Funing County, Jiangsu Province: On the second day of February, large local villages will chip in to build a land shrine, while poor small villages will knock out a rectangular cave door and put the land god in it. During the Spring Festival, local farmers will go to worship.
Yizheng City, Jiangsu Province: The date is the second day of February, and the local people will make a public statue of the land with paper, cover it with a robe made of paper, and then "paint it with powder" as a shrine. People will also put some lights in front of the earth god. If there are infertile people in the family, you can take the lamp home. If they are pregnant next year, they will "take one as ten and return to their senses." On that day, there will be a stage performance of drama, and there is a custom of "every family picks up girls to stay overnight".
Wuchang city, Hubei Province: The date is the second day of February, and local people will chip in to "drum up the sky and publicize the land" and "hold a banquet together". After the party, they will fight with each other.
Ningyuan county, Hunan Province: The date is the first day of February, and there is a custom to avoid that day for the Spring Festival. The cloud "is another Spring Festival, which will definitely break the cow's feet."
Anxian County, Sichuan Province: The date is the fifth day after beginning of spring, and there is a local custom of stepping on the bridge at the age of 20. This custom evolved from two activities of "stepping on a bridge to eliminate disasters and diseases" and "worshiping michel platini", the largest Han folk custom in northwest Sichuan, and has a history of more than 200 years. On the festival day, people nearby will go to the Suishui Bridge to step on it, and throw medicine money, worship michel platini, throw clothes and pray for the safety of the whole family.
The ethnic minority Zhuang nationality, Spring Society, is also called Land Festival, Land Woman Festival and Baoyang Festival, and the date is the second day of February. On the Spring Festival, every family kills chickens. Cooking meat sent parents to the local land temple to worship the gods, praying for good weather and good harvests this year. After the ceremony, having dinner in front of the altar, or going home to offer sacrifices to ancestors after each household distributes it equally, is called "scattered blessing". The Zhuang people in Liuzhou area take turns to be village heads during the Spring Festival. Go to other villagers' houses to collect money and rice in the morning during the Spring Festival, and then kill pigs to cook porridge. Before dawn, each family put a straw gun on the soil in front of their house, and then went to the forest. When offering sacrifices, they burn incense and hold candles to worship the teacher. After the sacrifice, the village chief distributed meat and community porridge (pig red porridge) to all households. When the layman came home, he pulled out his straw gun, put a small amount of porridge in the loophole and covered it with his feet. It is said that this can reduce mosquitoes and flies at home. At night, you shouldn't light a lamp. It is said that this can prevent rats.
Mulao: On the Spring Festival, the village will organize the Spring Festival. After the villagers chip in to buy pigs, each family will send a representative to take the pigs to the Wangshe Temple for slaughter. During the festival, several portions of pork will be connected in series with bamboo, hung on bamboo poles and arranged on both sides of the King Snake Temple. After the ceremony, every representative attending the ceremony can take a bunch of pork home. According to local customs, if the Spring Festival society is before the vernal equinox, it means that the weather is good this year. Delegates can have a big meal at the King Snake Temple and then give other kebabs to everyone to take home. If it is past the vernal equinox, it means that this year's harvest is not good and you have to save money. Divide the skewers before taking the pork home to eat. In the villagers' homes, there are also customs such as Bazin, killing chickens to worship ancestors and marrying new wives to go home.
Bai nationality: The date is uncertain. Generally, after the seedling gate is closed, the old people will choose the auspicious day of the ecliptic to celebrate the Spring Festival. On the Spring Festival, villagers will get together to worship the land. Before that, there were various recreational activities, such as singing and playing the flute. After the sacrifice, they would share food. Different from the customs in many other places, it is not only one person in each family, but also men, women and children who can participate in the Bai people's Spring Festival.
Miao nationality: The date is the fifth day after beginning of spring. Before the Spring Festival, every household should pay a catty of glutinous rice, and the boar for sacrifice should draw lots to decide which one to supply. In the early morning of the Spring Festival, all families invited wizards to pray at home. After breakfast, men dressed in black went to the shed to kill pigs and cook, sacrifice to the earth god, and then get together to drink. There are many taboos in Miao society during the Spring Festival. For example, women or men who have pregnant women at home can't attend social festivals. During the first 30 to 40 days of the Spring Festival Club, people attending the club festival are not allowed to hold weddings and funerals at home, work in the mountains, light fires, pick Chai Jin Village and hang clothes outside. In addition, "Spring Festival" is also called "leisure meeting" in Miao language, which means that young men and women get together and wander around, and have the custom of "begging" and "sitting on the elder sister". Unmarried men will sing Miao songs in droves, "beg for food" from households, "sit with girls", or talk about things, or
Taiwanese: The society in Taiwanese refers to the ghosts of ancestors. Every year, after spring ploughing and autumn harvest, a chicken is sacrificed in the Woods.
Chunshe variety show Chuntai Opera: In Jiangsu Suzhong area, in February and March, there was a performance to pray for a bumper harvest with money, and men and women gathered together.
Spring Festival: The Dong people in Liping County, Guizhou Province celebrate the Spring Festival every year on the fifth day after beginning of spring. There are many similarities between the whole festival and the traditional Spring Festival society in China, but different from the traditional Spring Festival society, the Spring Festival society does not focus on praying for agriculture and sacrificing society, but takes "fishing for society" (fishing for fish) as the core ceremony. There is also the custom of men smearing pot ashes on their faces, dressed in rags, dressed in women's clothes and dressed as female characters. It is said that this festival is for the local social god Adian Long. Japan: The Mayday closest to the vernal equinox, in some areas, is called the Earth God. Sacrificial ceremonies are held in various places to worship the god of native products and pray for a bumper harvest of grain. It is forbidden to turn over the soil on this day. People will drink "the wine for treating deafness", and they believe that their hearing will be improved after drinking the wine for treating deafness.
Ryukyu: It is scheduled for the second day of February, which is called Land Jun Festival. On this day, people will lay down farming sacrifices to the emperor of the earth (the Ryukyu people call him the landlord), so it is also called waist rest. Ryukyu people will worship the local emperor with food such as cows, pigs, chickens and heavy boxes of vegetables, and some places will also dance lions.