The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Spring Festival, also known as the "New Year".
On the twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the New Year is celebrated. Preparations for the festival begin on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
On the evening of New Year's Eve, the ancestors are sacrificed and the whole family eats the New Year's dinner. People who have been away from home have to rush home for the New Year's dinner in order to have a family reunion. Before the meal to put on the spring couplets, firecrackers. At the dinner table, no one may not speak "broken words" (unlucky words). Others are afraid of inviting unfavorable taboo, they use red paper to write: "children's language, women's language, no taboo", posted on the wall. After eating the New Year's dinner, the whole family stayed up all night, sitting and guarding the night, known as the "old age", after midnight 12:00 firecrackers called in addition to the old to welcome the new.
On the first day of the New Year, adults and children are dressed, first to their elders to pay tribute to the New Year, and then go out to congratulate each other on the New Year.
On the morning of the first day of the year, families are scrambling to open the door first (commonly known as "open the door to wealth"), firecrackers, meaning, who opens the door early in the New Year, who will be lucky, the most able to get the "wealth". People are scrambling to pick water, who is the first to pick water, will be auspicious.
In the old days, the poor to avoid debt, there is such a proverb: "twenty-eight put mouth answer, twenty-nine have, have, have, thirty do not meet, the first arch." New Year's Eve night, the earliest posting of spring scrolls, often highly indebted people, because the posting of spring scrolls, creditors do not come to the door to force the debt.
(B) Lantern Festival
The 15th day of the first month for the "Lantern" Festival, ". At night, the lanterns haunted the market, singing and dancing, men and women, young and old to watch the lanterns together, for fun.
"Lantern Festival" since the first month of the thirteenth trial lamp to the fifteenth day of the end of the resignation lamp, *** have three nights. These three nights of lanterns, colorful. There are dragon lanterns, lion lanterns, flower boats and flower picks.
The night of the festival, fireworks. Orchestra silk bamboo ensemble, gongs and drums firecrackers. The crowd of lantern watchers is as dense as the clouds.
P.S.: In the past decades, the night of the fourteenth day of the first month, the children will go to other people's gardens to steal vegetables to go home to make thin rice to eat, which is called stealing spring. Stealing late vegetables at the door to play vice firecrackers to let people know that you come to steal spring. It's also a return gift. Now few people know this tradition, and few people do it.
Stealing spring in the past is to represent the harmony, enhance people's friendship
(C) March 3, on the sixth day
The first three days of March on the calendar for the sixth day. In ancient times, the first of the summer calendar in March, called "on the Si". The first three days of March more than six days. On this day, people put the caper flowers in the stove and sitting, sleeping place, that can remove ants and other insect pests; the mangetout flowers, tung flowers hidden in the sweater, feathers, that clothes can not moth; women to mangetout flowers to wear on the head, that you can not commit headache disease, sleep at night is particularly sweet. The flower is used in scrambled eggs to remember.
(D) Ching Ming Festival
Zixing Customs April 6 of the Gregorian calendar, five days before and five days after the Ching Ming Festival. The family in the local people, all run back to sweep the tomb. Ancestor worship. It's a great honor, and all must be present. It is a custom to show the local people's respect for their elders.
(V) Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, families use palm leaves to wrap glutinous rice dumplings. They make ropes out of Chumhum and string the dumplings together!
Dragon Boat Festival rowing, is a traditional competitive sports activities, racing the Xing, is to commemorate the Qu Yuan, it is at this time, the water level of the river rise just suitable for the Dragon Boat race.
The younger generation to the elders to congratulate, drink xionghuang wine, holiday greetings. Young parents take their children to their grandmothers' homes to celebrate the festival, calling it a walk to the grandmother's house, bringing over the blessings of the festival and some gifts.
(6) half of July
Folklore, July 14th at dusk is when the ghost gate is wide open, the hell half a day off. Respect for the elderly Zixing people in accordance with the customs of their ancestors at home, put offerings on the altar, buy colorful paper to do cut into your clothes and so on, meaning filial piety to their ancestors, do their clothes and pants, burned to the ancestors, and then set off firecrackers, please have ancestors.
