1, early to pick the "year living water"
The first day of the New Year, the beginning of the New Year, which is the most important day of folk. New clothes, new shoes, new hats, a new look, and even drink the tea should be freshly brewed. Early in Shenzhen, women get up especially early, go to the well river to pick a full tank of water, take "new water vitality" meaning. Every other day, tea, water, pour out all the water, re-boil a _ boiling water. Nowadays, urban and rural areas with piped water, or some people early in the morning on Wutong Mountain, Yangtai Mountain to take the spring used to make tea, rice and soup.
"New Year's flow flow, um_(sleep) lazy." On this day, the whole family gets up early and cannot sleep again after getting up, or else they will be poor for a generation. After rinsing and washing, they greet their parents and elders at home, "Good morning for the New Year!" Then the family eats breakfast such as fried turnip cake, taro cake, and dried pork bone and vegetable congee. This day avoid sweeping the floor, the courtyard door full of cannonballs clothes can not be swept, so that it is red and prosperous down; not to pour the garbage, for fear of pouring away the fortune. If there are fruit peels, melon shells, candy confetti, to be wrapped and placed under the bed "gathering wealth". On the first day of the New Year not into the garden picking Lai, more can not pick urine bucket to water vegetables; not barefoot, do not speak unlucky words, not to speak foul language, scolding and hitting; beaten and scolded will be "bad", scolding people will be mouth and tongue sores.
2, Guangfu people "grab the firecrackers"
New Year's Eve after zero hour, into the first day of the New Year, families open the door, said "open the door for good luck"! In the 1980s, before the ban on firecrackers and fireworks, families lit firecrackers, competing "grab the head of the gun", you put 10,000 head (loud), he put 30,000 head, my family even put 50,000 head, a moment of the village firecrackers, fireworks in the air, deafening, lasted a few hours. To the dawn, again ringing all over the firecrackers, one after another, the climax. Open the door to go out, the streets and alleys, cannonballs red debris paved the ground, adding a lot of atmosphere for the holiday. In recent years, atmospheric pollution, haze is becoming increasingly serious, people only rationally choose not to fireworks on New Year's Eve.
Futian, Nantou, Xixiang, Shajing, Songgang, Gongming Guangfu people, this "grab the head of the gun" is also called "grab the flower gun", in the old days, by the village Taigong bounty on the amount of money or community fund-raising to buy a number of cannonballs, which a bundle of the largest 20 or 30 Ten thousand heads (loud), early in the morning on the first day of the year in the village open space, who can grab the center of the head of the cannon, and let it not explode, who is a capable person, the village heroes, the village applauded by the village people and the elders reward. The person who grabbed the head of the cannon, won a good luck.
Bao'an Xixiang area is also popular "grab gun", "lead gun", "also gun" large-scale folk activities. Whenever the firing of arrows in the sky, with the number of cannonballs from the sky landing, people like a tide of cannonballs to the place, scrambling with the number of cannonballs for good luck. Later, this custom developed in the early third of March in the lunar calendar, "the North Emperor birthday" held in Xixiang eight villagers in the Xixiang River beach (now Xixiang Theatre) gathered, flags fluttering, drums and cannons, grabbed with the number of the person with the number of flowers and cannons, you can go to the Temple of the North Emperor and the number of the same number of the cannons and the same painting of a portrait of the North Emperor of the double-sided glass mirror to carry home to worship, in order to seek good luck in the coming year. In order to pray for good luck in the coming year. To February 28 of the following year, and the North Emperor "mirror painting cannon" carried back to the temple, called "also cannon". This custom has been interrupted for decades, and has been resumed in recent years, resulting in cultural activities with local characteristics such as "Piao color parade".
Doing the year of a "do" word, said a rich local folk culture, which includes "New Year", "New Year's greetings" meaning, but also a layer of It includes the meaning of "celebrating the New Year" and "congratulating the New Year", but also has a layer of "doing" - the pleasure of being busy. No matter whether it is the Guangfu people, the Hakka people, or the Chaoshan people, they enjoy the hustle and bustle of New Year's Eve in their busyness.
