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Yingcheng, like the whole country, is full of festive atmosphere and has its own customs. This can be realized from several folk songs about Chinese New Year in Yingcheng.

Folk cloud in the twelfth lunar month:

Twenty-one, dust; 22. fried rice;

Twenty-three, making water wine (rice wine); Twenty-four, off-year;

Twenty-five, tofu; Twenty-six, do wine and meat;

Twenty-seven, the end of the New Year's Eve; Twenty-eight, insert red wax;

Twenty-nine, everything; Thirty nights, peach blossoms wither;

On the first day of the first month, pay New Year's greetings.

I want all sesame cakes and fried rice!

The folk songs of the first month are:

The first month is right, the wheat straw is green, please ask the seventh sister to ask the year;

Go to the side, go to the side, go to the side of Seven Sisters!

Play when you come, play when you go, and play with seven sisters on a white horse;

Oolong horse, on the patio, broom horse, across the ground;

There are years and months, and the fifteenth day of the first month is noisy!

Yuan Xiao, put on the lantern, the lantern in front of the door is on all night!

After the new year, after the new year, open the back door to plow;

Father and son don't grab time, so we save our strength and rush forward.

Strive for another good year!

People have worked hard for a year, so it is rare to get together and chat at ordinary times. The first month has become the best time for relatives and friends to exchange feelings, and it is inevitable to match up acquaintances and younger generations, so there are folk songs:

Fried rice in the inner pot and sesame seeds in the outer pot;

Don't fry sesame seeds, find you a good family;

No gold, no silver,

As long as your sedan chair is carried to the door!

These folk songs, to some extent, reflect the custom of Yingcheng people to celebrate the New Year. Not superficial, I try to talk about the mistakes and omissions of Yingcheng people in the new year through a few things, please be sure to correct them.

Open-year pig

After the solstice of winter, but before the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, it is the time to open (for good luck, it is not called killing, it is called opening) the Year of the Pig. Generally speaking, pigs are fed by themselves, and large families can buy them home early for foster care. In old Yingcheng, it is a sloppy event to start raising pigs in the New Year. It is often necessary to think carefully and choose a good day. On this day, the host will invite relatives, friends, neighbors and local dignitaries to help, but in fact * * * celebrates the harvest and shares the fruits, so the scene is very lively.

Pigs are usually arranged in the afternoon. Most of the butchers in the master's degree are local strong men or young men, who are loved by everyone, can talk, and most importantly, are skilled. On this day, the butcher will not drink until the road is completed. He is afraid of making mistakes and breaking taboos. Pigs are often hungry before they are opened. When the pig came out of the pen, a strong young man quickly grabbed the pig's tail and lifted it hard, leaving the pig's two hind legs hanging in the air. Several other boys stepped forward, grabbed the pig's leg up and down, and pressed the pig firmly on the wide stool. The butcher grabbed the pig's chin with his left hand, pressed the pig's elbow hard, spat with his right hand, and then rubbed back and forth on his trouser legs, picking up a pair of feet long and all over the floor. When the pig finished barking and was breathing, a knife went straight into the pig's heart, and the pig whimpered, and blood flew out along the blade like spring water. The pig struggled even harder, and the cry came straight out of its nostrils, which was a bit dull. With the rhythmic outflow of blood, the ups and downs of the pig's stomach gradually became smaller and the sound gradually became lighter, until only the hot air came out of the nostrils and mouth, and the butcher and the boys' hands slowly loosened with confidence. In the new year, I began to raise pigs. Only when I saw a red knife and bleed profusely, would I be lucky. Then, the butcher cut a hole in the root of the pig's hind leg, then poked the pig with a slender steel bar along the pigskin from the incision, pulled out the steel bar, put his mouth to the incision, blew hard into it, and smoked it on the pig with a sliver while blowing. Soon, the pig inflated like an airbag. After the gas dissipates evenly, put the pig in a waist basin filled with boiling water and roll it. The butcher began to find fault, and it was considered unlucky to scratch the meat red or scratched. Before long, a "white fat" pig appeared in front of people.

