The custom of Spring Festival in different areas is urgent.
Zhejiang province:
During the Spring Festival in Wucheng County, a long pole sokcho was put on it, lit and burned, and gongs and drums were played, which was called "Qingtian Silkworm". And light a lamp cage on the pole until March 3;
Ningbo should eat bean porridge after the Chinese New Year ancestor worship, and order a "closing cannon" before closing the door at night;
Shaoxing treats guests with "a bowl of tea" with olives and kumquat, and treats them with tea eggs, which is called "holding gold ingots".
Shanxi Province:
There are few customs of worshipping gods and ancestors in Shanxi now, but the rule of eating and not talking at the age of 30 remains. The first meal of the Spring Festival is jiaozi. When cooking jiaozi, you should set off firecrackers to exorcise evil spirits and seek good luck. In some areas, jiaozi is cooked with sesame stalks, which means that the New Year is like sesame blossoms and the days are getting better and better. Jiaozi wants to cook more, it must be more than enough. When eating, in addition to one bowl per person, one or two more bowls should be served in order to prosper the population.
Fujian province:
Before going out for the Spring Festival, Xiamen people should worship the Jade Emperor in the sky, which is called "offering sacrifices to the gods". Sacrifice flowers and fruits to God in the morning, and sacrifice and a bowl of spring rice to God at noon. Spring rice is a spring flower made by inserting red paper on white rice. "Spring" and "Ying" are homophonic in Min dialect, and spring rice is a good choice because of its "surplus every year".
The fourth day in Zhangzhou is called "Jiegu". In addition to burning incense in the temple, a candy and cake box called "recommendation box" should be prepared to welcome the gods in the main hall.
Liaoning province:
Many Liaoning people have longevity lights on New Year's Eve, which are lit all night, meaning longevity.
Married daughters can't spend the New Year at their parents' home, otherwise this year will be bad for their brothers. That's what the so-called "don't look at the bride's lamp" means on New Year's Eve. Of course, this custom with feudal superstition has been gradually forgotten with the progress of society and the changes of the times.
Guangdong province:
In Haifeng area, young people and elders pay New Year greetings, and elders will give them red envelopes or oranges.
Chaozhou's Spring Festival diet includes pickled vegetables, rotten jiaozi, fermented steamed stuffed buns, tube frying and five-fruit soup. On the fourth night, every family should light a lamp and prepare a jar of water, which is called "waiting for water";
On the first day of the first month in Dongguan, taro is offered with sugar, which is called "wealth is predestined friends".
Jiangsu province:
Jiangning County, Spring Festival, your family posted a rooster at your door; During the Spring Festival, there are more people in Wuxian than in Tong Yuan Temple who worship Guanyin. Suzhou people need three firecrackers to open the door early in the Spring Festival, which is called "promotion to the third level". When you go out in the morning, you should follow the direction specified by the Gregorian calendar, that is, the so-called "happy side of God", and go to temples such as the City God Temple and the Land Fair to burn incense. You have to go through ten temples, which is the so-called "ten temples to burn incense". From New Year's Eve to Lantern Festival, huge coal is burning in the stove, which is called "Happy Group".
Heilongjiang:
It is the custom of northerners to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, we must eat jiaozi, but people in Heilongjiang have to wrap some coins (usually peanuts or other nuts instead) in the jiaozi. Whoever eats this kind of jiaozi indicates good luck and good luck in the new year. In addition, Heilongjiang must eat jiaozi on the fifth day, also known as "breaking the fifth day", which means biting jiaozi, which means destroying all unlucky things, and it means driving away disasters and evil spirits.
Sichuan province:
People in Chengdu don't eat during the New Year because "rice" is homophonic with "sin". In order to avoid taboos, they eat glutinous rice balls or dried noodles to pray for family reunion and longevity.
Besides worshipping gods and ancestors, Liu Ge and other places also have family reunion dinners.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year in Changshou County, nine candles are lit outside the door, which are called "nine-level candles" to respect heaven and earth.
Shaanxi province:
All the clans in Fuping County are portraits of their ancestors. On the first day, they called their children and grandchildren to worship. After the sacrifice, they were given a golden banquet called "Sacrifice Sitting". On the second day, relatives and friends give each other pasta and pork, which is called "worship";
On the first day of New Year's Day in Gaoling County, yellow paper is hung on a bamboo pole at dawn to worship heaven, which is called "welcoming the gods". Hanging charcoal on the door, it is said that you can go to the plague;
Shiquan county uses yellow paper as money, and hangs it on the door on New Year's Day, named "Bao Gai Qian";
Lintong county regards the fifth day as "send the poor festival". After cutting the paper, every household takes it to the door and throws it away. Everyone must eat enough on that day, which is called "filling the five poor"
Jilin Province:
Because of the cold weather in the northeast, some fruits taste different after freezing. The most common are frozen pears and frozen persimmons. Frozen pears should be thawed in water before eating. Eating this pear after New Year's Eve can relieve hangover and boredom.
Shandong province:
Eating wonton in Ningyang county during the New Year is called "filling the position";
In Huangxian and Penglai areas, it should be wasted to get up early in the New Year. The hostess holds a red candle to light up every corner of the room, which means to drive away the darkness with light, and then paste all kinds of window grilles made of flour on the windowsill. After getting up, the child has to climb the door and play three swings. It is said that they grow very fast. Put the steamed bread in the pot after dinner, which means "one more head". In the first year, the new wife in Jiaodong will go to her husband's grandparents' house to pay a New Year call, which is called "Zagen". It is said that when you get to your grandparents' house, you can take root, and there will be no divorce and early widowhood.
Extended data:
The Spring Festival is the most solemn and lively traditional festival among the people in China. It is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as the Lunar New Year, and it is a traditional "festival of the year". The Spring Festival evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. The ancient calendar in the era of Ganzhi provided a prerequisite for festivals, and primitive beliefs and sacrificial culture were important factors in the formation of New Year's festivals. New Year's greetings are centered on offering sacrifices and praying for blessings, and are carried out in the form of activities such as bidding farewell to the old year and welcoming the new year, and offering sacrifices to ancestors and praying for blessings. The festive atmosphere is rich and colorful, which embodies the historical and cultural essence of Chinese civilization.
In ancient China, people had the custom of New Year. In ancient times, the New Year especially referred to "beginning of spring" in the solar calendar. In beginning of spring solar terms, the sun and thorns, everything is Su and everything is spring, which means a new cycle has begun. Later, due to the change of the calendar, the New Year usually refers to the first month of the lunar calendar. Celebrating the New Year has a long history. In the process of development and inheritance, some relatively fixed customs have been formed, and many of them have been passed down to this day, such as sweeping dust, holding new year's goods, pasting new year's goods, having a reunion dinner, keeping New Year's Eve, giving lucky money, paying New Year's greetings, dancing lions, visiting gods, offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off firecrackers, dating rules, and paying New Year's greetings.