3, the first day to worship God and ancestor
Shenzhen local saying "the first day people worship God, the first two people worship people." People worship people, that is, to worship the New Year.
Year 30 to worship God, with a year of good weather conditions, a bumper crop of "pay God" meaning; the first day of the year to worship God, is to pray for a new year by the gods and ancestors shelter. [Han] Huan Kuan, "Salt and Iron Theory - Scattering Insufficiency": "Ancient commoners fish and beans of the sacrifice." Shenzhen local meat eaters in the first day of worship, worship program is relatively simple, mainly at home to add incense and candles, renewed tea and wine on the platform; there are some people to do some meat dishes, replaced with fruits, sweets worship. Usually fasting people or believers in the second day of the year, with fasting food to the temple to pay a visit.
The first day of the year there is a custom, many people are not believers in Buddhism, this day, but also three fasting, because "fasting" "disaster" harmonized, "fasting" means "eliminate disaster". With modern medicine health care point of view, it is also good, New Year's Eve reunion dinner big fish and meat, fried and greasy, the next day eat more vegetables and vegetarian food, clear the stomach and intestines, is also not a choice of health with the times.
4, the second year out to pay tribute to the New Year
The second day of the New Year is the "New Year's Day", in the past most of the private stores to open for business. The owner asked the fellows (also on the sixteenth day of the first month of the year) "to beat the teeth", slaughter chicken stew meat, first worship the God of Fortune, and then sit around and drink together, called "New Year". Shopkeepers hope that after this "tooth festival" meal, the workers fell force to work, a year of prosperous business.
Households ate the "New Year's dinner", the family went out to pay tribute to the New Year. According to the old local custom, the first day of the year not to pay homage. Hakka villages and towns, the second day of the year to go out to pay homage, married women with son-in-law, children, "to the outside world"; there are also villages on the fourth day of the year to "to the outside world", the second day of the year to go to pay homage to the in-laws. As the last decade or so, the national statutory Spring Festival holiday is only three days, plus Saturday before and after the transfer **** 7 days, the holiday is very rare, the first day of the year, the third day of the New Year's Eve also went to the New Year's Eve. The third folk traditionally considered to be red mouth day, but also "send poor day", this day this day not to pay homage to others, now there is no taboo.
Door-to-door New Year's greetings, visiting friends and relatives, with gifts and handwritten letters, not red tape, but a kind of politeness. The locals often send oyster sauce, oyster sauce, preserved meat, preserved sausage, floating skin, bean curd, rice cakes, rice crackers, fried piles and other local specialties and wine and tea. Do not bring only "two bananas" (i.e. two empty hands). Nowadays, it is fashionable to send cookies, imported fruits and health care products for the elderly, but it is still traditional to send your own chickens, your own vegetables, and your own cakes and rice crackers, which are fresh and sweet and reassuring to eat. Hospitality to visiting guests, but also pay attention to courtesy, while warmly seated, handing tea and water, while taking out the pan-fried pile, oil angle, melon seeds and "eight fruit box" (containing sugar lotus root, sugar horseshoes, sugar lotus seeds, sugar melon, sugar ginger, fried sugar ring, rice cakes and sugar orange), the host and guests to taste, exchange pleasantries and greetings.
Traditional New Year's greetings, there is a heavy custom of handing out lai see. "Congratulations and good fortune, Lirisu Tou (take)!" This is a popular humorous New Year's greeting for locals in Shenzhen. "Lirisai" is the "New Year's money" given to children by adults during the ancient New Year's greeting. Unlike the north, where only children are given money, even unmarried young people give money to their children. To their own children to seal three or five hundred, or even one thousand yuan, and the parents give a letter; three generations within the hall, cousins and relatives of the children of the fifty, one hundred, couples also have to give a letter; general friends, colleagues, acquaintances of the children also give two or thirty dollars. Now, more and more benefits are being handed out to young couples, especially to the economically disadvantaged "house slaves" with a lot of burdens. Therefore, some young families traveling outside, intentionally avoid this practice. Originally, a few decades ago, the red packets were only two dollars, but now the red packets given in Hong Kong and Macau are still around ten to twenty dollars. Hand letter weight and the amount of money should not be compared to the figure of good luck, the heart to become.
