The festivals in Ganzhou include China traditional festivals, religious festivals and modern legal festivals. Among these three kinds of festivals, traditional festivals can best reflect the regional characteristics and folk customs of Ganzhou. Festival etiquette often changes with the development of economy and social progress, and also influences each other with the communication between people from different regions and nationalities. Holiday diets and related terms have also changed. But there is one thing in common, that is, looking forward to a bumper harvest, praying for many blessings, eliminating disasters and avoiding evil spirits, and hoping for peace. When religious festivals are combined with folk customs and social fashion, they are also recognized, valued and participated by the people, and affect people's concepts and lives. After the founding of New China, with the advocacy of the Party and * * *, national statutory holidays were accepted by the people in the form of public celebrations. On New Year's Day, May Day, National Day and other festivals, the country has legal national holidays, supplemented by sufficient commodities, especially food supply, and gradually formed the habit of hosting family banquets, watching cultural performances, visiting relatives and friends, traveling abroad or working overtime. However, the national statutory festivals in rural areas generally do not form psychological convergence, and are influenced by factors such as farming, and there is no or little content of traditional folk customs.

In the traditional festivals of Ganzhou people, some people pray for a bumper harvest and prosperous family business in the coming year; Some offer sacrifices to ancestors, comfort them and pray for blessing; It is more related to seasons and farming. No matter which festival is attached to ancient legends or fairy tales, ordinary festivals contain rich cultural content.

People in Ganzhou have celebrated "four major festivals and eight sections" and "twenty-four dog festivals". Besides the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, there are also some special festivals and customs related to the solar terms of the lunar calendar.

On the twentieth day of the first month, every household makes pancakes or fried cakes to commemorate the goddess mending the sky, which is called "mending the sky".

On February 2, farmers are commonly known as "dragons look up". Every household presents fried noodles and eggs to the Dragon King as sacrifices, which means that during the spring thunder, all kinds of thorns rise, attracting the dragon to surrender to all kinds of insects to avoid being poisoned by evil insects. In some places, there is also a big drama, in which the dragon king is given incense at the mouth of the canal, which is called "opening the mouth of the river". Ancient folks believed that this day was the birthday of the land god, and there were various acts of worshipping God. It is also necessary to put beans, wheat and the like in a pot and fry them, which is called "explosion of longan" in order to achieve good weather all year round.

On March 3rd, an old official, a bachelor, and a common people went out for an outing in the spring, gathered in the Woods and grasslands and drank alcohol to express their feelings, which is called "outing". Now many people imitate the ancients.

Ganzhou folk proverb "being stung in the morning, but taking a plow in the afternoon." On this shocking day, people eat fried eggs, noodles and eggs, and pour some or more yellow or clear oil on cows and mix them with millet, indicating that people and animals are strong and good at plowing.

On May 13, Ganzhou people will offer sacrifices to Guan Yu on May 13th of the lunar calendar. It is generally believed that Guan Yu has supreme spiritual power, and he can "manage the imperial examinations, eliminate diseases and disasters, and ward off evil spirits until he gets rich and protects businessmen." In a word, people regard him as a responsive and omnipotent God and worship him. In the past, people began offering sacrifices on May 1 1 and ended on May 13. To sing a big drama, put paper products and offer offerings in Guandi Temple. Nowadays, it's simple. People make cakes with cool cakes and oil cakes as a souvenir, and some people worship the statue of Guan Yu as a souvenir.

June, June and June are the seasons of lush trees, lush grass, ripe wheat and sweet apricots, and they are also traditional folk summer festivals. On this day, every household turned out their clothes and bedding, exposed them to strong light and disinfected them with insect repellent. Scholars in the city are still drying books at home, and businessmen want to dry gold ingots. The folk custom of revealing the dew on June 6 in Ganzhou has also been circulating for a long time. Early in the morning, the girl and her daughter-in-law went for a walk in the field, collected Chinese herbal medicines such as wormwood leaves and wormwood, called "hundred herbs", dried them and washed them for the baby. It is said that on June 6th, I tripped over the dew and didn't get sick all year round. The sand bath of Ganzhou people on June 6th is unique. Patients with low back and leg pain go to the seaside at noon, cover their heads, bury the painful parts in the sand and bake them with hot sand in the sun to relieve their illness. This sand bath can sterilize and dispel wind and dampness. Therefore, June 6th is also called a "festive festival".

According to folklore, the seventh day of July is the day when cowherd and weaver girl meet on the bridge. On this night, women made colorful buildings, put on seven-hole needles and put melons and fruits in the yard, which was actually the ancient Women's Day. Girls and daughter-in-law compete for the moon with needles. According to folklore, the girl with a needle first married her husband, and the daughter-in-law gave birth to a son.

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