What are the traditional festivals and customs in Yingkou?

February 2nd Dragon Head Up

According to folklore, on the second day of the second lunar month, it is the day when the Dragon King in charge of sex in the sky looks up; From then on, the rain will gradually increase. Therefore, this day is called Spring Dragon Festival. There is a widespread saying in northern China that "on February 2nd, the dragon rises; "Big warehouses are full, but small ones flow." The folk proverb.

Every time the Spring Dragon Festival comes, in most parts of northern China, every family carries lanterns to fetch water from the well or the river in the morning, and when they get home, they light up, burn incense and offer offerings. In the old days, people called this ceremony "attracting Tian Long". On this day, every household will eat noodles, fried oil cakes and popcorn, compared with "picking the dragon's head", "eating gentian" and "golden beans bloom, the dragon king ascends to heaven, clouds and rain rise, and the grains are abundant" to show good luck.

The origin of the Spring Dragon Festival is a fairy tale circulating among the people in northern China. Wu Zetian became emperor, which annoyed the Jade Emperor and told the Four Seas Dragon King not to rain on the earth for three years. Soon, the Dragon King, who was in charge of Tianhe, listened to the cries of folk people, looked at the tragic scene of starving people, and worried that life on earth would be cut off, so he disobeyed the jade emperor's will and rained for the world. When the Jade Emperor learned that the Dragon King had been laid down to the mortal world, he was put under a big mountain to suffer, and a monument was erected on the mountain: The Dragon King's rain violated the rules of heaven and should be punished for the future generations on earth;

If you want to get back to Lingxiao Pavilion, it's not until the golden beans are in bloom.

In order to save the Dragon King, people look for blooming golden beans everywhere. On the second day of February of the following year, when people were drying corn seeds, they thought that this corn was like golden beans. When it was fried, it blossomed. Isn't it golden beans? Every household explodes popcorn and sets up a case in the yard to burn incense for the "golden beans" that have blossomed. The Dragon King looked up and knew that the people had saved him. He shouted to the Jade Emperor, "The golden beans are blooming, let me out quickly!" ; As soon as the Jade Emperor saw that the golden bean flower in the courtyard of every household in the world was open, he had to send a message to the Dragon King to return to heaven and continue to give the world clouds and rain. Since then, people have formed a habit. On the second day of February, people eat popcorn.

In fact, after February of the lunar calendar, the "rain" solar term will come, and the lack of rain in winter will end, and the rainfall will gradually increase, which is originally the characteristic of the monsoon climate in North China.

Tomb-Sweeping Day

Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms in China. Because the twenty-four solar terms objectively reflect the changes in temperature, rainfall and phenology throughout the year, the ancient working people used them to arrange agricultural activities. Huainanzi? Astronomical training "says:" On the 15th day after the vernal equinox, when the bucket refers to B, the Qingming wind will come. " According to "Questions at the Age of 1", "Everything grows clean and bright at this time. So it is called Qingming. " As soon as Qingming arrives, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases, which is a good time for spring ploughing and spring planting. Therefore, there are agricultural proverbs that "before and after Qingming, point melons and plant beans" and "planting trees, it is better than Qingming". It can be seen that this solar term is closely related to agricultural production.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important festival for offering sacrifices to ancestors and sweeping graves. Grave-sweeping is commonly known as going to the grave and offering sacrifices to the dead. Most of the Han people and some ethnic minorities visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

According to the old custom, when sweeping graves, people should bring wine, fruit, paper money and other things to the cemetery, offer food to their relatives' graves, then burn the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, break a few green branches and insert them in the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally eat the wine and go home. The poem Qingming by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said: "It rains in abundance during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Ask the local people where to buy wine and worry? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. " Write the special atmosphere of Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is between April 4th and 6th every year according to the solar calendar, which is the season when the spring is bright and the vegetation is green, and it is also a good time for people to have a spring outing (called outing in ancient times), so the ancients had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming and carrying out a series of sports activities.

Up to today, the custom of worshipping ancestors and mourning the dead relatives in Tomb-Sweeping Day is still very popular.

Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional folk festival in China, which is also called Duanyang Festival, Pujie Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Dachang Festival, Mulan Festival, Daughter's Day and Children's Day. It is one of the traditional festivals of the Han nationality. Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanwu and Duanyang. In addition, there are many nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: Noon Festival, Chongwu Festival, May Festival, Yulan Festival, Daughter's Day, Mid-Day Festival, Dila Festival, Poet's Day, Dragon Day, Ai Festival, Duanwu Festival, Summer Festival and so on. Although the names are different, on the whole, the customs of people around the country are more similar than different. Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular grand festival among the people of China.

The Dragon Boat Festival has been a traditional habit of China people for more than 2, years. Due to its vast territory and numerous ethnic groups, some of them are Mongolian, Hui, Tibetan, Miao, Yi, Zhuang, Buyi, North Korea, Dong, Yao, Bai, Tujia, Hani, She, Lahu, Shui, Naxi, Daur and Xi. Its contents mainly include: the daughter returns to her mother's house, hangs a statue of Zhong Kui, greets the ghost boat, hides in the afternoon, sticks leaves in the afternoon, hangs calamus and wormwood, swims in all diseases, wears sachets, prepares sacrificial bowls, races dragon boats, contests, hits the ball, swings, paints children with realgar, drinks realgar wine, calamus wine, eats poisonous cakes, salted eggs, zongzi and seasonal fresh fruits. Some activities, such as dragon boat racing, have achieved new development, breaking through the time and geographical boundaries and becoming international sports events.

6. Aunt's Day on June 6th

"June 6th, please aunt". In the past, on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, rural customs invited married girls, old and young, to have a good reception before sending them back.

I hope it is useful to you, and I hope it will be adopted. O(∩_∩)O~~