What are the customs and habits in Luoning County?

Newcomers are all older women who beg for children for their daughters-in-law or married daughters, so they are called "wife clubs". After these wives burn incense and pray for God, they will bring a clay doll home, hoping to "pray for a cooing chicken and have a full house of children and grandchildren". This custom exists in many places, such as sending grandma to Yiyang Lingshan to beg for children.

Marriage folk activities are also permeated with auspicious atmosphere. After men and women are engaged, the man decides the wedding date, which is called "optimistic" in Luoyang dialect; The man sends a bride price to the woman's house, with the consent of the woman, commonly known as "sending a good son." According to the folk custom of Luoning County, the woman accepts the "good boy" sent by the man and puts a piece of fermented dough in return, hoping that the future son-in-law will "make a fortune", that is, be promoted and make a fortune. When you meet ancient trees, boulders, bridges, wells, etc. On the way to the wedding ceremony, you should cover them with red carpet and stick red paper to show your luck. After entering the bridal chamber, the bride wants to drink noodle soup, which contains dates, peanuts and cottonseed, meaning "early birth". When the bride was drinking soup, the girl murmured, "Drink a knot in one's heart and have a fat doll." Eat a big red date and give birth to a white fat man. Eat a cottonseed and have twins. If I tell you to drink, if you don't drink, I'll splash it under the bed. " After reading it, buckle the soup bowl under the bed.

Making beds in new houses is also exquisite. It is of course auspicious for a sister-in-law with a harmonious husband and wife to have children. However, there are some special customs in Luoning County. Generally, the elderly make the bed, just as the locals say, "the elderly make the bed, and their children and grandchildren are full." Old people should not only make their beds, but also sprinkle walnuts, cottonseed, dates and peanuts. These are exquisite, among which dates and cottonseed symbolize the early birth of your son, while peanuts symbolize the birth of not only a boy but also a girl. Both children are perfect.

Of course, all these auspicious cultures are strongly subjective, but their good wishes have formed a set of fixed expressions in the historical process, which have been gradually accepted, inherited and developed by China people, evolved into folk customs in China, and become a brilliant page in China culture.