Folkways and customs of various places

I. Anhui set living and scattered living . Xuancheng, Anhui folk customs

Old folk villages are mostly set of families and living. For example, in Hongcun and Xidi Village in Yixian County, Huangshan City, where the architectural style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties has been preserved to this day, the villagers' houses are linked together, hugging the water by the mountains and facing south.

The head of each household like to establish a single-family residence, such as built even three, even five, even seven (seven houses side-by-side building), or "Ming three dark five" type of residence, the middle of the hall, the left and right rooms are spaced out for the two, the front field and the backyard. Most of the earth brick houses, a few built brick walls; poor households are covered with earth walls and thatched roofs.

***After the founding of the country, a few city people live in a unit building; 80's after the rise of the old city renovation, most of the streets have neatly organized buildings, townspeople to live in a unit building. 90's since, the construction of the district gradually become a climate.

Two, Sichuan Yi Torch Festival:

The Torch Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Yi people in Liangshan, Sichuan. The time is the 24th day of the sixth lunar month every year, families drink wine, eat lumps of meat, and kill livestock to sacrifice ancestors. People wear new clothes and carry out cultural and sports activities with national characteristics. Men participate in bullfighting, sheep, chicken, horse racing and wrestling; women sing, play the mouth string and moon zither.

Kangding turn the mountain will be:

Annually on the eighth day of April, people from all directions gathered in Kangding, in the hilltop lawn, tents stretched out, a sea of people, daytime horse racing, wrestling and other national sports activities. In the night, lit a bonfire, the ground drinking, singing and dancing, all night long.

Huanglong Temple Fair:

Every year on the 16th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, hundreds of miles around the Tibetans, Qiang, Hui, Han people of all ethnic groups gathered in Huanglong Temple, in front of the temple on the open space tent camping, fire like a star, the chiefs of the various departments of the arrangement of the crowd around the ring jumping each other singing, should be heard in the valley.

Sichuan Opera:

Sichuan Opera is popular in the Sichuan region of a local theater, is one of the more ancient types of opera. Because of its long history, has a distinctive local color, rich flavor of life and a broad base of the masses, in China's theater stage occupies a certain position, a flower in the garden of literature and art.

Spring herald said spring:

Han social customs. Popular in all parts of Sichuan. Time before and after the Spring Festival. The old spring herdsman wearing a black hat, dressed in official clothes, the left hand holding a woodcut spring ox, the right hand to take the spring stick; now the spring herdsman, the same attire and ordinary people, the difference is that the body back a cattle prod.

They climbed the mountains and waded through the water, and traveled from village to village, and every time they came to a place, they made up some auspicious songs and sang them. When they finished singing, they gave the host family a picture of the cattle inspection printed on red paper. At the end of the tour, the hosts would send some money to the cowherds as a reward.

Holding Animals to Meet Guests:

Yi Social Customs. According to the different needs of the guests at the meeting, the Yi people slaughter different kinds of livestock: the noble guests kill cows, the second kill pigs and goats, and the general guests kill chickens. No matter what livestock slaughtered, must wait for the guests to enter the door, the livestock will be led to the guests in front of the power guests have seen and then slaughtered to show that the livestock is absolutely not dead or stolen.

Ji shrink:

Yi social customs. Yi transliteration, meaning avoidance. According to traditional custom, daughter-in-law and father-in-law, uncle and husband's uncle, uncle should be avoided, to show mutual respect. Where mutual avoidance of people, usually sitting, standing, walking to maintain a certain distance, can not sit together face to face, can not use vulgar language, all parts of the body can not have any contact, even on the body of the felt can not be rubbed with.

When the two parties meet on the road, the daughter-in-law should stand aside respectfully and wait for the other party to leave. A daughter-in-law should not comb her hair in the presence of a person who should be avoided, and if she is combing her hair and suddenly realizes that the other person is approaching, she should hasten to cover her head with her shawl, otherwise it would be a breach of etiquette.

Wrestling:

Traditional entertainment of the Yi people. On festivals and happy occasions, people from neighboring villages will join together in a wrestling match, which is a very lively scene. According to the custom, the winning wrestler will become the idol of the girls and win the love of the girls in priority.

Three, Shanxi

Mind is the first of the famous Taiyuan food, has been included in the national intangible cultural heritage protection list.

The origin is this: the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty Mr. Fu Shan Fu Shan is proficient in medicine, especially good at gynecology. Fu Shan's mother, Chen's sick in his later years, he studied and invented the "Eight Treasures Soup", for his mother's nourishment and nourishment of the use.

The Eight Treasures Soup was originally a traditional Chinese medicine used in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, consisting of ginseng, atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, Angelica sinensis, Rhizoma ligustici chuanxiong, Paeonia lactiflora, Rehmannia glutinosa, and Radix et Rhizoma glycyrrhizae radix, all of which are valuable for replenishing vital energy and nourishing the blood. Fu Shan, a skilled medical practitioner, transformed the "Eight Treasures Soup" from a purely pharmaceutical product into a medicinal meal, thanks to the ancient food custom of mind wine.

The first drinker, as if the new touch of foreign wine, think of the net, the heart must be pure, so that the first time barely swallowed, the second slightly discerned its fragrance, the third will be able to enjoy its true interest. Head health, often eat without fire. Head of lamb, yam, lotus root slices. Mutton is hot to supplement the deficiency, root of the lotus root to clear heat and phlegm, yam to supplement the spleen to remove dampness. It is said that the head also has the effect of beauty, women eat very good.

Extended information:

As early as in the "Han Book - Wang Ji biography" book there are "a hundred miles of different winds, a thousand miles of different customs Rites of Passage - Wang system" cloud: "the year February, the east patrol guard. To Dai Zong, Chai and look at the sacrificial mountains and rivers. Hajj the lords, ask the hundred years on the see. Order the master Chen poetry, in order to view the people's style. Here said the king's tour of the ritual, is the king of the country deep into the people, the rural society of the people's customs to carry out some investigation and research.

Tai Shi was the official in charge of music and responsible for collecting folk songs, and he presented the folk songs handed down by the people to the king. Through these folk songs, the ruler of the state "observed the customs, knew the successes and failures", and formulated or adjusted the policies of the state. The "Winds" in the "Classic of Poetry," an ancient collection of poems in China, are folk songs that were passed down from one ethnic group to another in ancient times.

These folk songs, reflecting the customs of the ancient people, contain a large number of ancient folk phenomena, and are of great value to the study of ancient folklore in China. Just for example, the jianghu culture and chivalry culture in Water Margin all belong to the category of folk culture consciousness.

Expanded Source: Baidu Encyclopedia: Folklore