Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional stories - 5 copies of local folk information.

5 copies of local folk information.

1. Happy New Year is a traditional folk custom in China, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express their blessings to each other. Usually on the first day of the first month, parents will lead the younger generation out to meet relatives, friends and elders and wish each other a happy New Year with auspicious words. Young people must kowtow to pay tribute, which is called "New Year greetings".

According to legend, the first day of the New Year is the birthday of the broom, so you can't move the broom on this day, otherwise it will sweep away your luck, break your fortune, attract a "broom star" and cause bad luck. After cleaning the house on New Year's Eve, don't move the broom or take out the garbage on New Year's Day. If you must sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside to the inside. Prepare a big barrel of waste water, don't spill it that day, for fear of losing money. There is still room for reservation in this custom.

3. On the fifth day of the first month, commonly known as "Breaking Five", it is necessary to "drive out five poverty", including "poor in intelligence, poor in learning, poor in literature, poor in life and poor in friends". People get up at dawn, set off firecrackers and clean up. Firecrackers are set from the inside out, and as soon as they are set, they go outside the door. It is said that anything unlucky will be blown out. On this day, the popular folk food custom is to eat jiaozi, commonly known as "squeezing people's mouths".

4. The seventh day is People's Day, which is people's birthday. According to the "gauntlet", from the first day, the order of God's creation was "one chicken, three pigs, four sheep, five cows, six horses, seven people and eight valleys", so the seventh day was a human day. On this day, citizens like to eat the first bowl of porridge. The so-called porridge is to hope to be a top high school in scientific research.

The fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, which is the night of the first full moon in a year and the night of spring return, also known as Shangyuan Festival. The custom of burning lanterns on Lantern Festival can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. It is essential to eat Lantern Festival and glutinous rice balls on this day. The first month of 16th night is Children's Day. All the children took out their lanterns and collided with others, and then smiled and watched others' lanterns catch fire. This is called "touching the lamp".