The customs and habits of Hunan people

1, Hunan Flower Drum Opera, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the art of Hunan Flower Drum Opera has developed greatly. Plays such as "Knocking gongs, mending pots and chopping wood with Liu Hai" edited by Hunan Huagu Opera Theatre are deeply loved by people all over the country. In 2008, ancient paintings and operas were selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

2. After the off-year holiday, on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the 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.

On New Year's Eve, every household in Changsha countryside will burn a maple stump in the stove, which is called "New Year's Vegetable Old". Men, women and children gather around the stove, elders give their children lucky money, and the whole family eats stewed radish with pig's trotters, which is called "shou sui". The so-called "money without money, radish for the New Year".

On New Year's Day, there are many people's attention and taboos. On New Year's Eve, someone posted red paper "Wealth" on the seam of the gate, and posted auspicious words such as "Open the door" and "Make money for me" on the eyes. When they open the door, they recite it aloud, which is called opening the door to see happiness. When the sky is clear in Wan Li, watch the wind and the sky and predict the harvest in the coming year.

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.

References:

China. com-Full of memories, taking stock of Hunan people's Chinese New Year customs.