The pig's head and tail should be completely underground. Make a small hole in the pig's scalp and insert the pig's tail on the pig's head to make a "holy house". The "charm" is used to worship the gods and ancestors, and can also be sent to the temple to pray for the children. "Shenfu" can be pickled and dried, but it can't be destroyed. It can only be eaten after the sacrifice.

After the opening of the new year's pig, the owner will send the fresh and delicious pork liver, kidney flower and gouged out large seats to the kitchen to make a sumptuous banquet for everyone to enjoy, and the butcher can also let go of the amount of drinking. To cook pigs in water and miscellaneous bones, send them to parents and elders first, then to nephews and nieces, then to neighbors, relatives and friends, or directly. If the family doesn't accept it, the host will look "angry", insist on pushing it around and leave happily until he accepts it. Finally, the owner gets clean meat and shrines.

The opening of pigs is a sign of a well-off family, but not all families eat by themselves, and they are free-range, or they are far from the market, so it is difficult to go to the market at ordinary times, so they keep all pigs for their own use. Those who want to spend money on new year's goods can sell clean meat, and some families open a pig together. Clean meat and sausages filled with clean meat should be pickled and air-dried for later use.

On the opening day of the pig, from boiling water to the butcher's call it a day, everyone present said unlucky things.

Purchase new year's goods

Entering the twelfth lunar month, every household began to do new year's goods. In the past, Yingcheng was generally processed at home or bought outside.

On the one hand, cooking new year's dishes is for your own consumption in the first month, on the other hand, it is also for entertaining relatives and friends. Yingcheng is used to eating ready-made meals three times a day before the fifth day of the first month to show that he will not suffer from cooking in the coming year. As for Chinese New Year's food, what should I do? how much is it? That depends on family, habits and tastes. Generally need bacon, salted fish, salted chicken, sausage; Beat tofu, press qianzi, thousands of pieces, and pack jiaozi; On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, it is still necessary to open halogen: halogen downwind, bow mouth, cheeks, scalp, "earning money", pork belly, heart, lung, liver, intestine, chicken, lotus root, thousand pieces and so on. It's all delicious food during the Chinese New Year holidays.

Make refreshments, dumplings and water wine (rice wine). Fried rice, melon seeds, broad beans; Make fried rice and sesame cakes, sesame leaves, cloud cakes, lotus leaves, crisp sugar and bird flowers; Fried jiaozi; Prepare water chestnut and other real estate. The rice cake is a must-have snack for the New Year, because it means "rising year by year".

Adding new clothes is an important part of making new clothes for the New Year. As long as people who can get by, adults and children should make new clothes, one is to enjoy the fruits of labor in the past year, and the other is to have a new atmosphere in the New Year, which will bring good luck for the coming year. Most people often ask tailors to do it at home, and few people take cloth to the tailor's shop to do it. Children like to celebrate the New Year. One is "a flower a year", the other is "eating meat and sugar every day", and the third is playing with fireworks.

Go out to buy, first, incense wax paper grass and firecrackers for worship, second, cigarettes, wine, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and miscellaneous things to be used in the New Year.

Association of laboratory animal breeders

Laba, called "La (Zha) Festival" in ancient times, is a grand ceremony to celebrate agricultural harvest. In the Han Dynasty, the third day after beginning of winter was regarded as "La Ri", and it was not until the Northern and Southern Dynasties that the eighth day of1February was changed to Laba Festival, and the ancient Spring Festival began on this day.

Most people will cook laba porridge on this day. There are different opinions about the origin of Laba porridge. A widely accepted legend is in memory of Sakyamuni. Legend has it that Sakyamuni felt the pain of birth and death, and was dissatisfied with the theocracy of Brahman and Brahma's creationism at that time. In order to find a way out, he resolutely gave up the throne and traveled around the world to visit famous teachers. On the eighth day of December, he fainted because of fatigue and hunger, and happened to be seen by a beautiful shepherd girl. She cooked a pot of porridge with only a little miscellaneous grains and some wild vegetables and fed him bite by bite. Sakyamuni, who had not eaten a grain of rice for many days, was rescued. After bathing in the river, * * * chanted under the bodhi tree. Suddenly, his spirit was wide open, and he was completely awake and became a Buddha. Therefore, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month became the Buddha's "Enlightenment Festival". On this day, the temple cooked porridge for the Buddha with rice, beans and fragrant fruits. Buddhist emperors also rewarded officials with Laba porridge, and gradually people also fed each other with Laba porridge, forming a custom.

