Do you know that there is a famous street in Wenzhou called "Five Horse Street"? We have a famous street in Wenzhou called "Five Horse Street".
It is said that there is an interesting legend about the origin of its name! It is said that in ancient times, a man collected a stone, placed in front of the door. One day, a guest passed by here, saw the stone, want to pay 100,000 taels to buy it, and the hostess thought that the strange goods, do not sell the stone. The guest left angrily, and the hostess took the stone up to the attic. In the evening, the guest came back and saw that the stone was gone, and was very upset. Why was the guest like that? It turned out that there were five divine horses on the stone, which had been moisturized by the dew outside every day to survive, and were useless when they were put inside the house. Later, in order to commemorate the five horses, this place will be named "five horse street".
Approaching the five horse street, the first thing that comes to mind is a bronze statue of five horses pulling a cart. These sturdy horses set the reins, pulling a carriage, in the gallop. Some of them spread four hooves running, some front hooves up, stretching their necks, tilting their heads, making loud neighing sounds. Visitors have three or five five sitting aside to rest, some simply jumped over the pool, riding on a horse, do "V" gesture, a press shutter, a photo shot.
All the way, all the way to see, both sides of the road are ancient buildings. Not long to the fountain square. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do, but I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm not going to be able to do it. Look, some of them on the stage scholars model walking, some leap up and down ...... play can be happy! At night, the fountain sprayed up, colorful lights flashing, colorful fountain dancing to the accompaniment of music, colorful, beautiful!
Our hometown of Wu Ma Street, really live up to its name!
2. Wenzhou Five Horse Street Diary 300 words
If you ask about Five Horse Street in Wenzhou, almost everyone in Wenzhou knows that there are five horse sculptures on the street, so it is named "Five Horse Street".
Although the street is only about 200 meters long, it is a famous pedestrian street in Wenzhou and is very busy. There are many stores on the street, one store after another, there are selling gold, there are selling clothes and shoes, let a person see dazzling.
I looked up and saw that the sky was full of advertisements with small areas, and when I walked a few steps in front of my eyes, there would be large, moving billboards, which made people's eyes blink. Every afternoon around 3:00 pm, Wu Ma Street gradually began to bustle.
In the evening, some old people and children come here to take a walk, and there are a few young couples pushing strollers with cute little babies in them, who come here to see the bustling Wu Ma Street. There are also some friends who haven't seen each other for several years come here with their children to meet, they can stroll around a little bit, they can also go to Pizza Hut to get together! From time to time, three groups of five, boys and girls come here to shop.
Until twelve o'clock in the evening, the bustling five horse street only gradually into the dreamland. The most lively or May 1, 11 and January 1 of these grand festivals, really crowded, from the street to the end of the street is full of people, if you squeeze in, you look forward to see is the back of someone's head, look back to see is someone's face, so, in these grand festivals, you can not go to the five horse street.
Wu Ma Street became a famous place in Wenzhou, it is a beautiful and lively street. I really want to see the pedestrian street in other cities, whether it is as lively as Wu Ma Street.
3. Fourth of July and classmates to go to the five horse street to play the composition of 600 wordsIf you ask about the five horse street in Wenzhou, almost the whole of Wenzhou people know that there are five horse sculpture in the five horse street, so it is named "five horse street". Although the street is only two hundred meters long, but this street is a famous pedestrian street in Wenzhou, lively.
There are many stores on the street, one store after another crowded, there are selling gold, there are selling clothes and shoes, let people see dazzling. I looked up, the sky is full of small area of advertisements, walk a few steps in front of the eyes will appear large area, moving billboards, so that people's eyes have to see the flowers.
Every afternoon around 3 o'clock, Wu Ma Street gradually began to bustle. In the evening, some old people and children come here to take a walk, and there are a few young couples pushing strollers with cute little babies in them, who come here to see the bustling Wu Ma Street. There are also some friends who haven't seen each other for years who come here to meet with their children, so they can stroll around a little bit and go to Pizza Hut for dinner! From time to time, groups of three and five, boys and girls come here to shop. Until twelve o'clock in the evening, the lively five horse street is gradually into the dreamland.
The most lively or May 1, 11 and January 1 of these grand festivals, really crowded, from the street to the end of the street is full of people, if you squeeze in, you look forward to see is the back of someone's head, look back to see is someone's face, so in these grand festivals, you can not go to Wumar Street.
