An essay on national customs.

Chapter One: Ethnic Customs in Ningxiang: The first day of the first lunar month is the New Year of the China lunar calendar. Among the traditional festivals in China, this is the most important and lively one. Because the Spring Festival is in late winter and early spring. Therefore, people call this festival "Spring Festival".

Eat, drink and be merry, the meaning of the four words is different in different times.

Yes, I remember I was looking forward to the last Chinese New Year. There will be delicious food during the Spring Festival. You can eat hard without scolding your elders. The requirement now is how to eat healthily.

Drinking is classy, so many families choose to eat New Year's Eve in hotels. Of course, most people still have a family reunion dinner at home.

Playing, Chinese New Year, getting together with friends and family to play small mahjong, and cracking down on small landlords are many people's choices. The "opening cannon" just after 12 o'clock on New Year's Eve must be set off, as well as firecrackers on the fifteenth day of the first month, which means that the year is over.

Yes, I watched the Spring Festival Gala on TV after my family ate the New Year's Eve dinner. Of course, New Year's Eve is a paradise for me and my children. For example, elders usually put lucky money or firecrackers bought a few days ago with their younger generation.

These activities are to worship ancestors, bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Praying for a bumper harvest is the main content. It has strong national characteristics.

My hometown is Pucheng, a small county, but even so, Pucheng people have always advocated the traditional folk customs of China, which shows that everyone respects their ancestors.

Let's talk about the Spring Festival first! On New Year's Eve, every family begins to eat New Year's Eve after 3 o'clock. "Egg roll" is an essential dish. Its color is golden yellow, which symbolizes the prosperity of every household every year, and children can honor their elders. We never go out after supper. Grandma said, "If we go out, we will take away everyone's good luck." Although you can't go out, you can't go out at home, but you can still have a good time at home. Adults play cards at home all night and children set off fireworks! This means good luck and good luck every year ... after New Year's Eve, the first day of the first month is also very popular! Get up in the morning and have a cup of "sweet osmanthus honey" after washing. This is our children's favorite. It tastes sweet and fragrant ... which means I hope everyone's life is prosperous, sweet and beautiful ... After dinner, they will pay a New Year call to their elders. Children will be happy to get lucky money, but they can't spend money indiscriminately from grade one to grade three, which means that this year is very difficult for adults. On the fourth day of the first month, the whole family will go to the temple on the mountain to burn incense and worship Buddha, so that the bodhisattva can bless their children and grandchildren, and life will be happier ... After the sixth day, everything will return to normal and the adults will continue to work. It's time for children to review their lessons and welcome the new semester. This Spring Festival is unforgettable.

Chapter III: Ethnic customs It is April in the world, and the spring scenery is full of Jiangnan. Maoshan Temple Fair is an appointment between traditional folk customs and spring: April1March 18th of the lunar calendar, the ancient town of Maoshan, with a history of more than 2,000 years of civilization, ushered in its own festival today, and the air is filled with festive atmosphere, which is awe-inspiring and inspiring. Dragon and lion dance, dancing the spring breeze of the ancient town. People in the surrounding towns gathered together to watch the grand occasion of the Maoshan Temple Fair, which was quite a "carnival of the common people".

Dating back to Maoshan Temple Fair, it has been more than 200 years since the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. This year is the 22nd organized temple fair in Maoshan. Although the temple fair is superstitious, its purpose is to gather merchants, exchange materials, supply materials needed for spring ploughing and people's life, revitalize the economy and invigorate the market. In addition, young artists give full play to their specialties, perform costumes, compete for entertainment, and enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the gong of "Kuang" untied the curtain of the temple fair, and the majestic dragon dance team took the lead. The dragon dancing in the air attracted everyone to cheer loudly. These dragon dance teams are composed of various towns and villages. Generally, a town produces two dragons, with a maximum of four. The dragon dance team is transported by special boats. After arriving at Maoshan, they were placed in the local temple. When the temple fair was on time, the dragon dance team was invited out of the temple fair, guided by flags, gongs and drums and horns. Dragon bodies are mostly tied with bamboo into a round dragon shape, one after another. There is a huge red cloth painted by Longlin outside. Every five or six feet, one person holds the pole, and the head and tail are separated by about ten feet. In front of the dragon, one person holds the pole, and a huge ball is erected at the top of the pole as a guide. When dancing, the giant ball swings back and forth, and the faucet catches the ball, making the dragon body swim and fly.

