Yangzhou Custom Composition 150 words

The folk customs of the ancient city of Yangzhou are rich in local characteristics, simple and elegant, and intoxicating. Visitors to Yangzhou, if in time, may wish to do as the Romans do. If you observe the people's customs, you will have fun. The annual Lantern Festival of Weiyang Lantern Festival is called Lantern Festival. On the 13th day of the first lunar month, lights are lit, lights are turned off on the 18th, and the 15th is the climax. The traditional Weiyang Lantern Festival was held at this time. "Looking at the Jiangnan Hundred Words" said: "Yangzhou is good, and lanterns celebrate the Lantern Festival. The crimson wax is full of family banquets, the golden dragon is downtown, and the flower drums are on stilts. " Yangzhou flower-tying lantern integrates the skills of color-tying, pasting, painting and calligraphy, poetry and prose, paper-cutting, embroidery and weaving. There are many kinds of lights, such as simple and popular rabbit lights, watermelon lights, ingot lights, lotus lights, toad lights, etc ... There are complex dragon lights, boat lights, Kirin lights, birthday lights ... and Yangzhou specialty glass lights. Weiyang Lantern Festival is also combined with solve riddles on the lanterns, which is called lantern riddle. According to the customs of Yangzhou, jiaozi is eaten on the evenings of 13 and 15, and noodles are eaten on the evenings of 18. Commonly known as "put lanterns on the jiaozi, drop lights on noodles, and celebrate the New Year on the fifteenth day of the first month." On February 2 nd, the dragon looked up in February, the spring was budding, the weather was getting warmer, and spring ploughing was about to begin. Yangzhou folk custom, the married daughter takes her children back to her mother's house on the second day of February. Therefore, there is a saying in Yangzhou that "on February 2, the dragon rises, and every family brings a live monkey (grandson)". Baihua Birthday The 12th day of the second lunar month is Baihua Birthday, also called Huachao. Yangzhou is a custom. In the flower dynasty, red cloth strips are tied on the flower branches, which means hanging red, praying for beautiful scenery and blooming flowers. During the Qingming Festival in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the spring is bright, the weather is sunny, and it is pink and green. At this time, people in Yangzhou are happy to fly kites outside the city. "Looking at Jiangnan Hundred Tunes" said: "Yangzhou is good, and it is better than Japan to love Qingming. White-skinned teenagers climb willows, embroider shoes, swim on the beach and fly kites everywhere. " Yangzhou kites also enjoy a high reputation. They can be tied into octagonal, goldfish, butterfly, centipede, birthday girl and the Monkey King. Some are also equipped with rattan bows, and the wind makes a buzzing sound. I also installed small lights at night. When flying a kite, someone deliberately broke the line and let the kite drift away with the wind. This is called "unlucky". In Tomb-Sweeping Day in the past, women also liked to wear flowers on their heads. As the saying goes, "Qingming does not wear flowers, and when he dies, he becomes an old crow; Qingming does not wear willow, and it turns yellow when it dies. " Tomb-Sweeping Day is also a time to worship ancestors, sweep graves, burn candles and incense, and burn paper to kowtow. There is a saying that kowtowing is "three ghosts and four gods", that is, kowtowing is three heads and kowtowing is four heads. March 3, the third day of March, is also a traditional walking day. There is a folk saying that "shepherd's purse flowers compete for peony on March 3". Go for a walk to pick up shepherd's purse, or pack jiaozi, or pack jiaozi, which is especially delicious. In addition, March 3rd is the party day of Jiangdu Shenxian Temple. Chang Xia tried the new Xia Zhishi, and the fruits and vegetables planted in the early days were ripe. Yangzhou people, who were born and raised in Yangzhou, tasted "new" in summer, including cherries, new bamboo shoots, green broad beans, flowering radishes, shad or salted duck eggs. In addition, Yangzhou people also have the habit of calling themselves in the summer and eating mung bean cakes and tea eggs. It is said that eating tea eggs on this day can keep him from heatstroke in summer. Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of May, which is called "May Festival" in Yangzhou. A few days before May Day, every household was busy making zongzi. Zongzi is made by wrapping glutinous rice with fresh reed leaves (commonly known as Zongluo), and some are mixed with red beans, broad bean petals, red dates, bacon, fresh meat, ham and sausages. Which is better? On this day, Yangzhou people take a bath with herbal water, drink realgar wine for lunch and eat "Twelve Red", insert wormwood to ward off evil spirits, smoke with wormwood indoors and row dragon boats. There is a saying in Yangzhou that every family basks in red and green on June 6. "Red and green" refers to brightly colored clothes. This custom is no longer limited to the sixth day of June. As long as you enter the dog days, you can dry your clothes, so it is also called "sunbathing". On June 6th, Yangzhou also had the habit of eating jiaozi, saying that eating jiaozi on this day would not lead to summer. On June 19, Guanyin Society said that June 19 of the lunar calendar was the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Yangzhou Buddhist men and women went to Guanyin Mountain to burn incense, and the crowds were like a tide, which was very lively. People from four townships and eight towns also came one after another. On the way up the mountain, some particularly devout believers tied paper to their knees and knocked their heads after three steps. June 19 was a sunny day, but people began to burn incense on the first day of June and did not finish burning incense until after June 20. On the seventh day of July, it is said that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met. Yangzhou people have the custom of seeing clever clouds on the seventh day of July and threading needles under the moon. In the past, children born on the seventh day of July were usually named Qiao. The Mid-Autumn Festival is here. In addition to all kinds of moon cakes on the market, Yangzhou people also pack sesame cakes at home. In the past, there was a custom of enjoying the moon with moon cakes, water chestnuts and lotus roots. It is said that the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is the day when Sakyamuni attained enlightenment. On this day, Buddhists cook porridge for the Buddha with rice and fruits and vegetables, which is called "Laba porridge". Later, rumors of eating porridge spread to the people. On this day, every household in Yangzhou eats Laba porridge. In the old days, in addition to offering porridge to the Buddha, major monasteries in Yangzhou also offered porridge to the masses, saying that eating this porridge would protect the Buddha. Folk cooking Laba porridge, pay attention to using longan meat, candied dates, peanuts, lotus seeds, tremella, ginkgo, chestnuts and so on mixed in glutinous rice to cook. The master who sent the stove to heaven in Yangzhou called the god in charge of the stove "the owner of the stove". It is said that the stove mainly went to the Heavenly Palace to report human feelings on the 24th night of the twelfth lunar month. So on this night, every household posted couplets next to the kitchen niche, and God said good things to bring peace to the world. In front of the kitchen, they offered kitchen candy (pagoda-shaped caramel) and kitchen rice (sugar rice), and said some compliments to make the kitchen owner eat sweetly and gnash his teeth, and said good things before God to bless the whole family. After the stove was delivered, the whole family sat down to eat glutinous rice, and they both liked and disliked it. If someone at home is not at home, give him a pair of chopsticks and a bowl of rice, which means that the whole family is very happy. Some newlyweds want a son, and they will put an extra pair of chopsticks and a bowl of rice as a good omen. There is also a saying that "officials, three people and four people", that is, in the twelfth lunar month, officials send stoves, and in the twelfth lunar month, people send stoves. On the day of sending the stove, it is still the traditional cleaning day, commonly known as "dust removal", and the so-called "rich and poor, cleaning for the New Year". Yangzhou people call the Spring Festival "China New Year". On New Year's Eve, every family eats a reunion dinner and drinks birthday wine. Besides fish, there are several dishes symbolizing good luck on the dining table. For example, pea seedlings (called Antou in Yangzhou) symbolize peace, water celery symbolizes diligence and passepartout, and boiled silver carp symbolizes more than a year. I didn't move chopsticks that day, and I didn't eat until the fifteenth day of the first month. On the first morning, firecrackers were first set off to show that the door was open. Eating sugar tea or lotus seed and red jujube soup for breakfast symbolizes family harmony and sweet life, and then eating jiaozi (also known as Big Yuanbao) wrapped in glutinous rice flour symbolizes the whole year. After that, I dressed up and went to various places to pay New Year's greetings. Usually relatives, uncles, uncles, etc. The second day of junior high school should start with the New Year. Married women will go back to their parents' homes to pay New Year greetings on the second day, and their husbands and mothers will be unhappy if they don't go on the second day. It is disrespectful to go in the morning and pay a New Year call to your elders in the afternoon. It's not too late to pay New Year greetings to friends in cold summer. Entertain New Year guests with peanuts, melon seeds, sweets, persimmons, cloud cakes, dates and oranges. The elders will also give the younger generation "lucky money". I don't know if there are any specific customs restrictions, but I gave them to you anyway. If you think the scope is large, I can help you narrow it down.