Winter Festival is the winter solstice among the 24 solar terms. When there is a gap in farming, a whole year will be over, so it is also called off-year. In the old winter festival, the whole family ate sweet dumplings to show their happy reunion. In addition, during the winter solstice, there are sacrifices to ancestors, eating sweet pills (eating "Winter Festival Pills" will make you one year older), and going to graves to sweep graves. (Tomb-Sweeping Day's "spring paper" and "winter paper" from winter to Sunday).
Second, fatigue?
"Tired?" Folklore originated from chaozhou people's incomparable worship of land, which led to the emergence of "Land God". The land god was called "She" by the ancients and "Land God" or "Bo Gong" by chaozhou people (it is worth mentioning that chaozhou people worships the land god in shops, houses and factories, and can also be seen in Ming Weng Teahouse).
"Old fever", a folk activity, has been passed down in Chaozhou for thousands of years.
Third, Chaoshan marriage customs?
In the old Chaoshan wedding custom, we paid more attention to "recruiting the right media". Although the customs vary from place to place, the more consistent expressions and ceremonies are: marriage proposal, engagement, hiring people, inviting guests, and welcoming relatives, commonly known as "six gifts." It is also summarized as "four rituals": writing, inviting, sending, hiring and marrying.
On the third day of their wedding, the bride will hold ceremonies such as "opening a well", "smashing rice heads" and "stirring rice". At the end of twelve days or four months, a ceremony of "mothering"-"going home" will be held. First, two "back measures", the bride comes back when cooking, and "three back measures" can spend the night at her parents' house.
Fourth, the custom of chandeliers.
From the 11th to 18th of the first month, especially the Lantern Festival, every household in Chaoshan has the custom of playing lanterns and hanging chandeliers. On the Lantern Festival, people carry lanterns, prepare paper and silver incense one after another, light them in temples in the countryside, and hang them on shrines at home and bedside, which is called "hanging happy lanterns".
5. Going out of the garden?
Going out of the garden is a unique adult ceremony in Chaoshan area. 15 (nominal age) children have to leave the garden. All families of boys and girls aged 15 should prepare three kinds of fruits (chicken, duck and pork) for their children to bid farewell to their in-laws (commonly known as in-laws) on the Mid-Autumn Festival on the seventh day of July and the fifteenth day of July in the lunar calendar, indicating that their children have grown up and can go out of the garden from now on.