5, dragon and lion dance flavor of the year
Worship New Year's Eve, line the flower market, stroll down the street, see the dragon and lion dance unicorn dance show. When the gong and drums are hit, all the villages and towns in the area are full of joy.
Shenzhen has "East Lin and West Lion", that is, the eastern part of the Hakka people dance Qilin, the western part of the vernacular area lion dance. During the New Year period, the village Qilin team, lion dance team have to the same clan **** clan neighboring villages to pay tribute to the New Year, contact emotions. The Hakka people have the custom of dancing the Qilin to bring good fortune into the house. Kirin dance from the village to the end of the village, a family worship, the owner of the house firecrackers to welcome, the Kirin arrived at the door to the low body slowly into the house, to the kitchen, the patio, the hall to worship three times, praying for a good harvest, food and clothing. Worship after retreating to the outside of the house, the master to open the "invitation to worship" (wooden box), the master automatically send a red packet of thanks (the amount of money at will). Then, firecrackers will be set off to send the Qilin to the village to perform for the townspeople on the open ping ground. The unicorn team, one village after another, dances to the village of the same surname in the New Territories of Hong Kong, and returns only at the Lantern Festival.
The Cantonese-speaking towns and villages of Gongming, Songgang, Shajing, Fuyong, Xixiang, Nantou, Dapeng, Huanggang and Shatou have historically been fond of watching opera. Here said "watch opera" is to watch Cantonese opera, before the Spring Festival, many villages set up a "theater shed", invited to Guangzhou, Shenzhen opera troupe big brother herdsman, "chu-chu-chu-bang! Chop-chop bang!" The sound of gongs and drums to the village knocking vibration is very lively, "six countries," "Bitian He Shou," "Tian Ji send son," "Eight Immortals," "Xue Rengui conquest of the West" and other Cantonese operas, performed five or six nights in a row.
Longhua, Guanlan, Shiyan, Pingshan, Longgang, Pingdi, Kwai Chung and Dapeng Hakka people, like New Year's Day on the mountain song, "to the song market" set the mountain song ring. In the past, Longgang market also has a unique "Longgang song" singing, warm and beautiful song lyrics "a mandarin duck peony flower Luo Li", hundreds of thousands of people to join and sing, the whole "song market" to make a fuss. The whole "Song Market" was a bustling event. The Sha Tau Kok Fishing Lantern Dance is also performed during the Spring Festival. Yantian fishermen turn the custom of welcoming relatives on the water into a parade of welcoming dances on land. The second night, Nan'ao Town, dozens of fishermen with more than 100 meters long grass dragon, inserted incense, firecrackers, towards the sea dance, praying for fishing season full of warehouses.
Shenzhen Folk Culture Village, Jinxiu Zhonghua, Window of the World, Eastern Overseas Chinese Town and Nanshan Qingqing World and other attractions, but also the beauty of the folklore of various ethnic groups, attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists to celebrate the Year of the Horse, *** wishing a new year of horse to the success of the horse, the spirit of everyone's horses and dragons.
