What is the most local New Year custom?

In the past, there were more beggars on the Spring Festival. There is a beggar who begs not because his family is poor, but because of filial piety. It is said that old people live to 998 1 year-old, and only by eating "a hundred meals" can they live safely. Therefore, filial sons and daughters take the elderly out to beg for food for their parents on the first day of the new year. There is also a beggar, commonly known as "beggar". The way they beg is interesting. Some beggars wrap their heads in red paper and hang them on bamboo poles. Every time they come to a house, they all say that their business is good and they ask for charity. This is called "delivering vegetable heads".

Some use paper and bamboo silk to make cows. In order to give alms, they go door to door to say good words and auspicious words. This is called "sending spring cattle"; Some people hold branches of holly or cypress and hang some small bells on the branches to show that their families will be like cash cows in the new year. This is the so-called "cash cow". Some company beggars dressed in Buddhist shirts, statues and masks, disguised as the god of wealth, rushed to the houses of various households to show that the god of wealth had come. This is the so-called "jumping God of Wealth". Chongming people lived in poverty in the old society, but when they met these beggars, they were kind enough to give them some food such as dry food. After liberation, these ways of running enterprises have long since ceased to exist.

In the early morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, all shops and craftsmen have to burn incense to offer sacrifices to the gods. This is the so-called "burning profit festival". At noon, the shopkeeper also held wine to entertain the clerk, praying for a prosperous business in the new year. According to legend, the fifth day of the New Year is the birthday of the God of Wealth. All the shops in the street are open for business. On this day, every household eats wonton at noon to show wealth. In addition, there are wooden plays (now known as puppet shows) in China. From the first day to the fifth day, every family visits relatives and friends, wishes each other a happy New Year and presents each other. During the period, the incense in the temple was far more vigorous than usual. Especially on the morning of New Year's Day, there are many people who go to temples to burn incense and worship Buddha, and they are very early. In order to catch the first incense, Shouan Temple outside the city and Guangfu Temple in Zhongxing Town are the most lively places.

On the fifteenth night of the first lunar month; Lantern Festival; night of the 15th of the first lunar month；Lantern Festival；yuanxiao

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, commonly known as the first half of the first month. People regard the fifth to twentieth day of the first lunar month as the Lantern Festival. In the old society, before the Lantern Festival, every household used glutinous rice flour to make cakes of various shapes. Some looked like ancient silk balls and silver, while others looked like chickens, ducklings, carp, cotton peaches, corn, peaches and rice piles. At noon in the first half of the first month, every family eats wonton; In the afternoon, people also take these foods as sacrifices, go to graves to worship their ancestors, and offer sacrifices to the fields. In the evening, people carry lanterns of different shapes in groups of three and five, then throw fireballs and cross the third bridge to have fun. The habit of playing lanterns in the first month is very popular. Lanterns are shaped like rabbit lights, carp lights and pentagonal lights. And the places where lanterns are hung also have local characteristics. For example, many red lights are arranged in glyphs or various figures, candles are lit inside lanterns, and bamboo poles are hung high. This is called "running a red light". Put a bamboo pole between things in the country and hang a red lantern. At night, the candle is lit, and suddenly it seems like dawn. It looks good to look up. In addition, there are many activities in the Lantern Festival evening, such as horse racing, lion-tuning, soil-throwing rich man, inviting three queens into the pit and Yuan Jie girls.

As the saying goes, "Eat two big heads and go your own way". After the 16th day of the first month, the celebrating people returned to their respective industries. At this point, the Spring Festival activities are over. After liberation, the Lantern Festival tends to be simplified, but the custom of children eating wonton, making silk balls and playing with lanterns still exists and has been given new significance, especially in the streets of county towns. Hanging lanterns and setting off fireworks at night attract many men, women and children, and some of them leave home to watch lanterns in the streets. Strange fireworks, colorful, set off the night sky of the Lantern Festival, symbolizing the growing prosperity of the motherland.

For more than 1000 years, ancestors have thrived in this beautiful land, and gradually formed various customs with strong local characteristics in their long-term production activities and daily life. These customs and habits condensed the ancestors' pursuit and yearning for a better life, and showed their good qualities of simplicity and hard work. Of course, there are some backward and ignorant contents on the other side of traditional customs. With the development of production and social progress, people's traditional customs have also changed from barbarism to civilization and from ignorance to science. With the development of civilization and the progress of science, some old customs contained in this paper have been abandoned, and some customs have been injected with new contents and inherited and carried forward. At the turn of the century, we should devote ourselves to building a new socialist fashion, strengthen the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and ensure the smooth progress of socialist modernization. When celebrating traditional festivals, don't forget that it is everyone's conscious behavior to change customs and make due efforts for the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.