(1) People in downtown Tianjin get married in the afternoon, pick up the bride around 2 pm, have a ceremony at 4: 30 and have seats at 5: 00. But dozens of kilometers away in the suburbs of Tianjin, get married in the morning.
(2) Double happiness (_) is posted in front of married men's houses in Tianjin, and single happiness is posted in front of women's houses.
(3) There should be no aunts in the wedding procession of married women and no aunts in the wedding procession of men in Tianjin. The so-called aunt does not send, aunt does not pick up.
(4) A woman who is married and seeing her off in Tianjin must wear a scarlet letter on her head.
(5) Married women in Tianjin will invite relatives and friends to eat "four dishes of noodles" at home at noon, also called happy noodles. Actually, it's noodles with gravy. It means a long time. The so-called four Caicai yards (noodle dishes) are a plate of sweet and sour gluten, a plate of fried shrimp, a plate of scrambled eggs, shredded spinach and carrots, and bean sprouts.
(6) Don't eat rice on the first day after the bride has just passed the door, in case of making mistakes in the future.
(7) After the bride and groom worship the heavens and the earth, they should give the bride a half-cooked flat dish to win the bride's "raw" mouth color, which indicates that she will have many children and be blessed in the future.
Tianjin birthday custom
(1) Birthdays of Tianjin people are all spent in vain. There is also a saying that birthdays should be celebrated before, not after, which means that birthdays can only be celebrated in advance, not later.
(2) People in Tianjin must eat noodles on their birthdays, which is called "longevity noodles". And you can't break it when cooking noodles, saying that eating such noodles can make people live longer. Eating jiaozi the day before your birthday is called "health".
(3) In Tianjin, the 66th birthday is a big day. "On your sixty-sixth birthday, you have to eat girl meat." My daughter wants to buy meat and eat it at the door for 66 yuan, wishing her parents good health.
(4) Don't drink porridge on children's birthdays, saying that when they grow up, they will be confused.
(5) Don't eat pancakes on your birthday, for fear of turning over from now on, the future is bumpy, and the success rate of doing things is low.
Tianjin Lunar New Year Customs
(1) If you don't shave your head in the first month, your uncle will die.
(2) Pray for my nephew on the fifteenth day of the first month, and my uncle will send a lamp. "Pay attention to sending a' duck'-shaped lamp, and take its homophonic meaning of' token' to pray for my nephew. I also wish my nephew a long life. " Today, this custom has not faded, and the types of lamps are becoming more and more diverse. Goldfish lanterns and tribulus lanterns are meant to be rich and auspicious.
(3) On the 16th day of the first month, all diseases disappear. On this day, the daughters-in-law will go back to their parents' home to eliminate disasters and diseases. Tianjin people believe that when "away from all diseases", we must cross the Three Rivers and Three Bridges, and we must also "hit a nail" in order to get good luck and eliminate diseases.
(4) Tianjin people's taboo in the first month:
No matchmaker, it is said that in the first month, the matchmaker died, usually protecting the matchmaker to stay silent in the first month.
Don't buy shoes and avoid the word "shoes", but now there is a new saying that buying shoes in the first month is evil money.
(5) New Year's Eve is the last meal in a year. Be sure to leave a bowl of rice for next year after eating. Only in this way can the family prosper for more than a year.
Daily life customs in Tianjin
(1) "window to window, if you don't go to court, you will die." Tianjin people are most afraid that the door or window is facing the neighbor's door or window when building a new house or turning over a house in the yard, so there is a mother example of "door to door, net death".
(2) No matter how old a woman is in Tianjin, she should call her sister, but a man should be called "Sir Zhong", not grandpa.
(3) Don't double-buckle and avoid four or six (people don't understand four or six).
(4) Eat jiaozi and avoid counting, saying, "Count, one or five are missing". When eating pears, avoid sharing a pear. Pears are homophonic and afraid of separation.
(5) Don't send pears when giving gifts to patients.
(6) Borrow someone else's medicine pot, don't send it back, wait for someone else to take it.
(7) Don't say that you can't come back when you are away. Don't say "turn" by boat. Don't turn over pancakes on the boat. You have to say "cross over"
(8) housing, avoid letting the elderly live in the wing (east-west room), put furniture, avoid the glass door of the wardrobe facing the bed, and the mirror hanging at the door facing the neighbor. When building a house, avoid door to door and door to window, saying, "Door to door, if you don't call a doctor, you will die." Wood used as a beam should not be trampled or crossed by women.
(9) Don't sweep the floor at the door, saying that you are afraid of sweeping away the god of wealth.
(10) On New Year's Day, there are many taboos. On New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month, it is forbidden to say unlucky words such as "death", "nothing" and "little". Bao jiaozi is forbidden to say that there is little stuffing, broken stuffing and leakage.
(1 1) Don't finish the New Year's Eve dinner, it will take more than a year.
(12) Don't say "add coal" to the stove, say "add fire" and don't break the plate. If it is broken, say "broken is safe" to ward off evil spirits.
(13) Don't sweep the melon seeds all over the floor. When you say you want to crush them, you also mean to crush them safely.
(14) Tianjin people are scared by unemployment. They are afraid of buying shoes in the first month, taking a rest, buying salt and being idle.
(15) Pay attention to travelers' "long delivery and short delivery". If family or friends come back from a long journey or a long journey, they must meet them at the station or dock, which is called "seeing them off" and "picking them up".
(16) At the same time, either at home or in the restaurant. The farewell dinner is called "farewell dinner" and the welcome dinner is called "welcome" and "welcome". The staple foods arranged are noodles and jiaozi according to the difference between welcoming guests and delivering takeout food, that is, welcoming guests to eat noodles and sending them away to eat jiaozi, commonly known as "long delivery and short delivery".
(17) Pregnant women should not eat rabbit meat, otherwise the baby will have rabbit lips; You can't eat crabs either, or you will be reared upside down during childbirth.
(18) Children should not eat fry, or they will not count when they grow up.
(19) It's a beggar's habit not to knock on bowls and plates with chopsticks when eating.
(20) When you receive visiting guests at home for the first time, you can't include jiaozi. It is impolite to pinch others' mouths with this metaphor.
Clothing custom in Tianjin
(1) No matter men, women and children, the hem should avoid burrs, because it is generally believed that clothes with burrs are unlucky in the form of mourning.
(2) If the clothes are torn or the buttons are off, don't wear them to mend them, saying that they are "connected to the body, everyone is disgusting". It is generally forbidden to use even numbers for buttons on clothes, and there is a saying that "CET-4 and CET-6 don't understand" or "CET-4 and CET-6 are unsuccessful".
(3) A man's hat should not be green. People call a man whose wife is having an affair with someone else a cuckold.
(4) Avoid golden yellow or silvery white clothing. The pattern of the material should not be cranes or long words, because these are the colors and patterns of the shroud. All these taboos about clothes are just a negative preventive measure.