Shenzhen customs and folk activities
1, Mazu birthday celebration
In Shenzhen Nanshan District, Chiwan, there is a "Tin Hau Temple", said to commemorate the people worship the sea goddess Mazu and built. Mazu original name Lin Mo (960-987 AD), is living in Fujian Putian Meizhou a folk woman, she is smart, brave, kind, have predicted the weather changes, exorcism and treatment of disease and swim across the sea, often in the waves to help shipwrecked, very much respected and loved by the people. According to legend, A-Ma's birthday is celebrated on the 23rd day of the third month of the lunar calendar, and on the 9th day of the ninth month of the ninth lunar month, A-Ma ascends to heaven at the top of Meizhou Peak. In March every year, fishermen and farmers from all over the coast hold a grand celebration at the Tin Hau Temple to worship Tin Hau and pray for safe voyages, prosperous fisheries, and good harvests. Cultural performances and trade activities are also held after the festival. Officials also worship A-Ma in accordance with the imperial ceremonies, twice a year in spring and fall, and perform the ritual of three kowtows and nine bows. The A-Ma Zu Birthday Celebration reflects the desire of the people of Shenzhen for a peaceful and happy life.
2. Beidi Birthday Celebration
Under the dark rule of the old society, the vast number of people suffered so much that they expected their spiritual shackles to be released in various worship activities. In Xixiang before the founding of new China, around the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year, there prevailed a worship custom called "Northern Emperor Birthday Celebration". This was the most festive day of the year for the local people, and within a few days, all the townspeople came to participate in the festival, which was very lively. The 28th day of the second month of the lunar calendar is the day of the "birth" of the Northern Emperor. On this day, the elders of the village first set up a ceremony table to pay homage to the Northern Emperor, and after the ceremony, the Northern Emperor Bodhisattva is carried by good men and women to the villages on parade until the second day of the third month when he is carried back to the Temple of the Northern Emperor to "reset" and pay homage to him once again and then end. It is said that Pak Tai has unlimited power to eliminate calamities and illnesses, subdue demons and drive them away, and ensure everyone's health, family prosperity and permanent peace. Therefore, during the "tour" of the North Emperor, the townspeople pay homage to him with great devotion, and the scene is very grand and lively, with drums and music, firecrackers, dragon and lion dances, and celebrations for days on end. In the hearts of the townspeople, the North Emperor is a god, is their food and clothing, to the North Emperor to worship loyal, will ensure the happiness of the family, and therefore "North Emperor Birthday Celebration" to the people of Xixiang is more than the "Birthday", "Spring Festival ", "Spring Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival" and other more important days of celebration, the celebration ceremony is naturally formal and grand, the scene is also incomparably magnificent.
Fuyong Dragon and Lion Dance
Fuyong is a famous town with a long history, with a long and varied history of customary activities, among which rowing the dragon boat, dancing the dragon and lion dance, and singing a big opera are the main ones. Since the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, these three main customs have been passed down and flourished year after year. After the 1980s, only the Dragon and Lion Dance has survived and become the main celebration, while the Dragon Boat Rowing and Opera Singing have become less popular. Every year, the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chung Yeung and other major festivals and to meet the marriage, the opening of enterprises and other major events, are to be a fanfare of dragon and lion dance to help celebrate. As Fuyong lion dance activities are extremely prevalent and become Shenzhen's most famous lion dance township. Now the whole town **** there are six lion dance team, each team has 40, 50 people, more than a dozen lion head, drums and music, and each lion dance team has a large number of fans and lion fans. Whenever the lion dance competition, cheering, hooting and hollering shocked the world, the scene is extremely noisy. 1962 Tangwei village built a lion dance hall, well-equipped, dedicated to the lion dance team training and performances. 1987 in Guangdong Province in the first folk art "festival of joy", the Tangwei village lion dance team with absolute advantage to achieve the first total score and won the laurel. The lion dance team's majestic momentum, vigorous and dashing movements, fresh and unique shape and colorful scenes left a deep impression on the people of the province.
