Taboos in Weihai. Wedding birthday. The folklore characteristics of clothing, food, housing and transportation, etc., mainly, Weihai, good big points!

Rongcheng at the eastern end of the Shandong Peninsula in the first month of the lunar calendar on the fifteenth pinch zodiac custom. Folk called "pinch genus child". The traditional method is to use soybean flour as the material for pinching the Chinese zodiac. Modeling to small and exquisite for the top, Zodiac animal posture or standing, or lying, or running, or flying all rely on improvisation at will. However, no matter how the shape should be designed and arranged with some vegetable seeds and leaves to symbolize "abundant harvest". The back of each zodiac sign is carrying a lamp bowl, bowl of oil, and then insert a small stick wrapped in cotton wool, commonly known as "to twist". There are differences in the shape of the lamp bowl; horse and pig pack is "Yuan Bao bowl", for "gold pony and silver pig pack treasure to" the luck. The other zodiac animal pack "twelve petals" lamp bowl, symbolizing the twelve months of the year.

Pinch the rules of the Chinese zodiac is according to the family members of the phases, each person pinch a, to the fifteenth night in the plate together in the hall, everyone watched around, hoping to burst out of the lanterns, lanterns, the bigger the more auspicious, heralding the new year's bumper harvest. Customs have been passed down that whoever has the longest burning zodiac lamp will have good luck and live a long life.

Eating "dumplings", "keep the year" Weihai New Year customs

Family members from all corners of the convergence of the whole, but also gives the meaning of the New Year's Day reunion. The New Year has always been about a reunion, and it doesn't matter how far away you are, you will have to rush back to your hometown for a reunion on the 30th day of the New Year, and if you can't, you will have to take a letter back to report a safe journey. This is what the old people called "year Qi day Qi". Qi is Qi, the meaning of reunion. Reunion, eating is the most important thing, therefore, "New Year's dinner" in the culture of the year accounted for a fairly important part. The "New Year's dinner" refers to the meal of "dumplings" at midnight on New Year's Eve, the 30th day of the Lunar New Year. This meal is different from the usual dumplings and has the meaning of "handing over the old to the new" on New Year's Eve. At that time, no one slept, waiting for the arrival of the new year, which was called "keeping watch for the new year", commonly known as "staying up for the new year". When the time came, they ate dumplings and grew a year older. So this meal is also called "increase the age of rice", to the time of the dumplings to pay attention to, at this time can not be called "under the dumplings" as usual, because the word "under" is not auspicious, will talk about it! The word "down" is unlucky, and those who know how to talk call it "boiling gold and silver in clear water". When cooking dumplings, for good luck, sometimes a man will ask a woman, out of the blue, "Are you earning money? The man would ask the woman, "Did you earn it?" and she would quickly say, "Yes, I did, I earned it, I earned it, I earned it, I earned it. Earned means broken. However, here it means to earn money. For good luck, people also wrap copper coins in the dumplings, and some wrap red dates in them, which is called "big money dumplings". Only about ten dumplings are wrapped, and the one who eats them wins the jackpot, marking a year of good luck and great fortune.

Broadly speaking, the New Year's dinner refers to the people's food and drink before the first month of the fifteenth. In addition to steaming biscuits, pasta to hair cake-based, take the more hair more meaning, but also do the rice cake, the district yearly high meaning. New Year's Eve, everywhere is concerned about a good luck, food, drink, with, at that time have another name. For example, "garlic" was called "Yihe dish" and "vinegar" was called "taboo". Garlic is unlucky to be eaten with vinegar. Change in order to smooth the flow, smooth mouth, smooth small children.

February 2: commonly known as February 2 dragon head, this day people use colored paper cut into dragons and phoenixes, flowers pasted on the station or window, called "window decals" this day people use flower cloth cut into squares to wear strings, called "small dragon tail" hanging in the head of small children and livestock. head.

Cold food: the day before the Qingming Festival, this is said to be cold food ban on fire, sweeping the tomb to pay homage, Weihai only a few people (Soap Port) for this festival.

Qingming: people this day to the cemetery to visit ancestral graves, women steamed noodles Yan, to show that the spring warmth Yan to come.

