What are the customs in the Chaoshan area? What are the customs of Chaoshan

There are many Chaoshan customs, and here are some of them:

1.Ancestor worship: Chaoshan people attach great importance to their ancestors, and hold ancestor worship activities on the third day of the third lunar month and the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year to pray for peace and good luck to their ancestors.

2.Wedding customs: Chaoshan weddings have many unique customs, such as "breaking the grain through the door", "worshipping the hall", "carrying a sedan chair" and so on. These customs imply happiness and family harmony for the couple.

3.Dragon Boat Festival: Chaoshan people will eat zongzi, race dragon boats, hang wormwood, etc., these customs are related to Qu Yuan, meaning to commemorate Qu Yuan and pray for peace.

4.Qingming Festival: Chaoshan people will sweep tombs, burn paper money, worship ancestors, etc., implying remembering their ancestors and praying for peace.

5.Farming customs: The Chaoshan region is a large agricultural region, and there are many agriculture-related customs, such as the "Sickle Opening Festival" and "Seedling Release Festival", which imply celebrating the harvest and praying for a good harvest in the coming year.

The above customs have their allusions and meanings, and are an important part of Chaoshan culture.

1. The New Year customs in the Chaoshan area are very early, starting from the lunar month.

The twenty-fourth day of the lunar month is the day of "the lord goes to heaven". The "master" here is equivalent to a god who stays in the family for a long time and blesses the safety and health of the whole family. Therefore, on this day, every family will "worship the lord" and ask the lord to "say good things to God".

Pray that all wishes come true for the coming year.

Second, when the Chinese New Year is approaching, everyone will start preparing staple foods for the New Year.

It is the most characteristic custom in the Chaoshan area to make kueh, such as red peach kueh, rat shell kueh, sweet kueh, cabbage kueh, etc., as well as chicken, duck, goose, fish, pork and so on. It's all there, but now the smell of the year is not as heavy as it used to be.

3. Chinese New Year's Eve.

Before the reunion dinner, you must "worship the ancestors" (worship the ancestors), and ask the ancestors to eat first. Then, the family sat around and had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, ushering in a beautiful moment of family reunion. There is also a lot of attention to when eating, and it must be eaten from the beginning to the end, which means that it is long and long, with a head and a tail.

If you eat fish, you have to deliberately eat some leftovers, which means that you have more than enough every year.

Fourth, after eating Chinese New Year's Eve, greet the New Year.

The younger generations should pay New Year's greetings to the elders and wish them good health and prosperity in the coming year. The elders have to distribute New Year's money, commonly known as "belly pressure", which means that from the beginning to the end of the year, the waist bag will be full of solid and wealthy. The juniors who have joined the work should also give money to the elders. Show filial piety.

5. After the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone will go to the homes of relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings.

Chaoshan folk say: "Have a heart to worship the new year."

One, two, no intention to pay tribute to the new year.

Three, four. It shows the importance of New Year's greetings, which is also a symbol of the unity of Chaoshan people. New Year's greetings generally bring two large oranges (that is, Chaozhou oranges, homophonic Daji) to the host, and the host also gives back two large oranges, and the host and guest exchange new and new intentions, congratulations on wealth and blessings and other auspicious words.

1. The Obon festival is a festival on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Obon Festival and the Midyear Festival. It should be noted that, in a certain sense, the mid-year festival belongs to Taoism, the Obon festival belongs to Buddhism, and the July and a half ancestor worship festival belongs to the folk secular. In some places, the festival is commonly known as the Ghost Festival, Shi Gu, Zhai Gu, Diguan Festival, etc.

2, the Mid-Autumn Festival burning tower is the 14th of the lunar calendar of the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, each village in Heshi City will assign personnel to build the tower, the height of the tower is generally not equal to meters, the village is large, the bottom of the tower should be made of bricks, the tower body is mostly made of broken tiles to occupy about 3 4 of the tower height, and then the tile garden is stacked to cap, the bottom of the tower must be left before and after each tower door, the front door is used to put fuel, the back door is used to pull out the ashes. At night, fires are lit and burned as fuel such as straw and chaff, and are mainly collected by young people beating gongs and drums from homes. 3. The People's Day, also known as the People's Day, the People's Festival, the Population Day, the Seven Days, etc., is an ancient Chinese traditional festival on the seventh day of the first lunar month every year.

Legend has it that when Nuwa first created the world, after creating animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows, and horses, she created humans on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of humans. The Han Dynasty began to have daily customs, and after the Wei and Jin dynasties, they began to pay attention to it. 4. The folk custom of "Lao Re" originated from the incomparable worship of the land by the people of Chaozhou, and the worship of the land.

5. The custom of chandeliers is from the eleventh day of the first month to the eighteenth day of the first month, especially on the day of the Lantern Festival, and every household in Chaoshan has the custom of lighting and chandeliers. Because the tide language "lamp" and "ding" have the same sound, lighting and adding Ding are close sounds, so the tide people think that lighting the lamp is a good omen for Tianding. On the day of the Lantern Festival, people carry lanterns, prepare paper and silver incense candles, go to the village temple to light a fire, and come back to hang the shrine and bedside at home respectively, which is called "hanging lantern".

The Chaoshan customs are as follows:

1. Kung Fu tea.

Tasting Kung Fu tea is in the Chaoshan area.

One of the most famous customs is that in Chaoshan, every household has a kung fu tea set, and it must be drunk several times a day. The so-called gongfu tea is not the name of a type of tea or tea. Rather, it is a technique of making tea.

The reason why it is called kung fu tea is because this way of making tea is extremely exquisite, and it requires a certain amount of effort to operate.

2. Shave your hair.

In most parts of Chaoshan, when a baby is born at the full moon, the elders shave their hair. In some places, it is done on the 12th day of the baby's birth. The first shaving of the baby's head has always been regarded as a happy event, shaving the fetal hair brought out of the mother's womb, and finally being able to "start from scratch and be a new person", so the ceremony of shaving the fetal hair is serious and grand, and pays attention to certain rules.

3. Seven kinds of dishes.

Seven kinds of dishes is a kind of food custom that is quite characteristic of Chaoshan folk, this kind of dish cooked with seven different varieties of vegetables, has the meaning of "making a fortune in the New Year". Although the taste is strange, it is mainly for the auspicious head of the New Year.

4. Fight oil fire.

"Playing oil and fire" is a custom of Chaoshan into the house, built a new house, into the house.

To live, the master must invite the master to come to the house once to drive away the evil things in the room, so as to live in peace with the family. This is the exorcism ceremony of entering the house in the Chaoshan countryside, commonly known as "playing oil fire".

5. Out of the garden.

Out of the garden refers to the baptism of boys and girls when they reach the age of 15. Regarding the origin of the phrase "out of the garden", it is generally believed that underage children are in a colorful garden until they are 15 years old, announcing the transition from childhood to another era, so they must step out of the "garden" and move towards the threshold of adulthood, and from then on they must be responsible for themselves and society.