Spring Festival-Celebrating the Spring Festival, commonly known as the Chinese New Year, is a big festival in a year. Every Chinese New Year, every household is busy sweeping the floor, dusting the eaves, buying new year's goods, making new clothes, worshipping ancestors, eating New Year's Eve, visiting relatives and friends, and celebrating the New Year. During the festival, relatives and friends visit each other, commonly known as New Year greetings. Fireworks are set off at midnight on the first day of the first lunar month to welcome the New Year. Eat dumplings in the morning to make them round and sweet. And longevity noodles, which means longevity. Since the second day of junior high school, relatives and friends have visited each other to pay New Year greetings.
Lantern Festival-The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also called Lantern Festival, and it was called Shangyuan Festival in ancient times. In the old society, there were customs such as welcoming dragon lanterns, racing dragon boats and eating jiaozi. The New Year ends at the Lantern Festival.
February 2-the second day of the second lunar month, people have the habit of eating radish cakes (rice cakes). With the leftover rice cakes from the Spring Festival, fried and mixed with sugar, I have good luck: my back is stiff when I walk, but my back is hard when I work. Children compete to fly kites, and people in the village raise money to reward the gods (land gods) for fun.
March 3-the third day of the third lunar month, women pick wild vegetables and put them in. Some people say that summer is not dizzy. On March 3rd, a blessing ceremony was held in the Xin Chou Room (1720- 172 1) of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, thousands of dollars were wasted, and men and women got together for entertainment.
Long Summer Festival in April-People in the town like to sip plums, taste cherries and make wheat cakes. Children like the Long Summer Festival best, and often bring their own pots and pans to cook in the fields together, commonly known as roasted wild rice. Weighing people in the long summer is another activity. Family members weigh themselves every day. Children gain weight, parents are happy; Old people gain weight, and children and grandchildren are happy.
Dragon Boat Festival-On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, every household eats brown seeds and male soybeans. Acorus calamus and Artemisia argyi are hanging in front of the door. Write the word "Wang" on the child's forehead with realgar, and put on the five poison clothes to drive away evil spirits.
Wangdian Divide Dragon Day-Originally, as in other places, it was changed to May 2 1 day as Dragon Exhibition Day because of a fire on May 20 of a certain year, commonly known as Dragon Exhibition. During the invasion of Japan, the audience crowded the neighborhood and the scene was very lively. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), fire drills were still held on this day to check the fire fighting equipment and effectiveness.
On the sixth day of June-commonly known as dog bathing day-children don't bathe in the river, which is said to reduce diseases and increase health. Every family rummages through clothes, bedding, blankets, etc. To prevent mildew and moths.
On the seventh day of June, which is often called the Seven Clever Days, it is said that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the evening of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. This night, you can watch the phase shift of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl from Tianhe, which is a great pleasure for the villagers.
Mid-Autumn Festival-The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is commonly known as the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the past, the souls of the dead were sacrificed from 12 to 16, but few people still use it now.
July 30th-The legend of July 30th in the lunar calendar is the birth of the Tibetan King and Bodhisattva. That night, every household put incense sticks in the ground, which means inserting candles; Put the sawdust mixed with oil on the tile and light it, so as to make it fragrant; Stacking bricks into a tower and lighting incense on it is called a lighthouse; Put a paper lamp into the water, and what floats with it is called a drain lamp. There are still a few people who put candles on the ground on that day.
Mid-Autumn Festival-The full moon on August 15th of the lunar calendar is called Mid-Autumn Festival. Eat moon cakes, pumpkins and pumpkin seeds every day. Watching the moon in the middle of the night, there was a moon-watching party in Dongyue Temple in the old days. Moon cakes are also gifts for relatives and friends.
Double Ninth Festival-the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is commonly known as Double Ninth Festival. Scholars like climbing mountains, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking and reciting poems. People like to eat red beans and glutinous rice.
Winter solstice 65438+ winter solstice February 22-the day before the festival is called winter solstice night, which is dedicated to the dead with food, wine and paper. On the solstice of winter, there is a saying that you can make up for it by eating something. People who like food supplements and medicine supplements began to make up in winter.
Sending stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month ―― December 23rd of the lunar calendar is commonly known as Lunar New Year's Eve. I began to make preparations for 2008. Sweep house dust, prepare new year's goods, and burn red beans and glutinous rice in king of people. Send the kitchen god with a paper sedan chair in the red paper lake. In winter and spring, cypress branches are wrapped around hemp stalks, which means that the day is increasing. Put maltose on the mouth of Kitchen God, saying that Kitchen God should speak for the world. Now the old-fashioned wood stove has been replaced by briquette stove and gas stove, and the old custom of sending the kitchen god no longer exists.
Except at night-the last day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as New Year's Eve. Sacrificing chickens, fish, meat and rice cakes to the gods is called "celebrating the New Year in the land". Family reunion, * * * dinner, called New Year's Eve. This is a sleepless night, called Shounian. After dinner, elders give young children lucky money. That night, the shells were thrown all over the floor without sweeping.