Tell us about the customs of the Chinese New Year in your hometown?

I am from Chengdu, married a daughter-in-law from Northeast China, and settled in Northeast China. My family's custom is that no matter whether it is a Chinese New Year or a gathering of family and friends, there will always be a dish: boiled pork slices!

It's so delicious, so every time I go back, I eat it until I die. Do you think it's ordinary? Green bamboo shoots, anchovy, fungus, cauliflower, celery, potatoes, lotus root slices and so on each ingredient are cooked separately with watercress spices, etc., this is to ensure that each ingredient is the entrance of the just right taste, and then layer by layer spread in the basin, the meat only uses the two live meat on the back of the pig, so tender that it is not good, after stir-frying into the flavor, it is quickly poured into the basin, spread on the top, and then sprinkled with a piece of red chili noodles, fragrant peppercorns, the last spoonful of hot oil, stabbing sound, and the lively taste rises all over the house. ‍‍

My hometown is in eastern Henan, and some Spring Festival customs have been followed to this day: on the first day of the Lunar New Year, I get up in the early morning to set off firecrackers and eat dumplings, during the day, the same clan and neighbors walk the streets and alleys to kowtow to the New Year, meet and greet "drink soup" in the morning of the first day of the new year, and the second girl of the junior high school returns to her parents' home, and the third day of the junior high school "Ghost Festival" gives the grave of those who have died less than three years to "burn paper". From the second day of the Lunar New Year, except for the third day of the Lunar New Year to the days of the Lantern Festival, I visit relatives and friends, mainly to pay New Year's greetings, eat and drink.

On the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve, couplets began to be pasted, and the torn couplets were hung on the branches. I don't know why, I just know that it's a custom, every year. Chinese New Year's Eve will be a vigil, but not an all-nighter, but a firecracker at 12 o'clock on time, and someone will set it off until dawn, so you have to wear headphones to sleep.

There is also New Year's money, I am from Guangdong, Guangdong's New Year's money is notoriously small, ten or twenty years ago, when I was poor, it was five yuan and ten yuan, and now it has barely been upgraded to twenty, and my parents have begun to give one hundred in recent years.

In our hometown, on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, who should put three thunderbolts before the awakening, called the door cannon, and on the morning of the first day of the new year, they should also put three thunderbolts, called the door cannon. Even the Chinese New Year's Eve sit-up year (a whole night without sleeping) is to be released. When I get up for breakfast after the first day of junior high school, it must be fresh handmade dumplings.

After breakfast, go to the ancestral tomb to pay respects to the ancestors and thank them for continuing the family! Then, I went to every house to pay New Year's greetings and ask for red envelopes.

By midnight, the sky over the whole village became a world of colorful flowers, and the rumbling of cannons shook the sky until dawn, and people of all sizes wore new clothes. It means a new year and a new atmosphere, a good omen for the year, and every family eats dumplings, indicating a complete and beautiful year. Adults give children more than enough money every year.

Immediately after the gift package of the younger generations to the elders to greet the New Year, it has been extended to the fifteenth day of the first month, go to relatives and friends, in full swing, the table is full of dishes, so that they can be sprinkled with red light to drink! For 5,000 years, the Spring Festival customs have been very lively, respecting and loving each other, and reluctant to give up. ‍‍

When we cook the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, we first put the chicken, pig's head, tail and sausage in the cooked food bowl and put it in all directions, burn incense, wax, paper money, and wine to sacrifice and wish the year to be better than the year, and after the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, we go to the grave for the deceased. On the first day of the first lunar month, it is different, if there are children, let the adults not be allowed to beat or make the children cry in the morning, and after quietly cooking the rice balls without saying much, they want to go where they want to play their own play, and the rice balls indicate reunion and harmony. Eating noodles in the second year of junior high school indicates that the whole family will be smooth and disaster-free**.

My hometown is at the junction of Sulu, and on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, relatives and friends always have to go door-to-door to pay New Year's greetings. Usually the juniors in the family go out to pay New Year's greetings, and the elders sit in the hall to wait for their relatives and friends. But this New Year's greeting is especially (solemn):

When you go to someone else's house to pay New Year's greetings, you have to kneel on your knees to make a big salute, it is really kneeling, and many times there is no mat. Imagine that two or three families came to pay New Year's greetings at the same time, and Wu Yang knelt on the ground, and those who didn't know thought it was an early dynasty, hahaha. Because I'm a girl, I always "escaped" every New Year's greeting when I was a child, but I have to follow my husband to "travel" on the first day of next year, and I am trembling.

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New Year's delicacies

Sausage. Sichuan people's must-have food for the Chinese New Year is the Sichuan-style sausage, which is a long cylindrical tubular food made by grinding animal meat into strips and then pouring it into casings. Sausages can be seen almost everywhere on the reunion dinner table of Sichuan people, and sausages can be seen everywhere in Sichuan, on balconies, drying racks, and even around the vegetable market.

