In the old days, it was also necessary to choose "auspicious time" and "auspicious day". Invitations were sent in advance, and relatives and neighbors had to prepare bride price congratulations. As the saying goes, "housewarming is a joy." Generally send red plaques or red envelopes, paintings, thermos bottles, tea sets and other things. My father-in-law will send greetings, tableware and rice. New and old neighbors usually congratulate with eggs and candy. Meanwhile. Everyone helped to move the furniture together. This day. The new house should be decorated with couplets and poems and paintings. The host will hold a banquet to thank relatives and friends, new and old neighbors and chefs, and hold a big banquet to celebrate the housewarming. Before moving to a new house, people usually move heavy furniture, and the owner has to clean the new house and decorate the hall, room and kitchen. Generally, the time to move is before dawn, thinking that moving in the middle of the night under the escort of Jia Xian can protect Anji Xiang. Parents should move the fire from the old stove to the new stove, commonly known as "catching fire" and "catching fireworks". Nankang County emphasized that housewives lit torches from the old stove in the kitchen, set off firecrackers all the way, or used fire baskets to attract the fire to the new stove, which meant that fireworks continued to be set off. When leaving the old house, the old neighbor also fired a gun and said "send fire", but in Hefei, the neighbor didn't send it, which means that it is inseparable. When we arrive at the new house, it is usually the new neighbors who shoot, and they say "fire". At the same time, the incense in the old house will also be moved to the new house, which is called "crossing the bodhisattva" In addition, when moving, everyone in the family should take an appliance to show "all in". Everyone's equipment varies from place to place. On the day of housewarming, Hefei people prepare four dishes first, which means getting rich in the four seasons. Then the family walked in front with a load of food baskets, with food at one end and vegetables at the other, and the auspicious words of "auspicious housewarming" written on red paper were posted on the pole. The housewife followed with a steelyard, indicating that the property was in and out and the house was well managed. The eldest son came in third with an abacus, which means to be careful and thrifty. Other family members followed in order of age, and everyone's hands were not empty. In some places, the whole family carries a fire (commonly known as "incense"), cookware, ladder (meaning "step by step"), steelyard, broom and other things in turn. When entering the new house, the host swept the hall three times with a broom to show good luck. After moving into the new house, you should first light incense sticks in the main hall to pray for your ancestors, then go to the kitchen to install the kitchen god, stick the idol of the kitchen god on the kitchen, and then use torches to lead the fire to the new kitchen to boil water, cook and cook, and accept congratulations from relatives and friends. In addition, Anfu County also has the custom of cooking in the kitchen of the old house, then inserting 10 pairs of chopsticks on the fished uncooked rice, covering it with red cloth and moving it to a new stove for steaming. If you rent someone else's house and want to move to a new one, in Ji 'an County, you usually have to lock the original house for three days before you can return it to the landlord. According to legend, locking for three days can make the original rented house happy and auspicious. This custom is purely superstitious, but it has spread to this day and has not been completely eliminated.