What are the festivals in Chaoshan

To say where the most festivals, I think it should be Chaoshan, the first fifteen to worship Bogong, separated from the unknown number of generations of ancestors will be worshipped every day of the festival, the traditional festivals a no drop, Taoism Buddhism Confucianism and the old masters, as long as you think of China's gods and sages, there are Chaoshan people to pay homage to.

Let me take a look at all those festivals, welcome to leave a comment to complete!

Traditional Teochew Festivals

The Eight Festivals of the Year

There is a saying in the Teochew region that says, "Don't forget the Eight Festivals of the Year when you are living your life. "In the Chaoshan area, the various activities of the "Festival of the Year" have been passed down from generation to generation and have become a common custom. These festivals have been passed down from generation to generation and have become a common custom, either to commemorate, symbolize or pray for blessings. The Chaoshan people go home to reunite with their friends and relatives during these festivals to enhance the emotion and cohesion of each other's big gongs and inlaid porcelain and burnt porcelain.

Spring Festival

The first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar is called the first day of the new year, the first of the new year, in the Chaoshan region, New Year's Eve is usually four or five days. On the evening of the Spring Festival, the streets and alleys, families put up spring couplets, lights and colors. Eat a reunion dinner. Early in the morning of the Spring Festival, adults and children with a pair or two pairs of raw citrus (called "Daji"), to friends and relatives to pay tribute to each other. Chinese New Year recreational activities are Ying song and dance, Ying big gongs and drums, Prime big standard, Buma dance, dance dragons, lions, carp and so on.

Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar is the Lantern Festival, known as the "Festival of Lanterns". Commonly known as the "Festival of Lights", the Chaoshan people called the "first half of the month", traditionally "small first, big fifteen" said. On that day, every household should insert banyan leaves and bamboo branches on the lintel to protect the peace; the main programs of Lantern Festival include: camping masters, enjoying lanterns, adding lights, guessing lantern riddles, throwing money to throw the Maitreya Buddha, and so on.

Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival in Chaoshan, the custom of tomb sweeping is very prevalent, tomb sweeping is commonly "over the paper". In the old days, we should go to our ancestors' graves to fill in the soil, sweep away the dust and weeds, use red paint to oil the new stone tablets, and hang yellow and white strips of paper on the tombstones and piles of graves, and hold the sacrificial rites.

Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival is called "May Festival" by the Shantou people, and there are two kinds of Dragon Boat races in Shantou: the "real dragon" and the "fake dragon". In the package of rice dumplings, there are "not eat May dumplings, broken fur is not Gan put" of the weather proverbs, the Chaoshan people, the Dragon Boat Festival to be in the lintel, the door ring to the eaves of the house, hanging a bunch of "red head rope" tied with mugwort, calamus, durian, garlic, dragon boat flower **** together for the five species called "five Rui". Five kinds of said "five Swiss".

Zhongyuan Festival

The 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar for the Zhongyuan Festival. Commonly known as the "half of the seventh month", "Shi Gu", "Ghost Festival", also known as "Yu Lan Sheng Hui". On the day of "Shi Gu", the people of Chaozhou or the village as a unit of "Shi Gu", or in front of their homes with offerings, money and paper, after the sacrifice of burning money and paper, sprinkle rice on the ground, burn incense and prayers, and incense inserted in the ground in front of and behind the house.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Commonly known as the "half of the eighth month", the main program: 1. Taro ancestor worship. There is a proverb in Chaoshan: "Hexi to the mouth, taro food to fear."; 2. 2. Worship the moon lady, most people will be in the Mid-Autumn Festival a month before the elaborate crafts to worship the moon, worship the moon the night of the indispensable items such as the Eight Immortals table, "(Eight Immortals) Baozai", incense, all kinds of fruits, pies, etc., the moon worshippers are mainly women and children, so there is a "men do not round the moon, the women are not Burning Pagodas. Each element of these programs is almost related to the history of the Chaoshan people's resistance to the Yuan Dynasty (passing on information)

Winter Festival

The Winter Festival is the winter solstice among the 24 festivals, which coincides with the agricultural gap and the end of the year, and is therefore also known as the Little New Year. The old custom of the Winter Solstice is to offer sacrifices to the gods and ancestors, and the whole family eats sweet glutinous rice rounds to show that there is a great reunion. Another winter solstice to worship ancestors, eat sweet pills (eat on the "winter festival pills" will grow a year), visit the graves and other tombs (Qingming line "spring paper", the winter solstice line "winter paper")

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is called "New Year's Eve" or "Lunar New Year's Eve" by the Shantou people. New Year's Eve festivities begin with ancestor worship. In the afternoon, families get haircuts, bathe and change into new clothes, and then begin ancestor worship. In the afternoon, the family gets a haircut, a bath, and new clothes, and then the ancestor worship begins. After the offerings and ceremonies, the ancestors are sacrificed, and the old couplets on the main doors, hall doors, and room doors are torn down and pasted with new ones. And then there are "around the stove" to eat a reunion dinner, give the New Year's money (also known as "pressure waist"). And the old age of the links.

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July 7th out of the garden

Out of the garden is the traditional adult festival. It is a coming-of-age ceremony for young boys and girls at the age of 15, with specific ceremonies varying slightly from place to place. In the Chenghai area of Jieyang, parents pick 12 different kinds of flowers and soak them in water for the child to bathe in, and the mother gives the child a new waist bib that she sews with her own hands, in which there are usually 12 cinnamon balls and two "Shunzhi" coins. On the day of leaving the garden, there are many restrictions and rules for the youngsters to follow. Now, many of the rituals have been simplified.

September 9th Chongyang Festival

Chongyang, also known as the 9th day of the 9th month, is an important festival of traditional folklore and folk rituals in Chaoshan, Guangdong. On this day in Chaoshan, there are various traditional folk activities with local characteristics. Because it falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. In ancient times, nine is the number of Yang, so it is also called "Chongyang". The folk in Chaoshan just call it "September 9th". Chongyang Festival customs. Teochew custom in the Chongyang Festival ancestor worship are poorer, they can not afford to worship each ancestor's anniversary, will do a total worship on this day, to seek understanding of the ancestors.

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