Are the customs of Chinese New Year the same everywhere?

Some common New Year customs in China are the same, such as offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust, pasting Spring Festival couplets, stick grilles, pasting the word "Fu" upside down, New Year pictures, observing the New Year, setting off firecrackers and welcoming the New Year, but there are also some different special customs all over the country.

Zhejiang:

On New Year's Day in Wucheng County, a long pole sokcho was placed on it, lit and burned, and drums were beaten, which was called "Qingtian Silkworm". And light lanterns on the poles until March 3. Ningbo should eat bean porridge after Chinese New Year's ancestor worship, and order a "closing cannon" before closing at night. Shaoxing entertains guests with "tea bowls" in the New Year, which contain olives and kumquat, as well as tea eggs. This is called "holding gold ingots".

Shanxi:

Nowadays, there are few customs of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in Shanxi, but the rule of eating without talking on the 30 th of the year has been preserved. The first meal of the Spring Festival is jiaozi. When cooking jiaozi, set off firecrackers. In order to drive away evil and seek good luck, some areas cook jiaozi with sesame stalks, which means that the new year is just like sesame blossoms, and the days are getting better and better. Jiaozi cooks much more, and it must be more than enough, which means more than enough. When eating, in addition to one bowl for each person, one or two more bowls should be served in order to hope that the population will flourish.

Fujian Province

Before going out on New Year's Day, Xiamen people should worship the Jade Emperor in the sky, which is called "offering sacrifices to heaven". Sacrifice flowers and fruits to the gods in the morning and sacrifice sacrifices and a bowl of spring rice to the gods at noon. Spring rice is a spring flower made by inserting red paper on white rice. "Spring" and "leftover" 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 "the festival". 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 hall.

Liaoning:

Many Liaoning people live long lanterns on New Year's Eve and light them all night. From New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, every household hangs red lanterns, and lanterns are lit on New Year's Eve, which means longevity and longevity. Married daughters can't spend the New Year at their parents' home, otherwise this year will be bad for their brothers. This is 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 by people with the progress of society and the changes of the times.

Guangdong:

In Haifeng area, when young people celebrate the New Year with their elders, the elders will give them red envelopes or oranges. Chaozhou's Spring Festival diet includes pickled vegetables, rotten jiaozi, steamed bread with steamed bread, fried rice in tubes and five-fruit soup. On the fourth night of the Lunar New Year's Eve, every household should light a lamp and prepare a tank of water, which is called "waiting for water". On the first day of the first month in Dongguan, offering taro with sugar is called "money is predestined friends".

Jiangsu:

During the Spring Festival in Jiangning County, a rooster was posted at your door. On New Year's Day, there were more worshippers in Wuxian than in Tong Yuan Temple. Suzhou people need three firecrackers to open the door in advance on New Year's Day, which is called "promotion to the third level". When you go out in the morning, you should follow the direction stipulated by the Gregorian calendar, that is, the so-called "happy god side" and go to temples such as the city god and the land to burn incense. You must go through ten temples, which is called "burning incense in ten temples". From New Year's Day 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 Heilongjiang people must 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 has the meaning of driving away disasters and evil spirits.

Sichuan:

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. Liu Ge and other places will celebrate the "off-year" on the seventh day of the first month. Besides worshipping their ancestors and gods, they will also have a family reunion dinner. Chengdu people go to Du Fu Caotang in the western suburbs every day. On New Year's Day in Changshou County, nine candles are lit outside the door, which are called "nine-level candles" to respect heaven and earth.

Shaanxi:

All the clans in Fuping County are portraits of their ancestors. On the first day, they gather their descendants to worship. After the sacrifice, they will hold a golden banquet, which is called "festival sitting". On the second day of the following year, relatives and friends give each other pasta and pork, which is called "Worship Festival". On New Year's Day in Gaoling County, at dawn, yellow paper is hung on a bamboo pole to worship the sky, which is called "greeting God". It is said that charcoal can be hung on the door, and it can go against the plague. Shiquan County made money with yellow paper and hung it on the door on New Year's Day, named "Bao Gai Qian". Lintong county regards the fifth day of the first month as "send the poor festival". After paper-cutting, every family takes it to the door and throws it away. Everyone must eat enough on that day, which is called "making up for the five poor".

Jilin:

Due to the cold weather in Northeast China, some fruits will have different tastes after freezing. The most common are iced pears and frozen persimmons. It is understood that the purest is frozen autumn pear. In Jilin, there is a kind of pear called Qiuli, which is sour and astringent when it is just picked, so people pick it and put it directly under the tree and cover it with a layer of leaves. The frozen autumn pear is sweet and sour, and the juice is sufficient. Frozen pears should be thawed in water before eating. Eating this pear after New Year's Eve can relieve hangover and boredom.

Shandong:

Eating wonton in Ningyang County for the New Year is called "filling the warehouse". In Huangxian and Penglai areas, getting up early on New Year's Day is a waste. The hostess holds a red candle to illuminate every corner of the house, which means to drive away the darkness with light, and then puts all kinds of window grilles made of flour on the windowsill. After getting up, the children have to climb the door and play on the swing three times. It is said that they grow very fast. In some areas, cooking jiaozi with sesame stems means that the New Year is as high as sesame blossoms, and steamed bread should be put in the pot after meals, which means there are "leftover heads". Jiaodong's new daughter-in-law will visit her husband's grandparents in the first year, which is called "miscellaneous roots". It is said that when you get to your grandparents' house, you can take root, you won't get divorced and you won't be widowed early.

Beijing:

Since the twelfth lunar month, scholars have been writing Spring Festival couplets under the eaves of shopping malls, trying to make some money for the New Year. After the sacrificial ceremony, the new Spring Festival couplets were gradually put up, and thousands of families took on a new look. Some people use James Zhu, others use red paper, and only the imperial court and imperial clan princes use white paper with red and blue edges as a rule. Those who are not imperial clan are not allowed to use it at will. In December of the lunar calendar, plum blossoms will be tied in a big-bellied and small-mouthed utensil and placed about five feet underground. When the fire warms the ground slightly, the plum blossoms will gradually turn white and put them in paper cages for sale in cities. DOG, Meihua and Yingchun are also acceptable. In prosperous areas, people will set up stalls and sell pictures, and women and children will compete to buy them for fun.