There are many unique customs to celebrate the Spring Festival. For example: stir-frying, steaming brown, just steaming brown can make people tired. Women at home spend half a day washing dozens of kilograms of glutinous rice with a big pot of flowers. If it is a big family, it may weigh hundreds of kilograms. Prepare ingredients such as fat meat and soybeans, spread the pre-washed winter leaves on the table, first put glutinous rice on it, then put a piece of fat meat and a small amount of soybeans and mung beans in the middle, tightly wrap the winter leaves into a pyramid, tie them with grass, and leave a handle. This is the end. The size of steaming is related to the habits of each family. Generally speaking, there are more than one kilogram of steamed bread in rural areas, seven or eight ounces in urban areas, and dozens of kilograms of glutinous rice are dozens of steamed bread. Don't think that packaging is over. In fact, the warmest and most time-consuming work is about to begin-cooking, wrapping and steaming.

If the previous work is done by women, then the cooking work is done by men and children. Zhaoqing people especially need to endure 12 hours. Maybe it's not particular, but they haven't cooked for so long, so it's hard to cook. Dozens of pieces are steamed and put into a huge iron drum, just like a large gasoline drum. Fill it with clear water, put a temporary stove made of stones and bricks, and light firewood, which is usually made of wood bumps, so that it can burn slowly for several hours before it needs to be filled with firewood. After cooking for twelve hours, it is essential to watch the fire. This is a unique Chinese New Year enjoyment for Zhaoqing people. Why? You will know after reading it. Wrapped and cooked, the fragrance is overflowing, and the essential staple food at the New Year's Eve dinner is made by ourselves and given by neighbors. The heat of winter leaves was blown away, and the winter leaves and glutinous rice mixed with the smell of meat were filled with lanterns and colorful rooms, and one room was happy and cheerful. The simplicity, enthusiasm and hard work of Zhaoqing people are like the steaming of this stocky fragrance.

From the 1950s to the mid-1980s, before the Spring Festival, walking on the streets of Zhaoqing, you can see such a scene. A temporary brick stove was built in front of every house, and a huge iron drum was boiled on the stove. The family gathered around to watch the fire, adults smoked cigarettes, occasionally added a piece of wood to make a fire, and children gathered around. The cold wind was driven away by the fire and rolling steam. Children's chubby faces were red with flames, and their eyes were wide open, listening to the stories of adults telling the story of autumn moon and spring flowers, fairies coming down to earth and making a scene in heaven. This scene is now extinct in Zhaoqing city, but this unique memory still warms the hearts of many Zhaoqing people.

At that time, outsiders said that Zhaoqing people were tired during the holidays and sought hardship, but all the men, women and children in Zhaoqing were looking forward to the New Year. They want to relive the warm family reunion, beating flames and full fatigue more than anyone else. The aftertaste now makes many Zhaoqing people feel warm, sour nose and wet eyes from Dantian, and they have re-established their hearts. Huh? A sigh, beautiful and simple folk customs, the pure land in Zhaoqing people's hearts forever. (End)

Customs of Spring Festival in Gaoyao County

The first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival, which is the most important traditional festival in Gaoyao County. Before the festival, every household was busy cleaning, preparing new year's goods and making "fruit steamed dumplings". New Year's Eve. Commonly known as the New Year's Eve dinner, residents put red Spring Festival couplets in front of their doors, decorate their rooms with lanterns and put pots of oranges and flowers. On that night, we had a family reunion dinner, got together to enjoy family happiness, sat around and watched the New Year, and thousands of firecrackers exploded. On New Year's Day, the old customs don't go out and sweep the floor. The second day of the lunar new year is called "opening the year". Kill three birds and prepare lettuce and garlic to sacrifice to the gods, praying for good weather and all the best. During the Spring Festival, people wear red and green, and the streets are covered with colorful flags. Non-governmental organizations celebrate the New Year with lion dances and hold various entertainment activities. Relatives and friends pay New Year greetings to each other and send steamed fruits, oil angle and Baotou fruits. When you meet relatives, friends and children, you will be rewarded with red envelopes (welfare). Acquaintances meet and exchange auspicious words. It has become an essential etiquette for newlyweds to pay New Year greetings to their relatives.

