What are the customs of the Spring Festival in Jiangxi

In addition to the traditional customs of the Spring Festival in various parts of the country, there are "keep the year", "pressure" and "step on the year", in many places in Jiangxi Spring Festival there are unusual customs, the following Xiaobian introduced to you all around the Jiangxi Customs, come to learn about it!

Nanchang: send new year's money to keep the year off the door of wealth

Speaking of New Year's Eve, had to talk about the New Year's Eve dinner. New Year's dinner is the most sumptuous meal in Nanchang people a year, usually a dozen dishes, more elaborate eighteen dishes, each dish has a deep meaning. Such as fried green cabbage symbolizes "Qing Qing Ji Ji

", fried rice cake means "rising year after year", braised whole fish said "year after year", fried rice noodles symbolize a good harvest, rice into strings. There is also a unique Nanchang specialty - "He Cai

", which consists of shredded meat, bamboo shoots, celery, beans, garlic, carrots, yellow flowers, cuttlefish and other vegetables and stir-fried together to symbolize "peace and prosperity.

After a full meal, the whole family sits in front of a charcoal fire and observes the New Year's Eve until late at night. Don't underestimate the charcoal fire, as the saying goes, "The fire on the night of the 30th, the lamp on the night of the Lantern Festival." This custom began with the ancient practice of burning fires to drive away the monster called "Nian"

, and later became more symbolic of a better life in the coming year. On New Year's Eve, the elders must also give the younger generation "New Year's money" to "suppress the evil and keep the New Year's Eve", to prevent ghosts and monsters from haunting.

To keep the New Year's Eve to late at night to firecrackers off the door - that is, the so-called "off the door of wealth", meaning to shut off their own wealth, to send away the old year, and then the whole family rest. On the first day of the son and get up and open the door to firecrackers, meaning "open the door to wealth"

- to meet the new year, open their own fortune. This off a open, will be rolling with the New Year sent into the home, for the fortune into the treasure to discuss a good luck.

Jiujiang: Receiving the New Year and Sending Lights

In Jiujiang, the day of New Year's Eve on Lunar New Year's Day 30 is the beginning of the New Year, and the customary ceremonies are also more numerous and busier. The year-end is in the daytime on the 30th day of the lunar month, the male members of the family take time to burn incense and paper at the graves of their deceased relatives, those who died during the year are called "

Send the lamps", and those who died outside of the year are called "year-end". The Chinese New Year scrolls are usually put up by children or young people, and in the past, in addition to the scrolls, the windows had to be glued.

Receiving the New Year is also known as "returning the blessing", also known as "returning the year

", is an important New Year's Eve ceremony, which takes place in the evening. At this time, the family New Year's dinner is basically ready. The beginning of the New Year, first of all, the square table moved to the center of the hall, from the god on the incense burner, oil lamps, candlesticks, chimes, sandalwood incense burner down on the table below, and then set offerings. After the offerings are placed, sandalwood incense is burned, oil lamps and candles are lit, then longer firecrackers are set off, and the whole family kneels down to the ancestors in turn. About

10-15 minutes, you can remove the offerings, incense burners, candlesticks, oil lamps, chimes, sandalwood incense burners on the god, "New Year's Eve" ceremony is over. From this point onwards, New Year's Eve, a night of constant incense, and continue until dawn on the morning incense on.

Jingdezhen: ancestor worship lamps to keep the New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve this day the family set up the hall, hanging lamps and colorful, posted Spring Festival couplets, door god, etc.. In the evening, we should first set up offerings, sacrifices to the ancestors of heaven and earth; and then hold a family dinner, eat New Year's dinner.

After the meal, lights everywhere, small children carry lanterns, firecrackers, adults are given to the younger generation of New Year's money, and tea around the fireplace to eat refreshments, sit and wait for the day. In recent years, many families have been sitting around the TV watching programs and waiting for the New Year to begin.

Pingxiang: kill chickens and buy fish point "keep the candle"

Pingxiang people in the New Year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve, there is the habit of eating fish, which means that "years of surplus

". So on New Year's Eve this day or the first two days generally have to kill chickens and buy fish. And, at the end of the year, people in Pingxiang have begun to open up to choose a good day to slaughter the New Year's pig, set up a sumptuous feast, and invite friends and relatives to come to their own brightly lit farmhouse, and eat a sumptuous meal of killing pigs, rendering the old and welcome the new year flavor.

Some places in the townships also have a "year-end"

The custom of sitting around the stove as a family, talking, laughing and singing, all night long. To keep the New Year's Eve in the house to light two candles to keep the New Year's Eve, all night long. Children can not stay up at night, a moment on the yawning, adults will be swindled to say that the night there are rats do pro.

Xinyu: stick spring couplets red envelopes "fried vegetables"

New Year's Eve this day, in addition to sticking spring couplets, red envelopes, eat New Year's Eve dinner, etc., in the rural areas of Xinyu, at the end of each year, many villagers will be making deep-fried meatballs, commonly known as "deep-fried vegetables

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. Especially in Yushui District, rural areas, the custom of deep-fried meatballs, oil cake, everywhere is filled with a strong flavor of the year, implying that the next year, the days of red-hot red, life is better.

Yingtan Guixi: picking the age of the lamp to eat the age of wine

In Yingtan Guixi, New Year's Eve, the day, outside the door of the Spring Festival couplets, hall stickers New Year's Eve paintings, set up the table, burn paper incense, firecrackers ancestor worship. After dinner, the house lights all night long, said "picking the year light". The family sat around the fireplace "to keep the New Year

", the elders to the younger generation to send "New Year's money". On the night of the New Year's Eve, we eat wine, and the food is very rich. Before going to bed and then set off firecrackers to "seal the door", "seal the door", no one may not come and go.