Dragon dancing through Dongyue Temple originated from Mao Ying, the prototype of Dongyue Emperor, who was also the founder of Nanzong Taoism. Every time the dragon dances, they kowtow in front of the first three statues of Dongyue Emperor to show their blessings. Finally, they arrive at Jingde Temple to have a rest and wait for sweeping the street at 1 pm. The pilgrims followed the dragon team into the temple to worship Buddha. The temple is crowded with people, and the smoke all over the sky makes people feel like a fairyland. Jingdezhen Temple, known as the Millennium Ancient Temple, is even more smoky. Today, the opening ceremony of the long Ming Fan and Daxiong Hall was also held. The reclining Buddha Hall, the Tibetan Scripture Building, the upper beam of the abbot's room and the Shanmen Hall in the temple have been rebuilt and opened to the outside world. Lying in the Buddhist temple is the most lively. This reclining Buddha cost about 1 100 million yuan and was carved from jade imported from Myanmar, weighing about 6 tons. He silently accepted the worship of pilgrims, listened to their voices and devoted himself to practicing Buddhism. Grandma is waiting outside the Buddhist temple in a navy robe, full of piety and expectation, as well as calmness and aura.

Xinghua Huai Opera Troupe performed in Jingde Temple. In order to see clearly, people occupied the space with stools early. The loud singing and fast rhythm of Maoshan bugle across the sky can be heard from a distance. The soft and moving dances and innocent and lovely children performed on the same stage provide a visual feast full of laughter and laughter for the people under the stage.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the dragon dancers met to form a 100-meter dragon team and marched around Maoshan Town to sweep the streets. The purpose of dragon dance can be summarized as follows: first, praying for rain; second, entertaining the gods and themselves; third, showing strength; fourth, prospering people's hearts. In front of the dragon team, one man struck a gong to show urgency, and then Ma Pi cleared the way. Horse skin, a wizard invited by the local people, sweeps the streets to exorcise evil spirits before the social sacrifice. Ma Pi led the dragon team through the streets and alleys, and everyone lined the streets to welcome them. More than ten colorful flags with different colors are fluttering in the wind, helping every family to burn incense and set off fireworks and firecrackers to ensure peace and good luck in the coming year.

Looking around, what makes people intoxicated is the rich local customs of Maoshan. People in ancient towns don't forget to inherit culture when they are new. Self-made farm tools are deeply loved by the masses. While following the tradition, we also learn new experiences and seek new development. Behind cultural exchange is economic integration. As the saying goes, gold comes out in troubled times, antiques come out in prosperous times, and Maoshan Temple Fair is resumed spontaneously under the condition of political integrity and harmony, with the purpose of excavating historical and cultural heritage, protecting cultural relics, developing tourism economy, promoting ethnic and religious culture, promoting local economic and cultural development, developing production, prospering economy, expanding market and revitalizing Maoshan.

A Maoshan Mountain, with geomantic omen, stimulates the economy and promotes the blending of traditional culture and modern civilization. We firmly believe that happy Maoshan! Good luck Maoshan!

Chapter four: Manchu folk custom "fifty-six nationalities, fifty-six flowers". Every nation has different customs and habits, different characteristic houses and special diets, so it should be said that "a hundred miles of different styles and thousands of miles of different customs".

Manchu is one of the 56 wonderful flowers, and its costumes are particularly distinctive. Below, I will briefly introduce it.

