colorful colored balls on the boat, and the word "Fu" is attached to the bow, with two bright lotus lights. A big carp stuck to the back of the cabin, and a beautifully shaped colorful lotus boat was made.

2, Chinese New Year-back to her family

The second day of the first month is also a New Year's greeting, but the daughter who got married on this day will take her son-in-law with her. Among them, there are many rules for newlyweds to go home. For example, bring gifts in pairs. The bride's family can't accept it all, and she has to take some back when she goes back to her husband's house.

3, Lantern Festival custom-five dragons congratulations.

Eat New Year's Eve dinner in the Spring Festival, and eat jiaozi in the Lantern Festival. The Spring Festival focuses on family reunion, and the Lantern Festival is full of fun. Go out of the house and go to the community to celebrate the New Year with neighbors and villagers. Zhang Duqin described the difference between the customs of Spring Festival and Lantern Festival. Celebrating the Five Dragons is a traditional Lantern Festival custom in Wuhan.

Before the last Yellow Crane Tower in the Qing Dynasty was burned down, every year on the seventh day of the first month, prominent gentry and businessmen from Jiangxia County gathered at the Yellow Crane Tower as usual to discuss the "Five Dragons Celebrating Together" as an annual ceremony.

4, Siguan Temple-alive

As the saying goes, "30 fires, 15 lights", during the Lantern Festival, there will be some vendors carrying all kinds of paper lanterns on the streets of Wuhan, and children are holding lighted lanterns in groups, beaming. In Wuhan, the most famous place to sell lamps is the Four Pavilions.

Vendors buy lanterns in bulk from here, hold them with reed poles or bamboo poles, hang them up, and walk the streets to sell "live, live" and colorful shapes such as frogs and fish. Because these "liveliness" come from Siguandian, they are called "Siguandian's", and there is even a proverb: "Siguandian's liveliness."

5. Listen to opera and drama

Han opera, formerly known as Chu tune and Han tune, has a history of more than 300 years and is known as the "mother of Beijing opera". Other operas in Wuhan include Chu Opera, Hubei storytelling, Hubei Drum and Hubei Xiaoqu. In addition, Wuhan is also the hometown of Tanmen, the first family of Chinese Peking Opera.