Ganzhou: Jiezhai wear new clothes

"New Year's Eve" this day, the Gannan Hakka people also called "Dainian Asr night

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. On this day, every house is pasted with spring couplets on the door, lintel and windows are also pasted with red paper strips. Families slaughter chickens and ducks and go to their ancestral halls to honor their ancestors, showing that they do not forget their ancestors' kindness on New Year's Eve.

New Year's Eve dinner, eat especially early, usually four or five o'clock in the afternoon on the start, has been eating until the evening, the family **** eat a reunion dinner, with the drink of the New Year's Eve, the children celebrate the grown-ups, the elderly congratulations on the new year. After the meal ritual stove, welcome the God of the stove, and then the whole family hands, clean the dining room, wash dishes, all tableware should be scalded with boiling water to remove the smell of oil, meat and fish, commonly known as

"net fast".

Next, the adults took out new clothes and put the whole family in holiday attire. All large and small rooms in the home are lit, the main hall or dining room burning charcoal stoves or fire pits, to burn the largest tree pockets, called "feeding the New Year's pigs

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Indeed, the next year to raise a big fat pig, a good harvest. Adults pack red envelopes for children to press the New Year's Eve, instructing children to be obedient, study hard, and grow a year older and more understanding, and the family sits around the fireplace to "observe the New Year's Eve

", looking back at the old year, looking forward to the coming year, and staying up all night.

Yichun: reunion of the New Year's Eve

Thirty days after the New Year's Day, families have to do a table full of dishes. All kinds of meat and fresh flavors, everything, firecrackers at the beginning of the table, the table mingling, the family happy, which is called "reunion". Most people's "reunion"

is in the evening, because the sons and daughters who work abroad will arrive one after another at this time. Some New Year's dinners wait until 10:00 or 11:00 p.m. for the "dogs to bark at the wood door, and the people to return home at night in the wind and snow." Parents must wait until their sons and daughters return from afar to "

reunite".

On New Year's Eve, every family burns a big fire, and the whole family gathers around the fireplace to talk at night, enjoying the joy of family life. The elders give the children "New Year's money

", and the longer they keep the New Year's Eve, the better. Especially in the countryside, earth brick fire surrounded by a fire, put a large root and stem, a few pieces of dead cake, covered with dry tea shells, lit up. The fire is big enough to simmer, and the more it burns, the hotter it gets. Hanging on the fire with preserved chicken and bacon, etc. smoked dripping oil. Adults talk about farming, then tell the children those ancient stories, until the children ambushed in the adult's lap and fell asleep.

Shangrao: Hanging lanterns and eating leeks, fishballs and vegetables

Eating New Year's Eve dinner is the main event on New Year's Eve in Shangrao. At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, there are people who start setting off firecrackers to eat New Year's Eve dinner. Firecrackers crackling sound to the festival added unlimited lively and festive atmosphere. Soon colorful fireworks and booming firecrackers were set off.

But in the past, before eating the New Year's Eve dinner generally have to first ancestor worship, even the ordinary people's homes to hang a smeared with tung oil lacquer paper lanterns, lanterns written on the family name of the head of the family, such as the family name of the "Wang

", the lanterns indicate that the Wangs are here, the ancestor will not be the wrong door.

After the ancestor worship comes the family dinner, which is a night of reunion, when family members who have traveled to other places must return. The New Year's Eve dinner is also the most sumptuous of the year, as if gathering the savings of the whole year to have a good year. Meaning that this year's year was shabby, next year, but also a year of poverty. The dishes on the table are necessary, such as leeks, a metaphor for a long time; fishballs meatballs, a metaphor for reunion; whole chicken, a metaphor for a family safety; head of vegetables, a metaphor for the color; fried food, a metaphor for prosperity? New Year's Eve dinner should be eaten slowly, and each one to taste, usually do not drink, this time also want to drink a mouth or two. In addition, eat New Year's Eve dinner before the door, firecrackers, this time inconvenience outsiders to disturb, if this time to knock on the door of the neighbor's house, people will be angry.

SuiChuan Ji'an: point of the New Year's lamps to stay on fire

The night of the New Year's Eve, Suichuan mountain farmers in the size of the hall, attic, room, etc., are to light a lamp. The original point is an oil lamp or long candles, with electric lights, every room is brightly lit, to show the splendor, the God of Wealth full of houses.

New Year's Eve after eating a reunion dinner, urban and rural families should be buried in the stove charcoal, tea cakes and other fuels to leave a fire, pots of water, the next morning, poked open that is on fire, and the use of pots of hot water to cook, to show that the continuation of the fire, take "

Auspicious red hot" meaning. This custom, most of the mountainous areas and rural areas are still retained, in the county, the residents of the widespread use of liquefied petroleum gas stove and gradually abolished.

Fuzhou: playing hemp candle burning incense ancestor

New Year's Eve this day is "over the New Year

", is a traditional and grand festival. Families clean their doors, put up Spring Festival couplets, stick door god paintings and small red paper strips for good luck. Some people put two pieces of sugar cane behind the door of their house to symbolize that life is as high as sugar cane, and the more you live, the sweeter it becomes. At the same time, lighting candles, burning incense, sounding explosions to honor heaven and earth, sacrificing ancestors.