How do you spend the Spring Festival in your hometown? Are there any special customs?

As a native of Huazhou, let's introduce our New Year's customs here, there are many, and I will pick our biggest feature here, "New Year".

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the "Lantern Festival", which is commonly known as the "annual example" in my hometown. However, the annual festivals vary from region to region, and the annual festivals are mostly concentrated around the Lantern Festival, which is generally from the second day of the first month to the end of the first month, and in some places it is the second month of the lunar calendar. The New Year is the most solemn festival of the Chinese New Year in Huazhou, and it is known as the saying that "the year is bigger than the Spring Festival" in the countryside, and it is also the most distinctive festival in Huazhou.

The main purpose of the year is to pray for good weather and good weather, prosperity of all industries, and peace and security of the country and the people. The contents include wandering spirits, lantern tours, lighting lanterns, Jiao beating, lion dance, making big operas (Cantonese opera), performing puppet shows, setting off fireworks and firecrackers, etc. During the New Year in a village, the people of the surrounding villages came to see the excitement, and every household held a banquet to entertain relatives and friends, regardless of whether they knew each other or not, they all warmly entertained tea, rice, wine and food.

There are a lot of programs in the year, so I'll talk about the two grandest:

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The banquet is the so-called "eating the New Year", which is also the highlight of the Huazhou people's current New Year's ceremony. The host of the annual guest does not have to be familiar with it, or even have never heard of it, as long as it comes, all are welcome, and even the more the better, and the more visitors there are, the more the number of tables is displayed, which proves that the family is more prosperous. On the contrary, those who come to the house with fewer guests will feel left out.

This is to celebrate the good fortune of the old year and pray for the auspiciousness of the new year, for a kind of popularity.

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This is one of the most lively scenes of the annual event. All the men, women, and children of the village gather the prepared offerings at the head of the village or in an open space in the village, set up an offering table, and wait for the arrival of God. Suddenly the gongs and drums sounded, and the people looked in the same direction, and the god was escorted by a guard of honor, and after being carried around the offering table for three weeks, the god stopped and accepted the worship, and some people (mostly the elderly, women, and children) began to bend down and prostrate and pray and ...... without ceasingThe time of the tour in each place is generally the day of the year, and in some places it is noon or early morning, which varies from place to place.

My hometown is in Qinzhou, Guangxi, every year during the Spring Festival, I will make zongzi, make powder, make sesame cakes, and worship the god of the stove and other customs.

Every place in the Spring Festival has different customs, we will get together for a reunion dinner, talk about life, there are many customs, including eating dumplings, guessing lantern riddles, visiting flower markets, worshipping Buddha in temples, etc.

Sticking couplets and hanging lanterns, on the day of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, worship the ancestors at noon and sit together at night to have a reunion dinner, the first day of junior high school can not sweep the floor, the second day of junior high school must eat vegetarian and the third day of junior high school to come to the door as a guest of the fourth lion dragon dance.

During the Spring Festival in my hometown, the family sat around for a reunion dinner and watched the Spring Festival Gala. From the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the house was cleaned, New Year's goods were purchased, and the Spring Festival couplets were hung with lanterns. New Year's greetings at the beginning of the year. It was not until the fifteenth year of the first month that it was over.

Hometown Spring Festival to go out to people to pay New Year's greetings, leaving only parents at home to guard, in front of the door need to paste couplets, hanging lanterns, the garbage generated on the day of the Spring Festival can not immediately go out less, must be the second day.