What are the customs in Fengjie?
Spring Festival: A day for China people to celebrate and reunite with their families. People who study or do business abroad will take the trouble to go home from thousands of miles away to celebrate the festival.
Sweep the dust, paste the door gods, paste the Spring Festival couplets, paste the blessings upside down, buy new year's goods, and decorate the doors inside and outside the house. There are three main activities on New Year's Eve: having a reunion dinner, offering sacrifices and observing the New Year. Therefore, the activities during this period are all around changing the old for the new, eliminating disasters and praying for blessings. Watching the Spring Festival Gala, eating jiaozi, setting off firecrackers and playing late into the night, this is called Shousui.
New Year greetings: The traditional folk customs in China are a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express their best wishes to each other. Generally speaking, starting from home, on the first morning, after the younger generation gets up, they should first pay a New Year call to their elders and wish them health, longevity and all the best. After the elders worship, they should distribute the "lucky money" prepared in advance to the younger generation.
Climbing high: On holidays, Fengjie people will never forget their dead ancestors, and the Spring Festival is no exception. During the Spring Festival, they often go to the graves of deceased ancestors in rural areas to sweep graves, remove weeds from graves, cultivate soil, hang graves, set off firecrackers, burn incense, burn paper money, kowtow and send acacia blessings.
Back to her mother's house: A married daughter will take her husband and children back to her mother's house to pay New Year's greetings.
Fengjie people have a saying: don't go out on the first day, go to your mother's house on the second day, and go to your father's house on the fourth day of the third day.
Mid-Autumn Festival: August 15th of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China. It is an indispensable custom for the whole family to enjoy the moon. Moon cakes are a special food of the Chinese nation, with rich cultural characteristics of China and various varieties. Every household gives mooncakes to each other, and the married daughter will bring her husband's belt back to her family to give gifts on this day, which is called "Eating Festival".
Touching autumn: There is another custom in Fengjie. Every night in the Mid-Autumn Festival, people consciously go outside to steal vegetables, fruits, etc., making their hosts noisy and scolding, which indicates good luck in the coming year.
Dragon Boat Festival: The fifth day of the fifth lunar month, commonly known as "Dragon Boat Festival", is to commemorate Qu Yuan, eat zongzi, scrolls, salted eggs, race dragon boats, hang calamus and mugwort leaves, and drink realgar wine. It is said that the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the small Dragon Boat Festival, the fifteenth is the big Dragon Boat Festival, and the 25th is not the Dragon Boat Festival. Grand dragon boat races are often held, and almost all Fengjie people are out of town. Children are dressed up and eating salted eggs, with the word "Wang" written on their foreheads in realgar wine, and "water chestnut" wrapped in five-color silk thread or a little monkey stuffed with mugwort leaves made of cloth hanging around their necks. Zongzi is washed with bamboo leaves, boiled until soft, washed with glutinous rice, wrapped into a triangular cone, tied with a string and connected into a string. Usually glutinous rice, wrapped in diced bacon or put in candied fruit or red dates. Zongzi is also a gift from relatives and friends. Unmarried and married son-in-law in Fengjie will specially prepare zongzi, flower rolls, salted eggs and other gifts to go to her husband's family for the holidays.