Yueyang Customs Essay

In Yueyang folk, there are a lot of popular folk art, such as Linxiang's lion dance, Miluo's "storytelling", Huarong's clam shell play and so on.　Spring Festival Yueyang area is commonly known as the "New Year", the customs are generally the same as those of the motherland, in addition to killing chickens and ducks, firecrackers, posting spring couplets, in the 30th day of the Lunar New Year to eat ″New Year's Eve dinner ", very rich. Twelve bowls must be fish in this dish, showing the meaning of auspicious surplus. Before the liberation, some areas with less fish, in order to have "100 miles of fish" this dish, with wood carving a "100 miles of fish", put in a pot, sprinkled with green onions, like a real fish in general. People attach great importance to the New Year's Eve dinner, people go out in thousands of miles to the home, the family waited and waited. Eat New Year's Eve dinner, to close the door, meaning not to let the treasure run away. After the meal put on a firecracker, that has eaten the New Year's dinner, people can walk around.