The customs and habits of Puning city

Puning is a famous county in southern China with a long history. Its unique Chaoshan culture endows Puning with extraordinary humanistic charm and creates its unique customs and habits. This unique custom is more vividly manifested in the two traditional festivals, Spring Festival and Lantern Festival. New Year's Eve is also called Christmas Eve. On this day, people paste Spring Festival couplets, worship their ancestors and have a rich New Year's Eve dinner. In particular, the New Year's Eve dinner is full of fish that symbolize the surplus every year. Children can receive big red envelopes and firecrackers to accompany people waiting for the arrival of the New Year. After lunch on New Year's Eve, people began to prepare for ancestor worship. Traditional holiday food and sansheng are essential, and those children who have not left the garden at home should also prepare to worship their parents-in-law. On New Year's Eve, this kind of reunion dinner is commonly called a stove. After dinner, the elders at home will give red envelopes to the children, and they will also post Spring Festival couplets and hang red lanterns. Clean the house before going to bed at night, because you can't sweep the floor in the first day. Superstition is that you will sweep away all the wealth in your family. On the first day of the first month, people put on new clothes, and there is a festive atmosphere everywhere. On this day, people worship ancestors and gods with vegetarian food. Eat vegetarian food in the morning and drink sweet soup in the lake village. Later, people took symbolic oranges to pay New Year's greetings. When you pay a New Year call, you must say nice words of blessing. Many wonderful programs were staged today, such as the quiz activities in Hunei Village and Shuihou Village, the custom of drinking bride tea in Mahu Village, and the program of heng shan cun grabbing peanuts. On the morning of the first day, people get up early to worship their ancestors and set off firecrackers as the first meal of the New Year. On this day, breakfast should be vegetarian. On this day, many people go to relatives and friends to pay New Year greetings, and a pair of big oranges are indispensable. In some places, people call the fourth day of the fourth year a small Chinese New Year and have a big dinner. On the fifth day of May, we should worship the grain owners and seek a bumper harvest this year. On the seventh day, every household will eat seven dishes (not counting onions and garlic) at noon. The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month is another grand festival in China. On this day, people will hold activities far away from their elders, set off firecrackers, set off fireworks, eat dumplings and watch big plays. These are the highlights of this festival, and there are activities in solve riddles on the lanterns in some places. The fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival. After ancestor worship, people have various celebrations, such as Mahu Village, Nanjing Yangshan Village and other new male families, and Mahu Village also has worship activities. I believe that the reunion meaning symbolized by eating jiaozi in the Lantern Festival will continue to spread. The customs and habits in Puning area are colorful and generally similar, but there are differences in some aspects. In Guang Tai, if a boy is born at home this year, a string of firecrackers will be set off in the old man's palace on New Year's Eve and incense will be burned to thank God for his grace. During the Chinese New Year, if you have guests at home, you can't treat them with sweet egg soup, but use other sweet soups instead. When the fourth day of junior high school opens, people usually buy a handful of dishes and then tie a knot to symbolize their hearts. On the Lantern Festival, if a man got married or gave birth to a son the year before, he should carry the portrait of the old man or hold a colorful flag in the activities of walking the old man. In Kirin and Nanjing, the New Year's Eve jar and water jar should be filled, and nothing can be put on the gas stove. On the first day, if there are guests at home, the children at home should take a plate of sand and put a pair of oranges on it to show their respect, commonly known as dry tea. In Nanxi, you can't go to the stream to wash things on New Year's Day. If the weather is not hot, you don't usually take a bath at night. In Chenban Village, on the ninth day, there will be an activity of offering sacrifices to the gods, walking around the village, and finally going to the square to offer sacrifices to the gods, and they will carry the gods and run in rows with colorful flags, commonly known as running colorful flag lane. In Shishang Village, lanterns will be set off at 15 o'clock in the first month, and fire jumping activities will be held in spacious venues. Generally, Hongyang doesn't go out to be a guest on the first day. The celebration of Hongyang Lantern Festival is very grand. As soon as the midnight snack arrives at eight o'clock, you start to swim lanterns. Leave, sir. The most distinctive is Hangtou Bridge. This night, the route that the crowd must pass must be a sea of people. When we arrived at Yingchun Bridge, the two pairs of small stone lions at the bridge head and the end of the bridge were even more crowded. It is said that as long as you touch any part of the lion, you can realize your corresponding wishes in the new year. If we touch the lion's head, we will get better. If we touch the lion's ear, we will have a boy. If we touch the lion's stomach, we will get a beautiful wife. If we touch the lion's mouth, we will become rich and expensive. If we touch the lion's nose, we will write that the customs of various areas in Puning are really colorful and varied.