The Spring Festival in Xiaoshan is similar to that in all cities in the south, except visiting relatives and friends, eating and drinking, traveling and worshiping ghosts and gods.
Southerners are very busy, especially in Zhejiang. Even during the Spring Festival, many of my relatives are still talking about business, working overtime and opening stores.
However, there are many people in the street and lanterns are hung in the park. There will inevitably be some cultural activities, which is the main difference between the Spring Festival and peacetime.
Speaking of customs, Xiaoshan people have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, have money to set off some fireworks, and generally go to bed early.
On the first day of the first month, the Christian church will go to the party (there are many Christian families in Xiaoshan, and the official statistics are 65,438+10,000). Others will start visiting relatives, pay New Year greetings to leaders, or entertain guests at home. On this day, the prospective son-in-law will go to her parents' home, and the newly-married daughter will go to her parents' home.
On the second day of the first month, we began to visit relatives and friends and pay New Year greetings to each other. Generally, the younger generation goes to see their elders first, but these things have gradually faded in recent years. Where there is food, the family has to eat separately when they are busy.
Anyway, from the first day to the fifteenth day, we all eat and go to restaurants.
Xiaoshan is rich, so there are often lobsters, abalones and rare crabs on the dining table. It is estimated that many people are tired of eating.
Xiaoshan is a place full of modernity, and there will be no Chinese New Year kowtow and bow like the north.
Moreover, there are regional differences in Xiaoshan's Spring Festival customs. Generally speaking, the atmosphere of Spring Festival in southern China is stronger than that in central and eastern China.
In fact, the Spring Festival is very common for Xiaoshan people, so it is good to have a holiday.