Gaozhou folk custom

Spring Festival: On New Year's Eve, every family sticks couplets and has a family reunion dinner. On New Year's Day, men, women and children all put on new clothes, and elders give red envelopes to their children, commonly known as "benefiting the market". When people meet, they bow their heads and say auspicious words, and relatives and friends pay New Year greetings to each other, which is called "New Year greetings". On this day, I don't kill animals, I like to eat desserts. There are many activities such as lion dancing and setting off firecrackers in urban and rural areas. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, you can kill animals and eat meat. The third day is poverty day, also called "bare mouth day". Sweeping the floor in the morning and throwing the dustpan outside the door is called "sending the poor", which means not going out to visit relatives and visiting each other. Modern customs change, no longer pay attention to. Seven dishes: There is a saying in Gaozhou countryside called "Opening the Year". On the seventh day of the first month, every household should eat at least seven kinds of dishes, so as to pray for a good start in the new year, smooth everything and ample food and clothing. "Seven dishes" is usually the most tolerant day. Vegetables in each vegetable field can be picked at will, and the owner has no resentment, because no family will grow seven kinds of vegetables. People will warmly invite them to pick vegetables in their own vegetable fields. Then take the dishes home, wash them, and put them in a fat pot soaked in oil, so that a "seven-dish pot" with various dishes can be put on stage. Now this custom has disappeared. Lantern Festival: Hanging lanterns all night on the fifteenth night of the first month. On this day, people are used to eating Yuanxiao, rice cakes, fried piles and powdered sugar to show family reunion. In the evening, besides decorating lanterns, there are activities such as solve riddles on the lanterns, lion rolling, going to the theatre, entertaining with lanterns, night outing for young men and picking flowers. Dragon Boat Festival: Climb the dragon boat and eat zongzi. Double Ninth Festival: Ascending Year Example: "2008 is a big New Year." This is a proverb in Maoming, which means that the ceremony to celebrate the Spring Festival is more important than the festival itself. The annual festival is a special festival in Maoming area. The main purpose is to pray for good weather, prosperity, peace and prosperity, which has been very popular in the Qing Dynasty. In a village for the New Year, people from the surrounding villages will come to watch the fun, and every household will have a big banquet. Whether you know it or not, you will be warmly treated with tea, rice, wine and vegetables. Every year, the streets of villages and towns are decorated with lanterns, and activities such as wandering gods, swimming lanterns, lighting, lion fighting, dragon dancing, floating colors, eight tones, martial arts, performing big dramas (Cantonese operas), puppet shows and setting off fireworks and firecrackers are held all night. However, each village's "Nian" has its own special programs, such as Piaose in Xinyi, puppet show in Gaozhou, drama in Dianbai, unicorn dance, flower-jumping shed in Huazhou and Maogang's one-man show. According to Nanfang Daily, it was learned from Maoming Municipal Bureau of Culture and Broadcasting that "Nianshi", as a folk custom project, has been declared to be included in the provincial intangible cultural heritage list of Guangdong Province. Experts said that as a local traditional custom, "Nianshi" is becoming more and more luxurious to eat, but in the spiritual level of many people, especially young people, its sense of ceremony and traditional cultural connotation are gradually weakening, which needs targeted protection. At the same time, this harmony custom is in danger of being disintegrated, and an important condition for being selected is "endangered". In the sixties and seventies of last century, due to the impact of "Nianshi" as the "four elders", the "Nianshi" in various places was forced to be interrupted, and the inheritors in various places were also implicated and difficult to find. At present, the annual regulations seem to be quite prosperous, and it seems difficult to associate them with "endangered". But curator Chen Zehao explained that with the development of society, the tradition of chronology has also changed. Many places have gradually become accustomed to changing "making years" and "watching years" into "eating years". The cultural connotation of "model of the year" is gradually weakening. The folk culture with local characteristics in Maoming Chronicle is also threatened to be lost, such as dragon dancing, unicorn dancing, flower jumping shed and other folk art performances, which have been difficult to reproduce in Maoming Chronicle for various reasons. In addition, the performance forms in the annual examples, such as folk puppet performances such as single couples, are also in danger of disappearing because of difficulties in inheritance. Local cultural officials told reporters that the Chinese New Year still looks so lively and even more luxurious. For example, the dishes at the banquet are richer and more upscale, and rich people even serve abalone and lobster. However, the reduction of performance forms undoubtedly makes the annual regulations farther and farther away from the tradition. The more serious reality is that, due to the influence of foreign culture, rural youth's belief in local folk beliefs has gradually faded, and the sense of ritual of annual regulations has faded a lot, and the traditional procedural etiquette of annual regulations is gradually disappearing.