Spring Lantian commonly known as Chinese New Year, is the most ceremonious traditional festival, from mid-twelfth lunar month, people start preparation stocking, sweeping dust whitewashing, interior layout. The 23rd "Worshiping Kitchen God" (also 24), let the stove Lord "God made good, Hui Gong down auspicious." Thirty days sedative King Cho, posted couplets, horizontally before sunset or a stick blade thing in the door, meaning reject evil home. That night called "Eve", send the old and welcoming, attention to sixth grade does not sleep, that this' boil years. " Family reunion, celebrating the joy trouble, send elders to the younger generation "lucky money." Three-shift hour, open the door, the sound of firecrackers, incense and candles, offering social Sishen, for the fiscal blessing. First day Li Ming, replacement clothes, give our ancestors to burn incense, to give the elders "New Year." Before sunrise to eat, this is the first meal of the year, sooner rather than later, should be left not less, usually pay attention to eating dumplings, dumplings if flaws, we can only say "earn" not allowed to say "bad." Room after dinner, each family households New Year to celebrate the blessings. Since the first two days, "go out."

Eating habits

Lam roughly divided into Sichuan, plateau, ridge, mountain areas into four categories, products are different, different diet. Staple food, old food Sichuan Plateau wheat, corn, wheat Ridge area, mainly legumes, mountain corn, potato-based. The county used to three meals a day throughout the eclipse. Breakfast, lunch and meals with rice and pasta, commonly known as "eat." Dinner staple food steamed, commonly known as "soup." The rich eat exquisite sat around the table, with a few dish, mixed with the master. Sooner or later people are generally weak side dish, vinegar and chilli dip or steamed vegetables eat mainly from drowning, lunch, pasta, stir fried vegetables, a lot of the people like Duanwan stopping place or a gathering, drink and brag, called "old bowl will." After the founding of the people's living standard improved, the main non-staple food, meat and vegetables dishes regulation. In addition to the part of the local mountains, urban and rural areas throughout the year to wheat, rice is the staple food, vegetables and non-staple food purchased at any time. Eclipse three meals a day largely unchanged, breakfast and dinner still porridge, steamed main, side dish cooking began to develop. Lunch mostly pasta, rice, four to three compartments dough, pancakes, dumplings, etc. Sào toner. Holidays or visitors, are generally cooking wine. Past the square table with high stools to eat instead generally low tables stools, non-staple food, vegetables beginning to see rich.

Building Custom

The old building must first ask to see feng shui point, in order to Homestead good wind veins, booming wealth, V prosperity. Choose auspicious start after breaking wood, to this day hospitality Carpenter work. The ground-breaking timber base when digging to do, relatives and neighbors went to help helper. Standing on the bridge the day, the village Xiangdang help relatives and friends to bring ritual "ritual beam." Red couplets write column housing, Taiji FIG gossip posted beams, a pair of red nail fast and intermediate Junji coins. The incense burning candle in the beam, Gun worship, worship the gods Luban. Stumpage complete feast reward Carpenter working folks. Now, people are not building your feng shui, but on the beam (on the floor, playing in-situ) is still attached to the phenomenon of gossip Tai Chi diagram, red couplets, the sound of firecrackers. Construction in two ways: First, please Carpenter working, folks help the host family Guanfan; the second is the construction contract by the construction team, the host family to pay construction costs, only the start, standing, hosted a dinner Carpenter work when completed.

Custom birthday

Birthday in the county known as "He Shou", "birthday", some areas known as "the wall." Old birthday, and are generally well-off Guan Shen. Birthday, children and relatives of important catered pastries, fruit to congratulate the owner Bai Yan treatment, festive celebrations, that's only in the "birthday" That change my clothes, adjust your diet. After the founding of the people's livelihood, the average family of six or more years old elderly people birthday, though not profile wedding, but also very particular about their children with relatives and friends to and sent to pastries, fruit, wine, meat and the like food, or for hobby crafts.

