Wuxi traditional festival customs

Traditional Wuxi festival customs: 1, posting Spring Festival, Zhong Kui statue: Wuxi, in addition to posting peach charms, door filler, Spring Festival, there are in the New Year hanging Zhong Kui statue, in order to avoid a year of ghosts and evil spirits.

The legend says that Zhong Kui is good at catching ghosts.

This custom probably began in the Tang Dynasty.

Many people in Wuxi also have the custom of hanging the red single couplets and paper cutouts on the lintel of the door to celebrate the statement.

Putting up window decorations to welcome the New Year: People in Wuxi like to put up all kinds of paper-cut window decorations on their windows during the New Year festivities.

Window flowers not only bring a festive atmosphere, but also bring people the enjoyment of beauty, decorative, appreciative and practical in one.

Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art, which has been loved by people for thousands of years, because it is mostly pasted on the windows, so people generally call it "window flowers".

Window flowers are rich in content, a wide range of subjects.

Because most of the buyers of window flowers are peasants, there are also myths and legends, opera stories and other subjects.

Additionally, images of birds, flowers, insects, fish and the Chinese zodiac are also very common.

Window flowers with its unique generalization and exaggeration will be auspicious events, good wishes expressed to the fullest, will be decorated with festivals red-hot rich, joyful.

3, send stove: Wuxi folk custom is on the 24th day of the Lunar New Year "send stove".

On this day, the family should be located in the shrine in the wall of the stove "Zao Wang" incense, and tribute to the caramel and noodles made of "send stove sugar", meaning that the "Zao Wang" sweet mouth, only good words after going to heaven! The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good story to tell when you go up to heaven, and then stick a couplet under the niche of the stove that reads: "Do good things up in heaven, and keep peace down below.