3, manhole incense
Guangdong Province, incense worship activities are prevalent throughout the province. Many families, hotels, guesthouses and stores in the halls and companies and factories, the walls are equipped with shrines, the god on the table set up an incense burner, each side of a colorful lamp. Every morning people point on a pillar of incense to worship a few times, hoping that the enshrinement of the gods can bless the body healthy, business development, good luck and fortune always accompanied. This kind of incense activity Judah in Shenzhen Shajing town is extremely common, the ceremony is also extremely grand. Shajing villagers incense custom from the Tang Dynasty has been handed down to the present day, each family has set up a shrine, every day by the elders of the family to preside over the ceremony. Before the incense, the presiding officer washed clean, straighten the instrument after the solemn and pious point on the three incense sticks inserted in the incense burner, and then perform the ritual of three worship. Then the whole family worships the incense one by one. On the first and fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, the ceremony is more solemn, worship is more pious, the incense used is also more elaborate, mainly sandalwood ground into fine powder made of sandalwood. Before adding incense to the incense burner, it is necessary to set out tribute fruits, mainly seasonal fruits such as lychee, mango, longan, etc., as well as meat dishes and rice. After worshipping the god, the whole family fasts and eats vegetarian food together, not eating greasy and non-vegetarian dishes. The villagers' custom of offering incense expresses the general people's pursuit of a healthy and affluent life.
4, Longhua Hakka customs
Shenzhen Longhua Town, 90% of the people of origin speak Hakka dialect. The name "Hakka" has a long history. Historically, in the Southern Song Dynasty and the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to the southern invasion of the Mongols and Manchus, the Han Chinese in the Central Plains to escape the war have migrated to the Xiang and Gan junction of the mountainous areas, Guangdong, Chaoshan and Meizhou areas and the southern Fujian Province, Guangdong Province, the most. For the indigenous people, those who moved in are known as Hakka. Their language has gradually evolved into a new and unique language, Hakka, due to local influences. The Hakka people in Longhua, Shenzhen, have preserved a unique custom: they kill geese on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year and have a reunion dinner after honoring their ancestors. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, they should eat vegetarian, not meat. At the Dragon Boat Festival, dogs are slaughtered to honor the ancestors. Unlike other Hakka people, Longhua Peng celebrates the New Year on the 15th day of the first month instead of the first day of the year. The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival of the Hakka people, and every family makes New Year's Cake (which is a homonym of Nian Nian Gao, meaning "higher and higher" in the coming year). On the Ching Ming and Chung Yeung festivals, every family goes to the graves of their ancestors to "pay respect to the mountain" (i.e., sweep the graves), and on the Ching Ming Festival, every person eats Chicken Poop Vine (a kind of Chinese herb) and Ai Cake, in order to avoid plague, get rid of diseases, and protect the family's well-being. In the past, in the natural economy and society, Hakka men herded cows, plowed the land, and liked to sing mountain songs. The bride to be married before the machine three days and three nights, to show the attachment to the mother's home, and the groom in the village to meet the bride before the "gate pass", into the pass successfully before the bride can be officially welcomed. Longhua Hakka customs, is a colorful Chinese customs of all nationalities in a strange flower.
5, Longgang women crying marriage
The former Longgang Hakka people to maintain the traditional customs of the Hakka, "women crying marriage" is one of the very distinctive examples. Every woman has more than seven days of "crying period" before she gets married. Crying for such a long time, tears also flowed a lot, the eyes are slightly red and swollen, and this makes the bride even more attractive, may be just the right "regular tears help beauty" and "the girl before the wedding looks the most beautiful" as the saying goes. On the wedding day, when the wedding party is approaching the village where the girl to be married, the village men will burn a fire in the middle of the road "to avoid the evil spirits", the groom led the wedding party through the fire "to avoid the evil spirits" before entering the village to meet the bride formally. After meeting the parents-in-law, the village elders announced that the good time has come. At this point, the bride that is delicate and lingering crying resignation parents, lightly moving lotus steps, out of the door, often looking back, and then that is boarded the sedan chair line, accompanied by the dowager also with the sedan chair to the husband's home. Welcome the bride team all the way to the song, firecrackers, fireworks non-stop. Accompanying the bride's bridesmaids every ten or so steps away from the roadside to spread an inch-long red rope, meant to finish the bride's first visit to the bride's home and "lead the way". With the change of time, Longgang women crying marriage custom is not very popular.
