1. Make a little change.
The preparations for the Spring Festival in Wuzhen generally begin on the first day of the twelfth lunar month, and supporting primary schools has become an important symbol for Wuzhen to enter the Spring Festival in the old society. After the dusk of the first day of the twelfth lunar month, there was a sound of slapstick in the streets and alleys of Wuzhen. As they walked along, the guards banged "bang, bang", playing harder and shouting, "Be careful in cold weather, the front door is closed, the back door is heavy, and Chai Men is watching. Guard against thieves, the portal is important. " After liberation, due to the good public security, the slogan was changed to "Be careful when freezing candles in cold weather, the front door is closed and the back door is heavy." See Chai Men, ashes piled up, vigilance, portal is important ".
In a peaceful day, what we call "fighting" is different:
1, the start time of each day is different. Small branches that begin after dusk; The night shift will start after dark dinner;
2. The duration is different. The small shift ends at 8 pm and lasts for about two hours; The night shift lasted until the next day, with a whole night;
3. The time of year is also different. Primary schools begin on the first day of the twelfth lunar month and end on the New Year's Eve, that is, one month before the Chinese New Year. Playing overtime is an activity that is carried out every day throughout the year;
4, the gameplay is different. In the process of shifting gears, just knock on a wooden stick for shifting gears; The usual knocking is to knock a few sticks first, and then knock the gong;
5. The slogans shouted in shifts are different. Generally speaking, the slogan of "playing overtime" will change with the changes of the four seasons, but the slogan of "helping the young" rarely changes. Every year, the slogan of "helping the young" is the same, and some slogans have even been used for decades or hundreds of years.
In Laowuzhen, every year in the twelfth lunar month, neighbors get together to discuss supporting small transfer, usually discussing how to share the cost. After the agreement is made, please ask someone to make a small transfer. For those who change less, there are about the following sources:
1. local night watchman;
2. Local geotechnical engineering (corpse receiver);
3. local beggars;
4. Poor families in this block;
Every day after work or before dusk, people who finish work will go to every household to collect labor remuneration, or have dinner, or receive some food or cash. Generally speaking, a poor family can have a very good Spring Festival with one month's salary.
Second, buy new year's goods.
In Wuzhen, many people start preparing new year's goods as soon as they arrive in the twelfth lunar month, but most Wuzhen people don't start buying new year's goods until the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month. So after the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the market in Wuzhen became lively, and people bought new year's goods everywhere. Every household is busy preparing new year's goods. Bacon, sauced meat, sauced hoof, pig's head and dried salted fish are hung in front of every household and under the eaves of Shui Ge. The atmosphere of the New Year infected everyone in the town. Strolling in the town, there is laughter everywhere, and the breath of the New Year slowly begins to spread to every corner of Wuzhen.
Third, send the kitchen god.
On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, every household in Wuzhen began to prepare to send the Kitchen God. Farewell to Kitchen God is an important activity before the Spring Festival, and no one dares to neglect it. Early in the morning, people began to prepare sacrifices for the kitchen god at night. Among them, the most important thing is to make the stove round. The stove circle is made of glutinous rice flour and old yellow pumpkin. It is often made into the shape of gold bars, ingots and cornucopia. Secondly, prepare a pot of maltose and four kinds of fresh fruits. See this /view/ 10390 for details.