What are the rural customs?

1. The custom of praying for longevity and blessing.

Choose a baby name and hang a longevity lock. Some babies in rural areas also have nicknames, most of which mean longevity, such as "Silver Lock" and so on.

Whenever the child is one month old, the grandmother's family will give the child a silver longevity lock, collar, bracelet, and anklet, and wear it on the child. The reverse side of the longevity lock is engraved with the word "longevity" and the front side is engraved with the words "longevity and longevity", and is paired with a silver necklace. The bracelets and anklets also have silver bells.

2. New Year customs

In the twelfth lunar month, the New Year pigs are killed, Laba garlic, Laba porridge, steamed New Year dry food, making tofu, sweeping dust, saying goodbye to the stove, writing Spring Festival couplets, posting money, Cutting window grilles, pasting New Year pictures, pasting spring strips, erecting lantern poles, collecting poor people, etc.

3. Set off firecrackers during the New Year.

At eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening on New Year's Eve every year, most families will set off firecrackers to welcome the New Year. There are long and short firecrackers, and long firecrackers mean more smooth sailing in the coming year. Moreover, guests who visit after the first day of the Lunar New Year will set off firecrackers for him to celebrate and bless him.

4. When you return to your parents’ home, you cannot sleep with your husband.

In some rural areas, there is still a custom that if a married girl returns to live with her parents' family, she must not sleep with her husband unless she has no older brother or younger brother. Elderly people say that if you sleep with your natal family, your natal family will not be prosperous and your family will be suppressed. I don’t know if it makes sense, but it has become a common rule.

5. People with the same surname generally do not intermarry.

Generally, most people in the village have the same surname, and people with the same surname are said to be the ancestors who gave birth to their surname in the genealogy. clan members, so the same surname is a family, that is, brothers and sisters, and a family cannot intermarry. If you marry someone with the same surname, you will be criticized and gossiped by the villagers. In serious cases, you may be kicked out of the village. Therefore, in some rural areas where this custom is practiced, it is probably not possible to marry someone with the same surname.