Worship can be divided into farming season holiday festivals, religious festivals, national traditional festivals. Unity of folk activities and integrated sub-categories. The purpose of unity simply means festivals; comprehensive holiday festival that the purpose of diversification, including a lot of folk activities.
Tianjin Folk Festival on the very particular about the age and weight luxury, pomp, for a rich feast, which at money and manpower. Festivals according to the lunar line, followed so far. Spring Festival Spring
beginning of spring to play for the first lunar calendar. Chinese folk as the beginning of the weather in spring. Later, as a folk festival in turn, change is called
play Chunniu the farmers for the harvest of the year for prayer prayer held, was brought to the city, as people pray hard drive, and accompanied by an important content of folk activities entertain. Have paper was beaten Chunniu cattle and Niniu of the points. Executive or by the local village elders presided send high prestige production, the date of the beginning of spring will be an open space Chunniu place, the rate of one turn around the Chunniu cattle after 3 laps worship. Then tie silk wrapped around the whip too hard to cattle under 3 is to Or paper, whether Niniu cattle, are the first to use bamboo, wire, wicker, etc. tied skeleton, or mud paste, or paste paper. If Niniu, playing Chunniu paste must be destroyed in the mud of cattle, cattle, like the skeleton of the same paper, burned up. By then, people to set off firecrackers, drums and gongs, in order to greet the arrival of spring.
play Spring woman was in the beginning of spring when the first two or three days, by some people's hearts softened powder topcoat, do coy ugly, people nicknamed it as Rob rob drink in the marketplace, called
play hi busy spring and officials of some people, usually invite some bald people dress, the official Shamao red clothing, down to ride Cattle, a show, they sometimes been dragged under the Cattle, and sometimes will Shamao get rid of, exposing the head, teaser people laugh.
Ying Ao Mountain is to meet the beginning of spring in the Mountain God, bend Mountain usually dress up by real people, their dress dress is based on Lunar calendar year, when there are changes, and sometimes do not wear hats, but also sometimes wear Mans shoes, or red one foot, red feet and so on. Rain for the coming year indicates that the size of year for how and so on.
hit the spring on this day, people pay attention to eating Chunbing, fried spring rolls, some families also do Chunliu, spread sheet that children with egg strips, mix with spring leek cut into small pieces. Purple Heart also pay attention to eating carrots,
Today, people only retain the custom of eating, playing Chunniu, play Spring woman, play the spring officer, Ying Ao Mountain and other popular activities in the 20th century, 20 years after the demise of one after another. However, some lucky Yangliuqing or daily painting can also find the traces of this custom.
first day: New Year
Spring Festival is the biggest Chinese folk, one of the most popular national festival with ancient tradition. Chinese New Year, Xiangyan so far. The modern meaning, the Spring Festival, the concept of the term, there are two, one for the narrow sense, that is, of Moon refers only to one day, the people commonly known as first day Tianjin Folk conventional, not just a broad concept, but from the start into the busy years of the twelfth lunar month, doing all kinds of preparatory work for the New Year. A folk saying goes: New Year's event actually started from the Laba, continuing to the Sixteenth nearly 40 days of such a time is engaged in the New Year or Chinese New Year related activities. The concept of New Year richer than the broader, longer.
Tianjin loved the lively character, devoted to promote civil society activities in the New Year with great enthusiasm and interest. Old, not only the rich rich merchants to the Chinese New Year, the ordinary poor people also try to spend the New Year dinner, dumplings time. After the founding of the PRC, the Government requires the Spring Festival holiday for 3 days. So far, people are still as in the past, preparing for the New Year at the energy and money spent in order to eat,UGG boots, wear, complete with a wealth of preparation was to create an atmosphere of Chinese New Year was a warm fire. In
busy preparing the New Year is the first family to wear. As long as whatever, a family must purchase more clothing and headgear and footwear, life difficult for families and then have to give the elderly and children wear additions. General people generally manage after the start from the beginning of winter, that is, the economic constraints of the home, but also in the twelfth lunar month beginning Zaichi hands.
