About 300 words on Yangquan's folk customs and traditions

The posting of spring couplets is an indispensable part of a series of activities to welcome the Spring Festival. As early as a few days before the Spring Festival, the streets are crowded with vendors shouting spring couplets. The stalls are filled with a wide variety of spring scrolls. Each spring scroll has a blessing written on it, but each is different and intriguing. Some spring scrolls read: "The wind blows green willow in the south of the Yangtze River, and the spring rain urges to bloom flowers in the north of the Seychelles", while some spring scrolls read: "The water and the mountains are painted everywhere, and every family is rich in wealth year after year". Two short sentences, written live in the hearts of people's good wishes for the New Year's festivities.

Listening to my grandfather, I heard that Spring Festival couplets have a long history in China. The poet Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty wrote in "New Year's Day": "The sound of firecrackers marks the end of the year, and the spring breeze sends ambiguities into the tassel. Thousands of doors and tens of thousands of pupils of the sun, always change the new peach for the old one." The new peaches and old talismans in this poem are the prototypes of spring couplets. Spring Festival couplets are also a kind of couplets, as a unique form of literature, from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the development has been more than a thousand years today, but its peak period is still in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Legend has it that after Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, set his capital at Jinling, before New Year's Eve one year, he passed a decree to Jinling and other places that "a pair of Spring Festival couplets must be added to the doors of public officials and common people." On New Year's Eve, he personally went out on a tour in micro-suits to get a sense of the real situation. Once he found a family did not paste the Spring Festival couplets, asked Fangzhi is a pig castration, do not know how to write their business content into the couplets. Zhu Yuanzhang heard, thinking for a moment, for the castration of pigs, said: "hands split the road of life and death; a knife cut off the root of right and wrong." This shows that Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor on horseback, made outstanding contributions to the promotion and development of the Spring Festival couplets. To the Kangxi and Qianlong period, the art of spring scrolls is perfect. Whether from the content or form, have a certain level. Kangxi is also a master of writing couplets, his inscription of Zhenjiang Jinshan Seven Peaks Pavilion couplet, is a very good excerpts of the couplet: "stream clouds at the beginning of the sun sinking Pavilion, the mountain rain wants to come full of buildings." Chunlian development to today, has entered a brand new era, Chunlian this ancient evergreen tree, will be in the new century to show attractive posture.

First: folk customs

"Hundreds of miles of different winds, thousands of miles of different customs", there are many countries in the world, each country's customs are different, different countries like to dress is also different. Today, I'm going to take you to understand is the Japanese kimono and Koreans wear the "Korean robe".

The kimono is the traditional dress of the Japanese Yamato nation, locally known as "with things", because the pattern and color of the kimono reflects the concrete images of nature, also known as "Hanami Curtain". The kimono does not use buttons, but only an obi with a knot, and there are many types of obi with different ways of tying knots, and the widely used one is the "taiko knot," which is a core made of paper or cloth that is padded inside the obi at the knot at the back waist. Because of the knot is very laborious, after the Second World War and the emergence of "improved belt" and "cultural belt".

The hanbok is a traditional Korean garment, and its style is suited to the Korean climate and to the sitting habits of Koreans. Women wear Hanbok short tops with elegant long skirts, and the colors of the tops and skirts are colorful, some with bright and gorgeous brocade embroidery.

Different regions have different characteristics, different countries have different colors, life in the little by little convergence into a gorgeous and colorful picture of the style, all reflecting the rich and colorful regional characteristics, all show the unique charm of each country.

Second: and the Spring Festival customs

Previously, New Year's Eve, just and adults to get together. This year I know a lot of customs and traditions related to the Spring Festival.

On the morning of the New Year's Eve, every family should put up Spring Festival couplets to show that they want to welcome the Spring Festival. Every year, Grandpa picks a good one that he likes. This year, he chose the first line: joyful and prosperous, and the second line: good luck and good fortune. The banner reads: "Auspicious Stars Shine High. This is enough to herald a happy life in the new year.

Eating dumplings at midnight on New Year's Eve is also essential for every family. Old people say it is good to eat dumplings. Eating dumplings contains a very rich cultural meaning. Dumplings are the symbol of good luck and prosperity when they are handed over to each other. The shape of the dumplings is also like a golden treasure, so it also symbolizes reunion and wealth.