Manchu women do not bind their feet. All shoes are embroidered with beautiful floral decorations, and the center of the sole is padded with a wooden heel with a height of 10 cm. Manchu women can walk with their heads held high and their waists swaying in these shoes.

Cheongsam is the traditional dress of Manchu women. They like to wear qipao or vest that is full of feet. Cheongsam is characterized by a standing collar, a large right waist and a slit at the bottom. Ancient cheongsam has pipa lapel, wishful lapel, oblique lapel, piping or hemming, etc. /kloc-improved after the 1920s, with loose waist, wide cuffs and moderate length, which is convenient for walking. It has become a popular dress for women in China. In the early 1930s, influenced by western short skirts, the length was shortened, almost to the knees. In the mid-1930s, the cuffs were shortened and lengthened, and the sides were high. Short-sleeved or sleeveless cheongsam appeared in the 1940 s, and the outside was streamlined. After that, separate the pieces, including the shoulder seam and the sleeveless cheongsam skirt. Cheongsam, with oriental color, can fully show elegance and nobility, and is considered as a typical national costume to express female beauty. Praise the world.

Women's cheongsam is more decorative than men's cheongsam. The collar, front and cuffs are all embroidered. Teeth inlaid with several patterns or colors, commonly known as "drawing roads" or "dog teeth"

Manchu women's clothes are very nice, and Manchu men's clothes are also very nice.

Historically, Manchu men wore horseshoe sleeves with belts around their waists, or double-breasted robes and jackets.

Jacket is a kind of jacket that Manchu men often wear when riding horses. Mandarin jackets can be divided into various forms, such as large lapels, double lapels and pipa lapels. After the mandarin jacket, it became a daily garment covering the robe. High-necked double-breasted, four-sided slit, waist-length, slightly shorter sleeves, robe sleeves can be exposed for three or four inches, and robe sleeves are rolled on the jacket sleeves, which is the so-called size sleeves. Nowadays, many small cotton-padded jackets worn by Manchu people evolved from mandarin jackets. For the convenience of riding a horse, the robe is covered with a short robe that is up to the navel and open all around to keep out the cold.

Manchu men wear cool hats in summer and careless fur hats in winter. Their clothes like to use cotton, silk, silk, satin and other materials to make blue legs, cotton boots or leather boots, and wear Piura in winter. Braid the top and shave off the surrounding hair.

Manchu is a wonderful flower among the 56 ethnic groups in China. It has different customs and characteristics from other nationalities, and we need to understand it slowly.

Chapter 5: Folk custom "different styles in a hundred miles, different customs in a thousand miles" China, this huge family consists of 56 brothers and sisters, and each place has different characteristics. My hometown is in beautiful Guangdong. Let me take you into Guangdong Folk Customs Grand View Garden!

The first thing to introduce is herbal tea, our favorite drink in Guangdong. We think herbal tea is an insurance company for the body.

Because wearing a hospital gown can cure diseases, but not wearing a hospital gown can prevent diseases. In Guangdong, if adults don't drink several cups of herbal tea a month (mostly Wang Laoji) and infants don't accept seven star tea once every 2-3 days, it is considered that their health is not guaranteed.

Bamboo tube water is one of Guangdong herbal teas, which has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, moistening lung and expelling toxin.

Commonly used herbal teas, such as Wuhua Tea, Xiasangju Tea, and Wanglaoji Tea, are all composed of medicines with bitter taste and cold nature, and are suitable for depression syndromes such as colds at four o'clock, headaches and fever. Among them, Wang Laoji has the coldest medicinal properties, while Wuhua Tea and Xiasangju are relatively peaceful. Children's seven star tea is composed of drugs with sweet taste and slight cold, which is suitable for children's colds, fever, irritability and gnashing of teeth. Suitable for people with strong constitution, frequent sore throat, dry stool, red tongue and yellow greasy fur. However, the only feeling of foreigners who have drunk herbal tea is the word "bitter"! Many people take a sip of herbal tea, and then suddenly put a few pieces of dried tangerine peel into it to suffer.

