In Chaoyang, the first day of the first lunar month is the New Year. Chinese New Year can be divided into three sections: farewell to the old year (farewell to the old year), new year (greeting the new year) and new year (opening the new year).

(1) Farewell the old year-family reunion around the stove on New Year's Eve

Resign from the old year, Chaoyang people are also called Chinese New Year. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, starting from this, people began to buy new year's goods, clean up and offer sacrifices to the gods. On the 24th, if you say "Master has gone to heaven", you must prepare a "paper horse". "Paper horse" is intended to let immortals from all walks of life ride to heaven to "report on their work", hoping that it will be "kind to heaven and peaceful in the next world". The 24th is still the day of offering sacrifices to stoves. From 25th to New Year's Eve, everyone is busy and happy.

On the last day of the Lunar New Year, people call it "New Year's Eve", because most months are very small, so it is called "Twenty Kuya" or "New Year's Eve".

On New Year's Eve, every household puts up new Spring Festival couplets at the door. The house is full of food, including chicken, goose, duck, pork, pig's trotters, mushrooms, needle vegetables, fungus, rotten branches and fresh vegetables and fruits. In the afternoon, you must worship the ancestral shrine, and then you should take a bath at all ages. Before taking a bath, you must pick 12 kinds of flowers and leaves and put them into the bath water, which is called "flower water". Bathing is called "New Year Bath", which is intended to wash away the old filth and greet the new year cleanly.

At the beginning of turning on the light, every household closed the door to "surround the furnace". Why shut it down? This is related to the legend that the ancients drove away the monster "Nian" at the end of the year. So it is also called "Chinese New Year". On the kitchen table, the dishes are rich. There is a "kitchen" in the middle of the table, commonly known as "guest kitchen". Lu Bin is a container made of copper, tin or aluminum. This vessel contains charcoal fire in the middle of the stove, and meatballs and fish balls are placed in the hot soup around it. The homonym of "pill" and "circle" is used to send a family reunion on New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve, all relatives far away from Sang Zi go home for reunion. There are boiled chicken, red roasted goose, mosquito's hoof, raw fried leek, live roasted clam and so on around Lu Bin. Uncle Jiang, etc. all mean "starting with chicken", "eating pig's trotters makes you look forward every year", "eating leeks makes you live longer and richer" and "eating fresh clams makes you more money". More interestingly, after the New Year's Eve, parents should take out the "turtle?" Let everyone try a little to congratulate their health and the success of the coming year. Then, parents give lucky money to their children, and later generations give "lucky money" to their elders. Then, the family will get together and start "supporting the elderly" to celebrate the family happiness. There is a saying in Chaoyang: "One night for two years, five hours for two years."

(2) New Year-Celebrate the New Year and look forward to the future.

From 0: 00 on New Year's Eve to the fourth day of the first month, it is called Chinese New Year. During the Spring Festival, people put on new clothes and cook sweet potato Qiangtang soup, but the daughter-in-law should respect her in-laws and the children should respect their parents to eat sweet potato Qiangtang soup first. Then, set off firecrackers after worshipping heaven and earth and ancestors. After breakfast, people will take Chaozhou citrus to each other's home to pay New Year's greetings. Everyone says "Happy New Year" and "Make a fortune in the New Year" when they meet. * * * Celebrate the Spring Festival and look forward to the future.

Chaozhou orange, Chaoyang people call it "Daji". The origin of "Daji" is quite interesting. It is said that in ancient times, the Spring Festival was celebrated once a year. However, in a village in Chaozhou, the whole village suddenly became thirsty. At this time, a fairy expressed her dream to a smart and beautiful girl in the village and said, "Eat sweet (citrus was called' sweet' in ancient times) and keep good luck." The girl realized that immediately let her mother eat oranges first, and then eat them herself. Miraculously, the mother and daughter got sick immediately. After hearing the news, the neighbors passed oranges to each other and recovered after eating oranges. Since then, Chaozhou citrus has become a symbol of good luck.

During the New Year, the streets are very busy, and traditional entertainment programs such as "playing (singing) English songs", "dancing tigers and lions", "dancing golden dragons", "raising flags" and "flute sets and gongs and drums" add luster to the festival. On the fourth day of April, the old woman at home and the temple priest in the temple prepared sacrifices and paper gifts to welcome all kinds of immortals to the world at the end of the year. That is the popular saying "Twenty-four divisions went to heaven, and four divisions landed".

(3) After the New Year-raise Qing Yu for a good year.

New Year's Eve, also known as the "annual opening", began on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Miancheng people have a slang, which goes like this:

On the fifth day of the fifth year, "the year begins"

Eat "sledgehammer" (a kind of fried food) on the sixth day.

Seven people eat "seven kinds of shark soup"