Hakka folk customs 10, Hakka folk customs

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Hakka customs are as follows:

1. Light the fire.

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the Hakka people have the custom of keeping the New Year, and the lights are bright all night long, which is called "lighting the fire of the year", and the fire cage and charcoal are called "fire buckets". Everyone reunites to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, and share the joy of family. On Chinese New Year's Eve, adults also have the custom of giving children money for the New Year.

2. Respect ancestors.

After breakfast on the 30th day of the lunar month, all those who added men that year should send people to the ancestral hall to clean up and paint the walls of the ancestral hall. In the afternoon, people successively brought gift boxes, three animals, firecrackers, ingots incense candles and other offerings to the ancestral shrine to worship and incense. After the salute, firecrackers are firecracked, and some are firecrackers.

Every afternoon of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the ancestral shrine is filled with incense, and the sound of firecrackers is incessant, which continues until dusk.

3. New Year's greetings. <>

For breakfast on the first day of the new year, the Hakka people are used to eating "longevity noodles" because the noodles are long and symbolize longevity. Then the children will pay New Year's greetings to the elders, and the elders will give the children candy oranges, and some will also give "red envelopes", formerly known as "hanging necks". To visit relatives for the New Year, generally to bring orange cakes, sugar and other gifts, the host to prepare tea and fruit reception, some also to drink "New Year's wine" to eat chicken legs, New Year's greeting activities will generally be postponed to the Lantern Festival, even the end of the first month.

4. Eat vegetarian fasting.

Since ancient times, the Hakka people have had the atmosphere of "being diligent and thrifty" and the compassionate concept of abstaining from killing, so on the first day of the new year, the first meal of the first day of the year does not eat wine and meat, that is, eating "vegetarian food". After eating a morning fast, it is generally customary for the elderly to go to the temple to burn incense, so the temple incense is prosperous, and everyone prays to the gods to bless the new year with peace and blessings.

5. Take a grapefruit leaf bath.

Pick the pomelo leaves in the morning, after noon, every household puts the pomelo leaves into the pot and boils, and everyone has to take a hot bath with pomelo leaves, which means to wash away the filth, "poverty" and "decay" and enter the new year cleanly.

After taking a yuzu bath, put on new clothes, new hats, new socks, and new shoes, and look new from head to toe, and wash the dirty clothes on the same day. Therefore, taking a grapefruit leaf bath contains the meaning of removing the old and making the new. This custom has been gradually diluted.

The customs of the Hakka people are:

1. Hakka clothing. Hakka clothing is simple and practical, spacious and simple. The patterns on the costumes are simple and exquisite, but also the result of the exchange and integration between the Hakka people who migrated south and the indigenous ethnic minorities.

In the Hakka area, Hakka girls wear a unique and chic cool hat, while the Hakka blue shirt is different from Hakka women's clothing and is men's clothing.

2. Hakka diet. Hakka cuisine is represented by Dongjiang cuisine. The drinking and food of the Hakka people are many the same or basically the same as those of other ethnic areas, and because of the unique geographical conditions and historical background of the development of the ethnic group, their food culture is also distinctive, and the taste is more fatty, salty and cooked.

3. Folk customs. Hakka is a branch of the Han nationality, so its traditional festivals are the same as those of the Han nationality, mainly including wax sacrifices, sacrificial stoves, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Sheri, Zhongyuan Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc. Among the festivals, the Spring Festival is the most grand.