Every Spring Festival or farming season, a spring bull dance with strong local flavor is popular in the vast rural areas from northern Guangdong to western Guangdong. People praise their hard-working cattle with deep affection, which fully shows people's love for this farm baby and their prayers and expectations for future life. During the performance, the actors and audience cheered and amused in unison, and the atmosphere was strong and harmonious, full of farmers' unique joy and interest. "Spring Cow" is usually performed by two actors, one jumping the bull's head and the other fucking the cow's tail. The bull's head is made of wood or bamboo, which is twice as big as a real bull's head. It has curved horns, big eyes, black fur and a bull's nose, just like the real one. The ox body is made of cloth, the actor is covered inside, and the ox body and oxtail jump alone. Before the performance, "Niu" was lying on one side, and a figure dressed as an old farmer picked it up and walked around the field happily with gongs and drums for several weeks, which made the audience laugh.

Sometimes the audience also teased the actors and sang, "The red flower is red in your hand, hanging on the corner, your spring cow sings well, and there is a hole in your cow's back." The clever actor immediately sang and answered, "The gongs and drums are loud, and that man speaks well;" Who is the cowboy with a paper tie and a hole in his back? "

Aroused everyone's laughter, and then began to formally perform. In the performance, the dance movement of "Niu" is very simple. Only when the cowherd sings does he wag his head and tail, act happy and accept people's praise. Petunia people have many actions, such as touching the spring cow while singing, and touching the oxtail from the cow's head. Every time they touch it, they have to sing lyrics, and at the same time, they have to ride cattle, drive cattle, plow fields, rake fields and so on. Some of them are carrying plows, rakes and other farm tools, and some are unarmed, but their movements must be very realistic. If there is a slight mistake, the audience will sing and ridicule: "Uncle Geng is not good at it. The plow in Dingding Garden turns very tightly, but it doesn't go in the middle? " The performer took the conversation by the way and replied humorously: "My brother is also good at gongs and drums. Lianzhou learns like a mountain, leaving a fish pond in the middle. "

In order to make the atmosphere more warm. In some places, once you have a lifetime, you will dress up as the bride and groom, holding an umbrella and carrying flowers on your shoulders, dancing and singing, singing, twisting and knocking. What best embodies the characteristics of this dance is its pure and affectionate lyrics. The actor who led the cow to the field began to sing: "I am good at plowing. My horns are big and my head is sharp.". I won't use a whip when I rake the ground, and I will use a pull when I plow the ground. " Then lovingly touch the cow, from beginning to end, while touching, singing: "Touch the head and touch the tail, farm farming depends on you;" Touching the cow's head and touching the cow's eye, wheat and beans increased production; Feel the cow's head and ears, develop production and get rich; Touch the cow's head and mouth, and the tiller will follow closely; Touch the cow's head and touch the cow's body, and cultivate it well in good weather; Touch the bull's head and touch the tripe, and there is a way out for life improvement; Touch the cow's head and feet, and don't worry about eating. Cow 2 is the wealth of farmers. Love cows is like love parents. We live together, work together, and go to Jinguang Road together. "

Simple content and sincere feelings. Educate everyone to love cows and be diligent in training. The tune is deep and lingering. Due to the long-term folk singing, a unique tune has been formed, commonly known as "Spring Cattle Tune".

Of course, there are many folk customs in Guangdong. For example, Guangzhou is known as the "Flower City", and the annual Winter jasmine market is very eye-catching; Lion dance; Planting bamboo ...

Every local folk custom has different characteristics, and it has its unique charm; It has its wonderful features. The motherland has bred different nationalities, different folk customs and colorful flowers, but the customs of Guangdong make me happy! I hope you can learn more about the local customs of your hometown, and even learn about the characteristics of other ethnic areas, so that we can feel the colorful China!