6, pingdi cage house
Pingdi people's way of life in the past retained the traditional customs of the Hakka people, their past residence is quite unique. They built a cylindrical cage house with the appearance of three-hexagonal soil, bamboo, wood, bricks and tiles, reeds and straw, etc., and the whole family lived in it. This kind of cage house generally covers an area of 30 to 40 square meters, and some of them are made into two floors. The appearance of the cage house is very much like an ancient fortress, high walls and eaves, the momentum is very grand. Large landlords of the cage house covers a larger area, the four corners of the house with pavilions, for the lookout sentry, because the building is quite strong, and usually only one door can be entered, and therefore easy to defend, it is easy to protect others from attack. The biggest feature of the cage house is that it is warm in winter and cool in summer. When it is hot in summer, you can go up to the attic and feel cool, and when it is cool in winter, you can keep warm because it is airtight. Moreover, it is also a great advantage that it is sturdy and durable. Generally speaking, the cage can be used for several generations and can withstand typhoons of magnitude 8-10. The Pingdi cage house embodies the peculiar style of Hakka architecture.
7, Ping Shan playing dip
Ping Shan town residents are mainly Hakka people, retained the unique traditional customs of Hakka. In the past, the people of Pingshan paid special attention to ritual activities, praying to the gods and worshipping Buddha is extremely pious. One of the most solemn ceremony that is once every eight years to play dip (collective sacrifice to the gods), the place gathered in the square in front of the Guandi Temple, a clamor, bustling, nearby vendors also gathered to take advantage of this opportunity to do business. First by the head of the Ping Shan Wei presided over the ceremony, the sacrificial table full of exquisite preserved fruit wine and food, a large incense burner full of sandalwood incense, a fog of incense. Behind the head, surrounded by the whole dike residents. The head of the salute, the townspeople followed by bowing to the ground, nine times after the ceremony, the residents in the square began to play continuously for seven days and eight nights, eat, drink and gamble to their hearts' content, all night long, a noisy atmosphere. During the dipping period, people are extremely extravagant, spending a lot of money at the same time eight days of fun, but also miss the agricultural work. Some residents who are not economically well-off after playing dip only to borrow or begging day. This hit dip bad custom, labor and wealth, was abolished in 1943.
8, cool hats to cover their shame
Dapeng people speak Hakka dialect, maintain the Hakka customs. Dapeng women have always had the custom of wearing cool hats, regardless of winter and summer. Its cool cap is made of bamboo and fabric, the first bamboo strips burned with fire, which can make the bamboo more pliable, and then split the bamboo strips into gabions with a cleaver, woven into a circle, the center of the perforation, bamboo scorn around the cloth sewing hanging. Other Hakka women's hats are sewn and hung with black cloth strips, while Dapeng women's hats are made of blue silk cloth strips, so they also look more elegant and charming. This custom of wearing a cool hat has a long history. It is said that in the past, women should strictly abide by the "women's morality", "women's appearance", can not show their faces, but the Hakka women forced by the environment, after the migration to the south to go out to work with the men as much as the mountains, firewood, rice-planting in the fields, catching up with the polder, relatives in and out of, in order to In order to "cover up their shame", they put on this kind of cool hat. Women wearing a cool hat, they can see others, while others can not see themselves, very little veil flavor, but also to add a hazy beauty and charm. At the same time, wearing a cool hat is both lightweight and can prevent solar radiation and cool, so it has been passed down from generation to generation, and has been popular until now. Fishermen Marriage is located in the southeast end of Longgang District, coastal town of Nanao, its simple folk customs, retained more folk customs. In the past, most of the residents of Nan'ao relied on fishing to make a living, so "fishermen marrying" has become one of the most distinctive customs of the town. When the day of the wedding of the fishing village women, the bride bride was a large number of fishermen sisters flanked forward, behind the drums and bands and several groups of dancing dragons and lions singing and dancing, and behind them, there is a man dressed as a woman fisherman led a group of heads wearing fishing hats, hand-operated oars of fishermen's women, marching in a line, all the way to the oars, welcome the bride to the home. Welcome a large-scale procession, vast, many spectators, a joyful atmosphere. Drums and music on the road, the ceremonial cannons shake the sky, lively and extraordinary. The day of the "fishermen's marriage", the whole village, regardless of men and women, young and old, do not go down to the sea and rushed to celebrate the newcomer. The best gift is a pair of big fish cut out of colored paper to wish the new couple a hundred years of good luck and prosperity.
