What are the traditional cultural elements of Lu'an, and the characteristics of Lu'an's traditional culture

Everyone is very curious about the local traditional culture and traditional cultural characteristics of each province. After a long history and long years, the province has continued to develop and inherit, and there have been many rich folk cultural interactions, thus forming the local cultural characteristics that we are familiar with. I have sorted out the relevant content and hope it will be helpful to you.

1. What are the traditional cultural elements of Lu'an

1. Residence

In the old days, the western Anhui area was based on agriculture and resettlement. When building a house, it is required to be wide at the front and high at the back. "The house sits on a green mountain, a land of dragons and tigers, and the door faces the green water Phoenix Pond" (mountain behind and water in front), "I would rather have a green dragon ten thousand feet high than a white tiger looking up" (high on the left and low on the right) . The door direction should usually be southeast or southwest, avoid facing south or facing north, and avoid conflicting with gables, chimneys, water flows, toilets, and roads. In ancient times, if there was a stone tablet in front of the residence of a wealthy official in a town, there was a stone tablet at the entrance of an intersection or alley, which was said to be "Taishan Stone Gandeng", which was said to be able to dispel evil spirits and eliminate disasters.

2. Diet

In the old days, people ate more wheat, beans, and yams in the areas along the Huaihe River. In the mountainous areas, they ate more corn, wheat, and yams. In the Weifan and hilly areas, they ate more rice. People in both urban and rural areas have the habit of processing food by themselves, such as pickling poultry and eggs before Tomb Sweeping Day, making bean paste during the rainy season, pickling cauliflower and radish after the Beginning of Winter, pickling fish, meat and poultry after the Winter Solstice, and making glutinous rice cakes before the Spring Festival. Lu'an people have always been hospitable. In the old days, banquet dishes usually had eight or ten kinds of dishes, which were called "Eight Seas" and "Ten Seas".

3. Marriage

In the old days, marriages depended on "the orders of parents and the words of matchmakers." In terms of marriage, it usually went through the process of proposing, betrothal, and sending off the date (selecting the date of marriage). ) and the four steps of getting married, including the size of the betrothal gift and the complexity of the procedures, are based on the financial resources of both parties and are negotiated by both men and women. The man respects the woman's opinions more.

Proposing a marriage is also called "matchmaking"; getting engaged is also called "writing a letter"; getting married is also called "consummating the marriage". On the day of the wedding, the man prepares a sedan chair, new clothes, and gifts, and the matchmaker leads a wedding team to deliver them to the woman's home. The bride gets up early to "cry for marriage" and eats a "separated family meal". After that, her relatives carry her to the sedan. The dowry goes forward, followed by the sedan. After walking around to the groom's house, the bride is helped up from the red cloth bag to the front of the hall to perform the ceremony. Then she enters the bridal chamber, drinks the consummation wine, and makes the wedding ceremony. In order to heighten the festive atmosphere, there is a custom of "happy words". One person sings congratulations and everyone says hello. Guests can also play and amuse the newlyweds appropriately. It is said that "there is no big or small thing in the three days of the wedding." After the wedding, there are still things like going back home and getting married.

4. Funeral

Generally, there are four stages: death, funeral, coffin placement (wrapped in straw or placed in a cabinet made of bricks) and burial. When a person is about to die, his children should rush to the deceased to see them off (commonly known as "sending off the elderly"). The coffin was laid for 1-3 years before being buried. With the development of funeral civilization, the cremation rate has gradually increased, and funeral procedures have been simplified.

5. Childbirth

On the second day after giving birth, the mother-in-law should be informed of the good news. On the third day, the mother should fumigate with moxa water and bathe the baby, which is called "three baths". ". When a child is one month old, relatives and friends should be invited to drink "full moon wine". On the first birthday (commonly known as "Zhuzhou"), relatives and friends express their congratulations. When you are 10 years old, some people do it for their 10th birthday. When a person reaches the age of 60, children should do "sixtieth birthday celebrations" (do nine instead of ten) for their parents. From now on, birthday celebrations will also be held on birthdays, but they are generally not as grand as those on tenth birthdays.

(6) Etiquette

The main etiquette and customs in the old days include: welcoming guests, bowing to the host when the guest goes out, the guest in front of the host and the host behind, letting the guests sit after entering the room, offering tea and cigarettes. The seating capacity is 8 or 10 people. The number of seats depends on the stitching on the tabletop. If the stitching is straight towards the door, the left side of the nave is the top and the right side is the bottom. When offering cigarettes, wine, rice, tea and other items, they should be held in both hands with a focused expression and without squinting. When meeting, common people greet each other and bow hands; uncommon people greet each other without wearing hats; young people and juniors should greet relatives and friends first when meeting them. 2. Traditional cultural characteristics and customs of Lu'an

(1) Playing with torches and touching autumn during the Mid-Autumn Festival

After the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner, both urban and rural areas in Lu'an City have the custom of drinking tea and admiring the moon. , teenagers have to play until midnight. In the countryside, there is a custom of playing with torches. That night, people used flax straw, mugwort, straw, etc. to make torches that were more than ten feet long. After lighting them, they held them high and happily ran to the edge of the village, the road, or the fields. They either played fire dragons or danced fire lions, galloping and leaping. Echoes from near and far. "Touching Autumn" is also one of the traditional activities on Mid-Autumn Festival night in the countryside.

At night, people can sneak into the vegetable gardens and crop fields at will and pick fruits, peppers, soybeans, corn, cotton, and radishes, whether they belong to Zhang Sanjia or Li Sijia. As the saying goes, "If you touch a winter melon, you will have a boy; if you touch a loofah, you will have a girl; if you touch a hot pepper, it will not hurt your eyes." After that, they would pull out soybean stalks and burn edamame on the roadside to eat. Therefore, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can often see puddles of dust on the roadsides and fields in the countryside. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, wealthy families in cities and towns still have the spirit of "walking on the moon". Three poles after the moon rose, the gong and drum troupes went out one after another, walking through the streets and alleys under the moonlight, knocking and banging as they walked, enjoying it endlessly until they returned home after enjoying themselves until late at night.

