Folk culture in hometown (not less than three kinds)

It's another year of flowers, spring grass and green grass, and another year of happy China. The customs of the Spring Festival vary from place to place, and the cultural connotation of the Spring Festival is rich. Now let me take you to feel the atmosphere of the New Year and walk into the culture of the New Year together.

"Old Beijing" who has lived in Beijing for a long time knows the saying: Laba porridge for messengers. This means that whenever it comes to the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month (also known as Laba among the people), it will be the New Year. After the "Laba", families began to be busy buying new year's goods. In addition to preparing food, I just want to buy some new clothes. Some people have to steam rice cakes and make fried food for the New Year. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, every household began to be busy. By twenty-three, there is a saying every day: twenty-three candied melons are sticky; 24 house sweeping day; 25 paste the window; Twenty-six stewed meat; Twenty-seven kill the rooster; Twenty-eight faces; Twenty-nine steamed buns; Stay up all night; Twist on the first day of the new year. From the first day to the fifth day, it is a day for visiting relatives and friends to pay New Year greetings to each other, get together, or go out to visit temple fairs. At that time, girls with red flowers in their heads, boys with windmills in their hands, and children with large strings of hawthorn and diabolos in their hands were everywhere in the streets. During the Chinese New Year, there was a scene of peace and prosperity.

The Spring Festival in northern Shaanxi is blazing, and everything is booming. People who have worked hard for a year attach joy and hope to the New Year. Every year when the twelfth lunar month comes, people get busy. Busy eating and wearing, busy washing and rinsing, all the work must be done by the aunts themselves. Push the roller to press the cake noodles, catch up with grinding bean curd, the donkey, steam yellow steamed buns, make yellow wine, roll mixed noodles, fry oil cakes, and prepare Chinese New Year's food before the year. During the Spring Festival, the whole family, old and young, inside and outside, should change into new clothes. Yangko New Year greeting is a unique custom in northern Shaanxi. During the Spring Festival, every village organizes yangko teams to pay New Year greetings from door to door, which is commonly called "along the door" here. Yangko pays New Year's greetings by first paying homage to the temple and worshiping God, praying for a good year's good weather and good harvests, and then paying New Year's greetings to every household. Every time the Yangko team went to a house, the umbrella head touched the scene and improvised and composed lyrics to bless the host. For example, "When you enter the gate and look up, the six-hole stone kiln will be exhibited in unison, and the grain will flourish and people will be safe all year round."

The Zhuang family's Spring Festival custom is very unique. They should carry out activities such as picking new water, drinking clever water, dancing lions, chickens and spring cows. Before the dawn of the New Year's Day, the peasant women of the Zhuang nationality had already gone to the river to pick up new water for the whole family. When picking fresh water, we should also choose a few stones similar to poultry to go home, and imitate the sound of six animals all the way. When I got home, I put these stones in pigsty and cowshed to pray for the prosperity of the six animals. Then boil new year's tea in new water for the whole family to drink. The strong women want to drink smart water, that is, before drawing new water, they compete to drink the clear water that is given to everyone by the recognized "smart sister-in-law" in the village. They believe that this will make them smarter, and the girl who marries is taking this opportunity to pray for finding the right husband in the new year. Dancing chickens and dancing spring cows in the west of Guangxi are unique. On the first day of New Year's Day, young people who danced chicken carried two cockfights made of wood and wooden claws and went to every household to celebrate the New Year with gongs. They sang a humorous chicken dance song, which made the main family smile. The main family pulled a few chicken feathers from chickens and put them in their cages to pray for the prosperity of the six animals. Dancing spring cattle is even more interesting. Cattle dancers perform a delicate "Spring Cattle" performance with a tie, one supporting the bull's head in front and the other bending over the back and swinging his tail in the back; Behind it, a man with a plow frame drives the "spring cow"; Surrounded by the spring cattle, there are gongs and drums, singing the songs of the spring cattle, majestic and beaming.

(Tell me about how you celebrate the New Year in your hometown, which will make the effect better)

Through the above forms of New Year's festivals, we have learned about the New Year's culture, which allows us to inherit and enjoy the traditional culture. It is not only the only channel for us to communicate with our distant ancestors, but also the testimony of our nation's long history.