Family members try to return home before the 28th to put up spring scrolls and greet elders.
Twenty-nine
Commonly known as New Year's Eve. Generally, meat, chicken, duck, fish, pork, beef, mutton, tea eggs and so on are cooked. After cooking, it is put on the table in front of the main house, and incense, candles, yellow paper, etc. are lit and worshiped by the man in charge of the house, which is said to be worshiping God. Traditionally, a pig's head is usually placed in the center, with a whole chicken and a whole duck on each side, and the chickens and ducks hold red paper in their mouths, meaning good luck. However, nowadays many people do not use the pig's head, just put a piece of meat instead. After the worship, set off a firecracker.
New Year's Eve
Burning a table of rich dishes, dishes in the center of a bowl of white rice. Around about ten pairs of chopsticks and bowls (the number depends on the size of the table), bowls of rice wine unique to rural Jinhua. Then incense, candles, yellow paper, etc. are lit for worship, but this time the worship is not to God but to the ancestors, which means that the ancestors are invited to come back to enjoy first. Then, firecrackers are set off and some wine is added to each bowl. Afterwards, the dishes are removed and the whole family can gather around the table to enjoy the meal. After the meal, all those who are not married will be given a red packet by their elders, which is the New Year's money. Haha, in tonight no matter adults and children can be said to be "Jiang Tai Gong here, children's words are reckless", the original usually do not agree to play, do not allow to touch, today all let go. Even if the man goes out to play cards until dawn, the wife will not criticize. Tonight the family will be all the lights are lit, until the next day dawn. But the local custom is usually not to keep watch until dawn, because there is another important activity the next morning.
The first day of the Lunar New Year
This important activity is that in the morning, all the uncles and uncles will go to the graves of their ancestors. You can pick some young, unnamed green branches and take them home and put them on the eaves of the door. However, women do not go to the graves, and the men usually bring their sons and daughters. In our region, there is no work on this day, so women do not have to wash clothes on this day, for example.
The second day of the Lunar New Year
This is the day to pay homage to the uncle's family. Children will say that they are going to their grandmothers' houses to pay their respects.
After the third day of the Lunar New Year
From today onwards, you can formally visit friends and relatives, commonly known as New Year's Eve. Generally the late generation first to the elders home to worship, and then the elders back to worship.
On the eighth day of the year, the villages and towns will hold dragon lanterns, connected by boardwalks, boardwalks with lanterns of various colors, long as eight or nine hundred sections, short as one or two hundred sections, the night out of a very good look. The dragon lanterns walk along a certain route, and when the head of the lantern meets the door, it is necessary to pay homage, set off firecrackers and give a red envelope. In addition to the Lantern Festival, of course, is to eat the Lantern Festival, but also to set off some firecrackers, it seems that the sound of firecrackers to have a festive atmosphere
1, the Dragon Dance.
In Jinhua, there are many types of dragon lanterns, such as bench dragons, paper dragons, cloth dragons and so on, and the most representative of them is the bench dragon. An individual, carrying a section of the bench, connected to a long dragon, led by the dragon head dance up, the scene was spectacular. This bench dragon, generally have more than a hundred bridges (a section for a bridge), the longest hundreds of bridges, and even more than a thousand bridges. Generally speaking, the dragon's head will generally line to the village square, into the square can only circle forward, to be the dragon's tail into the dragon's head has been in the bridge lights surrounded by layers. At this time, the dragon head to try to escape from the encirclement, which is called "dragon head turn over", the dragon head out of the circle, the dragon tail and must be surrounded by the dragon head can not be, the whole process can be said to be "heavily surrounded by the lights of the interlaced, the most spectacular". Onlookers scramble to drill from under the dragon, called "drill dragon head", after drilling can seek the dragon god blessing, children grow fast fast big, women give birth to noble son early, adult long blessing long life. Before and after the Lantern Festival, almost all the townships and streets in wu city have the folk activities of welcoming the bench dragon and other Lantern Festival.
2, firecracker festival.
Location: jinhua pujiang county yantou town, time: the first month fourteen. The Firecracker Festival, also known as the "Welcome to the Great Ancestor", has a history of more than 600 years. The procession for welcoming "Tazu" consists of a sedan chair in which Tazu rides, four people dressed in ancient costumes and some people who play and play musical instruments. During the Firecracker Festival, villagers in the neighborhood will come out to greet the procession every few steps, not only lighting firecrackers to welcome the procession, but also burning incense and bowing to pray for good weather in the coming year. In the vicinity of the ancestor's ancestral hall, the sound of firecrackers continues unceasingly, and thousands of open doors are set off. In the "Firecracker Festival", the villagers also put the Water Margin "Liangshan one hundred and eight generals" on the bench dragon, joined the Firecracker Festival.
3, liantly year ghost.
Old times, Zhejiang Jinhua Dongyang area, into the end of the year waxing, folk have a kind of "抲年鬼" custom. The "preying on ghosts" began on the first day of the lunar month and ended on the fifteenth day of the lunar month. Because, at this time, the old year will be resigned, the New Year is coming, in order to thousands of families, peace and quiet, happy New Year, so to all the ghosts on earth抲除clean, so as to avoid the breeding of disaster. "Piscatorial ghosts" who are street beggars or unemployed hobos, wearing a top martial arts cap, face hanging a string of red beard, hand-held sword, waist tie iron rope, very much like Zhong Kui dressed up to go from house to house to yell and prey on ghosts. Behind with a follower, for its shouting and cheering, the main actor yells a sentence, the follower responded to a "抲 "抲! In this way, the performers run around the whole village to show that the ghosts and monsters have been captured and destroyed. Finally, each family gives the actor due thanks for the remuneration. The custom of "preying on ghosts" in eastern Zhejiang has a long history, starting in the Tang Dynasty. Legend has it that Emperor Minghuang of the Tang Dynasty suffered from malaria for a long time and could not recover from the disease. One day, he dreamed of a big ghost, caught the malaria ghost and eat it, from then on the disease will be cured. Emperor Tang Minghuang asked what the name of the ghost was. Answer said Zhong Kui, is the previous examination for the martial arts, his appearance, the end was admitted, and therefore hit the dead steps. Tang Ming Huang woke up, asked the painter Wu Daozi painted a portrait, and sealed him as a ghost king. This is the Zhong Kui, who is said to be able to light ghosts and avoid evil spirits, and has been passed down since then. Whenever families are ready to kill pigs and sheep, pray to the gods and ancestors, joyfully welcome the new year, some people will use Zhong Kui for the families to "poo-trying ghosts", in order to get lucky year color, but also to take the opportunity to get some money to make ends meet.