1, early pick "annual running water"
New Year's Day, the beginning of the new year, is the most important day for people. New clothes, new shoes and new hats are brand-new, and even the tea you drink should be freshly brewed. Women in early Shenzhen got up very early and went to the wellhead to pick up a can of water, which meant "new water vitality". Pour out all the tea and water the next day and boil the water again. Nowadays, tap water is used in both urban and rural areas. Some people go to Wu Tong and Yang Taishan to drink mountain spring water to make tea, cook and make soup in the morning.
"New Year's flow, well _ (sleep) lying." On this day, the whole family gets up early and can't sleep after getting up, otherwise the poor generation. After washing, I greeted my parents and elders at home: "Good morning for the New Year!" Then the family eats fried radish cake, taro cake and dried pork bone porridge for breakfast. Don't sweep the floor on this day, and you can't sweep firecrackers all over the courtyard, so it will be prosperous; If there is rubbish, don't take it out, for fear of losing your fortune. If there are peels, melon seeds and candy crumbs, wrap them up and put them under the bed to "gather wealth". Don't go into the vegetable garden for the New Year, let alone pick a urinal to water the vegetables; Don't walk barefoot, don't say unlucky things, and don't swear, swear or hit people; Those who are beaten and scolded will "decline", and those who curse will also rot their tongues and get sores.
2. Guangfu people "grab fireworks"
After zero o'clock on New Year's Eve, on New Year's Day, everyone opened the door and said, "Open the door!" " ! Before firecrackers and fireworks were banned in the 1980s, every household lit firecrackers and scrambled to "grab the first shot". You fry 10,000 heads, he cooks 30,000 heads and my family cooks 50,000 heads. At one time, firecrackers exploded in every village, and fireworks were everywhere, which lasted for several hours. At dawn, firecrackers sounded again, one after another, with climax after climax. Open the door and go out, the streets and alleys are covered with red chips, which adds a lot of atmosphere to the festival. In recent years, air pollution and smog have become increasingly serious, and people rationally choose not to set off fireworks and firecrackers in the New Year.
Guangfu people in Futian, Nantou, Xixiang, Shajing, Songgang and Gong Ming also call this kind of "head gun" fireworks. In the past, a group of firecrackers was bought by the village squire's money or the club to raise funds. The largest bundle of 200,000 to 300,000 heads was set off in the village open space in the early morning of the New Year's Day. Who can grab the middle spear? Whoever grabs the spear will win the lottery.
Large-scale folk activities such as "grabbing guns", "drawing guns" and "returning guns" are also popular in Xixiang area of Baoan. Whenever an arrow shoots into the sky and a numbered fireworks falls from the sky, people will flock to the place where the fireworks fall and compete for the numbered fireworks for good luck. Later, this custom of grabbing fireworks was held on the third day of the third lunar month, the birthday of the Northern Emperor. Villagers in Xixiang Baxiang gathered on the beach of Xixiang River (now Xixiang Theater), with colorful flags flying and guns rumbling. Those who grab the numbered fireworks can go to the Beidi Temple to get a double-sided glass mirror with the same number as the fireworks, with a portrait of the Beidi painted on it, and take it home to offer sacrifices for good luck in the coming year. On February 28th of the following year, the Northern Emperor's "mirror painting gun" was carried back to the temple and named "returning the gun". This custom has been interrupted for decades, but it has resumed in recent years, forming cultural activities with local characteristics such as "floating color parade".
The word "Left" in the Lunar New Year expresses rich local folk culture meaning, which means "New Year" and "Happy New Year" and has a layer of "Left"-the pleasure of being busy. Whether it is Guangfu people, Hakka people or Chaoshan people, they can enjoy the excitement and joy of the New Year in their busy schedules.
3. Worship God and ancestors on the first day.
There is a local saying in Shenzhen that "the first person respects God, and the second person respects others." People pay New Year's greetings.
Sacrificing to the gods on the 30 th of the year means "rewarding the gods" with good weather and abundant grains; Worshiping God on the first day of the New Year is to pray for the blessing of gods and ancestors in the new year. [Han]' s "On Salt, Iron and Lack of Scattering": "Sacrifice the fish of the past." Local meat eaters in Shenzhen usually worship on the first day of the New Year's Day, and the ritual procedure is relatively simple, mainly by adding incense to the altar at home to continue tea and wine; Some people have re-cooked some meat dishes and replaced them with fruits and sweets for worship. People or believers who usually eat Lent go to the temple to pay their respects with Lent food on the second day of the new year.
