Every household in rural areas should prepare a bundle of straw or dry wood on the first day of the lunar new year and light it on the fifth day of the first lunar month.

The raging fire kicked off the new year.

Changzhi was called Shangdang in ancient times.

The myths and legends that laid the foundation of Chinese civilization, such as Shennong tasting a hundred herbs, the goddess mending the sky, Houyi shooting at the sun, and Jingwei filling the sea, were born here, and they are known as the "myth capital" of China, so the folk custom of Nian here is also particularly unique.

In most rural areas of Changzhi, people get up very early on the first day of the New Year, and the first thing to do is to light the fire of the New Year.

According to legend, there was a strange bird called the nine-headed pheasant in ancient times.

Every new year, I will fly out for food everywhere.

The nine-headed pheasant's head was tattered and kept dripping blood. Where the blood drops, it will suffer.

Later, people found that the nine-headed pheasant was very afraid of fire, so they used firewood to prevent it from flying.

Over time, it has formed the custom of burning annual fire, which is of course only a folklore.

Here, every household in the countryside prepares a bundle of straw or dry wood every New Year's Day and lights it on the fifth day of the first lunar month.

The raging fire kicked off the New Year celebration.

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Other folk customs:

The name of Shanxi is named after living in the west of Taihang Mountain.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, most areas were owned by the State of Jin, so it was called "Jin" for short. In the early Warring States period, Han, Zhao and Wei were divided into Jin, so they were also called "Three Jin".

The total area of the province is156,000 square kilometers, with a total population of nearly 34 million. It has jurisdiction over 1 1 prefecture-level cities and 1 19 counties, cities and districts.

Power and prestige gongs and drums:

Magnificent gongs and drums are a kind of collective percussion performance popular in Linfen, which is named after the drummer's various brave gestures during the performance.

It is often performed in celebration of the Lunar New Year, harvest, crowds and other happy occasions.

? It is said that the majestic gongs and drums first appeared in the period of the ancient Yao emperor.

It has a history of more than 4000 years.

Every year on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, when Yao Di's two wives, E Huang and Nv Ying, visit their parents, the Yao tribe will beat gongs and drums to see them off.

When they came back, people in their village saw them off in the same way.

Since then, magnificent gongs and drums have become a custom.

Many big villages have their own gongs and drums teams.