The customs or habits of Zeguo

Jiaxing, located in Taihu Lake Basin, is a water town and a country where the Yue people lived in ancient times. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the land spanned wuyue, which was called "Wu Tou Yue Wei" in history. Therefore, it has both the legacy of Taibo's resignation and the legacy of Yue's After Diligence. After the merger of Chu and Yue, it was influenced by Chu culture for more than a hundred years. From the Qin Dynasty (222 BC) to the Five Dynasties (907-960 BC), Jiaxing has always belonged to Wu County in Huiji, and its language belongs to Wu dialect area. Therefore, the folk customs are mainly Wu customs, and the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River are distinctive, which is different from the mountainous areas in the province. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty and the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the country was in turmoil for the second time, and many people wearing clothes in the north crossed the river to the south, bringing complementary advantages to the Central Plains culture, which made Jiaxing folk customs blend with the Central Plains customs elements, and uniqueness and diversity coexisted. Folk customs are humble and hardworking-Jiaxing is a place between Suzhou and Hangzhou, where "the soil is fertile, the customs are pure and beautiful" and "there is no fear of freezing". "Its vulgarity is less sinister", "It can grasp propriety and righteousness, and work hard to cultivate and weave", "The soil of large and small must be cultivated, and the sound of the machine shaft is endless".

Show Wisdom and Ingenuity —— Jiaxing's "Scholar, Beauty and People Show" and "Humanity is Soft and Wisdom". Its wisdom is not only manifested in people's intelligence and elegance, but also in the skills of labor production. Historically, Jiaxing's agriculture and handicraft industry have a high level of technology and created many things. Lacquerware and gold and silver utensils in the Yuan Dynasty were exquisite, except silk products. For example, the handed down lacquerware of Xitang School and the silver teacup of Zhudingshan are all national treasures, forming a situation of "all-round skills, equal to Suzhou and Hangzhou".

Respect for literature and love for learning-Jiaxing has been "rare to learn from the army, especially to admire scholars" since ancient times, "the characters of literature and morality have been in love with each other before and after prosperity" and "the Song Dynasty was a country of cultural relics". Today, many people are eager to learn, and those who are in trouble are also prosperous. ""What's in the clothes is impressive. " "Good reading, although there must be classics in the village of Miyake", "People from other places teach their children to read".

Enterprising and innovating-Jiaxing is located at the junction of two provinces, with many immigrants. It is tolerant, willing to accept new things, conform to the trend and open up the atmosphere. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Jiaxing became a land of good fortune and prosperity, and Jiaxing people seized this opportunity to be "enterprising, profitable and skillful in stunts". The avant-garde literary school in Ming and Qing Dynasties is also a continuation of this enterprising and innovative tradition. Folk custom Jiaxing folk custom has a great relationship with local geographical conditions and folk customs. It is the concrete embodiment of local folk customs in social practice such as production and life, and it is also an important carrier of local culture and folk literature. Some of these customs were created by the working people, and some were established by the government.

Jiaxing folk customs can be roughly divided into production customs, life customs, etiquette customs, age customs, temple fair customs and so on. Due to the developed agriculture in ancient Jiaxing, the customs of rice cultivation and sericulture are the most common and unique.