Shandong Spring Festival customs:
1, Lahai
Lahai all activities are centered on Lahai porridge, porridge to arrange a lot of people, "householders" in the fire household in this day to burn the fire. The porridge is served in many tanks.
Laiba congee is divided into two kinds: one is coarse, to when the police drink, congee put rice, meat, cabbage, tofu, and so on, when drinking congee, a return to a catty bun; the other is fine, with barley kernel, Guiyuan, lotus seed, lily, chestnuts, jujubes, red cowpeas, rice, etc. boiled, and congee and then put on the surface of the hawthorn carving of the "congee fruit! ".
2, 30
near the 30th, the Kongfu busy New Year's activities in the most lively scene "steam Zhuang" appeared, "steam Zhuang" is for the New Year steaming a variety of steamed buns, dumplings, cakes. At this time, the "fire household" to burn the fire, steaming a variety of steamed buns.
3, New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve night Diffractive Sheng Gong also personally to Anhuaitang set up offerings, worship the white-bearded old gods, it is said that all of the Kongfu in the spirit of the ghosts and monsters belong to the white-bearded old gods.
Expanded Information:
Shandong Spring Festival taboos:
1, the first day of the taboos are a lot of things, much the same everywhere. Jounan taboo push mill (before the year closed mill, until the first five are allowed to use the mill), taboo picking water, taboo sweeping the floor, taboo beating and cursing.
2, Linyi is taboo to move the needle money, taboo dumplings, taboo meat, taboo garlic. Yiyuan on the first night of the taboo lights, it is said that the lights, rats will be flooded. Jiaodong all over the most taboo on the first day to break things, in case of breaking things, to hold the pieces, do not look back, do not speak, straight to the well, the pieces will be thrown into the well, otherwise "the Lord of the evil".
3, there are also places in the broken objects, read the auspicious words "years and years (broken) peace" to crack. The first day of cooking dumplings, broken can not say "broken", to say "earn (earn). Eat dumplings at the same time eat garlic on New Year's Day, because "garlic" and "scattered" sound the same, and changed the name of garlic for the "Yi and vegetables.
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