What are the customs in Jiangsu?

1, printing books

Every year on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, Suzhou has the custom of drying books. On this day, the picture book basks in the sun in the court, and the insects and cockroaches are corroded, which is particularly effective.

The temple moved the Tibetan scriptures to the sun, and the monks took this opportunity to hold a "blessing meeting" for the women in the village. Under the scorching sun, they claimed that "the scriptures can be turned ten times, and the world can be returned to the world."

2. Begging for seven festivals

Every year, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the Beggar's Day, also called Daughter's Day. According to folklore, magpies fly to the Milky Way in droves tonight. They built a bridge so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could meet on the Galaxy Bridge.

The folk custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors and weaver girls on Qixi night and begging for their wisdom and skills is called "begging for wisdom".

3. Drama

Suzhou is the hometown of Kunqu Opera and Su Ju. Kunqu Opera is the first batch of world intangible cultural heritage in China, which rose in Kunshan and Taicang, Suzhou in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties.

From the turn of Qin Long and Wanli in Ming Dynasty to Kangxi and Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty, Kunqu Opera flourished rapidly because of its innovation. At that time, in the towns and villages of Suzhou, people's infatuation with Kunqu opera reached the point of infatuation.

4. Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival. The old custom of "Lantern Festival" in Wuzhong. People play gongs, drums and cymbals, and different rhythms have different foil names, such as Happy Race with Snow and Under the West Wind.

Or in groups of three or five, each holding a weapon, walking while playing, surrounded by children laughing and laughing, the street is full of people, called "riding gongs."

Before and after the Lantern Festival, it is also called the Lantern Festival. On the 13th day of the first month, lights are lit and lights are turned off on the 18th. During the period, all kinds of lanterns made and sold by ourselves were wonderful and bizarre, and there were many kinds of colorful lanterns, such as people, melons, fruits, nationalities, colored glasses and lanterns, which were dizzying.

5. Living customs

In the process of building houses, we attach great importance to auspiciousness. From site selection, material selection, date selection, column selection, beam selection to completion celebration, we all follow the traditional mattress-laying method. If you choose a place, please ask the "Yin and Yang Master" to set the place and direction with the eight diagrams.

On the third day of the first month, the forest was chosen as the pillar on the mountain, and the lower part was surrounded by red paper to worship the mountain god. When logging, the tree can't directly fall to the ground, nor is it stripped on the mountain. No crossing.

Choose an auspicious day to board the beam, put a cross-section on the beam, put couplets on the pillars on both sides, shout "Good luck on the beam" when boarding the beam, set off firecrackers, sing "Song of the beam", and throw steamed buns and red dates down after boarding the beam.

After the house is built, some pictures are often drawn on the walls and doors to ward off evil spirits, and some brick gatehouses engraved with historical stories and plant patterns will be built.