On the first day of the first lunar month, every household gets up early in the morning to "welcome the new year" and set off firecrackers. Eating noodles, peace eggs (duck eggs) or cakes for breakfast on the first day of junior high school means "long time" (line and noodles are called long time), "peace", "suppression of chaos" and "high luck at times". On that day, the main meals were dry rice instead of porridge, including "drinking porridge on the first day, which is always short of food" and "drinking thin on the first day, going out in the rain." After dinner, do more recreational activities and avoid visiting relatives and friends. In the early morning of the first day of junior high school in Jianjiang area, children pay New Year greetings to those who celebrated their birthdays that year in droves, and the New Year visitors distribute red envelopes (commonly known as knee money), oranges and candy as a reward.
In the early morning of the first day, there are many taboos: First, don't beat or break bowls and dishes with chopsticks for fear of bad luck; Second, avoid operating knives for fear of accidental injury to hands and feet; Third, avoid pouring water to sweep the floor, for fear of dumping and sweeping away wealth; Four avoid beating and scolding children, adults try their best to meet their requirements and let them have a happy holiday; Five taboos, avoid diluting the joyful atmosphere; Six avoid debt collection, for fear of affecting unity. Since the 1950s, the above taboos have gradually faded. On the first day of the lunar new year, many activities were held, such as condolences to the families of martyrs, symposiums and tea parties, to wish and encourage each other.
On the second day of New Year's Day, guests bowed to their hosts and wished them peace and all the best. In return, the host entertained the guests with fruit, candy or boiled noodles. Married daughters and son-in-law often go home to visit their parents on this day. Whenever children come to pay New Year's greetings, they will be given red oranges, indicating that they are lucky to be away from home.
On the third day, "Happy New Year". Last year, whenever someone died, a spirit tablet was set up at the home of the mourners, and relatives and friends held incense sticks to pay homage. Other families are forbidden to visit. In the early years of the Republic of China, the custom of "New Year greetings" was abolished.
On the fourth day, it was called "vacation". Every household cleans and sends garbage to the village entrance or garbage dump, commonly known as "sending dirty". On that day, the shops were open for business, and in the evening, families held family dinners and got together to bid farewell to their relatives who were away from home. Luoyuan Lantern Festival The fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, which is one of the most lively festivals in Luoyuan. On the ninth day of the first month, lanterns are sent, and on the twelfth night, dragons and lions go to the streets, and shops and houses are lit separately, which is called "Lantern Night". 15 is the Lantern Festival, and various cultural and sports activities are held, such as solve riddles on the lanterns, writing poems, shooting Mount Ao and setting off fireworks. On this day, rural people drink wedding banquets, and residents who gave birth to children last year brought wine and vegetables to the shrine to entertain the villagers. After drinking, every family traveled around the country with lanterns in their hands, beating gongs and drums to celebrate a peaceful harvest, pray for peace and prosperity in the new year, bridge the gap between villages in China through parties and lanterns, and strengthen the unity among neighbors. The residents surnamed Chen in Lingcun, Huokou Township are different. Two small lanterns symbolizing "Pai Jiu Zhi" (gambling tools) should be tied on both sides of the colored lights posted by each family. Gambling is prohibited after the Lantern Festival, and offenders are punished according to clan rules. This custom lasted until the mid-1950s. In the old days, there was a custom that the bridge was too long in the county. People are used to walking on the Changshou Bridge on the east side of Guanjiao Street on the night of Lantern Festival, commonly known as "taking the long bridge". Adults lead their children to sing "Walking on the long bridge and eating taro eggs at their aunt's house" as they walk, praying for peace and longevity. Women who usually stay at home are also released from imprisonment during the Lantern Festival, accompanied by female companions watching lights in the street. Married and childless women, at this time, touch the iron lights of the city gate and have more children.
After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), many dragon lanterns, lion dances, literature and art stepping on the street, poetry reading, guessing games and ball games were held in the Lantern Festival to enrich the content of the festival activities. Luoyuan Aojiu Aojiu Festival is also called Filial Piety Festival, or "Filial Piety Nine" for short. Because the ninth festival is the 29th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, it is the last nine days of the first month of the lunar calendar, also called "the last nine days". Early that morning, every household cooked nine meals with glutinous rice, peanuts, red dates and brown sugar. Married daughters send nine meals to honor their parents before Aojiu Festival, commonly known as "filial piety meal". According to custom, a family member who dies before the death day cannot cook nine meals. So, on that day, all the neighbors cooked him nine meals, which reflected the spirit of mutual help and friendship between people in the county.
On the second day of February, it is called Xiao aojiu. Most places are lunch on the day after Aojiu Festival, and the western countryside of Luoyuan is a festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Luoyuan, every family went to the grave, cleaned up the debris in front of the grave, refreshed the tombstone inscription, offered offerings, burned silver (superstitious paper) as a souvenir, and pressed paper money in front of the grave. After sweeping the grave, pine trees and bamboo branches are taken back, which means evergreen. Luoyuan has the custom of "before Qingming Festival, after a thousand years", that is, the graves in the first year should be swept in Qingming Festival, and the rest in Tomb-Sweeping Day one or two days ago. When the widows in Jianjiang area are in Tomb-Sweeping Day, they often go to the grave to burn paper to pay homage to their dead husbands and cry about their old love. Today, in addition to people continuing to sweep graves, government agencies and units also organize cadres, workers and school teachers and students to sweep graves to express their grief for the revolutionary martyrs.
On Qingming Day, many farmers still have the habit of picking tea and tasting and storing new tea.