How do you spend the Spring Festival in the countryside? What is the difference?
In my hometown, the Spring Festival almost begins on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
On Laba Festival, almost every household will cook Laba porridge. Red beans, rice, mung beans, raisins, red dates and other raw materials are put into a pot and boiled. The sky is booming. According to the older generation, eating Laba porridge pays attention to eating at night and marrying a red-eyed wife after eating it during the day, haha.
After Laba, it will be the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month-off-year in a few days. This day pays attention to eating sesame candy (maltose), and there will be sesame candy sold in the street the night before. When I was a child, sesame candy was really delicious and sticky. Old people in the village often say, twenty-three, if you don't eat sesame candy, your mouth will become crooked. If you have a stove at home, you should clean the dust in front of the stove, burn paper and incense, put a plate on the stove, and put all kinds of fruits, biscuits, sesame candy and other tributes on the plate. It is said that the hemp candy in the tribute is to paste the mouth of the kitchen god.
In my hometown, after twenty-three, I'm basically waiting for the New Year.
On New Year's Eve, every household should eat rice. Fishing rice is made of millet and rice. Cook the rice in a pot until it is half cooked, take it out and pile it up in a small pile. Put beans and red dates on it. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when it was getting dark, the men at home (both adults and children) turned on their flashlights, walked all the way to the ancestral grave, and then returned along the original road. This is called receiving ancestors, which means taking the deceased ancestors home for the New Year. I still have to send it back after the Spring Festival.
On New Year's Day, unlike many places, people will come out to beat gongs and drums and twist their waists. Many people of the older generation don't go out on the first day of our junior high school, but they all stay at home. This is called holding their luck. Many families will eat vegetarian food for one day on this day. It is said that vegetarian food on this day can be eaten for a year.
In the third grade, I will meet the Western God. After breakfast, people put on new clothes and went out to meet the western gods with incense, paper and firecrackers. After coming out of the house, go south, wait for a wider place, burn incense, burn paper and set off firecrackers, which is said to welcome the Western God home.
In my hometown, the most lively is the Lantern Festival. Moreover, the Lantern Festival in our place is not only celebrated on the 15th day of the first month, but also lasts until the 18th day of the first month. From the evening of the first month 15, for three consecutive nights, people from all villages in the town will put on festive costumes, dance yangko, walk on stilts, beat gongs and drums and pay homage to the New Year under the organization of the village committee. On this day, as long as there is nothing wrong with the body, almost everyone will come out and everyone will be beaming. Moreover, these parades are not fixed in one place, but have routes and temples that must be visited. Everyone burns incense and prays for a better new year.