Chapter VI: The Mid-Autumn Festival custom of ethnic minorities-Yue Bai is also deeply loved by ethnic minorities. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the Dai people in Yunnan are popular with the custom of "Yue Bai". According to Dai's legend, the moon was changed by the third son. In short, he is a brave and strong young man. He led the Dai people to defeat the enemy and won the love of the Dai people. Later, after his unfortunate death, he became the moon, rose to the sky, and continued to emit soft moonlight, bringing light to the Dai people in the dark. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, young people go to the mountains early in the morning with gunpowder guns to shoot fire finches and pheasants to hunt holiday game. Girls and daughters-in-law are busy catching fish in the lake pond. They are all busy preparing holiday dinner. The old lady is busy frying glutinous rice and cooking different sizes of food. Put a glutinous rice round cake on each corner of the four tables, and insert a wick of Leng Xiang into each cake. As soon as the moon rises above the mountains, Leng Xiang will be lit, and the whole family will begin to "Yue Bai". Then, put a gunpowder gun in the air to show respect for the hero's rock tip. Finally, the family happily sat around the small square table, enjoying delicious food and enjoying the moon.

When the Oroqen people sacrifice to the moon, they put a basin of clear water in the open space, and then kneel in front of the basin and bow to the moon; The Tu people filled the basin with clear water and put the reflection of the moon in the basin. Then, people kept hitting the moon in the basin with pebbles, commonly known as "hitting the moon".

The activity of "offering sacrifices to the moon and asking god" of Zhuang nationality in western Guangxi is more typical. Every year in the middle of August in the summer calendar, some are on the Mid-Autumn Festival night. People set up an altar in the open air at the end of the village to offer sacrifices and incense burners. The table is on the right.

The edge tree is a branch or bamboo branch about a foot high, symbolizing the social tree, and it is also a ladder for the moon god to descend to earth. There are ancient moon myth factors preserved here. The whole activity is divided into: inviting the moon god to descend to earth, with one or two women as the spokespersons of the moon god; God and man sing to each other; Luna divination fortune-telling; The singer sings a mantra song and sends the moon god back to heaven. There are four stages.

Mongolian "Chasing the Moon". On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, Mongolians like to play the game of "Chasing the Moon". People are riding horses and galloping on the grassland in the silver moonlight. They galloped west, and the moon rose in the east and set in the west. Persistent Mongolian riders, until the moon goes down, "chasing the moon" is more than that. Tibetans "seek the moon". The custom of Tibetan compatriots in some parts of Tibet to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival is "searching for the moon". That night, young men, women and dolls, along the river, followed the bright moon reflected in the water, took pictures of the moon shadows in the surrounding ponds, and then went home to eat moon cakes.

Hezhe people "Yue Bai". During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people pick grapes and offer sacrifices to the moon in Hezhe settlement in northeast China. According to legend, it is to commemorate a clever and hardworking Hezhe daughter-in-law. She couldn't stand her mother-in-law's abuse and ran to the river to ask the moon for help. Finally ran to the moon.

De 'ang people "string the moon". Young men and women of De 'ang nationality in Luxi, Yunnan Province, the Mid-Autumn Festival is bright and the mountains are blocked. From time to time, melodious cucurbit silk is heard, and young men and women "string the moon" together to pour out their hearts. Some also set an engagement through "string of moons", sending betel nuts and tea.

Assisi people "jump on the moon". The traditional custom of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival is to "jump on the moon". On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, people from various villages gather in the open space of the mountain village. The girl in gauze jumped up, and so did the big three-stringed boy. However, what is particularly provocative is the duet of young men and women expressing their love, as if the moon was moved by Li.

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the Miao people bathed in moonlight, played melodious lusheng and danced with them. In the "Moon Festival" activities, young people look for suitable people and confess to each other, just like the moon and clear water. Their hearts are pure and bright, and they will never leave for a hundred years.

Gaoshan people "enjoy the moon" The Gaoshan compatriots who live in the mountainous areas of Taiwan Province Province wear national costumes, sit around singing and dancing, drink and enjoy the moon, and share family happiness.