Wu Ma Street became a famous place in Wenzhou, it is a beautiful and lively street. I really want to see the pedestrian streets in other cities, whether they are as lively as Wu Ma Street.
4. Wenzhou Customs Essay 500 WordsWenzhou Customs Traditional Festivals Spring Festival Open Door Cannon: Early in the morning of the first day, every family puts double sound firecrackers and hundred son of cannon, wishing the New Year good luck and prosperity.
Eating rice cakes: more rice cakes for breakfast. "Gao" and "high" resonate with each other, which means "one year high one year".
New Year's Eve: Early in the morning, the younger generation will pay tribute to their parents and other elders, and then go out to pay tribute to the New Year with gifts of jujubes, cinnamon, lychees, etc. Peers, bowing to each other. Peers pay tribute to each other, arching their hands and giving each other "good new year", "congratulations on wealth" and other congratulatory remarks.
New Year's activities have been extended to the first half of the first month, after the founding of the State, the first morning of the first month of each year, the party and government leadership departments to invite people from all walks of life held a reunion to reduce the redundancy of a hundred bye. New Year's Wine: During the Spring Festival, each family set up a "New Year's Wine" feast for friends and relatives.
New Year's wine without certain specifications, time is usually between the first and fifth. Rui'an in the past in the first five ancestor worship "complete true" day wine.
open pen: the first day, readers cut a red paper, written on the congratulations on the New Year verse, or write "New Year's pen, great luck" words, called "open pen". Market: the Spring Festival, the general stores are not open, residents need food and daily necessities, are purchased before the festival.
After the first three or four, the stores opened one after another. When the opening of the market, red and colorful, firecrackers.
In recent decades, many stores for the convenience of residents, the first day of business as usual, or the same industry take turns to open the door to the market. Send Yuanbao: Rural "send Yuanbao" people, during the Spring Festival, two partners, holding a string of copper coins and branches of the tree, door-to-door read "send Yuanbao" ballad.
One person reads the blessing, and one person should be "good". For example, "Yuanbao into the Taoist altar - good!" "Gold and silver full on the room - good!" Wenzhou has a proverb, "the first day of the first month to send Yuanbao, said are good", that is, this custom.
The long eight days: the first eight days of the first month, each courtyard burning firewood, known as "prairie fire pan". Children jumping on the fire and fireworks for fun.
Men and women of good faith together to the outskirts of Taiping Temple to pray for the blessing of the family's well-being. Lantern Festival The Lantern Festival is also known as Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival.
From the fifth day of the first month of the year to the eighteenth day, the city and the countryside to carry out dragon dance activities. Fourteenth to sixteenth is the "main light" days for the dragon dance activities ***, common dragon lanterns are cloth dragons, yarn dragons, stool board dragons and jewelry dragons.
Dragon lantern team through the streets and alleys, to the courtyard of large families to dance dragons, "to participate in the dragon". When the "dragon", the lantern master in the drums and music singing dragon lantern song, for the owner of the property to pray for blessings.
The dragon lantern song has a certain set of style, the lamplighter for the name of the head of household, identity, improvisation to add lyrics, and around the tune of the horse lantern, dance fish lanterns, facsimile of lions, stilt walkers, dress up Liu Cui and other recreational activities. Dongtou fishermen are also released on the day of the "Kongming Lantern", the light system of glossy paper to do, in the Na dip oil fire * head paper, lit, gas expansion, the red light rising, floating into the sea air, the scene is very spectacular.
Spring Prayer Street Wenzhou City, the first day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year from the beginning of the Kangle Square, to March 15, five horse street stop, the main street in turn held a prayer for blessings, called "blocking the street blessings," for the local traditional festivals. Block Street Fu held on the day of the thoroughfare set up a red building, tie flowers door, open the curtain, hanging lights and colors.
The atmosphere is warm. Street also staged opera, lyrics, puppets, as well as rolling dragons, stilt walkers, riddles a few set of various recreational activities, while the family set up the altar, potted landscape.
Chen flowers, called "flower festival", stores to reduce prices to attract customers, visitors from all sides gathered. People night lights brilliantly orchestral music, the city gates are wide open, allowing people to enter and exit, activities until midnight to rest.
The next day, the streets of other places and organized "blocking the blessing". "Blocking the street blessing", Xi Guo San Hong Kong temple in front of the big peach most exquisite, rice peach high flush eaves, broad across the street.