is then boiled, windows; twenty-six stew, and pork; twenty-seven slaughter cock; twenty-eight flour made; twenty-nine down money; thirty sat night Carnival music. Laba
average family in the future, the men began preparation stocking. New Year is a festival of life with things to eat, requires not only rich in quantity and quality requirements are also favorably. While some no shortage of daily necessities, but do complete a purchase order Tuji Li, find the deed. Plate dishes such as additions like the wish for the coming year is prosperous, Tim import, a flourishing population. But also to the home for the elderly, children to buy things. Tianjin has a saying:
the streets as people prepared for all kinds of New Year New Year to all fifteen items listed in the twelfth lunar month, known as Tin Hau Temple in the palace as the center of the South, North Temple street, side by side in stalls and the wall covered with Selling paintings, fireworks, Diaoqian children, window grilles, lanterns, masks, pomegranate, couplets, diabolo, goldfish ... ... row upon row of red and green everywhere, beaming. The streets of the village rice, seafood shop, pickles Park, incense paper code stores the business of children into the climax.
twelfth lunar month after twenty, most people began to buy fish, meat, vegetables and nut and fruit, pastry cakes and sweetmeats and other items. Since many of the small merchant family in the twelfth lunar month until after twenty year-end from the shop to get the Therefore, most shops have to be busy, In this short span of 20 days, to the man from the dispensers to be from morning till night. Twenties and thirties of the 20th century Qian Xiang Yi, Shui Cheung beetle, Yuan Long, London and other silk village Qinglong; Fan Yong, Tai Chun-Lin, Gui Shun, fasting, and four other bakery Hong Yuan; there are children pay the price of paper code shop, Wan Chong Hing Tin rice, Longchang seafood shop, famous Ching Hing Tak tea is old customers at his door all day long, highly profitable times.
Jizao twenty-three the twelfth lunar month is Jizao day, folk that the Folklore, the Kitchen God is the Jade Emperor sent to monitor every human good or evil gods, the end of each report to the Jade Emperor God over the past year is good or bad the family situation, a return trip takes 7 days, so this day off each give the Kitchen God. Parents on this day each evening hosted Jizao, offerings for the Tanggua, sticky cakes, fodder and water bowl (the last two offerings for the Kitchen God mounts use). Tanggua Jizao and sticky cake Jizao purpose of God is hope that the Kitchen God made a good thing, stick to Tanggua and sticky cake king mouth lesions, so less talk or not talk. Some people put on the lees kitchen door, kitchen king to drink, so when he saw the Jade Emperor drunk sleepy drunk, nothing to say. Call-in ceremony finished with the current paper ingots to code children incineration The Kitchen God, is that the report on his work The Kitchen God, and set off firecrackers to send off the Kitchen God to heaven. When the women's civil provisions Jizao not participate, girls must not eat sacrificial Tanggua also said to ring if the black population will eat.
room over the water swept round the twelfth lunar month civil routine sweep the house, commonly known as As the New Year is a festival last year, but also about the new year begins, so every household cleaning house to clean. Some families in the twelfth round alternative Qingnuan before the day of the cleaning, moving boxes down cabinet, dropping the walls, dust on the wall and ceiling (commonly known as kitchen cabinets and furniture polish copper trim around the children, panels, cutting boards, pot, cooking utensils, etc. should be rinsed beat Gail require spotless inside and out to some new weather New Year. The next day is the twelfth lunar month twenty-five people to use heroin with papered windows, new gas left eye, and some were still rolling.
festive dinner prepared by starting from the twelfth lunar month twenty-six eighteen people for dinner, New Year's dinner time. People saying Housewives should eat during Chinese New Year chickens, ducks, fish, meat, wax beans, sweet & sour cabbage and other dishes together well, meat and vegetables do have, the big tub filled with a small cylinder at home. The twelfth lunar month XVIII began steamed bread, a pot and a pot and steamed on the points in the red dot, this wish the family business thrive. All kinds of stuffing steamed food, cakes and other food should be placed in a dedicated room, eat these foods generally Festival of Lights.