Duanwu: this day people eat eggs, duck eggs, brown, and hanging on the door of the wormwood, garlic, peach branches and cloth don't monkeys, children's fingers and toes five-color line to drive away disasters and ominous, Zhong Kui is the god of the Dragon Boat Festival.

June 6: this day, people eat more buns, folk "June 6 to see the Valley Show, a big bowl of buns a packet of meat," the ballad, the rich and noble family more in this day tanning clothes, reading people are more in this day tanning books.

July 7: ancient myths, the cowherd and the weaving maiden in the day of the heavenly river will meet, this day people branding fruit, women set incense in the hall, to the weaving maiden star begging Zhiqiao, called "begging for coincidence".

Central yuan: the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, also known as the Ghost Festival, more offerings of fruits, snacks, offerings to remember the deceased, the sea fishermen, this night, the sea lamps, to recruit the souls of the dead, the merchants of this day for the "God of Wealth Festival", the God of Wealth Festival, and beg for wealth.

Mid-Autumn Festival: People eat mooncakes on this day, seeking reunion, after dinner, people eat mooncakes while enjoying the moon.

Chongyang: the first nine days of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, also known as the nine suns, the ancients steamed pastries, brewed chrysanthemum wine, climbed to the field trip, in order to open the mind and get a high life.

October Half-Day: the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the descendants of the same family name on this day to the ancestral tomb of worship.

Winter Solstice: one of the twenty-four seasons, the arrival of the cold winter, called over much, this month there are sacrifices to ancestors at home.

La Ba Day: the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is a festival of monks, to the folk, on this day we eat rice, beans, dates and other kinds of grain porridge, known as "La Ba congee".

Small year: December 23rd of the lunar calendar, each household to maltose, jujube Zaoshen sacrifice, known as the resignation of the stove. Wishing the god of the stove "good things in heaven and peace in the world".

New Year's Eve: the last day of Lunar New Year's Day, New Year's Eve is the last day of the year in the lunar calendar evening, the midnight sky sacrifices to heaven and earth, ghosts and gods, ancestors. Night to New Year's Eve, the night of the festival, the big end and so on. New Year's Eve zero is the watershed of the two years, in addition to the day of many activities, there are three major features: one is ringing firecrackers; two is red (posting Spring Festival couplets); three is the fire (light the lamp and the year). New Year's Day ancestor worship ceremony is the most solemn, in the afternoon the genealogy of the names of those who do not have and hang, ready incense burners, lanterns, long velvet, paper table, firecrackers and other things. To dusk when the beginning of the invitation to the ancestors, to the evening, people began to hands wrapped dumplings, this day's dumplings are different from what we usually eat, in the dumpling filling, people deliberately put coins or jujubes and dumplings filled with the side, if you eat anyone to eat any of them, it means that the person is very lucky, and predicted that the luck of the year is also very good.

On this day, the whole family gathers together to eat dumplings and set off firecrackers; they stay up all night to observe the New Year's Eve, and the parents give money to their children and grandchildren to observe the New Year's Eve.

Lichun: Shandong all over the "bite spring" "taste spring" custom, in Weihai, we generally say "play spring" in the countryside, people believe that the spring bite of raw radish, can eliminate spring sleepiness, it is said that whoever is the first to bite a raw radish, can eliminate spring sleepiness, it is said that whoever is the first to bite a raw radish, can eliminate spring sleepiness. Can eliminate spring sleepiness, it is said that whoever bites the radish at that moment of spring, who will be youthful and immortal, "taste spring" is similar to "biting the spring" only to eat the spring cake and spring plate, this custom as early as in the north and south dynasty period, Du Fu Du Fu's "spring day spring plate fine lettuce" is about "tasting spring". However, modern people have used noodles, dumplings instead of spring pancakes, spring plate, called "spring dumplings playing spring noodles".

Summer Solstice: this day, Shandong, commonly eat noodles, commonly known as "water noodles", "winter solstice dumplings summer solstice noodles" proverb.

Autumn: Autumn this day, the Jiaodong region, women and children have collected rowan leaves or tung leaves, cut a variety of patterns, or inserted in the sideburns, or wear on the chest, in order to in the autumn, the weather is still very hot, but some places people are taboo in the autumn day bath, that the autumn day bath is not good luck, will grow prickly heat or diarrhea.