Fragrant shirt imitation sausage. Bacon.

Bacon is a typical dish in Sichuan, it is a must-have dish for the Sichuan people to celebrate the New Year, because it is usually marinated in the lunar month, so it is called "bacon". Every household in Sichuan will make their own bacon, each recipe is different, and the taste is different, and before the Chinese New Year, they will exchange the taste of other houses with relatives and friends. Bacon tastes fat and not greasy, thin and not stuffed teeth, and has a unique flavor, and it has its figure at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner of Sichuan people.

Bacon. Tamales.

Sichuan people will go or eliminate fiber to make steamed pork to eat, steamed pork glutinous and fragrant, crispy and refreshing, fat and thin, red and white, tender but not chyme, rice flour oily, rich fragrance, in the Chinese New Year's Eve table is the most favorite food for the elderly and children.

Tamales. Characteristic customs

Regimental year. In Sichuan, most of the people who work in the city will go home for the New Year when they arrive for the New Year, and in our family, the elders basically discuss relatives and friends to go back to their hometown for the New Year, so that they don't have to go to their relatives one by one. Generally, our family will make 6 tables of meals, everyone will be lively together for a few days during the New Year, when I was a child, we would also go to cut down the big trees on the mountain to roast the fire, and then everyone would chat around the fire, and I would generally roast sweet potatoes to eat.

Regimental year. Burn high incense.

When I was a child, everyone would go to the temple in the morning to burn high incense, I remember that there were a lot of people who could only walk along the **, and then I didn't even have a place to insert incense when I burned it, so I could only insert it in the land around the temple, and some people couldn't even squeeze into the temple to insert incense on the slope, but now because of environmental protection, sky-high incense and other bad habits have been boycotted.

Burn high incense. Decorate your home, set off fireworks.

Sichuan people basically go to buy couplets, paste window flowers, hang lanterns to decorate their homes before the New Year, and when they come to the New Year, they will set off firecrackers in front of their homes. In the Chinese New Year's Eve or the year of returning home, our family will set off firecrackers and fireworks, although it is very bad for the environment, but adults like this New Year atmosphere.

Set off firecrackers.

Paste Spring Festival couplets: Paste the red key color Spring Festival couplets with couplets written on the door, implying blessings and auspiciousness.

Firecrackers: Set off firecrackers and firecrackers to ward off evil spirits and welcome the arrival of the new year.

New Year's greetings: Friends and family greet each other and wish each other a happy and healthy New Year.

Watch the Spring Festival Gala: The Spring Festival Gala in the evening is an important event for family reunions.

Dragon and Lion Dance: Performers dance in costumes of dragons and lions and pray for good luck and good luck.

In my hometown, the Spring Festival is usually spent on Chinese New Year's Eve, watching the Spring Festival Gala, and paying New Year's greetings. The Spring Festival means the end of the year and the beginning of another year for the common people. How much is the harvest in one year and how to plan for the coming year, so this day of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new year is particularly important for the people, and it is also a special lively and festive time.

Especially for people nowadays, the Spring Festival is a rare day for family reunion, and the family cherishes this day very much. In our place, we have to prepare the New Year's goods four days before the Chinese New Year. Then the day before Chinese New Year's Eve, the ingredients for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner will be prepared.

We pay special attention to the amount of food on the table. A good number represents good luck in the coming year. Therefore, the dishes at home are generally even-numbered, generally eight, ten, and twelve.

Eight means that eight is inseparable from the hair, and the next year will be rich, ten means perfect, and twelve means that every month of the coming year will be prosperous. When eating the Chinese New Year's Eve spine dumpling rice, there is a particularly interesting thing. That is, whether it is chicken feet or duck feet, you must give them to the pillar of the family, because eating more claws can catch more wealth in the coming year.

Of course, during the meal, there is also a part of the New Year's money that children especially like.

After eating, I will basically talk to the neighbors and talk about what each family eats for Chinese New Year's Eve. Then when it gets dark, it's time for the family to sit together and watch the Spring Festival Gala, which is especially precious for people who go out to work. Many families don't spend much time together throughout the year.

When watching the Spring Festival Gala, parents can ask their children how they work, and children can also accompany their parents well, which may be the biggest significance of the Spring Festival Gala. The next morning, every child would be knocked on the door with a bag in his hand. It's a New Year's greeting.

When the children knock on the door with their bags, the first thing they have to say when the owner opens the door is, "Happy New Year, I'm here to greet you." The host would give the children some candy or fruit, and each child's bag would be full in the morning. That's a lot of fun for kids.