Customs and habits in Yu 'an District

In the old society, marriage depended on "parents' orders and matchmakers' words", and generally went through the following procedures: proposing marriage, also known as "marriage proposal intermediary"; Engagement, also known as "writing books"; Marriage, also called "marriage". On the wedding day, the man prepared a sedan chair, new clothes and gifts, and the matchmaker led the wedding procession to the woman's house. The bride gets up early, "weeps and marries", eats "share the meal", and then the relatives carry the sedan chair, with the dowry in front and the sedan chair in the back. Bypassing the man's house, he helped the bride from the red cloth bag to the hall to pay homage, then went into the bridal chamber to drink wine and make trouble in the new house. In order to set off the festive atmosphere, there is a custom of "praising happy sentences". One person sings congratulations, and everyone says blessings. Guests can also play and amuse the newlyweds moderately, which is called "getting married for three days, regardless of size". After marriage, there are things like going back to the door and seeing relatives. prescribe a diet

In the past, wheat, beans and sweet potatoes were mostly eaten along the Huaihe River, corn, wheat and sweet potatoes were mostly eaten in mountainous areas, and rice was mostly eaten in hilly areas of Xu Fan. Residents have their own habits of processing food, such as pickling poultry eggs before Tomb-Sweeping Day, making bean paste in rainy season, pickling cauliflower and radish after beginning of winter, pickling fish and poultry in winter to the future, and making glutinous rice rice rice cakes before the Spring Festival. Lu 'an people have always been hospitable. In the old days, there were usually eight or ten banquet dishes, namely "Eight Seas" and "Ten Seas".

Holidays and festivals

During the Spring Festival, the 18th and 19th days of the twelfth lunar month are "dust-clearing days", and the old cloth is replaced with the new one to pray for health. Twenty-three or twenty-four of the twelfth lunar month is a "small year", praying for peace; The last day of the twelfth lunar month is "New Year's Eve". Put up Spring Festival couplets, hang new paintings, tie lanterns, set off firecrackers, light lanterns and have a reunion dinner. It is expected that the whole family will celebrate the New Year together. New Year's Eve and the first and second days of the first month of the following year are called "Chinese New Year". On the morning of the third day of the first month, firecrackers are set off to "send the New Year". The Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of making zongzi and racing dragon boats. Zongzi includes ham zongzi, jujube zongzi, meat zongzi and bean paste zongzi. Dragon boat race is a kind of water sports activity. Dragon boats are dressed as Qinglong, Huanglong and Bailong. In addition to enjoying the moon and tasting delicious food, teenagers often go outside the village to light torches, throw fireballs and dance dragons and lions.