The Spring Festival is the most important festival of the year in Chinese.
During the New Year, various customs have appeared,
Full of strong "Year" flavor.
Today, Xiaobian takes you to relive it together
We Zhoushan people's New Year customs!
Spring Festival customs
Begging heads
On the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, the children also get up very early. Dressed in new clothes, with cloth around their waists and pockets of the pressed money given by their parents, they happily went to every household to pay their respects.
Eat rice cakes
The breakfast on the first day of the first lunar month is generally vegetarian, with rice cakes and tangyuan as the main food, which means that the year is high and the reunion is round. There are soup rice cakes with brown sugar, commonly known as "rising tank soup", there are also soup rice cakes that add pulp boards (sake brewing), and there are also the habits of eating pulp board rice balls, including "year", "high", "sugar" and other auspicious words, hoping that life is as sweet as sugar, higher and higher every year, and better and better every year.
Worship the head of the grave
On the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, we must go up the mountain to pay homage to the ancestors' graves, commonly known as "worshiping the head of the grave".
Relatives go up the mountain to the grave of the ancestors to pay homage, need to carry a hoe, bring good offerings, offerings are mostly fruits, pastries, and when they are placed at the grave, they can pray. After the sacrifice, sprinkle soil on the grave head and clean the weeds around the grave.
Bye bye
Zhoushan old custom, the first day of the first month of the new month does not worship the year, the first two days of the first month of the first month began to go to the home of relatives and friends to worship the New Year.
Order of worship: first pay homage to grandparents, grandparents, and then to uncles, aunts, aunts, and uncles. In short, it depends on the size of the generation and the relationship between relatives and relatives. After the fifth day of the first lunar month, visiting relatives and friends gradually becomes sparse, and the Lantern Festival will end at the latest.
Please Fortuna
The god of wealth is relatively busy during the Spring Festival, and it is necessary to run twice in a row from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month. Legend has it that the fifth day of the first lunar month is the birthday of the Bodhisattva, the god of wealth, so on this day, people get up very early and invite them to worship the god of wealth. Offerings to the god of wealth, the table is made of eight immortals, the sacrifice is meat, fish, cakes, fruits, etc., with "three teas and six cups (wine) wine to deliver three tours" ceremony.
The fifth day of the first year is closed
Rest until the fifth day of the first month of the first month, farmers began to work in the fields, shops opened for business, commonly known as the "first five holidays".
Burn ten temples walk ten bridges
On the tenth and fifteenth day of the first lunar month, elderly women enter the temple in groups to burn incense and pray together. On the fourteenth day of the first month, he went to the bridges to bow down and put incense candles on the side of the bridge. The temple or bridge to be worshiped will be full of ten places, commonly known as "burning ten temples and walking ten bridges".
Make soup rice
On the thirteenth day of the first month, the general family should do "lantern soup rice" to sacrifice the deceased ancestors; on the eighteenth day of the first month, then make "falling lantern soup rice".
Carrying "Sangu"
On the night of the fourteenth day of the first month, in various parts of Zhoushan, the "three gu" (that is, the bucket, the water tank, and the well pond girl) were raised. The "three sisters" must be carried by unmarried girls, and order incense and vegetarian dishes, rice, tea, etc. to be offered, and after being carried, the door is closed, and two girls are selected to carry the basket, and the half-osteoporosis needle is drawn on the sand table. After the end, the "girl" is sent back to the original place.
Vegetable rice porridge
On the fourteenth day of the first month, every household cooks "vegetable rice porridge". Porridge not only contains rice, but also adds vegetables, dates, meat pieces, tofu, peanuts and other ten or more kinds of food, which means auspicious and perfect.
Simmer the snake's head
On the night of the fourteenth day of the first month, it is also necessary to simmer rice cakes in the fire pot and eat them. Simmered rice cake is called "simmered snake head". Legend has it that after eating it, the snake will not be stepped on this year, and there will be no fire in the house.
Eat tangyuan
Eat soup dumplings on the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month.
In addition to these,
Old bottom Zhoushan people also have new year's
The four major preserved folk art programs
1. Do temple drama
During the Spring Festival, some people pay for drama classes to come to the local monasteries and temples to do temple plays, because the temple stage is facing the bodhisattva gods enshrined in the main hall, so it is also called "bodhisattva drama".
2. Lantern festival
At this time, every household should make small fish lamps, shrimp lamps, crab lamps, flower basket lamps, etc.; large households or temples should make large and medium-sized horse lamps, boat lamps, dragon lamps, etc.; shops, fishing houses, associations, etc. also hang colored lanterns high at the door.
During the thirteenth day of the first month, temples place offerings such as meat dishes, vegetarian dishes, cakes, and fruits in front of the idols. At night, residents light candles with various flower lanterns, line up to local temples to gather, and worship and pray in front of the idols to dispel disasters and blessings.
