Customs of Chaoshan

Customs in Chaoshan include the Sugar Lion Race, the custom of separating families, the Qinglong Temple Fair, the worship of the God of Wealth, the delivery of Spring Baskets, the New Year's Eve Dinner, the rituals, the Lantern Festival, the Yung Festival, the Cane Lane Walking, the Rao Ping Caiqing Festival, and the worship of the "Wugu Masters", etc. The Teochew people are proud of this. Chaoshan people have always been proud of their many folklore. Besides the traditional festivals, they also keep the Yu Lan Festival. In addition to the traditional festivals, they also keep the Yu Lan Festival, and the more characteristic ones are the "People's Festival" eating seven kinds of soup, the Chenghai pig race, the salt stove dragging the god, etc. The people of Chaoshan are also very proud of this festival.

The Chaoshan people on the first day of the second month of the lunar calendar, Chaozhou City, Chaoan District, Fengtang Town, Hulong Village, held the annual "race sugar lion" folk activities. He Long race sugar lion custom has a long history. In ancient times, Hulong was rich in sugarcane, and every year after sugarcane was extracted by the sugarcane squatters in winter, brown sugar and peanuts would be used to make offerings to honor the gods. Since the lion is a powerful lion that can control the mountain and ensure a good harvest, the offerings were made in the shape of a lion to pray for the gods' blessing for a good harvest. Therefore, many people here make sugar lions.

Families in Chaoshan have the custom of splitting up, which refers to separating a family into several families. One complete home dissolves and several new families are formed and born. The division of a family is mainly a division of property. In property, the main division of fixed assets and funds, that is, the parents' savings, parents' private property. As the saying goes, "A big tree is divided into branches, and a big son is divided into families." Chiu Chow custom "family separation" from the ceremony to the content of the significant local characteristics.

No matter how big or small the business is in the Chaoshan area, there is a custom of worshipping the "God of Wealth" on June 24 every year. Folk legend has it that the God of Wealth is Fan Li, and it is said that worshipping the "God of Wealth" can bring in wealth and prosperity, so the merchants on this day, "bosses" and "head of the family", do a lot of "Three sacrifices" gifts, pious kneeling, prayers and wishes, worship people often use a large piece of charcoal to insert incense, because in people's minds, "charcoal" sound and the Teochew "earn" resonance. The legend has it that the more sumptuous the feast, the better the food will be. Legend has it that the more sumptuous the feast and the more people invited, the more prosperous the business will be in the future.

Sending Spring Baskets is a very characteristic folklore activity during the Spring Festival in the Chaoshan area. The so-called Spring Basket is a kind of bamboo basket with a cover that is divided into three or four layers, usually used in pairs, so it is also called "Tanshun (Mushan)". On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the mother's family to give gifts to the married daughter, always in a pair of Dachun (Mussheng), and then by the married woman's brother to carry to send. This is commonly known as "send spring".