On the set of "Journey to the West", "Water Margin", "Three Kingdoms" rice figures up to several hundred, in addition to Pu Qingzhou bead hoard, such as pavilion system by hundreds of thousands of colorful beads tied into the hoard on the structure of weaving opera characters, dragons and phoenixes and a variety of patterns of colorful, dazzling people. In 1952, Wenzhou urban and rural material exchanges will be held in this type of recreational activities, for the time when the three not known as "blocking the street Fu".
Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Duan Yang Festival Wenzhou said "heavy five festival". The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Wenzhou said "heavy five festival".
Species have meat brown, bean sand brown, sugar lotus seed ham brown, Huai Bai zong and broad bean zong. Rural people to early rice stalks ash juice to cook rice dumplings, rice dumplings fragrance to hide, called "ash soup dumplings", one or two days before the Dragon Boat Festival, married daughters must send rice dumplings to the mother's family.
The bride's family gave back paper fans, scented sachets and other things. Rowing dragon boat Wenzhou eastern plains, the river is intertwined, almost all villages have dragon boat.
Southern Song Dynasty Ye Shi poem "a village, a boat all over the state, everywhere the drums and flags to fly." Dragon boat racing starts on the first day of May and ends around the tenth day of May.
When the dragon boat race, the river is noisy, several or dozens of dragon boat show flag competition. The spectators on the bank shouted and cheered, a spectacular scene.
Before the liberation, there were often two boat fights and the audience crowded bridge collapse into the water. Republic of 23 years (1934) and the eve of the founding of the country, Yongjia Fujiqiao, Wudian dragon boat collision caused by the brawl, drowning 41 people, from the South to the people because, successive generations *** have repeatedly banned the dragon boat, the effect is minimal.
At the end of the 70s, Wenzhou rowing dragon boat resurgence. People *** to guide, eliminate superstitious colors.
Strengthen security measures, and then become a folk health sports activities. Dressing up the pavilion pavilion has two kinds of land and water.
The water pavilion for the colorful boat, boat long and wide, mounted on the platform, the week inserted colorful flags, men and women on the stage dressed up opera characters, vivid image, boat before and after the swing set, there are young children decorated with dragons big, up and down swinging. The stern of the boat young men and women dressed as boatmen and boatwomen.
The pavilion in the sound of music traveling slowly, see the red silk hanging out on the shore, it is in and out of each of the three times has been and collect red. Several temples in the city are equipped with a pavilion, to the Cicada Street Fang Fang Temple is the most famous.
Lu Taikaku to board for the stage, but also sit a group of opera characters, carried on the shoulders of many people (later changed to a platform on the crate) parade, this activity in the Lantern Festival or blocking the street Fukuo elbow held. To ward off evil spirits and epidemics Dragon Boat Festival, large families hanging Zhong Kui Zhong Kui statue; door inserted calamus and Ai; children's arms tied with five-color silk thread, called "long-life strand".
5. Primary school essay on Zhejiang Wenzhou folkways and customsSpring prayers blocking the street Wenzhou city on the first day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year from the beginning of the Kangle Square, to March 15 five horse street stop, the main street in turn held a prayer for blessing activities, known as the "blocking of the street blessing" for the local traditional festivals. On the day of the street blocking blessing is held, red buildings are set up in the thoroughfares, flower doors are set up, cloth curtains are opened, and lanterns are hung with colors. The atmosphere is warm. The street also staged opera, lyrics, puppets, as well as rolling dragons, stilt walkers, lantern riddles, a few set of various recreational activities, at the same time, every family set up an altar, potted landscapes. Chen flowers, called "flower festival", stores to reduce prices to attract customers, visitors from all sides gathered. People evening lights brilliantly orchestral music, the city gates are wide open, allowing people to enter and exit, activities until midnight to rest. On the next day, "Jiejifuku" is held on other streets. "Street blocking blessing" in the West Guo three port temple in front of the most exquisite large peach longevity, rice-based peach longevity high eaves, broad across the street. Set on the "Journey to the West", "Water Margin", "Three Kingdoms" rice figures up to several hundred, in addition to Pu Qingzhou bead hoard, the shape of the pavilion system by hundreds of thousands of colorful beads tied into the hoard on the weaving of opera characters, dragons and phoenixes and a variety of patterns of colorful, dazzling people. Tanabata The seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month of the begging book, each family with rice flour