Investigation report on folk customs of Pingjiang Spring Festival

Spring Festival The first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival. People attach great importance to the Spring Festival and there are many rules and regulations.

In the old days, the cock crowed at the first time, opened the city gate, held incense sticks, set off firecrackers and worshipped heaven and earth, which was called "going out of the sky". At present, when the New Year bell rings, many families will set off firecrackers at the door to welcome the New Year.

After the old breakfast, prepare incense paper and pay a New Year call to the ancestral memorial tablet. Then travel to worship the Buddha.

Eating noodles, pig's head and pig's tail for breakfast on the first day of dieting means a long life.

In the old days, a person paid a New Year call to the gods, family members and family members. The next day, he began to go out to pay New Year greetings to relatives and friends. There is a saying that "the first day is a baby, the second day is a husband, and the third day is a four-day visit." Don't pay New Year greetings at night. In the old days, you had to kowtow to your elders, and your peers had to hand or bow. Nowadays, people usually say "Happy New Year" orally without bowing or bowing. Most government organizations hold collective meetings during the Spring Festival (the first day of the Lunar New Year).

The entertainment period from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month is the Spring Festival, including lion dance, dragon dance, performing local flower drums (playing lanterns) and displaying lanterns. There are also door-to-door greeting cards and firecrackers with red envelopes. After liberation, cultural performances, sports performances and TV broadcasts were increased.

From the second day to the fifteenth day, please hold a spring banquet to entertain relatives and friends.

Beginning of spring, commonly known as "Spring Festival is like Chinese New Year", beginning of spring wrote "Welcome to Spring, Spring is Happy" on red paper every day, posted it at his door to prepare three sacrifices, lit incense sticks and set off firecrackers to welcome the spring. The habit of welcoming spring still exists today.

Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, is called Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival. As the saying goes, "30 nights (New Year's Eve) fire, midnight (Lantern Festival) lights". On the night of Lantern Festival, every corpse is brightly lit. The town held a lantern festival first, and dragon lanterns, fish lanterns and lanterns were dispatched together, which was very lively. Eat at midnight snack. Rolled with raw glutinous rice flour, with sugar and sesame seeds in it.

On March 3rd, there is often a saying that "shepherd's purse boiled eggs on March 3rd". Both urban and rural areas dig shepherd's purse and boil eggs on this day, which is very popular and can improve their eyesight.

Tomb-Sweeping Day Gregorian calendar is Qingming around April 5th. Around Tomb-Sweeping Day, people visited relatives' graves and put paper money in them. Today, teachers and students of our school went to the Martyrs Cemetery to sweep their graves and remember the revolutionary martyrs.

The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is called Duanjie and Pujie, and the northeast township is called Changjie, which is the second largest traditional folk festival. Cenchuan and Wukou regard this day as the little grandson, and May 15th as the big grandson, but the little grandson is still the most important. Dragon boat race, eating steamed buns, zongzi, salted duck eggs and realgar wine; Acorus calamus and mugwort leaves are hung on the door, and sachets are hung on the child.

The sixth day of the sixth lunar month is called Provincial Officials' Day. Farmers taste new rice, which is called eating new. There is also a cake made of new rice noodles to give away, which is called giving away new things. Farmers near the city wrapped a handful of new ears of rice in red paper and sent some new rice to the store in order to get rewards. The custom of eating new things still exists today.

Mid-Autumn Festival The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also called Ghost Festival among the people. Starting from the first day of July, ancestors' lists are hung, money is wrapped and incense lamps are installed. On the evening of 15, the package money was incinerated, which was called "burning the package".

Mid-Autumn Festival The 15th day of the eighth lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the "Reunion Festival", which is the third traditional folk festival. This is a Japanese family dinner. In the evening, the family sat around the yard, drinking, eating moon cakes and enjoying the moon. Before the festival, children put up a round tower with broken tiles in the yard or field. There is a couplet on the tower door that says, "Sacrifice the tower every year and do the Mid-Autumn Festival every year". The tower is decorated with cypresses and paper flowers, and the tower is noisy at night with gongs and drums. In the middle of the night, put firewood into the tower to burn. The redder the better, and then hit the tower.

