Hometown Folklore
Hundreds of miles of different winds, thousands of miles of different customs, each place in the New Year have different folklore.
My grandpa and grandma are from Zhangjin, and New Year's Eve can be very lively in their place, with firecrackers, fish cakes, and lo mein, especially the fried meatballs and lo mein made by my grandma are the most delicious. At this time of the year, I will stand by my grandmother's steamer, waiting for my grandmother's freshly baked fish cakes, not waiting for my grandmother to put the fish cakes, I will be eager to use my little hands to steal food, that just out of the cage of the fish cakes hot me "wow" screaming, the delicious smell, so I do not care about the hot fish cakes, a mouthful of all in my mouth. "Yummy!" I can not help but praise.
New Year's Eve is also essential for every family to post couplets, the red couplets written on the words of blessing, listening to the adults said that in the past people made a peach wood "charm" hanging in front of the door, and every New Year's Eve will be replaced by a new one, and then slowly evolved into the form of this pleasant couplets.
Early one morning, my uncle and grandfather woke me up from my sleep, let me and they go down to help paste the couplets, grandfather took the ladder, I took the scissors and tape, uncle took the couplets, we went downstairs together. Downstairs, Grandpa put the ladder set up, I took the scissors and tape on the side of the tape cut into a section, uncle took the couplet finishing handed Grandpa, up and down, left and right aligned, the couplet pasted "wealth rolling with the spring to the joy of the sheep with the blessing of the sheep," the couplet of a few big words striking, Grandpa stood in front of the couplet a hard smile, as if the family saw the year of the sheep. I saw the family in the Year of the Sheep. This is, the lanterns are also hung up, handle pack up things to go upstairs, a upstairs, the table has long been placed full of fish cakes, marinated meat, deep-fried meatballs, my mouth straight out of the mouth, my brother and I hard to each bowl of things are tasted all over the place to eat at the same time did not forget to praise Grandma to do a delicious, Grandma's mouth are smiling can not get close to it.
New Year's is really a good day, in order to family members of the reunion, we have to be more diligent, hard work and study, so that the family is happy, which is called the real New Year.
My hometown is in the old courtyard village of Deqing County. There are beautiful mountains and beautiful scenery, birds and flowers, green trees, even the New Year's Eve customs also have a special flavor.
On the 30th day of the year, once you get up in the morning and wash up, you have to be busy. The first thing to do is to go to the firewood room to worship the god of the stove. Zao Shen is a god between heaven and earth, every day, he will tell God the family's joy and sorrow of the year, so people buy maltose, first on him a few incense to show respect, and then put a bowl of maltose, worship three times, so that he will only report the good news, not the bad news, so that God thinks we are doing well, and can make the crops wind and rain.
After worshipping the God of Stove, we start to make lunch around 9:00, which is almost a rehearsal for the New Year's Eve dinner, because some people just can't make it now.
The dishes also have rules! There must be two plates of greens, meaning that the crops can grow green in the summer, to ensure a good harvest in the fall. Then there is a big bowl of boiled eggs, which can only be eaten by pregnant women or those who have not yet given birth, and other than that, only children can eat. Then a plate of rooster meat, meant to keep people from hurting their voices when they call livestock all over the hills. And then 1 plate of red carp, there must be two, meaning red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red (fish).
After lunch, in normal times, should be a daily afternoon leisure time, but today is not, 2:00 or so for the New Year's Eve dinner to start hands, this cut vegetables, that cut ribs, this fire, that add firewood. Around 4:30 or so, it gets even more hectic, with 8 holes in the woodstove of both the old and new houses filled with firewood. New Year's Eve dinner must be opened before 7:00, there must be three people while eating, while guarding the firewood room, because by this time, Zao Shenjun mouth on the maltose is almost gone, gone, then will report to God, but in front of the family, he will not do so, 7:30 God went back to rest, guarding the seven and a half will be OK.
By 8:30, people watch the New Year's Eve hungry can no longer eat the New Year's Eve dinner, can only eat sweet pastries, because the next three days, is the rest of the whole village, eat up can not do.
12:00 began the "firecracker symphony", the whole village are super-long firecrackers, but there is a rhythm, oh, this side just burned, that side is burning, than the New Year's Eve dinner and the production process more lively!
This is my hometown custom, your?
Customs of my hometown3Every hometown, there are different hometown good customs. Today I will talk about the customs of the Spring Festival in my hometown.