Another well-known legend is that a big family raised a son who likes to relax and hates work. After his parents died, he ate nothing, and in a few years, his family was poor. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month this year, I was so hungry that I swept a little miscellaneous grains from the warehouse, picked up a few dates in the yard to cook porridge to satisfy my hunger, and carried gruel that I could see people. The son repented, repented, got up early, worked hard and gradually got better. In order to remember the past and educate future generations, it has been a long-standing custom to cook a pot of miscellaneous grains porridge every year on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

There is also a legend that Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, grazed for the landlord's family when he was young, and lived a life of insufficient food and clothing. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, he was herding sheep in the wild for one day. When he was looking for something to satisfy his hunger, he found a fat and big mouse on the edge of the field and hurriedly escaped into a hole. Zhu Yuanzhang approached the mouth of the cave and dug out all kinds of food with branches, including millet, corn, peanuts and red beans. He washed these miscellaneous grains and cooked them into porridge, which was delicious. After Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, he ordered the kitchen to make this kind of miscellaneous cereal porridge, named "Laba porridge". The chef added Gordon Euryale seed, lotus seed, osmanthus fragrans, peach kernel and jujube to the porridge, which was especially sweet and delicious. Later, this kind of porridge spread to the people and has continued to this day.

Laba porridge is made of peas, mung beans, red beans, cowpeas, rice, millet, water chestnut rice, lotus seeds, chestnuts and red dates. You can add some sugar when eating, and sprinkle some moss and HongLing on the surface for decoration when giving gifts. On the seventh day, we should do preparations such as washing dates, washing rice, soaking beans and boiling chestnuts. Cook in the middle of the night and before dawn. The eighth day will be presented in front of the Buddha and the ancestral tablets, and then presented to each other. Some people are vegetarian on Laba Festival; Some people soak laba vinegar, wash the peeled garlic cloves, put them in a jar, seal them with rice vinegar and put them in a warm place. Near New Year's Eve, garlic cloves are like jade, slightly sour, and rice vinegar has become sour and spicy, with a unique flavor.

Little?New?Year

Yingcheng's off-year is "three officials, four deaths and twenty-five", that is to say, anyone who has a scholar's fame or above will spend off-year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, while the common people will be twenty-four and the old people will die twenty-five. There is a legend about the origin of off-year: the daughter of a big family returned to her mother's house in the twelfth lunar month after getting married, and her face was haggard. She has a bad relationship with her husband. She does heavy work every day and is often punched and kicked by her husband. Her mother-in-law and aunt also abused her, treating her worse than the dog at home. This time, my daughter wants to stay with her mother for a few more days and then go back after the New Year. But this was absolutely forbidden in the old society, and the daughter who passed the door had to go to her husband's house for the New Year. The mother was in a dilemma and came up with an idea: to give her daughter a new year, set off firecrackers and give it to Xie Nian. Everything is the same as the Chinese New Year, but on a smaller scale, and the date is set at 24. Let her spend the next year, and then send her back to her in-laws' home ... Later, this habit spread, and all daughters went to their parents' home for the next year, and then went to their in-laws' home for the New Year. Now off-year has no such meaning.

The main activities on this day of off-year are offering sacrifices to stoves and raising dust.

