1, Lanzhou social fire
Lanzhou social fire can be said to be the unique customs of the Northwest, in the New Year's time, people in the Northwest often like to celebrate the New Year together with songs and dances, the hands of these people are often holding bright torches to represent their own for the coming year's expectations, as well as for the past year's summary. When people gather together to sing and dance, they also represent their hopes for the future.
On this day, almost everyone goes out to the streets to play with the fireworks, and if young boys and girls have a crush on each other, they can confess their love for each other and receive the blessing of the public.
2, cleaning houses
Northwest China, especially in most parts of Gansu, likes to clean houses on New Year's Day. On the 30th day of the New Year, everyone will clean their own houses to welcome the arrival of the New Year, and people in Gansu tend to think that New Year's Day is the beginning of the New Year, so they don't leave the cleaning work to the first day of the New Year to do.
If you go to someone's house on the day of New Year's Eve, you will find that most people are doing cleaning work, not to make the house clean is not to welcome the New Year, in fact, part of the Gansu people may not be in good family conditions, but will still do a family cleaning.
3, send God of Fortune
In the rural areas of many places in the northwest, there has always been a God of Fortune of the New Year customs. Getting up and going out on the first day of the first day of the year, we have to look at the direction of the God of Fortune, choose to go, according to the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, to determine the God of Happiness, the God of Fortune, the location of the God of Honor. It is said that as soon as you go out on the first day of the year, you have to walk in the direction of the God of Wealth and the God of Happiness, and you will be able to get rich, and you will encounter joyful and auspicious events throughout the year.
4, Zhouqu to meet the mother-in-law
Zhouqu to meet the mother-in-law "19th of the first month to meet the mother-in-law" (Zhouqu said the mother of Goddess of Mercy for the mother-in-law) is Zhouqu County, a legacy of a strong local folk activities, is the culmination of the entire first month of activities, as if the Zhouqu County Carnival.
It has a history of five hundred years, and in the course of its development and evolution, it has absorbed the essence of Tibetan Buddhism and Taoism, and its priesthood function has been expanding, expanding from the previous single welcoming of the birth of a child and begging for a child to today's folklore activities of blessing a party with peace and praying for luck and avoiding disasters.
5, the first five: broken five - central Shanxi New Year culture [Qixian Spring Festival folklore]?
Today is broken five, meaning that after today's New Year's taboos are broken, production began to normal, the early morning cannon to celebrate, but this day is also taboo the most stringent day, stay at home not to do more can not go out. Today is also the last day of the New Year's incense offering to the gods, morning, afternoon and evening every time to sound the cannon.
Breaking five is not only Qixian and Jinzhong around the custom, in most places in Shanxi have similar customs, has a deep traditional culture, in the Chinese culture is a bright spot.