The day of the Spring Festival is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and every family has put up couplets and big red lanterns. Every family was at home to observe the New Year. At four or five o'clock in the morning, every family began to set off firecrackers. There were also beautiful fireworks. "Why do we celebrate the Spring Festival?" I asked my mom. Mom told me a story.
A long time ago, there was a monster called "Nian", which climbed ashore on the first day of the year to hurt people and animals. On the first day of the year, an old man came. The people packed up their belongings and drove their livestock to the mountains, and there was an old woman who found the old man coming here, and she said to her, "Come with us quickly, the Year will come in a while"! The old man said, "I'm not afraid of the New Year. Can I stay at your house for one night? The old lady said, "All right, but be careful of the Nian". After a while, Nian walked into the village with his head held high and found no one there. Only one room was occupied. When 'Nian' walked up to that house, he found an old man wearing a red robe, carrying a hanging firecracker, with a big red paper on the door, and the house was brightly lit. The old man lit the cannonball. The 'year' was scared and ran back to the river. Not even a shadow was seen. The villagers returned to the village the next day. The next day, the villagers came back to the village and found the village as good as new, people went to the house of the old lady. Kneeling down to the old man, they said, "Old fairy, thank you for driving away the year. Otherwise the village would have suffered." The old man said, "I'm not a fairy, but I know that there are three things to be afraid of. First, I'm afraid of red, second, I'm afraid of loud, and third, I'm afraid of bright." That's why on the first day of the Lunar New Year, every house is brightly lit. Put cannonballs, stick red couplets.
This is the custom of my hometown and the origin of the custom.
Customs of my hometown4There are some customs in my hometown that no one can change. On New Year's Day, no matter who it is, it is imperative that you rush back to reunite with your family and have a reunion dinner.
At the time of the reunion dinner, we have to clink glasses with each other as a family, but we kids don't drink, so how can we do it? We must have heard of the phrase "tea instead of wine", so we children will use a drink or tea instead of wine to clink glasses with each other. The clinking of glasses between each other represents the summary of the past year; represents each other's New Year's expectations and blessings; represents the harmony and prosperity of the family. We talk about our plans for this year in daily life, work and study, share them with our loved ones, and encourage and support each other.
The reunion dinner represents the unity of people's lives, the beauty of their days, and the harmony of the motherland family!
The Spring Festival is the most joyous festival of the year and the most pleasant time for people, but there are a lot of customs in this festival.
Giving "New Year's money" is one of them. Legend has it that there is a beast on earth called the "year", which comes out on the last day of the year, specializing in eating small children, making people panic. Later, a child of a family put the money given by his elders under his pillow when he slept. In the dead of night, the dreadful beast "Years" came out and ran into the family's house, and when he saw the tender child, his mouth watered and his evil claws stretched out. Just in the nick of time, the money under the pillow shone with a golden light. "Like an electrocution, the year-old screamed and fled. People knew the way to subdue the year, and followed suit one by one. Later, to give "pressure money" is not only to drive away the terrible "age", but also the elders of the younger generation of good wishes.
In addition to the "new year's money", there is also the reunion dinner in the Spring Festival, which is important to everyone. Unlike the usual meals, reunion dinners are rich in dishes, but also in symbolism. For example: the fish symbolizes "year after year", rice cake symbolizes "step by step", taro and bamboo symbolizes "rich", these *** with the expression of people's good wishes for a better life! Wish. When eating the reunion dinner, every relative must be present, and no one can be left out. The elders also want to toast one by one, the elders should also be one by one back to the toast, said the elders of the elders of the elders of the high expectations and the elders of the elders of the elders of the respect.
I like the Spring Festival, because it not only let me know a lot of different customs, but also let the relatives and friends in the four directions are gathered, so that the bloodline between each other stronger.
Customs of the hometown6The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival. Every Dragon Boat Festival, my hometown, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, has the custom of racing dragon boats, eating zongzi and drinking xionghuang wine.
Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu mourned abnormally and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. Fishermen rowed their boats and kept shuttling back and forth on the river to salvage Qu Yuan's real body. A few fishermen took out rice balls, eggs and other food, "flop, flop" thrown into the river, saying that the fish, lobsters and crabs eat enough, they will not bite the body of Dr. Qu. An old physician brought an altar of Xionghuang wine and poured it into the river, saying that he wanted to use the medicine to stun the dragon and water beasts so as not to harm Dr. Qu. Later on, these are developed into today's Dragon Boat Festival customs.