There is also a custom on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Many non-Buddhists also eat Sanzhai today, because "fasting" and "disaster" are homophonic, and "fasting" means "eliminating disaster". From the perspective of modern medical care, it's not bad. The reunion dinner on New Year's Eve is full of fish and meat, which is fried and greasy. Eating more vegetables and clearing the stomach the next day is also a health choice that keeps pace with the times.
4. Go out for New Year's greetings the next day.
In the past, most private shops had to open their doors to do business. The boss asked the man (also on the 16th day of the first month) to kill chicken stew with toothache. First, he worships the god of wealth, and then he sits around a banquet, which is called "opening the year". The shopkeeper hopes that after this toothache meal, the workers will work hard and have a prosperous business for a year.
Every family ate the "New Year's Eve" and went out to pay New Year's greetings. According to the old local custom, we don't pay New Year greetings on the first day. Hakka villages and towns only go out to pay New Year's greetings on the second day of the Lunar New Year, while married women "run away from home" with their husbands and children. There are also some villages that "leave their homes" on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year and go to pay New Year greetings to their parents-in-law the next day. In the past ten years, the national legal Spring Festival holiday has only three days, plus seven days on Saturday and Sunday. Holidays are rare, and I also went to pay a New Year call on the third day of the first grade. On the third day of junior high school, the people have always regarded it as "bare mouth day" and "send the poor day". You shouldn't visit other people's homes on this day, and now there is nothing taboo.
It's not red tape, but a courtesy to visit relatives and friends and bring gifts and calligraphy. Locals often send oyster sauce, oyster sauce, bacon, sausage, floating skin, yuba, rice cakes, fried piles, drinks, tea and other local products. Never bring only "two combs of bananas" (that is, empty hands). It is fashionable to send cookies, imported fruits and health products to the elderly now, but traditionally, we send our own chickens, our own dishes, our own cakes and rice cakes, which are delicious and reassuring. Be polite when receiving visitors. While warmly giving up their seats, handing tea and water, they took out fried piles, oil angle, melon seeds and an "eight-fruit box" (containing sugar lotus root, sugar horseshoe, sugar lotus seed, sugar wax gourd, sugar ginger slices, fried sugar rings, rice cakes and sugar oranges), and the guests and guests tasted them and exchanged greetings.
In traditional New Year greetings, there is a custom of paying dividends. "Congratulations on making a fortune, it is profitable!" This is a humorous New Year catchword when local people meet in Shenzhen. "Li" is a kind of "lucky money", which was given to children by adults in ancient New Year greetings. Shenzhen people pay dividends in the New Year, not only for children in the north, but also for unmarried older youth. Give children three or five hundred or even a thousand dollars, and each parent gives one; Give 50 or 100 to the children of cousins and relatives within three generations, and the couple should also give one each; Children of ordinary friends, colleagues and acquaintances also give twenty or thirty yuan. Now the profits are increasing, which brings great burden to young couples, especially the "house slaves" who are financially strapped. So some young families travel abroad and deliberately avoid this habit. It turned out that dividends were only two yuan a few decades ago, and now the profits given by Hong Kong and Macao are still around ten or twenty yuan. We shouldn't keep up with the competition in terms of weight and profit. We should try our best to be lucky and we will get what we want.
5. Dragon and lion dances are full of charm.
Chinese New Year, visit the flower market, stroll the streets and watch the dragon, lion and unicorn dance performance. When the big gongs and drums sounded, the villages and towns in Fiona Fang were beaming.
There is a saying in Shenzhen that "there is a lion in the east", that is, Hakka dances Kirin in the east and lions in the western vernacular area. During the New Year, the Kirin team and the lion dance team of each village go to the neighboring villages of the same clan to pay New Year greetings and contact their feelings. Hakka people have the custom of dancing Kirin to send blessings into the house. Kirin dances from the head of the village to the end of the village. Every family worships and the owner greets firecrackers. Kirin arrived at the door, slowly entered the house, and went to the kitchen, patio and hall to worship three times, praying for a bumper harvest and ample food and clothing. After going out, the host opens the "Bow to Cambodia" (wooden box), and the host automatically gives a red envelope as a reward (any amount). Then, set off firecrackers to send Kirin to the empty ping in the village to perform for the villagers. The Kirin team went from village to village and danced to the village with the same surname in the New Territories of Hong Kong, and did not come back until the Lantern Festival.