(VII) Mid-Autumn Festival
On the 15th day of the 8th month of the Lunar Calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated.
The Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of "enjoying the moon". "The actual, sharing the moon cake, called "enjoy the moon". Mid-Autumn Festival is when the chestnuts are ripe, young people often bring chestnuts to visit the mother-in-law's home on this day.
Proverbs: "cloudy mid-autumn moon, rain hit the moon half-day". Mid-Autumn Festival, generally in addition to the moon, but also save the intention of watching the sky.
(H) Chung Yeung Festival
September 9 Chung Yeung Festival, it is the time of the White Dew, and agricultural leisure, the local people will use the traditional method, to make a kind of rice wine for the White Dew wine. Using a unique method. The local people make Bai Lu Rice Wine in a unique way. The rice wine is sealed and buried in the ground with the local Bai Lu Rice Wine. After a few decades. When opened, it smells good for ten miles, and is very precious for banquets. The wine is sweet, and is known as the "Drunken Dream". As the saying goes: "There is a thousand days' worth of wine in Cheng Township, and it is drunk at home. This is the legendary Cheng Wine. It was also brewed and sealed at this time.
Also on the Chongyang Festival, the younger generation would greet their elders, including both parents.
(IX) Spring Solstice, Summer Solstice, Autumn Solstice, Winter Solstice
On these four days, Zixing's old custom is that people should get together to nourish their bodies and celebrate life.
Second, marriage marriage
(a) engagement
Qing Dynasty, Republic of China, followed the old system of marriage, the suitors must first ask the matchmaker to say that, after the agreement of the man and the woman, the day of the man to send a wedding engagement. Gifts from the matchmaker to obtain the views of both sides to determine how much, generally "betting money", clothes, gold and silver jewelry, meat cake points.
(B) choose the auspicious wedding
The colloquialism is called "send the day" (i.e., choose the date of marriage). This day in addition to food, bonus gifts, but also to send the bride price and gift (gift: with the female parents of the same generation of relatives are to send a food, bonus gifts), the female received the "day" after the daughters of the dowry. Rich families love their daughters, dowry is very elaborate, wedding clothes, jewelry, furniture, a complete set, everything.
On the day of the wedding, the man to marry, feast, thank the matchmaker, etc., all to be a big feast.
When the wedding, to use the sedan chair to meet, and please blow the drummer. The night after the sedan chair all the way to the firecrackers, sedan chair to the door of the female stop, firecrackers to inform the in-laws sedan chair to the next morning, waiting for the bride to finish grooming on the sedan chair. If the time is very long newcomers do not sedan chair, the male side of the firecrackers to urge, the female side of the door also set off firecrackers to celebrate. The male party urged once, must knock once the door, the woman will slightly pull the door open, the man will hand over the "urge the door package" (with red paper wrapped in coins). Some will soon be able to open the door to the sedan chair, some will be closed to open the door many times, and even up to dozens of times, in order to delay the sedan chair time.
Before the bride on the sedan chair, must be groomed and decorated. The whole body inside and outside to wear the in-laws of the clothes, their original clothes down, the parents of a bowl of rice, handed to the bride's hands, but can not eat, by the new generation of brothers to take down the bowl of rice, which means that her clothes rice bowl down, do not give to take to the in-laws. Then, the new bride stood on the dendro full of rice, carried on the sedan chair by the peer brothers, not to give her to take away the land of the mother's family.
The bride to the in-laws, the sedan chair will be carried to the front door to rest, the bride sat in the sedan chair, it takes a long time to get out of the sedan chair, this practice, the custom is called "cold character", intended to pressure the bride's temper.
When the bride from the sedan chair, the bride's family back from the sedan chair, feet do not touch the ground. Another "full of people" (couples full, full of children) at the foot of the pass bag, the bride walked forward on the bag, walk a bag and pass a bag (meaning "pass the generation"), has been passed to the hall on the red felt carpet, and the groom to pay homage. After the ceremony, the bride is sent to the bridal chamber. Bride into the bridal chamber, to raise their heads and faces, which is called "head up", "not to suffer".
