Datong New Year's custom flavor Not folklore!!!!

The people of Datong attach great importance to festivals, every festival is over red-hot, lively, but the most elaborate and ostentatious is the Spring Festival, commonly known as the New Year.

No matter what time of year it is, the feeling of New Year's Eve in the hearts of the people of Datong is strong, but also any foreign festivals absolutely can not be replaced. The fundamental reason for this lies in the full folklorization of the New Year festival itself and the affinity it brings to the people.

Entering the month of Lunar New Year, the flavor of the year is getting stronger day by day. There is a children's song that says: "Children, children, children, don't be greedy, after the Lunar New Year; children, children, children, don't cry, after the Lunar New Year, we will kill pigs." It can be seen that from the beginning of Lahai, people have already begun to busy themselves with the New Year.

Lunar New Year's Eve 23 Zaowang on the West, it is said that in order to prevent Zaowang to the Jade Emperor reported faults on earth, sticky Zaowang's mouth, this day, every household to eat sugar; and because this day is Zaowang's birthday, every household to the premises seriously clean once, is the high rafters of the roof should be a wooden pole tied to the broom to the corners of the corner of the sweeping a clean. As the saying goes: "money or no money, shaving the head of the New Year", indicating that the Spring Festival before the preparation of many projects, but health is the first important.

To twenty-three this day, the first curtain of the year was opened. New Year's Eve, poor and rich families have to live, although each has its own way, but peaceful and optimistic is the unified requirements of the year. Despite the bitterness of the sun and the moon, despite the appearance of separation, despite the debt, clench your teeth and swallow everything, but also like a New Year's appearance. Maybe next year will be a good luck.

Families with more than two generations can't afford to be sloppy on New Year's Eve. "If you can be poor for a year, you can't be poor for a day!" , is the Datong people's saying for New Year's Eve, and also the last sprint after the people carrying heavy years have trekked a long distance of three hundred and sixty-five days. For the sake of parents, for the sake of children, for their own sake, is to pull "two feet red head rope" is also considered to be New Year's.

This is the first time in the history of the world that a person's life has been in danger.

The socialization of New Year's is an all-round review of every family. This kind of review is reflected in every family has the potential for a strong sense of competition, it is the carrier of the New Year's clothing. The new feeling of the New Year is new clothes, and new clothes are embodied in everyone, especially the carefree children. In the past, making clothes was the top priority for mothers at the New Year, so every mother made new clothes with great care. Now that people are better off, most people go to the store to buy their clothes, so mothers don't have to worry about making new clothes, but the subconscious competition still exists. Of course, the richest people buy the most upscale clothes.

The 30th day of Lunar New Year is the last day of the year, and when it comes to Lunar New Year it is the 29th day, which is also called the 30th day. A little bit of status of the person is added two words, years of peace into the New Year's Eve. People often say that "the end of the month and the end of the year", refers to this day, it is the eve of the New Year, but also to get rid of the old and welcome the new important time boundary point. All people's activities are centered on this theme.

In Datong's custom, the 30th day of the New Year is a solid year's end that cannot be ignored. It provides for the sky, for the earth, for the gods, and for the men and women of Datong. Sick in bed can not pass thirty, life will come to an end, after this day may still go a good distance. The poor man who escaped the tent can go home at ease when he reaches thirty. And her husband had a disagreement with the daughter-in-law living in her mother's home for a long time, is dead or alive, again bitter and difficult thirty afternoon must be rushed back to the in-laws. In Datong, there is no reason for a married woman to spend her thirtieth birthday at her mother's house. The man who works outside the home, no matter how far away from home he is, he has to return home in time for the 30th. Otherwise, the family is like a lost soul, especially young daughters-in-law always think bad, crying nose and tears of the New Year's Eve is difficult. Money or no money, home for the New Year's Eve! Some people say, wandering outside the people, homesickness is like a long and flexible kite line, and travelers are on the line of the kite, the hometown of the old house is just like the closing line of the crank, the desire to love the family is the return of the driving force, whether it is the success of the industry to return to their hometowns, or a young man away from the oldest, always at the New Year's Eve when the closing line to return to the voyage. Even if a rise again and again up the ticket, also can not reduce the traveler that look forward to the return of the enthusiasm.

