What are the traditional festivals and customs in Yingkou?
Yingkou City Customs and Traditional Festivals
The dragon raises his head on the second day of February
According to folklore, every second day of the second lunar month is the day when the Dragon King in charge of clouds and rain in the sky raises his head. ; From now on, the rain will gradually increase. Therefore, this day is called "Spring Dragon Festival". The folk proverb "On February 2, the dragon raises its head; when the big warehouse is full, the small warehouse flows." is widely circulated in northern my country.
Whenever the Spring Dragon Festival comes, in most parts of northern my country, every household carries lanterns to the well or river to fetch water on this morning. When they return home, they light lamps, burn incense and make offerings. In the old days, people called this ceremony "Yin Tianlong". On this day, every household also eats noodles, fried cakes, and popcorn, which are compared to "carrying a dragon head", "eating gentian", and "golden beans bloom, the dragon king ascends to the sky, the clouds spread rain, and the grain is abundant" to show auspiciousness. .
The origin of the Spring Dragon Festival is such a mythical story circulated among the people in northern my country. It is said that when Wu Zetian became emperor, she angered the Jade Emperor and ordered the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas not to rain on earth for three years. Soon, the Dragon King in charge of Tianhe listened to the cries of the people and saw the tragic scene of people starving to death. He was worried that his life in the world would be cut off, so he defied the Jade Emperor's will and made rain fall on the world. When the Jade Emperor learned of this, he brought the Dragon King down to the mortal world and forced him to suffer under a mountain. A monument was erected on the mountain: The Dragon King broke the rules of heaven by raining, and he should be punished for the rest of his life;
If you want to return to Lingxiao Pavilion, you must When the golden beans bloom.
In order to save the Dragon King, people looked for blooming golden beans everywhere. On the second day of February of the next year, when people were drying corn seeds, they thought that the corn was like golden beans. When they were fried, they bloomed. Isn't it just golden beans blooming? Every household pops popcorn, sets up a table in the yard, burns incense, and offers flowering "golden beans". The Dragon King looked up and knew that the people were saving him, so he shouted to the Jade Emperor: "The golden beans are blooming, let me out quickly!" When the Jade Emperor saw the golden beans blooming in every courtyard in the world, he had to pass on an edict and ordered the Dragon King to return. Go to heaven and continue to bring clouds and rain to the world. Since then, people have formed a habit of popping corns every second day of February.
In fact, after the second month of the lunar calendar, the "rain" solar term comes, the lack of rain in winter ends, and the rainfall will gradually increase. This is originally a characteristic of the monsoon climate in North China.
Qingming Festival
Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms in our country. Since the twenty-four solar terms more objectively reflect changes in temperature, rainfall, phenology and other aspects throughout the year, working people in ancient times used them to arrange agricultural activities. "Huainanzi? Tianwen Xun" says: "Fifteen days after the vernal equinox, when Dou Zhiyi B, the Qingming wind will arrive." According to "Hundred Questions of the Year": "Everything growing at this time is clean and bright. Therefore, it is called Qingming Festival. "When Qingming Festival comes, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases. It is a good time for spring plowing and spring planting. Therefore, there are farmers' proverbs like "Before and after Qingming, order melons and plant beans" and "Afforestation is better than Qingming." It can be seen that this solar term is closely related to agricultural production.
Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in my country and the most important sacrificial festival. It is a day for worshiping ancestors and sweeping tombs. Tomb sweeping, commonly known as visiting graves, is an activity to pay homage to the deceased. Most of the Han people and some ethnic minorities visit tombs during the Qingming Festival.
According to the old custom, when sweeping the tomb, people should bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer the food in front of the tomb of their loved ones, then burn the paper money, build new soil on the tomb, and fold a few branches. New green branches are planted on the grave, then they kowtow and worship, and finally go home after eating wine and food. Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Qingming": "It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road are dying. May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village." It describes the special atmosphere of the Qingming Festival.
Qingming Festival, also called the Outing Festival, according to the Gregorian calendar, it falls between April 4th and 6th every year. It is the time when the spring scenery is bright and the grass is green, and it is also the time when people go out for spring outings. It is a good time for outing (called outing in ancient times), so the ancients had the custom of outing during Qingming Festival and carrying out a series of sports activities.
To this day, the custom of worshiping ancestors and mourning deceased relatives during the Qingming Festival is still very popular.
Dragon Boat Festival
The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the traditional Chinese folk festival - the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as "Duan Yang", "Pu Festival", "Tianzhong Festival", "Tianzhong Festival", "Dachang Festival", "Mulan Festival", "Girls' Day" and "Children's Day". It is one of the traditional festivals of the Han people. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival and Duanyang. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many other names, such as: Wu Day Festival, Chongwu Festival, May Festival, Bath Orchid Festival, Girl's Day, Tianzhong Festival, Di La, Poet's Day, Dragon Day, AI Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Summer Festival, etc. Festival and so on. Although the names are different, generally speaking, the festival customs of people in various places are more similar than different. To this day, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular and grand festival among the Chinese people.
Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival has been a traditional habit of the Chinese people for more than two thousand years. Due to the vast territory and numerous ethnic groups, some Mongolian, Hui, Tibetan, Miao, Yi, Zhuang, Buyi, Korean, Dong and Yao , Bai, Tujia, Hani, She, Lahu, Shui, Naxi, Daur, Mulao, Qiang, Gelao, Xibo, Pumi, Ewenki, Yugu, Oroqen and other ethnic minorities also celebrate this festival, and add many stories and legends, so Not only have there been many different festival names, but there are also different customs in different places. The main contents include: when the daughter returns to her parents' home, hangs the statue of Zhong Kui, greets the ghost ship, hides from the afternoon, puts up the leaf talisman of the afternoon, hangs calamus and mugwort, travels from all diseases, wears sachet, prepares sweet wine for sacrifice, dragon boat race, martial arts competition, and bats. , playing on swings, coating children with realgar, drinking realgar wine, calamus wine, eating Wudu cakes, salted eggs, rice dumplings and seasonal fresh fruits, etc. Except for the superstitious activities that have gradually disappeared, the rest are still spread throughout China and neighboring countries. Some activities, such as dragon boat races, have achieved new development, breaking through time and geographical boundaries and becoming international sports events.
Six. Auntie's Day on the sixth day of June
"On June 6th, please ask your aunt." In the past, on every sixth day of the sixth lunar month, it was customary in rural areas to invite married young and old girls back, entertain them well, and then send them back.
I hope it is useful to you and hope you will adopt it. O(∩_∩)O~~