Funeral Customs

Funeral: The funeral rites Lam Tin, despite changes in the ages and changes, but its backwardness, superstition, spiritualism and other feudal dross has been followed. Old, died before the general to make a coffin, shroud (commonly known as the old clothes, worn for the death of clothes) purchase of filial piety cloth, cone and other sacrificial lambs. Coffin on the number of pages can be divided into four watts, the sound of the top ten, twelve round, sixteen lock, number of pages, the better, the best cedar, pine multisection; thickness of seven inches, five inches, three inches and a half, two inches half, two inches of the points, the thicker the better, shroud typically 5-7, as dual mono. The poor mostly 3-5.

Before dying, give shaved hair (men and women shaving comb), feet, wear old clothes. After breathe, burn "paper fell down," offer "fell down rice" cake baked dog. Hanging in front of the "paper brush" (dead man notices), the dead on the board, paper or white silk masked, the dog sleeves mounted in the cake, and then the cloth or paper rope bundle scaffold plank , the present "rice fell down" light "lamp as dead." Son, daughter, nephew, grandson wearing deep mourning, deep mourning cloth and the head of the coffin lid as long as the general head cloth 3-5 dutiful son to do.

Then obituary notice to friends and relatives, departures, and the great burial small burial, generally carried out three days after death, when encoffining filial sons and daughters to basic attendance, before encoffining, give coffin shop the end of earth, cypress flowers four home six polyandrum liberation, coins and so on. Small burial is hemp paper layers of the bodies after careful masking, poured ash to insert the paper roll tightly gray solid insert. When everything is ready, facial scrub with alcohol or liquor, and Hao coffin lid. Funeral encoffining rich and the cotton wick, sawdust method as before. Old casket funeral home to set up the hall, placed at least seven days, and more than a few months or a year after burial. Please meantime drumming, concierge, monks chanting for the temple, not to please Mr. Yang points puzzle tomb.

Nephew-in-law but also to the titular Jing, a letter to the deceased or benevolent achievements, the majority of people in the family after the death of three days or seven days on a simple burial. Bury the night before, mainly relatives and friends will be to, the Sagrada Familia based offerings, please spiritual, steady column, playing games, enthroned, line four Bai Li, reported drums, waving flags, cannon, three offerings, the provincial food, soup and incineration. Between dawn and female sweepers dutiful son, newcomer funeral bier. When the bier from time to Yin Ming Chuan Road, Plateau area is already. But also exposed some local funeral halfway offerings, worship, drama playing music, drumming and open to the cemetery for burial.

The marriage customs

The marriage: marriage Lantian old poly program follow the "Six Man" of the track, although the evolution of the ages, but there are still many rules and prohibitions to the Republic. 1, the say their parents. 2, divination. 3, charge stick. 4, sealing ceremony. Married, the county commonly known as "baby-rise", "pass the baby out." Women's day, relatives and friends to get married before the gift, which is a feast, called "farewell." At the same time, the next day to send a woman to determine the election, the "life strong" women three different surnames for married women tick eyebrow, shave, top (pull hair), married women Yaoan where the joy of God then sit dressing.

Night, still "life strong" women's dowry included in the box. Put some fruit, pastries, fresh bread and the like in the four corners of the box for a married woman in her husband's family secretly eat the first day. Then married woman in order to make dumplings (a one year old), so that married women before dawn the next day once finished. Marriage of the man called the "bride." "Pick wife" just two days before the dinner family family, friends and neighbors, to discuss repairing banquet, moving dowry, to be guests and other matters, it is called "Please deacon." Deacon door the day before each scheduled dry the case. The day early in the morning, after moving dowry of people for dinner (pay attention not to move an empty stomach dowry) went to meet with the groom and the company of people gather, when to go, to bring 12 hard disk (ie, ritual or say duo bun bun), three red stickers ( please send female woman three generations of people off on a journey) and a pair of crown marriage guitar book (explain some taboo issues). When the woman's family hosted a dinner, who intends to move the dowry of crockery, glass and the like stolen, as a kind of farce wife. When dowry leave each cabinet, the flower, the woman has married care.

