What are the traditional customs?

1, kill the pig

Killing pigs is a traditional custom in rural areas of Hanzhong, usually around the winter of the lunar calendar. When killing pigs, every family invites people to help and entertain their neighbors. Usually, pig's head, all internal organs and some pork are made into delicious dishes, and relatives and neighbors are invited to get together to celebrate the bumper harvest of the year. This custom has been passed down to this day, commonly known as "drinking soup". The rest of the meat will generally be smoked into bacon, and the bacon will taste mellow, thin but not stuffed, fat but not greasy.

Step 2 sacrifice the stove

Sacrificing stoves is a traditional folk custom. Legend has it that off-year is the day when Kitchen God reports the merits and demerits of ordinary people to the Jade Emperor. Kitchen God is greedy. As long as he has candy to eat, his mouth will be sealed. Therefore, maltose is indispensable for offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God, so that the Kitchen God will not speak ill of the Jade Emperor, and a couplet will be posted on the Kitchen God, which reads "Heaven speaks well, and the lower bound is safe". People pray for family harmony and good weather in the New Year by offering sacrifices to stoves. After "offering sacrifices to stoves", people will make preparations in an orderly manner according to customs to welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival.

Step 3 clean the house

Cleaning the house is a long-standing traditional custom in Hanzhong. The whole family began to clean the house and yard, scrub the pots and pans, remove and wash the bedding, and greet the New Year cleanly, which is not only beneficial to health, but also entrusted people with the desire to break the old and establish the new, and pray to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

It is said that spring is spring.

Spring is a traditional custom in Hanzhong area. It is said that in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor told the people to plant good fields and collect more grain, and specially sealed a kind of "Spring Festival couplets" to send "solar terms lists" (later spring posts) to all households in various places. People in Chunxian county think that since they are going to the countryside to send watches, they should also say an auspicious word by the way, so the custom of "saying spring" is gradually emerging. Every year during the Spring Festival, Chun Xian wears official hats and uniforms, and walks from village to village to rap, usually alone. Sometimes when entering a crowded street or village, she uses duet, chorus and chorus.

Step 5 buy new year's goods

The custom of buying new year's goods (handling new year's goods) has a long history. In the past, life was limited by conditions, and there were not many samples for people to buy new year's goods. Now, the significance of people buying new year's goods is not just for food and clothing, but often to reward themselves for a year's efforts and celebrate the New Year. If it is said that New Year is a ceremony, then the new year's goods are the carrier of this ceremony, which awakens people's perception of the taste of the year. A dazzling array of new year's goods, bearing the ardent care for family members, means a bumper harvest in the coming year.