Speaking of dragon boat racing, I can never forget the exciting scene ......
On the fifth day of the fifth month, people got up early, all coincidentally gathered to the wu river. The game has not yet begun, the bank has long been a sea of people, crowded! People have already put a long river bank surrounded inside and outside three layers! My mom and I were almost squeezing our heads in order to find a good position! The race started! People were looking towards the east with excitement. "Thud--thud--thud!" From the distance of wujiang river gradually came the low sound of drums, interspersed with powerful slogans. Closer, closer! I can vaguely see five or six dragon boats flying over to this side, getting bigger and clearer.
The dragon boat's dragon head high up, full of colorful light, like the clouds and fog of the dragon. Rowing strong men shouting loud slogans, hand movements neatly organized. Several boats speed is not divided, you catch up with me, people borrow the dragon shape, the dragon with people God, a robust dragon on the river surface stirred up rows of white waves. The crowd behind them cheered and applauded and cheered for their dragon boat team. The sound of cameras and cell phones taking pictures was non-stop, everyone wanted to keep this unforgettable shot. The moment the dragon boat passed in front of us, I even saw the tense muscles on the arms of the strong man paddling the boat and the beads of sweat running down the forehead of the drummer.
It's not hard to see that they were already tired and the speed of the dragon boat slowed down, but they still held on and used the slogans to inspire themselves to rush to the finish line with a bang! In wu river, this is really a beautiful scenery line ......
The race is over, the crowd slowly "retreat" down, the river bank gradually quiet down, I and my mom in the bank walk, the bank of the radio over and over again playing the qu yuan story and the history of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Then I'll start with the Spring Festival! On New Year's Eve, families start to eat New Year's Eve dinner at 3:00 p.m., and "egg rolls" are an essential dish, which is golden in color, symbolizing that families are prosperous every year and children are able to pay respect to their elders. After dinner, we never go out, and my grandmother says, "If we do, it will take away everyone's good luck." Although we couldn't go out, but at home, we couldn't go out, but at home, we could still have fun. Adults play cards all night at home, and kids set off fireworks with vigor! This means that everyone's good luck every year, fortune every year ...... after New Year's Eve, replaced by the first day of the first month is also very popular Oh! Wake up in the morning, wash up after the first drink of "osmanthus honey", which is our children's favorite, the taste of sweet, fragrant ...... This means that I hope that everyone's days are red-hot, sweet and beautiful ... ... ...After dinner, they pay New Year's greetings to the elders, and the elders have to pack the New Year's money, and the children can be very happy when they get the New Year's money, but from the first day of the year to the third day of the year, they are not allowed to spend money, which in turn means that the adults will have a hard time earning money and not much luck in the year. ......After they pay New Year's greetings to the elders, the girls are at home to help their parents work, and the boys follow the elders. After paying tribute to the elders, the girls stayed at home to help their parents, and the boys followed the adults to their relatives' and friends' homes to pay tribute to the New Year, and everyone had a very happy time. And the fourth day of the first month, the whole family should go to the temple on the mountain to burn incense, to the bodhisattva, so that the bodhisattva blessed the children and grandchildren, the children's life is more happy and fulfilling ...... After the sixth day of the first month, everyone will be everything back to normal, the adults work on the job, the children should go to review their homework, to meet the new semester is coming, this Spring Festival is The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do that.
My hometown has strange customs.
In the Spring Festival to visit relatives, it is to take the big bun, which is shaped like an inverted iron pot, color white. The bottom plate is as thick as a sea bowl. Two big buns, on the weight, almost a catty. In addition, the habit of taking the big bun, I do not know from which years, evolved into all relatives have elders, whether it is called aunt called uncle or called what, New Year's visit to relatives, must take the big bun, and must be into a pair.
From my mom's era to the present, in my opinion, the big bun is a kind of etiquette, is a kind of majesty - not just respect, definitely a kind of majesty of the people's homes.
My grandma lived with my family, plus my parents' many nephews and nieces, so as long as I can remember, my family received the most big buns among my relatives. There are so many secrets hidden in the big buns, which were discovered by my grandma. Whenever the relatives left, the grandmother would look at the big buns filled with several big pots and always look very satisfied. However, grandma would store the big buns separately, pointing to a pair of big buns, she said, this is whoever's family took it, his family is the poorest, the outer layer is white flour, the inside is sweet potato pieces, in order to get enough weight, but also intentionally did not steam, to eat it first, so as not to be acidic; and pointing to the big buns of the other family, she said, this one is not very poor, the outer layer is white flour, the inner layer is sorghum flour or cornmeal; finally, the old man would point to the only big buns, saying : "This is the city relatives take, are pure good noodles, save for the last eat ......"
