I want to know what customs there are in Chizhou Festival in Anhui. Try to enrich it.
Shangyuan Festival: The 15th day of the first lunar month, also known as Lantern Festival. There are customs such as eating "glutinous rice balls", playing lanterns, dancing dragons, antique history, offering sacrifices to gods, and making hijab.
Flower Festival: February 15th of the lunar calendar. Named after the meaning of flowers. On this day, rural families use glutinous rice to explode rice bubbles to show the meaning of harvest and maturity. Women sit around drinking tea, and girls wear earrings on this day. Choose this day to get married, and take the beautiful scenery of a full moon as an auspicious celebration. Burning lanterns at night (the bride who got married in the first year sent Guanyin pine nut lanterns and Kirin lanterns from her parents and in-laws, and burned Kirin lanterns that night, and Guanyin pine nut lanterns will be burned on the evening of the Flower Festival the following year after the bride gave birth to a child).
Tomb-Sweeping Day: In ancient times, the day after the cold food (the third day) was Tomb-Sweeping Day, but now it is Boxing Day stipulated in the calendar. Every household sweeps graves to worship their ancestors. In the old days, families or houses held banquets with men attending, which was called "sake" for ancestor worship. Women wear cypress or peach and willow branches. Gu Yue said, "If you don't wear willow in Qingming Festival, beauty will be the first."
Long Summer Festival: On this day, bacon, salted eggs and rice noodles are essential, so it is commonly known as "Laba Festival". There are also the habits of eating glutinous rice candy, boiling dogs, stewing chickens and eating tonics, commonly known as "summer tonic".
Dragon Boat Festival: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, commonly known as "May Festival", also known as "Duanyang" and "Heavy noon". Eat zongzi, wheat paste (also called fried fish) and drink realgar wine. Every door and window is hung with calamus and mugwort tied with kudzu vine. There is a dragon boat race in the county. Before the festival, each dragon boat team will send sugar, meat buns and zongzi to every local household.
Mid-Autumn Festival: the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, also known as "Ghost Festival" and "July 30th". This is a festival to worship ancestors. On the twelfth day of the seventh lunar month, tea, wine and incense are prepared for ancestor worship, which is called "bringing Grandfather and Grandmother back to the church". On holidays, paper money and gold and silver ingots are put in large paper bags, marked with the words "for some ancestors, and some are given", and duck blood is sacrificed, and the whole bag is burned at night, commonly known as "burning bags".
Mid-Autumn Festival: On the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, moon cakes are the most popular. In folk customs, cakes are often given as gifts. In the evening, middle-aged and elderly people enjoy the moon, teenagers touch the green (steal some vegetables and fruits), and women "catch the moonlight"
Double Ninth Festival: the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, also known as Double Ninth Festival. And climbing mountains and drinking dogwood chrysanthemum wine. The custom of eating fried taro buns and potato buns is still popular.
The above is commonly known as "four seasons and eight festivals".
Off-year: On the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, a few villages celebrate off-year on the 24th. Once upon a time, the night before the festival, the kitchen team sent it. After the festival, porridge and moldy tofu were not eaten. Women are not allowed to enter or stay in their parents' homes.
New Year's Eve, commonly known as "New Year's Eve". On this day, door gods, Spring Festival couplets, incense sticks, three meats, three vegetarian wines, tea and chicken soup should be prepared to show respect for ancestors, commonly known as "serving soup". Amid firecrackers, the whole family eats a New Year's Eve dinner called "soup" and "reunion dinner", and parents give their unmarried children and grandchildren lucky money. At night, "light" and "paste paper" (stick a piece of paper money on the door, warehouse door and six livestock door with red paper rolls). Eating a meal and sitting all night is called "keeping watch".
Spring Festival: the first day of the first lunar month, commonly known as "the first day of the first lunar month". Before dawn, Mingbao opened the door, chose "Italian direction" and took the first step, called "going out". In some villages, men in the whole village get together to drink fruit wine, which is called "starting with food". Every family eats fried glutinous rice in the morning. In the county, in the morning, elders will lead their children and grandchildren to the nearest temple to worship God. After breakfast, everyone visits each other to celebrate the New Year. Most people are vegetarian on this day. From the second day to the Lantern Festival, families hold banquets for each other, which is called "New Year's Eve".
On the seventh day of the first lunar month, Hakka people are used to drinking soup. On this day's breakfast, we should eat soup made of rice, beans, peanuts, sweet potatoes, taro, garlic and ginger. Gu said, "After eating seven kinds of soup, you are a beggar." It means that from this day on, everyone will start their work and labor in the new year.
Beginning of spring: In the old society, Spring Festival couplets were posted and incense was lit to worship God. As the saying goes, "Spring Festival". Spring is always ringing to welcome the Spring Festival.
Spring Club: The fifth year after beginning of spring, around the vernal equinox. Sacrifice to the land god (commonly known as the social secretary and the blessed Lord).
April 8: The eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar is the birthday of the old official bodhisattva, and folk parties sing operas.