Double Ninth Festival is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. On this day, many people are watching, and today is designated as the festival for the elderly. Because "99" and "99" are homophonic, which means people's health and longevity.

The 24th day of the twelfth lunar month is the Lunar New Year, which means that children will prepare some dishes to celebrate the New Year. On that day, we started cleaning, making rice cakes, frying fruits, killing pigs, making new year's goods and sending them; From that night on, every household began to install strong lights (seven-star lights in the pot, covered with baskets or sieves) until New Year's Eve, which meant that the East Chef ordered Taiyi House to go to heaven in nine days.

The thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month (the 29th day of the second lunar month) is a day other than (the evening is New Year's Eve), commonly known as the Chinese New Year, and it is the most solemn traditional festival.

The reunion dinner is mostly lunch, breakfast and dinner, and the whole family gets together for dinner. Its dishes are the most abundant. When having a family reunion dinner, if you meet unexpected guests, you must invite * * * to have dinner together, which is a good omen for the coming year. Food indispensable for reunion dinner: eat green vegetables, and be clear, auspicious and safe in the coming year; Eat beigua, that is, Pepsi; Eating fish is more than enough every year.

On New Year's Eve, the family sat around the fire, talking and laughing, and stayed up all night. This is the so-called "Shounian".

On New Year's Eve, adults give children lucky money, which is called "lucky money". Some places also give old people "lucky money".

Visiting relatives and friends on New Year's Eve is called "Resignation Year", also called "Resignation Year". There are also children holding lanterns to "bid farewell to the New Year", and their owners reward them with candy, firecrackers, candles or change. Superstitious custom

In the past, it was popular to count horoscopes, tell fortune, predict fortune, draw lots from God and ask questions about the future, marriage, Shou Yuan, wealth, good luck or bad luck. If it doesn't rain for a long time, ask God for rain; When the disease is prevalent, it is necessary to delay chanting, lock up, fight, light a candle of peace, hide the life of that year, send a plate, get lost in thought, and collect the dead; Superstitious activities such as "crossing the dead" by the dead in the Dojo are prevalent. After liberation, superstitious activities once disappeared, but in recent years they have resurfaced. taboo

Before liberation, there were many taboos among the people: on the first day of the first month, people were forbidden to say "death", "burial", "illness", "danger" and "back time", and were not allowed to borrow money, cry, collect debts, take medicine or work with money. In the exact month, it is forbidden to visit relatives on the fifth, seventh, eighth, fourteenth and twenty-third days. There is a saying, "If you don't go seven times, you won't come back eight times." "On the fifth, fourteenth and twenty-third day of the first month, don't worry about what's at home." When you are on a business trip, don't touch women when you go out for the first time. Don't lend someone else's medicine can. Borrowed someone else's sitting basket and rocking nest and didn't return it. Let someone else get it. Pregnant women are not allowed to cross cattle pottery and sheep pottery, and are not allowed to cut things at the door of pregnant women's homes. The red sedan chair carrying the bride must go back the same way; Avoid the funeral on the road; On the way, the two brides met and exchanged gifts. The red sedan chair carrying the bride must go back the same way; Avoid the funeral on the road; On the way, the two brides met and exchanged gifts. Carry the coffin up the mountain, avoid walking behind other people's homes, avoid the death of relatives outside, and enter the mourning hall when the body is transported back to the ancestral home. Avoid baking clothes on the stove, avoid splashing oil at ordinary times, and avoid mixing men and women when washing clothes. New year's day is approaching, don't let others borrow fire to get firewood, and don't speak ill of it.

After liberation, taboos were greatly reduced. But I still keep some old ideas.