In normal times, my hometown often invites professional people to perform opera in a designated place, or when someone is getting married, or when the baby is full moon, they will also invite a singing and dancing stage to perform for us.
These are the customs of my hometown, strange and mysterious.
My hometown's customs are different and unique, showing a strong Chinese culture of folklore.
My hometown is in Longchang County, Sichuan Province, where we have the custom of dragon dance, in the most lively time of the year, that is, the eighth day of the first month, the hometown of the dragon dance show exceptionally grand, but also very distinctive.
This day is the county out of the big dragon day. The county's eighteen townships, there are eighteen colorful silk made of large dragons, marching in the county streets. In all directions. The city townships, even the neighboring cities and counties of people, have been known to rush to catch a glimpse of the hustle and bustle.
With the sound of firecrackers and gongs and drums, the dragon lanterns dance, people help the old and the young, a steady stream of people to come. People on both sides of the street cheered, clustered, marveled at, some people can not wait, or feel that it is addictive, actually ran to the dragon, touching the body of the dragon with their hands, some in the dragon's belly through the jump. It is said that touching the body of the dragon can save people from illness and bring good luck.
Dragon dance with the worship of the dragon platform built in the center of the city's People's Square. Behind the stage there are two dozen meters of colorful dragons embraced by the pillar, more imposing. On the stage stood a row of leaders, VIPs, waiting for the colorful dragons, to give them "eyeballs". It is said that the eyes of the dragon are painted by the highest leaders personally. This is enough to see the significance of the eye of the dragon.
The show is the first two phoenixes of the two phoenixes, the final dragon town of the big colorful dragon, the first phoenix after the dragon, visible in its dragon and phoenix auspicious implications.
A little bit of life, all reflecting the rich and colorful regional cultural characteristics, all show the unique charm of national culture. Let's build our homes together and continue to pass on the folklore of our hometown.
My hometown is a beautiful place, the beginning of May every year will be extraordinarily lively, because families are busy preparing for the Dragon Boat Festival.
Finally, we waited until the fifth day of the fifth month.
In the morning, before the sun came out of its nest, people were already busy. The children of the East family were up in the air! The children of the east family got up early and ran in and out; the children of the west family also got up early and were busy; the adults were busy in and out of the house. Guess what they are doing? They are busy doing Dragon Boat Festival special food - dumplings. There dumplings can be described as a great: white glutinous rice mixed with a few grains of red beans, seemingly naughty; some dumplings wrapped in pork, eat up fragrant and delicious; some dumplings wrapped in jujubes, wrapped you eat sweet honey ...... and, the shape is not the same, there are triangular, there are quadrangle conical; there are pillows shaped, there are small pagodas shaped; there are round sticks There are also those with one corner up and the rest reaching out in all directions!
You walk down the street, the air is filled with the charming fragrance of dumplings. Step into the not-so-busy streets, small streets and alleys are crowded, picking things, pulling the family, everywhere. The most lively is the open space in the village! Look! Three layers of people surrounded a large circle. People are looking forward to the lion dance team's appearance. With the sound of gongs and drums, two beautiful lions appeared. They move to the left and to the right like an awkward bear. They are very cute!
Time is like a naughty child, in the blink of an eye, one o'clock. People lined up in long lines, once again out of their homes, standing on both sides of the street. Young lads dressed in festive attire, weaving through the streets to the town to participate in the annual dragon boat race. At this time, the unknown river in the town became very lively.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the race began. The river that a dragon boat lined up, like a group of mighty warriors. Dragon boat players have been fully prepared, they hold tightly paddle, ready to go. The drummers also took their positions, as if to say: "Today's race must be my win". At three fifteen, I don't know where came a powerful whistle, the dragon boat seems to be a real dragon paddling on the blue waves, leaving a water ripple on the surface. Drums and shouts intertwined into a melodious piece of music ......
As the sun set, the silence of the night replaced the busyness of the day. After the meal, people concentrated on sitting in the open flat, under the shade of the trees, make a fire, dance around the fire to their heart's content, singing, chatting with interest about the midday game.
The Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown is simple with a bit of splendor, busy with a bit of leisure. Walking down the street, my state of mind is unusually excited. Because, this is also the children's festival.