Fengyang customs and habits

Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as "China New Year", which is a traditional festival in China and the biggest festival in a year. Every household has made careful preparations, and people who work or do business in other places should rush home to reunite with their families on time. Burning incense and setting off firecrackers on this day are called "New Year" and "Spring Festival". Eat flat food in the morning of the first day (jiaozi). After dinner, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders, peers pay New Year greetings to each other, and then congratulate each other in their relatives and neighbors. The host entertained them with cigarettes, tea, melon seeds, peanuts and sweets. Neighbors, relatives and friends meet and wish each other auspicious words such as "Congratulations on getting rich" and "Happy New Year". Women don't move scissors, splash water or sweep the floor. The next morning, we ate glutinous rice balls and invited each other "New Year's wine", also known as "Spring wine". I haven't cooked fresh rice for three days since grade one. Young adults practice gongs and drums or participate in ethnic recreational activities. Don't go out on New Year's Day, and the whole family is reunited. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, married prostitutes give their parents "ten days", which is also called "padding". According to the parents' age (59 to 66 years old), jiaozi and jiaozi are included. On the way to my parents' home, throw a jiaozi through ponds, ditches and culverts, which means "short ditch" and smooth it, so that my parents can live a long life without disaster. In addition, giving a carp or a piece of pork, including "eating meat in 66" and "eating a carp in 73", still exists today. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC). The state stipulates that the Spring Festival is a legal holiday, and organs, organizations, factories and mines have three days off. During the festival, cities and rural areas also organize healthy and beneficial activities, such as collective worship, condolences to martyrs, military families, get-togethers, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, solve riddles on the lanterns, and holding ball and board competitions.

Lantern Festival The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, also known as "Chinese New Year". At night, every family eats Yuanxiao and hangs red lanterns at the door. Children and young people in suburbs and rural areas gather to light bonfires and throw them into the sky with old brooms or wooden sticks, which is called "throwing torches". As he threw a torch, he shouted, "On the fifteenth day of the first month, there was no grass in the field, and all the crops came out." "On the fifteenth day of the first month, torches are thrown in the east, melons and watermelons are thrown in the west", which is very spectacular. On this day, adults beat gongs and drums, played with lions, ran dry boats and donkeys, and Grandpa Four sat in a sedan chair on the horizontal bar and walked on stilts. Surrounded by a sea of people, people burn incense in temples from all directions, and some places go door-to-door to market, which is called "stepping on the street" and also called Lantern Festival.

February 2, the second day of the second lunar month, is the day for children to have plastic surgery. There is a popular saying that "on February 2, the dragon looks up and shaves his head at every child." In the old days, boys shaved their heads for the first time after birth, leaving a pinch of fetal hair on their foreheads or back of their heads and long braids. 12 years old, on the second day of February, the braid was shaved, and friends and relatives prepared gifts to celebrate. This practice still exists today. ?

Tomb-Sweeping Day Gregorian calendar is about April 5th in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Family members go to ancestral graves to cultivate the soil and burn paper to offer wine, which is called "cultivating the soil" and "sweeping the grave". Farmers have the custom of wearing willow in Qingming Festival. As the saying goes, "If you don't wear willow in Qingming Festival, you will become a yellow dog after death". On this day, women put willow branches in their hair, children put willow branches on their heads in a circle, and all the doors are inserted with willow branches. It is best to have a sunny day in Tomb-Sweeping Day. An agricultural proverb says, "It will be sunny in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and it will be rainy in Grain Rain. Sunning willows in Qingming and fighting with wheat. " In ancient times, Qingming Festival was also regarded as the day of spring outing, and it was called "outing". After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), government agencies, schools and people's organizations organized students and league members to visit the martyrs' cemetery and lay wreaths in memory of the martyrs. At the same time, organize spring outing activities.

