The festival customs of Hainan celebrating the Spring Festival make you
Hainan Spring Festival customs: The most important festival of the year, the Spring Festival, is here, and the people of the whole country are busy celebrating the New Year, buying New Year's goods, sticking Spring Festival couplets, door gods, appliqués, setting off firecrackers, sweeping dust, bathing, stove worship, ancestor worship, New Year's greetings, and other activities have begun, and the customs of different periods, regions, and ethnic groups across the country are different. The National Standard Products Network has specially sorted out the Spring Festival customs in Hainan for you, so that you can understand Hainan "and approach Hainan".
Hainan Spring Festival customs
In the eyes of the Hainan people, everything is artificially made according to people's will and wishes. Therefore, in the Hainan dialect, all actions are preceded by the word "do", such as doing Qingming, being in-laws (that is, getting married), while the northerners "celebrate the New Year", the Hainan dialect is called "do the New Year". It should be explained that "do the New Year" refers to "do the old year". And the New Year's Day in the north is called "do the New Year" in Hainan. However, in the rural areas of Hainan, "New Year" is not "done" in the same year.
As the Hainan saying goes, "The year is afraid of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the month is afraid of the fifteenth day". Once the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, the countryside will prepare for the "New Year": castrating roosters, stuffing fat ducks, herding domestic pigs, and preparing New Year's money. As soon as the late December of the lunar calendar enters, the atmosphere of "New Year" becomes more and more intense!
The first is to send the "Kitchen Duke" on the 24th of December. According to legend, the "Kitchen Duke" was the god sent by the Jade Emperor to supervise good and evil in the world, and he had to report to the Jade Emperor on this day every year. To this end, every household used bamboo handles or bamboo branches to clean the front and back of the house, inside and outside the house, above and below the house, and the incense burner should also be cleaned and replaced with new ashes. At night, wine fruits were prepared and sacrifices were set up to send the "Kitchen Duke" off.
As soon as the "Kitchen Duke" was delivered, the head of the family was busy "issuing the market". In the past, the "city" of each township had 365 days a year, and only the "city" a few days ago could "issue" one "issue"! Those who sell three birds, those who sell gold and silver incense candles, those who sell Jingguo candy cakes, those who sell "dolls" (New Year pictures), those who sell "Wang Le plaster" (that is, walking the rivers and lakes), those who sell dishes and pottery pots, those who sell "New Year's sacrifice oranges", those who sell all kinds of clothes... If you have it, you can buy it, those who buy pork, those who buy dry vegetables, those who buy wet vegetables (that is, seasonal vegetables), those who buy "Gong Gong" offerings, those who buy clothes to wear for the New Year, those who buy New Year's pictures couplets... All morning, in every "city", those who carry burdens, those who carry baskets, those who push carts, those who hold children, the elderly, the young, men, women... People come and go, and the stream flows endlessly. Farmers use burdens to carry New Year's goods and carts to push New Year's goods. They took out all their savings from a hard year! The year's consumption energy burst out in these few days!
The real-world friends of "Fa Nian City" met and asked each other: "Brother Er! Is the'chicken castrated ' (that is, the castrated rooster) fat?" "Third sister-in-law! Is there a'chicken castrated' for the New Year?" "Third woman! Is your house (that is, your family) doing work? Is the boy (the child who works outside) coming back for the New Year?" "Second Duke! Does your house Nanyang have a'New Year's Approval ' (the New Year's letter sent back by the foreign relatives) to send back?"
Filled with the joy of "making the New Year", people pasted the New Year pictures they bought in the living room, pasted couplets on the lintel, and some people pasted "Li Shi" red paper on furniture and fruit trees. A few days ago, every household was busy soaking glutinous rice, grinding rice milk, and making rice cakes. Wenchang and other places were busy making rice flower candy and peanut candy (these rice cakes and fruits are made in large quantities, both for home consumption and as gifts, usually until the end of the first month).
Every time at this time, the dignitaries, scholars and scholars who work in large, medium and small cities, whether they are peddlers, lead cars and sell pulp, show off their ancestors, or have dry pockets, they all return to their hometown where they were born and raised...
There is a saying in Hainan that "on the 30th night - the knife and anvil must not be idle". Because in Hainan, no matter how poor the family is, on the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, if you borrow money to borrow rice, you have to kill chickens and ducks. Braised meat, pig hooves, meat dishes, and vegetarian dishes are placed on the eight immortals table in front of the incense burner in seven plates and eight bowls. After the ceremony of offering sacrifices to ancestors is completed, firecrackers are set off. After the food is cold, the whole family eats New Year's dinner around the stove (commonly known as "surrounding the stove"). On the evening of New Year's Eve, after men, women, and children take a bath, they all put on new clothes, which means sending the old and welcoming the new. Even in the era of tickets, you usually have to save kerosene. From the evening of the 30th, the room will be lit, and the house will have lights. The house will have lights, and the house Commonly known as "hair lanterns", it means "making a fortune". On the 30th night, many people "keep up with the New Year" and stay up all night until the first day of the new year. At this time, according to the time, families scramble to light up the New Year cannons, which means "welcoming spring and receiving blessings". Then the younger generation kowtows, salutes, and congratulates the elders on "adding blessings and longevity". The elders give the younger generation "lucky money".
In the early morning of the first day of the new year, both young and old have to get up to eat "fasting rice" (that is, clean and white to remember their ancestors). "fasting rice" is not only similar to Islamic halal food, but also like the northerners must eat fish during the New Year (more than every year), the food must also have auspicious meanings, among which there must be stir-fried eggplant (eggplant, Hainanese meaning better and better every year), stir-fried water celery ("celery" is homophonic with "diligence", hoping that the whole family will work hard in the new year), long fans (meaning to live a long life), yellow dried tofu like gold ingot (meaning to attract wealth and treasure)...
On the first day of the new year, there are many taboos: you can't carry water (you have to fill the water tank on New Year's Eve), you can't sweep the floor (even if firecracker paper and nut shell confetti are sprinkled all over the ground, you can't sweep it away, saying that you are sweeping away the "God of Wealth"), you can't scold each other, you can't fight, you can't break utensils (meaning "harmony"), you must say auspicious words for the New Year when you meet...
The customs of New Year's greetings vary from place to place in Hainan. In some places, New Year's greetings are on the first and second days of the new year, tasteless on the third and fourth days of the new year, and in some places, New Year's greetings cannot be paid at home. Gifts for New Year's greetings generally include citrus oranges or orange leaves in the gift to express the blessing of "good luck this year".
The second year of junior high school is when the married daughter brings her husband and children back to her parents' house to pay New Year's greetings. If she returns to her parents' house for New Year's greetings in the first year of marriage, she will bring her own firecrackers and set off a string of firecrackers before entering the door to inform her. Daughter and son-in-law's New Year's greetings to her father-in-law and mother-in-law are the most solemn New Year's greetings. On this day, the rest of the family (especially the elders) have to be at home and receive greetings. Father-in-law and mother-in-law have to prepare a sumptuous feast. When daughter and son-in-law leave in the afternoon, they have to
On the third day of junior high school, some places in Hainan are called "fried test", which is about to cook more dry rice, eat chicken, and duck head feet specially on the 30th day of the new year. Fried in a pan with oil and then eaten, to show that there is something left over from last year to this year, and also to show that the year has passed.
