The Legend of the Gentleman: Every unique custom is hidden in the blood, silently guiding us on the way home.
You're coming home so early this year, huh? "Yes! Our village can't celebrate the New Year without me! ”
My friend looked proud: "The sugar melon I made is the best in the village!" Everyone is counting on me to come back and do it every year! While talking about the New Year's customs in his hometown, he also specially turned the mobile phone camera to the table, so that I could see the long round, white and fat little sugar melon, which surprised Wu Daojun, who was still writing hard in the office. It is said that in different villages around the country, some of them will pay tribute to the gods and sacrifice stoves, some will worship the lamp mountain, beat vinegar and carbon, and some will pray for the New Year's tree and make tail teeth. It's a lot of tricks! Today, let's open your eyes with Wu Daojun and take a look at those strange and interesting customs! 
Want to know what is really "east wind night blooming thousand trees." Blowing down and the stars like rain"? Come to Beiguanbao to see a fight against trees and flowers. On the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the common people in the fort will gather at the wall of the ancient castle, and at this time, a strong man wearing a wet straw hat and a sheepskin jacket will come. He held a long-handled wet willow spoon, bent down and scooped it, followed by a spoonful of golden red molten iron splashed on the wall, bursting out thousands of sparks, and the whole wall was illuminated by this light and rain. 
Not waiting for the light and rain to fall, the strong man picked up the spoon again, and sprinkled another piece of splendor, the iron flower rose above his head like a giant tree, and suddenly bloomed countless fine silver flowers, with him spoonful after spoonful, the fire rose one after another in the night sky, overwhelming the bright, dizzying, incomparably spectacular. "The rich have the money to set off fireworks, and the poor have no money to shoot tree flowers", this is a tradition that Beiguanbao has followed for nearly 500 years. And this man is the "Wu Zhuangyuan" who beats trees and flowers in Beiguanbao, named Wang Quan, who is sixty-seven years old this year. Working in Inner Mongolia on weekdays, before the end of the year, the old and young people in the village have sent messages to ask him about the return date, afraid that he will delay the trip, afraid that he will not be able to come back, and the trees and flowers have not been lit up as scheduled. Playing trees and flowers is like an agreement with his hometown. Year after year, waiting for the fire tree and silver flowers to bloom in his hands, illuminating the morning and twilight of Beiguanbao, year after year. 
The north side is "the fire tree and the silver flower never sleeps", the starlight is bright, beautiful, and the south side is the "one night fish and dragon dance", the lights are bright, so lively. Before the Lantern Festival arrived, Master Wang Zailang of Wang Mantian Village had already led his apprentices and neighbors to get busy. They would go to the mountains together, pick bamboos that were three to four years old, cut them down, carry them down the mountain, polish them smooth, split them into bamboo strips, and bake them to make fish bones. The rest of the young adults will help with cotton paper, paint fish scales, and write the word "king" on their foreheads, and make fish lanterns together. And the children will gather in the Wang clan ancestral hall to vote for the "fish head" of the year. In the eyes of the villagers, the "fish head" is a kind of glory, which can bless the next year with successful studies and a successful career. But Yutou also needs to be the chief of this year's Fish Lantern Festival, responsible for raising funds, purchasing materials, coordinating routes and other trivial matters. 
On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, night falls, gongs and drums are beaten, and the fish lantern officially begins. Seven or eight young people carrying huge "fish" on their shoulders came out of their respective ancestral halls, followed by the lanterns to gather at the entrance of the ancestral hall, and when the fireworks exploded in the air and the torches were lit, the fish would be connected end to end and swim in groups in the village. The big fish or tail swipe, walk slowly, or swing their fins, rapid forward, children holding small fish lanterns to follow the big fish, up and down, left and right, flexible rolling, as if real fish are swimming in the water, laughing and playing. 
Every time you pass by a house, the owner will set off firecrackers to bless the coming year with smooth sailing and more than one year after another. The crowd will carry the big fish and nod to the owner to celebrate, and then continue to play through the streets and alleys to the front with the sound of gongs and drums, firecrackers, and laughter of the crowd. In the past few years, due to the epidemic, the "fish" have always swam with their heads and tails, and they can't enjoy themselvesDuring this year's Lantern Festival, it can finally swim happily in the streets and alleys of the village, and send the blessings of the coming year to every household. 
The Spring Festival is a people's festival. But you know what? For the people of Fukasawa County, this is also a festival for rats, because they want to help rats marry! If you come to Shenze County in the early morning of the twelfth day of the first lunar month, you will definitely hear the children in every household singing the nursery rhyme "Hit, beat, beat, nine out of ten mice are blind, leaving one with a radish flower in his eye!" While singing, he also used a dustpan and wooden sticks to beat the corners of the walls, beds, and bricks in the house. This is them waking up the snooze rats and getting them up to get ready for marriage! 
On this day, you will search all the houses in the village, and you will definitely not find a pair of scissors that can be opened. Because the women will tie up the scissors with red cloth early, after all, the "click" sound made by the opening and closing of the scissors is like a mouse biting something, so the rats can't hear it, which will teach them badly! If you are hungry at noon, the only food you can eat is dumplings and millet porridge. The dumplings are specially made in the shape of a small mouse, which means "pinch the mouse's mouth tightly and don't call in the coming year". And millet noodle porridge can "fascinate the eyes of mice, but the grain cannot be seen".
In the evening, the earth-shattering gongs and drums sounded, you can see a long lantern of the rat greeting team, some of them carry a sedan chair, some drum music, the villagers will be with the greeting team to help the rats "send off" lively, celebrate the rats marrying (driving) out of the county, and never return. There are no rats at home, and the barn will be full of grain in the coming year, which has been a tradition in Fukasawa County for many years. The villagers believe that as long as they help the rats marry smoothly, they will be able to eradicate the rat infestation and ensure that the next year will be prosperous and the barn can be expected.
Not only that, there is a custom of dancing together for three days and three nights in Nasamu Village in Yunnan, there is a worship lamp mountain in Shangsuzhuang Village in Henan, and there is a ...... to send New Year's soup and rice in Tianao Village in ZhejiangOnly the people who grew up on this land know their existence and understand their significance. Therefore, whenever the New Year is approaching, those wanderers scattered all over the world will put away their bags and go thousands of miles to return to their hometown. For many people, that's why they have to go home: some people say that they are waiting for themselves to make tree flowers, there are lamps waiting for them to pray for blessings, and there are wonderful New Year's customs waiting for them to ......be completedI don't know if you will return this year after working hard in another country? What is the reason why you must go home?