Comprehensive practical activities with the theme of "Spring Festival in my hometown"

Customs-A Record of Taizhou's New Year Customs?

The Spring Festival is the oldest, most festive, warmest and most desirable traditional festival in China. During the Spring Festival, tourists from afar return to their hometown and parents, and the father who goes out to work brings back a year's hard-earned money to reunite with his wife and children. Compared with foreign festivals, even with ordinary festivals in China, the Spring Festival highlights a family and embodies a feeling. Home is the harbor for all family members, and love is the bond that keeps family members together. ?

In addition to this deep feeling, the Spring Festival also represents joy and good luck. From firecrackers and Xie Nian to dragon and lion dances to celebrate the Spring Festival, everyone's face is filled with happy smiles, and the whole of China is immersed in the peaceful atmosphere of the festival. Because of tradition, it has the influence of traditional culture. ?

There is a saying that three miles is different from the wind and ten miles is different from the customs. Although Taizhou is a small place, there are many Spring Festival customs all over the country. What are the folk customs and folkways of Taizhou people during the Spring Festival? As a Taizhou person, I can't help but know. ?

Do people in Linhai celebrate the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival?

Spring Festival custom?

In Linhai, the Spring Festival usually lasts from the first day of the first month to the eighth day. This is what Zhangjiadu folks say, "You can drink clear soup over eight years old". ?

Before dawn on New Year's Day, firecrackers exploded. After dawn, every household puts candles to burn incense and paper money, offering tea and fruit to the ancestors of heaven, earth and home. ?

For breakfast on New Year's Day, in the past, Chengguan ate glutinous rice and red date porridge, Dongxiang ate "longevity noodles" in coastal fishing villages, and some villagers in Northwest Village ate tofu porridge. In Du Qiao, Shangpan and other places, men make breakfast on the first day and are used to eating "vegetable head rice". On the fourth day, people prepare sacrifices, burn paper horses and paste a new "chef" called "Kitchen God". ?

On the first day of junior high school, there were many taboos in the past: no sweeping the floor, no pouring water on the ground, no knife, no needlework, no work, no business, no swearing, no debt collection, no fighting, and we should live in harmony even on this usual day of hatred. ?

The eighth day of the first month, commonly known as "Shangba", used to be the day when Zhangjiadu opened its market. On the eighth day, every household cooks rice for breakfast, which is called "Shangba rice". After the eighth day, folk New Year greetings will come to an end. However, the activities of the first month officially ended after the fourteenth day of the first month, because people "played lanterns" and "received the God of Wealth" for fourteen nights before the God of Wealth came to an end. ?

The Spring Festival activities in Jiaojiang are roughly the same as those in other parts of the country. The same part is nothing more than posting couplets, setting off firecrackers and playing lanterns to greet each other until the fifteenth day of the first month.

According to the Records of Haimen Town, "On the first day of the first lunar month, every household posted Spring Festival couplets. There are incense tables at the door, and cakes and fruits are dedicated to the gods. Men, women and children, all wearing new clothes, went to the temple to burn incense one by one, and the sound of whipping exploded. Everyone eats zongzi, rice cakes and jiaozi. Cake promotion and reunion. " Because knives are forbidden on the first day of the first lunar month, cakes must be cut on New Year's Eve. Eating rice cakes in the morning represents "promotion", eating jiaozi at noon represents reunion, and eating zongzi at night represents undressing and sleeping. On the other hand, gamblers avoid eating zongzi on this day. He is afraid that he will be stripped naked if he is unlucky in gambling this year.

Jiaojiang, like other places in Taizhou, began the custom of going to ancestral graves during the Spring Festival from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, probably from the past custom of worshipping ancestors' portraits. On this day, the whole family took things to worship their ancestors and went to the ancestral graves in the suburbs or mountains to worship their ancestors. On this day, the hikers are shoulder to shoulder, and the land is endless, which is a grand view. This activity not only shows respect for ancestors, but also goes to the mountains in the suburbs to exercise muscles and absorb fresh air. It's killing two birds with one stone.

"On the morning of the second day of the first month, my hometown used powder hoof wine and meat sacrifice, which was called' opening the year', indicating that everyone was scrambling to meet the new god of wealth. It was very lively in the middle of the night, and firecrackers continued all night. After the New Year, new relatives and consorts will knock on the old year, and the host family will also knock back when they buy wine to treat them ("Haimen Town Chronicles of the Year").

