What are the customs in Longnan?

There are many customs in Longnan, involving weddings, funerals, festivals, folk beliefs and so on.

1) Marrying a wife: Longnan people attach great importance to gifts. In the past, young people needed a matchmaker to lead the red line. Nowadays, even if there is no matchmaker in free love, there will be female girlfriends or female friends who act as matchmakers before the wedding day to give the bride a red umbrella; Weddings involve a series of processes, such as meeting people, visiting others, pressing Geng, offering sacrifices to sweep festivals (at least one festival was held in the past), hiring people, getting married, and so on.

2) The death of the old man is a great event. In the past, funerals were very complicated. Fortunately, it is simplified now. Generally, the coffin is lowered, the incense is burned, the eight lines are blown, and then cremated and buried; When it comes to the death of an elderly woman, her children and grandchildren will wear straw hats and rags to their parents' homes and kneel down to attend the funeral. This custom still remains in the rural areas of Longnan. When the bride's family goes to her funeral, her descendants should double the gift, such as 360 yuan, or at least 720 yuan.

3) Festival celebrations are similar to those in other parts of the country. But there are also some special ones, such as the custom of inviting Sister Moonlight in Yangcun on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival. Of course, few people do it now. There are also special festivals in towns and villages in Longnan. For example, Longwen Town regards celebrating the birthday of Master Wu Xian as an important festival. For example, Master Pangu's birthday is a major festival in Huangpi Village and Linjiang Town nearby. For example, one day in Nanheng Township is called "Bodhisattva Lift Day". Daughters who get married every year go back to their parents' homes to celebrate. Longnan people should make all kinds of hairpins no matter what festivals-yellow hairpins, mangguan hairpins, avocados, mugwort hairpins and bazin, which are delicious in other places!

China New Year is a little different from other places. Longnan people gathered in the ancestral hall on New Year's Eve, that is, under the hall. At the beginning of the year, Jia Ding's family went to the ancestral hall to put a new Ding Bao and invited them to have tea. The daughter who got married on the second day of the New Year's Eve went back to her parents' house, steamed mice (steamed sweet potatoes) on the third day of the New Year's Eve, and chose an auspicious day to travel after the fifth day of the New Year's Eve. From the beginning of the year, there was a custom of dragon dancing in the countryside until the Lantern Festival. The above is the custom of sending people to Longnan, that is, Linjiang, Longwen, Nanheng, Wudang, Yangcun, Jiulianshan and other towns near the south. People with lower status, that is, towns and villages near the county seat, don't go to other people's homes on the second day of New Year's Day unless they go to people who died last year. This is the opposite of the upper class. People with high status are happy to go to relatives and friends' homes on the second day of New Year's Day, while people with low status hate people who come home on the second day of New Year's Day. Remember!

4) In terms of faith, Longnan people generally believe in Buddhism and Taoism, and also believe in witchcraft. In the rural areas of Longnan, the phenomenon of inviting gods, ghosts and immortals is still widespread. Anyway, Longnan people believe in all kinds of mysterious forces, no matter who is sacred, they are regarded as "lords". Believing in Master is a common belief of Longnan people, and every household lights incense at home on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

So much for the general customs, and not for the small ones. . .