Lianyungang folk custom

Four major folk customs in Lianyungang (marriage)

Poke the pot for marriage, set the boat for courtship

People of all ages, male and female, began to get nervous when no one was a matchmaker at the age of 12, and made an appointment with Grandpa Jujube to meet him on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month. At night, the boy took a fire fork and pounded it in the pot pond, saying, "Poke the pot cavity and pounded the pot hole. This year's marriage is touching. Said a flower daughter-in-law, more than seven times in front of jujube ye confession. The girl was shy, and her mother did it for her, just like the boy said, except that the name of the person who prayed for marriage was added and the daughter-in-law was replaced by a little son-in-law. Older girls who live in fishing villages near mountains and seas use the back shells of swimming crabs or the back bones of giant squid as hulls to make exquisite masts, downwind flags, cranes and dragons. Decorate fish bones as souvenirs. On the morning of March 3 every year, the girls will take a boat to the upper reaches of Tonghai Mountain Stream and put the boat in the stream by the sea. When the boat was picked up by the young men, they took the token to the woman's house to propose marriage, and the woman could recognize that the token was indeed a homemade marriage. This way of courtship has become a common practice for thousands of years. On March 3 every year, young men go to the seaside to wait for the boat and are not allowed to go up the mountain. Girls are not allowed to go to the seaside when the boat goes up the mountain. Some older men and women, who meet privately about the form of keepsakes and expand the time and place of the ship, usually get what they want and help many lovers.

Hire the media to marry and preach Cambodia

When men and women reach the age of engagement, parents take a fancy to their children (usually for the initiative of the man, as the saying goes, there are hundreds of women in a family). First, hire a matchmaker to inquire about each other's age and calculate whether they can get married according to the zodiac and the five elements. The traditional formula is: "a white horse is a green cow, once the mouse stops being hot, the snake and the tiger are twisted like knives, and chickens and dogs shed tears", which is called the four taboos. The formula of the five elements is "Jin Kemu, Mutuke, Tukeshui, Shuihoke and Huojinke", which is called "Five Elements Mutual grams". Generally speaking, as long as you don't commit four taboos and the five elements don't agree with each other, you can be a relative. At this point, the matchmaker can go to matchmaking, which is commonly known as matchmaking or marriage proposal. After both parents agree, the man's parents only write one or four words to the woman, the man writes "sincere" or "sincere promise" and the woman writes "promise" or "respectfully answer jade". This kind of engagement is called "opening Cambodia" or "squeezing the mouth", not a formal engagement. After Cambodia began, the man chose an auspicious day, prepared a wedding banquet, invited the matchmaker, ghost writer, patriarch and uncle to dinner, and formally wrote an engagement letter to the woman. After receiving the Cambodian man, the woman left a red line, wrapped it with the original green line, and then gave it back to Four Treasures of the Study or a pot of evergreen. This process is commonly known as preaching Cambodia or making small gifts.

Give birth to a big gift

At the wedding, the man invited the matchmaker to the woman's house to discuss. After the woman's parents agreed, they wrote down the girl's date of birth on red paper, commonly known as "Kun Zao Xing Geng" or Sheng Kaigeng, which was passed on to the man by the matchmaker. The time direction of the happy period, the happy room, the happy bed, the wedding ceremony, and the opening of men and women are all calculated and determined according to the eight characters of the woman's birth. The calculation process is called "matching years", and the items matching years are written on Khmer Rouge stickers, commonly known as "matching" or time book. Inform the woman of the date of marriage, also known as the date of delivery. In order to facilitate the bride to prepare a dowry and spend all kinds of happy events, she should give a heavier gift, which is called a big gift. There are generally four kinds: one is four clothes, of which there must be a warm coat and a cotton-padded jacket; Second, four or eight pieces of gold and silver jewelry; The third is the amount of gifts that are not waiting; The fourth is a pistachio with multiple packages. It depends on the family situation when the society is popular. Men are rich and women are poor, and the gift money is enough for the woman to get married. The man's family is poor, so he can only send two pieces of cloth to his cotton-padded jacket.

