Other Hakka Spring Festival customs, Hakka Spring Festival customs

The Spring Festival customs of the Hakka people are also diverse, including sacrificial stoves, keeping the New Year, opening the gate, greeting the New Year, eating New Year's dinner, dragon dance, lion dance, carrying the prince and the king parade, etc. Advocating traditional Hakka, the Spring Festival in the Wailong House has a strong family affection.

What are the customs of the Spring Festival of the guest jujube family.

The indispensable New Year's goods of the Hakka Spring Festival are Sichuan sugar. It is characterized by strong viscosity and is suitable for making rice cakes, and almost every household has to buy hundreds of catties.

During the Spring Festival, Hakka people are forbidden to beat and scold children, break utensils, and speak foul language.

Hakka New Year's specialties include stuffed tofu, meatballs (including fish meatballs, waving balls), Dongpo meat, stuffed shiitake mushrooms, stuffed spring rolls, white cut pei chicken, sauce forest duck and so on.

The customs of the Hakka people to celebrate the Spring Festival include New Year's goods, dusting, sticking New Year's red, reunion dinner, keeping the New Year, pressing the New Year's money, greeting the New Year, greeting the New Year, dragon and lion dances, worshiping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and disasters, burning firecrackers, burning fireworks, traveling gods, escorting boats, temple fairs, traveling gongs and drums, vernier flags, lighting wine, appreciating lanterns, etc.

Headed by the Hundred Festival Year, the Chinese New Year has always been the most solemn traditional festival of Chinese folk, advocating traditional Hakka, and the Spring Festival in the Wailong House has a strong family affection. The Hakka Spring Festival is generally divided into three stages, the first stage is from December 24 to Chinese New Year's Eve as the preparation stage, the first to the fifth day of the first lunar month is the New Year stage, and the sixth day of the first month to the Lantern Festival is the aftermath stage.

The annual leave begins on the 25th day of the 12th month of the lunar calendar. After the annual holiday, the farmers have suspended their work in the fields, and those with big gongs and drums can start fighting, and the sound of gongs and drums can be heard in every village. Every household began to prepare firewood, cooking oil and Chinese New Year food, purchasing pork, chicken, duck, fried tofu, steamed rice cakes, rice buns, etc.

1. On Chinese New Year's Eve, in the morning, paste the couplet of the gods, respect the ancestors of heaven and earth and the gods of the past, and sound firecrackers at home. After lunch, take a bath and wear new clothes, (Hakka custom, Chinese New Year's Eve will be bathed with long-life grass, pine cypress, and large orange leaves boiled water.) Dinner is generally early, and the family gathers together, which is grand and sumptuous, commonly known as "reunion dinner".

2. Approaching the night, every household is brightly lit and lit until after midnight, which is called "receiving the God of Wealth". When night falls, at least one light in each room should be lit until the whole night, which is called "the light of the year". The elders give it to their children."

3. New Year's money", how much it varies, take the auspiciousness of "everyone has money".

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone gets up early to greet the New Year, the younger generations wish the elders health and longevity, congratulate each other on the New Year, say auspicious words such as New Year's wishes and Wishing you prosperity, do not quarrel, do not scold, do not speak foul language, and take a year of auspiciousness. The dragon dance team and the lion dance team set out early in the morning, beating gongs and drums to every house to greet the New Year, and everyone happily greeted them and presented red envelopes.

4. On the second and fourth days of the Lunar New Year, relatives and friends visit each other, women "turn to their sister's house" (go back to their parents' home) and their new sons-in-law come to the door, people come and go on the main roads and small roads, and everyone is happy.

5. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, "Poor Ghost Day", the Hakka people do not move the broom on the first and second days of the Lunar New Year, and they get up early in the morning to pick up the broom to sweep away the garbage. On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the "New Year's Shelf", from this day, the Spring Festival is basically over, everyone can go out, the market opens, and they have their own future.