At this time, the temple also puts out the antiques, calligraphy and paintings, cultural relics, jewelry and other utensils collected for the gods, and works all night, with the fourteenth day of the first month as the most prosperous. The Dongguan Temple and the Inner and Outer Taibao Temples in Dinghai District must open the rooms of Niangniang and Bodhisattva for people to visit.
3. Guess the riddle
"Guessing the Riddle", also known as "Riddle", is an activity of the Lantern Festival.
4. Lantern Festival
The traditional Lantern Festival not only has a lantern exhibition, but also a variety of literary and artistic performances, commonly known as "Lantern Festival".
When you go out, the first is a variety of exquisite lantern parades, which are danced by special people; followed by various programs, such as dragon dances, lion dances, dry boat running, stilt walking, horse lantern dances and so on.
Looking at it this way, is the new year's flavor very strong?
But you know what,
There are also various taboos and exquisiteness during the New Year!
Taboos during the New Year
"You can't use a broom on the first day of the first lunar month
You can't use a broom on the first day of the first lunar month, otherwise it will sweep away your luck and ruin your money. If you have to sweep the floor, you must sweep from the outside to the inside.
"Return to my mother's house on the second day of the first lunar month."
On this day, the married daughter returns to her mother's house and asks her husband to accompany her, so it is commonly known as "Greeting the Son-in-Law Day". But you have to rush back to your in-laws' house before dinner. In the past, families would also choose this day to take a family portrait.
"New Year's Day 3 RedGu Day
The third day of the first lunar month, also known as the Red Dog Day, is homophonous with "Red Mouth", usually does not go out to worship the New Year, and it is said that this day is easy to quarrel with people. However, this custom has long been outdated, because people now rarely reunite during the Spring Festival, which has been much downplayed.
"The fourth day of the first lunar month is dedicated to the god of wealth."
In the past, the boss wanted to "fire someone", so he did not invite him to worship God on this day, and the other party knew it and cleaned up after himself.
"Catch up with the five poor" on the fifth day of the first lunar month
The fifth day of the first lunar month is commonly known as breaking the fifth, and it is necessary to "catch up with the five povertys", including "intellectual poverty, poor learning, poor literature, poor life, and poor friends". People rose at dawn, set off firecrackers, and cleaned up. Firecrackers are placed from the inside out, and as they are released, they go outside the door. It said it was to blast out all the unlucky things.
"Send the poor ghost on the sixth day of the first lunar month."
On the sixth day of the first lunar month, shops and restaurants officially opened for business, and firecrackers were to be set off, no less than the situation of Chinese New Year's Eve. Legend has it that the most popular boy on this day is the boy who turned 12 that year, because 12 is twice as much as 6, which is called six six big shun. On this day, every household has to throw out the garbage accumulated during the festival, which is called sending poor ghosts.
"The seventh day of the first lunar month is Human Day
The seventh day of the first lunar month is the day of the person, that is, the birthday of the person. According to the Book of Zhan, from the beginning of the first month, the order in which heaven created all things was "one chicken and two dogs, three pigs and four sheep, five cattle and six horses, seven people and eight grains", so the seventh day of the first month is the day of man.
"The eighth day of the first lunar month is Valley Day
The eighth day of the first month of the first month is the day of the valley, the legend is the birthday of the millet, also called the Shunxing Festival, the legend is the day of the netherworld of the stars, the sky stars are the most complete, if the weather is sunny on this day, it indicates that the rice harvest of this year is good, and the clouds are sorry for the year.
"On the ninth day of the first lunar month, the birthday of the Heavenly Father
On the ninth day of the first lunar month, folk customs are the birthday of the Jade Emperor, and a grand celestial sacrifice is held.
"The birthday of the tenth stone at the beginning of the first month
The tenth day of the first lunar month is the birthday of the stone, and on this day all stone tools such as grinding and milling cannot be moved, and even the stone is sacrificed.
"New Year's Day 11" Son-in-law Day
The eleventh day of the first lunar month is "Son-in-law's Day", which is the day when the father-in-law feasts on the son-in-law. The remaining food left over from the celebration of the "Tiangong Birthday" on the ninth day of the first lunar month, in addition to eating for one day on the tenth day of the first lunar month, there is still a lot left, so the mother's family does not have to spend any more money, so she uses these remaining delicacies to entertain the son-in-law and daughter, and the folk song is called "eleven please son-in-law".
"The twelfth to fifteenth day of the first month
After the eleventh day of the first month, people began to prepare to celebrate the Lantern Festival, starting from the twelfth day of the first month to buy lanterns and build a lamp shed.
Are you getting these customs full of Zhoushan characteristics?
New year, Xiaobian wishes everyone
Editor: Wang Yingyan
Draft: Wang Jinjing
First Instance: Feng Mengqi Second Instance: Wen Yuanjun
Part of the content source: Zhoushan release, etc