What are your unique habits for the New Year?

Here, I would like to share with you a unique custom of burning the ceiling in our hometown!

First of all, I want to make it clear that my hometown is Minqin County. In the northeast of Gansu, it is a typical agricultural county in the north!

(Slag pixels taken by mobile phone last year! )

The general idea of Polygonum hydropiper canopy custom in Minqin County, my hometown is:

1, lighting an open flame before dawn indicates that the days of the coming year will be prosperous early!

2, sacrifice to the god of wealth!

3. Burn a fire and pray for all people's lives, people and six animals!

4. Please invite the God of Wealth to his home!

Evolution of the customs of Polygonum hydropiper shed in Minqin County, hometown;

1, the time when the traditional custom burns the canopy:

Before five o'clock in the morning. I remember that when I was a child, the happiest and hardest part of the Spring Festival was getting up early to burn the ceiling, but the custom of burning the ceiling paid attention to getting up early. Whose canopy burns early, whose canopy is prosperous, indicates whose popularity is good and whose canopy is prosperous! So usually at four o'clock, my parents will wake me up to get ready. Winter is a hot bed. Leave in one word: difficult!

I remember one year in high school, when we went to burn the ceiling because we slept for a while, most people had already started to burn the ceiling and set off firecrackers! My mother nagged me for a month because I was so late!

2. Location of traditional custom meteor canopy:

Before going to the canopy, the oldest people in the family usually go to their cowshed to see the direction of the cow's head. It is said that the direction of tauren is the direction of the god of wealth! God knows, how do cows know where God of Wealth lives! )

3. The process of burning the traditional custom of the canopy:

Bring wheat straw, firewood, and some paper, meat, fruit and other sacrifices to the god of wealth to sit and sacrifice to a relatively open place in the direction of the god of wealth, light a fire and burn the ceiling!

There is usually only one fire, but now in the city, because there are many people, there are many fires, but the number of fires is generally odd! )

When the fire reaches its peak (the peak certainly represents Wangwang, Wangwang's wealth, Wangwang's popularity, and Wangwang's harvest year! ), generally set off fireworks and firecrackers, place sacrifices, and step on the fire clockwise and counterclockwise around the fire!

It's a bit like a pot dance! In the process of stepping on the fire, there is still a whole paragraph of lyrics, but it seems that my father sang it when he was very young and has never heard it since!

Finally, jump into the fire! Everyone will jump over the fire from different directions. I still remember the lyrics of this paragraph, and now the sky is singing:

East wins, west wins, flocks of cattle and sheep, herds of mules and horses!

Why did you jump into the fire? Of course, I hope that with the help of the fire of Want Want, I can get rid of the bad luck of my whole body and let myself see that all diseases are not born and my popularity is more prosperous!

(See the small cup in Uncle's hand? There is sacrificial meat in that one! And it must be beef and mutton, and pork can't be used for sacrifice! That sister-in-law still has a red envelope in her hand The red envelope of my hometown was also issued at this time, indicating that everything is fine! )

After the meteor shower, when you go home, everyone will take an unfinished firewood (wealth) to represent the god of wealth! When you get home, you must put the firewood in the fire hole on the stove!

In a word, burning the canopy in my hometown is a popular folk blessing activity, which is unlucky, praying for peace and wishing wealth!