Hometown Customs of Liaoning

Customs in Liaoning include posting Spring Festival couplets, eating Spring Festival cakes, catching the gods, playing the drums, and filling up warehouses.

1, posting Spring Festival couplets: Liaoning people's Spring Festival customs, like those in the Central Plains, will also post red Spring Festival couplets, and will also be "the age of the new sentence". This shows that the residents of Liaoning at that time would pursue new sentences in the Spring Festival couplets, praying for a new year with new winds and new outlooks, and good luck.

2, eat spring cake: "spring" day Liaoning people will also eat radish, commonly known as "bite spring"; will also eat spring cake, which means the beginning of everything, to meet another brand new spring.

3, pick up the God: New Year's Eve afternoon and New Year's Day morning ancestor worship, sacrifice. New Year's Eve to pick up the gods, pick up the gods after the gate to put a horizontal wood to block the ghosts come in, but also hang the door god to drive away evil spirits, which is the result of the absorption of Han customs, the door god is divided into about "generals door god," "Fuk Lu door god," "judge door god

4, Taiping Drum: In ancient times, called La Drum, worship Taiping Drum ceremony, originated from the shamanism of the sun god worship. Western Liaoning region of the Taiping drum to wire for the frame, octagonal. Diameter of about 0.7 to 1 meter, with leather paper overlapping paste, decorated with colorful paintings, under the handle through a dozen iron ring, hit the vibration of the clattering sound. The parade of worshipers of the drum is also a street scene during the festival.

5, fill the warehouse: the first month of the twenty-fifth of the "fill the warehouse day" Liaoxi region, also known as the "day warehouse day". Manchu family "fill warehouse", there are cooked sticky sorghum rice in the granary custom, but also the straw tied horse, small hoe inserted into the rice bowl, said hard work to seek and the wish for food and clothing.