The custom of Puyang Spring Festival

Kowtowing to elders on the morning of the first day of junior high school makes the new era more colorful.

Like many other places, people in Puyang County celebrate New Year's Eve, and families get together to talk about their gains in the past year and imagine their plans for the coming year. On the first morning of the Lunar New Year, whenever a rooster crows, every household will make firecrackers. Old people also get up early and sit in their rooms waiting for the younger generation to pay New Year greetings. I ate jiaozi for breakfast in the morning of the first day of junior high school. After dinner, the younger generation of this family gathered in large groups. After seeing the old man, they collectively knelt down and kowtowed to their elders to pay New Year's greetings.

On New Year's greetings, people in Puyang County have the habit of "paying homage to their father-in-law on the first, second and third days". After the fourth day of junior high school, underage relatives and friends pay New Year greetings to each other. Now, although the procedures for New Year greetings are simplified, many places still retain the habit of kowtowing to the elders by the younger generation.

The Lantern Festival in Puyang County is also very lively, and there is a folk saying that the fifteenth day of the first month is as big as a year. Grab breakfast early and eat more jiaozi, which symbolizes early planting and early harvest. After dark, every household decorated with lanterns, set off firecrackers, play with lanterns, watch lanterns, dance lions, play with dragons and set off fireworks. On the fifteenth night, noodles are made into noodles of various shapes, such as chicken, duck, goose, pig, wheat pile and so on. At night, it is placed at the gate, cowshed, pigsty, chicken coop and other places to symbolize the prosperity of six animals in the new year.

Different times, of course, the taste of the year is different. Nowadays, Puyang County has more culture in the New Year. In order to make people have a good year, Puyang County has arranged a variety of activities and carefully cooked a cultural feast full of flavor. At present, rural mass cultural activities and folk performances have begun to tour towns and villages in Puyang County to warm up for the Lunar New Year. 1 February, that is, from the eighth day of the first month of the Lunar Year of the Rat, the annual custom activities reached a climax. Solve riddles on the lanterns and folk performances will be staged at the Chenghuang Temple in Puyang County, which will bring together various activities such as opera, acrobatics and yangko. At the same time, a special performance of traditional Chinese opera was held in Puyang Cultural Square. Friends who like watching opera should not miss this opera feast.

During the Spring Festival every year, the traditional folk cultural performances of Hongqi Road and Chenghuang Temple in Puyang County are the most lively. Common folk performances, such as dragon dance, lion dance, yangko, waist drum and so on, are staged in turn, which makes the audience open their eyes and enjoy themselves, and becomes a scene of Puyang County.

Puyang county people are most proud of, or 10 thousand people eat a pot of rice together. In Houbadui Village, Wuxing Township, Puyang County, the Xianqiu Ancient Temple Fair will be held on the 18th day of the first lunar month, which has been flourishing for thousands of years. At this time, the villagers of Shili Baxiang will come to join in the fun. Every year on the twelfth day of the first month, the villagers in Houbadui Village begin to prepare. Although the latter eight teams have to pay for food every year, they have always insisted on inheriting this tradition.