9, dance grass dragon
Dance grass dragon is Nan'ao town is very characteristic of the custom. Every year on the evening of the second day of the first month of the year, the fishermen lads with grass into a "dragon", a section added up to two or three hundred meters long, and then in this "dragon" body full of burning incense. With the "dragon" swimming, the band banging gongs and drums, through the streets and alleys, the sound is extremely magnificent. When the dragon body dance, the top and bottom of the flickering light, like a fire dragon in the flopping and moving. Grass dragon passes through, the onlookers are very many, in order, fireworks and firecrackers, praying for purple gas often, as good luck, prosperity and development, a festive scene. Cao Long Dance is an extremely favorite activity of Nan'ao fishermen, the bravado of the dragon dancers and the enthusiasm of the spectators constitute a grand, vibrant and joyful picture. Dance grass dragon is not only the fishermen look forward to smooth sailing, life rich psychological expression, but also a kind of public participation in the fitness exercise, and thus prevailed until now and more lively than a year.
Shenzhen folk festivals
Shenzhen folk festivals are mainly New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chung Yeung Festival and Lychee Festival, etc., which are festivals common to residents of various towns. However, some festivals are celebrated differently in different places. For example, on New Year's Eve, Gongming people put up Spring Festival couplets, and from midnight onwards, every household will set off fireworks and firecrackers Longgang and Dapeng people will use lemongrass, pomelo leaves and other boiled into the "New Year's Eve" bath for good luck in the coming year, and Longhua people will kill geese to offer to their ancestors on this day. Another example of the Spring Festival, Longhua people on the first day of the vegetarian, the town Peng surname people to the first month of the fifteenth for the New Year rather than the first day. In addition to these *** have festivals, some towns have their own unique festivals. Pingshan has the second day of February Bakong Festival, the eighth day of April Rice and Noodle Festival, the sixth day of June to eat mung bean congee, the fourteenth day of July Festival of the Immortals, the first day of October Tea and Fruit Cake Festival, as well as the winter solstice in November, Nan'ao Town, there is the second day of the first month of the Dance of the Grass Dragon Festival in the Xixiang area prevailing in February 28th to the first two days of March, the "Northern Emperor's Birthday", and so on. Since 1987, Guangdong Province held the first folk art "Happy Festival", many of the local characteristics of the festivals in front of people in a variety of colors.
Shenzhen Folk Taboos
In contrast to the richness of folk festivals, there are also many taboos that have been passed down throughout Shenzhen. The formation of folk taboos is the result of people's inability to understand the many objective phenomena of nature, the inability to change and thus produce a mysterious feeling. Shajing and Gongming residents on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, the need for incense for God, and fasting to show sincerity, praying for God to drive away evil, to protect the family peace. Longhua people on the first day of the Lunar New Year to eat vegetarian one day, avoid meat and greasy food Qingming Festival to eat chicken poop vine (Chinese herbs), ai cake, etc. in order to "avoid evil spirits", "avoid the God of pestilence". Longgang and Dapeng people in the marriage, when the bride party approaching the female village, the village men in the road to light a fire in order to "avoid evil spirits", bridegroom by the fire "to avoid evil spirits" before they can enter the village to meet the bride they want to use lemongrass, pomelo leaves, calamus and pomegranate leaves on New Year's Eve to be cooked into the "annual perfume". "New Year's Eve" bath to wash away the old year's "bad luck", praying for the New Year's children can thrive, adults can be energetic, the elderly can prolong life? Although this folk taboo with a strong color of feudalism, but all reflect the people of Shenzhen on the desire for health and happiness.