Make-up and sunshine

The folk wedding lasts for three days. The first day is called makeup urging. Both men and women like to prepare all kinds of happy events. This woman is the busiest. In the morning, she will entertain guests, one of which is a farewell banquet for the bride and little sisters. The woman should send all the dowry to the man's house, which is commonly known as "dowry". After all the dowry arrangements are ready, my uncle will look at it himself, lock it and give the key to the bride. Generally, people who marry ginger are divided into four grades: two cabinets, four cabinets and chairs, and eight big ones and eight small ones. Very rich people have "whole house management", that is, all the household necessities are available, and some also give away blue bricks and gold blanks wrapped in red paper. A brick represents a row of salt flats, and a piece of earth gold represents a hundred acres of fertile land. The dowry is enough for their daughter to live a good life after marriage. Extremely poor families can't pay their dowry, so they have to wear aprons as a burden. Therefore, there is a saying in public opinion that "a daughter who cannot accompany her will spend endless years." On the day of make-up, the man's family will worship his ancestors and put up red couplets. In addition to the dowry received, the sedan chair carrying the bride will be sent to the woman's home. There should be boys pressing the bed at night. The next day is an auspicious day, that is, after the bride closes her eyes, she will go to the man's house in a sedan chair. As soon as the sedan chair left, her mother and sister-in-law cried for marriage. If she doesn't cry, she is mute. When the groom's family holds a big banquet to welcome guests, there must be a table for the groom and his brother, called accompanying Langjiu. The bride enters the door at noon, sitting in wealth, paying homage to the bride, drinking a glass of wine, and making a noise in one room. On the third day, it was called three points. The bride and groom worship their elders, hold pots, have a reunion dinner, make a smile and enter a normal life.

Be an official, be a queen, and gain power.

There is a folk saying that "get married and go to college". On the wedding day, the groom puts on brand-new holiday clothes and inserts velvet flowers (splendor and wealth) on both sides of his hat, also called zhuangyuanhua. He can only dominate others all day, no one can dominate him, and even the local government can't interfere with him. As the saying goes, "be an official all your life", so it was named groom's official. The bride is also a queen on the right day. She was dressed in scarlet, with rosy clouds on her shoulders, a pearl crown on her head, phoenix shoes on her feet, three official mirrors on her head and three official scriptures in her hand, sitting in a sedan chair. There is a bright red umbrella in front of her, accompanied by Cary. Everyone, including the patrolling officials, will make way for the bride. Even if you pass by the cemetery of Miaomenheqiao, you will set off firecrackers to warn ghosts and gods to avoid it. If you meet two sedan chairs carrying the bride on the road, and predict that they will meet at a bad intersection ahead, and think that they can pass before each other, whoever wins the double happiness, the lucky owner will immediately mobilize the sedan chairs to run slowly and hard, and give the winner double the money, which is called winning the upper hand. The scene where the bearers of both sides lay down their lives to gain the upper hand is a unique scenery in Haizhou's marriage customs, which gives people the deepest impression.

(of relatives and friends) teasing the newlyweds on their wedding night.

The noisy room is the hottest scene of the whole happy event. After meeting the bride, there are twelve programs, such as making love, drinking a glass of wine, breaking a fruit bowl, stopping the bride, seeing the bride and groom off, laying accounts, poking windows and so on. You can also insert four activities such as playing tricks on uncle's head, playing tricks on the old man, playing tricks on the new uncle and playing tricks on bridesmaids. According to the custom, every program action should say something happy, and the content is elegant and popular, which makes people laugh. Even if some language actions are beyond the norm, they are allowed by common rules. Never turn against each other.

Moon and back door shoes

In the wedding month, it is customary to "have no room" and the bride and groom are not allowed to go out for the night. After the full moon, the bride can go back to her parents' home for a few days, and the husband and wife can also go back to their parents' home for a month. This is called "two doors and two months". Whether it's a double-door visit or a single-door visit, you should make a pair of shoes for your husband's family, old and young. If the family is poor, you can only make a pair of shoes for your husband, collectively known as two-door shoes.

Four Folk Customs in Lianyungang (Birth)

Four taboos before pregnancy

Girls have four taboos since childhood: First, avoid handing salt to their opponents. In daily life, if it is necessary to pass salt between women, one side will put it down and the other side will pick it up again. Second, avoid giving birth on an empty stomach. Pregnant women are called empty bellies and are not allowed to enter the baby's delivery (housing) before the full moon. Three bogeys: newcomers see red people. Pregnant women before the full moon are called red men, and they are also on an empty stomach. Brides can't see red people before the full moon. If you accidentally touch each other, the bride must first unbutton herself. Four bogeys: red people see red people. I accidentally bumped into it, so I threw a small bamboo bucket (an instrument for measuring grain) at each other and said, "Give you a ride (life)" and "Give you a life". Many people say that pregnant women are happy, pregnant, hate food or harmful to their children. Once a woman is happy, in order to give birth to a healthy, beautiful and intelligent child smoothly, many taboos are implemented. (1) Keep your trouser legs tight all year round to keep out the wind. (2) When there are stars in the sky at night, outdoor activities are not allowed. (3) Don't sit on the water tank. (4) Don't sit on the "passbook" for hoarding food. (5) Don't cross the buffalo. (6) Don't eat rabbit meat. (7) Don't eat donkey meat. (8) Don't eat sparrow eggs. (9) Don't eat pigeon eggs. (10) Don't eat turtle. (1 1) Don't eat eel. (12) Do not eat loach fish. In addition, pregnant women are encouraged to eat boiled eggs, longan and apples.

