What are the customs of rural festivals?

On the morning of New Year's Eve, every household is busy putting up Spring Festival couplets. If you put up couplets, you can't come to the door again if you want to pay. In addition to all the couplets at the door, we should also write all kinds of blessings and spring characters and stick them in all the corners where we can paste them: "Five Grains are abundant" should be posted in the grain store; In places such as sheepfolds and pig pens, it is necessary to post "cattle and sheep are full of columns and six livestock are prosperous"; Cowpea, etc. should be labeled as "the head of the trough is prosperous"; Bicycles should be labeled as "Wan Li on a daily trip and 8,000 at night"; Motor vehicles should be affixed with auspicious couplets such as "safe passage". As soon as the couplets were posted, the festive atmosphere of the New Year came out immediately. The task of posting Spring Festival couplets every year is on me. Because there are many yards at home, before dawn, I began to get busy, taking out the Spring Festival couplets my father bought, cutting, sorting and pasting them. I have been busy all morning.

2. Bao jiaozi eats coins and jiaozi represents a blessing.

On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, the family began to get busy, some pressed dumpling wrappers, some wrapped jiaozi, and the division of labor was very clear. In our place, jiaozi usually contains meat, sugar and coins. Here, let's talk about this coin-filled jiaozi. Because there are many people in the family, every family will pack a coin jiaozi every year, and whoever can eat it means he is blessed. Someone will definitely ask, the shape of the jiaozi of the coin is definitely different from that of ordinary jiaozi. Yes, it is different when you look closely. However, we should also know that our jiaozi rice is eaten at four o'clock in the morning of the first day of junior high school, and both parents casually put it in a big pot with spoons, so it is very bad to use a coin for jiaozi.

3. Ask Tang Jia to let his ancestors go home for the New Year.

It's time to invite a family before dark on New Year's Eve. Please come to the family hall, mainly to go to the grave, burn incense and paper, set off some firecrackers and kowtow, and invite the dead relatives home for the New Year. When inviting family members, they usually hold incense and say something like "Grandpa, Grandma, it's the New Year, now let's go home for the New Year" in front of the graves of the older generation. People who invite family members will set a table in the center of the hall with offerings (chicken, duck, fish, etc.). ) On it, there are two chairs next to it for ancestors to sit on.

In the early morning of the first day, pay New Year greetings to the elders.

On New Year's Day, parents will wake up the whole family at around four in the morning, put on new clothes, offer sacrifices to grandpa and the doorman, set off firecrackers and go to jiaozi for breakfast. After eating jiaozi, the family will go out to pay a New Year call. Generally, they will go to the nearest family home to pay New Year greetings to their elders, and then get together to pay New Year greetings to others' homes. From the village west to the village east, no matter what the surname is, as long as there are old people at home, they all worship again. All these activities were finished before dawn. When the east is red, it has already finished the year of worship.

Kowtowing is an indispensable etiquette for New Year greetings.

This custom may not exist in many places, but it has been preserved here. Go door to door and kowtow to senior people. Sometimes senior people will kneel all over the yard, and the scene is spectacular.

There are rules for kowtowing, and most of them follow the law from near to far. After kowtowing near the door, go to the other end of the village to kowtow. There is a uniform standard for kowtowing. Men generally kowtow four times in front of their elders' homes, kowtow to their elders once and knock the whole village through. Because it was still dark, I could meet many people in the street, but most of them couldn't see each other. Just listening to the familiar voice, they pay New Year greetings to each other. In the street, I only heard "Uncle, you hit your head here". Grandpa, Happy New Year "and other greetings.

The next day, I went to grandma's house to visit relatives.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the son-in-law must go to his parents-in-law's house and bring gifts. If you are a newly-married son-in-law, this gift is very particular, so you must carefully look at the choice of accompanying gifts. The nephew goes to grandma's house, and the daughter goes to her mother's house with her husband. There is a folk saying in this custom that' the first day of the first month, the second day, is a beautiful day, and the fourth and third days are a good time to pay homage'. After entering the door, bow down to the Buddha statue, ancestor statue and memorial tablet, and then bow down to the elders in turn. You can stay for dinner and play.

After the fifth day, it is essential to visit relatives and friends and drink.

From the first day to the fifteenth day (usually visiting relatives before the fifth day, because some migrant workers leave on the sixth day), people will visit relatives and friends with each other to strengthen emotional exchanges. "If you want to have deep feelings, you have to be bored", and the banquet during this period is essential. Relatives and friends can meet once a year to talk about the gains and losses in the past year and think about the work in the new year. Most of this is done on the wine table. Parents prepare food and drinks for visitors. They can only eat together once a year, and it is inevitable that they will drink too much.

In short, the custom of Chinese New Year is different in every place, and I have never spent Chinese New Year outside. But I think it's really fun to spend the New Year in the countryside. Some people think that the taste of Chinese New Year is getting weaker and weaker. If some city people can go to the countryside to feel the atmosphere of the New Year, feel the tradition of the New Year in the countryside, paste couplets, wrap jiaozi, kowtow to the New Year, and feel the simple words of the rural people, maybe there will be another experience of the New Year.