Sichuan and Hunan

Sichuan: "Qiang Year Festival"

Qiang nationality is one of the ethnic groups with a long history in the big family of Chinese nation. Now he mainly lives in Maoxian, Wenchuan, Lixian and Songpan in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province.

The Qiang people's New Year is celebrated on the first day of the tenth lunar month every year, usually lasting 3-5 days, and in some villages it lasts until the tenth day of October. According to the folk custom, in the year of Qiang, gods should also be sacrificed, such as the gods of heaven, mountains and landlords (village gods). The whole village will have a reunion dinner, drink Zasa and dance Sharon until everyone is happy. The whole ceremony was presided over by Xu, while the miscellaneous wine was opened by the respected elders in the village. During the festival, relatives and friends can congratulate each other and welcome each other.

Sichuan Hakka Spring Festival custom

The continuous migration of Hakkas makes them more attached to their native land. The nostalgia for the landscapes, customs and customs of their hometown has enabled them to unite closely and overcome difficulties and hardships again and again. Traditional customs have become a powerful link to maintain Hakka people. Among the Hakkas in Sichuan, the traditional customs and habits of Hakkas have been maintained for two or three hundred years.

Hakka people attach great importance to the Lunar New Year. Every household hangs colored lights, sticks door gods, and sticks auspicious words on granaries and poultry and livestock pens to show the bumper harvest in the coming year. Conditional Hakka towns and villages,1-will have a lantern dance in February. The types of lanterns are dragon lanterns, lion lanterns and clam lanterns, which are the custom of colored lanterns handed down by Hakka people in their original places. In addition, there will be a large-scale celebration-dragon dance, which can be divided into colorful dragons, fire dragons, water dragons, disjointed dragons and Shangchuan dragons. Among them, Shangchuanlong is the most distinctive. Shangchuanlong was brought to western Sichuan by Jiangxi immigrant Liu in the early Qing Dynasty. Liu people hold dragon dances every year to celebrate the New Year and pray for good weather. Shangchuanlong is huge and magnificent. Dancing is operated by 30 to 50 people, and the faucet weighs 30 to 50 kilograms. It is very skillful in playing with dragons, and there are many ways.

People in Chengdu don't eat during the New Year, because "rice" and "sin" are homonyms. In order to avoid taboos, they eat glutinous rice balls or dried noodles to pray for family reunion and longevity. Liu Ge and other places will celebrate the "off-year" on the seventh day of the first month. Besides worshipping God and ancestors, they will also have a family reunion dinner. Chengdu people visit Du Fu Caotang in the western suburbs every day. On the first day of the Lunar New Year in Changshou County, nine candles are lit outside the door, which are called "nine-level candles" to respect heaven and earth.

Sichuanese like to watch "lights" during the Spring Festival. The land of Sichuan is brightly lit.

On this side, the Zigong Lantern Festival with the theme of "exotic customs" only exudes "foreign flavor"; On the other hand, the traditional Chengdu Lantern Festival is changing with the charming ribbons for the 35th time.

In Jianyang in central Sichuan, Jiangyou in northern Sichuan and Yibin in southern Sichuan, it is also the second time to light three New Year lanterns with different styles. Sichuan in the Spring Festival of the Year of the Sheep is brightly lit.

Lantern Festival is a traditional folk cultural activity of the Chinese nation. During the Spring Festival holiday, many places have the tradition of hanging lanterns and holding lantern festivals. For lively and peaceful Sichuanese, Lantern Festival is indispensable, and it has also become an indispensable "new year's goods" for Sichuanese. Therefore, Sichuan Lantern Festival has a long history and a high level, and is known as "Yi Deng in the world" and "the first of Chinese Lantern Festival". In particular, Chengdu Lantern Festival and Zigong Lantern Festival, with their majestic, ingenious conception, exquisite craftsmanship and rich local customs, have become the outstanding local lantern festivals in China.

On the eve of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Sheep, Zigong Lantern Festival, which has a history of nearly a thousand years, sang "foreign opera" with the theme of "exotic customs" and took the lead in lighting lamps in Shu. On the Lantern Festival, the classic story fragments and scenic spots of Greece, Rome and Egypt, such as the Battle of Troy, the pyramids of Egypt and Swan Lake, were vividly interpreted by the traditional lantern art in China. The Lantern Festival set up 30 funny projects of foreign cartoon characters and animals, including Robin Hood, Spider-Man and Snoopy, which made people laugh again and again. In addition to the strong "foreign flavor", Zigong Lantern Festival also introduced the northern ice lantern for the first time, combining the northern ice lantern and the southern colored lantern at the same time and space, attracting countless people who look fresh.

