What are the customs of Jiangsu?

In fact, the customs of each place are not the same, Jiangsu is so big, there are a lot of customs, a variety of customs are not the same. The following are some of the main: marriage, a marriage

In the old days, men married by the parents before the matchmaker to the female matchmaker to propose. If the female parents agree, the girl's birth year, month, day, time and so on "eight" written in red post (Geng post) on the jacket, the jacket red envelope, seal inside the dates, peanuts, cinnamon, lotus seeds 2, take pairs, early (jujube) birth (peanut) noble (cinnamon) son (lotus seeds) the meaning of good luck. Also use red and green silk thread tied with Taiping money, Fuyu money each l put people, take peace and happiness, firmly tied to the meaning of marriage. Cover written on the face of the "match made in heaven" 4 words. Geng post please back, the male family will ask the matchmaker to the female side of the verbal proposal. After getting the promise, and then line post proposal, called "ask for permission post". If the woman promised, out of the promise, the formal engagement, the old term "betrothal". After the founding of the country, the custom of betrothal has been gradually replaced by free love.

Second, marriage

In the old days, the male party in the marriage before the need to pay the female side of the invitation to send gifts, jewelry, commonly known as "tea ceremony". The woman received the post back to answer the post and gifts. Then the man selected the date of marriage, please matchmaker notify the woman, commonly known as "send day foot". Good day, the first welcome luan ceremony, led by the matchmaker will bride dress (commonly known as "seven things clothes") and fish, meat, wine, fruit and other things sent to the female family. Women's dowry led by the matchmaker to the male family. After the dowry arrived at the male family, the groom set off in a sedan chair to meet the bride. Welcome marriage sedan chair has two, one by the groom sitting to the female side of the wedding, a top empty ready to sit by the bride. The new son-in-law to the in-laws, the parents-in-law set up a feast reception, said "please son-in-law". After the feast, the new son-in-law said goodbye to the parents-in-law on the sedan chair. Daughter on the sedan chair is often held by the father or brother into the sedan chair, commonly known as "hold on the sedan chair". Sedan chair to the men's home, parked in front of the hall, by a pair of children and grandchildren of the old couple opened the door of the sedan chair, the groom, the bride and groom out of the sedan chair, the first to worship heaven and earth, and then pay homage. After the ceremony, assisted by the bridesmaids into the bridal chamber. Into the room, by a person with two bags to take turns on the ground for the newcomer to step on the floor, said "generation to generation". Some do not use bags and red felt. Then the bride and groom out of the room to see their parents, and to the guests salute, and then back to the cave, eat a feast, drink wine. At this time, the cave in the red candles burning high. There must be leftovers of each food item in the feast, taking the meaning of "having more than enough to eat". At the same time, guests are invited to the banquet. After the banquet, the guests go into the bridal chamber to make trouble in the new house. Finally, the new couple goes to bed. After the founding of the country, the wedding ceremony is greatly simplified, some organized by the unit of collective wedding, some of the implementation of tourism marriage.

Third, after the wedding ceremony

The morning after the auspicious period, the bride washed, first meet the in-laws, the in-laws rewarded jewelry or silver money, known as "meet the money". Then, one by one, to meet the clan elders and guests. When meeting with peers and juniors, they bow and give each other gifts, known as the "Reunion Ceremony". At noon, the in-laws sit toward the south, the newlyweds toward the north, and the family members accompany each other at the same table for a meal, called the "Reunion Day Meal". In the afternoon, the bridegroom took the bride to the female side to meet the parents-in-law and the female side of the elders, along with sugar, tea, lotus heart, cinnamon and other dried fruits, commonly known as "double back to the door". The female parents and elders will meet the money to reward the new son-in-law. Then the parents-in-law host a banquet for the new son-in-law. When returning home, the parents-in-law also send cakes and fruits, called "sending honor". The third day after the auspicious period, the woman's father and uncle, uncle, brothers and so on to the male family, the groom's father personally go out to meet, into the house by the bride out to meet, and then set up a feast, said "will be relatives". So far the marriage rituals are all over. After the bride married l month or meet its birthday, the female family often want to gift items for congratulations, said "do full moon" or "do birthday". After the new couple married the first year of the Dragon Boat Festival, the female family to do summer clothes, and will be dumplings, handkerchiefs, fans and other things sent to the son-in-law's home, said "send summer hanging scroll". In the year of the wedding, in the spring, summer, autumn and winter seasons and important festivals, such as Qingming, Danyang, Mid-Autumn Festival, Winter Solstice, Spring Festival, etc., the new son-in-law to the seasonal gifts sent to the parents-in-law home, called "four times and eight festivals gift".