Dusting dust, also known as "sweeping the year" and "sweeping the dust", originated from a religious ceremony of "exorcising the epidemic" in order to send the poor, get rid of diseases and pray for blessings, and evolved into a year-end cleaning over time. There is another story about this cleaning: it is said that everyone has three death. He often speaks ill of ordinary people in front of the Jade Emperor, and marks every corner of every household with cobwebs every year in an attempt to make the Jade Emperor kill everyone during the New Year. The kitchen god was very anxious when he learned that he said that every household had to clean the house to pick up the stove, otherwise he refused to enter the door. Everyone followed the instructions, cleaning the dust and dusting off the cobwebs. On New Year's Eve, the gods sent people to visit the lower world and found that the world was extremely beautiful, unlike what the three corpse gods said, the world was spared a disaster. Since then, there has been a custom of "sweeping the house with dust on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month". According to Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, this custom existed in the Yao and Shun era. "Dust" and "Chen" in Yingcheng are homophonic. Sweeping dust means sweeping away old things, which means saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. This refers to both the old dirt in the courtyard and the unhappiness encountered in the old year.

On this day of off-year, every household should raise dust. When paying attention to dust, exquisite people should move all the furniture and furnishings outside and wipe them clean. Dust and cobwebs deposited in the corner of the house for a long time should be thoroughly swept away, and old New Year pictures, door gods and couplets should be torn off. Those buildings and ancestral halls with Buddhist temples and gods of wealth should also be cleaned up.

Sacrificial stoves originated from "sacrificial stoves" and were held in summer to commemorate the pioneers who taught people to cook with fire. It is said that there was a man named Yin Zifang in the Han Dynasty. One day in the twelfth lunar month, when he was making breakfast, he suddenly saw a "kitchen god" in the sky, prayed in a hurry, and killed the antelope for sacrifice. Since then, others have become prosperous and prosperous from generation to generation, and people have followed suit and do as the Romans do.

In the past, almost every family had a kitchen god. Kitchen God is also called "Bodhisattva who directs life" or "Kitchen God directs life" and is worshipped as the protector of the family. Most of the shrines of Kitchen God are located in the north or east of the kitchen, with the idol of Kitchen God in the middle, and some people directly stick the idol on the wall. Statues can be divided into single seats and double seats. If the admirer has no spouse, only for a single statue. Most of the statues are printed with this year's calendar. On both sides, there are couplets of "God says good things, peace in the next world" and the banner is "head of the family". Kitchen God has been staying at home since last year's Eve. On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, he will report the good and evil of this family to the heaven, so that the Jade Emperor can reward and punish them. The ceremony of sending the kitchen god is called "sending the kitchen stove" or "resigning the kitchen stove", which is usually held at dusk. The family went to the kitchen first, and put incense and wax on the console table in front of the kitchen god statue, offering candy, cooked water chestnut, taro, water, beans and grass. The last three are the mounts of the kitchen king. When offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove, the sugar is melted and sealed in the mouth of the kitchen god. In this way, he can't speak ill of the jade emperor Yingcheng has the custom of "men don't Yue Bai, women don't sacrifice stoves", so the owner of the stove is the man, who bows down three times in the order of seniority. When the incense and wax were almost used up, they bowed down again, invited the statue of Kitchen God down from the shrine, burned it with paper money and filled-in photos of company life and forage, and read "Good things pass to heaven while bad things are thrown aside" while burning, and then poured cold water on the ground. Some people even set off firecrackers. The ceremony of offering sacrifices to the stove is over. Kitchen God will come back on New Year's Eve.

Don't slaughter, borrow fire or do needlework on this day.

Chuxi

The 30th night of the twelfth lunar month is New Year's Eve, which originated from the "banishment" in the pre-Qin period. The ancients drummed on the day before the New Year to expel the "ghost of plague", which was called "banishment". It is also called New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Eve. This is the last night of the year, to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and to pray for disaster relief. There are three main activities on this day: eating New Year's Eve, offering sacrifices to ancestors, putting up Spring Festival couplets, putting up door gods, putting up New Year pictures and observing the New Year.

Eating New Year's Eve is also called reunion dinner. A family sits around a table for dinner, commonly known as a stove. The ancients sat on the floor and ate around the stove. When you have a table, put the stove under it and scatter money around it to symbolize wealth.

Yingcheng people choose double dates for dinner, usually on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month. If someone in the family died that year, there would be no restriction on having dinner on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, 26th of the second year and 27th of the third year. There are two time periods for eating New Year's Eve. One is to get up in the middle of the night to eat New Year's Eve dinner until dawn. The more you eat, the brighter it is, mostly business people. Ordinary people eat New Year's Eve dinner from the afternoon until the lights are on, which is also called the brighter they eat.

