What are the customs and traditions in Hunan?

1. On New Year's Eve, a maple (or pine, chestnut, etc. ) It burns in the stoves of every household in rural Changsha, which is called "Niancai Lao". On the first day of the lunar new year, every family gets up with a crow, men, women and children put on new clothes, and the male owner with the highest generation burns incense and opens the door to set off firecrackers. This is called "going out of the sky", or making money.

2. Tujia people in Xiangxi spend three years every year, on the 29th (or 28th) of the twelfth lunar month, on the 25th of June and on the 1st of October of the lunar calendar.

The Bai people in Zhangjiajie have the traditional custom of holding the Torch Festival on June 25th of the lunar calendar every year.

4. After the off-year holiday, on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the whole family rests for dinner, which is called "Children celebrate the New Year". Every household is busy preparing new year's goods, making tofu, killing pigs, delivering new year's goods, preparing snacks, frying dry tea, writing Spring Festival couplets and tying lanterns.

5, the fifteenth day of the first month, known as Shangyuan Festival in ancient times, also known as Lantern Festival. In Changsha Lantern Market, there are many kinds of lanterns made of paper or hung on houses or streets. On this day, every household lights candles, cooks Yuanxiao, and urchins play with lanterns. In addition to lighting candles in the dark corners of chickens in pigsty and kennel, farmers also light fires on the edge of fields to kill insects and pray for a bumper harvest.