During the Spring Festival, Yangjiang people call it the New Year, and celebrating the New Year is the most important festival in traditional festivals. The Spring Festival lasts for a long time, and the actual time is from 1 February 23rd to1month16th. These include: sending the kitchen god, sweeping the house dust, posting Spring Festival couplets, having a reunion dinner, dreaming of the gods, having a great luck, and sealing "flower arrangement".
Sweep indoor dust
From1February 23rd to the lunar calendar1February 30th, every family begins to clean their house, which means getting rid of the old and dirty and welcoming the new year with a new look. Folk call this period "Spring Festival Day", also called "Dust-cleaning Day". It is the traditional habit of our people to sweep the dust and do sanitation before the Spring Festival. Housewives tie bamboo branches or sugarcane tail leaves that have already been prepared to long bamboo poles to clean the dust on walls and roofs.
The so-called "sweeping the house dust" means tying a broom with bamboo branches to symbolize longevity; Sugarcane tail means "sweet to the end every year" At the same time, furniture and kitchen utensils were also cleaned. According to the folk saying, because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all "unlucky" and "unlucky". This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
"Ignorance of God"
Eat New Year's Eve dinner and wait quietly for the opening of CCTV Spring Festival Gala at 8 o'clock. This has become an expectation, a wait, a habit and an indelible Chinese New Year complex. The family stayed up until the early hours of the night, and every family began to set off firecrackers for the New Year. "Get rid of bad things", also called "get rid of bad things", indicates life is sweet in the new year.
What children are looking forward to most is setting off firecrackers in the New Year. Wherever firecrackers are set off, they go to see if there are any silent ones, and they don't care about making them cry. Sometimes a few firecrackers that didn't go off exploded when they were connected to your hand, and you didn't say anything when your hand was injured. If you find a "fish that escapes from the net", you will run away happily and then take it to "play with cow excrement".
"Good luck"
In order to get lucky and pray for good luck, Yangjiang people will have a special activity on the first day of Lunar New Year's Day-"Take the Universiade". "Yangjiang County Records" says: "Before dawn on the first day of the New Year, Yangjiang residents chose the direction of Italy to circle the city, which is called" Universiade "to show good luck in the New Year.
Yongfu Street, Jinxiu Street, Pangui Lane, Langxingfang and Qingyun Road are the only roads that must be taken at the beginning of the Universiade. The Universiade started from Qingyun Road and took the meaning of "going out of the academy, climbing high and looking far, reaching out and climbing Dangui". Some young people want to bring a small bunch of peach blossoms when they are "lucky" and pin their hopes on "lucky peach blossoms". One year, during the Universiade, a clever farmer carried a small load of sweet potatoes, each of which was wrapped in festive red paper. When I met a lucky young man, I went up to congratulate him: "Sometimes (potatoes) are really lucky! Sometimes (potatoes) are lucky! " Then send sweet potatoes. "Lucky" young people are also willing to give back rewards.
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People's traditional ideas always like to get more good luck during the Spring Festival, and hope everything goes well. There are many old customs among them. For example, it is forbidden to use brooms everywhere, thinking that using brooms in the New Year will sweep away luck and wealth. Don't scold children in the new year. If a child accidentally breaks his job, he will never scold him. Instead, I will call him "peace all the year round" because "broken" and "old" are homophonic.
On the first day of the first day, everyone wears new clothes to celebrate the New Year, and everyone should say auspicious words and congratulate each other. Say something nice even if you sneeze. In the past, some women sneezed and read the words that they hoped to get married: "Scold! Great luck! Marry a working comrade, a doctor and a driver will do, and the smelly farmers have nothing to do! " Unfortunately, she looks down on farmers. It never occurred to her that no farmers, doctors, drivers and pork sellers would starve to death.
Rich families will invite people to dance with lions to worship their houses in the early morning of the first day of the New Year's Day, which is regarded as a "prosperous house". The lion dance in Jiangcheng is called "Meng is a child", which is taboo, because the sound of "lion" in Yangjiang is as unlucky as "losing". If the newlyweds want to have a boy early, they will invite the lion into the bedroom and let him roll on the bed. "The lion sleeps" is a good sign of "being a boy".
New Year greeting
The second day of the new year is the beginning of the new year. At this time, folk artists pay New Year greetings along the door, playing and singing, which means celebrating and being auspicious. After the second day, you can go out for a long trip, visit relatives and friends, and go to the village (visit relatives). New Year greetings are a traditional folk custom in China, including congratulations on a happy New Year and greetings to life.
With the development of the times, the custom of New Year greetings is constantly adding new contents and forms. Nowadays, in addition to following the previous New Year greetings, people have also sprung up New Year cards, telephone calls, short messages, online New Year greetings and so on. Convenient and practical.
For thousands of years, the sea has changed and the moon has turned to the stars. This series of festive elements has never changed. This is a kind of "China complex". Society is progressing, life is changing, and we have ushered in an era of food and clothing! Whether rich or poor, happiness is the best; Whether it is rich or monotonous, family reunion is the happiest.
"Tiger Culture" of Yangjiang People
Yangjiang people's "tiger culture" is very distinctive, and there are many sayings about tigers in Yangjiang proverbs. For example, "going up the mountain will eventually meet a tiger"-a metaphor for doing too many bad things, there will always be a bad day; "A big worm with a big head and a small tail" is similar to "a giant who talks and a dwarf who acts"; "Hide" means "hide". There are tigers hidden in the short seedlings, which means that things are unexpected and there are big problems in inconspicuous places; "Killing a tiger is better than killing a brother"-refers to the cooperation of brothers who are close together when fighting a tiger; "A big bug borrows a pig-if it is borrowed, it can't be repaid"-A tiger borrows a pig, and the consequence is that the pig is eaten by the tiger. Deliberately taking other people's things (property), but in the name of borrowing, it is impossible to return them to him, just like a big bug (tiger) "borrowing" a pig; "Gangwa guy hits the big bug ―― all the fruits are in the pot": it means to put all your eggs in one basket and do your best. It is said that a seller of cylindrical tiles met a big bug (tiger) and threw the cylindrical tiles in his bag at the big bug again and again, repelling the attack of the big bug. Almost all the car cylinders were thrown away, leaving only one big cylinder. The blade jumped up again, and he threw the casserole at the blade's head with all his strength, which gave the blade a fatal blow.