When the bride shall wail amplifier Shangjiao fellow brother back into the car door (no cell Columbia peers others also). Car to the door of the man's home, according to the writing on the marriage certificate crown resting position, will put the fireworks. Mr. Concierge sprinkle forage, ordered the wife of the lead will help the bride out of the car door, the bride red cloth foot travel. Groom put the foot in the door of the shoe, before the bride walk hand in hand only Zuxian Tang, before preparing for the wedding, paying respects to ancestors flash, three thanks to parents, Zaibai matchmaker, customer chat, and then the sea worship worship 24. Meet Bi into the bridal chamber. Gordon before bed to grab the groom, bride to be near and crossed legs around his head about three times, known as "Rocker of urine smell of urine" and then take down the bride hijab, jumped out of bed and went away. After groom siblings Jieduan water curtain hanging discuss "parts" playfulness.

Before the luncheon, the bride and groom with a bridal chamber, before Zuxian Tang Baiba world, ancestry, leaves, parents, the whole family away from home, customer chat, deacons, thanks to sea again, this time told officiate cup, Mr. Concierge singing gift list, the groom Phi Hung, named after the coronation, seated dining. During the meeting, the newlyweds go to a new customer, the customer Township, deacon toast. Dinner stop, the woman agreed to the wedding guests bride to please her in-laws for the first time at home should be the number of days and current issues, and then leave. Wedding night lights all the night.

Groom friendly, sister, brother and some of the older people are going to "playing wife" (there is no custom size within ten days). Shivaree content variety, drama funny farce to late at night, eating ravioli by the bride and groom, breaking hard, played out the same burst of hilarity and scattered. After marriage the next day, Yue Zhang son to recognize the pro family, commonly known as "back door", have been playing some trouble. Third day after marriage, the woman to bring cake ceremony to visit the bride, commonly known as "read three." Since then, as originally agreed upon time, the bride for the first time back to her parents, her husband to be and in the day, also in her family for a few days, that is back on time (a few days called "rather a few", and from the time called "back ten" ). Since then transferred to normal, the bride began to work household chores.

After the founding of marital autonomy, abolished the custom. Engagement is generally introduced to the two sides in contact with each other after understanding, send each bride price clothes, holidays, mutual exchanges, enhance feelings. Married workers, cadres is relatively simple, and some chose to holiday wedding, gave a banquet for friends and relatives major. Some travel to get married, simple Wen Ming. Rural areas are generally fix a day (more than during the Spring Festival) wedding, hosted hospitality.

Married that morning, the groom moved by the companionship with people dowry went to marry. Luncheon held before the ceremony, the main instrument for the process: announces the marriage ceremony began; the bride and groom in place; cannon; like salute to their leader; to both parents, guests and referrals salute; salute the bride and groom each other; read out a marriage certificate; officiate speech; the bride and groom in love after introduction; guest speech; read out the gift list; the ceremony. In recent years, with the improvement of living standards, urban and rural wind profile wedding marriage outcrop. All levels of the organization is strongly mediated collective wedding and marriage of travel, to stop the profile wedding, extravagant pomp.

Son customs

Women have children, the county commonly known as "confinement." In the past, after the baby is born is a boy, sprinkle lime to the door, the girl is spreading ash, indicating outsiders do not enter. After the founding of the medical career, children and more women go to the hospital, this custom leather chat. Three days postpartum women, Yue Zhang son to bring home gifts whereabouts of the Annunciation, ten days Yuezhang go home to visit. After a full month, choose a hosted hospitality auspicious day, called "to be a full moon" or "do the full moon." Dongxiang county area of ​​interest "to be twenty days," every child to be. Xixiang, North Township will bring prosperity "to do the full moon," and limited to the firstborn. "Pending the full moon," or to be "twenty days", the child's grandmother main guests, gifts limitations generous than other guests, in addition to pasta steamed cake, as well as hats, shoes, clothes, hold the mattress, windbreaker. Other guest presented to cloth 3-5 scale or small amount of laundry. When the guests go home, the owner brought the cake to the guests rebate ceremony. Jiujia not to the child's rebate. Now, these customs are still followed, but also in the hospitality friends, neighbors send congratulations also go to "drink wedding" for the first time with his mother to go to Jiu Jia called "move house" after the newborn full moon, usually only for a couple of days. Home, Jiujia give children gift music chain bun with flax or cotton thread tied to the neck item, and plug some of the money tied bun, newborn children for the first time go to other relatives, and as the song chain bearing gifts go home bun.