With the change of the times, folk customs also change.
Production customs
New Year's Eve over the moon half, to the rice planting field to send lamps, light a pair of candles, set off a firecracker, burn 3 paper cut gold dollar.
Windmills, pestles, hullers, mills and other large agricultural equipment and cattle pens, pig pens, chicken coops and other places to send lamps, incense, light candles.
The fifth day of the eleventh month after the beginning of spring is called Chunshe. Before and after the Spring Festival, the beginning of the dipping seeds. The saying goes: "February social, say big words", meaning that the spring social period set goals, make arrangements, booking what kind of harvest, generally higher goals. "August social, ghosts scolding", meaning that the fall social, production has been finalized, if not to achieve the goals scheduled for the spring social grudges each other.
Pulling rice seedlings, the beginning of pulling the first seedling is called "open the door", open the door to firecrackers, wishing for a good harvest, more than 3:00 in the morning.
Planting, to push a competent hand (commonly known as "show master") first planted, called "pull show". We will follow the standard of his planting. After the change to drain the water in the field "hit the car" (according to the standard line), the seedlings inserted in the center of the cross on the line, so that just about anyone will plant. Points labeled
Double grab (harvesting and planting) when the labor intensity, long time, on the morning and afternoon to eat a snack. Mostly boiled mung bean porridge sent to the field, and melons and fruits and so on. "Cultivate the harvest like fighting and robbing, cut the harvest like hijacking", is to say that the situation is urgent and fast.
Cattle is a farm treasure, the newly bought cattle to use red cloth or red head rope to tie the corner, to the home and also play firecrackers to meet. New Year's Eve night, the cattle also want to "New Year's Eve", with fine bran, rice, greens and mixed concentrate feed to feed the cattle.
Social Customs Festivals
New Year's Eve 30th day of the 12th month of the lunar calendar (29th day of the small month), commonly known as "New Year's Eve", also known as the "big year", is the most solemn traditional festival of the year. Beginning of the preparations, frozen rice fried pop called "fried rice flowers", the system of caramel called "New Year's sugar", do rice fruit, called "New Year's fruit", brewing rice wine called "New Year's wine The "New Year Sugar" is made from caramelized sugar, the "New Year Fruit" is made from rice fruits, the "New Year Wine" is made from rice wine, and the "New Year Pig" is made from pigs. Friends and relatives to rice fruit candy to give each other called "send New Year". On New Year's Eve, every house is decorated with lanterns, every household is renewed with peach symbols, big red lanterns are hung high, and some of them have surnames written on them to show that they are in the family. Wealthy people also hang lanterns, colorful lanterns. Spring Festival couplet content are happy and peaceful, celebratory surplus of words, but also pay attention to the font has a style, to beautiful and beautiful. It is time to look up, rows and rows of big red lanterns, colorful, complicated and mixed, like a long dragon dance, spectacular.
If the family has a senior Xie Shi, the color and content of the spring couplets are different, usually "a yellow, two green, three red", that is, the first year with a yellow, the second year with green paper, the third year began to turn to red paper. The so-called "three years of filial piety" refers to hitching a ride on the end of the head, not the actual finger.
New Year's Eve, the sound of several cannons (commonly known as big firecrackers), followed by a long firecrackers, the family to prepare a feast, the family get-together, called the "New Year's Eve", also known as "New Year's Eve". On this night, the elders stay up all night, which is called "sitting in the New Year". Late at night, listen carefully to the barking of dogs and cats to predict the coming year's abundance and failure. If the dog barks first, the year will be good, and if the cat barks first, the year will be bad.
The Spring Festival On the first day of the first month of the year, the early morning firecrackers in every house to welcome the New Year, called "open the door". (Thirty night last firecrackers called "closed"), get up early in the morning, everyone renewed clothes, the younger generation to worship elders, elders to children pressure money. Old habits, this day avoid sweeping, splashing water, foul language in order to try to be auspicious throughout the year. Some of the whole day vegetarian, in order to seek peace throughout the year, young and old. Neighbors of the family to worship each other, meet acquaintances in the road, cross worship, and say good luck to each other. Close relatives to pay homage to the so-called "the first cub, the first two Lang (son-in-law), the first three or four worship girl" custom. In the event of a bereavement, relatives and neighbors must have vegetarian candles, commonly known as "worship the New Year". Congratulations to the New Year, generally from the second to seventeen, can also be continued to the end of the month. The so-called "grass cover the cow's mouth, it is the time to pay homage to the New Year".
Lunar New Year's Eve On the 15th day of the first month, commonly known as "half of the month". Hikari Yun: "Tear the paper in front of the door, each to discuss the life of each." It means that after the half of the month, we have to prepare for labor and work hard. At night, all kinds of lanterns and colors all tour, gongs and drums, the viewer of the city, playing lanterns, so-called "haunted lanterns", to see the lanterns, so-called "view lanterns". Children carrying lanterns to go from door to door, ask the head of household "to see the lanterns", the head of household must reward money.
Ching Ming Ching Ming Festival, with three animals, rice and fruit to the graves, so-called "hanging Qingming". After the founding of the country, this day all units and groups are organized to sweep the martyrs' graves, in memory of the martyrs, the school more than led students to the martyrs' graves to carry out education on revolutionary traditions. Before and after a period of time, some people follow the ancient custom of "trekking" to go out and effective tour, called "spring tour".
