Chinese new year customs in various places
There is a proverb in Beijing during the Spring Festival: "(December of the lunar calendar, that is, the twelfth lunar month) 23 (Sunday) honey melon sticks; 24th (Sunday) house cleaning day; Put up windows on the 25th (Sunday); Twenty-six (Japanese) stews; Twenty-seven (day) to kill the rooster; Twenty-eight (sun) facial hair; Twenty-nine (day) steamed bread; Overnight for thirty (Sunday) nights; Twist on the first day of the new year. " The fifth day of the first lunar month is called "breaking the fifth", and you can't cook with raw rice until it breaks the fifth day. The seventh day of the first month is called "Men's Day", "Men's Victory Day" or "Seven Yuan". During the Spring Festival, Beijingers like to visit temple fairs. Zhong Temple can knock Yongle Bell, Baiyunguan Temple Fair can touch stone monkeys to make money, and Changdian Temple Fair can enjoy curios, calligraphy and painting, copybooks, jewels, jadeite and other exotic things, as well as flower exhibitions such as stilts, Taiping Drum, Chedang, and Wuhu Stick. Shanghai twelfth lunar month is the day when Kitchen God plays with things in the sky. Therefore, on the evening of 23rd, every household will "send a stove" and "offer a stove" to pay a New Year call. The 25th day of the twelfth lunar month is the day when immortals descend to earth. Traditionally, every household has to be cleaned inside and outside. From 26th to 29th, every household began to grind flour, make jiaozi, make rice cakes, prepare new clothes and shoes, and buy Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures and "door gods". On New Year's Eve, families of all ages gather indoors and sit together to eat New Year's Eve under the light, hence the name "Family Fun". After the New Year's Eve, keep watch around the stove. At dawn, men, women and children put on new clothes, hats and shoes, and offered sacrifices to heaven and ancestors in the class. Then, young people and young people pay New Year greetings to their parents. They distribute the lucky money prepared years ago to their children. Taiwan Province Province calls New Year's Eve "29" and "30", depending on the size of December in the lunar calendar. "Ten days" means the end of a year. Before it gets late, every household will prepare offerings, such as sweet oranges, sweet rice fruits (rice cakes), "spring rice (paper-cut spring characters inserted on pointed rice)" and "lucky money". Behind the gate, there are two sugarcane with leaves and leaves, which are called "perennial sugarcane". When eating New Year's Eve, there are new charcoal stoves and new sunflower fans under the square table, and the words "spring" and "happiness" written in red paper are affixed to the fans and stoves. After the New Year's Eve, it is a birthday celebration. In the first day of junior high school, people get together, worship their parents (that is, Gong Zu's grandmother) with red and white rice cakes, and then set off firecrackers to welcome the New Year. On New Year's Eve in Hong Kong, families will get together for a reunion dinner. Most dishes of the reunion dinner have auspicious meanings. After the reunion dinner, people usually go to the New Year's Eve market to visit the flower market. On the first day of New Year's Day, people began to formally celebrate the New Year, posting Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, dancing dragons and lions, visiting relatives and friends and celebrating the New Year. Macao's New Year customs are unique. "Xie Zao" is one of the most traditional China customs preserved in Macau. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people in Macao called it "Xie Zao". Macao people celebrate the New Year from the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. On New Year's Eve, watching the Spring Festival and visiting the flower market are two major events for Macao people to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Shousui is playing mahjong, watching TV, catching up and chatting; Macau holds a flower market on Lunar New Year's Eve, mostly peach blossoms, daffodils, potted bamboos and potted oranges, with strong floral fragrance, which indicates a bright future for the new year. During the Spring Festival (New Year's Day), Macao people pay attention to "benefiting the market" to show good luck. "Profit market" is a red envelope. On this day, the boss meets the employees, the elders meet the younger generation, and even the married see the unmarried. Macao people call New Year's Day the "opening year". To eat "New Year's meal", they must have laver, lettuce and carp to make money and profit. Follow-up: There is still no answer: = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = On the first day of the Lunar New Year in Wucheng County, Zhejiang Province, a long pole of sokcho was placed on it, and it was lit and burned, and the gongs and drums were loud, which was called "Qingtian Silkworm". Light a lantern on the pole until March 3. Ningbo will eat bean porridge after ancestor worship on New Year's Day. Before closing at night, have another "closing gun". Shaoxing uses a "tea bowl" for Chinese New Year guests, in which olives and kumquat are put, and tea eggs are put at the same time, which is called "holding gold ingots". In Xiamen, Fujian, before going out on New Year's Day, people worship the jade emperor in the sky, which is called "offering sacrifices to the gods". Sacrifice flowers and fruits to God in the morning, and sacrifice and a bowl of spring rice to God at noon. Spring rice is a spring flower made by inserting red paper on white rice. "Spring" and "surplus" are homophonic in Fujian, and spring rice is a good choice for its "annual surplus". The fourth day in Zhangzhou is called "Jiegu". In addition to burning incense in the temple, a candy and cake box called "recommendation box" should be prepared for the audience to meet the gods in the main hall. In Haifeng, Guangdong, when the younger generation and the elder pay New Year greetings, the elder will give them red envelopes or oranges. Chaozhou's Spring Festival diet includes pickled vegetables, rotten jiaozi, fermented steamed stuffed buns, tube frying and five-fruit soup. On the fourth night, every household should light a lamp and prepare a jar of water, which is called "waiting for water". On the first day of the first month in Dongguan, taro is