What are the traditional festivals in Longxian County?

Spring Festival, Longxian County is also called Spring Festival. From the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household began to prepare for the New Year. On the 23 rd of the twelfth lunar month, send the kitchen king, also known as "send the kitchen" and "sweep the house". On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, we put up windows, stick grilles, New Year pictures, couplets, door stickers, paintings of door gods, preparing food and wine, offering steamed stuffed buns and dishes to our ancestors, burning incense, lighting candles, offering sacrifices to our ancestors and setting off firecrackers to start the new year. In the evening, the whole family get together to eat and drink, and the younger generation pays New Year greetings to the elders. The elders give lucky money to their children and newlyweds, saying that the past is the present, talking about work and family. After midnight, we light a cypress fire, set off firecrackers, insert incense to welcome God and welcome the New Year in the courtyard, which is called "greeting the joy and receiving the blessing". On the morning of the first day of the first month, men, women and children put on new clothes, burn incense and kowtow to their ancestors. Breakfast is jiaozi or minced meat noodles, and lunch is a banquet and steamed bread. After the second day of junior high school, visiting relatives and friends with gifts is called "Happy New Year". Here, villagers dress up as social fires and put up swings.

Lantern Festival is an important part of the annual custom activities, and Longxian people call it "the first day" and "the fifteenth day of high school". Lantern Festival activities

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There are three main contents: one is to eat glutinous rice balls; The second is to watch lanterns, fireworks and solve riddles on the lanterns on lanterns; The third is to play social fire. After the fifth day of the first month, lanterns of various shapes, such as warm pot lanterns, fish lanterns, tiger lanterns, bunny lanterns, monkey children's lanterns, watermelon lanterns, gauze lanterns, palace lanterns, dragon lanterns, lotus lanterns, cupping lanterns, etc. , listed for sale. From the eighth day, the husband's family began to send lanterns and bring gifts or cakes to unmarried daughter-in-law. The 14th to 16th of the first month is the Lantern Festival. At night, sky lanterns, door lanterns and grave lanterns are hung in the courtyard of every household in urban and rural areas, and children walk around with colored lights. The new wife will go to her uncle's house or aunt's house to "hide from the lights" on the first Lantern Festival. This custom is related to folklore.