The date of Lunar New Year's Eve is different all over the country. In the north, it is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. In the southern region, the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month (including: the northeast of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Jiangxi, the day before New Year's Eve; Nanjing area, the fifteenth day of the first month; There are boatmen along Poyang Lake, on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, and in some places on the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month). The main customs of off-year include posting Spring Festival couplets, sweeping dust, offering sacrifices to stoves, cutting window grilles and taking a bath.

1, Kitchen God

2. Dust

Get up at dawn, clean the house and windows, wash clothes, brush pots and bowls, clean the yard and carry out a clean and thorough cleaning. A few days ago, every family cleaned the house, which meant not to let the kitchen god take the soil away. Of course, more is innovation and innovation.

Step 3 eat stove candy

As the saying goes, honeydew melons are sticky. When I was young, people would buy candied melons, candied Kwangtung, sesame candy and other sacrifices to pray that the kitchen god would be sweeter and say good things from heaven.

Step 4 get married

After a small year, people think that the gods have gone to heaven and everything has been forgiven. You don't have to choose a date to marry a daughter-in-law and prostitution. This is called rushing to get married. Until the end of the year, there will be many wedding ceremonies. Folk songs are busy marrying hometown, and Yichun posts tease spring. Sisters whispering in front of the lamp, this year is the bridal chamber.

5. stick grilles

After the window grilles are finished, they are pasted in a clean room, which adds a lot of joy to the family for the New Year. There are all kinds of animals, plants, people and other anecdotes in the window patterns, such as magpies climbing plums and peacocks.

New Year's custom in different places: Shaanxi New Year's custom: playing vinegar and charcoal

Shaanxi has a long history. The custom of Chinese New Year is to burn charcoal with vinegar, that is, put a piece of red-hot coal on an iron spoon and then pour vinegar on it. Playing with vinegar charcoal is exorcism. I wish you peace and success in the coming year.

Guangxi New Year Custom: Dancing Chicken and Spring Cattle

During the Spring Festival, Guangxi has a special way of celebrating the New Year, that is, dancing chicken and spring cattle. On the first day of the lunar new year, the young man who jumped the chicken carried two chickens made of wood and papaya and went to every household to ring gongs to pay New Year's greetings. Their joy in singing and dancing is indescribable!

Inner Mongolia new year custom: eat meat to say goodbye to the old year.