It is reported that Dongguan people generally began to clean up smallpox years ago, and then the walls. Cleaning tools are generally big brooms made of bamboo branches and leaves, mainly to clean dust, cobwebs and other dirt accumulated on roofs, eaves and walls. We also have to clean furniture, clothes and quilts, and clean the courtyard. Generally, I have to be busy until the second year, that is, the 23 rd of the twelfth lunar month.
"On the 23 rd of the twelfth lunar month, the kitchen will be sacrificed." Zhang Tiewen said that the sacrifice of the stove is actually cleaning. According to folk tradition, civil servants generally offer sacrifices to stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, officers and civilians on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and their families are buried on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month.
Sacrificial stoves must be made by men. The sacrificial stove is the image of the kitchen god, attached to the top of the stove mouth. The man should paint maltose on the mouth of the kitchen god, make a ladder with hemp bones and worship with sugar cane, so that the kitchen god can "speak well in the sky and keep peace underground." Zhang Tiewen said that the reason for offering sacrifices to the stove is also for hygiene, because a new statue of the kitchen god should be placed after offering sacrifices to the stove. The statue of Kitchen God can be bought in the street and carved on paper with wood. It is said that some people are afraid that the kitchen god will steal his wife when he leaves, and even make up a portrait of the kitchen god's wife next to him when he changes the portrait of the kitchen god.
And some odds and ends that are difficult to wash are generally washed on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. Zhang Tiewen said that there is a saying in Dongguan called "28 years old, sloppy". In Dongguan dialect, rotten tower refers to small bits and pieces, which are generally not cleaned often and are very dirty.
Women wash their hair and men shave their heads.
After cleaning the house, it's time for personal hygiene. According to reports, after the 16th of the twelfth lunar month, women can wash their hair.
"Women are very troublesome and very particular about washing their hair." Zhang Tiewen said that in his memory, women usually wash their hair after cleaning the house, otherwise cleaning the house will make their hair dirty.
It is said that because there was no shampoo before, women usually use tea powder to wash their hair. Tea maker is the residue left over from making tea oil, which is toxic and can kill pond lice, like bean curd residue, and the washing effect is very good. Unmarried girls will comb into two horns after washing their hair, while married women will weave a bun in the shape of a bow, a fly, a dragon and a snail, which is more complicated to weave.
Compared with women, men are much simpler. Zhang Tiewen told reporters that men must shave their heads before the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, because they can't shave their heads in the first month, otherwise they will die.
There are allusions to Zhang Tiewen's statement that uncle died. It is reported that the Qing government asked the Han people to shave their heads. In order to resist the Manchu rule, Han people invented the saying that uncle died in the first month. In the tradition of China people, uncle is a symbol of justice. My uncle usually presides over the separation.
Zhang Tiewen said that adults usually take a bath at the age of 28, and children take a bath first and then sell laziness. Selling laziness is to let the children take a duck egg (commonly used in Guangzhou), insert incense, and run outside the village for three laps. Children should also sing the song of selling laziness: "Sell lazy children, sell lazy children, and sell them to Aunt Wang in Guangxi. I am lazy today, and I will get up early for the New Year (tomorrow). " It is said that as long as children can sell this duck egg, it means they are lazy, but many children secretly eat the duck egg themselves and come back to tell adults that they have sold it.
"New Year's Eve sells laziness. On this day, parents will wake up their children early in the morning, let them get up, take a shower and change clothes, and then sell lazy. After washing clothes on this day, I will wear them for my brothers and sisters in the next year. " Zhang Tiewen said.
The toilet should not only be cleaned but also worshipped.
According to Mr. Zhang Tiewen's memory, the ash at the bottom of the pot was generally scraped at the age of 28. And things like shrines are usually cleaned by men after Weimar. "The toilet god is a special case. Toilets are usually cleaned on New Year's Eve. " Zhang Tiewen told reporters that the toilet god worshipped by the people is Zigu. Generally, after cleaning the toilet on New Year's Eve, candles should be inserted in the toilet and incense should be used to worship Ce Shen.
For those families with poultry and livestock, cleaning the cowshed and henhouse is before the twelfth lunar month. Zhang Tiewen said that on New Year's Day, you can't clean, you can't spill water, and the broom should be hidden from outsiders.
Dragon Boat Festival
Dongguan Dragon Boat Festival custom-go back to your mother's house to eat zongzi and watch the dragon boat.
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June 2007-14 09: 56: 02 Source: Dongguan Agricultural Information Network
The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chung Noon Festival, Noon Festival and Summer Festival. Although the names are different, the customs of people everywhere are the same. In addition to the custom of eating zongzi, Dragon Boat Festival also includes drinking realgar wine, wearing sachets and hanging wormwood. This is because the weather in May is hot and humid, which is prone to diseases. The ancients were scheduled to carry out various activities to drive away the epidemic on May 5, and they should take their food with them when they went out to participate in the activities, so Zongzi became a festive food.
During the Dragon Boat Festival in Dongguan, people in the water town are the most lively. They race and eat dragon boat meals, and their married daughters will go home for the New Year and have a lively day. Especially in recent years, the atmosphere of the Dragon Boat Festival is getting stronger and stronger. Every day of the Dragon Boat Festival is more lively than the Chinese New Year.
The custom in Dongguan is to go to grandma's house on Dragon Boat Festival. On the Dragon Boat Festival, married women in Dongguan will take their husbands and children home for the Spring Festival, and their parents will kill chickens and ducks early and take their daughters home with jiaozi. At noon, everyone had a reunion dinner together, and then chose a place to watch the dragon boat race.
Many people in the water town have built houses by the river. After eating rice and zongzi, find a good place on the balcony of the house where you can sit and watch the dragon boat. Many people also like to invite friends to their home for the Dragon Boat Festival and watch it. The host is hospitable, and the more guests invited, the better the popularity.