The Spring Festival, known as the Spring Festival, has been the most important festival since ancient times. Starting from the "creation" of the twelfth lunar month, it is also called "celebrating the coming year". There is a saying in "Habitat" that "the words of the monarch are three, and the words of the people are four" (that is, "Ci Zao" is divided into 23 and 24 of the twelfth lunar month). Before dinner, every household provides candy, fruit and paper incense, and asks the kitchen god to "speak well from heaven and return to the palace for good luck". On New Year's Eve, you should get up early to pick up the kitchen god, burn bean stalks and wheat stalks at the gate, set off firecrackers to greet the kitchen god, and then clean the courtyard, set up a table incense (inserting bamboo in the south) and prepare to burn incense. In the morning, we put up couplets and sign house numbers, and invite "family hall" in the evening, which means inviting the deceased elders and gods to go home for the New Year. From midnight to the early morning of the first day of the first month, it is the climax of "sending paper horses" to set off firecrackers to celebrate the New Year. At dawn, men, women and children of the same ethnic group put on new clothes, happily worshipped their ancestors at home and in the ancestral temple, and then went to the old people's home to pay New Year greetings. The time to visit relatives and friends is after the second and third day of junior high school. On the second day of the second lunar month, newlyweds will visit the woman's home to pay New Year greetings. The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is "Wumu Day". On this day, we don't go to visit relatives and friends, carry water, grind mortar, collect firewood, start work, and have fun all day. On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, also known as the "Seven Days of Man", all the facilities for celebrating China New Year were demolished after the shed was torn down and paper and incense were burned. On that day, the garbage cleared in the yard and the sundries cleared in the shed of heaven and earth were all set on fire.
Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Festival or Shangyuan Festival. In the old city and commercial port, from the evening of 13 to 16, all kinds of colored lights representing industry types were placed in front of the door, and fireworks, dragon lanterns, dry boats, lion dances, stilts, ball games and martial arts were performed along the street, and people took to the streets to entertain themselves. Most families carve lanterns with radishes and carrots and paint them with vegetable oil to light them up. First, send lanterns, that is, go to Zulin, send lanterns to ancestors, put a lantern in front of each grave, and send lanterns to Jingya, Wangya and traffic arteries for peace; Second, light a lamp at home and bake it indoors, in the yard, in the corner, in people's ears, eyes, mouth and nose. When the oil runs out, observe snuff and predict the annual rainfall or the harvest of a certain crop. If the weather is calm and sunny that night, it will be considered as a bumper year. In recent years, in order to enrich the traditional cultural life, the county organized a lantern festival near Wenxin Square from the 12th to 16th of the first month, and enterprises and institutions in various towns and counties responded positively, adopting a combination of modernity and tradition to arrange lamps representing the characteristics of the industry. The lanterns with different shapes, unique shapes and distinctive features attracted tens of thousands of people to watch them.
February 2, the second day of the second lunar month, is called "the birthday of the earth god". Early this morning, every household used a dustpan to hold plant ash and beat the ashes around the house with a toon stick. This is called a dustpan, which means to prevent poisonous insects and wild animals from entering the house and block bad luck. Every household has the habit of frying sugar beans for the land god. Farmers believe that another meaning of this festival is "the dragon rises on February 2", which means that everything will recover from now on, and the spring rain is falling, which symbolizes that farming is about to begin, so it is necessary to prepare for sowing in time.
Tomb-Sweeping Day (Cold Food Festival), the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day, is called "Cold Food Festival", which is known as "150 cold foods in winter, and every family makes sacrifices to their ancestors to add grave soil". Early in the morning in Tomb-Sweeping Day, there are cypress branches and wickers at the door of every household, so you must eat eggs and spinach for breakfast. It is said that eating eggs and spinach will not cause eye diseases. Some boiled eggs with cypress branches, indicating that the eyes are bright and the fire is weak. Every family eats jiaozi at noon or afternoon. Around the festival, both cities and rural areas have the habit of hiking and flying kites.
Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival. In the early morning of the festival, moxa sticks are inserted in front of each house, and eggs are boiled with Japanese duck grass and plantain, which is said to prevent fire and disease. Villagers, rural women and urban aristocratic ladies all sew purses for their relatives and children and tie them on buttons with red lines, which also avoids the custom of exorcising evil spirits and is also a gift for young men and women.
The Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is called Ghost Festival in the gathering plains and Nanxiang. Whenever this day, I worship my ancestors and go to the grave.
Mid-Autumn Festival, the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Every year, this festival will exchange moon cakes and become a festival to celebrate family reunion and enjoy the moon. Firecrackers and fireworks have been added in recent years.
Double Ninth Festival, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Double Ninth Festival, also known as "Old People's Day". Judy's folk customs are simple, and she has a good fashion of respecting the old and loving the young since ancient times.
The Winter Leisure Festival (winter solstice) is the end of a busy day in rural Sanqiu, and every household goes to visit the grave to worship their ancestors.
Marriage custom: Men and women should obey their parents' orders and matchmakers' words, which is an ancient custom in the county. Marriage customs generally have the following procedures:
The proposal or matchmaker is submitted to the matchmaker by a man or a woman, or just introduced by the matchmaker. The parents of both sides get to know each other, and after the fortune teller checks the zodiac signs of both sides, the marriage certificate can be exchanged, or called "Chuanqi", that is, for life. Before the engagement, it was arranged by parents, and men and women were not allowed to meet each other, so they resigned themselves to fate. Therefore, there is a saying that "it is not a good woman to marry when you meet, but to beg when you don't meet, to marry a chicken with a chicken, and to marry a dog with a dog".
Date of issue, according to the fate of both men and women, check the wedding date. Then the man's matchmaker and others will inform the woman, through the form of posts, the birthday and wedding time of men and women, the bride's crown, the orientation of getting on and off the sedan chair, the zodiac signs of men and women accompanying guests, etc. , and exchange gifts or cash. The post is in duplicate, with each party holding one point. Then the couple told their relatives to prepare for the wedding. In the wedding ceremony, the man called it "helping the rice" or "sending the big rice", and the woman called it "filling the cabinet and filling the box".
Marriage is also called taking a wife. Two days before the wedding, the man asked someone to bring a food box with fish and other gifts, and the top of the box should be filled with chicken or goose. This is called "makeup" and "top". Please get married on time in order to show that the wedding date has arrived. On the wedding day, the man posted couplets and double happiness, decorated the new house and invited the chef to give a banquet, which was very lively. It is a custom for the bride to get married as soon as possible. Generally, two men and two women are seen off, which is called "big guests". After marriage, men and women were greeted by drivers and guests, and when they got off the sedan chair, they began to "red" and "cross the door". The wedding was presided over by the master of ceremonies, who entered the bridal chamber immediately after the ceremony, and then touched chestnuts and dates (meaning to have a baby early) to beg for candy and cigarettes. That night was the peak to amuse the bride and groom. The next morning, the bride went to visit her in-laws, and then opened the cupboard to take snacks and sweets to her neighbors. On the third day, the newlyweds went to the grave to worship their ancestors, and the wedding period basically ended.