What is Xi 'an's custom?

Eating jiaozi in the New Year: In China folklore, eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve is an important feast that no food can replace. Jiaozi, also known as jiaozi or Joule, in order to get rid of the bad luck for a year, people from far away will go back to their hometown and eat jiaozi with their families to show a happy home.

Visit the Tang Temple Fair in the west: Xi 'an Tang Temple Fair in the west was one of the largest temple fairs in China during the prosperous Tang Dynasty. After a thousand years' interruption, it finally met the general public again, blending Chinese and western customs and elegant customs, and became a cultural feast during the Spring Festival in Xi 'an.

Chinese New Year steamed buns: Steamed buns are one of the folk customs in northern China. According to the custom, from the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th day of the first lunar month, every household began to steam steamed buns, turning ordinary wheat-flour steamed buns into handicrafts. Local people celebrate with possession —— Flower steamed buns, a unique staple food in Shaanxi Province.

Sacrificing social fire: Folk social fire comes from the worship of ancient land and fire. Society, that is, the land god, fire, that is, the ancestor of fire, is the legendary Vulcan. With the development of society, the ritual of social fire has gradually added entertainment elements and become a large-scale and rich folk entertainment activity.

Four-color ceremony: Xi 'an area has some unique stresses during the Chinese New Year, and the typical one is the four-color ceremony. The four-color ceremony, also known as the four-color ceremony, is a ceremony that the younger generation in Xi 'an pays attention to the elders. The four colors, namely the four seasons, represent one year, which contains the meaning of complete happiness from beginning to end and is the blessing of the younger generation to the elders. For example, after the engagement, the man will bring four kinds of gifts to the woman's house for the first time: cigarettes, wine, meat, canned food or fruit, and the woman's house will also make up four kinds of gifts for the man to take back.

Xi 'an City Wall Lantern Festival: Xi 'an City Wall Lantern Festival is a China Spring Festival folk cultural activity with Xi characteristics, which is internationally renowned and first-class in China. The general public and tourists at home and abroad can enjoy local folk culture, enjoy grand festivals and participate in interesting interactive games.

Eating five beans: "Eating five beans" is a folk custom in Guanzhong area of Xi. On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, five kinds of beans, such as soybeans, red beans, mung beans, red beans and black beans (which can be replaced by other beans or other things in the absence), are put into a pot and cooked. The whole family can eat it, but they can't finish it. They must have more than enough after eating. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a bumper harvest and good luck in the coming year. After the winter solstice, the days get longer and the nights get shorter. Eat five beans. Therefore, eating five beans also means seasonal changes, and the custom of eating five beans is still popular in rural areas.

Youdu Chenghuang Temple Fair: During the Xi 'an Chenghuang Temple Fair, the ancient band of Chenghuang Temple will perform Chang 'an ancient music on the stage in front of the main hall, and there will be drums from all over Xi 'an. At the temple fair, various vendors made it the favorite "authentic" temple fair of Xi people.