Spring Festival: the first day of the first lunar month. It's the day when chickens crow. Put on new clothes and open the door to see God. Jiaozi or dried noodles for breakfast, and Yuanxiao in a few places. Every family in Xinxian boiled eggs, called Yuanbao. After dinner, it takes a long time to say hello to neighbors and celebrate the New Year. The peak period is from the first day to the fifteenth day, after sixteen it is called old age, and it ends on the second day of February. The order of New Year greetings is that elders precede their peers. Folk people have the habit of "uncle", "uncle" and "uncle". After the fourth day of junior high school, underage relatives and friends pay New Year greetings to each other. On the third day in the south of Xinxian County, we only pay New Year greetings to our parents-in-law, not to other families. Relatives should bring gifts such as tobacco, alcohol and candy when visiting the New Year. After the New Year's greeting guests arrive, the host cooks a bowl of poached eggs to entertain them, or eats Yuanxiao around the fifteenth day of the first month and gives a banquet at noon. The new son-in-law pays New Year's greetings with generous gifts, and the father-in-law gives a big banquet, and the dishes are "with Jackie Chan". Children and grandchildren must give their elders lucky money when they pay New Year greetings. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), New Year greetings have changed. Many old habits remain in the countryside. Colleagues in urban institutions say "Happy New Year" when they go home, entertain each other with cigarettes, fruits and melon seeds, and simply say hello and leave. In recent years, large-scale collective worship activities have been organized to avoid unnecessary complexity.

Lantern Festival: The 15th day of the first month, also known as Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival. There is a folk saying that the fifteenth day of the first month is like a year. Grab breakfast early and eat more jiaozi, which symbolizes early planting and early harvest. After dark, every household lights up and sets off firecrackers. In rural areas, people will send lanterns to graves after dinner, and each of them will put a lamp in his grave. Neighbors get together to play with lanterns, watch lanterns, dance lions, play with dragons and set off fireworks. In some places, it started on the night of 13, from trial light, main light to scattered light for several days, and some even played until the second day of February. Farmers in mountainous areas make noodles into various shapes such as chicken, duck, goose, pig, cotton peach and wheat pile. At night, put them at the gate, cowshed, pigsty, chicken coop, etc. , symbolizing the prosperity of six livestock in the new year. Xinxian and Guangshan have the custom of "calling fifteen and visiting sixteen". /kloc-on the morning of 0/6, men, women and children put on new clothes and went for an outing. It is also said that the 16th day of the first month is the day when a mouse marries a woman, so people go to bed early on this day to avoid "one person quarrels with the mouse all night, and the mouse quarrels with others for a year". In recent years, Xinyang City has held lantern festivals, and some counties have also organized lantern festivals. Lights of different shapes are arranged on both sides of the street, which are colorful and compete with each other.

Tomb-Sweeping Day: Early March (around April 5th of Gregorian calendar). On that day, every family got up early and put willow branches in front of the door. Men and women also put on willow branches. There are folk sayings such as "Don't put willow branches on Qingming Festival, turn into a yellow dog after death" and "Don't wear willow on Qingming Festival, turn into a beautiful girl". People go for an outing, go for an outing, burn paper to worship in ancestral graves, weed and cultivate the soil. On this day, some clans in the rural areas of Xinxian County gathered people to worship their ancestors in the ancestral hall, which is called Qingming Festival. Nowadays, the habit of inserting willows is rare, and sweeping graves is still very popular. Students laid wreaths in the Martyrs Cemetery and held red scarves and team activities.

