An essay on folk customs and folk customs, about 150 words or so, will not be given a point

The Mongolian people are a long-standing and legendary people, living a nomadic life of "migrating from water to grass". Most of China's grasslands have left the footprints of Mongolian herders, so they are known as the "pride of the grassland". Annually.

The "Naadam" festival is a long-standing traditional festival of the Mongolian people in July and August when the livestock are fattened, and it is a cultural, sports and entertainment meeting held by people to celebrate the harvest. At the "Naadam" conference, there were thrilling and moving horse races, wrestling, admirable archery, chess skills, and fascinating songs and dances, showing the unique characteristics of the grassland people.

Traditional Chinese festival Spring Festival.

The first day of the first lunar month is the New Year of the Chinese lunar calendar. Among the traditional festivals in China, this is the most important and lively festival. Because the Lunar New Year is celebrated in late winter and early spring, people also call this festival "Spring Festival".

Chinese have many traditional customs for the Spring Festival. From the twenty-third day of the lunar month, people begin to prepare for the New Year. During this time, every household has to clean up, buy New Year's goods, paste window flowers, hang New Year's pictures, write Spring Festival couplets, steam rice cakes, make all kinds of food, and prepare to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

The eve of the Spring Festival is called "Chinese New Year's Eve". Chinese New Year's Eve is a time for family reunions. The family sits around and eats a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, talking and laughing until dawn, which is called keeping the new year.

As soon as the clock rings at midnight on Chinese New Year's Eve, people still have to eat dumplings. In ancient times, zero was called "child time", and the child time on Chinese New Year's Eve was the time when the old and new years alternated, and people ate dumplings at this time, which means "more age and child". This is also the origin of the name "dumpling".

After Chinese New Year's Eve, it is the first day of the new year. From the beginning of the new year, people have to visit relatives, see friends, and greet each other for the New Year. New Year's greetings are an important custom of the Spring Festival. During New Year's greetings, everyone should say some auspicious words to wish happiness and health.

The first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival, formerly known as New Year's Day. On that day, people get up early, put on new clothes, hats, and shoes to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. It is said that wearing new shoes that have not been on the ground can be light and healthy in the new year.

The man gets up, opens the door first by reciting auspicious words, and fires a cannon at the door, which is called "opening the door". The door cannon is generally put three, to "bring four to three", leave one for "preparation", Ningbo dialect "preparation" is here. The higher the artillery is fired, the louder it becomes, signaling the auspicious New Year.

If it is a "blow, blow, blow", it is considered unlucky, and you should immediately say, "Oh, blow and blow, and you will be rich this year." "And immediately put one back.

The portraits of the ancestors of the big clans and large families are enshrined in the ancestral hall or the middle hall (in front of the hall), and the ancestral portraits are generally hung within five generations, which are called "for the frame", "for the shadow", and "for the golden purple (the old portraits are all golden crowns and purple clothes)" are synonymous. According to some ancestral rules, men can only worship at the age of l6, and women are not included. The person in charge of the rotation distributes a pair of hemp cakes or two bowls.

The young people of each family worship the elders in order, which is called "New Year's worship". On Chinese New Year's Eve, the "New Year's Money" is wrapped in red paper and pressed under the pillow of the young, so it is called "New Year's Money".

On this day, eat soup dumplings (tangyuan) in the morning, which means reunion. Some families are vegetarian for a day. The most important feature of this day is to let the daily utensils at home "rest" for a day, that is, let the housewives rest, do not sweep the floor, do not beg for fire (do not light fires or light cigarettes to others), do not kill animals, do not use knives and scissors, do not empty the toilet, do not wash clothes, do not beat and scold children, and do not speak unlucky words.

When you meet in the morning, you should not say the word "early", which means that you will attract more "fleas" this year. If you walk like you fall, you should immediately say, "Oh, the ingots have fallen."

This night, before sleeping, do not light the lamp, said that the lamp will attract more mosquitoes and flies this year. Before going to bed, put on the "closing cannon". If you don't go out at night, it's commonly known as "Taiping Night".

From the second day to the seventh or eighth day of the first month, the late to the fifteenth, each family goes out to go to relatives to "worship the New Year", generally first to relatives and then distant relatives, and the young worship elders to the son-in-law to worship Weng, nephews and uncles, nephews and aunts, etc., to entertain each other to the banquet, called "New Year's Meal", "New Year's Wine". On the fifth day of the first month, it is the day of the God of Wealth, and the merchant family is the most important on this day, and it is only open for business after "inviting the God of Wealth", which is called "opening the market". Believers in Buddhism, some of them walk seven bridges on the seventh night of the first month, and do not go back, worship eight temples on the eighth day of the first month, commonly known as "walking seven bridges", "worship eight temples".