However, most businessmen worship the god of wealth on the fifth day of the first month. According to legend, the fifth day of the first month is the birthday of the god of wealth. On the fifth day, people who want to make a fortune must offer sacrifices to God, especially merchants. So the market will open that day and the sacrifice will be completed. In order to compete for the market, they will get up early to meet. Jiaojiang used to be known as "little shanghai", with developed commerce and numerous businessmen. Therefore, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is full of sacrifices to the god of wealth. On this day, the incense table was filled with firecrackers, and everyone handed in congratulations. In a word, the streets are full of joy, peace and hope.

The last event of the Spring Festival is the Lantern Festival on the 15th night, which is called the Lantern Festival. The fifteenth day of the first month, commonly known as Shangyuan, July 15, 10/5 and Zhongyuan are collectively called Sanyuan. Also known as Yuanxiao Yuanxiao, it all means the first full moon night. Shangyuan Zhangdeng began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. It has been passed down for more than 1000 years!

The Lantern Festival in Jiaojiang in the middle of the first month is roughly the same as the Lantern Festival in other places. Merchants hang colorful lanterns at the door to reward the gods and entertain the people, and cover the eaves with colorful curtains to protect the lanterns. Jiaojiang is located in the port, with a large number of dockers and fishermen. They are active and noisy, so the focus of evening activities is "lanterns", and the most noisy is "Little Master Chuo". In the past, Jiaojiang people called the god in the temple "Master" and the little god "Little Master". Jiaojiang people have the custom of lighting a lamp to greet God in the middle of the first month, which is called "Small Master Chuo" activity.

In order to go out in the middle of the first month, every temple in Jiaojiang has a small statue for going out. The chair is a cushion tied between two big bamboo poles, like a sliding bar carrying people over mountains and mountains. The idol sat on this mat, shouldered by a strong young man, and took part in the welcome activities under the protection of a group of young people in the temple. On the evening of the fifteenth day of the first month, all the merchants and residents in the street are decorated with lanterns, and the whole street is illuminated like day. After eating Yuanxiao, people of all ages took to the streets one after another, and the streets were crowded with people, jostling shoulder to shoulder, in high spirits and empty.

Young master Chuo is led by two dragons. With the deafening sound of gongs and drums, two dragons danced in the dazzling lights and deafening firecrackers, and then the procession of the gods. I don't know what age it is, and I don't know if it's stipulated. Only thirteen statues of Haimen Temple can enter this team, and the first one must be yangfu of yangfu Temple. The rest are Wusheng Temple, Tianhou Temple, Longxiang Temple, Nanmen Temple, Houyan Palace, Yan Qian Palace, Caishen Temple and Shigong Temple. According to the general customs in various places, Guan Yu, who is enshrined in Vu Thang Temple, has been dubbed "Guandi Sheng Jun", claiming the title of emperor, which should be the first statue. But in Jiaojiang, even the "emperor" condescended to the Yangfu, and yangfu made contributions to protecting the environment and keeping the people safe. Master Zhou Lun of Guandi Temple is the second. Why? Because Guan Yu is already an "emperor", the emperor has the dignity of an emperor. He doesn't go out, but only sends his groom "Zhou Cang" to rush out to show his joy with the people.

Young people who carry and protect idols are full of blood, and everyone doesn't want their image to fall behind. Every year, they often fight for who comes first, and sometimes they fight. However, no one dares to fight for the position of "yangfu Ye", which shows the prestige of yangfu Ye in Haimen people's hearts. Another custom of Master Chuo is to set off firecrackers. Everyone who carries and protects the young master should wear sandals barefoot, and firecrackers along the street are thrown at their feet, not in the air. At that time, the guns were deafening, the flames were soaring, and it was very lively. They all want to show that they are brave people by being able to withstand firecrackers and maintain the order of the parade, even if their feet are blown to blood. The climax of the whole trip was when the team finally stopped in front of Yangfu Temple for the masses to watch. The whole North-South Xinjiao Street is the widest and the audience is the most concentrated. 13 young people dressed in red and green arrived here after visiting Haimen Street. All the young people here are arranged in turn for the masses to watch. There are dragon dances, lion dances, flower drums and Hercules in the middle of the street. The gongs and drums of various temples played together here, and the people concentrated the firecrackers that had already been prepared here, setting off waves of climax in the street. The end of the trip was marked by yangfu's return to the temple, and the rest of the young masters beat gongs and drums to their homes. The whole trip is over, and the firecrackers in front of Yangfu Temple can hit the street edge, which shows that there are many firecrackers.

After the activities in the middle of the first month, businesses opened normally, farmers prepared for spring ploughing, vendors and craftsmen from all walks of life began to prepare for their livelihood for one year, and a Spring Festival activity finally came to an end.