What are the folk customs of Changting?
Changting has simple folk customs. Hakka people are hardworking and kind, advocating morality and paying attention to etiquette, especially respecting teachers and being hospitable. Teachers and old people are respected in people's hearts, whether in cities or villages; No matter where tourists come from, they feel at home. This is directly related to Changting's long-standing traditional culture and Hakka's yearning for knowledge, charity and the future. The folk customs of Hakka in Changting, regardless of food, clothing, housing and transportation, weddings, funerals and celebrations, are compatible with the inheritance of the Central Plains and indigenous customs, and are rich and colorful, just like a colorful folk picture scroll.
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the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year
The Spring Festival begins at midnight on the first day of the first month. Hakka people in Changting believe that the Spring Festival is the real Spring Festival. Headed by a century, we have infinite hope for the new year. Spring Festival travel rush is divided into three stages: the preparation stage is from the beginning of the year to New Year's Eve; New Year's Day to the fifth day; Lunar New Year's Day to Lantern Festival is the afterglow stage.
Entry boundary: Lunar calendar1February 24th is the entry boundary. After entering the New Year's Eve, we will actively prepare for the New Year's Eve, such as giving gifts, cleaning, washing and drying bedding and clothes, getting a haircut and taking a bath, and buying new clothes.
Steamed rice for the New Year: Steamed rice on the day before New Year's Eve will last for several days, meaning "there is surplus food in the New Year". Steamed again on the third morning. Rice can only be released on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
Chinese New Year: On the night of New Year's Eve, families get together and have a drink, which is called "Eating New Year's Wine", which means "Chinese New Year". On New Year's Eve, couplets are posted in front of doors and halls, and red paper is posted on household appliances, which is called "sealing the year" and "putting red".
Shou Sui: After the New Year's Eve dinner, the whole house is brightly lit until dawn, which is called "Year Fire". Relatives at home get together and the whole family gets together and stays up all night, which is called "Shou Sui". The elders give their children red envelopes with red paper, which is called "New Year's Eve". Put the red envelope on the altar and call it "lucky money".
Get off to a good start: in the early morning of the first day of the first month, when choosing an auspicious day according to the General Book, open the door, declare that "all is well, everything goes well, and all sides will benefit", set off firecrackers, bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
New Year's greetings: On the first day of the first lunar month, people open their doors to welcome guests and choose auspicious directions to show that they are "out of the Arabian Nights" to welcome the Western gods. At the same time, go to relatives and friends' homes to pay New Year greetings and wish each other a happy New Year.
Entertainment: Traditional entertainment activities are quite rich during the Spring Festival. Folk activities such as pedal lights, dragon lanterns, lion lanterns, walking on stilts, playing lanterns, playing flower drums, acting, marionettes, etc. are all over urban and rural areas and are very lively.
Beginning of spring: Hakkas in Changting "make love". Because it is the first of the 24 solar terms in a year, it is highly valued. At that time, incense tables will be prepared, incense and candles will be burned, firecrackers will be set off, and red notes such as "Spring Festival" and "Spring Festival" will be affixed, which is called "Spring Festival".
the Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival of Changting Hakka is also called "the first half of the first month", which is the first festival in a year. Eating "Yuanxiao" and "No Yuanxiao" are made of glutinous rice flour, brown sugar, peanuts and sesame seeds. To wish the family a reunion and harmony. People hold all kinds of lanterns, play with lanterns and enjoy them, which is very lively, commonly known as "Lantern Festival". Towns (towns) such as Fangtu, Nanshan, Hotan and Sanzhou are especially famous for welcoming lights.
On this frightening day, Hakka people in Changting fried beans, fried wheat, or cooked taro with hot water; Sprinkle quicklime on cabinet feet, table feet, column feet and wall feet. These two practices are called "frying insects" and "mixing insects with insects". When hibernating insects begin to revive, Hakkas advocate early extinction.
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Hakka people in Changting have the custom of offering sacrifices to land gods and valley gods on social days. The fifth day after beginning of spring every year is the Spring Festival society. Hakka people dress up as characters and stories. They march to meet the gods and pray for a bumper harvest, but it is not common. & ltBR & gt& ltBR & gt During the Qingming Festival, the Hakkas in Changting visited graves to worship their ancestors, from the vernal equinox to Qingming Festival. Sacrificial activities are very particular. During this period, many families who went out hurried home to worship their ancestors.
Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the May Festival, is one of the three major festivals in a year: May, August and twelfth month. Besides following the custom of wrapping palm seed with bamboo leaves, eating realgar wine, racing dragon boats and hanging calamus, men, women and children also need to take a bath with "medicine" on the fifth day of May. "Yaoba Water" is made of herbs that can be used as medicine in the mountains.
Enter the hottest day of the year.
Hakka people in Changting eat "fairy jelly" on the day of crouching. According to custom, it is good to eat "fairy jelly" on a hot day. "Fairy bean jelly" is mainly made of fairy grass and starch.
June is new.
Hakka people in Changting "eat new" means tasting new rice. Generally speaking, after the summer heat, you should "eat something new" every day. In rural areas, rice is cut and ground into new rice, which is prepared for offering sacrifices to grain gods and ancestors.
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The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, while the Mid-Autumn Festival of Changting Hakka falls on the 14th of July. According to legend, at the end of the Song Dynasty, when the Hakkas were preparing for the festival, Yuan soldiers suddenly invaded, so they sacrificed their ancestors one day in advance to avoid being disturbed by the soldiers. On July 14, ancestor worship was held, and on July 15, "Wild Ghosts" were held.
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The custom of Hakkas celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival is roughly the same as that of Central Plains. However, the Hakka people in Changting still retain the custom of "Yue Hua". According to folklore, the Tianmen is wide open, the moonlight is strange, the Moonlight Bodhisattva is coming, and those who see it seek happiness and wealth, so some people keep the moon until late at night >
Double Ninth Festival
The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the "Double Ninth Festival", which is commonly known as the "September Festival" by Changting Hakkas. Every household cooks bean jelly, makes rice cakes, kills chickens and ducks, buys pork and entertains relatives and friends. There are also activities of climbing mountains and enjoying chrysanthemums.
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September 14th of the lunar calendar was originally a temple fair in Changting City. In ancient times, it was very grand to greet God and worship Buddha. The streets are crowded and every household is full of guests. All kinds of Quyi performances stayed up all night and were lively for three days.