Gong Ming, Songgang, Shajing, Fuyong, Xixiang, Nantou, Dapeng, Huanggang, Shatou and other Cantonese townships. I've always liked watching big plays. When we say "watching big dramas" here, we mean watching Cantonese operas. Before the Spring Festival, many villages set up "drama sheds" and invited troupe from Guangzhou and Shenzhen to "Boom!" Bang bang! The village was very busy with gongs and drums, and Cantonese operas, The Six Kingdoms Pass the National Seal, Celebrating the Blue Sky, Sending the Son to the Heavenly King, Celebrating the Birthday and Xue Journey to the West, ran for five or six nights. "。
Hakka people in Longhua, Guanlan, Shiyan, Pingshan, Longgang, Pingdi, Kwai Chung, Dapeng and other places like to sing folk songs during the New Year, and "go to the song market" to perform folk songs. In the past, Longgang market had a unique singing method of "Longgang Quange". The warm and beautiful lyrics of A Mandarin Duck and a Peony Flower were sung by hundreds of people, and the whole "song market" was very lively. During the Spring Festival, Sha Tau Kok Fishing Lantern Dance will also be performed. Fishermen in Yantian changed the custom of water wedding banquet into land wedding banquet dance for parade performance. On the second night of the second day, dozens of fishermen in Nan 'ao Town used 100 meters long grass dragons to set off firecrackers and dance towards the sea to pray for Man Cang in the fishing season.
Shenzhen Folk Culture Village, splendid china, Window of the World, OCT Oriental, Nanshan Qingqing World and other scenic spots have attracted hundreds of thousands of tourists to celebrate the Year of the Horse with beautiful folk programs of all ethnic groups. * * * I wish you a successful New Year, and everyone is full of dragon spirit.
Customs and folk activities in Shenzhen
1, Mazu birthday celebration
In Chiwan, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, there is a "Tianhou Palace", which is said to be built to commemorate the folk worship of the sea god Mazu. Mazu, formerly known as Molin (960-987), is a folk woman in Meizhou, Putian, Fujian. She is smart, brave and kind, and has the ability to predict weather changes, ward off evil spirits and cure diseases, and swim across the sea. She often rescues shipwrecked ships in stormy waves and is deeply respected and loved by people. According to legend, Mazu was born on March 23rd of the lunar calendar and ascended to heaven at the peak of Meizhou on September 9th. Every March, fishermen and farmers from all over the coastal areas will hold a grand celebration temple fair in Tin Hau Temple, offering sacrifices to Tin Hau, praying for safe navigation, prosperous fisheries and bumper crops. After the sacrifice, cultural performances and trade activities will be held. The official also offered sacrifices to Mazu in accordance with the emperor's ceremony, twice a year in the spring and autumn, knocking three times and worshiping nine times. Mazu's birthday celebration reflects the people's desire for a peaceful and happy life in Shenzhen.
2. Beidi's birthday celebration
Under the dark rule of the old society, the broad masses of people were miserable, and they expected their spiritual shackles to be freed from all kinds of worship activities. In Xixiang before the founding of New China, a ritual custom called "Birthday of the Northern Emperor" prevailed around the third day of the third lunar month every year. This is the most festive day of the year for local people. Within a few days, all the villagers came to participate, which was very lively. February 28th of the lunar calendar is the day when the Northern Emperor abdicated. On this day, the elders in the village first set the ceremony table to worship the Northern Emperor. After the ceremony, the faithful men and women carried the Northern Emperor Bodhisattva to the villages for a parade, and it was not until the second day of March that they were carried back to the Northern Emperor Temple to "reset" and worship again. It is said that the Northern Emperor has infinite magic power, which can eliminate disasters and diseases, exorcise evil spirits and ensure everyone's health, prosperity and permanent peace. Therefore, when the Northern Emperor "patrolled", the villagers worshipped and were extremely pious. The scene was very grand and lively, with drums and music ringing, firecrackers ringing, dragons and lions dancing and celebrating for several days. In the eyes of the villagers, the Northern Emperor is a god, and he is their food and clothing parents. Loyalty to the northern emperor will ensure the happiness of the family. Therefore, for Xixiang people, "the birthday of the Northern Emperor" is more important than "birthday", "Spring Festival" and "Mid-Autumn Festival". The celebration ceremony is naturally formal and grand, and the scene is extremely grand.