Before eating the New Year's Eve dinner, we should worship God, worship the pig temple in the shrine, and put fruit, several dishes, several glasses of wine, several small bowls of rice, incense and roasted meat. The elders bowed and kowtowed in front of the shrine, and then the whole family bowed and kowtowed in turn, burned paper and slowly spilled wine on the shrine on the ground. Generally, in stables, pigsty, chicken coops and other places, incense should also be offered and burned. After worshipping God, we began to worship our ancestors. A few side dishes on the table, put bowls and chopsticks instead of chairs and stools. It is said that ancestors did not sit, so they opened a crack in the front door of their house. The elders stood by and invited their ancestors to come home for the New Year, and made a gesture of carrying people behind their backs. They put them on their seats one by one, began to pour wine, advised them to drink, and then spilled wine on the ground in turn to invite them to dinner. After dinner, lift the table, turn around, arrange the next seat, and then politely send away the ancestors and invite them to come back for the New Year next year. If you send your ancestors away, you will set off firecrackers, serve big dishes and eat New Year's Eve by yourself. During the dinner, the younger generation toasted the elder, and the elder said something encouraging to the younger generation and congratulated each other on the lucky money. Chicken, duck and fish cooked before, delicious food, this meal can be enjoyed to the fullest. New Year's Eve usually cooks a lot, because people don't cook from grade one to grade five. There are many auspicious meanings in the dishes of New Year's Eve. For example, the head of the dish means auspiciousness, the long dish means longevity, and jiaozi means reunion. If you don't finish eating the fish, the meaning of the dishes is clear and auspicious (peace and security in the coming year). The slower you eat the New Year's Eve, the better, which means longevity. After the New Year's Eve, you can put up couplets and close the door.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets is also called sticking couplets and couplets, which originated from "Taofu". According to Shan Hai Jing, a long time ago, on Dushuo Mountain in the East China Sea, the branches of a huge peach tree were arched, which was the only way for the devil to go down the mountain. The Jade Emperor ordered Shen Tu and Lei Yu to guard it here. If the devil hurts the people, he ties it up with reeds and feeds it to the tiger. During the Warring States period, in order to ward off evil spirits, people painted the statues of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on mahogany boards, or wrote the words "Shen Tu and Lei Yu" and hung them on both sides of the gate, naming them "Fu Tao", which was changed once a year during the Spring Festival. The so-called "always new peaches for old peaches". During the Qin and Han dynasties, it was a folk custom to hang peach symbols for the New Year. At the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Meng Chang, the monarch of Shu, wrote a couplet on the peach symbol: "Qing Yu is in the new year, Changchun is in the Jiajie Festival." Known as "Fu Tao Spring Festival couplets", this is the earliest Spring Festival couplets.

Writing Spring Festival couplets on red paper began in the Ming Dynasty. According to Mao Yunlou Miscellaneous Notes, Zhu Yuanzhang sent a message on New Year's Eve: "A pair of Spring Festival couplets must be added to the door of public officials or scholars." He also presented written Spring Festival couplets to ministers. Due to Zhu Yuanzhang's preference and advocacy, Spring Festival couplets are popular all over the country, handed down and gradually developed, with extremely rich contents and constantly changing specifications.

