Let s talk about your hometown, what are the customs during the Spring Festival?

When I was in my hometown, there was a custom of vigil during the Spring Festival, because I was going to spend this year, so that I could refresh myself and regain this life.

It's the New Year, the New Year, I think this is really a must-have every year, otherwise you will really grow up and become more and more lonely, and you will feel that there is no festive atmosphere.

In my hometown, the Spring Festival will be pasted, big **, but also to keep the year, not allowed to swear, sweet mouth, but also to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together as a family.

In fact, the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival will be less and less than before, and now people are impersonal, and when they get home, they only drink boiled water and go to other people's houses.

In my hometown, during the Spring Festival, I would set off firecrackers, eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, go to the New Year, and visit every household in the village to pay New Year's greetings and drink tea.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole family eats Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, gets up on time at 0:00 on the day of the Spring Festival, puts on new clothes and prepares to go to the sacrifice, prepares breakfast at 3:00 and goes to grandparents' house on time at 6:00 to pay New Year's greetings.

The customs of the Spring Festival are similar in various places. Unveil the Spring Festival couplets, sleep and light firecrackers, New Year's greetings and so on. My family has to be vegetarian on the first day of the first lunar month every year.

Four vegetables. Plus a serving of taro. The old man's words are four green vegetables that make a fortune in all seasons.

The head symbolizes the big ingots. It means that the new year is full of money and wealth.

The custom of the Spring Festival, it must be pasting couplets and eating glutinous rice balls to represent the reunion of the family, as well as removing the old and welcoming the new, as well as setting off firecrackers.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, every family has to go to the canteen for half a year, and if you can get the candy, the children will take a bag to fill the candy, and the men of every family will have to go to the canteen to bow down on the first day of the new year.

For the Spring Festival, it should be almost the same in most areas, we must wear new clothes during the festival, paste couplets, hold vigil and send red envelopes, etc.

Taking Quanzhou as an example, the customs of the hometown during the Spring Festival are as follows

1. Paste Spring Festival couplets: In the past, Quanzhou people regarded the Spring Festival couplets as a major event, and most families (except for mourning) had to buy red paper and ask people with cultural knowledge to write on their behalf. The content of the door couplet symbolizes the renewal of Vientiane, the abundance of grains, family happiness, wealth and prosperity, national peace and security, etc., and the red symbolizes joy, prosperity, expelling evil spirits, and peace and smoothness.

2. Rice cakes: Rice cakes are an important offering and food for the Chinese New Year, and Quanzhou is no exception, due to the abundance of white rice and cane sugar, rice cakes are more valued by the people. The number of rice cakes cooked in each household is generally calculated based on the population.

Rice cakes need to be fermented first, and when they are cooked, they will be loose and smiling, symbolizing wealth and family sweetness. It is also necessary to put red on the rice cake, which means that it is prosperous and very festive.

3. Cooking cakes: cooking vegetable buns, vegetable cakes, nine-fold cakes, bean paste cakes, etc. As a combination of rice cakes, these kueh foods have become offerings and food for the New Year, so that the people can have a happy and happy New Year.

4. Honor ancestors: On Chinese New Year's Eve, every household should prepare a variety of vegetables and wine, place them on the table in front of the ancestral shrine in the hall, burn incense and candles, and then burn gold paper to show respect for ancestors and also contain the meaning of gratitude.

5. Reunion dinner: Vegetables that honor ancestors are also the main food of reunion dinner. Nowadays, many families use hot pot.

The significance of the reunion dinner is that the whole family has a big reunion to eat together, talk about the happy events and achievements of the family throughout the year, and talk about various ideas and plans for the coming year.

The Year of the Rabbit is approaching, and every year during the Spring Festival, there will be many special activities in my hometown to set off the festive and joyful atmosphere of the Spring Festival, in addition to the traditional hanging lanterns, of course.

There are also the following activities in my hometown, which make us feel the joy and beauty of the Spring Festival. In my hometown, at the beginning of each year, the couplets posted on the doors of each house are not bought, they are basically written by everyone, and then the gods of Huai are exchanged with each other.

Not only does this enhance the relationship between neighbors, but it also gives people a better sense of the festive and joyful atmosphere of the previous year, a custom that has been practiced in my hometown for decades.

This may also be directly related to the fact that most people in my hometown can write a good calligraphy, but for my generation, there is some embarrassment, because we rarely pay attention to practicing writing calligraphy when we are studying, so when it comes to activities like the Spring Festival.

Few of us in my generation are able to get involved, but even so, it's a joy to watch the elders of the family write couplets with a brush. In my hometown, there is also a special activity in the past year, that is, many people will deliberately kill a pig in the previous year, come to set up a few tables of whole pig feast, and then come to entertain the surrounding neighbors and their own families.

When I was a child, it was a very happy thing for me to be able to participate in such an all-pig feast with my parents, because at that time the material conditions were relatively scarce, and Akiho Mori was only able to eat pork so freely a few years ago, although now everyone's conditions are better.

But every year before the year, being able to eat a whole pig feast can also make me feel that I can truly experience the joyful and joyful atmosphere of the upcoming Spring Festival.