posted do have the twelfth lunar month twenty-nine do have (homonym This day, people make scrolls, lucky character, window grilles, Diaoqian children, black glazed paper cut into the pig arches paper cutting and pasting all indoor and outdoor pictures, and even tanks, bins should be subsidizing the to take Families with more than couplets as doorman on the door in the bedroom painting. Some people will be in the hospital rolls sesame stalks with yellow glue Diecheng the ingot form, save into a bundle, spread out above, that the Day High,
New Year's Eve (small twenty-nine into the twelfth lunar month, also known as New Year's Eve)
this day, the morning people will have toilet and tidy, put on new clothes. At this time, by the parents for a incense. Lunch is rice and rice dishes, meat stuffing dumplings night, take the The dumplings stuffed with pork-based meat, add eggs, shrimp or crab eggs, sea cucumber, leek. General family for meals, and both must hurry home to eat this Dayton reunion dinner, so people also called the Dayton dumplings for the
after dinner, and everyone who have completed the rinsed empty pot and basin, etc. are placed on dry salted fish and crust pastry intended. 9 pm, parents wash hand clothes crown to Buddha, incense ancestors bowed down, the following people after the first men and women followed the rituals, then other family names of women can not enter the house, called the people stopping by. Another kind of In addition also to the deities and ancestors for the last bowl of rice, rice cakes and fruit. Rice is a bowl of rice for the dates on top, plug in the red pomegranate silk or paper to do. To wait for food to eat over the years, it is said, eat meals for the family blessed. Cake is a symbol for life year after year. Ancestral worship, the entire candle is not put out the incense constantly, until the dawn. 0:00 to Children wearing new hat and more, the girl also with Hongrong silk flower heads, small groups lantern, sing songs, set off firecrackers. Home with older women, but also with a red silk head pomegranate. In addition to candle incense to be careful to take care of, the big people generally adhere to the Package is also busy women who started hormone dumplings. Such factors are gluten dumpling stuffing, mouth watering and authentic, eggs, bean sprouts, vermicelli and so on. Pack finished dumplings, the use of yellow paper cover, and at midnight to eat something, to be a number of days will be bright Shihai cook the altar, burning incense and bowed down and worshiped at the moment to give full children of God incineration code, commonly known as large sheet of paper. Is said to be sent to give full upper bound, lower bound orientation Zao Jun, the new code The Kitchen God for the child re-niche in The Kitchen. At this time every family set off firecrackers (legend, the first set off firecrackers for the expulsion of evil spirits, to pray and then become an expression of smooth, that the 30 years of the 20th century outside the North pole Lane, Gu Yi Street area, the firm wins fight odd bucket, lantern, fireworks exist side by side. New Year's Eve street children selling candy piers, candy, cakes and the like dried overnight stop, New Year's Eve night of folk there are many taboos, not allowed to say good thing, especially the exclusive dead Also not allowed to sweep the floor, pouring water, afraid to sweep away the gas wealth, drained. If items like broken porcelain, will have to quickly say Although
New Year's Eve is a happy occasion, but it is a equivalent to escape a pass, good and breathing room to repay the debt. Therefore, firm general account to be sent lantern to go after him, even after dawn, lights, continue to Dunning. Some debtors unable to repay, then try to Bierbuxian until the big and bright, the people on the streets, better is the New Year's Day, even if the two sides meet again, do not mention the balance of things, have to wait the first month After fifteen bombarded, so people have a saying: Gui girls head with Choujuan other cloth underwear shaped head made of small cut and sewn into a special New Year's Eve this day idol for the girls to Zigu commode in the toilet or on the fifteenth day of the night once the good and bad fortune, as well as narration in their own misery heartfelt emotion. Zigu, that pit Sangu, civil commonly known as The Department of JAC old customs passed Tianjin, after the mid-Qing lost indigenous heritage in the city.
New Year's first day climbing, eating New Year's Eve night package dumplings prime purpose is to discuss a year sober. That day, the general people are home from the music, do not go out at night to bed early. Later, people have started this morning in the custom of climbing to Tuji Li. Old, Tianjin city and more for the cottage, take the place of the main bell tower, drum tower and Yuhuangge, etc., it is auspicious to climb to soaring demand. After 40 years of the 20th century, civil neighborhood friends and relatives began to each other in the New Year's Day New Year. To Civil as well as In ordinary day, put the good word as This custom has continued ever since. Dear God of the first month
two days, folk to Twilight days, the home owner to respect the God of Wealth after washing. Morning, carry water with the water a bunch of red string tied to her husband, affixed with ), meaning home of the New Year rich source. Draft thanks to the water because of old people went house to house husband knows the weight of bottled water, so getting water to each get one should carry water, in front of the call for Water husband, the general did not even give you the money, subject to the fifth day after the accounts. In addition,cheap UGG boots, most people in this day to ask From then until after the Festival of Lights, New Year's relatives and friends still give children lucky money. After four or five years of the 20th century, the rise in the first two days of this day, married the daughter to return to her parents, Uncle worship Laozhang Ren, wife's mother. Even her family elders have died, unmarried daughter to her parents can be brother, brother family reunion, the right to be home. Two days of eating at noon on this day are generally lo mein, prepared the evening banquet in honor of their Uncle.