Dragon Boat Festival The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanyang Festival. On this day, eat zongzi and drink realgar wine, and wipe the child's ears, nose, soles, palms and navel with realgar wine to detoxify and eliminate evil spirits. Some people hang branches such as calamus, plantain and wormwood under the eaves to dry, and then burn tea in summer to get rid of the heat. Catch toads in the Dragon Boat Festival, stuff high-quality ink blocks into the belly, air-dry under the eaves, and ground ink can cure mumps. Because it is the hardest to find a toad at noon, there is a saying that "a toad hides in the Dragon Boat Festival and escapes in an instant". Family members sew sachets and sachets for children. Tie five-color lines on children's feet and hands, which is called "playing with lines". It is said that it can "avoid disasters". On the Dragon Boat Festival, mugwort leaves are inserted on the doors of every household, and women and children wear mugwort leaves. On the Dragon Boat Festival, every family eats jiaozi. According to legend, the great poet Qu Yuan threw himself into the river and died. Later generations wrapped rice with reed leaves so as not to hurt Qu Yuan's body. This is a dragon boat race, and the gongs and drums are loud to scare away the fish and eels in the water. Fengyang's annual dragon boat races are mostly held in lin huai zhen, north of Huaihe River. Dragon boats in all towns and villages line up in the Huaihe River. There are more than 10 youths on each dragon boat, dressed in colorful costumes, wearing red scarves and holding wooden paddles for competitive competitions. The sound of gongs and drums, trumpets and cheers from the audience on both sides of the strait did not stop until the end of the game. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), there is still this activity, which is called "Dragon Boat Lotus Lantern Festival" in the evening. After 1978, it will be held once a year in the county town, with the participation of towns and villages near Huaihe River, and different dragon boat lotus lanterns will be exhibited, with an audience of 65,438+10,000.

On the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, if the weather is fine, everyone will dry clothes and paintings to get rid of dampness and prevent insects. There is a saying called "June 6th, basking in red and green".

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the mythical day when cowherd and weaver girl meet. According to legend, cowherd and weaver girl can be seen squatting in the pepper field that night. In the past, every troupe sang "Tianhe Match" on this day.

Mid-Autumn Festival The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as "Magnolia Festival" and commonly known as "Ghost Festival". Every family worships their ancestors and burns paper. In the old days, monks were invited to read yoga sutras, offering sacrifices to orphans who didn't worship, and the city god was invited to patrol to avoid the worship of wild ghosts. In the evening, the town puts lotus lanterns on the Huaihe River, which is called the "Orchid Festival". That is, the lotus lanterns are tied up with paper, screwed up with oil, thrown into the river and floated along the river, becoming an ocean of lanterns. This activity ended on the eve of the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC).

The Mid-Autumn Festival is on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. That night, every household put on record in the yard to burn incense and put on offerings such as moon cakes and fruits to worship their ancestors. The family sat around, enjoying the moon while eating and enjoying family happiness. Therefore, it is also called "Reunion Festival". In the old society, young people often stole fruits, melons, dates and other things at night, which was called "touching the autumn" and the owner could not pursue it.

On the ninth double ninth festival of the ninth lunar month, there is a saying of "climbing high to avoid disaster". In the old days, literati and others prepared wine on this day to send blessings, which meant "avoiding disaster". After the autumn harvest, the cows and donkeys can be scattered. As the saying goes, "September Double Ninth Festival, cattle and sheep are scattered". In the old society, it was also a day when long-term workers were dismissed after one year of farming. ?

Hanyi Festival is also called Ghost Festival. On the first day of October in the lunar calendar, people buried in a foreign land died, and their relatives pasted cold clothes on them and burned them at the crossroads at night, which is called "sending cold clothes". This practice has continued to this day. On this day, Fengyang people have the custom of going to the grave.

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, people eat eight kinds of mixed porridge, such as rice, noodles, vegetables and beans, which is called "Laba porridge". It is said that eating this meal can "avoid disaster". Farmers pickle meat and vegetables on this day, which will not go bad for a long time. As the saying goes, "If you eat laba rice, you will have new year's goods". Post-80s people eat less Laba porridge.

Sacrifice stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month (some families or regions have the saying "three sacrifices to the monarch and four sacrifices to the people"). It is the day to send Master Chef to the Western Heaven to report to the Jade Emperor. On this night, every household bakes sugar cakes, burns incense, shoots and kowtows, burns the "kitchen god" and prays for "God speaks well and the world will be safe", which is called "offering sacrifices to the kitchen". From this day to New Year's Eve, every family "sweeps the dust" and spends the New Year cleanly.

On New Year's Eve, the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month (the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month) is also called "Thirty". Every household should carry out a general cleaning, paste Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, window grilles and kitchen gods, and people who go out should hurry home for reunion. The debtor should pay off his debts. Fill the water tank with water. At the latest, file a case in front of the hall, display dishes, burn incense and candles, set off firecrackers, respect heaven and earth first, and worship ancestors. Eating fish at night means "there is fish (surplus) every year". After dinner, the elders enjoy the evening.