Customs of Spring Festival in Fengkai County

Spring Festival is the most important traditional folk festival in Fengkai County. On this day, people who go out go home for reunion. Generally speaking, people's holiday activities begin on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, and they will do a lot of indoor and outdoor cleaning and prepare new year's goods. Women are busy wrapping and steaming rice cakes to welcome the New Year. In 2000, it was mainly glutinous rice paste, sometimes glutinous rice paste, sweet cake and "sand crisp" wrapped in steamed peanuts and sesame seeds (rice sticky products), as well as fried sugar rings and fried sauce (hollow in the north and solid in the south). After liberation, fried dumplings, wonton and soup pills are still popular. Before New Year's Eve, there is a custom to send the kitchen god. On February 23rd, Lunar/KLOC-0, Kitchen God was sent to heaven, and on New Year's Eve, Kitchen God was appointed to the throne. Three kinds of sacrifices and wine gifts should be prepared to meet the kitchen god. Legend has it that the Kitchen God will report the owner's situation to the Jade Emperor, so people respect the Kitchen God. Every first and fifteenth day, he would burn incense and worship, hoping that Kitchen God would put in a good word for him when he went to heaven. On New Year's Eve, every household sticks couplets and door gods, buys meat to kill chickens, and prepares sacrifices such as silk powder, yuba, needle vegetables and incense letters to offer sacrifices to the gods. For dinner, the family has a "reunion dinner" with rich tables and drinks. In many rural areas, it is customary for the whole family to surround the brazier in the hall until dawn, which is called "guarding the old age". The stove is lit with chaff or firewood, and fireworks are set off all night to light the "ever-burning lamp" to show the grace of "Changqing". Many places are also used to keeping "every other year's meal" to show that "there is more than one year". Starting from 0: 00, firecrackers are set off to "welcome the new year". People in the city also take to the streets for a walk, which means "good luck" and "good luck" in the new year. Fireworks and firecrackers continue to be set off in urban and rural areas.

On the morning of New Year's Day, some places are used to eating sweet soup balls and noodles, and some places are used to being vegetarian all day without eating meat. When young people and old people meet for the first time, they all bow and wish each other good luck. Young people pay New Year greetings to their elders, and elders give red envelopes and candy to their younger generation. Every family has refreshments, cigarettes and sweets to entertain guests. Everyone put on new clothes, and the streets of Nakamura Ataru were crowded with pedestrians, beaming. On the second day of the lunar new year, many places are used to killing chickens and worshipping god. On the first day of the new year, vegetarians will have a rich feast on this day. Since then, all localities have been accustomed to visiting each other, visiting relatives and friends, and urban and rural areas have shown a festive atmosphere. Lion Dance Team, Dragon Dance Team and Eight-tone Drum Band went to town for the New Year. The recipient should prepare tea, candy and cigarettes and receive them warmly. There are also lion dances, martial arts performances, firecrackers and red envelopes. The lively scene was crowded. Traditional folk programs such as Jin Shan White Horse Dance, Five Horse Tour Dance and Sike Tea-picking Opera toured four townships and performed in Shuang Mu and neighboring Cangwu County. The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is "People's Day". People generally don't go out or visit relatives and friends. Many places are used to eating soup medicine on the Lantern Festival, indicating that the new year has begun. Nanfeng and Jinzhuangwang in the county are taller than Lantern Festival and more lively than New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. On the same day, the West Temple of Dutou City held a fireworks show, and many merchants or residents cooperated to prepare golden pigs (that is, roast pigs) to worship Bodhisattva, praying for the gods to keep diamonds in the new year, with prosperous business and abundant financial resources; I wish the neighborhood residents prosperity, six animals prosperity and people's health. big shot