In Chengdu, the provincial capital, this year's Spring Festival Lantern Festival is the 35th. On the first night of the first month of the first month, the lights were officially lit up, shining brightly and shining on the sleepless New Year's Eve in Rongcheng. In the cultural park, water, mountains, buildings and trees are all covered with beautiful lights, and the viewers are like crucian carp; Outside the garden, the old piano platform was renovated only last year. At night, the love story of Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun's "Looking for the Phoenix" was interpreted, with bright lights and crowds.

Chengdu Lantern Festival in the Year of the Sheep is full of the spirit of "sheep". Among the 42 groups of large and medium-sized lamps and 6 groups of archway lamps, the group of lamps showing the celebration of the Year of the Sheep accounts for a large proportion. Looking at the lights at the west gate and east gate is a strong breath of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Sheep. Ximen's "Three Yang Kai Tai, Feng Dan Chao Yang", the auspicious atmosphere is coming; At the east gate, three sheep stand on the gate of the Lantern Festival in semi-relief, beautifully decorated, and watching the Lantern Festival is like entering the "Ruyi Gate" of the Year of the Sheep. People watching the lights are in groups of three and five, smiling and taking pictures in front of the lights. As usual, after watching the lights, the delicious Chengdu people will never forget to go to the snack show for a meal. What kind of mutton skewers, fat intestines are delicious, and food stalls are full of people.

"Deng Hua looked up at the stars." The "Water Lantern Festival" held for the first time in Sancha Lake, Jianyang, was full of waves and beautiful scenery, accompanied by the unique sound of paddles with lights. On the first day of the first month of the Year of the Sheep, the Lantern Festival was officially unveiled on the water connecting Sancha Lake, six islands and three peninsulas, covering an area of two square kilometers. Its route is six kilometers long, and its vision is the best in this year's Sichuan Lantern Festival. In addition, more than 200 tourist boats are on standby. On the Lantern Festival, China's tallest independent light group "Rose in the sky" (80 meters) makes people look up and admire.

Hunan Customs:

Hunan people's psychology towards their relatives is to be re-elected. Therefore, most uncles and aunts are married.

In the recently opened house, there are also people who can't ask for water and report to the temple ceremony.

The tile coffin system is almost useful.

Nowadays, there are very few people who set up spiritual beds in provincial capitals.

Recently, many officials' houses do not need three shower crowns and straw mats, but take off their tassels with big hats and cover them with linen or white cloth.

Wear white cloth shoes and so on.

Chapter VIII P5

In the early years of Guangxu, Hunan Governor Bian Baodi, Minister Pang Jiyuan and Minister Sun Qiaoze tried to ban it (referring to Changsha Yingcheng Emperor's competition), so there was a situation of looting and burning the vassal government. Wang and Cao Guisheng were beheaded for favoritism and did not participate in the competition for several years.

Then the game gradually declined.

If you are nearby, the government will suspend the total ban. All belong to the wind, but also to change their old customs. (Selected Works of Ren Jifu)

Ritual drama, including drum play, puppet show, lantern play, shadow play, flower drum play, etc. (here refers to the part of promoting theocracy superstition), can be used when offering sacrifices to gods.

Recently, the tea garden in Shangbu, Changsha has changed with each passing day, and Xiangban has also set up a tea garden for the entertainment of the people in the society, but the shrine drama has not revived. (Selected Works of Ren Jifu)

Chapter 9:

Sparrow (today's mahjong): Sparrow cards are made of bamboo chips and bones. 10 years ago, there was no such play in Hunan. In recent years, it has become more and more popular to spread through officials, businessmen and advocates such as Su and Yang. Changde, the capital of Xiangtan, has a prosperous business and many prostitutes' homes, especially this one. "

Changsha, Changde and Yuezhou are adjacent to Huxiang with convenient transportation. The input of new bo opera precedes all kinds of operas. In recent years, the wind of sparrows has been invincible in the whole province. In fact, it started from Changyue and spread to other counties.

In Hunan province, there is no scruple about buying gambling tools, such as cloth and silk, millet display shops, and gamblers enjoy it. If laws and regulations are written to each other, the world will be decadent and drowned, and I don't know where it will go.

Chapter 10

In Changsha, there is a proverb that the first child is born in the first life, the second child is born in the second day, and the third child is worshipped in the fourth day.

The winter solstice festival in Gu Tianyou's Changsha County Chronicles, Changsha Year Records, has the saying that winter solstice is as big as a year, and ancestral temples are held in all towns and villages in Changsha.

In the following year, sacrifice to the stove and ask it to speak well in heaven and bless the peace of the earth. The termination or renewal of the employment contract of farm workers will be announced after lunch on Sunday.