Today, some families still follow people, The first two days of scheduled return to her family become popular, and dubbed
Since the first day to the third, Sisu Folk Heritage, called homozygous for two days to eat, to take There are eleven in the first month to eat zygote, that is homozygous for turning children.
break five the first month, commonly known as People have Old this day, every household to get up in the days just before dawn, got up, opened the Kangxi, the kang was erased at the end of the dust cleaning, and then look like paper cut silhouette of a woman, saying , and with the dustpan summarized out down the street, leaning to one side while setting off firecrackers to run poor gas shock, shock to find accommodation for the poor came to the empress, folk call it
In addition, This morning, families would also like the New Year, throw away accumulated dirt, sewage spill. This is because the gods, so we first accumulate up stolen goods these days, once the fifth day with the spilled. Now this practice no longer exists. New Year's Eve night, people generally do not fall in the dirt and dirty water from day to day when you can lift the taboo.
the emphasis is on civil society in particular That day, families have to make dumplings, evil dirty, pinch villain. A knife to chop vegetables in housewives stuffed or meat, the side of the cut, the mouth to the side talking about the Dumplings, the housewives have to carefully pinch the dumpling skin, do not reveal that the gap, for fear of break when boiled dumplings phenomenon. Such a move called
first month of the sixth days of opening (also the eighth day in the first month), on the street each outlet stores opened, all the staff gathered in front of the firecrackers, shops and homes to pay the first day since the various bits and overhead.
fifteenth day: Lunar New Year Festival of Lights for the Lantern Festival, also known as the
old, Tianjin had the Festival of Lights is usually the first month fourteen to sixteen, which lasted 3 days. Chengxiang inside and outside houses shop operators,UGG boots clearance, thoroughfare decorated, flower torch discharge. Night, people took to the streets, lantern apart, or quality painters, or guess Wen-Hu. On this day, many people also took to the streets of various flower shows. Stilts, French drums, lion dance, etc. with street lamps off each other, to add festive color. Lantern Festival Lantern Festival
food to eat soup per day, Tianjin in dialect called species. Glutinous rice pastry shop is selling side. Lantern filling variety, so called Sorghum are generally homemade noodles, is a package of sugar filling hand-kneaded after, cooked slightly firm.
this day, people pay attention to the statue for reference before or the day before the door was steamed lotus leaf pier good baking hedgehogs, rats pack ingot pasta. Offerings are mostly middle-aged family put the elderly, stress placed before noon for the hedgehog, mouse head outwards, away zhuantou chao in the afternoon, which means that the ingot pack back home. Lantern before dinner cooked for the first Buddha and ancestors. uncle and sent to light
fifteenth day, uncle to nephew sent people there are the custom lights. Old, pay attention to give a . This custom has not changed, and the increasingly diverse types of lamps, lights goldfish, thistles lights and take off more than auspicious meaning.
go riddled fifteenth, sixteen two days, the people there are In particular, Sixteenth, women not only want to go back to her parents, and many trips together, while lanterns casual stroll, while the line over three bridges, but also Due to Today, people still had a very grand
February: Rend
Tianjin folklore Nongyan: days have rain, but since then, the rain will gradually increase.
cited QIAN old this day, the farm housewives get up early to hit kang edge shoe or broom, the mouth is talking softly, With the idea, put that Sheng stove ash and bran of the dustpan outside the gate ran out of the river to the river and then fold the body back, walked Caesar kelp, bran, intends to spread into the hospital winding, Direct spread to the tank side, and then sprinkle a circle around the tank, it is called Then steamed rice cakes, welcomed the arrival of the dragon, also said steam dead insects, it no longer spoil crops.