Shouqing

Wuxi people generally celebrate life not on the birthday, but in the Spring Festival. When parents reach the age of 60, children should celebrate their parents' birthday, and then celebrate their birthday once every 10 years. 60 birthday celebrations, called the first celebration of the flower armor. 70, 80 birthday celebrations were called the seventy, eighty years of celebration, also known as the seventh order, eight orders of honor celebration. If parents or grandparents are of the same age, it is called a double birthday celebration. Friends and relatives to come to wish a birthday, congratulatory gifts generally do not send money, but to send a hanging scroll, longevity couplets or longevity wine, pastries, dried fruits, fruits and so on. Exquisite is to send a birthday box, birthday box in the steamed buns, pastries, birthday noodles, birthday candles, peaches, etc., known as the birthday plate. Shou plate number of general to become a double, for good luck. In recent years, it is fashionable to send cakes.

When celebrating life, pay attention to set up the birthday hall, birthday hall furnishings are generally hanging in the life star figure or cypress figure, hanging on both sides of the hall birthday couplets, couplets are self-written self-booking, some to the framing store (or calligraphy and painting store) purchase. Most of the choice of ready-made words of praise. A table is set up in front of the birthday hall, on which the birthday candles are lit. Hanging scrolls on both sides. The hanging scroll in the center is decorated with the word "longevity" cut out of gold paper or "longevity than South Mountain". A birthday banquet is set up to celebrate the birthday. One of the snacks is a birthday peach made of rice flour or flour. Instead of rice, they eat noodles, which are called "longevity noodles". If the parents died before the birthday or the virtual age of less than 60 years old, rich families often do in the parents of the birth of the birthday of meditation, and then held every 10 years.

Funeral

When the old man is dying, the children should wait for the old man. When the old man will die, he (she) bath or wipe body, clothing, shoes and socks, wearing a hat. In the old days, people died in the coffin, the coffin is not sealed, said small coffin; 3 days after the coffin, the whole family mourned, after the coffin that is the coffin, nailed on the funeral nails, by the lacquerer in the lid of the coffin at the joints of the raw lacquer and gypsum, to fill the gaps. And then set up in front of the casket

After the death of the elderly, the children that is to send obituaries or condolences to friends and relatives, friends and relatives that is to go to the condolences. The funeral is usually held in three or five days, and a few in seven or nine days. On the day of the funeral, the family, friends and neighbors kneel to the coffin. Filial sons and daughters kneel beside the coffin, and when they meet their elders to pay homage, they must return the homage. After the memorial service, the casket is carried by the eldest grandson. When coming back from the funeral, often by relatives or the clan's older and married couples, children and grandchildren in auspicious clothing first into the door, known as the red and green into the door. At this time, sesame beanstalks, beanstalks, and park tree branches are lit outside the door to take the meaning of "Park Park" and "Park Park". Those who return from the funeral have to cross the fire, which is called crossing the fire. After entering the door, they ate sugar dumplings, taking the meaning of sweetness and honey. Finally, eat the funeral feast.

After the founding of the State Council, the coffin burial gradually changed to cremation funeral, red tape funeral etiquette is simplified. Unit cadres and workers often hold a memorial service after death.

Childbirth

When a child is born, the first thing to do is to report the birth to the mother's family. The next day, the old law to give the baby to serve three yellow soup (with rhubarb, Huanglian, astragalus decoction), used to diarrhea stasis, dispel intestinal heat, clear the fetus poison. The third day of a child's life is called Sanchao. Grandmother's family on this day to the clothes, shoes, hats, jewelry, together with fish, meat, steamed bread, noodles and other food sent to the daughter's home to congratulate, called "do three Chao". Three Chao on this day to host a feast, banquets, neighbors, friends and relatives, called the "three Chao face". From the third day of the month to the full moon, the woman in labor sits in the moon. During the period of family and friends to the maternal chicken, fish, meat, eggs and walnuts, sesame seeds, snow cakes, etc.; to the child to send clothes, shoes and hats, etc., called "send geng". Send gung time can not exceed the full moon. Full moon and do full moon, do face feast, the first time for the child to shave his head, friends and relatives to reward the child to bet on the money. When a child reaches 100 days or a week old, some people also hold a feast for relatives and friends. Old custom: the child's name should be arranged in the eight characters, depending on which line of the five elements (gold, wood, water, fire, earth) is missing in the eight characters. Generally take the missing line of the side of the name, such as the lack of gold to gold or gold as the side of the word for the name; the lack of wood to wood as the side of the "Lin", "root" and other words for the name. In the old days, there was also the custom of sending a name after the birth of a child. The old custom was to send a name after the birth of a child. The sender must look for a person with a matching Chinese zodiac sign and many children.

