What are the traditions and customs that used to be there but are not now?

1. A woman's marriageable rite, a rite of passage for women in the Han Dynasty. When a Han woman comes of age, she should dress in Han Chinese clothes, pull up her hair in a bun and put in a hairpin to perform the ceremony of marriageable bun. Maturity, or hairpin, is a rite of passage held when a woman comes of age in ancient China. Since the Zhou Dynasty, if a woman is over 15 years old and has already gotten married, she has to perform the ceremony of marriageable bun, plaiting her hair to the top of her head and inserting a hairpin into it to show that she has come of age and belongs to someone else. If a woman is over 20 and has not yet gotten married, she must also have a maturity ceremony. The main maturity ceremony is performed by the female parent, and the invited female guest adds the maturity to the girl to show that she is of age and ready to get married.

This is a very solemn ceremony. At this time, a woman's family and friends are invited to her home to observe the ceremony, which is also very complicated and divided into several parts, starting with the chanting of praise, that is, there is a special person who shouts, "Open the ceremony," or "Silence," or something like that. Then there is the "Bin Wash", which means that the person who pulls the woman's hair and inserts the hairpin goes to "clean his hands" and washes his hands. After washing, the woman is ready to insert the first hairpin, which is called "a plus" a **** there are "three plus" that is, a **** inserted three hairpins, a plus is a mahogany hairpin "" a plus when the woman's original "double chignon" is "a chignon". A woman's original "double bun" issue into a single bun, clothes for the "Confucian skirt" two plus is a metal hairpin, replaced by "deep clothes" three plus when to worship three worship, worship the emperor statue, Regulus statue, the Yellow Emperor statue. The three times are three worships. Three plus finished, the ceremony

2. Men's weak crown ceremony. Ancient men, aged 20, will have to perform the rite of crowning in the clan temple. Crowning ceremony is presided over by the father, and by the designated guest of honor to perform the crown ceremony for the young man crowned three times, respectively, on behalf of the possession of the power to rule, serve the country, participate in the sacrifice. After the crowning, the guest of honor reads a toast to the crowned youth and bestows on him a beautiful "character" equal to the virtues of Junshi, making him a respected nobleman.

3. Rituals for the Winter Solstice. The winter solstice was originally an event in which the Yellow Emperor led the priests to sacrifice to the sky in the countryside and the common people sacrificed to their ancestors at home, but now it is no more and there is only one left to eat dumplings

4. Cold food. Cold food is one day before the Qingming Festival, this comes from the story of Jie Zhi Tui and Duke Wen of Jin, the story is quite long, I suggest to search the internet for this story. In short, the Duke of Jin in order to commemorate the death of the burned mesothelioma, ordered in the mesothelioma before and after the death of three days, do not move the fire, that is, three days do not burn the fire to cook, do not burn the fire to keep warm, in short, the home can not see the fire to eat only cold food. Now estimated that no one will eat cold food in these days

5. Send poor day. This specific time do not know, each place is different, but generally in the first month, get up in the morning to clean up the house, the house of feces out of the street is not much pedestrian when the feces poured on the avenue, on top of the seven pancakes, called "send poor". It is now long gone

6. This should be called folklore.

. The third day after the birth of the baby, to hold a bathing ceremony, will gather friends and relatives for the baby to wish good luck, this is the "wash three", also known as the "three Chao wash children. "Wash three" intention, one is to wash the dirt, eliminate disasters and difficulties; two is to pray for luck, figure a lucky. Read Lao She's "under the red flag" people should know, Lao She was born three days after the ceremony, the above steps are very detailed, not here. Now people do not have this tradition, there is only one to the child to do full moon wine

7.spring house. Five e days after the spring is the spring society. That is, Chunshe day. When this time, the village constantly blowing and beating drums to the land god sacrifices, praying for a good harvest. When I was in junior high school, there was a poem, the name of which I can't remember, in which there was a line "Xiao drums follow the spring house near", which was supposed to be this festival. Now there is no, the land temple now in the countryside are rare

8. Begging for coincidence festival. The festival is the Tanabata Festival, which is a festival of the seventh day of the seventh month. It's not just the "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden" that has an aspect to it. Begging for coquettishness, as the name implies, is to the Weaving Maiden "to beg for coquettishness". It is a festival for women and girls, in which women and girls in the family put out their own delicate embroideries or other knick-knacks and pray to the Weaving Maiden, hoping that she will make them more "skillful". There were also competitions in which the girls would display their things at the door, and people on the street would look at them, and whoever had the most exquisite things would be praised. There's a book called "Three Alleys" that has an episode that depicts begging for mustard.

It's just these few, there are some others that I can't name, so I won't write about them