The customs and habits of Zoucheng

1. Pay a New Year call

First, pay a New Year call at home, and pay a New Year call to elders and seniors in order of seniority and age. If there are three generations in a family, the grandson (female) should pay a New Year call to grandpa and grandma first, and then pay a New Year call to mom and dad. The worshippers give the younger generation "money for the New Year", also known as "lucky money".

2. New Year's Eve

The whole family sits around to have New Year's Eve dinner, eat good wine and food, and have a reunion jiaozi, commonly known as "steamed stuffed bun" and "flat food". Jiaozi is usually filled with vegetarian food, which means "plain and quiet". After the New Year's Eve dinner, except for the elders who stayed at home to take care of those who came to pay New Year's greetings, everyone else wore new clothes and went out to pay New Year's greetings.

3. You can't clean the courtyard on New Year's Day

In addition, you can't draw water from the well on the morning of New Year's Day, you can't clean the courtyard and the room (even if you sweep it during the day, you should sweep it from the door and the garbage can't be thrown out), and you should not wash the dishes and chopsticks after eating.

4. Sacrifice ancestors first

Every family pays homage to ancestors first (some places call it "sending the old", that is, sending back the ancestors invited from the ancestral graves on New Year's Eve, and some send the "old" away on the third night of the New Year's Eve).

5. The first day of June

The first day of June in the lunar calendar is commonly called "half a year". People in Zoudongshan District eat dumplings with new wheat bread; Zou Xiping's original people steamed buns (steamed buns) with new wheat flour, and first offered them to worship heaven.