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival in Dong nationality township of Hunan province, an interesting custom "stealing moon dishes" is popular. According to legend, in ancient times, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, fairies in the Moon Palace came to the underworld, and they spilled nectar all over the world. Fairy nectar is selfless, so people can enjoy fruits and vegetables sprinkled with nectar together on this night.

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, Dong girls use umbrellas to pick melons and vegetables from their beloved garden, which is not considered as "stealing". They also deliberately shouted: "Hey! I stripped all your fruits and vegetables. Come to my house to eat camellia oleifera! " It turns out that they passed the red line with the help of the Moon Palace Fairy. If you can pick a melon and fruit, it means that they can have a happy love. So the beans that grow in pairs become the objects of their picking. Sister-in-law also went to other gardens to "steal moon dishes" that night, but they hoped to get the fattest melon or a handful of fresh green edamame, because it symbolized the child's fatness and the health of the hairy head (the homonym of edamame refers to the child). Boys also have the custom of "stealing moon dishes" because they also want the moon fairy to give them happiness. However, they can only cook and eat in the wild and can't take them home. Stealing Moon Dishes adds infinite joy and magical brilliance to the Mid-Autumn Festival night in Dong Village.

Chapter VII: Customs of Lahu Nationality There are 56 nationalities in China, and each nationality is a beautiful flower. Every nation has its own unique living habits and festivals, and the Lahu nationality is one of them. A long time ago, the Lahu people lived by hunting. They lived in "Kunming" or "Kunming genus" in Erhai area of western Yunnan, which may include the Lahu people. Yi people, including Lahu people, are the ancestors of some ethnic groups.

Lahu language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family.

Lahu people believe in Mahayana Buddhism and animistic primitive religion, while a few believe in Christianity and Catholicism.

"Lahu" is the self-name of this nation. /kloc-Before the 0/8th century, the Lahu people lived in the area where they are now distributed.

The traditional house of Lahu nationality is called Zhanglou, which is generally square and symbolizes the stable status and life of the owner. Palm building is divided into two floors: the upper floor is divided into bedroom and guest room, and there is a fire pond in the center of the guest room, which is full of fire all year round; There is no fence on the lower floor, which is used to pile up sundries and raise cattle and chickens. There is a balcony outside the building, where you can bask in food and enjoy the cool.

Lahu people make tea with bamboo tubes. The production method of bamboo tube tea is: after the newly picked tea leaves are kneaded and fried, they are placed in a green bamboo tube for compaction, and then they are placed by a fire pond to dry, and then the bamboo tube is cut open and the tea leaves are taken out. It is a unique drink of Lahu nationality, which combines mellow tea fragrance and rich bamboo fragrance.

Lahu people are rich in oral literature, and there is a kind of poem called Topk and Riddle, which is deeply loved by the masses. The music and dance of Lahu nationality have their own unique style. Traditional musical instruments include lusheng and sanxian. Mupamipa, a long epic of Lahu nationality, records that the ancestors of Lahu nationality were bred from gourd, so Lahu nationality took gourd as its national symbol. Hulusi is the favorite musical instrument of Lahu nationality. The episode "Wedding Vow" in the film "Lusheng Love Song" is based on the Lusheng tune of Lahu nationality.

"Kuangzha" is the most important festival of Lahu people, usually held in the first month of the lunar calendar and auspicious day. The "expansion" lasted for nine days and was divided into three parts. The first paragraph from the first day to the fourth day is called "road expansion", which is the Chinese New Year. Grab new water is the most interesting activity on the first day of the lunar new year: with the first crow at dawn, young men and women rushed out of their homes and rushed to the spring to grab new water. New water is regarded as a symbol of purity and happiness by Lahu people. The first person to grab new water is considered as the lucky one in the New Year. On the third day, people visited relatives and friends with food, singing and dancing. The eighth and ninth days are the second paragraph, which is called "Nine Yellow Festival", also known as "Men's Day". The third stage is from 13 to 14, which is called "Xiaozha". Every village should swing.

