What are the beliefs and customs of the Chaoshan people? What are the most taboo things for Chaoshan

The beliefs of a region are related to its local environment and the birthplace of its people.

Chaoshan people taboo sewing clothes when dressing, placing 3 dishes on the table, and placing chopsticks on both sides of the bowl

1. When sewing clothes, do not wear clothes on your body. Because there is a thread in the needle. If you don't take off your clothes, you will be under the iron rope spell when you sew them, and you will soon be imprisoned.

2. There are 3 dishes on the taboo table, and the three dishes on the table are eaten by death row prisoners when they are about to be beheaded.

3. When placing chopsticks, place them on both sides of the bowl, which means that they are separated quickly, and the chopsticks are homophonic with fast.

Chaoshan's industry taboo

Chaoshan is located in the Hanjiang River Delta, with fertile farmland and an important position in agricultural production. In the past, people relied on the sky for food, paid great attention to adapting to the agricultural season, and always pinned their hopes on the gods. Therefore when sacrificing the land, it must be respectful and not utter false words.

On the first day of the new year, most of the Chaoshan people have the custom of tabooing production and labor. One is that people are entertaining, socializing, and sacrificing, and they are very busy. The second New Year's labor in the field indicates that this person will be a hard worker from beginning to end of the year.

Chaoshan is bordered by the sea and crisscrossed by rivers, so there are many taboos in the fishing and shipping industry. In terms of language, it is most taboo to say "turn", "sink", "pour" and regret on the ship. If you are drying clothes on a boat, do not turn them inside out.

After eating, the rice spoon should be inserted directly into the slender pot and cannot be put down. When eating fish, you can't turn it over after eating, and when you have to turn it over, you should say "come along with it" while turning it.

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".

Customs related to the worship of the gods:

Lao Ge: Folklore originated from the Chaozhou people's incomparable worship of the land, which led to the emergence of the "god of the land". The Teochew people call it the land lord or the uncle (it is worth mentioning that the Teochew people will worship the land lord in shops, homes, and factories, and can also be seen in the Ming Weng Tea House), and the folk activity of "Lao Re" has been inherited in Chaozhou for thousands of years.

Out of the garden: Out of the garden is a unique custom in the Chaoshan area, 15-year-old children should "go out of the garden". All families with 15-year-old boys and girls should dig and prepare three animals (roosters, ducks, pork) fruits for their children on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar and the July 15th Zhongyuan Festival or on another day to bid farewell to the in-laws (commonly known as the mother-in-law), indicating that the children have grown up and can go out of the garden from now on.

Zhongyuan Judgment Bridge Festival: The fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Zhongyuan Festival. It is commonly known as "July and a half", "Halloween", and is also called "Yulan Shokai".

On the same day, the Chaozhou people put sacrifices and money paper at the door of their homes, burned the money paper after the sacrifice, sprinkled white rice on the ground, burned incense and prayed, and inserted incense on the ground in front of the house and behind the house.