Characteristic Customs and Traditions of Chaoshan

I. Winter Festival?

The Winter Festival is the winter solstice of the 24 seasons, which coincides with the gap between farming and the end of the year, so it is also known as the Little New Year. The old custom of the winter festival to worship gods and ancestors, the whole family to eat sweet glutinous rice round, in order to express the reunion. Another winter solstice to worship ancestors, eat sweet pills (eat on the "winter festival pills" will grow a year), visit the graves and other graves (Qingming line "spring paper", the winter solstice line "winter paper").

Two, labor heat?

"Laohai? "Folklore originated in Chaozhou people's unparalleled worship of the land, the worship of the land led to the emergence of the "God of the land". The god of the land, which the ancients called "She", is known to the Chaozhou people as the God of the land or the God of the land (it is worth mentioning that the Chaozhou people worship the God of the land in their stores, homes and factories, which can also be seen in the Mingweng Tea House).

The folkloric activity of "Laogai" has been passed down in Chaozhou for thousands of years.

Third, what are the marriage customs in Chaoshan?

Chaoshan marriage customs in the old days paid more attention to the "open matchmaking". Although the rituals and customs vary from place to place, the more consistent way of referring to them and the rituals and ceremonies are: proposing marriage, marrying together, betrothal, hiring, inviting the period, welcoming the bride, commonly known as the "six rituals". There are also summarized into "four rites": the text of the final, please period, send hiring, marrying.

The bride is required to hold ceremonies such as "opening the well", "pounding rice" and "stirring slop" on the third day of the wedding; and to perform the "return to peace" rituals on the twelfth day or at the end of the fourth month. The first and second "return to the house" ceremonies were held in the first and second "return to the house" ceremonies. The first and second "back to the house", the bride returned to her mother's home when the smoke rose, "three back to the house" can spend the night in the mother's home.

Four, hanging lamps custom

From the first month of the eleventh to the first month of the eighteenth, especially the Lantern Festival this day, Chaoshan families have light, hanging lamps custom. Lantern this day, people have to carry lanterns, prepared paper and silver incense and candles, to the countryside in the temple fire, come back to hang in the family shrine and bedside, which is called "hanging happy lights".

Fifth, out of the garden?

Out of the garden is a unique rite of passage in the Chaoshan region, 15-year-old (virtual age) children to "out of the garden". Where there are 15-year-old boys and girls family, in the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the Beggar's Nest and the 15th of the seventh month of the Chinese New Year Festival or another day for the child to prepare the three sacrifices (male chicken, duck, pork) and fruit to pay farewell to the God in-laws (commonly known as the mother in-laws), said that the child is already grown up, and from now on, you can get out of the garden.