Cao is located in the southern edge of Huanghuai River Basin and the northern edge of Jianghuai River Basin, which is the transitional zone between the north and south of China and the north and south of China. This dialect belongs to the northern dialect, and at the same time, it incorporates some elements of Wu Chu dialect. Generally speaking, Lin dialect is a sub-dialect of northern dialect, which is divided into two parts. One is that the northern dialect near Huangchuan and Xixian has a strong flavor, and the Henan Mandarin is spoken by Xudian people. Second, residents near Guangshan in the south speak southern accent, which is very close to Guangshan dialect and Hubei Guangshui dialect. It belongs to a kind of Jianghuai Mandarin.

The people here are hospitable, friendly and generous, simple in folk customs and charitable.

traditional festival

During the Spring Festival, the festival falls on the first day of the first lunar month, and people pay more New Year greetings to their elders than during the Spring Festival.

I got up early this morning, finished washing (don't pour the washing water on the ground this day, put it in a container that can hold water, and pour it out the next day), began to eat jiaozi, finished eating jiaozi, and began to pay New Year greetings to people in the same village, going door to door. First of all, men and unmarried adults and children in the village pay New Year greetings, while women receive visitors at home. It is generally led by elders of different generations. First, start to pay New Year greetings to your closest blood-related elders, and then slowly pay New Year greetings to those who are not close.

When men and children come back, housewives can go out to pay New Year greetings. Like men, they also pay New Year greetings to their elders first, and then the women who are related by blood will pay New Year greetings to the people in the same village under the leadership of an older woman with the highest seniority. In fact, it is equivalent to visiting. This series of New Year greetings is over, and the whole morning is basically over. There are 12 and 10: 30. Everyone holds peanuts, melon seeds, sweets, fruits, cigarettes, etc. to receive people from the same village who come to visit the New Year.

On New Year's Day, relatives are generally not given New Year greetings, unless you have something very urgent to do. michel platini is usually the first day to pay New Year greetings. At the same time, you can't wash your feet this night.

Lantern Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the first lunar month, also known as Lantern Festival. This place has paid special attention to this since ancient times, so there is a saying that fifteen is as big as one year. People are used to having lunch when it is not dark. Eating a meal marks a festival, so there is a custom of "fifteen days early and being old". People in the society celebrate the Lantern Festival on the same night by hanging lanterns in front of the door. Fireworks are set off in big towns, lantern shows are held, dragons and lions are danced, and children in remote villages get together to play with lanterns. For three days in a row, they often played late into the night. Starting from the 16th day of the first month, women married from other villages will return to their parents' home to pay New Year greetings.

In addition, this day is also the most important ancestor worship day in a year. In the afternoon, the men in the family will go to the cemetery to burn paper money for the deceased ancestors, and at night they will go to the cemetery to "send lights", that is, they will light candles with lanterns, so that the candles can't be extinguished casually. It's best to keep the lanterns lit until the next morning, but because of the cold and windy weather, few lanterns in the cemetery can stay lit until the next day, and candles are not so durable. This is not so much a Lantern Festival as a fireworks festival. Throughout the year, the most fireworks are set off on this day, and the brightest at night. In addition to the lights in every household's room burning all night, there are patches of lights in the graveyard, and fireworks are set off from time to time in the graveyard and the village. On the road, children were laughing and playing with lanterns. This day is the most lively day for ordinary people.

In Tomb-Sweeping Day, this festival is at the beginning of March in the lunar calendar and around April 5 in the solar calendar. It's the day to sweep graves and worship ancestors, and it's also the spring ploughing season. Soak rice seeds in rice planting areas and raise seedlings. The custom of inserting a few tender willow branches at the door of every household and wearing a wicker head ring.

Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, is also called Dragon Boat Festival. The significance of Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. It means that every household wraps triangular zongzi with glutinous rice and bamboo trousers leaves and inserts wormwood at the door.

Valentine's Day in China falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Legend has it that the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet is the night when the girls look at the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and secretly make wishes and pray, hoping to be worthy of their ideal partner. It is said that at midnight this night, if you can hear the conversation between the cowherd and the weaver girl under the grape tree.

The Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th of the lunar calendar is exactly half that of Sanqiu. This is a good opportunity to enjoy the moon, because the golden wind is refreshing, the fruits and vegetables are ripe, the osmanthus fragrance is fragrant, and the autumn cashier is everywhere. This festival originated from traditional habits, and it is used to celebrate the harvest of hard work in the past year.

Double Ninth Festival, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, was celebrated in ancient times in the form of climbing mountains, sprinkling dogwood, brewing chrysanthemum wine, making cake sacrifices and confessing women.

Laba Festival, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, everyone cooks Laba porridge (cooked with glutinous rice, red dates, lotus seeds, beans and sugar). Laba is another good day to get married. In Cao, almost no one celebrates this festival, and it has gradually faded.

Off-year, the festival is on December 23 of the lunar calendar. Off-year is mainly to worship the kitchen god and see him off. According to folk custom, Kitchen God is a small god sent by heaven to preside over every household. Every year, he returned to heaven on the night of the second year, reported the situation of the people to the Jade Emperor, and received the order of the second year to return home on the night of the second year. Every household kills Qi Ming's husband's chicken every day, rides a horse for the kitchen god, replaces a new kitchen god's calendar, and burns the old one, which means to welcome a happy New Year, make rice candy, and set the table, so that the kitchen god can "speak well in heaven and keep peace". It's getting dark, incense and paper are burned, firecrackers are ringing, and the kitchen god is sent to heaven. Send away the kitchen god and bring the family to the table to celebrate the New Year. On New Year's Eve, it is essential to burn incense and set off firecrackers to welcome the Kitchen God, which is highly valued by ordinary people.

New Year's Day falls on1February 30th (or 29th) of the lunar calendar, also known as New Year's Eve. China New Year is the biggest festival of the year. When we enter the twelfth lunar month, we begin to prepare food and clothing for the New Year. This is called "handling new year's goods" and cleaning the inside and outside, which means "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new". Spring Festival couplets are usually posted in the afternoon before New Year's Day.

Weddings and funerals

Generally speaking, no matter whether you get married or someone at home is gone, you usually have to hold a three-day banquet to show your grandeur.