Hangzhou folk custom

Hangzhou people have a history of thousands of years. As for the Chinese New Year custom of Hangzhou people, it's a long story. Under the specific geographical and cultural background, the rich heritage and simple cultural atmosphere of the ancient capital have merged into a festive, lively, joyful and peaceful atmosphere. Folklore is as follows:

1, the custom of burning incense at Bamiao in Hangzhou. In addition to religious factors, Hangzhou New Year also has a little-known refuge function. Previously, there was an old saying in Hangzhou that teased debtors, called "Don't worry at the age of 27; 28 years old, find a way; 29 years old, something is wrong; 3 1 No.,see you on the first day. "

2. New Year's Eve is lucky. On New Year's Eve, Hangzhou people usually prepare several lucky dishes at home, such as pork intestines, which are often very smooth; Fish balls and meatballs are called balls; Cook the meat, the head of an owl, happens to have a girlfriend; Spring cake wrapped in shredded pork means gold wrapped in silver; Bean tooth is called ruyi dish; Peanut is called longevity fruit; Huangling meat, lotus root, water chestnut and red dates are cooked together, which is called rich. In Hangzhou dialect, the homonym of lotus root is you, and Huangling meat looks like an ingot. The increase of sound and shape equals wealth.

3. Happy New Year is an indispensable and important activity in the New Year. Paying New Year's greetings is an indispensable and important activity for Chinese New Year. On the first day of New Year's Day, when the ancestors of Hangzhou opened their doors, they would worship the gods of heaven and earth, the family hall, the kitchen chef and the statues of their ancestors, and then family members would pay New Year greetings from generation to generation.

4. Visit Huangcheng and Meihuazhuang. Hangzhou is a place for people to play and entertain, which can only be described as "Dojo in snail shell". Hangzhou people work all the year round, and only have leisure during the New Year. Although "Qiantang has been prosperous since ancient times", for a long time in the past, the only amusement places recognized as "100,000 uneven" in the New Year were Huangcheng and Meihua Monument.

The entertainment activities of Hangzhou New Year generally include beating gongs and drums, flying kites and dancing dragon lanterns. Entertainment activities during the Spring Festival in Hangzhou generally include beating gongs and drums, flying kites and dancing dragon lanterns. The so-called gongs and drums are also called New Year gongs and drums. In addition to big gongs and drums, crisp drums, small gongs and bamboo boards were added. On the fifth day of the first month, Niangong and Dagu are mostly used by merchants. In addition, Niangong and Dagu also have the function of poking fun at other entertainment activities.

6. Fly a kite. Hangzhou people have always been ingenious, and the shape of the harrier is colorful, including centipedes, butterflies, beauties, the moon, stars and so on. There is also a bamboo flute, which is tied to the head of a kite to let the wind enter the flute and make a sound like a kite. This type of kite is a kite. In addition, people in Hangzhou used to stick a long piece of paper on a small bamboo circle and put it into the thread. When the "bird" is placed high, bamboo rings and paper are attached with the wind and are called "lanterns" by Hangzhou people.

7. Dragon Dance Lantern. The meaning of dragon lantern is relatively broad. To put it bluntly, it is made of paper or silk into lampshades of various shapes, which can shelter the candle from the wind. To put it bluntly, it is the general term for the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month or the fifteenth day of August.

Extended data:

Folklore is a behavior pattern that people in the past dynasties followed in a specific social and cultural field.

The diversity of customs is that people often refer to the differences in behavior norms caused by different natural conditions as "wind"; The differences in behavior rules caused by social and cultural differences are called "vulgarity". The so-called "different winds in a hundred miles, different customs in a thousand miles" appropriately reflects the characteristics of different customs in various places.

The customs and habits of the 56 ethnic groups in China are also different.

Reference Resources: Baidu Encyclopedia: Folklore