made of tongue-shaped sugar cake, called "coquettish food". On the evening of the seventh day of the seventh month, the coquettish food is tied to the "long-life wisps" worn by children at the end of the month, thrown on the roof tiles, so that magpies can build bridges to help the Weaving Maiden cross the Milky Way. Do Qingming cake before the Qingming Festival, Wenzhou cities and towns grinding glutinous rice flour to make cakes, stuffed with pork, bamboo shoots and so on, or embedded with sweet sugar, commonly known as "Qingming cake". In the mountainous areas, then pick Qingming grass for cakes. Qingming grass, that is, the sheep's lettuce, also known as "rice dishes". The scientific name of the "sagebrush", annual grass. Qingming season, will be sprouting a sheep white hairy leaves, people pick the top of the leaf, wash and mash, and the glutinous rice flour, with fresh bamboo shoots, mustard greens, diced meat as a filling, the cake steamed and eaten. Some people, from the field to pick sheepshead, Malan head, ramie tender brain and other wild vegetables or grass, first cooked sun-dried, ground as a cake filling, and on the rice flour or flour cake, wrapped in two pieces of fragrant bubble leaves, and then, in the rice pot or steamer steamed into, commonly known as "artemisia cake. In Taishun, the first day, the first day, to sheep's lettuce leaves or artemisia and rice flour, filled with sugar a day steamed buns, known as "steamed mochi". Miancai, color green with toughness, not only delicious, and stored for a long time, have a warm stomach. Qingming Day on this day, do not lift the fire, to cold food for the fruit of the stomach, which is the ancient in honor of the mesquite push burning Mianshan to take the meaning of the legacy of cold food. "Now Yueqing city pass, whenever the Qingming around, the street will have Qingming cake in the sale, the flavor is very good Yo! Pomelo, inserting incense Legend has it that July 23 (or 29), for the "King of Tibet Festival", in Wenzhou, commonly known as the "King of Tibet Bodhisattva's birthday". According to folklore, Jizang Wang is a god who carries the earth on his shoulders, and when he turns his shoulders, earthquakes will occur. On this day, the folk from morning to night, the ban on water on the ground, the common belief that sewage on the ground, the King of the Earth will be angry, the sky will shake the ground, the house collapsed. Is the night, Wenzhou folk "insert fragrant pomelo" custom, also known as "point pomelo lamp". At this time, it is the days of autumn rice pomelo ripe. Cangnan in Wenzhou and other places, each family to select a turquoise round the largest and most ripe new pomelo, first with a kitchen knife to the top of the pomelo cut flat, and then with a meter-long bamboo *** pomelo bottom of the center, the requirements of the insertion of a solid, and finally in the top of the cut flat ground inserted with incense and candles that have been lighted. The incense is required to be placed in a circle, preferably several times, and the candle must be inserted in the center of the incense circle, so that the pomelo ball is ready. In the evening, a pomelo ball insertion ceremony is held, in which the head of the children calls the local children to each hold up a pomelo ball and sing a nursery rhyme, and the men, women, and children of all ages from all over the region come to watch. After the ceremony, the pomelo balls are inserted in front of the door of one's house, and some gold and silver paper is burned or some offerings are made to pray to the gods for good fortune and longevity. The next day the pomelo ball inserted in front of the door to remove the pomelo cut, and then the whole family to eat all the pomelo fruit, it is said to eat the pomelo fruit, you can avoid bad luck and good luck. Wenzhou city, it is every family in the steps, foot of the wall, the roadside inserted incense and candles. Children pick the pomelo, around the incense, light a pair of candles, hanging under the eaves, as if all over the planet of fire. Everywhere you look, the fire is glowing, and the incense is misting. 'When I was a child, often two children in the compound to steal each other (pulling) incense, running around in the light of the fire, very happy! The past is gone, only memories remain. Dusting the new Generally at the end of the 20th or before and after the sacrificial stove, families choose auspicious days, clean the door, up to the rafters and tiles, down to the ditch, all the corners of the house, the edge of the building, all with a long pole tied to the broom, brush everywhere, and washing so utensils, ready to clean the New Year, also known as "dusting the new". In the old days, in Cangnan, the long laborers go home for the New Year, so there is "long years do not eat twenty-four meals" said. Now, every year around the 24th of the lunar calendar, is still followed in the waxing moon "dusting new" custom, the whole city to sweep the dust to welcome the new as the center of the cleanliness and sanitation campaign. New Year's Customs Open Door Cannon In the early hours of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the first thing every household does is to scramble