painting positions two days of February this afternoon, peri-urban farmers to hold a This painting stores, by the older operation, the hand-side of a dustpan stove ash to sprinkle in a valley on the farm and garden. Caesar first warehouse roof, warehouse Zaisa belly, and then sprinkle the cover. After Caesar, ordered children and grandchildren placed grab some whole grains barn, brick or stone above the paper pressed together with strict, in order to indicate good grain warehouse, not damage, pray the new year, favorable weather and abundant harvests. In addition, February is considered the land of God birthday, both the Earth Temple incense.
food taboos of the day with festive food is sub fried stew, pancakes, fried eggs and bean sprouts. Braised son is a jelly, cut into pieces fried, and then sesame paste, vinegar, garlic, sesame oil and other small materials pinned consumption. Fried stew of all child death meant fried insects. Pancakes known as Eat bean sprouts, Yu said all brilliance, in the future and happiness. We need to do at night noodles, called Some people cooked pig Han, pending the arrival of the dragon woke up, bring happiness to the family. Avoid this day women to sew and to prevent needlestick bad longan, stabbed dragon. Prevalence of men shaved head in this auspicious day.
Today, Tianjin, urban and rural areas of the old customs are still followed the rise of the dragon, but most people only eat festive meals only. The shaved hair on the wind has become more prosperous.
first month twenty-five: Section
fill positions are filling positions in the first month twenty-five Festival, known as In the tenth day before the first month is Fill positions in rural development is a section of the city's festival.
hit store large warehouses are filled day of festive authentic. Old, the day the city residents and suburban farmers hold different folk activities. The public more in the first month on the 24th after dinner, with lime, chalk or ash carbon in the yard which draw a diameter of about 2 feet to 3 feet around the ancient coins style circle around the hole were written on the money, 4 words, some written in the money hole Outside the circle toward the bottom, and then draw a ladder, and then put a circle of them at the bags of rice, the pressure on with a brick, that the Meanwhile, in the residential house in which, it still painting set, put Yangqian circle, put some coppers children, wrapped in paper cutting Diaoqian children, the pressure on with a brick, called the activities, collectively referred to as In the morning the next day, the pressure in the hoarding of rice bag and wallet at the show, the pressure on the home Kangxi angle, until the night out. When residents of copper hoard the money to fight child children children used paper-cut Diaoqian not be new, but rather use the Post Spring Festival had used Diaoqian children, many have adopted the to blending good luck.
some people steamed buns, steamed buns to fill positions in section. Steamed bread shape when bunched up into place first within the Long Ti, and then press your finger in a hole on top of each bread child, called Steamed bread, the opened Longti cover, look at the pits (days position) in whether there is water, water full to a symbol of good years this year, is the harvest year; less water is generally year for; if no water to indicate the days to drought, lack of food, people called it
food and contraindications to this day,UGG boots cheap, eating rice, rice, boiled fish soup, which means pre-Bo Fengnian, food classified positions. Home of the rich and fresh steamed salty Kuaiyu (ie pressure pot Kuaiyu). Some miscellaneous people drink soup, eat the cake first, a symbol of harvest. These are said to be civil Kyrgyz language There are a few to eat bread. Most people also eat a civil snacks - fried bean paste cakes, in order to get a round sweet lucky.
this day, every family should sleep early, and shall not disturb the ring for the night, saying it was That day, women are not moving needle.
now fill positions in every section, each still have that rural folk custom, but has become less standardized. Some of the old urban households used most of the old with the New Year Diaoqian children some coins or a whole bag of money was placed under the kang. There are simply some of the eating festive food of rice and boil soup. February 29: Guanyin Festival
February 29, according to legend was the date of the birth of the Goddess of Mercy. By then, a series of celebration activities to be held in private.
