What folk customs are there in Meijiang Town?

Folk birthday etiquette: There are many names for birthdays, including three dynasties wine, full moon wine, weekly wine, and "birthday celebration" at the age of ten (every 10 days in the north of the county and every 11 days in the south). Birthday celebration is to congratulate first and then invite, not to congratulate first and then invite. Birthday presents include birthday cake, candles, cloth and three sacrifices. There are two kinds of birthday banquets, the "warm birthday wine" on the day before and the "birthday wine" on the day. Rich and powerful people also hold birthday ceremonies.

Folk building relocation custom: building a house should be "three fixed": first, the foundation should be fixed, commonly known as "the land of feng shui"; The second is to determine the orientation. According to the popular saying, it depends on the "pros and cons" of the construction in that year, and the "three evils" are the most taboo; The third is to set a date for breaking ground and loading beams. As the saying goes, "Choose the auspicious day of the zodiac" and "The most important thing is to wash your feet". On the day (or a few days earlier) when the ground is broken, the "Yang Gong charm" should be installed to kill the rooster. After its completion, Ye Xiang will pay homage to "Fu" every day until it is completed, and it will still be enshrined several years later. When erecting beams and columns, please ask craftsmen to "applaud", "spread grain and rice" and "spread wealth and treasures". The new beam should be hung with red cloth bags full of five grain seeds. Friends and relatives should congratulate each other and call it "sending tea". Friends can give money or things at will, and in-laws should give chicken, fish, meat, dried noodles or noodles to help each other, which is called "giving work". The host has to hold a lot of banquets, that is, "falling rock wine" when the ground is broken, "Shangliang wine" when the beams and columns are installed, and "consummation wine" when they are completed. In addition, we should also "pray for God" on the first and fifteenth day of each month, which is not only a respect for God, but also a hospitality for craftsmen.

Folk relocation is called "excessive". The time to move must be set before dawn on an auspicious day, and the male households mainly shoulder the burden of making a fire. One end is a pot, which contains burning fire excrement, sprinkled with bran to make it smoke; At the other end, there are incense burners, burning candles and ancestral tablets in the laundry basket, and there are burning incense in the incense burners. Housewives hold rice cookers and shovels and wrap whole grains, beans, peanuts, sesame seeds and rapeseed (or corn and wheat) in red paper, which are collectively called "five grains". Children and grandchildren take fire shovels, shovels and other cooking utensils, and each appliance should be labeled with red paper. When going out, the householder goes first, followed by the housewife, setting off firecrackers. The head of the household walked and said, "Please come and live in a new house." . Neighbors set off firecrackers to congratulate them. This is called "sending fire". Walking to the door of the new house, colleagues first arranged for relatives to set off firecrackers to light the fire, and some neighbors also set off firecrackers to welcome new neighbors. After entering the room, light candles and incense sticks and place ancestral tablets. When she moved, her daughter didn't accompany her until dawn. Don't meet passers-by on the road, lest you take your chances.

Wedding leave custom: the matchmaker intercedes first, obtains the consent of the woman's parents, and gives the girl's birthday to the man, commonly known as "opening a small poster"; When it comes to three teas and six gifts, the man chooses an auspicious day to pass on Geng, which is called "engagement" as the saying goes. The day before the wedding, the groom will have a haircut and take a bath, the man will kill the pig and raise the number, and the sedan chair will be given to the woman. There are cotton sedan chairs and sedan chairs for poor people. On the way home, the woman's family will cry for it. The bride should shave, take a bath and say goodbye. After saying goodbye to God, Shi Ye carried him into the sedan chair. After going out, I dare not look back all the way. When I visited my in-laws' home, Qi Mu led them out of the bridge, worshiping the heavens and the earth, the ancestors, Gao Tang and his relatives, and then the husband and wife worshipped each other for a glass of wine. After worshipping the church, my father was carried into the bridal chamber (or the new seat was introduced into the bridal chamber). Relatives and friends quarreled at night, and grandma took it into the kitchen the next morning and named it "Zao". When getting married, the man should give the woman various gifts, such as farewell ceremony, flower arrangement, shaving, scissors opening, spoon opening and door opening. The custom of treating guests and giving gifts is "invite first, then congratulate, and come uninvited." Guests should give gifts to the man, parents-in-law should add chicken wine, gifts to the woman are mostly clothes, and elders should also give "gifts at the bottom of the box".

Funeral custom: choose "auspicious day" for funeral, invite Taoist priests to do "homework" and say "evoking souls" and "making incense" Buy a bath before burial. A memorial ceremony will be held on the eve of burial, including family sacrifices and road sacrifices. Generally, descendants, family uncles and in-laws burn incense and kowtow in turn according to their generation size. The dignitaries will also hold ceremonies to sacrifice the road. Before the funeral, children and grandchildren will kneel around the coffin and have a meal. As the saying goes, "food (wealth) rice". During burial and funeral, children and grandchildren should wear hemp Dai Xiao, straw sandals and sticks for filial piety, and throw paper money along the way. As the saying goes, "invest money to lead the way", and powerful people carry coffins to parade around the streets. There are four people carrying coffins and eight people carrying coffins. After burial, Taoist priests should be asked to recite scriptures for one to seven days. As the saying goes, "Be a lantern to the mountain". For a funeral, relatives should send someone to send a funeral report, and relatives and friends should give gifts first, and then invite them to dinner. Gifts include candles, silk, axes, ceremonies, etc.

Folk taboos: pregnant women should not touch anything, and women's shorts should not be aired in public. Pay attention to "auspiciousness" in everything. Say auspiciousness on holidays, New Year's Day, the first day and fifteenth day of each month, and nothing is unlucky. The "hat" in Xiaobu and Dagu should be called "son" because "hat" is homophonic with "boy". The fifth day of every month in the lunar calendar is commonly called "the day of the month", and everything is inappropriate. On May 13, some people said it was inappropriate for the king to kill his son. Don't go out on the ninth day (the ninth month of the first lunar month). Avoid going out for seven days and going home for eight days. The number "four" was changed to "red" because "four" is homophonic with "death". On the third day of the Lunar New Year, commonly known as "dog days", avoid going out to cook. The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is also called the birthday of Migu God, so it is forbidden to cook, go out and do business. Don't hang clothes every day and pick up urine buckets. Avoid needles on the first day of the lunar new year and the morning of the flower, and avoid washing your face at the Millennium. It is said that if you wash your face, white spots will appear on your face. After giving birth to a child, avoid nailing in the house and breaking ground in front of the house. Masons, "Wuzi" (actors, Du Zi, shaving their heads, dissecting corpses and blowing) and people wearing mourning clothes are prohibited from entering other people's houses on holidays. If the child is frightened by someone, let that person cut some nails and mix them with pants to fry water for the frightened person to drink. If the child is frightened by livestock and poultry, pull out some hairs from that livestock and stuff them on the child. Most people spit when they are suddenly frightened. In front of the door, behind the house and in the grave, it is forbidden to break ground casually. Don't chop down trees in Houlongshan. Only the solstice of winter, off-year and New Year's Day can be forgiven, so everything is appropriate.