Festival Customs in Ningbo

1. During the Qingming Festival, people in Ningbo will go to the mountains to pick mugwort and go home to wrap green dumplings and Qingming wheat berries. The aroma of glutinous rice is filled with the flavor of grass, adding a sense of longing to the festival.

2. On New Year's Eve, New Year's paintings, spring couplets and lucky characters are put up in the lobby or at the entrance. In particular, it is important to note that the old Ningbo custom of the word "Fu" can not be posted upside down. Blessed as three animals and five animals, slaughtered chickens and geese should pay attention to the tail left a few long hair. Carp must be alive and released at the end of the blessing.

3, Mid-Autumn Festival, Ningbo area Mid-Autumn Festival is scheduled for August 16, during the Mid-Autumn Festival there are also activities such as inviting moon nuns, burning incense of bucket, dragon boat racing, releasing boat lanterns and so on.

4, Lantern Festival, the night of the 14th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, farmers in the north of Yaosi Yaosi tied torches to light up their fields with pests. Women have the custom of inviting the "woman in the bathroom" (the god of the toilet). In the southern mountains of Yaonan, there is a custom of worshipping "fairies".

5, the Spring Festival, zero hour, let go of the door cannon, sacrifices to the gods of heaven and earth, the morning food bean tea, dumplings, rice cakes, dumplings, said the head of the smooth flow, reunion, year after year, high rise. Early in the morning on the day of the Spring Festival, worship ancestors, worship tomb years.

6, the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar for the Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as "half of the eighth month". Before the festival, friends and relatives give each other moon cakes and other gifts, is the night, the family reunion outdoor eating moon cakes, fruits to enjoy the moon, and some also prepared food and wine to drink. Ningbo people Xing collective moon.