What are the different Chinese New Year customs in different regions?

The thirtieth month of the lunar month celebrates the New Year. During the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the ancestors should be graved, fish, meat and wine, paper money, incense, etc., and then firecrackers should be set off next to the ancestral grave, indicating that the ancestors should be awakened with firecrackers, so that the ancestors can eat something and collect some money. Then he prostrates, and the way of prostrating is the same as in the ancestral hall.

When burning money and incense, the elders usually tell the juniors about the history, if they took the juniors with them when they were young, where they used to live, what they liked to do, and so on. Sometimes I talk about why I died! In the evening, it is necessary to carry pigs' heads, fish, chickens and other ancestral halls, incense, candles, firecrackers, people, meetings, and New Year's greetings to the ancestors.

Then go home for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, just like the New Year, I won't repeat it! Speaking of food, I never eat dumplings there for the New Year, because the ** host always emphasizes eating dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve, and I have never done this there. Then it was 12 p.m

00 firecrackers.

Taking Shaanxi as an example, when it comes to Layue, people begin to press cake noodles, grind tofu, steam yellow steamed buns, make rice wine, roll mixed noodles, and fry oil cakes to prepare New Year's food. Shaanxi people have to make a "jujube brand" for their children during the New Year, and hang it on the back of the child as a mascot to ward off evil and bless. They are red threads with red dates and grain grass, with copper coins hanging on top and firecrackers falling below.

There are also people who use red thread to wear a "thimble" for needlework, hanging it around the child's neck, which is also a blessed mascot, called "Increasing the Year Thimble", from birth to 12 years old, it will increase every year. In addition, "Yangge New Year's greetings" is the most unique custom in northern Shaanxi. During the Spring Festival, every village has to organize Yangge teams to pay New Year's greetings one by one, and they call this "Yanmenzi".

Jiujiang, Jiangxi, a rural area. Rural areas are generally clan societies, so there are generally ancestral halls, "the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, beating children for the New Year", this is the custom of the previous legend, that is, on this day the child is not obedient to beat. But it's not exactly the 24th of the lunar month, in some places it's the 23rd of the lunar month or the 27th of the lunar month.

For example, when my village celebrates the New Year, people with the same surname (mainly men and children) go to the ancestral hall in the evening, and they will serve pigs' heads, fish, chickens and other dishes, as well as candles, incense, firecrackers, and pigs, fish, and chickens with red paper and green onion leaves in their mouths. After coming to the ancestral hall, first put incense and candles, and then set off firecrackers outside the ancestral hall, the louder and longer the better, and then wait for others until everyone has arrived.

I think we're doing well here in Guangdong. First of all, it is necessary to "wear new clothes", which means removing the old and welcoming the new; There is also a big cleaning on the 28th day of the lunar month, which means to get rid of the dust and bad luck of the whole year; There is also a pomelo leaf bath, where the leaves of the pomelo are boiled in water, and then the bad luck on the body is washed away, and new clothes are put on; The next step is to paste Spring Festival couplets, blessing characters and peach symbols, etc.; Finally, it is the most popular ancestor worship and the god of wealth in the south, there are many ancestral halls in the south, and it is an important activity to worship the ancestors and welcome the god of wealth.

Northeast people are accustomed to calling the Spring Festival a "big year". They love to eat dumplings, and during the Laba Festival, they start pickling Laba garlic, which is an essential condiment for dipping dumplings. After the Laba Festival, we begin to prepare for the New Year, the most important of which is to kill pigs, when killing pigs, people will put the fat meat, blood sausage and sauerkraut of the pigs together in a large pot to stew, which is the famous "pig killing dish" in the Northeast.

Located in the southern Hebei region, the whole Spring Festival is very cumbersome. December.

Two. Ten. On the eighth and twenty-ninth days, my parents began to fry lotus roots, fried hairtail, bacon, chicken, and fish, all of which were tributes; There is also steamed steamed buns for reserves, pasting Spring Festival couplets, and cleaning. Anyway, it's pretty much the same, I think.

The most popular dances in Hong Kong are, of course, lion and dragon dances, especially in the New Territories. Hong Kong is a foodie paradise, and it is indispensable to eat a delicious and sumptuous "Reunion Dinner", and then visit the night market and eat supper. Children's favorite thing is to receive red envelopes, and adults are also happy to give red envelopes, indicating good luck in the coming year.

My hometown is a small county in the north of Jiangsu, which is fairly well developed. From the 20th of the lunar month to Chinese New Year's Eve, the rural market will be very lively, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, we will have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at noon, and adults and children can go out to play after eating. There is also eating dumplings on the morning of the first day of the first month, and the adults at home will tell us in advance to get up early, don't let the adults shout, it is a bit bad to have others shout to get up on the first day of the first month!

My hometown is in Huairen, Shanxi, in the Yanbei area, every Spring Festival will use carbon to build a Dongdong called Wanghuo, a bit like a pagoda, various sizes, heights, lights at twelve o'clock on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and then the whole family will circle Wanghuo three times in the forward direction and three times in the reverse direction, praying for all smooth and prosperous days in the coming year, and a good fortune.

Dong characteristics. The Dong compatriots in Guizhou and Hunan are popular during the Spring Festival to carry out a kind of mass activity of "beating the Dong year" (also known as the Lusheng Society). This kind of activity is similar to the "group worship" of the Han people, but it is more joyful and enthusiastic than the "group worship".

Such activities are generally organized by mutual agreement between the two villages. The two teams officially held a reed sheng song and dance competition in the square. At this time, the audience of the two villages danced to the music and enjoyed themselves.

Tujia characteristics.

During the Spring Festival, the Tujia people will hold a grand hand-waving dance. Waving hands dance is a kind of ancient dance that is more popular in Tujia, including hunting, military, farming, banquet and other more than 70 dance movements, the rhythm is distinct, the movements are beautiful, the dance posture is simple, the mood is healthy, no props, it has distinctive national characteristics and a strong breath of life.

Dai characteristics Songkran Festival is the New Year festival of the Dai people, and it is the grandest traditional program of the year of the Dai people. During the festival of three or four days, people splash water on each other to express their blessings to you. Because the Dai people believe in Buddhism in small towns, the water in Buddhism is the purest, wishing people a happy and safe new year.