Festival customs in Yuyao

1, Yuyao, Tomb-Sweeping Day. During the Qingming period, citizens will go to Shan Ye to pick wormwood and go home to make green dumplings and clear the wheat. Glutinous rice smells of grass, adding a miss to the festival.

2. On New Year's Eve, New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets and the word "Fu" are posted in nave or at the gate. Pay special attention to the old custom of Yuyao that the word "fu" cannot be pasted backwards. Besides, please ask Bodhisattva and Xie Nian to hope that a man should be responsible. In order to keep quiet, some women and children should avoid it. Bless you if you use three or five animals, you should pay attention to leaving a few long hairs on your tail when you kill chickens and geese. Carp must be alive and released after blessing.

3. Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival in Ningbo is scheduled for August 16. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there will be activities such as Aunt Moon, incense burning, dragon boat race and boat lights.

4. Lantern Festival. On the 14th night of the first month, farmers in Yao Xi and Yao Bei tied torches and went to their fields to take photos of pests. Women have a custom of "girl in a jar" (Ce Shen). There is a custom of worshipping "fairies" in Nanshan area of Yao nationality.

5, the Spring Festival, the door is opened at 0: 00, worshipping the gods, eating bean tea, glutinous rice balls, rice cakes and zongzi early, which means that the head is downstream, round and round, rising year by year. In the early morning of the Spring Festival, ancestor worship and grave sweeping.