Fuyong dragon and lion dance
Fuyong is a famous town with a long history, and its customs and activities are various, among which dragon boat rowing, dragon and lion dancing and singing opera are the main ones. From the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, these three main customs have been circulated and prevailed every year. After the 1980s, only the traditional customs of dragon and lion dancing have been passed down to this day and become the most important celebration, while dragon boat rowing and singing opera have become less popular. Every year, when the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongyang and other major festivals and weddings, opening and other major events are held, dragon and lion dances should be performed with great fanfare to celebrate. Fuyong became the most famous lion dance town in Shenzhen because of its extremely popular lion dance activities. Now there are six lion dance teams in the town, each with 40 or 50 people and more than a dozen lion heads. The drums and music are complete, and each lion dance team has a large number of fans and fans. During the lion dance competition, cheers and applause shocked the world and the scene was extremely noisy. 1962, a lion dance hall was built in Tang Wei village, which provided complete facilities for the training and performance of the lion dance team. 1987 at the first Guangdong folk art "Happy Festival", the Tang Wei Village Lion Dance Team won the first total score with absolute superiority and won the championship. Its lion dance team is magnificent, vigorous and natural, fresh and unique in shape and colorful in scenes, which has left a deep impression on the people of the whole province.
3. Shajing Shangxiang
Incense and sacrificial activities are popular in all parts of Guangdong Province. Many families, hotels, hotels, shops, halls and companies have shrines on the walls, incense burners on the altars and colored lights on both sides. People light a incense stick every morning and worship it several times, hoping that the god they worship can bless their health, develop their business, be lucky and prosperous forever. This kind of incense burning activity is very common in Shajing Town, and the etiquette is very grand. The custom of burning incense in Shajing villagers began to spread in the Tang Dynasty. Every family has a shrine, and the elders in the family preside over the ceremony every day. Before the incense, the host cleaned up, straightened his appearance, lit three sticks of incense in a solemn and pious place, put them in the incense burner, and then performed the ceremony of three worships. Then the whole family bowed down one by one. On the first and fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, the ceremony is more grand, the worship is more pious, and the incense used is more exquisite, mainly sandalwood ground into fine powder. Before the incense burner is scented, tribute fruits should be placed, mainly seasonal fruits such as litchi, mango and longan, as well as meat dishes and rice. After worshipping God, the whole family will eat vegetarian food together instead of greasy and meat dishes. The villagers' custom of burning incense shows people's pursuit of a healthy and prosperous life.
4. Longhua Hakka custom
90% of the aborigines in Longhua Town, Shenzhen speak Hakka. The title of "Hakka" has a long history. Historically, in the Southern Song Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty, due to the invasion of Mongolia and Manchu, the Han population in the Central Plains migrated to the mountainous areas at the junction of Hunan and Jiangxi, Meizhou in Chaoshan, Guangdong and Minnan, with Guangdong Province having the largest population. For aborigines, the immigrants are Hakkas. Influenced by the local area, their language gradually evolved into a new language with unique pronunciation, namely Hakka dialect. The Hakkas in Longhua, Shenzhen have a unique custom. They kill geese on New Year's Eve and have a reunion dinner after paying homage to their ancestors. Be a vegetarian in the New Year, don't be dirty and greasy. On the Dragon Boat Festival, people will kill dogs to sacrifice their ancestors. Different from other Hakkas, people named Peng in Longhua celebrate the New Year on the fifteenth day of the first month instead of the first day of the first month. The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival for Hakkas, and every household makes rice cakes. In Tomb-Sweeping Day and the Double Ninth Festival, every family goes to their ancestors' graves to worship the mountains. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, everyone eats Paederia (a Chinese herbal medicine) and Ai Cake to avoid plague, eliminate diseases and keep their families healthy. In the past, in the natural economic society, Hakkas grazed and cultivated fields and liked to sing folk songs. Before the bride gets married, she has to spend three days and three nights to show her affection for her family, while the groom has to go through the customs before entering the village to greet her, and can formally marry the bride only after successfully entering the customs. Longhua Hakka custom is a wonderful flower among the colorful customs of all ethnic groups in China.
