What are the customs in Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province?

The custom of Yancheng, Jiangsu Province is:

1, eat moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, carrots in the Dragon Boat Festival, burn incense yellow paper to worship the gods in the morning, eat jiaozi for breakfast, and decorate the gate with lanterns at night;

2. On beginning of autumn night, there is a custom of "touching autumn" in the north of Yancheng. On this night, people can touch all kinds of melons and fruits in private or collective melon gardens, commonly known as "touching autumn";

3. Sacrificing the kitchen god is one of the important "five sacrifices" since the pre-Qin period. Yancheng urban and rural residents are used to calling the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month "send to the small kitchen" and the 24th "send to the big kitchen". Every household should clean the kitchen stove, counter, pots and pans whenever offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove. When offering rich sacrifices to the kitchen in front of the shrine, connect the old shrines in the middle of the shrine.