What is the custom of Spring Festival in Wuhan?

The custom of the Spring Festival in Wuhan is:

"Eat New Year's dinner during the Spring Festival, and eat jiaozi at the Lantern Festival. The Spring Festival focuses on family reunion, and the Lantern Festival focuses on the noise. Go out of the house, walk into the community and celebrate with neighbors and villagers. " Wuhan literature and history experts describe the difference between the customs of the Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival in this way.

According to experts in literature and history, Wuhan's "Five Dragons Welcome" is a traditional Lantern Festival custom in Wuhan. He said that before the last Yellow Crane Tower burned down in the Qing Dynasty, on the seventh day of the first month of each year, the gentry and businessmen of Jiangxia County (now Wuchang) gathered at the Yellow Crane Tower as usual to discuss the annual ceremony of "Celebrating the Five Dragons".

The 30th day of the twelfth lunar month is the most important festival in Wuhan, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". On this day, the whole family got together and had a sumptuous reunion dinner. Dinner is generally served with "three complete" (whole chicken, whole fish and whole duck), "three high" (fish cake, meat pie and rice cake) and "three bowls" (fish balls, meatballs and lotus root balls).

In recent years, people put a hot pot in the middle of the table, which is steaming, adding a festive atmosphere. Dinner time is mostly before dark, but also in the evening. Before meals, people who are mature and prudent should worship their ancestors first, put some bowls and chopsticks on them, and invite their ancestors to sit down. After the ancestor worship ceremony, everyone began to eat around the table. Not allowed to eat fish for more than a year in order to pray.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, every household will fry spring rolls. On the night of the Lantern Festival, people will also make glutinous rice flour and bean paste into dumplings to eat, in order to wish a smooth and successful year's work. During the Spring Festival, people also eat fried rice cakes with sugar to symbolize the sweetness and high life of the new year.

The most correct steps for Wuhan people to celebrate the Spring Festival:

The first day of the lunar new year

As we all know, in traditional customs, the first day of the first month must be an elder or neighbor, and generally they don't go far away to pay New Year greetings. According to legend, every New Year's Eve, animals will come out to do evil. After a night's vigil and setting off firecrackers at midnight, people scared away the animals, so people opened the door to congratulate each other on the first morning of the first day.

The second day of the first lunar month.

The second day of the first month is also a New Year's greeting, but the daughter who got married on this day will take her son-in-law with her. Among them, there are many rules for newlyweds to go home. For example, bring gifts in pairs. The bride's family can't accept it all, and she has to take some back when she goes back to her husband's house.

On the third day of the first month

The third day of the first month is considered as the day when mice marry women. You should rest early at night and don't disturb mice to marry women. Rats have a taste of "whoever doesn't let me have a good day, I will make him feel bad for a whole year". If they are disturbed and marry a daughter, rats will hurt the family.

The fourth day of the first month

The fourth day of the first month is the day of offering sacrifices to the god of wealth. In the past, the boss wanted to "fire people". On this day, he came to worship God uninvited. The other party knew it well and packed up and left. In addition, it is said that Kitchen God will come to check the household registration this day, so it is not advisable to travel far.

The fifth day of the first month

On the fifth day of the first month, it is also called "Breaking Five". This day is a big day for businessmen. This day is a rich year to pray and welcome the god of wealth. Generally, shops will open their doors and set off firecrackers on this day.

The sixth day of the first month

On the fifth day of the first month, the god of wealth welcomed him into the door, and on the sixth day, the poor god sent him away. On the day of sending the poor god, we will do a general cleaning at home and throw away all the rubbish, useless rags and the like. In addition, you should also drink a vegetarian soup, which is made of seven kinds of vegetables such as spinach and green vegetables.

The seventh day of the first month

The seventh day of the first month is also called People's Victory Day, People's Celebration Day, Population Day and People's Seventh Day. Legend has it that Nu Wa created chickens, dogs, pigs, cows, horses and other animals at the beginning of creation, and then created people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind.

Some people began to observe daily customs in the Han dynasty, and they began to pay attention to it after the Wei and Jin Dynasties. In ancient times, people had the custom of "men winning". The man won as a headdress. Since the Jin Dynasty, people cut the ribbon for flowers and people, or put gold foil on people's screens and put it on their hair.

The eighth day of the first month

The eighth day of the first month is the day when the stars fall below, so making small lanterns to burn and sacrifice is called Shunxing, which is also called "offering stars" or "receiving stars". In addition, it is said that the eighth day is Xiaomi's birthday. If it is sunny this day, there will be a bumper harvest of rice this year, but if it is cloudy, the harvest will be poor.

Early September

The ninth day of the first month is the sun, commonly known as "born in the sky". It is said that this day is the birthday of the Jade Emperor. Therefore, the main customs are offering sacrifices to the jade emperor, offering sacrifices to heaven through Taoist temples and so on. When the weather is fine, women will prepare fragrant flowers and candles and put them in the open air at the gate of the yard to worship the sky and pray for God's blessing.

The tenth day of the first month

On the tenth day of the first month, all stone tools such as grinding and grinding can't be moved, and even offering sacrifices to admire stones for fear of hurting crops. Also known as "stone does not move" or "ten does not move".

In early Kuya, a crock was frozen on a smooth stone, and ten boys or girls took turns to carry it. If the stone does not fall to the ground, it indicates a bumper harvest that year.