What are the customs of Fuyang Spring Festival?

Spring Festival (nickname: Spring Festival, Lunar New Year, Lunar New Year, Lunar New Year, Spring Festival) is one of the four traditional festivals in China, and the date is set on the first day of the first lunar month every year.

As Fuyang people, in the Spring Festival, in addition to setting off firecrackers, there are many Chinese New Year customs. Let me share some Chinese New Year customs in Fuyang, Anhui ~

? One of the Spring Festival customs in Fuyang: 30 couplets?

There are thirty customs in Fuyang to post Spring Festival couplets. ? Sticking Spring Festival couplets is very particular. The family can only stick them at home. If one of them is not here, they can't insist. They must not let their families shut them out. Therefore, some people who go to shops, visit relatives and friends and go out to work must get home before dark. This is the charm of the New Year and the charm of home. Otherwise, why do people who go to work now have to rush home on New Year's Eve?

On the morning of the 30th, some debtors posted Spring Festival couplets. As soon as the Spring Festival couplets were posted, the people who came to ask for accounts turned and left. No matter how much money they owe or how badly they need it, they must wait until the first month. Otherwise, it is called "digging" people's eyes, which is unlucky for both sides. Some debtors even posted Spring Festival couplets as early as 2078. ?

After putting up Spring Festival couplets at the main entrance, put up some household items. What should be labeled with related words, such as "good health" or "living in a blessed land" in bed; Above the backstage of the main room, the words "Bless the God of Wealth" or "Happiness from now on" should be posted. Stick "full barrel of incense" on the incense burner nest in the background; "Good luck" should be posted on both sides of the pagoda; Boxes should be affixed with "full boxes of clothes" and the like; On the wall of the stove, please paste the kitchen god first, and then paste "God speaks well, and the lower bound is safe" on both sides, which means "the head of the family". If an old man dies in the first year, the Spring Festival couplets will not be posted. In the second year, only green paper or blue paper Spring Festival couplets will be posted. Spring Festival couplets will only be posted in the third year. ?

? The second custom of Fuyang Spring Festival: lighting red candles?

In the rural areas of Fuyang, people celebrate the Lunar New Year with a traditional folk custom handed down from ancient times. From New Year's Eve to New Year's Day, two red candles are lit in the hall (living room), and some tributes, such as chicken, fish and meat, are put in the middle of the red candles. In the meantime, it is absolutely not allowed to put out the red candle. Lighting red candles comes from a folklore.

Once upon a time, there was a beast named Nian. On the last day of every year, Nian will come to a village to eat people. Once, it happened that an old man came to this village. The old man said not to worry about being eaten by Nian, so he was asked to light a red candle in the house. In recent years, they set off firecrackers to scare away Nian. From then on, people lit red candles in the house on New Year's Eve until the first day of the new year, and the custom of lighting red candles passed down with time.

? The third custom of Fuyang Spring Festival: New Year greetings on the first day?

On New Year's Day, firecrackers exploded and Fuyang New Year's drama was staged. A man who is separated from his family will take his wife and children to pay a New Year call to his grandparents and parents at dawn. Because they are close relatives, New Year greetings are not empty, but kowtowing is true. After the worship, the elderly should give their grandchildren lucky money, and the amount of lucky money depends on the financial resources of the elderly. ?

After paying homage to their families, all the men of the same race gathered together and, led by older people, began to pay New Year greetings to their elders from door to door. Every time we go to someone's house, everyone calls them whatever they want. They all say, "Please sit down, and we will all come to pay a New Year call to you." Before the worshiper bent down, the worshiper quickly stepped forward to help the worshiper and repeatedly said, "Help, help." So everyone sat down, and the New Year greeting people asked the children and grandchildren in this New Year greeting team to worship cigarettes and carry melon seeds. After a while, everyone got up to say goodbye and went to another house to worship. At this time, the people who pay New Year greetings among all ethnic groups are at a loss. After the worship within the tribe ended, the tribes began to worship each other. Even people who usually have a bad relationship are contradictory in this kind of New Year greeting. ?

The busiest people on this day are the oldest and longest-lived people in the village. They start to pick up and drop off people who come to pay New Year's greetings at around seven o'clock in the morning, and they have to pick up and drop off until after ten o'clock. If you pay a New Year call to your brother, don't say "Your Majesty" when you enter the door. After the men pay New Year's greetings, some look for cards, some wander around, and children play with guns picked up at night. Next, women's New Year greetings began. Its New Year greetings are similar to those of men. It's about eleven o'clock after women pay New Year's greetings. ?

? The fourth custom of Fuyang Spring Festival: sending old goose buns?

The married daughter goes back to her family, commonly known as Huimen. When my daughter comes back to the house, she has an essential gift "Old Goose Steamed Bun"! In Fuyang, every day on the second and sixth day of the first month, the daughter, son-in-law and children go back to their parents' home with the "old goose steamed stuffed bun", which is a gift, not filial piety, and expresses the respect of the younger generation to the elders.

"Old goose steamed stuffed bun" is a famous food in Fuyang and northern Anhui. Different from ordinary food, it has its own symbolic meaning? Legend has it that geese often rise and fall on the Heying River on February 2nd. For a long time, some people linked this phenomenon with the Dragon Head-raising Festival, so there was a rumor that geese robbed the old man during the fifth watch, saying that February 2 was the day when the old dragon king (old man) ascended to heaven. The married daughter should steam old goose buns and pray for her parents to avoid disasters and turn evil into good luck.

The reason why it is called old goose steamed stuffed bun is because the old goose is a symbol of her daughter's marriage, just like a grown goose flying out of her nest, but she will never forget her parents' kindness. Blood is thicker than water, which is our deepest fetter. In this season, just like the geese in the north return to their homes in warm spring, this time is also one of the most anticipated times of the year for her parents.

? The fifth custom of Fuyang Spring Festival: Breaking Five?

The fifth day in Fuyang, also known as the fifth day, shows that the fifth day is an important custom during the Spring Festival. There is a legend about this custom. ?

Legend has it that in the Ming Dynasty, Shen Wanshan, who lived in poverty and fished for a living, braved the snow to fish, and several nets were the same earthen basin. Instead of throwing it into the water, he took it home. His wife told him that his neighbor gave him a duck for the New Year, and the couple poured their little rice into the pot to feed the duck. The next morning, I saw that the basin was full of white rice. Trying to put the only copper coin into the pot turned out to be a pot of copper coins. Copper coins were changed into silver, gold and jewels were put into jars, and Shen Wanshan became the richest man. ?

Ming Taizu heard about it and took the washbasin for himself. He found a luminous pearl, put it in, and he got a basin of luminous pearl! Ming Taizu was holding a cornucopia to tell the queen, only to fall over the threshold and break the cornucopia. This day is the fifth day, so it is called "Breaking Five". On this day, shops opened their doors and set off firecrackers to celebrate the opening of the market. In 2008, I naively left here.

During the Spring Festival, there are many special customs in China, which vary from place to place, but one thing is basically the same, that is, family reunion, visiting relatives and friends, visiting elders and so on. May we keep these customs full of affection and good wishes in mind and pass them on from generation to generation.