Agricultural Customs

First, burn the field of wealth

On the first day of the summer calendar, Wuxi farmers do not sweep the ground, that sweeping the ground to sweep away the wealth. The second day of the year began to sweep the ground, the garbage piled up in the corner of the house, said "gathering wealth". To the evening of the first half of the month, the accumulation of garbage picked to the head of the field to burn, as fertilizer, said "burn field wealth", "burn field mu".

Second, pregnant silkworm seeds

Sericulturists in the Qingming season, wrapped in cotton, or in the arms of silkworm seeds incubation. Some sericulturists in the summer calendar on the third day of March embrace silkworm seed mountaineering, wishing cocoon harvest.

Third, lift the fierce general

Popular legend has it that the fierce general god surnamed Liu, can drive locusts, farmers are very revered, built in Huishan fierce general temple Feng put. In the seventh month of the summer calendar, rice spitting season, farmers grabbed the fierce generals idol in the field patrol, said "carry fierce generals". In the idol passed by, inserted a small red flag, to show that by the fierce generals God blessing, locusts do not dare to harm.

Business customs

Wuxi's business has always been prosperous, a variety of industries, their customs are similar.

First, the opening of the store

In the old days, the opening of the store, first choose an auspicious day to worship the God of Wealth, praying for wealth. Larger, more powerful stores, the opening of firecrackers, hanging signs, banquets, guests, pulling relationships, discount sales of goods to attract business. Small stores or husband and wife stores, posting red paper with a store number, put a burst of firecrackers, that is, open for business.

Second, grain trading

Wuxi is one of the country's four major rice markets. The traditional form of grain trading is a tea party. Wuxi rice tea, soybean and grain tea, wheat tea, flour tea, buyers and sellers every morning to the fixed teahouse, one side of the tea, one side of the samples, price, transaction. Peers in order to listen to or exchange quotations, or in order to deceive customers, speculative activities, often using secret language, "cut". Grain industry, such as white Japonica said skimming the sun, indica rice called sharp mouth, glutinous rice called twisted patties, broad beans called day insects, red beans, mung beans, soybeans called rolling vegetables, rice called wood plum, wheat called shrinking crabs, wheat called pulling the big. There are "Tang Che" (or "Tang Flip") and "Yan Che" (or "Yan Flip"). "Yan flip") points.

Temples

In the old days, the Wuxi city temple fair and meet the gods, festival field at the same time. The most famous of the ten temples, that is, the summer calendar, the eighth of February Zhishan Temple (Zhishan Temple is known as Zhishan Guanghui line temple, commonly known as Zhang Wang Temple, Zhang Da Di Temple), the first nine of March, Qing Ming Bridge Songzi Wang Hou Temple, March 28 Huishan Dongyue Temple, April 15 outside the North Gate of the House of the City God Temple, May 18 outside the North Gate of the Pearly Gates of Yan Sheng Hall Temple, May 28, the old City God Temple, June 11, outside the West Gate of the Taibao Dun Liu Hou Temple (commonly known as the West Narcissus Temple) will be, July 20, the West Water Fairy Temple ) will be, July 25 Huishan Zhang Zhongcheng Temple Fair, August 18 East Gate outside the Yan Shoushi Temple Fair, September 19 New City God Temple Fair. In these temple fairs, in addition to July 25 Huishan "Zhang Daolao" does not come out of the meeting, the other temples of the "Daolao" are out of the meeting. Out of the meeting, the "Grand Master" carried out, before the flag and umbrella for the guide, and there are deacons surrounded by servants, followed by stilts, arm gongs, swords, horse fork, tea, wheeled carts and play a variety of theater teams. Wuxi city temple fair, flourished in the 20s and 30s of this century. Japanese invasion of Wuxi, only the Republic of 33 years (1944) March 28, "the Palace of Masters" out of a meeting; after the victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, only the Republic of 35 years March 28 Huishan Dongyue Temple "Dongyue Daidi" out of a meeting, and then the temple fair to stop. Wuxi rural temples, from the first nine days of the first month of the summer calendar Taibe Temple will start, followed by the March floods, temples all over the world, to the end of the eighth of April to the temple will be, so there is a "down and out of the Taibe Temple, collect the soul of the temple to the temple," he said. After the founding of the country, Wuxi County has not been held to meet the God.