In the meantime, folk entertainment activities include dragon lantern dance, marquee, big-headed monk and so on. Those who are slightly different from other places have "feigned sweeping", that is, beggars (called "rich people" at this time) carry baskets, hold brooms decorated with red balls, pretend to sweep the floor, and sing slang songs: "Pick up the golden broom, and Rig (elephant sound) sweeps."

Sweeping to the east, there are Qinglong, Qinglongpan rice jar, and Huanglongpan barn in the boss's house; Swept to the south, the boss made a fortune in the house, the big ingots made the basket lift, and the small ingots made the boat carry. ”

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, customs such as Chinese New Year greetings remained unchanged, and most superstitious colors have disappeared. Government organs and organizations held group worship, carried out activities to support the army and give preferential treatment to family members, support the government and love the people, and expressed condolences to old cadres, old workers, old teachers, old scientific and technological personnel, the elderly in nursing homes, and workers who insisted on production and work during the Spring Festival. Acquaintances meet on the road, arch hands or shake hands, and wish each other good luck.

From the first day of the first lunar month to the third day of the first lunar month, it was called the end of the year and New Year's Day in ancient times, and now it is called the Spring Festival, and the people of Fuzhou call it "Do the New Year", which is the most solemn and longest folk festival of the year. At dawn, families open their doors and burn incense and fire cannons to welcome the new year. There are many taboos in this festival tradition, and the first sentence and the first thing to do are all paid attention to good luck in order to hope for a year of peace.

At the beginning of the new year, everyone should say auspicious words such as "congratulations", "fortune" and "peace" in the first sentence, and the other party will also reciprocate with corresponding good words. On that day, they did not sweep the floor, did not fetch water, did not carry burdens, did not chop wood, did not wash clothes, did not bathe, did not cut hair, and did not say unlucky words. When the family wakes up, they wear new clothes or clothes of the best texture.

For breakfast, some eat Taiping noodles (noodles, chicken, duck eggs) to wish peace and longevity; Some eat rice cakes (brown sugar cakes) to wish for high rise every year; Some elderly people are vegetarians and pray for a safe year for their children and grandchildren. On the first day of the new year, the juniors should pay New Year's greetings to the elders, and the elders will give New Year's money, candy, and oranges.

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On the second and third days of the new year, people can visit relatives and friends to congratulate each other on the New Year. As Wu Jiyun, a Qing dynasty man, said in "Bamboo Branches in Fuzhou Year": "Before the new clothes of the clan tend to people, the number of etiquette is humble and joyful; Meet on the road and make a fortune to celebrate the New Year.

This is the landscape of Fuzhou in ancient times. Families who have married daughters want to hold spring wine and invite their daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren back to their parents' homes for a banquet and reunion. The women of the water boating family (people), wearing saffron on their heads, blue shirts and green pants, cloth soles and green shoes, landed ashore together, went door to door, and sang poems in Fuzhou dialect to celebrate the New Year

My aunt and sister-in-law both congratulated the New Year, and the red umbrella lights hung in front of the hall; Good kueh sent slaves to the front of the door of the gold plate enterprise (meaning standing). "After the old year and the new year, business is prosperous and makes a lot of money; Wishing you prosperity and peace, and sending slaves to the door. This is called "asking for poetry," and it is also a New Year's greeting word, and the New Year's greeting is a sign of auspiciousness.

During the Spring Festival, the streets and alleys of Fuzhou are full of lights, fire trees and silver flowers, laughter and laughter, and a festive atmosphere is presented everywhere.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, party and government leaders at all levels paid New Year's greetings to the families of military martyrs, retired cadres and old model workers with gifts before or during the festival. All relevant departments organize activities such as Spring Festival garden tours, gatherings from all walks of life, and theatrical evenings. The old superstitious customs gradually disappeared.

In the early nineties, most homes were installed**, and relatives and friends generally used ** to greet each other for the New Year to reduce holiday traffic congestion.

In the early morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, every household burned incense to "receive the gods" to welcome the stove monarch back to Luan. All walks of life have holidays, firecrackers are set off, shops are open, factories are open, and institutions are starting to work. After the 90s, the study time was adjusted, and now it is the eighth day of junior high school.

Some service industries are still open for business during the Spring Festival.