to hit the "open door cannon", the whole city a firecracker sound, symbolizing the old to welcome the new and to receive the blessing, commonly known as "to receive the year". Playing the "door cannon" also has the practice, generally the first small firecrackers a string, called "hundred children gun"; then put a double sound of big firecrackers, big firecrackers only three hair, meaning that can be lifted a year of plague plague, and said to receive the New Year. Requirements for three rounds are loud, loud and clear sound, the most auspicious. Common belief that playing "open the door cannon" the sooner the better, symbolizing that this year, do whatever will go smoothly, as you want to get rich, planting people will have a bumper crop. Some places in the open door when the cannon, but also read in the mouth: "open the door, fire the cannon; wealth is also to, hi also to." General firecrackers of the outer skin and the inner skin are a color red, after burning paper flowers all over the ground, brilliant as cloud brocade, trip the full color, joyful. Every year, New Year's Eve into the night, families also want to firecrackers, which is called "playing the door cannon
6. About Wenzhou night scene essayIn my eyes, Wenzhou is a beautiful city. Wenzhou's urban environment has changed dramatically in recent years. Built Jiangxinyu, Ma'anchi Park, Xiushan Park, Jingshan Park, Zhongshan Park, Huichang River Park, Songtai Square, Century Square, Haitan Square, Railway Station Square, Riverside Road and other parks and squares. In this picturesque flowers and trees, birds singing, lake fountains, colorful lights and riverscape reflecting the beautiful Wenzhou, really like living in a fairyland. Especially at night, whether it is in the Jiangbin Road to enjoy the night view of the river, or in the Century Square to watch the colorful fountains, or in the bustle of the crowded Wuma Street shuttle, can make you feel the beauty of Wenzhou. You will shout from your heart: I love you, beautiful Wenzhou! In my eyes, Wenzhou is a city of vigor. Wenzhou is a vibrant city and everyone knows it. According to the news report, Wenzhou is ranked as the most energetic city in China by foreign media. Wenzhou is the birthplace of the national private economy, and private enterprises are sprouting up in Wenzhou. 2 million Wenzhou people are spreading their businesses all over the country, driving the development of the market economy in all parts of the country. Wenzhou has proved its strength. And this dynamic city bursts out of the light, affecting the whole country, and will affect the world in the future. I believe that Wenzhou, a thriving city, will always have amazing power. This is the Wenzhou in my eyes, it is moving towards the goal of "world leading city".
7. On the two beautiful Wenzhou essay1. I am a drop of water, I have the life of water; drop into the bowl will not immediately disappear, put on the hand will not be cool forever; I am a grain of rice, I have the life of rice; boiled to the pot will not be immediately cooked, dropped into the furnace will not be quiet; I am a person, I have the life of a person; live in the world will not immediately decay, buried in the soil will not be a corpse long existed.
2. Because of life, everything in our life can happen, everyone in life can meet. It is these ordinary small points, small notes, to compose the eternal music of life!
3. The water brimming with sunshine is good, the mountain color is also strange rain." The summer of life sometimes means "hazy beauty", look at the bank of the swaying branches of the willow forest, much like a group of wearing a thin veil, the hands of the hair of the maiden, that ting ting stature and high smile, all will be "life" to give them vitality and unlimited longing! .
4. Life is uncertain, we can only grasp every minute and second, every day as a happy and fulfilling holiday. Life is precious, because each of us only once, but precisely because it is valuable, we should not hesitate to give up life when appropriate, so that the life of this piece of hot wrought iron quenched more dazzling fire.
5. I closed my eyes and wondered why I came to this world. What my parents gave me was a life. I came to this world, and sometimes I am sad about the uncertainty of the road ahead. What is the meaning of life? Is there really nothing to do in life? What's the point of life? Is it meaningless? It should not be, although the life of the busy, but in the busy always have something to do.
6. All things in heaven and earth, nature gives life, they are each with their life posture, decorate this beautiful world, interpretation of their own, with a unique way to love nature, love their own life.
7. We sometimes feel that life is always walking very tired and tired! Before you take a step, you need to choose a fork in the road, identify the direction of the course, every step, you need to adjust the pace, the courage to go forward, can not retreat! Looking back on the road of life that string of their own footprints, feel that this short life, not wasted! Feel that time goes too fast, have not had time to do all the things, has been fast to the end of life, marvel at the shortness of life!
