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Putian new year custom

1 What are the customs of the Spring Festival in Putian? 1. Make a tail tooth.

Tooth making, also known as tooth sacrifice. This festival custom was originally a way of offering sacrifices to Puxian merchants, and later expanded into a common festival custom for Puxian people.

According to legend, there was a businessman named Laomiya in the Ming Dynasty who specialized in rice industry. As a businessman, Laomiya's management mode is different. People sell rice for profit and blindly make money. Moreover, he sells rice with small profits but quick turnover, and his business is heartless. Old rice tooth business, Xian Yi, old and young, is a beautiful talk among the people in the south of the Yangtze River. In order to commemorate and imitate him, businessmen in Puxian county go out for business on the second day of the second lunar month, and when they go home for the New Year on December 16th, they all hold a ceremony of offering sacrifices to Lao Mi's teeth, which is called tooth making or tooth offering for short, and take the second day of the second lunar month as the head tooth and the 16th of the second lunar month as the tail tooth. Later, some businessmen continued this custom and made teeth on the second and sixteenth day of each month.

In the past, on the day when Puxian people made tail teeth, large China businessmen would invite their colleagues and our partners to a banquet. One is to contact the feelings between business friends, and the other is to decide whether to stay or not. According to the usual practice, employees in our store will terminate their employment contracts after eating their tail teeth. By the second day of February of the following year, if the employees in our store are invited by the owner to be the first teeth, it will be a letter of renewal. Third, they will make sacrifices to God and blessings and seek business prosperity.

Influenced by businessmen, Puxian folks have the custom of getting their teeth done on February 16th of the lunar calendar, even if they don't run businesses. In Puxian mountain area and coastal areas, there is also the custom of making teeth for my sister. Xianyou area is called Anpoma. Sister-in-law is the baby's nanny god. Anyone with a baby at home should have their teeth done on the 2nd and 16th of every month. At dusk, prepare a small bowl of dry rice and a small dish of vegetables, commonly known as vegetable ou rice (small flower bowl for dry rice). Sacrifice to my sister in front of the bedroom, praying for her to take good care of her baby's sleep, eat normally, and grow up quickly without illness or disaster. If the baby has a smile on his face when he sleeps, it is considered to be teasing his sister, indicating that her sister is teaching the baby to smile.

Second, sweep the patrol

Putian dialect is called cleaning patrol years ago. Patrol time varies from place to place. In some areas, people from

The tail tooth (12, 16) begins, usually on1February 26th and 28th. Choose a sunny day two days in advance (two days is the auspicious number of Puxian people), as the saying goes: make up a thousand things, wash your ancestors, sweep all around, wash your ancestors. Move everything that can be moved at home outdoors, wash it first, and then let the sun dry it. Then tie branches (with leaves) indoors with bamboo poles to make a big broom and clean every room. This is called sweeping. Some areas are not restricted, from the first day of the twelfth lunar month to the end of the year. Generally, weekends and sunny days are chosen as the dates for mass sacrifices and patrols to show good luck. A tool for sweeping the floor and patrolling in rural areas is to tie a big broom with reeds, sugarcane tails and straw, stick a small piece of red paper on it, and then tie it to a bamboo pole to clean up dirt such as dust and cobwebs attached to indoor and outdoor walls, beams, floors and ceilings. Indoor cleaning, cleaning up garbage and waste; The floor tiles were washed, and the kitchen utensils, tables and chairs, beds and other furniture, bedding and mosquito nets were all washed. Conduct a comprehensive cleaning of the room by sweeping and sweeping. In some areas, the whole family eats a meal (a hodgepodge made of thread and noodles with some seasonings) after patrolling, hoping that the whole family will be safe in the new year. Sweeping the floor means cleaning up the dust and filth of the old year, welcoming the Spring Festival with a brand-new atmosphere and striding into a prosperous new year. This custom, which is beneficial to personal health and keeps the living environment clean, has been preserved by Putian people for thousands of years.

Third, on New Year's Eve, I will pay homage to heaven and earth.

Putian folks should worship heaven and earth on New Year's Eve, which is called "offering heaven and earth" or "resigning the year" in dialect.

The worship of heaven and earth by Han and ethnic minorities in China has a long history. In the face of unconquerable nature, human beings in primitive society thought that there was a master in nature, which resulted in the imaginary god of heaven and earth, and thus produced jade jade worshipping heaven and jade cong worshipping earth, which resulted in many ceremonies to worship heaven and earth. The main purpose of these ceremonies is to pray for disaster relief and stay healthy forever.

In Taoism, the highest ruler of heaven is the Jade Emperor, who has always been called heaven by the people. In the Song Dynasty, the emperor also named a land god Mother Earth. In this way, heaven and earth have their own gods. It's just that ordinary people don't understand so much, and generally only think that heaven and earth are jade emperors. It is said that every year on New Year's Eve, the Jade Emperor will visit the world, so people prepare sacrifices at this time to thank him for his protection and hope that he will bring him good luck again next year.

God is older than his ancestors, so after offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, change the position of the altar, and these sacrifices can be used to worship ancestors again. You don't need tea and wine when you worship your ancestors, but you need to add vegetables and rice, and you need to burn paper money or silver treasures and paper.

The custom of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new has continued to this day. Since the New Year's Eve, every household has been brightly lit and firecrackers have come and gone, which is really lively.