After entering the bridal chamber, the evening of friends and relatives to the room, lively. Customs provide "three days without size", in the three days of the wedding, regardless of peers, juniors or elders can be taken to make trouble. The new house must be "good", not allowed to "say bad".
When the newlyweds go to bed, both sides have to compete to be the first to ask, that is, who speaks first, who will be able to speak in the family in the future. Customs also stipulate that the newlyweds a month not "empty bed", the newlyweds are not allowed to sleep alone in this month. The first month of marriage is called the "honeymoon".
The wedding season, the man should be a feast to thank the guests. After thanking the guests, the woman's parents, uncles and aunts, as well as brothers and sisters of the same generation to receive home to the feast, which is called "will kiss".
After the full moon, the newlyweds to "return". The new son-in-law "back to the door", the mother's family should be invited to accompany the new son-in-law.
Three Birthday Celebration
Women gave birth to a child, to the maternal grandmother's two close relatives and friends "congratulations" (especially the first child for the grand), congratulatory gifts are happy dough, noodles, red eggs, jujubes, or brown sugar and so on. Those who receive the wedding gifts should send congratulatory gifts, there are three types of gifts: decorations for the child to wear; food for the mother to eat during the month of pregnancy; and money for the baby to meet (or called "centennial money"). Gift-giving people can not go back empty basket, each gift basket inside the red eggs, some put on the noodles (longevity noodles) and eggs, some people also put on the rice flour to do the longevity of the peach poop pressure bottom of the basket. The general relationship between friends and relatives also scattered happy eggs. This kind of egg is fragrant egg, do not dye red, do not scatter red egg is no need to send gifts. Hershey gift date in some "wash three", some in the "nine Chao", and some in half a month. After receiving the gift, we have to make a feast to thank you.
Three days after the birth of the child, give the child a bath, called "wash three". On this day, adults holding the child out to worship heaven and earth, the spirit of heaven and earth to bless the child with great joy and celebration of a long life. When a child worships heaven and earth, he or she is given an umbrella to protect him or her from the sky. One theory is that the umbrella child body "blood and filth" will not rush to the gods in the sky, can be saved from disaster; another theory umbrella is to drive away evil spirits, demons and monsters see the umbrella will not dare to approach the child's body, can be four seasons to keep the peace.
"Nine Chao", is the child landing after the big day. In the past, due to poor maternal and child health conditions, medical undeveloped, often born children infected with tetanus, seven days will die, called "seven umbilical cord wind". Such as seven days after the death, that is the spirit of the spirit of heaven to celebrate the great joy, so the local have "do nine Chao" custom. This day. Friends and relatives are to congratulate the child, send love, the recipient's home to host a feast to entertain guests.
"Weekly", Yingzhou this day, grandmother's family to the grandson "weekly", send gifts. These gifts, but the child wearing decorative things. Gifts are worn on the head of the dog's head cap, the cap is equipped with silver eighteen Luohan. Decorations have a "collar", "long life locks", and bracelets or anklets, most of these decorations are silver, have a long life and wealth. Give the child's pocket should be painted on the gossip, shoes should be embroidered on the tiger, but also to give the child four seasons to wear clothes. Grandmother to grandchildren "week", is to let the grandchildren sit on the table, with sieve mirror (that is, sieve and mirror together) with a variety of items to the child to grasp with their hands. The items usually placed on the table include the four treasures of literature, sword models, abacus, rouge and pollen, needles and threads, flower bandages, etc. The first time the child takes an item, it is used as a preview. The first time the child took the item as a prediction of the child's development tendency after growing up.