Worship the students and eat the road.

During the labor period of pregnant women, her mother-in-law will take her husband and wife to burn incense and kowtow in Sanguan Temple, Kannonji Temple, Bai Zi Temple and other places, praying for Baozuo to give birth safely on time. Some pregnant women go back to their parents' homes or relatives' homes to eat the road after giving birth to their children. Whenever a girl who goes out comes in with a big belly, the family will know the reason and make three bowls of noodles at once. When they are put on the table, they will put the noodles in order. Pregnant women unconsciously eat a bowl first, and the first bowl they eat happens to be the first bowl, which indicates that they will be born on the first day after returning home. They will eat the second bowl first and give birth the next day when they get home. Pregnant women who have eaten noodles must go home immediately and wait for their children.

Buried clothes have nicknames.

Placenta is commonly called uterus. After the child was born, the boy's clothes were buried in the gate, and some were buried underground in front of his parents' bed. The girl's uterus was buried outside the door, and some were buried in the pit. Some of the multiple births did not survive, so they were buried underground at the intersection of San 'an and poverty for people to trample on. Boys should have a nickname after they are born. The general custom of nicknames is to name them according to the time of birth and the handling of birth. Some children are tied to the legs of the bed with red ropes, that is, named buckles or big buckles and small buckles. Some children were caught by a broken iron pot when they landed, and they were named stuck or big card. Some put the hair of black sweet valley or black donkey in a jar containing clothes cells, and named it Otani or black donkey. A large part of them are named after the corresponding zodiac signs according to the year and hour of the child's birth, such as Daniel and calf, tiger and tiger, dragon and little dragon, horse and pony. Rats, monkeys, rabbits and pigs are not allowed. 12, the newborn was burned to death in the dark, commonly known as the "Twelve Dynasties Little Full Moon". In addition to the "mother-to-mother" banquet hosted by my uncle's family, there will be a big banquet, lighting candles, setting off firecrackers, offering sacrifices to ancestors and thanking heaven and earth. On this day, children will be taken out of the darkroom, kowtowing to ancestral shrines and incense tables thanking heaven and earth. This is the first time a newborn has seen the light outside the delivery room. After the ancestor worship, my father will put three dragon-shaped steamed buns on a small bench, which are placed in front of the bed, in front of the door, in front of the stove, in front of the water tank, by the river, beside the ditch, at the bridge head and in the earth temple. In short, he will burn paper and kowtow in the relevant places during the child's growth, and pray for the bed god, door god and river god to protect the child's safety. This is called "fire dragon". It takes 36 copies to burn the dragon completely, and most people only burn a few copies in several important places.

The full moon hides in the urinal.

The newborn's full moon is a happy event. Besides entertaining guests, there are three main things to do. One is boiled red eggs to worship ancestors, also called happy graves, to report good news to ancestors. At the same time, send happy eggs to friends and relatives around you. Second, don't do any housework during the full moon. She will eat seven meals, put the pole on the threshold and lie down on it for a while. These are collectively called "being sick", which means that diseases caused by a "Earth and Moon" can be taken away at the full moon. The third is to put a silver lock silver collar on the newborn. Some Miao boys wear gold and silver earrings in their earlobes, and some have a "button" on their noses. On the second day of the full moon, Lifu will stay with her mother (uncle) for a few days with her newborn baby, which is called hiding in the urinal. As soon as the newborn who hides from the urinal arrives at his uncle's house, he urinates in front of the kitchen, and then grandma and aunt symbolically "beat and scold" the child, which is considered to be hiding from the urinal for a long time. My uncle's family is rich, and my mother and son can stay for a few more days, up to a month; My uncle is poor, so I can go home after lunch.

Shave for a hundred years and eat a hundred meals.

Relatives and friends sent some clothes and jewels to celebrate the newborn's centenary birthday. Children need a symbolic shave of 100 days, which is usually called shaving for centenarians. Children in Miaomiao should keep a little unshaven in the back of their heads and a lock of long hair called centennial hair and turtle tail. A hundred-year-old hair can be braided when it is a little longer, and it can't be shaved until 12 birthday. Shave your head for a hundred days, the first time in your life. When shaving your head, soak your hair in water with rice and tea. A barber should say a happy word every time you shave. Parents should treat the barber to a happy paradise meal and give him money. After a hundred days, some close and enthusiastic relatives and friends took the initiative to symbolically gather together a hundred meals and let the children "eat a hundred meals." Liu, Shi, Chen, Fu and other surnames are the favorites, while Wang, Shi, Wen, Zhu and other surnames are avoided. Some accept food and money symbolically, so you must accept 100 yuan to buy clothes for your children. This is called "wearing a hundred clothes". It is necessary to celebrate the birthday of the newborn 1 year-old. Besides making a "new suit" for children from head to toe, put it on the table with onions, pens, inkstones, books, scales and abacus. Let the children grasp it themselves. Holding the week is called holding the week.

