The custom of inviting family members.

During the Spring Festival every year, it is the custom in most areas of Shandong Province (especially Tai 'an, Laiwu, Jinan, Linyi, Weifang, Ningyang, Xintai, Rizhao and other places). It should be very serious and sacred for most people with old people in their families to hold this ceremony. Of course, young people nowadays are less and less emotional and ceremonial about this custom. After all, everyone pays attention to the new form of Chinese New Year, and the climate of celebrating foreign festivals is getting more and more prosperous, which is still more and more incomprehensible to the elderly young people. Inviting a family is very particular. On the morning of New Year's Eve, the family began to prepare in an orderly way according to the assigned work. First of all, men and women at home began to paste couplets, and festive and auspicious wishes were posted everywhere, inside and outside the house, at the gate, at the gate, beside the water tank, beside the rice tank and at the bedside. After pasting the couplets, we will type paper (that is, paper money) with a note. Then the women go to the kitchen to prepare sacrifices, usually chicken, fish, tofu, vegetables and fruits. Of course, a chicken is a whole chicken. To serve well, the chicken's head should be high above it, and then the cooked chicken should be steamed in a pot before it can be eaten. Of course, fish should be prepared in advance. As for vegetables, it's too late to fry them, and the altar has not been set yet.