My thesis is in folklore, so I'm looking for some customs from around the world (especially festivals, weddings, funerals, child rearing, etc.) Thanks!

Anhui New Year's Customs

(1) Anhui Spring Festival is commonly known as New Year's Day, the festive atmosphere is strong, no matter where the family members are, they have to rush home before New Year's Eve to be reunited with their loved ones.

(2) The New Year's Eve dinner is the most sumptuous meal of the year. People in northern Anhui eat dumplings, while people in central and southern Anhui set off firecrackers, put up spring scrolls and offer sacrifices to their ancestors before the meal. The ancestor worship ceremony is quite elaborate, starting with the serving of dishes, which should be 10 plates and must include chicken and fish.

(3) Before the meal, the elders will give money to each child in a red paper bag, which is called "New Year's Money". After the meal, the whole family gathers around, eating melon seeds, peanuts, candy and chatting, watching CCTV's "Spring Festival Gala" until dawn, which is the "New Year's Eve".

(4) early in the morning on the first day of the year after getting up, open the door to firecrackers, sacrifices to the sky and earth, some places said to pick up the door god. Family reunion, congratulate each other, eat jujube, chestnut, tea, eggs, longevity noodles, and then go out to other elders to pay tribute to the New Year.

(5) the first day can not sweep the floor, tea should also be poured in a special pot, do not splash out, meaning not to sweep (splash) out of the wealth. This day is generally not labor, so there is a "busy thirty nights, leisure first day of the morning" said.

1,The gift money is usually 5,000 yuan for the woman! The red packet does not need to be given to the woman's family and relatives!

2, the bride price is generally pay attention to have chicken, fish, cake, sugar, double the number of portions, the gift stretcher draped in red cloth, lined with cypress branches, jujubes, cinnamon, peanuts and other auspicious objects, sticking the bright red double "Hei Hei" word to send on. After hiring, the man must also be in the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, the Spring Festival to the woman's family to present "festival gifts" to go around. This custom is still popular in rural areas.

3, three gold wedding to buy! Can also be suitable for the situation set!

4, matchmaking. As the saying goes, "no clouds in the sky do not rain, on the ground without a matchmaker is not married", the most important thing is "parents' orders, matchmaker's words". *** and after the founding of the country still exists after the custom of matchmaking, but marriage autonomy, free love is dominant; after the 80's, towns and cities organized marriage agencies, newspapers and magazines, as well as the computer online also passes the marriage advertisements and other means of contact.

The eight characters. To be men and women's birth year, month, day, time with a fixed heavenly stem and earthly branches *** for the eight characters, by the fortune-teller to project whether there is a "Zodiac punch" phenomenon, Yuexi and other places in the anti-marriage song: "from the white horse is afraid of the golden calf, sheep and rats meet once the Hugh, snakes see the fierce tiger such as a knife cuts the golden chicken see the dog in tears, the spirit monkey and pig different circles, the pig is not the same, the monkey and the pig is not the same. The monkey and the pig are not in the same circle, and the dragon and the jade rabbit do not reach the head". The majority of people after the establishment of the *** and the country are not superstitious this way.

Matchmaking. Sub-male phase female, female phase male, there are phase people, phase home and other projects, inspection and interaction, to enhance understanding.

Crossing Geng. Also known as pass the gung, pass the post, under the fixed, etc., that is, the exchange of promise to marry gung post. The post name red and green Jane, mandarin ducks book, allow to seek the book, small book, etc., is writing the names of men and women, birthdays and parents of the name of the wedding post. The male party wrote the word "respectfully request" in the post, and the female party replied with the word "respectfully allow". ***This custom is no longer popular after the establishment of the Republic of Korea.

The bride price. Also known as the gift, line recruitment, that is, the man to the woman to send the bride price. Depending on the state of the family depending on the abundance and thinness of the gift, generally speaking, there are chickens, fish, cakes, sugar, double the number of portions, the gift stretcher draped in red cloth, lined with cypress branches, jujubes, cinnamon, peanuts and other auspicious objects, sticking the bright red double "xi xi" word to send on. After hiring, the man must also be in the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, the Spring Festival to the woman's family to present "festival gifts" to go around. This custom is still popular in rural areas. But because of the different regions, the bride price to send the chicken of the dead and alive are different. 2002 April, Jieshou City, a pair of young people to get married, the groom's family sent two wedding car to go to pick up the bride, with the car lifted to the gift box hanging on a live chicken, the bride heard the tears, according to the bride's side of the wedding customs, the day of the wedding should be sent to the cooked chicken, send a live chicken is the local funeral rituals. The groom and the bride's home is more than 100 miles away from each other, but the wedding customs are very different, so that the wedding fuss, the bride went back to her mother's home after the ceremony. The bridegroom, in anger, sued the municipal court, was granted a divorce. It is clear that wedding customs are not trivial.

