What are the folk customs in Zhusha Town, Tongxu County?

The rural customs in Zhusha Town are mainly the customs of marriage and full moon for children.

marriage customs

1. The engagement is usually arranged by the man, and the matchmaker is invited to introduce the media and send a wedding invitation as a gift. There is a man named birthdates on the invitation. After the woman receives the post, it is calculated according to the woman's eight characters. If it is reconciled, I will reply to Jane's promise. This is called a post, and it is also a formal engagement.

Choosing an auspicious day means that the man proposes the wedding date to the woman. Please ask the Yin and Yang teachers to work out the auspicious day first, and avoid Singles' Day and Dark Day. There are still two days, especially Flower Festival and Laba Festival. After choosing, write the happy event on red paper and give the gift to the woman by the matchmaker. If the woman has no objection, the two sides will begin to prepare for the marriage.

3. Married men build new houses, decorate rooms, and women buy dowry. Dowry can be divided into full marriage and half marriage. Married people have four sets of clothes and quilts, which means that the four seasons are prosperous; Half-marriage is two sets, symbolizing couples. Most middle-class families are married, and most farmers are semi-married. Very rich people buy a full dowry, which is extremely luxurious. One or two days before the auspicious day, the man prepared a big gift and sent it to the woman's house, including meat, chicken, goose, clothes and so on.

The wedding time is in the early morning or early morning. When holding a wedding, the man prepares a sedan chair (wedding car) to pick up the wedding at the woman's house.

5. When getting married, the bride and groom worship heaven and earth first, ancestors first, parents later, and then. After the ceremony, the groom took off the bride's veil. Then set the table and entertain the guests. At the banquet, the bride and groom should propose a toast to each guest in a certain order, such as intimacy and respect.

6. Noisy rooms are usually held on the wedding night, and some will last for several days. When the dormitory is noisy, "no age for three days", elders, peers, younger relatives and guests are allowed to play, and there is no taboo. Young people have the most active sex with each other, and there are many strange questions and games for newcomers to answer or complete, which makes people laugh and play tricks on newcomers. Newcomers shall not refuse to answer without special reasons.

7. On the second day after the wedding, the bride met her aunt's elders for the first time and called "meeting". On the third day, under the guidance of her sister-in-law, the bride introduced the names of neighbors, old and young, offered sugar tea, or ordered tea with sugar cake bait, and the drinker gave money. Walk around the house, then go to the kitchen, worship the stove and learn to cook. On the sixth day, the newlyweds go to their in-laws' home to meet for dinner, which is called "visiting". The next day, my in-laws went to the groom's house for dinner. This is called "meeting relatives".

Children's full moon custom

A month after a child is born is called a "full moon". Generally, boys are born on the 30th day and girls on the 29th day. The celebration at the full moon is called "full moon". Some people choose 24 days to show their twenty-four filial piety, so that their children will be as filial to their parents as the characters in the twenty-four filial piety.

Shaving off a baby's hair on this day is called a haircut.

On this day, we will make chicken, wine and fried rice to worship God, ancestors and bed mother.

Nowadays, friends usually give clothes when they have children, so they make "fried rice" and "rice cake" as gifts, and some people use "shortcake" and "glutinous rice balls" as gifts. In return, the other party put a little rice in pots, pots and other containers, and put some beans on them in order to pray for the baby's health.

On the third day of the baby's birth, at the full moon, in addition to offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors at home, chickens, wine, oil and rice should be prepared to worship the mother of the bed. Since then, every Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, New Year's Eve and other festivals, as well as the fifteenth day of each month, we must worship the bed mother until the child reaches the age of 16.