Lunar New Year's Eve: December 24th of the lunar calendar, commonly known as "New Year's Day". Late the night before yesterday, every household offered "Chef Jiu Tiandong" to Qin, commonly known as "delivering stoves". Pray for the Kitchen God to speak well in front of the Jade Emperor and bless the family. On this day of off-year, paintings of ancestors are hung in front of each ancestral hall, recording the names of ancestors in previous dynasties, or drawing portraits of ancestors. Set up a candlestick incense table, buy a tribute, and take your ancestors home for the New Year. From this day on, every household cleaned furniture, dismantled and washed bedding, swept away dust and greeted the New Year cleanly.
New Year's Eve: The proverb says, "Thirty nights are in a hurry, and the first day is free." Eating New Year's Eve and setting off firecrackers at midnight are not much different from other places.
Spring Festival: On New Year's Day, everyone dresses up and the younger generation pays a New Year call to their elders. Everyone pays New Year greetings to their ancestors in turn, and peers also congratulate each other. This day.
Pay attention to taboos, don't move knives and scissors, don't take needle and thread, don't stir-fry before cooking (don't make any noise), don't touch the broom, don't splash water outside the door, don't break cups and bowls, and don't beat and scold children. Violating taboos is considered unlucky, and there will be disasters such as breaking money and getting sick this year. Qimen County also has the custom of "calling the year". That is, on the first and second days of the first month, the oldest foreman in the village organized young people and boys to form a snake formation and shouted New Year greetings from door to door. In every household, the leader calls the name of the party who is paying New Year greetings and adds a title, or says "Pay New Year greetings to Baoting", or shouts thanks according to the title. The worshippers immediately said "thank you for coming" and asked the rich to say "you should come". Don't be ridiculous.
Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. Every household eats Yuanxiao. In the evening, we should send our ancestors back to the mountains, set tables and wine in front of their portraits, burn incense and worship, and hang lanterns in every household. Lantern Festival lanterns are the most popular in Yansi Town, Yizhou District.
February 2 nd: February 2 nd in the lunar calendar is the birthday of the land god. In ancient Huizhou, it was called "Dragon Head Up" probably because there was more and more rain in midsummer and voices could be heard, so there was this saying. In rural areas, farmers are forbidden to go to the fields and women are forbidden to do needlework on this day. On this day, it is a custom in Jixi County to cook zongzi wrapped in glutinous rice for a lifetime to worship the land god. February 2 is also the birthday of Baihua, so it is also called "Flower Festival". On this day, the literati decorated flowers, held a Wenchang meeting and competed for poetry.
The staple food is pasta, and steamed bread and cakes are eaten for lunch.
Only a few hills in Jiagou area produce rice, which is called "fragrant rice". It used to be Gong Mi.
Rice products generally only have zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. Almost only pasta is eaten during the Spring Festival. Yuanxiao is a kind of miscellaneous oil lamp, which is placed in front of the door and in the henhouse to ward off evil spirits.
On New Year's Eve (the last day of the twelfth lunar month), Suzhou posted Spring Festival couplets in the morning and was busy cooking and cooking. Dinner for family reunion is lunch, usually 12 o'clock. From evening to the first day of the Lunar New Year, jiaozi is usually the main place. On the first day of New Year's Day, the first pot of jiaozi was taken to the grave to pay homage to the ancestors, and this meal of jiaozi had to be vegetarian, and all kinds of food should be put in jiaozi soup to symbolize the prosperity of the five grains and six animals. Snacks include fried meatballs, burnt leaves (noodles, locally called "cat ears") and grasshopper legs (short flour products like grasshopper bent legs, with sugar and Jiang Mo). These snacks should be ready before the 29th of the twelfth lunar month.
New Year's Eve is not a New Year's Eve dinner (usually eating jiaozi (this custom seems unknown elsewhere), but it is also a New Year's Eve dinner, and various dishes are prepared, which is very rich. Of course, jiaozi is indispensable. On New Year's Day, I went door to door to pay New Year's greetings and went shopping in the city to go to the fair. The next day, I met my aunt, aunt and other relatives.
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