New Year's Eve is the first day of the first month of the year. The tradition of Tatung is to pay attention to the 30th day of the month. New Year's Eve dinner is the most sumptuous meal of the year, the dishes must be a plate of pills, thought complete, a symbol of reunion, not only the family get together **** feast, but also to fill the "dead tree", will be invited back to the ancestors for the New Year. Ghosts and demons out, the gods sent away, ancestors back, which is the full embodiment of the ethical feelings of the Datong people.

The New Year's Eve celebration on the 30th day of the new year is the best way to savor the taste of peace and reunion. In the evening, several generations of the same family huddle together in the house of the elders. Split another family's son, outside the power of the official, the rich and powerful in business, in this night are returned to the small character of the share, respectfully, affectionately sitting next to the gray-haired parents, to enjoy the warmth of the joy of family. Elderly parents can't forget the old custom of keeping the New Year's Eve. To be a family of young and old are gathered around, they will take out a long time ago to prepare the persimmon cake to each person a, told the whole family to eat to endure persimmon. The purpose is to ask people of all sizes to be humble and tolerant. This is what the elders inherited from their ancestors, and it is also their duty as elders. After eating the sweet persimmon cake, they will be knocking melon seeds, peanuts, pounding walnuts, called "peeling poor skin". In the middle of this eating, the house slowly came alive. We talk about family affairs and national affairs, said the neighbors and relatives also said the North and South, narrative past business hardship also narrative next year's harvest. Although each person has a difficult to read the scripture, but no one will say unhappy words. Everyone wanted to have a good night. So, the small house was crowded hot. Succession of children and grandchildren sitting around the hot bed while smoking over New Year's tea and talk about the old and familiar family history, although most of last year's New Year's Eve was talked about, but this year is still to be repeated, and continue to continue to chat, the atmosphere is extremely lingering; plain family talk, meaning is rare long. People consciously or unconsciously dilly-dallying, want to the end of the year reunion night longer. Parental love, hand and foot love, in a year of busy and indifferent, in the night of New Year's Eve sublimated to the most glorious peak. On the fifth night, people begin to receive the gods. The atmosphere at this moment is even more stirring. The long-lasting, heart-stopping sound of firecrackers, like a spring breeze wrapped in spring thunder, makes people feel a vivid vitality surging.

The opening of the door on New Year's Day in the countryside of Datong is very meaningful. Early in the morning, the elders quickly and forcefully pull open the door latch, and also keep chanting, "open the door to great wealth, Yuanbao rolled in." At the same time the family rushes out. The closed door of the old year is opened with a brush, and between this closing and opening, the Datong people show their sense of time to the fullest.

The process of paying homage on the day of the Spring Festival is even more sensational. The younger generation pays homage to their elders, friends pay homage to each other, families are crowded with people coming and going, and the street is full of people. Even when they meet on the street, they have to say "good holiday" to each other. The polite manner, as if they had just met, have greeted each other, as if yesterday was not so good. In addition, on this day, children will not be scolded if they accidentally hit something, and parents seem to say to them in an encouraging tone, "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay." That look makes little kids listen and wonder if they should hit another one.