Door gods originated from peach symbols. The ancients blamed ghosts for many phenomena in nature, hoping to get the protection of "God", and painted or carved the images of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on mahogany and hung them on doors. By the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Shen Tu and Lei Yu had developed into powerful generals. Later, famous civil servants and military commanders and mythical figures appeared in history, such as Qin Qiong and Weichi Gong. According to legend, Emperor Taizong was in poor health, and he felt that there was a ghost calling outside the bedroom and the sound of throwing bricks and tiles. The next day, Emperor Taizong played with his ministers, and Qin Qiong and Weichi Gong volunteered to stay outside the palace. Sure enough, the night was safe. Emperor Taizong was overjoyed, but he thought it was too hard for them to keep vigil for a long time, so he ordered painters to draw images of two men holding weapons and hanging bows and arrows on both sides of the palace gate, and died to ward off evil spirits, which was passed down from generation to generation and played the role of the door god. Zhong Kui became a caretaker because he dreamed that GREAT GHOST caught a child when Xuanzong was ill, gouged out his eyes and ate it, calling himself Zhong Kui. After his death, he was determined to eliminate the evil spirits in the world, so Xuanzong recovered from his illness, so he ordered Wu Daozi to paint Zhong Kui as hanging in the palace gate, and he worked as a guard for a long time. With the development of history, the team of gatekeepers has been expanding. Not only have there been multi-functional gatekeepers such as "Five-child gatekeepers", "God bless the people" and "Fu Lushou", but also famous men, patriotic heroes and intelligent figures in historical novels such as Guan Yu, Guan Ping, Yue Fei,, and Yang have also become gatekeepers.

The door keeper is about 45 cm long and 35 cm wide, and one is attached to the upper third of each door. If it is a single door, you can attach the door gods such as Wenwu Bigan and Kirin pine nuts.

New Year pictures are also called door pictures, which are derived from peach symbols. New Year pictures appeared not later than the Han Dynasty, and there was a New Year picture workshop in the Tang Dynasty, but almost all the New Year pictures before the Song Dynasty were hand-painted. In the fifth year of Song Xining (1072), Wu Daozi's hand-painted portrait of Zhong Kui was collected and printed in Zhao Yong Palace in Song Shenzong, and sent to the minister. This is the earliest record of woodcut New Year pictures. The content of New Year pictures can be roughly divided into auspicious and festive categories, historical stories, operas, figures, flowers, birds, fish and insects. New Year pictures are large and small, including leaflets, four screens, comic books and so on. Near the Spring Festival, hanging some New Year pictures at home can set off the festive atmosphere of the festival.

Thirty nights without sleep, one night without sleep. "Wake up after 30 nights, and you will be full of energy all year next year". In the past, there were no radios and televisions. After dinner, adults sit by the fire, peel peanuts and melon seeds that are rarely seen at ordinary times, eat candy, play mahjong, push Pai Jiu, play cards and roll dice. Children set off firecrackers and light lanterns for fun. On New Year's Eve, Kitchen God will come to earth to celebrate the New Year with the gods. At 10 in the evening, the householder kowtowed to the gods with lighted incense, and then symbolically set off a string of firecrackers in front of the kitchen stove as a reception for the kitchen god.

On New Year's Eve, the water tank must be filled with water, which means that the financial resources are rolling in.

When entering the twelfth lunar month, people will avoid eating, saying only auspicious words and not swearing. As the saying goes, "In the twelfth lunar month, you can't talk nonsense". If the child slips away, the adults next to him will immediately say "Bah" and "Bah", saying "Children's words are too outrageous". If you break dishes and other things, the adults will say "breaking the peace" (peace for many years) and "smashing more and more".

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

The Spring Festival originated in La Worship in ancient society, that is, offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods in Shennong era, and offering sacrifices at the end of the year when all things get together and share. It's called the Spring Festival now. In ancient times, there were many names such as New Year's Day, Yuanri, Chen Yuan, Yuanshuo, Jacky, Yuan Chun, Yuan Chao, Duanri, Shuodan, Sui Dynasty, Xinzheng and Zhengri. After the Revolution of 1911, the Gregorian calendar 1 was changed to New Year's Day. 1949, the first day of the first month in the summer calendar was designated as the Spring Festival. Yingcheng often refers to the Spring Festival as "Chinese New Year" or "Year Pass".

There is also a legend about "Year". In distant ancient times, there was a monster named "Nian", which was cruel and powerful. Whenever there is a lack of food around the Spring Festival, Nian will go to the village to hurt people and animals, so people worry that Nian will be harassed every time. Slowly people found that it has three weaknesses: one is afraid of red, the other is afraid of fire, and the third is afraid of sound. So from now on, every household hangs a red board by the door, makes a fire in front of the door and beats in the village all night. Nian was finally too scared to come out. People rejoiced and prepared plenty of food to celebrate the victory. Since then, such activities will be held at this time, and over time, this cheerful festival has been formed, called "Chinese New Year". The old mahogany board evolved into red paper with auspicious words written on it. Fire turned into lanterns, and knocking turned into firecrackers.