8. Life is born of nature, he is very vulnerable. Sometimes because of natural and man-made disasters, a moment will disappear! But the power of life and shocking, he is sometimes tenacious! Life is great, life is sublime, life is sacred, everyone from birth is full of desire for life, but life is like passing clouds, is also short, we must treat life well, so that he is alive in the years of light and heat, happy and happy to go through life!
9. Life is the activity of living things. A leaf, a small flower, a bird, a sapling, are alive. Life is also a letter, a letter written half unwritten letter, we have to continue to write; life is still a song, a song sung half unwritten song, we have to continue to sing ......
10. Our life can be great, can be small, but no matter what we have to straighten the spine of the life of the life of the efforts to In the end, treat life well, treat yourself well, live your own life, this is probably the definition of life!
11. What is life? Life is the water in the hand, from the moment we have life, our ten fingers, no matter how desperately close, how careful, the water will still be a little bit of leakage, which can not be blocked loss.
12. Life sometimes comes in disguise - the burning sun is life, the rushing river is life, the majestic mountain is life, the vast grassland is life - life is a book, you need to open your mind to seriously understand, life is a cup of wine, you need to open your mind to seriously understand, life is a book, you need to open your mind to seriously understand, life is a book, you need to open your mind to seriously understand, life is a book, you need to open your mind to seriously understand. Life is a cup of wine, you need to hold your breath and carefully savor.
13. I can not say what life is, I can only say that life is like what, life is like a and steep cliffs and struggling with the torrent, you should jump into the vast, unknown destiny, he rushed up indignantly, straight to the cliffs and then calmly cascade.
14. Life is precious. Each person's life is only once, lost life, there is nothing. No one wants to die in vain, no one does not want to live well. However, in the era of fire and smoke, there are many people who sacrificed their precious lives. Is it because they don't value their own lives? No! It's not that they don't want to live happily, but they put the interests of the motherland and the people in the highest position, but put their own lives at risk. They are not afraid of power, they use their blood for peace, they use their own life for more people to live well. "Death is heavier than Mount Taishan, or lighter than a feather", their death is heavier than Mount Taishan, their death is great.
15. Life is everyone's wealth, the world because of life and colorful, vibrant, let us love and cherish their lives, grasp every minute and second of life. Life is short, is not to return, a person's life is like a white horse, time can not be reversed, we can only be in a limited life bloom unlimited luster.
8. About Wenzhou folklore essayNew Year's Pen
Readers with large red paper, writing auspicious words, or "four seasons of the year, read the book of great fortune" this kind of, this is called "New Year's Pen", there are also written longer, such as "New Year's Pen, great fortune. All seasons of the year, all the best. Business is booming, the source of wealth. The six animals are thriving, and the five grains are plentiful. The family Qingji, the population is healthy. The winds and rains are favorable, and the country is at peace." After they are written, they are pasted on the wall. People who can write poems, then touch the scene, do a few new self-exciting poems.
Set Yuanbao
Each family with brown sugar and glutinous rice, indica rice made of large and small Yuanbao, take the meaning of fortune, where the home is used to store objects, such as barns, rice tanks, bookcases, cages, closets, drawers, altar jars, etc., are put on a small Yuanbao.
Travel
On the first day of the first month out, to choose the direction. First burn incense in front of the God of the stove, and then take an empty pot, put a spoon in the middle, rotate hard, according to the last stop of the handle pointed in the direction of the head, by a person with a shear to go, and then hear and remember to meet the first person to cut the words spoken (virtual action), meaning that half of it, return to divination, which is called the "incense divination", commonly known as the "divination shear hearing".