Lahu nationality is a beautiful nation and a wonderful flower among 56 ethnic groups.

Chapter VIII: National Customs The first day of the first month is the Spring Festival, formerly known as New Year's Day. On that day, people get up early and put on new clothes, hats and shoes to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. It is said that in the new year, you can walk lightly by putting on new shoes that have never been on the ground. After the host gets up, he opens the door by reciting auspicious words and sets off firecrackers at the door, which is called "opening the door gun". Generally, there are three guns when you open the door, so you need to "take four and put three" and keep one as a "spare gun". In Ningbo dialect, the publication here is "Spare Gun". The higher the firecrackers are set, the louder the sound, which indicates good luck in the new year. If it is a "blow, blow, blow" squib, it is unlucky. You should say at once, "Oh, blow it, you will make a fortune this year." And add one immediately.

A big clan, a big family, worships the portraits of their ancestors in the ancestral hall or the middle hall (in front of the hall). Generally, the portraits of ancestors within five generations are synonymous with "for the frame", "for the shadow" and "for the golden purple". In some ancestral temples, men 16 years old can worship, except women. A pair of pins and needles cakes (also called auspicious cakes) or two bowls are divided by the person in charge in turn. Young people of all families worship their elders in turn, which is called "worshipping the old". New Year's Eve has been divided into "lucky money", wrapped in red paper and pressed under the pillows of young people, so it is called "lucky money".

On that day, eating jiaozi in the morning means reunion. Some families are vegetarian all day. The biggest feature of this custom is to let household utensils "rest" for one day, that is, let housewives rest, not sweeping the floor, not asking for fire (not lighting others or cigarettes), not killing animals, not moving knives and scissors, not emptying toilets, not washing clothes, not abusing children or saying unlucky things. Don't say "early" when we meet in the morning, because you said it would attract more fleas this year. If you stumble, you should immediately say, "Oh, I dropped my gold ingot." This night, if you don't sleep before fainting, if you don't light a lamp, it means that lighting a lamp this year will attract more mosquitoes and flies. Before going to bed, put a "closing gun". Don't go out at night, commonly known as "Christmas Eve".

From the second day of the seventh lunar month to the eighth day of the eighth lunar month, every family goes out to visit relatives and friends. Generally, they go to relatives first, then go to distant relatives, take care of their husbands, nephews and uncles, and treat each other with banquets, which is called "Chinese New Year's dinner" and "Chinese New Year's wine". The fifth day of May is the God of Wealth Day, which is the most important day for business people. It is called "opening the market" after "recruiting the God of Wealth". Some Buddhists walk on the Seventh Bridge on the seventh night of the seventh lunar month without looking back, and worship eight monks in the eighth lunar month, commonly known as "walking on the Seventh Bridge" and "worshiping eight monks".

In the meantime, folk entertainment activities include Dragon Lantern, Happy Lantern and big-head monk dance Dance. A little different from other places is "pretending to sweep the floor", that is, beggars (called "rich people" at this time) carry baskets, hold brooms decorated with red balls in their hands, pretend to sweep the floor, and sing slang songs: "Hold up the golden broom and Riggs (like a voice) will sweep it. Sweeping eastward, there are Qinglong, Qinglong rice jar and Huanglong barn in the boss's room; Sweeping to the south, the boss made a fortune in the house, Da Yuanbao made a raft, and Xiao Yuanbao made a boat. "

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chinese New Year and other customs have remained unchanged, and many superstitious colors have disappeared. Organs and groups held mass worship, carried out activities of supporting the army and supporting the family members, supporting the government and loving the people, and expressed condolences to veteran cadres, workers, teachers, scientific and technological personnel, elderly people and workers in nursing homes who insisted on production during the Spring Festival. On the way, acquaintances meet, hold hands or shake hands and wish each other good luck.