Beginning of spring: During the Spring Festival in beginning of spring, no matter day or night, every household sets off firecrackers and fireworks, which is called "receiving spring" to welcome the arrival of "Spring God".
Nine festivals: the 29th day of the first lunar month. Every family cooks nine meters of porridge for breakfast, which is called "poor nine", and there are rich tables such as chicken, duck and fish for dinner, which is called "rich", which means being poor first and then getting rich. Nine-rice porridge is made of nine kinds of rice, such as canned rice, japonica rice, glutinous rice, peanuts, beans, red dates, almonds and sugar. Rural people also have the custom of giving nine meters of porridge to their married daughters or neighbors, or letting acquaintances come home to taste nine meters of porridge.
Green picking festival: February 19 of the lunar calendar. On this day, people in rural areas have the custom of eating "Ai Ai". The collected tender leaves of wormwood are cooked and mashed, and mixed with japonica rice to make wormwood. The color is turquoise, the taste is delicious, and the fragrance is fragrant. Eat wormwood to ward off evil spirits.
Long Summer Festival: On this day of long summer, farmers have the custom of eating "Xia Nian". It is called "Xia Guo", with rice husk and bamboo shoots as stuffing and wrapped in a half-moon shape. People in the city call it "clip". Some people also use red grains to cook small bamboo shoots and pork as food.
Mid-Autumn Festival: The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is a day to worship ancestors, commonly known as "July and a half" or "Ghost Festival". In some villages, due to different customs, this festival is arranged on the first day, the seventh day, the eleventh day, the twelfth day or the fourteenth day, but all the activities are to worship ancestors.
Grave-sweeping Festival: From the first day to the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, all ethnic groups in rural areas should choose a day to gather people to worship their ancestors to sweep graves. At the end of the grave-sweeping, a banquet was held at the scene, and rice, pork, ducks and a table were eaten to worship the ancestors. Some people bring sacrifices home to attend the party.
Mid-Autumn Festival: August 15th of the lunar calendar, also known as the Reunion Festival. Married women should send moon cakes to their parents and brothers to show their reunion. On this day, families get together, eat moon cakes, enjoy the bright moon at night and celebrate the night of reunion.
Winter Festival begins: On this day, farmers eat glutinous rice, glutinous rice, or glutinous rice and white rice to celebrate the bumper harvest. Some also eat grass root soup to nourish their bodies and keep out the cold with damp heat.
Winter solstice: Every family has the custom of making small balls for breakfast. It is made of glutinous rice flour into small balls called "small dumplings". To show my son's grandchildren.