5. Longgang women cry and marry.
In the past, the Hakka people in Longgang maintained the traditional customs of Hakka, and the "female crying marriage" was one of the most distinctive examples. Before getting married, every woman has a "crying marriage period" of more than seven days. After crying for such a long time, I shed a lot of tears, and my eyes were slightly red and swollen, which made the bride more lovely. It may be just the saying that "a little tears often help beautify" and "a girl looks the most beautiful before marriage". On the wedding day, when the wedding procession approaches the village where the girl to be married is located, the men in the village will make a fire on the road to "ward off evil spirits", and the groom will lead the wedding procession through the fire to "ward off evil spirits", and then formally enter the village to welcome the wedding. After meeting the parents-in-law, the elders in the village announced that their time had come. At this time, the bride said goodbye to her parents in a charming and touching way, gently moved the lotus step, went out leisurely, turned around frequently, and then boarded the sedan chair and set off. The accompanying daughter also sent her to her husband's house with the sedan chair. The wedding procession sang all the way, and firecrackers and fireworks kept setting off. The bridesmaid accompanying the bride scatters an inch-long red rope on the roadside every ten steps, which means that the bride will go to her mother's house to "lead the way" for the first time after marriage. With the changes of the times, the custom of women crying for marriage in Longgang is not very popular now.
6. Ping Di Wai Cage House
In the past, the living style of Pingdi people retained the traditional customs of Hakka, and the previous residences were also quite distinctive. They built a cylindrical cage house with concrete, bamboo, bricks, reeds and straw, and the whole family lived in it. This kind of cage house generally covers an area of 30 to 40 square meters, and some of them are made into two floors. The cage house looks like an ancient castle, with high walls and eaves. The enclosure of the big landlord occupies a large area, and there are pavilions at the four corners of the house for observation and sentry duty. Because they are built quite firmly, and there is usually only one door to enter, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it is easy to protect others from attacks. The biggest feature of cage houses is that they are warm in winter and cool in summer. When it is hot in summer, you can go to the ventilated place in the museum to feel cool, and when it is cold in winter, you can keep warm because it is airtight. And durability is also a big advantage. Generally, the paddock can live for several generations continuously, and can resist the typhoon attack of 8- 10. The cage houses in Pingdi reflect the peculiar style of Hakka architecture.
7. Diving in Pingshan
The residents of Pingshan Town are mainly Hakkas, who have retained their unique traditional customs. Pingshan people used to pay special attention to sacrificial activities and pray to God and Buddha. One of the most solemn ceremonies is eight-year immersion (collective sacrifice to God). The place gathered in the square in front of Guandi Temple, which was noisy and lively. Nearby vendors gathered here to take this opportunity to do big business. First of all, the person in charge of Pingshan Expo presided over the ceremony. The table is filled with exquisite preserved fruit and wine, the incense burner is filled with sandalwood, and the air is filled with a fragrant mist. Behind the head, all the residents around. When the leader saluted, the villagers also bowed down. After nine times, residents began to play in the square for seven days and eight nights, eating, drinking and gambling all night, and the atmosphere was noisy. People who dip in the period are extremely extravagant, spending a lot of money and enjoying it for eight days, which also delays farming. Some poor residents have to borrow money or beg for a dip after a day. This was abolished on 1943.
8. A cool hat to hide shame
Dapeng people speak Hakka dialect and maintain Hakka customs. Dapeng women have the custom of wearing cool hats, whether in winter or summer. The cool hat is made of bamboo strips and cloth. First, burning bamboo strips can make them more elastic. Then, use a cleaver to divide the bamboo strips into bamboo strips, weave them into a circle, punch holes in the middle and hang cloth strips around them. Other Hakka women's cool hats are sewn and hung with black cloth, while Dapeng women's cool hats are made of Lan Shilin cloth, so they are more charming to wear. The custom of wearing a cool hat has a long history. It is said that in the past, women should strictly observe "women's virtue" and "women's appearance" and could not appear in public. After the Hakka women moved south, they were forced by the environment to go out to work like men, but also to collect firewood in the mountains, plant seedlings in the fields, catch up with the market, and visit relatives. In order to hide their shame, they put on this cool hat. When women wear cool hats, they can see others clearly, but others can't see themselves clearly, and they feel a little veiled, which adds hazy beauty and charm to themselves. At the same time, wearing a cool hat is light, can prevent solar radiation and cool, so it has been passed down from generation to generation and has been popular ever since. Fishermen's marriage is located in Nan 'ao Town, southeast coast of Longgang District. Its folk customs are simple, and more folk customs are preserved. In the past, most residents in South Australia lived by fishing, so "fishermen's marriage" became one of the most distinctive customs in this town. On the day when the women in the fishing village get married, the bride and groom are surrounded by many fishermen's sisters. Behind them, there are gongs and drums bands and groups of dragon and lion dancers singing and dancing. Behind them, a fisherman disguised as a man led a group of fishermen's women wearing fishermen's hats and holding paddles, marching in line, supporting the paddles all the way and welcoming them home. The wedding procession is huge, the audience is numerous and jubilant. The road was noisy with gongs and drums and salutes. On the day of the "fisherman's wedding", the whole village, regardless of men, women and children, did not go to the sea and came to celebrate the couple. The best gift is a pair of big fish cut with colored paper. I wish the couple a hundred years of harmony and prosperity.