Dragon Boat Festival: also known as Duanyang Festival. People in western counties and cities usually take the fifth day of May as the Small Dragon Boat Festival, and the fifteenth day of May as the Big Dragon Boat Festival, and the festival activities are mainly in the Small Dragon Boat Festival. That day, at first light, we caught the toad, the red snake and the centipede, and used them to make drugs for treating toxic sores. Eat zongzi, tea eggs, oil cakes and sugar cakes in the morning. Zongzi is mainly made of glutinous rice, mixed with dates, chestnuts, beans and peanuts, mostly wrapped in bamboo leaves into triangles, and often dipped in sugar. I am used to drinking realgar wine, spreading it on my face and other exposed parts of my clothes, and sprinkling it on the ground to sterilize and repel insects. Children wear colorful silk on their arms and hang sachets and tiger essence, which is said to detoxify and ward off evil spirits. Some people drop realgar wine into children's ears to prevent them from catching the plague. "If you don't insert wormwood in the Dragon Boat Festival, you will be old after death." Insert wormwood and calamus into doors and windows, and then dry them to make moxa, which is used for moxibustion and fire. In the morning, the Yellow River, Huaihe River and other major rivers have dragon boat races as a game to send athel loren. Go deep into the garden at noon and wipe your eyes with dew as a fairy potion. It is said that it can prevent eye diseases. On this day, the fiancee went to her husband's house and the bride went back to her family. Huangchuan has a tradition of making handicrafts-"Fat Doll". "Fat dolls" have different shapes and are worn on children, symbolizing good luck. It is made of silk scraps through several processes such as drawing, cutting, laminating, assembling and painting. It is said that it originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and has been passed down to this day, and it is deeply loved by children. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it is rare to drink realgar wine, mix fragrant bags and tiger essence. Eating zongzi and picking wormwood have become the main symbols of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival: August 15th of the lunar calendar. Have dinner at noon or evening, eat glutinous rice, glutinous rice balls, etc. After dinner, the bright moon rises, which is convenient for thousands of families to enjoy the moon and talk about music in the yard and balcony. In some places, rural youth often play with fire on a moonlit night. Huaibin and other places also like to weave a whip with straw and wave it under the moon to express the joy of autumn harvest.

Off-year: Lunar calendar1February 23rd (also 24th), also known as Kitchen God Festival and Kitchen Festival, which is called "Tofu Year" by Huangchuan people. On this day, the old Qi Ming rooster is slaughtered and glutinous rice cakes, Ciba and tofu are eaten. Some also use malt and glutinous rice to cook candy for the kitchen god, so that he can "speak well in heaven and keep peace in the next world." After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the custom of offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God gradually disappeared, and some families still kept the custom of eating glutinous rice, tofu and shooting guns.

New Year's Eve: Since ancient times, New Year's Eve has been celebrated on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, but the merchant families in Changling, Guandian, He Lin and other places in Xixian County have celebrated New Year's Eve on the 24th. According to legend, the main reason is that the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, which coincides with the off-year and approaches the New Year, is the peak season for business. From morning till night, customers are crowded and businessmen are busy welcoming guests. Don't close your business for a small year: if you close your business after a small year, you will not only be complained by customers, but also suffer great economic losses. What's more, in a fiercely competitive feudal era, it is now or never, and the annual opportunity to make a fortune will certainly not be easily missed. So I delayed a day to celebrate the Lunar New Year. After a long time, the custom became universal, and the kitchen god naturally followed the custom at home without complaint. Another legend says that a well-known business leader arrived home on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month because he bought goods from other places. In order to wait for this important person, businessmen put off the Lunar New Year until the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

New Year's Eve: Lunar calendar1February 30th (29th of the smallest month), commonly known as Chinese New Year, usually coincides with the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, and is regarded as the most important festival by the people. On this day, people get up early, put on peaches and put on couplets. New Year's Eve is either noon or evening. Set up an incense table before meals, listing pig heads (or big meat), dining tables and fruits for ancestor worship. The New Year's Eve is to be the best. When eating, you should point out auspicious words in the dishes, such as eating fish and saying that fish is left, eating tofu and saying that tofu is rich, eating pig intestines and saying that intestines are often eaten, and eating pig tongues and saying "getting rich", so that it will prosper in the coming year. After dinner, the children kowtowed to their elders in turn and resigned, and their parents rewarded them with lucky money. In the evening, the family sat around the fire chatting and staying up all night. This is the so-called "guarding the old" and "guarding the fur". The next morning, the gun was fired to meet the god of wealth. Feed the livestock on New Year's Eve as a reward.