Birthdays, divided into big birthday and small birthday. Every year, the day of birth is the small birthday. On the day of the small birthday, the mother gave the birthday child to beat the eggs and noodles. Big birthday, that is, every ten years of life should be celebrated. Although once every ten years to celebrate the birthday, the custom is to do nine not do ten, generally have to deduct a year, which means that the meaning of life without end. And rumor has it that 30 years old does not do life, if you do, with the local vernacular called "do three" (that is, the meaning of beatings), so the local do not do three. On the day of the birthday celebration, all relatives have to congratulate the gift, the general gift of clothing, money, shoes, meat, eggs, noodles, birthday couplets, pastries and so on. Longevity will come to the first night, the family set up a feast dinner, which is called "warm life"; the next day is the period to pay foreign guests. The elaborate family, birthday to use rice flour and sugar to do "birthday peach poi" scattered to friends and relatives.
Fourth, funeral, worship
(a) funeral
Qing inheritance of Ming rituals, inheritance of old customs. The dead wear life jacket, life cap, life shoes, as well as children and grandchildren in mourning with hemp clothes, shoes, three beams of the crown is still in accordance with the Ming Dynasty dress system.
The dead wear life jacket "five collar", "three waist" (i.e., five pieces of clothing, under the clothes of three). Some small families, poor, can not afford to do life jacket, in order not to violate the custom, with "fake collar", "fake waist" with the number of five, three.
After death, the body is generally parked for three days, the relatives of the deceased day and night care, called the "cold corpse", the dead body must be cooled before entering the coffin, to prevent the resurrection of the dead. Into the coffin after the coffin sealing, to carry out a farewell to the remains.
The coffin of the dead also have provisions, the deceased must be more than 60 years old (flower armor) or more can be parked in the middle of the house, which is called "end of life". 60 years of age or less called "premature death", the coffin can only be parked in the middle of the house slightly off, there are also men and women left and right! The difference.
Since the establishment of the hall, the regular "Hall of Dignity" or open mourning, filial son guarding the casket day and night, friends and relatives mourning mourning to send a seat, funeral tent, couplets, incense, candles, paper and so on. Mourning filial piety, the deceased's family invited drummers, blowing and beating, to show the grandeur. Some of the big families every "seven" to invite monks to do fasting; but poor families have to be simple, less to do a few "seven" fasting, or do not do fasting.
Out of the funeral, the relatives of the six families, along with the bier to send the funeral, are to wear mourning handkerchiefs, to show respect for the dead, the city is generally sent to the city gate to return. Mourning family members, looking at the city and return. Rural areas are generally sent out of the village, but also sent to the cemetery. Funeral, the coffin parked in front of the door, called "hair lead". Folk only use the mountain man to send the brake, do not hold a sacrificial ceremony, the mountain man in front of the casket, read the words, pick up a kitchen knife to kill the spare rooster, and then use the blood-stained kitchen knife will be placed on the lid of the casket before the rice bowl smashed, which is called "breaking the brake". After the "broken brake", the hair cited people firecrackers, the family members of the deceased "howling" and crying, carrying the coffin crowd yells, the coffin will be lifted on the shoulders, running to the cemetery funeral. The coffin on the road shall not land, carry the coffin crowd, such as the need to rest, only to use the pole to support the "dragon bar".
Funeral, to help funeral people, such as the son of mourning in the selected ground after digging three shovels of soil, together with the "well" (pit). After the well is finished, the son should sleep in the "well hall", which is called "hatching pit", indicating that the son is doing his filial piety. After the coffin is dropped, it is gathered into a mound. Three days later, the filial sons and grandsons relatives have to go to the grave to worship, called "Fushan".
In addition to the spirit (i.e., to be incinerated with a reed wood frame made of papier-maché spirit house), generally in the coffin after the funeral, but also in the "six or seven" or "end of the seven" to be carried out.
Local custom, the funeral for the black and white happy: their families in mourning, to the vegetarian for this. Filial piety period, family members dressed in black, blue and blue plain clothes, decorated with white, taboo Zhu Hong. Door couplets with blue or yellow paper.
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General characteristics,
on 1, festive 2, honoring the elders 3, honoring the ancestors 4, unity