What are the folk customs and practices of housewarming?

In this place in the northeast, moving is a very important thing. Generally speaking, housewarming owners will invite relatives and friends to come over, and the more lively the better, they will also arrange banquets and of course receive gifts.

There are also some housewarming customs, that is, immediate relatives and friends will give away a few big fish to express their good yearning for more than a year. Then the immediate family members will stay in the new house for dinner, which is also called burning the bottom of the pot.

Most of the first meal will be steamed with a pot of steamed bread, and then two big fish will be cooked. This is a simple housewarming custom. In our hometown, in addition to the custom of moving, new houses are generally built, and the custom is even stronger.

In the north, the architecture of houses and that kind of tile-roofed house dominate. On the basis of tile-roofed house, a wooden beam is needed, and then cement tiles are laid on the beam with customized wooden boards. Therefore, it is also called upper beam after being placed on the beam frame of the tile house.

When the crossbeam of his new house is erected, the landlord will hang red cloth and silk on the crossbeam, and then the family will climb on the roof and throw steamed bread like all the people watching. There will be a red circle on the steamed bread, which I think indicates an auspicious meaning.

The man who grabs steamed bread is also a good lottery player. Steamed bread must be eaten. As the parents of the older generation, their lifelong dream is to build a big house, so this is one of the biggest things in a family besides children getting married.

Nowadays, fewer and fewer new houses are built in rural areas, because most young people have left their homes to live in big cities, leaving only some left-behind children and lonely old people in rural areas. Today's rural areas have lost the lively scene of the past, leaving only desolation and loneliness.