Hei mouth color
Every New Year's Eve, the Wenzhou area folk like to discuss the mouth color, only allowed to speak auspicious words, taboo speak unlucky words." Relatives entertaining, auspicious language Sheng Xin, that is, the year gifts must be added to the peace money, Mannianqing cypress and other things, or else referred to as a good luck." (Qing Sun Tongyuan "Yongjia heard the record")
Send Yuanbao
On the first day, some people put the brown sugar Yuanbao with red rope tied to the branches of the tree in Wan Nianqing, along the door from door to door to send auspicious words, by a person playing the bamboo board, the current slang, a person shook the spring firewood (camphor tree branches and leaves) should be specialized in the "good", which is called "send Yuanbao" or "shouting Yuanbao". Wenzhou has a proverb: "the first day of the first month to send Yuanbao, sentence to say good." After speaking, each family gives some rice cakes or change. Yongjia send Yuanbao song cloud: "Yuanbao into the door stage, good! Gold and silver will make you rich, good! Accumulate virtue and goodness in previous lives, good! Yuanbao twisting, good! Raise pigs as big as oxen, good! Show me your Yuanbao! Liu Haixian, with bare feet and puffy head, good! Liu Haixian plays with the Golden Toad! Money and silver money will be sent to your house. Good! Fortune, fortune, longevity, and happiness, yes!"
Selling skills
In Cangnan, Pingyang area, the first to the third night of the first month, there are selling skills team carrying lanterns, on the doorstep of people chanting words of good luck, commonly known as "selling skills" or "selling odd". The home is to send some rice cakes, cigarettes or red packets, three nights is stopped. Some of the happy family (such as marriage, birthday, house building, birth, etc.) also booked in advance, open the door to welcome into the hall, to cigarettes, wine and hospitality, called "play the new house" or "play the bride".
New Year's drum
New Year's Day, folk culture and entertainment activities, such as new drums and playing music. New Year's daybreak, children in groups, with a drum and gongs, along the street beat, here and there, an endless stream, called "New Year's drums". Some people gather their neighbors and friends to play all kinds of music, some playing and some singing, joyful and lively.
Dragon Dance
There is a custom of dragon dance in the Spring Festival. In Pingyang, more than a dozen people hold colorful dragons in their hands and dance in front of temples and big houses, and the host families are rewarded with red packets, rice cakes and candies. There are also white dragons, which are made of white ramie cloth and can be lit with lamps inside, also known as "dragon lanterns", which are carried by more than 10 young people, who usually go to temples to stay and set up incense burners, gongs and drums, and have a story or a hymn sung by Mr. Chanting Book, which is called "joining the dragons". The head of the temple pays money and arranges for accommodation. The event is limited to one month.
Welcome the New Year
In Pingyang and other places, people set incense and candles in the room at midnight on the New Year's Day, and set off firecrackers in front of the gods, which is called "welcoming the New Year".
Light the lanterns
From the first to the fifth, every night in the bedroom lights, until dawn, called "the lanterns".
Welcome Zaoshen
In Pingyang and other places, the early morning of the third or fourth night of the custom of welcoming Zaoshen. It is said that "the god of the stove in the 24th day of the month of wax, today's return, so pray for this welcome" ("Pingyang County Zhi"). In Yongjia, on both sides of the Nanxi River, in the early morning of the first day of the first month to welcome the stove. It is commonly said that the God of the Stove goes to heaven on the 24th night of December, and comes back from heaven on the morning of the first day of the first month of the lunar year. Each family puts a new image of the Goddess of the Vesta in the shrine, then lights incense and candles, makes a cup of tea, and worships the idol.
New Year's taboos
In the old days, the first day of the first month of the year do not cook (New Year's Eve, more rice in the New Year to eat, to "eat the leftover" meaning), do not carry water, do not visit the door, do not sew sewing. Generally do not sweep the floor, if you have to sweep the floor must be from the outside to the inside of the broom, it is forbidden to sweep the floor outward, commonly known as wealth will be lost. Early dinner, do not light the lamp, put on firecrackers (so-called "shut the door gun"), go to bed early. During the New Year, there are no quarrels, do not move the knife and axe, do not kill, as well as the prohibition of debt collection and other taboos. It is said that the quarrel will fall off the color; knife and axe is a murderous weapon, moving bad luck, etc.; and can not say unlucky words, can not scold people and so on. Yongjia Ruoxi area, some people in the New Year hit a child, said to be "the beginning of the year", a year will not go well. In Pingyang, five days, not picking dung, not pouring the toilet, not knocking on the ground, that is, such as "bucket" and so on. Now these customs have basically disappeared. In the past, there are still rural "first month of slow" custom, farmers to the seventh and eighth before going to the field, the general store to the fifth before opening. Now a change in culture, in recent years, to break this traditional custom, some areas, on the second day of the first month on the team (some also the whole family) to the field hoe and send fertilizer to the field. Some stores also break the custom, the second and third on the door.