First, go to the temple dedicated to Goddess of Mercy offer joss sticks to call-in ceremony, pray for Kyrgyzstan. Old, Tin Hau Temple, incense, etc. Great Mercy Hospital heyday.
same time, to worship at home. Because most families are dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy, so at the Goddess of Mercy in child images or code before the altar of God incense, chanting and bowed down. Offerings are the Some also for the Goddess of Mercy by volume. If not for the usual concept of home audio and video, this time it resembles the writing, If this day the weather was the wind, known as Old, Tianjin river, sea transport prosperous, civil also used this day as a sign of the vessel to sail to run. After the founding of the PRC, this custom disappeared. The late '80s, most people in the Great Mercy Hospital, Tin Hau Temple and other temples dedicated to Goddess of Mercy celebrate the ritual activities that have been at home for a few graves.
March: Peach will
March third, is the Queen Mother's Birthday. People to make more
old, non-governmental activities, mainly in the Old City to celebrate the more than 10 miles west of the small little house straight mouth longevity. By then, the palace from the first day began in March, held Praying for 3 consecutive days. Both men and women regardless of how far the city went to the temple road incense, altar. The city also invited well-known Taoist palace gentry, the wealthy big to repair the temple, fasting, and by information received huge incense. Meanwhile, on the donor to the
In addition, civil society organizations to take the mat huts outside the temple, located at place. In addition to long narrow table, square table, armchair and other old furniture and paper to play, antiques, calligraphy and painting, there will be water (Water Board) with a full set of belongings, in case of emergency.
Japanese invasion of China, the destitution, this custom disappeared. After the founding of the PRC, Longevity Palace, used for other purposes, will be diverted March peach held in the temple. 60 years during the Cultural Revolution, with the statue were destroyed days after the palace, this custom completely disappear.
Gregorian calendar April 5: Tomb Sweeping festival
, one of the twenty-four solar terms, also known as When the time section, miscellaneous peanut trees, birds are flying long grass, willow floating wire, Wai Fung Cheong. Therefore, the tomb of civil and more occasion of the sweep, cherish the memory of our ancestors, Willow plug door, pray for good luck. Ching Ming festival is an important agricultural production. Nongyan the Therefore, farmers began to ease after soaking spring.
often because several people close to the holiday date to be merged into one, such as the Cold Food Festival, Shangsi Festival is mixed with the Ching Ming festival, known collectively as the Ching Ming Festival. In fact, in Chinese history, the Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival has its own history and the origins of holiday customs. Cold Food Festival is considered to be Minister to commemorate Jie Jin Spring and Autumn Period and the formation of the development of folk festivals, and Shangsi Festival is a pure ancient Chinese field trip to the countryside, waterside bathing festival feast of joy. Ching Ming Festival, 10 days before and after the memorial day for civil grave, called
this day, folk custom of kite flying as well, during the day, also at night. It put the kite sky, it will cut the rope, let the breeze blow away, it is said that this will ward off illnesses, bring good luck.
before Tomb Sweeping Festival, Chun Yang Zhao Lin, Chun-Yu Fei Sa, since ancient times, people have the custom of Ching Ming planting willow trees. Some even called the Ching Ming, The wind has been circulating since.
1979, the PRC National People's Congress Standing Committee of the provisions of the annual calendar on March 12 as Arbor Day. Today, the festival has evolved into folk festival of pure worship.
March 23: the Emperors
March 23, is the goddess of the sea days after the anniversary of the birth, when the Queen will be held, once known as the Chinese Emperors
20 century, 20 years ago, the temple outside the east gate of Tianjin incense heyday here, and make arrangements for the Queen will be huge. People start from the Lunar New Year on March 15 lasted 9 days. On the 16th, the 18th, the 20th, the 22nd held four days and the days after the tour of inspection line will show scattered blessing. Thousands of performers, performing groups hundreds Road, superb acting, costumes, props Huagui Fu Li. March 23 is a positive day, is the climax of imperial will. By then, the city men and women come in pilgrimage to worship, four farmers will rise to the arriving Qiuzi. Enclosing walls of the surrounding areas to bring supplies and more vendors to attend temple activities.
twenty-five years the Republic of China (1936) will be held after the last Emperor has been closed. To 1988 did not return, but the scale is greatly reduced, private only in the lunar March 22, xxiii celebrations organized for two days, to the temple to burn incense, intra-organization of civil Fair show, homes birth dumplings and birthday noodles, etc., this activity has been the temple management committee of Tianjin, Tianjin, organized under the auspices Folk Museum.
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