What are the customs of Heyuan for the New Year?

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1On February 23rd, after the evening of 23rd, the Hakkas in Heyuan will clean the kitchen stove, take down the old kitchen stove and burn it. On the morning of 30th, they will put up new pictures. When they get a free one, they will set up wine, meat, candy, sugar cane, rice fruit and so on. And burn incense, light candles and put paper cannons in front of the stove. Entering the new year is December 25 of the lunar calendar.

2. Enter the Year

Step up preparations for the New Year, and the Hakka people in Heyuan who go out will rush home for the New Year. After entering the fixed number of years, we should educate our children not to scold each other and not to say unlucky things. Before and after entering the new year, we should choose an auspicious day to clean the dust and clean the house. We should clean the tables and benches in the kitchen, clean the bedding and mosquito nets, and celebrate the New Year cleanly.

3. New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve, that is, New Year's Eve, is the warmest and happiest day of Chinese New Year. On this morning, every Hakka family in Heyuan will worship Bodhisattva and God. On New Year's Eve, portraits of ancestors should be hung in each hall, and red Spring Festival couplets should be posted at the gate. Red notes should be put on the barn door, in front of the livestock pen, on the furniture bed and beside the water tank, which is called "sealing the year" or "putting red".

Step 4: keep your age

Hakka people in Heyuan have a reunion dinner, and the stove should be cleaned to prevent vegetarianism on the first day of the first month or all day. At night, we should keep the old year, say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. Every room should be brightly lit all night. This is called "lighting the old fire". In some places, cowshed and pigsty should also be illuminated. Parents should give their children lucky money, and some places give old people lucky money.

Step 5 open the door

On the first day of the first month in Heyuan, Hakkas opened their doors to welcome guests at the auspicious time stipulated in the general plan, and firecrackers exploded one after another.