The article about Qixian customs is 2000 words.

Spring Festival is an ancient and traditional festival in China, which is closely related to people's working life and bright future.

People in Qixian celebrate the New Year, in fact, the twelfth lunar month begins. People in Qixian call the twelfth lunar month "panic day", which corresponds to the "leisure" in July. As soon as they entered the twelfth lunar month, merchants were busy preparing for the listing of new year's goods, and ordinary people also had to cut and buy new clothes for the whole family.

When Laba arrived, when eating Laba porridge, there was an unusual invitation to incense in the street (incense was used, not bought as an offering). Please invite a family hall, a kitchen god, an incense burner and a lamp melon (a folk sacrificial vessel in Qixian county, which is made of porcelain and has a hollow column in the middle and can be lit by a lamp). Then buy an imperial calendar, fry rice and send it away.

After the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, we enter the busiest pre-holiday preparation stage. Proverbs: Twenty-three, send the kitchen god to heaven; Twenty-four, cut and written words; Twenty-five, clean the pawn; Twenty-six, black and white steaming, two deer; Twenty-seven, close the door to wash the bureau; Twenty-eight, Hu Ji; 29; Raise the altar to fight wine; Thirty days; Juer is pinching three deer.

Qixian people are very particular about the annual Spring Festival offerings. They should master the cooking time of dough and steamed bread, which is the best news. Steamed products include lotus, jujube hill, door rabbit, noodle fish, pigs, cows, sheep and heads for the rich, and steamed noodles instead for the poor.

This moment may be because all the family gods are at rest and forgiven, so there is no need to pick a date. Therefore, people engaged in wedding affairs are also aiming at multiplying opportunities. Although the Chinese New Year is busy, the wedding is busy and busier, but for middle and lower class families, the wedding dishes are consumed once in the New Year, which also avoids waste. It's also a good custom, hehe.

Qixian people call it "the beginning of the year". It takes a long time to stir-fry cold meats, steam bowls, mix stuffing and wrap jiaozi, and have a reunion dinner with my brother and grandmother, not to mention 10. Men put up couplets, door gods, clean up, set up offerings, table lamps and pigs, and prepare to meet the gods at night and offer sacrifices to their ancestors. At noon, they will go to the grave with plates.

When the lights are on, firecrackers are set off everywhere to welcome the gods. Candles, wall lamps and desk lamps are still lit on the table in front of the statue. The poor can't afford candles, so they can only put melons in paper lamps. This is a scene where there was no electricity in the past. ) the ceremony of receiving the gods begins and the table paper is burned. In addition to the main heaven and earth lords and family hall lords, there are also door gods in the land of Kitchen God. Haha), the doll usually sleeps, and parents put the lucky money next to the pillow (in the past, the lucky money increased by 1 every year, one plus two every day, and if she was three years old, she gave it to five, but now she gives it several hundred dollars, and now the child is really happy).

As soon as the bell rings, the quasi-boundary officially begins. The first important thing is to open the door and burn incense. It is said that whoever opens the door first will order first, which indicates a prosperous year. Women are not allowed to sacrifice. This kind of ceremony is mostly performed by men, and then they let go of the table and light the cypress leaves, pine branches and incense in the flourishing fire. The second thing is to burn incense in the temple. The sooner the better, the merchants are generally attended.

There are many taboos in Chinese New Year, and you can't say unlucky words in language, such as jiaozi's "explosion" when cooking. Behavior: Do not beat and scold livestock, do not hit children, do not use sharp knives, do not wipe and clean, etc.

Since New Year's Eve, folk performing groups have been playing from house to house, which is called "Sending the God of Wealth". People give money and goods for good luck. In fact, it is a disguised form of collecting money, which people call "scraping the street"

On this day, no matter how red-faced you were two days earlier or how badly you were beaten, meeting in the street today is an auspicious word to congratulate you on your wealth and promotion in the new year.

According to the traditional custom, the family will have a reunion dinner at noon on this day. From the next day, they will visit relatives and friends, pay New Year greetings and give gifts to each other. Newlyweds will also pay New Year's greetings to the eighth and ninth day of the eighth lunar month, and don't go out in the middle of the fifth lunar month. The so-called broken five, the seventh day does not go out, the so-called seven eyes. On the tenth day, they couldn't move, and they added 25 positions (Qixian dialect). All taboos will not go out.

Nowadays, the worship of God is mostly in the form of home and yard, and going to the temple has long since disappeared. Then why go to the temple without a temple?

Modern jiaozi is basically a set meal, where you cook several dishes and then watch TV and play mahjong on New Year's Eve. The children at home came back for dinner the next day and continued to play mahjong in the afternoon. Hehe, now that people are busy, some old customs of the Spring Festival have faded, and only some old people in the village are still repeating ancient rituals.