Going out of heaven is also called "going out of heaven". In the past, when chickens crowed for the first time, they opened the door to wealth. The layman shouted, "The door of wealth is wide open, and gold and silver are rolling in." They took the whole family to place sacrifices outside the door, burn incense and paper to make a toast, kowtow to the "God of Wealth", wave whips to meet God, and pray for all the best and peace in the new year. After the Arabian Nights, the whole family went back to the house, closed the door, swept the door three times with a broom and swept the treasure into the house. In the old society, some businessmen and citizens in Chengguan refused to enter their homes after going abroad. According to their wishes, they will burn incense, pray and make wishes in Baizi Temple, Guangfu Temple, City God Temple, God of Wealth Temple and Shouning Temple. Some chengguan residents, whose hometown is in the countryside, go back to the countryside to worship their ancestors, burn incense, burn paper and set off firecrackers.

After New Year's greetings, the younger generation kowtows to their elders in turn, calling them "resignations", also known as New Year's greetings, and elders should give their children lucky money. This lucky money has a history. It is said that a long time ago, there was a monster named Chong who went door to door to touch the head of a sleeping child at midnight on New Year's Eve. The light person has a fever and headache the next day, and the heavy person becomes stupid, which makes people with children feel scared every New Year's Eve. There is a couple who have a little son in his fifties. On the thirtieth of this year, the Eight Immortals passed by, guessing that the child was going to be "rushed", so they turned it into eight copper coins, which the old couple wrapped in red paper and put on the child's pillow. In the middle of the night, "Chong" really came to the child's side. Just as he was about to reach out and touch the child's head, the pillow gave off a dazzling golden light. "Chong" scared and fled. Since then, every household has followed suit, and because of the homonym of "old" and "special", it has gradually evolved into "lucky money".

On the first day of New Year's greetings, people usually pay their respects to their parents, clans and neighbors, the next day to their uncles, the third day to their parents-in-law, and then to other relatives and friends. Adults and children generally don't bring gifts when they visit their neighbors, but every family likes others to pay New Year's greetings at home and treat them warmly with all kinds of melon and fruit snacks and rock tea. When you visit your neighbors, you won't stay in every home for a long time. This is called "Running Year". There is a saying that "it is better to leak one village than one household" in the operation year. In the old society, when visiting relatives' homes, you should bring gifts such as cigarettes, wine, snacks and fruits. In the old society, when visiting relatives' homes, you should worship the Buddha Hall first, and then the ancestors. The highest etiquette is to kneel three times in front of the shrine, and then say "Happy New Year to you" and "Congratulations on making a fortune". When your peers are worshipped, you should bow down to show "unworthiness" and accept your loved ones. New Year's greetings shall not exceed the 15th day of the first month. On New Year's Day, some Buddhists fast and eat vegetarian food, saying that it is the first day of the first month, which can replace the whole year.

New fragrance is also called "burning new fragrance" or "burning new spirit" If someone in the neighborhood or relatives died in the last year, the neighbors or relatives in the first and second days should first pay a New Year call to the deceased (called "the deceased is big"), that is, burn paper, whip and kowtow to the deceased. Then go to the deceased's home to pay a New Year call to his family, and the host will host a banquet.

Get up before dawn on the second day of the first month to meet the god of wealth. Go out and kowtow to the god of wealth first. This is called welcoming the god of wealth. Some people also send statues of the god of wealth to major shops and wealthy families, shouting "Send the god of wealth!" " People who send the God of Wealth always say something auspicious: "Gold and silver treasures are rolling in", "The left compartment is full of gold and silver vaults, and the right compartment is full of treasures", so as to earn a little money. The second is to choose "financial water". The rich families in the city are all selling water to "Caishui" to make money, and the owners should give more money to Caishui. In the evening, people took down the statue of the God of Wealth and burned it. At the same time, they also burned three sticks of incense and three stacks of paper money and tied three bows to pray for the God of Wealth to bless their families in the new year.