The fifth day of the Lunar New Year is commonly known as the "fifth day of the month", which means that people have to go out of their homes to engage in outdoor activities. This morning my grandparents and I walked along the embankment, from the General Quay to Xinhua Quay. Here is the ice skating rink, men and women, young and old, people are crowded, people dressed in colorful holiday clothes, as if the ice rink decorated with blooming flowers. Some people were skating, some were playing ice car. Some people are skating, some are playing ice car, and some are putting the ice car down from the high place on the ice track, everyone is having a great time! Adults, children and the elderly, all singing and laughing ......

Isn't this a true reflection of a peaceful world?

Third: Hometown folk customs

My hometown - Ningxiang, this small county is located in the west of Changsha City, Hunan Province, where although everything is ordinary, not outstanding, but the hometown of the flashpoints often attract people's attention. Among them, the traditional folk customs passed down from generation to generation is one of the highlights.

The atmosphere of the festival best reflects the charm of traditional customs.

The first festival here is the Spring Festival. Before the Spring Festival, every family will kill a pig one after another in the month of Lunar New Year, especially in the countryside, and then invite the people in the village to have a big meal after the pig is killed. My hometown New Year's Eve will eat chicken, fish, meat, these three dishes, the chicken must be a male chicken, it will be the whole stewed, out of the pot on the plate to let the head up, not only the metaphorical "step by step", and refreshingly delicious, people do not want to eat all want to gulp.

After the Spring Festival, another round of high tide is undoubtedly the Lantern Festival. It is of course essential to eat Yuanxiao on the Lantern Festival. Soft white flour wrapped in a cloud of fragrant and delicious sandwich, bite, sweet black sesame paste into the mouth, in the mouth slowly melting away ...... Lantern Festival, everything revolves around the "round", then naturally can not be separated from the lights, hometown there is an ongoing A custom that has lasted for many years - the Lantern Festival. Every first month of the fourteenth and fifteenth night, the pedestrian street, the administrative center will always light up "all night long" red lanterns, for hometown added a bright landscape, it is precisely because of this, each time the lanterns, the scene is crowded with people, can be said to be a sea of people! So, after the arrival of my helpless.

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My hometown is a small county, but there are thousands of years of strong cultural heritage, carrying the folk customs handed down from ancestors, adding a unique local characteristics in the world for China.

Fourth: the customs of the Dai people

The Dai people mainly live in Xishuangbanna area. Here the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the climate is mild, the rainfall is abundant, and there are large tracts of tropical primitive forests. The forest is inhabited by precious wild animals, large Asian elephants and beautiful peacocks, all of which are "residents"

The Dai are mainly engaged in planting. The Dai villages are composed of bamboo buildings. Most of the bamboo buildings are two-story, beautiful style, the upper floor to live, the lower floor has no wall, storage of miscellaneous goods or livestock.

The major festivals of the Dai people are the New Year of the Dai Calendar - the Water Festival, the Festival of Entering the Summer of Anjiu (Shutting the Door Festival), and the Festival of Exiting the Summer of Anjiu (Opening the Door Festival)

The Dai Water Festival is held in the middle of March of the Lunar Calendar, which coincides with the sixth month of the Dai Calendar, and it is the beginning of the year in the Dai Calendar, therefore, the Water Festival is equal to the Spring Festival of the Dai people.

During the Water Splashing Festival, the Dai people go to Buddhist temples to pay tribute to Buddha, while young men and women put on beautiful clothes and go out on the streets to splash water on each other. According to Dai custom, splashing with water can wash away the dirt of the year and bless the future with good fortune.

The Dai opera originated from Dai songs and dances with certain characters and Buddhist scriptures, and then absorbed the artistic nourishment of Dian opera and shadow play, gradually forming a more complete form of opera.

The Dai people eat rice as their staple food, and the most distinctive feature is the bamboo tube rice. The production method is to put fresh rice into the bamboo tube and add water, and put it on the fire barbecue, and it tastes fragrant and delicious.