Selected wedding date. Also known as the day of the report, choose auspicious, over the big book. Agreed in advance the wedding date, please fortune-teller to choose an auspicious day, written on red paper, the man prepared gifts accompanied by a matchmaker sent to the woman's home.

Resignation ceremony. The old custom by the male party to prepare gifts in the day before the wedding (or two days) sent to the female family ancestor resignation.

Dowry. As the saying goes, "the upper class people accompany the money to marry their daughters, the general public with the money to marry their daughters, and the lower class people drop money to marry their daughters." The general dowry has clothes and quilts, cabinets, pots and buckets with gold and silver hand jewelry, such as heavy gifts such as property, houses, forests, cattle and sheep. Today, there are home appliances, houses and other items given.

The face and crying marriage. Marriage day, the woman's family rite of passage, "Fushou" women for their daughters "open face", that is, with a white line tattooed hair to dress the bride. Before the sedan chair, friends and relatives and good sisters from the same village come to accompany the bride to cry for marriage, known as "the more you cry, the more hair."

Welcome the bride and the room. Marriage must be arranged in the new room, lights and colors, red candles on the hall, the door of the room to paste the happy couplets, bed sewing quilt each have to pay attention to. To meet the bride more than a sedan chair to carry each other, simple with a wheelbarrow, donkey, horse-drawn carriage to meet the wedding, after the 80's in rural areas with tractors, trucks, passenger cars, towns and cities to meet the bride with a small car. Tongcheng bookish people pay attention to in the sedan chair door for the couplets and singing, the male party out of the couplets, the female party to the couplets, and lift the boy and girl - the pair to go to meet the bride, called "warm sedan chair". When the bride out of the sedan chair, the male family with two bags on the ground, take turns to move pass, so that the bride stepped on the bag forward, known as the "pass bag" (pass generation), bridesmaids and other people in the side of the chanting: "pass a generation, joyful; pass the second generation, full of children and grandchildren; pass the third generation, glory, wealth and prosperity; pass the fourth generation, the four generations of the same family; pass the fifth generation, the five generations. Five sons ......" and so on, in order to seek auspiciousness.

Worshipping and entering the cave. The traditional worship ceremony is carried out at home in some halls, some in the ancestral hall of the clan, roughly one worship of heaven and earth, two worship ancestors, three worship in-laws, and finally couples worship. Bride from the sedan chair to worship all links are red silk cover to cover the face, into the bridal chamber after the beginning of the groom holding scales to pick the cover, the bridesmaids in the side also sang jingles for the blessing. Such as "scales pick up, in-laws happy", "cover pick on the edge of the bed, a lifetime of a scholar" and so on. Next is the crowd of friends and relatives to carry out "haunted the new house" activities, known as "the new house for three days without size", out of the difficult to take a couple for fun. Late at night, the bridegroom to the kitchen to bring food and wine to eat with the two, said to drink "cup wine", food, jujubes, cinnamon, lotus seeds, eggs, etc., meaning auspicious meaning. A small number of young people also take the newcomer asleep into the room to steal a piece of clothing as evidence, the next day to the host family to ask for "happy fruit" to eat, said "steal the new room".

Three dynasties and honeymoon. The next day or the third day of the wedding, the groom led the bride to the hall in front of the in-laws and family members, that is, "the cave last night stopped the red candle, to the dawn of the hall in front of the aunt and uncle," described by the custom. The Tang poem "The Newly Married Bride" also says: "Three days in the kitchen, wash your hands and make soup. I am not yet familiar with the food of my aunt, so I sent my little aunt to taste it first". Today, the rural villages have survived the "kitchen" program, only asking the bride to symbolically add firewood to burn a fire. Three Dynasties "back to the door", the ancient name of the "return to the Ning", also known as "provincial relatives. Generally only go back to the mother's home to eat a meal that is returned, because of the common practice of "newlyweds do not empty rooms in January", known as the degree of "honeymoon". To the full moon, before officially returning to the bride's home or friends and relatives to move around, stay, etc. After the 80's, young people in towns and cities popular travel honeymoon activities, also known as "travel marriage", by the two selected scenic routes, by the newlywed vacation out of the country to travel once.