What are the customs of the New Year in Zhanjiang?

Zhanjiang New Year's Eve customs are:

1, while the dike

While the dike, in the north is also known as "catching the market". In rural Zhanjiang, each town has its own town "dike", every "dike", nearby farmers, villagers will gather to the "dike", trade transactions. In the evening, every family will go to the "dike" to "take advantage of the bustle", to buy their own needs of goods, New Year's goods, food, drink, play, with, and haircut and so on.

2. Wash Dirt

The folk saying goes, "On the 28th day of the year, wash Dirt." From the second half of Lunar New Year to the twenty-eighth of the year, every family is engaged in cleaning and sanitation. During this period, people will clean and wash furniture, windows and curtains, dishes and beds. Individuals also take advantage of this time to have their hair washed and cut. Everything is cleaned up to welcome the New Year with a new look.

3, the line of luck

The first day of the first month of the New Year, the city of Hong Kong, all around the lights, joyful, woke up early in the morning, people will be dressed up to go out, to go to the line of luck, people will go to the teahouse, "drinking tea", and family, friends and each other to pay tribute to the New Year, ate their fill to go shopping, parks, lion dance, this day, meet people who know each other well or know each other, and then go out to see the lion dance, the day of the New Year. On this day, meet familiar or do not know people will say "good new year", "congratulations on wealth" and other words of blessing.

4, hanging lamp

Zhanjiang rural prevalent "hanging lamp" custom, where the family added a male child last year, will be in the Spring Festival period to the village shrine, temple, land god in front of the lamp shed, hanging a variety of lanterns, so it is known as the "hanging lamp. Traditionally, it means to report to the ancestors that there is an additional member of the clan, which is commonly known as "reporting the household registration", and later on the genealogy. "Hanging lanterns" is usually chosen in the first ten to twelve of the first month of the beginning of the start, until the first month of the fifteenth. At the time of the "hanging of the lantern", people will also invite their relatives and friends, set up a few seats, and celebrate with a banquet.

5, divided into "social meat"

In some rural areas of Leizhou and Zhanjiang, the Lantern Festival is also prevalent in a community to share pork activities. That is, the village will buy back the pig, the slaughter into the "knife meat" as well as pig's head, pig's feet, pig jowl, all into the cauldron boiled, fished up and carried to the temple after worship, and then according to the number of shares of the "community meat", the villagers together with the "community rice! The villagers together with the "social rice" to bring home, not to resume the fire, the whole family to eat, the family's livestock should also feed some. According to legend, eat "social rice", "social meat", will be able to people and animals flourish.