The fifth: my hometown folk

Blast firecrackers in a year except,

Spring breeze to send warm people Tu Su.

Thousands of doors and thousands of pupils of the sun.

The new peach is always replaced by the old one.

Depicts the grand festive scene of the Spring Festival of our people. The sound of firecrackers is a sign of resignation and welcome to the new, the flow of the festive mood. Business people. Firecrackers have another meaning: they are in the New Year's Eve firecrackers is for the new year big hair big profit. However, according to the old custom that, to honor the God of Fortune to compete first, firecrackers to the back. Legend has it that for those who want to make a fortune, the firecrackers have to be set off at the end of the night to be considered sincere.

My hometown of Zhejiang and many other parts of the country, the New Year have the same customs. For example:

Watch the New Year

China's folk in the New Year's Eve has the habit of watching the New Year's Eve, commonly known as "boiled year". The New Year's Eve vigil starts with the New Year's Eve dinner, which should be eaten slowly, from the time of the lantern to the table, some people have to eat until late at night. According to the record of "Jing Chu Yearly Records", there was a custom of having New Year's Eve dinner at least in the North and South Dynasties. The custom of keeping the New Year's Eve is not only a way of saying goodbye to the passing years, but also a way of expressing hope for the coming New Year.

Eating New Year's Eve dinner

Children playing with firecrackers, but also the housewives in the kitchen the busiest time, New Year's dishes are done a few days before, and New Year's Eve dinner always have to be in the New Year's Eve on the day of the kitchen to do out. In the north, the dumplings on the first day of the New Year are also wrapped up on the evening of the thirtieth. At this time the cutting boards of the families are thumping and busy chopping meat and vegetables. At this time, the sound of chopping boards coming out of every house, the sound of firecrackers coming out of the streets and alleys, small stores coming out of the "chopping and popping" sound of the abacus and the rhythmic sound of the accounts, mixed with the sound of laughter everywhere, one after another, the ocean is full of ears, interweaving into the New Year's Eve joyful music.

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Besides these, my hometown has some different folk customs. Let me cite one of them.

Shining the field silkworms

Also known as "burning the field silkworms" and "burning the field wealth", it is a folk custom popular in the south of the Yangtze River to pray for the New Year. On the 25th day of the Lunar New Year, a torch is tied to a long pole in the field, and the flame is used to divine the New Year, and a strong flame is an omen of a good harvest in the coming year.

Sixth: Spring Festival in Guangxi

According to the old rules in Guangxi, the Spring Festival begins almost on December 23 of the lunar calendar. This day is the traditional small year, the day when the God of Zao ascends to heaven. People kill chickens and geese to pay homage to the God of the Zao, hoping to be clothed and fed in the new year.

Around the 25th day of the Lunar New Year, people must choose a day to clean their homes spotlessly. In addition, people have to buy groceries, cut meat and prepare New Year's goods.

New Year's Eve, the first climax of the Spring Festival, is marked by the sound of firecrackers all day and night, the rush to make New Year's dishes at home, and the smell of wine and meat wafting through the streets. People put new couplets on the door, and the house is covered with colorful New Year's paintings. People also have to have a reunion dinner in the evening, and those who work outside have to rush back. In addition, the adults are to watch the Spring Festival Gala, and the children set off fireworks, it is really a happy time.

On the first day of the first month, the Spring Festival has a climax. The stores on the street not only do not close, there are many vendors on both sides of the street set up stalls, people from all directions to come, three a group, five a group, in the street shopping, playing chess, chatting. Children held the hands of adults and bought toys.

On the second day of the first month of the lunar calendar, people begin to pay their respects and congratulate each other. On this day, it is not allowed to say unlucky words.

The Lantern Festival is the last climax of the Spring Festival. On this day, the streets look like they are celebrating a happy event, with lanterns and colors. For those who have the means to do so, they will also hang two big red lanterns at the door. There are also riddles and songs. There may be a dragon dance on the street, and people have to finish setting off the rest of the fireworks. On this day, people are meant to eat Lantern Festival.

After the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is almost over. The weather turns back, farmers start spring plowing, students get ready for school, and people have to go back to their busy lives.