I want to know what festival customs there are in northern Jiangsu

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, you are not allowed to sleep lazily, this is the old rule of Dongtai, probably because Dongtai is a commercial circulation city, and the merchants are still diligent, and the people in Dongtai City get up again after sleeping for less than a few hours after "keeping the New Year". The whole family sat around the Eight Immortals table to start the first event of the new year - "New Year's Morning Tea". In the old days, "three teas" were eaten, and the tableware was a red bowl, a red bowl, and red lacquer chopsticks.

First tea: Brown sugar boiling water tea, which means that it is red and hot, sweet and sweet. Two courses of tea:

Red jujube tea, that is, "happy jujube" tea, open the door to see joy, joy and joy. Three-course tea: glutinous rice balls, solid unstuffed glutinous rice balls, real, everything is perfect.

After eating morning tea, the main members of the family, the male and female hosts do not go out on this day, and the children are free to move, go out to "pay New Year's greetings", ask for "Bao Xi money", and go to the city to play; A small number of elderly people, laymen, and fasting and reciting Buddha have already gathered outside the mountain gate of Samadhi Temple, Dasheng Temple, and Taishan Temple to wait for "burning incense".

The customs of northern Jiangsu include New Year's customs, Laba (watching frost), sweeping Chen, sending stoves, etc.

Located in the Yangtze River Delta led by Shanghai, Northern Jiangsu is an important part of China's coastal economic belt. The topography of northern Jiangsu is dominated by plains, with a vast northern Jiangsu plain, with jurisdiction over rivers and seas, choke and control lakes, prosperous economy and developed transportation. As of 2016, there are 5 prefecture-level cities (17 municipal districts, county-level cities and 17 counties) in northern Jiangsu.

A total of 37 counties (cities, districts).

Traditionally, northern Jiangsu refers to the five prefecture-level cities of Yangzhou, Taizhou, Yancheng, Huai'an, and Nantong in Jiangsu Province, rather than the three "northern" regions of Xuzhou, Suqian, and Lianyungang.

1. The words of the matchmaker can also be free to love.

Now most of the matchmaker's words are omitted. The rigidity of the parents' orders has also been reduced a lot, but the constructive opinions of the elderly still have to be selectively absorbed, and no parents will harm their children. The experience and experience of the elderly is a wealth of life, not necessarily all right, but most of them are reasonable.

Free love is now the main theme before marriage, and it is natural for young men and women to have a good feeling for each other, or to have feelings because of mutual attraction in work and study.

2. Meeting gift.

Generally, when men and women determine the relationship, mother-in-law and father-in-law have to give meeting gifts, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands, and even aunts and uncles will be slaughtered.

Third, the bride price.

In rural areas, it is called "Chuanqi" to talk about marriage before marriage, and it is generally necessary to "pass on Qi" is to give a part of the gift money, or some physical objects are stored in the woman's home, such as computers, televisions, and cars, of course, these are not as convenient as money. When you get married, pull it back again. This is also a continuation of feudal customs.

Fourth, the eight characters of the birthday.

The average old family will find a person who understands Zhouyi gossip to count it as a zodiac festival. It's called "Henian Gu", or "Henian No", anyway, that's what it is. Marriage is divided into "upper marriage, middle upper marriage, middle and lower marriage......And so on.

Choose a good day to get married, it is said that "on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, there are no taboos". Of course, "Ding is Ding, Mao is Mao, which day is good to worship the church"!

5. Get married. Preparation before marriage: In rural areas, if you marry a daughter, you must prepare a lamp, and when you get married, you should wait until dawn to become a long-lived lamp, which means that you will be together for a hundred years. To prepare a sewing basket, about the ancient women to be good at female red, now are omitted.

Men usually find a couple of children to help put on the quilt or sew the quilt. One of the quilts is stuffed with auspicious fruits such as dates, chestnuts, and peanuts at the four corners. Take the meaning of "early birth of a noble son".

The Halloween customs of the people of Northern Jiangsu are as follows:

The fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is "Halloween". In fact, from the beginning of the seventh month of the lunar calendar to the 30th day of July is the day when the ghost door is opened. Folklore believes that during this period of time, there will be many lonely souls wandering in the yang world.

There is a saying of "three yuan" in the Chinese New Year's season, the fifteenth day of the first month is the upper yuan, the fifteenth day of July is the middle yuan, and the fifteenth day of October is the lower yuan.

Carry fruits, dried meat, wine, money, etc. to the ancestral cemetery to pay respects. And hold the magu to the field stalk, called "recommend the new". In the midyear festival, the ancestors are worshiped with fresh food, and the fruits and vegetables are prepared, and the steamed sheep is sent to the grandson, which is called "sending sheep".

On July 15, he went to the grave to sweep and gave his daughter steamed noodles and sheep.

Take the rain on the Midyear Festival as a sign of a good harvest of rice. On the evening of the Midyear Festival, the gong is sounded and the rice is sprinkled in the wild, which is called "almsgiving". Please ask the old lady to "walk the eight knots" while chanting the scriptures.

Tiantai mid-year festival to eat "dumplings", the tube is similar to spring rolls. There is also the custom of putting street lamps, with six strong men as a group: one person beats the gong, one person beats the bang, one person carries a lantern, one person scatters salt and rice along the way, one Qingxun people place incense candles along the way (inserted in a piece of sweet potato or taro), one person places a piece of tofu and a rice ball (placed on a big tree) along the way, and sets up a sacrifice about every hundred steps.

Around the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, livestock must be slaughtered, and the aunt with the surname will be reunited for the festival, and paper money will be burned to worship the deceased ancestors. On the day of the sacrifice, the meat and liquor are first offered, and the "steamed bun" rice, the bamboo chopsticks are spread evenly between the meals, the lights are bright, and the words of the sacrifice are also told. The men of each family personally printed and made paper money on the paper money, burned the paper, and knelt down to worship the ancestors.

After that, the family gathers together. The festival can be held on any day between July 13 and 16.