9. dancing grass dragon
Dancing grass dragons is a unique custom in Nan 'ao Town. On the night of the second day of the first month of every year, fishermen's boys tie grass into a "dragon", each of which adds up to 200 to 300 meters long, and then fill this "dragon" with incense. As the "Dragon" swam, the band beat gongs and drums and crossed the streets, imposing. Dragons shine up and down when dancing, just like a dragon rolling down. Where the grass dragon passed by, there were many onlookers, orderly, setting off fireworks and firecrackers, praying for purple gas to come often, good luck and prosperity, and a festive scene. Dancing grass dragons is the favorite activity of fishermen in South Australia. The heroism of the dragon dancers and the enthusiasm of the dancers constitute a grand, lively and jubilant picture. Dancing grass dragon is not only the psychological expression of fishermen's hope for smooth sailing and rich life, but also a fitness exercise that the public is willing to participate in, so it is more popular and lively every year.
Folk festivals in Shenzhen
The folk festivals in Shenzhen mainly include New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Litchi Festival, which are common festivals for residents in all towns. But some festivals are celebrated in different ways in different places. For example, on New Year's Eve, Gong Mingren will post Spring Festival couplets, and every household will set off fireworks and firecrackers from midnight. People in Longgang and Dapeng should bathe in "perfume of the year" made of citronella and grapefruit leaves for good luck in the coming year. Longhua people will kill geese to worship their ancestors on this day. Another example is the Spring Festival. Longhua people are vegetarian on the first day of the lunar calendar. People surnamed Peng in this town celebrate the New Year on the fifteenth day of the first month instead of the first day of the first month. Besides these festivals, some towns have their own unique festivals. Pingshan has the Bagong Festival on the second day of February, the Rice and Noodle Festival on the eighth day of April, the mung bean porridge on the sixth day of June, the festival of offering sacrifices to immortals on the fourteenth day of July, the tea and fruit cake festival on the first day of October, and the "Northern Emperor's Birthday" popular in Xixiang from February 28th to March 2nd in Nan 'ao Town from November winter to Sunday. Since the first folk art "Happy Festival" was held in Guangdong Province from 65438 to 0987, many festivals with local characteristics have been presented in colorful ways.
Folk taboos in Shenzhen
In contrast to the rich folk festivals, Shenzhen people also have many taboos. The formation of folk taboos is the result of mysterious feelings caused by people's inability to understand and change many objective phenomena in nature. On the first and fifteenth days of the lunar calendar, residents in Shajing and Gong Ming must burn incense for God and fast to show their sincerity, and pray that God can drive away evil spirits and protect their homes. Longhua National People's Congress should be a vegetarian for one day on the first day, and avoid meat and greasy food. Tomb-Sweeping Day ate chicken excrement rattan (Chinese herbal medicine) and moxa cake to ward off evil spirits and plague. People in Longgang and Dapeng get married. When the wedding procession approaches the woman's village, the men in the village make a fire on the road to ward off evil spirits. Only after the wedding guests "ward off evil spirits" can they enter the village to celebrate their marriage. On New Year's Eve, they will bathe themselves with the "perfume of the year" made of citronella, grapefruit leaves, calamus and pomegranate leaves to wash away the "bad smell" of the old year, and pray that children will grow sturdily and adults will be full of energy in the new year.