Folk custom of Jiangnan water town

On the Dragon Boat Festival in May, every family eats zongzi and drinks realgar wine, and sticks spells on the doors with calamus and mugwort leaves to drive away evil spirits. Also use realgar wine to give children eyebrows to drive away scorpion, snake, centipede, gecko and toad.

2. June 6th

In June, literati exposed painting and calligraphy clothes. Farmers dry their clothes and trousers and eat wonton on June 6. As the saying goes, cats and dogs take a bath on June 6, and they take a bath in the river from this day.

3. Mid-Autumn Festival

July 15 is the Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as "July and a half". In ancient times, small families prepared food and wine to pay homage to their ancestors. There was no meat sacrifice in ancient times, and fruit thinning was the main way. On the 30th birthday of the Tibetan king, there is a custom of burying incense in the ground.

4. Mid-Autumn Festival

August 15 is the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is "August and a half". On that day, every family eats moon cakes, and in the evening, they get together to enjoy the moon. The old man tells the story of Mid-Autumn Festival to the younger generation. On the ninth Double Ninth Festival in September, people climb mountains together, and the new town has the custom of eating millet cakes. Millet cake is made of rice flour, sprinkled with peach kernels, roses and sugar, sweet and delicious.

5. Cooking Day

On December 23rd of the lunar calendar, Kitchen Day is called "La La 23". Worship the kitchen god with red beans, glutinous rice and holly cypress leaves, tear down the kitchen of the kitchen hall, burn the sky with incense sticks and replace it with a new statue of the kitchen god.

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