In the old society, people worked all the year round and seldom got together. The Spring Festival has become the best time for people to get together and talk about their feelings. Slowly, the topic is brought to children or relatives and descendants, and many young people's marriages are finalized.

Don't say unlucky things like "death" and "killing" during the Spring Festival, and don't swear; Avoid damaging the instrument; You can't do needlework from the first day to the third day, don't sweep the floor and take out the garbage, and generally don't leave the door open; Can't wash clothes; On the fifth day, no cooking, no knives. According to legend, this day is Rice's birthday. You can't talk in bed from grade one to grade five, otherwise you will be ill for more than a year.

The fifteenth day of the first month is Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival is also called Shangyuan Festival, Half Moon Festival and Lantern Festival. There are different opinions about its origin, and the most representative one is that the Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty. After the death of Emperor Liu Ying of the Han Dynasty, Lv Hou usurped power, and the Lushi family dominated the state affairs. After Lv Hou's death, Zhou Bo, Chen Ping and others eliminated the influence of Lv Hou and established Liu Heng as the emperor of China. Because the day to calm Zhu Lu is the fifteenth day of the first month, after that, every year on the fifteenth night of the first month, Wendi will go out of the palace in disguise and have fun with the people as a souvenir. The first month is January, and the ancients called the night "Xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first month is designated as the Lantern Festival. On this night, people watch lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, eat Yuanxiao and have fun with their families.

Eating Yuanxiao Yuanxiao, also known as "Tangyuan", is made of glutinous rice, or solid or stuffed with bean paste, sugar and hawthorn. It can be boiled, fried, steamed and fried. Yuanxiao originated from King Zhao of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period. On the fifteenth day of the first month of one year, King Zhao and Chu passed by the Yangtze River and saw a sweet food floating on the river. The king of Chu of Zhao asked Confucius, who said that "this duckweed fruit is also a sign of the resurrection of the Lord". King Zhao and Chu ordered people to imitate it and gradually evolved into "glutinous rice balls". Because "Tangyuan" and "Reunion" are similar in pronunciation, which symbolizes family reunion. Yingcheng people also have the custom of eating spring rolls and half moon cakes on the Lantern Festival, and there is a saying that "after eating half moon cakes, you are ready to plant crops".

Burning lanterns originated from a myth: a long time ago, a god goose fell into the world and was shot by a hunter. The Jade Emperor was very angry and decided to send heavenly soldiers to set fire to the earth on the fifteenth day of the first month. A kind fairy in the Heavenly Palace ventured into the world to tell people the sad news. So people came up with a way to hang red lights and set off fireworks in every household. When the heavenly soldiers opened the Tianmen Gate, they saw a fire on the ground. They thought it had already burned, so they went to tell the Jade Emperor that there was no need to set fire to the ground. In this way, people's lives and property have been saved. Since then, every household has decorated lanterns and set off firecrackers on the fifteenth day of the first month, which has continued to this day.

Solve riddles on the lanterns, also known as playing riddles, appeared in the Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, some busybodies wrote riddles on paper and pasted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Riddles are enlightening and interesting, and are welcomed by all walks of life, so they have been handed down.

Playing with dragon lanterns was very popular as early as the Han Dynasty. On the Lantern Festival, people hold tied dragons high in their hands to play, which means both worshiping dragons and praying for good weather and abundant crops. Dragon lanterns are divided into "single dragon playing with beads" and "double dragon playing with beads", with firecrackers, gongs and drums and suona.

Lion dance was also very popular in the Han Dynasty. Lion dance is often accompanied by gongs and drums, and the rhythm of gongs and drums is three syllables: "Peace from heaven" to show people's desire to celebrate festivals and long for peace in the world and live and work in peace. When people dance lions at home, they should set off firecrackers to drive away evil.

As time goes by, there are more and more activities for the Lantern Festival, most of which are held in Yingcheng.