offered with sugar, which is called "wealth is predestined friends". On New Year's Day in Jiangning County, Jiangsu Province, a rooster was posted at your door. On New Year's Day, there were more believers in Wuxian than in Tong Yuan Temple. Suzhou custom: On New Year's Day, three firecrackers should be set off to open the door, which is called "promotion to the third level". When you go out in the morning, you should follow the direction specified in the yellow calendar, which is called "Happy God". In order to burn incense in temples such as the City God Temple and the Land Temple, you must go through ten temples, which is the so-called "ten temples to burn incense". From New Year's Day to Lantern Festival, huge coal is burning in the stove, which is called "Happy Group". Legend has it that people in Zhuan 'an eat jiaozi, so they eat jiaozi every day from the early morning of the New Year's Day to the Lantern Festival. Women in Wujin County cut off pine and cypress branches on New Year's Day, wrapped them in red silk and put them on a bun. It is said that they can live longer. People in Chengdu, Sichuan don't eat during the New Year, because "rice" and "sin" are homonyms. In order to avoid taboos, they eat glutinous rice balls or dried noodles to pray for family reunion and longevity. Liu Ge and other places will celebrate the "off-year" on the seventh day of the first month. Besides worshipping God and ancestors, they will also have a family reunion dinner. Chengdu people visit Du Fu Caotang in the western suburbs every day. On the first day of the Lunar New Year in Changshou County, nine candles are lit outside the door, which are called "nine-level candles" to respect heaven and earth. All clans in Fuping County, Shaanxi Province are portraits of their ancestors. On the first day, they called their children and grandchildren to worship. After the sacrifice, they were given a golden banquet called "Sacrifice Sitting". On the second day of the following year, relatives and friends give each other pasta and pork, which is called "Worship Festival". On the first day of New Year's Day in Gaoling County, yellow paper is hung on a bamboo pole at dawn to worship heaven, which is called "welcoming the gods". It is said that charcoal can be hung on the door, and it can kill the plague. Shiquan County takes yellow paper as money and hangs it on the door on New Year's Day, named "Bao Gai Qian". Lintong county regards the fifth day as "send the poor festival". After cutting the paper, every household takes it to the door and throws it away. Everyone must eat enough on that day, which is called "filling the five poor" Eating wonton on New Year's Day in Ningyang County, Shandong Province is called "filling the warehouse". In Huangxian County and Penglai area, it is wasteful to get up early on New Year's Day. The hostess holds a red candle to light up every corner of the room, which means to drive away the darkness with light, and then paste all kinds of window grilles made of flour on the windowsill. After getting up, the child has to climb the door and play three swings. It is said that they grow very fast. In some areas, cooking jiaozi with sesame stems means that the New Year rises like sesame blossoms, and steamed bread should be put in the pot after meals, which means there are "leftover heads". In the first year, the new wife in Jiaodong will go to her husband's grandparents' house to pay a New Year call, which is called "Zagen". It is said that when you get to your grandparents' house, you can take root, and there will be no divorce and early widowhood. In the old days, there was a custom of "sending the poor on the fifth day". Firecrackers should be set off on that day to show "driving the five poor". Qufu held the "Wenqu Star Club" on the fifth day. On the evening of the fifth day, the students will go to the teacher's house to burn incense and worship Confucius. Then the teacher will write an article, and after writing it, the teacher will burn it, which is called "Wenqu Star Club". Since the twelfth lunar month in old Beijing, some scholars have written Spring Festival couplets under the eaves of the city in an attempt to earn some money for the New Year. After the sacrifice, the new Spring Festival couplets were gradually posted, and thousands of families took on a new look. Some people use James Zhu, others use red paper, and only the imperial court and imperial clan princes use white paper with red and blue edges as the rules. Those who are not imperial clan shall not use them at will. In the twelfth lunar month, plum blossoms are tied in a big-bellied and small-mouthed utensil and placed about five feet underground. When the fire warms the ground slightly, the plum blossoms will gradually turn white, put in paper cages and sell in the city. Momo, plum blossom and Spring Festival are also acceptable. Tents are set up and paintings are sold in prosperous areas. Women and children rushed to buy them for fun. On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, porridge sellers lined up in the market on the street. There are even walnuts, persimmons, dates, chestnuts and dried water chestnuts, which are sold with baskets on their shoulders. Followed by fat pheasant, Guandong fish, wild cats, wild birds, bacon, iron sparrow, fruit cover, giant Buddha flower, bean light thousand pieces, Louzizhuang ingot. After October of the lunar calendar, we sell Wei paintings, door gods, hanging money, gold and silver foil, yellow money, gold coins, burning paper, glass mirrors and windows. After the 20th, honeydew melons, sugar cakes, glutinous rice cakes and kwantung sugar will be sold. When the stove was delivered on the 23rd, Shenma was provided with copied beans with rotten grass. There are also kiln sellers, porcelain bowls, incense burners and candlesticks in Beijing. Stuffed gourd, children save money; Support the pot tile, and the furnace mouth is used as an aid. After 25th, sesame stalks, pine and cypress branches, atractylodes rhizome and so on are sold for "aging". In the twelfth lunar month, prices and money are more expensive than usual, so there is a proverb that "the water and soil in the twelfth lunar month are three points more expensive". At this time, the old people always advise the younger generation to be cautious in spending money, so they have "Twenty-seven Eight, take all the goods and grasp them."