(2) Drinking pledge wine and moonlight

In the old days, on the fifteenth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, there was a custom in urban and rural Shouxian County of "drinking pledge wine" and "drinking moonlight". Based on the understanding of the laws of the moon, people believe that only on November 15th of the year at midnight the moon is directly facing this place, shining directly on people but leaving no shadow on the ground, so it is called "Dangtou". On this day, elderly people sit in the wine courtyard after dark, sipping and waiting while drinking. Some people who love liveliness feel that sitting alone waiting for the moon is boring, so they invite each other: "Let's go and drink the moonlight." When they come to sit down in a street pub, everyone pools their money to buy drinks and order food, which is called "carrying out the moonlight". Stone". While eating wine and talking about the past and present, we waited for the moon to reach its peak. Therefore, on this day, the business of taverns in Chengguan and rural market towns was particularly good, with almost no seats occupied. At this time, a bamboo pole had already been erected in the courtyard. In the middle of the night, with a full moon and no shadow, people bathed in the moonlight and couldn't help but think about the past, reciting poems and composing poems, and talking about the past and the present. He becomes very interested again, returns to the wine table, and plays guessing games, often only after getting drunk.

(3) Baishu Temple Baishu Temple Fair

Baishu Temple is located in Pengtai Village, Yeji Town. It was built in the Sui Dynasty. The temple worships Dongyue God and the Ten-Dian Palace True Monarch. The incense has continued for more than a thousand years. From 1997 to 2004, Cypress Temple continued to renovate the original temple building and built a new main hall, becoming a tourist attraction integrating religion and tourism.

According to legend, the 28th day of the third lunar month is the day King Dongyue was born. Burning incense and making wishes here on this day is very effective, and all requests will be answered. Therefore, there is an endless stream of people who come here to ask for fortune-telling, to pray for their children to be crowned with red flowers, and to burn incense to fulfill their wishes. An annual temple fair was formed near the Cypress Temple, which not only prospered the folk art of Hubei, Henan, and Anhui provinces, promoted marginal folk trade activities, but also attracted a large number of foreign tourists to visit here.

(4) Huoshan local customs

Huoshan is a hot land that has nurtured hard-working, kind, enthusiastic and intelligent people. It has a strong modern flavor and also retains its unique characteristics. local customs. Production tools such as bamboo sieves, dustpans, and bamboo drying buckets can be seen everywhere, as well as daily necessities such as coir raincoats, bamboo hats, and straw sandals. Although stone mills, stone mills, etc. are rarely used, they are still well preserved. In particular, the ancient production method of grinding wood powder with water mills is still in effect. There is a water wheel river in the county, which is named after it. This water wheel river is still running happily to this day. Earthen stoves, iron pots, and bamboo handles are still the basic tools for hand-making Huoshan Huangya. Playing dragon lanterns and lion dances are also favorite programs among Huoshan people. Special food, in addition to Huoshan yellow buds and Yingjia tribute wine, there are dozens of local delicacies such as small river fish, red lantern pickled peppers, rice wine, glutinous rice cakes, rice flour cakes, and blood tofu.

(5) Dabie Mountain Folk Culture Garden

It is located in Huancui Garden at the east foot of Tongluo Peak in Tongluozhai Scenic Area, Huoshan County. Founded in July 2002. It covers an area of ??1,000 square meters and has a construction area of ??550 square meters. The style of the house is imitation of Qing Dynasty architecture, with blue bricks and gray tiles, one entrance and two floors, an arcade with a patio, a corridor connected to an ancient screen, and a gallery with carved railings, which is antique. Various utensils used by local farmers in production, life, and entertainment before the 1950s are displayed indoors. Walking into the garden is like reading an encyclopedia of mountain village customs. The name of the garden was inscribed by the famous litterateur Mr. Lu Yanzhou, and it is now officially open to the public.

(6) Tongluo Village Ancient Stone Mortar

Tongluo Village in Huoshan County was built in the late Ming Dynasty. According to the "Huoshan County Chronicle", there are three ancient stone mortars in the middle of the top of the village, all of which have been found. The shape of the stone mortars is very ancient. The largest stone mortar has an upper mouth diameter of 40 cm, a bottom diameter of 28 cm, and a depth of 24 cm. Stone mortars were used for processing grains in the old days. Three ancient stone mortars are open to tourists.

(7) Shucheng Folk Customs

The folk customs in Shucheng are honest and honest, and the people are cheerful and friendly. They are warm and generous in treating others. They have a strong sense of family and pay attention to returning to their roots. For a long time, the standard of clothing has been simple and generous; rice is the staple food, with corn, potatoes and other grains; vegetables are mainly salty, supplemented by spicy food, and they do not like sweet foods. The residences are mainly facing north to south, and the main house is surrounded by simple buildings such as cattle houses, pig pens, poultry houses, and toilets. In the past, housing had mostly mud walls and thatched roofs, with very small windows. After the reform and opening up, more infrastructure bungalows with brick walls and tile roofs were built. In recent years, two-story (or above) infrastructure buildings have become more common. Marriage is mainly done by men marrying women. When a man settles down with a woman, it is called recruiting a son-in-law. When getting married, the tone is festive and peaceful, a wedding banquet is held to entertain guests, and there is a traditional custom of having a wedding party. Funerals used to be mostly coffin burials, but now, except for those in remote mountainous areas, most funerals are cremated. Except for those who died young, there is a custom of burying the corpse for three days.