Duanwu The fifth day of the fifth month, commonly known as the "five festival". May 13, commonly known as "Guan Wang Festival". The first, third, fifth, thirteenth, dragon boat are assembled to race, and to five festivals, Guanwang Day is the most prevalent, such as the tide of spectators, ten thousand people empty alleys. Dragon Boat Festival, each family to moxa leaves, calamus inserted in front of the door to "ward off evil spirits". Friends and relatives to buns, dumplings, pickled eggs and other things to feed, called "send festival". Family feast, Chin Xionghuang wine, and Xiongfan example of wine coated children's forehead, sprinkled walls and unclean outside, in order to detoxify the insect.
The 14th day of the 7th month (or the 15th day of the 7th month) is commonly known as the 7th month bucket, also known as the "Ghost Festival". In the afternoon, each family offers wine and food to their ancestors in the hall. In the evening, they go outside the village to the riverside road, light joss sticks and burn paper money to remember their dead relatives.
Mid-Autumn Festival On August 15, before the festival, every family buys mooncakes and other things and gives them to each other among relatives and friends, which is called "sending mid-autumn festival", and at night, all kinds of candies and mooncakes are displayed under the moon, which is called "enjoying the moon". Children cheerfully pick up rubble, bricks, stone tower, find ways to get firewood, stuffed in the tower burning, crowd watching, cheering and cheering, there are wine sprinkled on the tower, called "sacrifice tower", suddenly red and green flames, a cross-pollination. There are good people pouring diesel fuel, flames in the sky, quite spectacular.
Chrysanthemum September 9, also known as the "Festival of the Elderly", "Chrysanthemum" is an ancient custom. Modern people also have the pleasure of this, travel in groups, climbing high and far away, called the "autumn tour", the majority of the intellectual class. Proverbs: "After the Chongyang no big festival, a hand over the frost to a hand over the snow", and then the New Year, week after week, year after year.
Small New Year The 24th day of the Lunar New Year is the day to send the God of the stove. From the small year this day, families are busy cleaning, preparing for the New Year, to meet the arrival of the New Year, the bazaar is no longer limited to a four-seven, two-five-eight, three-six-nine for the bazaar, can be every day on the set of trading,
Marriage and funeral celebrations
Marriage In the old days, the finger for the marriage, "dolls," child bride abolished early, so-called "parents' orders," the child's daughter-in-law, the child's parents, the child's daughter-in-law, the child's daughter-in-law, the child's parents. The so-called "parents' orders, matchmakers' words" arranged marriage is no longer fashionable. Today's young people are advocating free love, new marriage. Therefore, in the past a set of marriage procedures such as "bride price" (commonly known as gift money), for gung stickers (commonly known as "over three generations of the book"), to send the first, worship heaven and earth and other self-abolition. Modern marriage, more than with a caravan, a great deal of noise, comparison is the trend. There are also traveling to get married, collective marriage and other advocate thrift, wedding from the leader of the simple. Eugenics, late marriage and birth control is also accepted by the people.
Funeral Older people die of old age, filial piety, filial piety to the spirit of women into clothes, change hemp clothes and shoes, friends and relatives with incense and candles to the United States, each divided into white cloth, to stay in the meal, commonly known as said, "sealing the coffin rice. That night, the filial son lying next to the spirit, said "keep the spirit", choose a day to open the hanging. When the coffin, the filial son of the family around the bier two circles, bier line. The sender of the line are all the bearers, holding wreaths, lifting couplets with the line, the filial son bowed to please stop, to be dispersed. The son-in-law or nephew of the deceased returns to the bier, which is called "returning to the main body". The filial son is sent to the burial place and returns after the funeral. Those who carry the bier are called "bereaved husbands", commonly known as "eight kings". The bereaved husband and his relatives and friends have a banquet, which is called "the banquet for the return of the spirit". Nowadays, funeral reform is advocated, and funeral affairs are simplified, and coffin burials are changed to cremation. After the death of a person bathing and dressing, grooming, friends and relatives to say goodbye to the body, the body loaded into the hearse, relatives escorted the hearse to the crematorium yard, cremation, relatives to hold the urn to the funeral hall, a memorial service, and then will be the presence of the urn crematorium.
Birthday Babies are born one month after the birth of a baby, called "full moon". A baby born a year ago is called a "birthday". Every year after that, the day of the birth is called "Sangbunsang". The birthdays of each decade are called "Shobunsen". The full moon, the first birthday, and the "Shohonsen" are all celebrated with a feast. The feasts for the twentieth, fiftieth, and sixtieth birthdays are more elaborate. "Thirty do not know, forty do not know", so not enough attention, seventy years of age or older, more than one year in advance of the birthday, such as sixty-nine, seventy-nine, eighty-nine, called "do nine".
The birthday gift of relatives and friends according to the degree of closeness of the birthday gold, birthday hanging scroll, birthday couplets, birthday plaques and clothing, rice and fruit, fish, meat, chickens and other things, called "send Benson". The night before the birthday is called "warm birthday", kneeling ceremony "birthday worship". After the worship, there was a banquet. The next day, is the birthday, the birthday girl, please take a seat, the birthday ceremony, a feast at noon. Now some rituals have been simplified.
Bad customs and taboos
Before the founding of the country, the county's bad customs are believing in God, gambling, smoking opium cigarettes, footbinding, selling their wives, child brides, concubinage, marriage and marriage and marriage of close relatives, festival observance, etc. After repeated publicity and education, the county's bad customs have been changed. After the founding of the country, after repeated publicity and education, banning and other means, bad customs have been eliminated.
Happy taboos, such as eating, taboo said "finished", to say "eaten". People died, taboo said dead, to say "thank you", "gone", "over", "old", "gone". In front of the house and around the grave, do not move the soil. There are many contempt for women's customs, such as the newly repaired dragon boat under the taboo women watching; not full moon baby taboo pregnancy Mo head, etc., is no longer pay attention to.