What are the customs of the Spring Festival in various parts of China?

Chengdu people do not eat on New Year's Day, because "rice" and "criminal", the same sound, in order to avoid secrets, then eat glutinous rice balls or noodles to pray for family reunion and longevity. Liu Ge and other places on the seventh day of the first month of the "human day" but also to "celebrate the New Year", in addition to worshiping the gods, worship ancestors, but also eat the New Year's dinner. Chengdu people visit Du Fu's thatched cottage in the western suburbs on a daily basis.

On the New Year's Day of Changshou County, nine wax candles are burned outside the door, called "nine candles", to respect heaven and earth.

When the younger generation in Guangdong Province pays New Year's greetings to the elders, the elders will give the younger ones red envelopes or citrus. During the Spring Festival, you will eat cabbage, tofu balls, fermented buns, tube fried, and five-fruit soup. On the night of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, every family lights a lamp and prepares a jar of water, which is called "waiting for the divine water".

On the day of the Spring Festival, Macao people pay attention to "Li Shi", "Li Shi" is a red envelope, on this day the boss sees the employees, the elders see the juniors, and even the married people see the unmarried people have to "Li Shi". "Lishi" is pure and crisp to show auspiciousness. Macanese people call the second day of the Lunar New Year the "beginning of the new year".

The custom is to eat the "New Year's Day" meal, which must have cabbage, lettuce, and carp, which is intended to make a profit.

In Taiwan, on Chinese New Year's Eve, every household often first pastes the Spring Festival couplets, which symbolize the auspiciousness of the New Year, the good luck of all things, and the treasure of fortune, on their doors and windows, grain hoards, pigsties, well platforms, etc., and then places offerings and incense candles on the altar table in the hall to worship their ancestors and welcome them "home for the New Year." From this time on, the sound of fireworks and firecrackers came and went, and it continued until the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year.

All clans in Fuping County, Shaanxi Province are portraits of ancestors, gather descendants to worship on the first day, and after the sacrifice, they drink and feast more golden, which is called "festival sitting". On the second day of the new year, relatives and friends give pasta and pork to each other, which is called "worshipping the festival". On the New Year's Day of Gaoling County, as soon as the day dawns, the yellow paper is hung on the bamboo pole to worship the sky, which is called "the god of heaven".

Hong Kong is known as a "food paradise", there are many customs related to eating during the Spring Festival, and most families will also eat "Tuan New Year dinner" during the Spring Festival, usually holding a banquet at home, and the whole family gathers up and down, inside and out, to enjoy dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve. The first choice after dinner is to visit the flower market, citizens are accustomed to visiting the flower market as a family after dinner, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, it is crowded with people, and everyone celebrates the festival together.

We eat wontons on New Year's Day in Anyang County, Tai'an, called "filling the warehouse", Huangxian County, Penglai area, get up early on New Year's Day to be wasted. The hostess holds a red candle and illuminates all corners of the house, meaning to expel darkness with light, and then places various window grilles made of flour on the windowsill. When a child gets up, he climbs the door and hits three swings, which are said to grow fast.

Let's talk about Shiquan County, Shaanxi, they use yellow paper as money, and the New Year's Day knot is hung on the door, called "Baogai Qian". Lintong County takes the fifth day of the new year as the "Sending Poverty Festival", and after the paper-cutting people, they get the door and throw it away. On that day, everyone must be fed, which is called "filling the five poor".

Heilongjiang must eat dumplings on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, also known as "breaking five", that is, biting the dumplings, meaning that the unlucky things will be destroyed, and there is the meaning of driving away disasters and avoiding evil.

There is a kind of pear called autumn pear in Jilin, this kind of pear is sour and astringent when it is just picked, so people pick this pear and put it directly under the tree, cover it with a layer of leaves, the autumn pear after freezing is sweet and sour, and the juice is sufficient. Frozen pears should be thawed in water before eating, and eating this pear after Chinese New Year's Eve dinner can relieve hangover and relieve oiliness.

There is a proverb in Beijing for the Chinese New Year: "(December of the lunar calendar, that is, the lunar month) on the twenty-third (day) sugar melons are sticky; Twenty Town four (sun) house sweeping day; Twenty-five (sun) pasted windows; Twenty-six (day) stewed meat; Twenty-seven (day) to kill the rooster; Thoughts are rough twenty-eight (day) to put the face hair; Twenty-nine (day) steamed steamed buns; 30 (Sunday) night to stay up overnight; The first day of the new year twisted and twisted. ”

The first day of the new year must be elders or neighbors, and generally do not go far to visit the New Year. After the Chinese New Year's Eve celebration, people open the door on the morning of the first day of the new year and congratulate each other, "Happy New Year!" Peace and auspiciousness. The younger generation pays New Year's greetings to the elders and the rest of the generations, and the elders give New Year's money to suppress the evil.

The customs on the first day of the Lunar New Year are to let go of the door and firearms, pay New Year's greetings, occupy the New Year, and gather wealth. And on the first day of the Lunar New Year, you can't use a broom, otherwise you will sweep away your luck and ruin your fortune.

In addition to dumplings, there are also dumplings for breakfast on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which means: everything goes well, and the whole family is happy. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the rice balls are not called "rice balls", they are called "ingots", and eating rice balls is not called "eating rice balls", but "getting ingots".

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the golden bark heralds spring. Relatives and relatives go to pay New Year's greetings, the east family stays for dinner, and the west family has a wine feast.

The second day of the first lunar month is also a New Year's greeting, but the daughter who marries out of the house in this life is going to take her son-in-law to her mother's house together. Among them, there are many rules for newlyweds to go to their parents' house. For example, the gifts you bring should come in pairs.

The mother's family can accept it all if she doesn't write it, and when she returns to her husband's house, she will have to bring back some of it.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the married daughter will bring her husband and children back to her parents' house to pay New Year's greetings. On this day, the daughter who returns to her parents' house must bring some gifts and red envelopes to distribute to her parents' children, and have lunch at her parents' house.

In the north, on the second day of the first month, the God of Wealth is sacrificed, and on this day, whether it is a commercial store or an ordinary family, it is necessary to hold a sacrifice to the God of Wealth. At noon on this day, we have to eat wontons, commonly known as "ingots soup".

Buying New Year goods, sweeping dust, pasting couplets, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, keeping the New Year, greeting the New Year, greeting the New Year, dragon and lion dances, including rotating worship of gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and disasters, setting off firecrackers, setting off fireworks and staring at Han, talking about the belief in the gods, boating, temple fairs, gongs and drums, vernier flags, lantern wine, flower lanterns and other customs.