The Datong people's New Year's Eve is not the day of the Spring Festival, but the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. The first day of the year is to welcome the god of happiness, and the second day is to sacrifice to the god of wealth. On this day, Datong people have to eat wontons in every household, because wontons are shaped like Yuanbao, eat wontons is to attract wealth, to take a good luck, so wonton soup is also known as "Yuanbao soup", to take the meaning of the source of wealth such as the soup rolled in. This day is also the day of the married woman to return to her mother's home. On this day, the daughters who got married go back to their mother's house with their son-in-laws and children, bringing candy and gifts. The mother's family also waits for the daughters to come back with great enthusiasm and prepares food and wine to entertain the son-in-law, grandchildren and grandchildren. However, the daughters usually eat lunch at their mother's home and rush back to their in-laws before dinner. The third day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the day when rats marry their brides. On this day, people try to turn out the lights and go to bed as early as possible, and some people also try to please the rats by sprinkling salt, rice, etc. on the ground before dark to show that they are celebrating the rat's good time.

The fifth is commonly known as "broken five", people have to pour poor soil. According to the lecture, from the first to the fourth, the garbage is not free to pour, in order to avoid pouring off the wealth, but the first five days of garbage is regarded as "poor soil", of course, to "send the poor out of the door. The eighth day is commonly known as the "Eight Immortals", people have to go to the city wall temples to "swim in a hundred diseases". After that, the most lively festival is the Lantern Festival. At that time, the drums and gongs, rice-planting teams, stilts, lions, dragon lanterns, dry boats, lanterns flocked to the streets and courtyards, the scene is grand, the atmosphere is warm.

The eighth day of the eighth month of the Lunar Calendar, commonly known as "Lahai", is a festival imported from India. It is the day before dawn, Datong people have to eat sweet and savory red porridge, the family sits around, eat the warmth of the melting. And Huayan Temple and other Buddhist temples are more congee for Buddha, lively, sweeping away the past quiet.

The Laha man-child is an event for children themselves. Legend has it that the Buddha assigned the Laha people to send joy and warmth to the children on earth. When the children see the Laha Man-child, their hearts will immediately feel warm and free from coldness. The Laha People's Child is actually a piece of ice, which is usually molded on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. On the seventh day, when the adults planed back to the ice, the children picked a large piece of it in the yard, called the Laha people. In the early morning of the next day before eating congee, the naive children first offer Lahai people, and then eat their own, eat the congee, and so the sun came out, the rest of their program, is to see Lahai people how to slowly melt, and finally only a pile of red congee left. Of course, when the weather is too cold, Lahua people can not melt in a day or two, or ten days and a half months can not be melted, the child will look at every day, and at any time to tell adults how much melted. The fun of it, naturally, only they know best.

On the morning of the twenty-third day of the lunar month, every household in Datong has to eat hemp sugar. This kind of sugar made of glutinous rice is extremely sticky, and when you eat it in your mouth, your upper and lower teeth stick together. People eat on this day on the hemp sugar, and then to the God of the stove on the hemp sugar offerings, is the same as the God of the stove also ate hemp sugar. When he went to heaven, the god of the stove to see the Jade Emperor dry anxious to say nothing, but also had to be just. Another way of saying it is: Master Zaowang ate hemp sugar to heaven, the Jade Emperor to see them eating sugar, know that this year the folk wind and rain, life is good, his old man will no longer worry about the people. There is also a saying that: Zaowang master of the family for a year of what they do in the eyes, remembered in the heart, would like to give the Jade Emperor to report truthfully, but it is often said that people eat people's mouths are soft, take people's hands are short, they ate sugar, how can we say that the people's bad things, had to pick a good thing to say, the Jade Emperor listened to the dragon's face, and by the way, said a few words of encouragement. So Zao Wang Wang like both sides always have this couplet: "the sky said good things, back to the palace drop auspicious." In view of this, some usually peaceful, thrifty and frugal Shunmin to this day also give Zaowang master to eat hemp sugar. This custom is spoiled Zao Wang Wang, you did not do bad things, such as not to give him to eat, he can also give you bad words, so that you can not rest in peace. In addition, Datong people this day sacrificed Zao Wang Wang, but also take down Zao Wang Wang's idol, in his mouth smeared with a thick layer of sugar syrup, hoping that with this "sweet seal" sticky Zao Wang's mouth. The day before the Zao Festival, there are many vendors who sell the candy on the streets.

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