Huantai festival customs investigation report 800 words

While the homework is said to be Huantai's holiday customs, in fact, living so many years really did not find any special customs. Anyway, the so-called investigation report is to copy the information Spring Festival

The old custom of the Spring Festival from the first day of the year zero start, Shandong Province, generally by the parents first up "hair paper", open the door before the first put a fire whip, and then only to talk. Men under the leadership of parents to worship the gods of heaven and earth. The first meal of the Spring Festival is dumplings. Firecrackers are fired while the dumplings are being cooked. In order to drive away evil and seek good luck, some regions use sesame stalks to cook the dumplings over the fire, which means that the new year will be like a blossoming sesame seed, and the days will be better and better. Dumplings to cook more, there must be a surplus, after the meal to be put on the pot of steamed bread, meant to have a surplus head. After the dumplings are cooked, a bowl is first filled to honor Heaven and Earth, and then a bowl is filled to honor Zaojun. During the meal, in addition to a bowl for each person, one or two more bowls are served in the hope that the family will prosper. Eating dumplings is full of festive joy. Chinese New Year dumplings are wrapped with money, jujube, chestnuts, etc. Eating jujube means that you can get up early in the new year and work hard to get rich; eating chestnuts means that you can make great efforts and sweat in the new year; eating peanut rice means that you can live a long life; and eating money means that you can get rich. No matter who eats any of them, everyone congratulates heartily. If the child ate the money, the parents are more very happy, that the child has merit, in addition to encouragement, but also reward money, in order to show congratulations. Many places to eat vegetarian dumplings on the first day of the year, to take the meaning of "vegetarian quiet year". Linqing place on the first day of breakfast to eat a variety of steamed buns, jujube cake, sticky nest, etc., and with a variety of pills, vermicelli, cabbage boiled into the "whole dish", called "eat the whole year's meal".

Recreational activities during the Spring Festival, in Shandong folk extremely common. There are various forms of entertainment, such as rice-planting songs, dragon lanterns, lion dances, running boats, martial arts performances, and ball games. New Year's Eve

The 30th day of the Lunar month of the old calendar is New Year's Eve, commonly known as the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, people send the old and welcome the new main activities are concentrated in this day, the Spring Festival reaches its climax, the most grand and lively.

In order to embellish the scene, set the atmosphere of "Nafu Yingxin", every family has to paste the Spring Festival couplets, door heart, please note, written on red paper, "days and months of life, spring full of Qiankun Fukumo," "another year of green grass, still ten miles of apricot blossom red," "the treasure of things, the people of the world," "look up to see the happy," "the whole house bright," "groove prosperous," "suitable for a new year, blessed with the eyes, the family happy, safe population, the people. The family is happy, the population is safe", "fortune", "gold" and other festive, auspicious words. Also paste the god of the door, paste hanging money. )

LaBai

LaBai, that is, the eighth day of the twelfth month of the old calendar, is a traditional Han Chinese festival. Tang - Zhang Shoujie "historical justice" said: "December Lahai also ...... hunt birds and animals to the end of the year sacrifice ancestors, because of the establishment of this day also." Han Dynasty to the winter solstice after the third e day for the "waxing day", North and South Dynasties began to change to December 8 for the "waxing day", the ancient Spring Festival actually began on this day. The folk song says: "Don't be upset, old lady, after Laha is the year. How many days do I have to drink the congee on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month? Mile after mile, twenty-three ......" Among Buddhists, Laha is known as the "Festival of the Path". Folk have porridge for Buddha, gift friends and neighbors, self-food, as well as to soak "Laha garlic" custom.

Duanwu Festival Dragon Boat Festival day, all areas of Shandong generally in the doorway inserted Ai. On the fifth day of the month, the family again in the door on Ai, insert peach branches, hanging paper or cloth peach or the Monkey King, under the embellishment of garlic, black beans and five-color cloth, in the main door on the door plate sticker paper cutouts of peaches, tigers, chickens, gourds, door frames stickers on the sword. At the same time in all the doors and windows of the moxa and peach branches, paste gourds, chickens, tigers, toads, peaches, five poisons (scissors cut scorpions) and other paper cuts. Plug hanging Ai tree, must be a day before the festival in the dark after dusk to the mountains to pull, commonly known as "touch Ai". Dragon Boat Festival this day, the province almost all eat zongzi and eggs, some places also like to drink xionghuang wine, children do not drink, it will be in the ears and nostrils smeared with a little. Qingming

Chingming is an important festival in the old calendar. The custom of sweeping graves and paying homage to ancestors has a long history. Before the Qin Dynasty, there was already the custom of sweeping graves, but not necessarily on the occasion of Qingming, Qingming sweeping graves began to flourish from the Tang Dynasty. Qing Tongli" cloud: "year, cold food and frost festival, worship sweeping Xieng Khouang tombs, the period of plain clothes at the tomb, with wine and food and scythe cut grass and trees of the device, Zhou calloused seal tree, cut off the thorn grass, so called sweeping the tomb." Ming "Imperial Beijing Scenery": "March Qingming Day, men and women sweeping tombs, tandem with the honor pillar, sedan chair and horse hanging kozo ingots, charm full of road also." The custom of sweeping tombs at Qingming has been passed down to the present day. In the old days, Beijingers' Qingming Tomb Sweeping and Sweeping Ceremony was not held on the day of Qingming, but on a "single" day close to the day of Qingming. The way of sweeping was also different depending on the family's economic condition. Go to the outskirts of the tomb, some sacrifices after sitting around the place to get together to lead the wine, some flying kites, some with willow woven into a circle shape to wear on the head, said "Ching Ming do not wear a willow, the next life into a yellow dog", both the tomb and spring tour, both to send to the forefathers of the grief, but also to do their own spring tour of the Xing.