Wear a yellow jacket with a big shirt.

Wear a yellow coat and change into a big shirt every year according to the festival. The fifth day after beginning of spring is the Spring Club, and the fifth day after beginning of autumn is the Autumn Club, which are called "Tian She", "She" and "Forgiveness". Newborns should wear yellow jackets for the first social day. The yellow coat is a double-breasted coat made of yellow cloth, and the front and back chests are embroidered with group frames, in which are embroidered group-like four-character combinations such as "God is willing to make friends with the society", "God bless you for a hundred years", "Bless you for a long life" and "Long life and wealth". From birth to 12 years old, some boys in Miaomiao wear clothes that are left open. On their 12 birthday, they went to their uncle's house, and his uncle made an open blue coat to wear home. From then on, they wore right-handed clothes like ordinary people. This is called "opening wide", and children who open wide are safe all their lives.

Lianyungang traditional folk lantern festival (figure) see resources.

On the Lantern Festival, the harbor city was full of excitement and jubilation. The folk performance held by Lianyungang Folk Museum in Cangwu Green Park in Xinpu attracted all the men, women and children in the city. Traditional dragon dances, small flower boats and local Huaihai operas compete with each other, and the whole park is crowded with people.

Attachment: List of Folk Festivals

Haizhou Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the first lunar month is held in Haizhou District, Lianyungang City every year. Haizhou Lantern Festival has a long history. In the antique park, visitors can enjoy all kinds of lanterns, folk entertainment performances and flower exhibitions in Haizhou.

Lianyungang Mulan institution

Held once a year in Dong Lei from April 10 to April 14. With Magnolia as the theme, the flower show carries out artistic exchanges such as poetry, calligraphy and painting, and photography. In early spring, Magnolia blooms before the new leaves turn green. Flowers complement each other, such as Yushu Snow Mountain emptying. One after another, slim and graceful, bright and clean; One petal, one petal, without any flaws, such as suet jade; A wisp of fragrance is refreshing. The color is like jade, and the fragrance is like orchid, hence the name Magnolia. Dong Lei in Lianyungang has four ancient magnolia trees, two of which are thousands of years old and are called "Magnolia King". Therefore, a flower show is held here every year.

Lianyungang Crystal Festival

It is held irregularly in Donghai County. The first meeting was held in1October 6-8 in 1993. During the Crystal Festival, various folk entertainment performances, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, children's prints, crystal research seminars, economic and trade fairs and agricultural and sideline products fairs were held. Lianyungang Donghai is an important crystal producing area in China, with an annual output of more than 500 tons, accounting for half of the national output, and is known as the "hometown of crystals". The largest crystal in China weighs 4.36 tons and is produced in the East China Sea. There are more than 300 crystal processing enterprises in the East China Sea, which is known as a street of crystal products.

Lianyungang xufu steet

It is held in Ganyu County from June 24th to 26th every year. Xu Fu was an alchemist in Qin Dynasty. He was sent by Qin Shihuang to lead 3,000 boys and girls to the sea to seek the elixir of life. They crossed the ocean and arrived in Japan. They helped Japanese ancestors realize their farming life with "five grains" and "various skills" and taught them advanced science and technology such as sericulture and reeling, so they were regarded as "gods of farming" by the Japanese. In order to commemorate this historical feat and develop the cross-sea Hongqiao established by the ancestors of the two countries, Lianyungang City holds the Xufu Festival in Xufu's hometown every year, and the activities include sacrificial ceremonies, antique music and dance performances, float parades, Xufu seminars, economic and trade negotiations and so on.

Attachment: List of Lianyungang Tourism Festivals

The name, time and place of the festival

Haizhou Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month Haizhou Yiyuan Garden.

Lianyungang Yulan Club April 10- 14 Dong Leifeng Scenic Area

Baihushan Temple Fair in Haizhou District from April 8th to 10th of the lunar calendar.

In the summer from mid-July to mid-August, Lianyungang connects the island and Haizhou Bay.

Lianyungang Crystal Festival is irregular in Donghai County.

Xufu Street in Lianyungang 165438+ Ganyu County1October 24 -26.