China's Spring Festival custom

There is a proverb in Beijing during the Spring Festival: "(December of the lunar calendar, that is, the twelfth lunar month) 23 (Sunday) honey melon sticks; 24th (Sunday) house cleaning day; Put up windows on the 25th (Sunday); Twenty-six (Japanese) stews; Twenty-seven (day) to kill the rooster; Twenty-eight (sun) facial hair; Twenty-nine (day) steamed bread; Overnight for thirty (Sunday) nights; Twist on the first day of the new year. "

The fifth day of the first lunar month is called "breaking the fifth", and you can't cook with raw rice until it breaks the fifth day. The seventh day of the first month is called "Men's Day", "Men's Victory Day" or "Seven Yuan". During the Spring Festival, Beijingers like to visit temple fairs. Zhong Temple can knock Yongle Bell, Baiyunguan Temple Fair can touch stone monkeys to make money, and Changdian Temple Fair can enjoy curios, calligraphy and painting, copybooks, jewels, jadeite and other exotic things, as well as flower exhibitions such as stilts, Taiping Drum, Chedang, and Wuhu Stick.

Shanghai twelfth lunar month is the day when Kitchen God plays with things in the sky. Therefore, on the evening of 23rd, every household will "send a stove" and "offer a stove" to pay a New Year call. The 25th day of the twelfth lunar month is the day when immortals descend to earth. Traditionally, every household has to be cleaned inside and outside. From 26th to 29th, every household began to grind flour, make jiaozi, make rice cakes, prepare new clothes and shoes, and buy Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures and "door gods". On New Year's Eve, families of all ages gather indoors and sit together to eat New Year's Eve under the light, hence the name "Family Fun". After the New Year's Eve, keep watch around the stove. At dawn, men, women and children put on new clothes, hats and shoes, and offered sacrifices to heaven and ancestors in the class. Then, young people and young people pay New Year greetings to their parents. They distribute the lucky money prepared years ago to their children.

Taiwan Province Province calls New Year's Eve "29" and "30", depending on the size of December in the lunar calendar. "Ten days" means the end of a year. Before it gets late, every household will prepare offerings, such as sweet oranges, sweet rice fruits (rice cakes), "spring rice (paper-cut spring characters inserted on pointed rice)" and "lucky money". Behind the gate, there are two sugarcane with leaves and leaves, which are called "perennial sugarcane". When eating New Year's Eve, there are new charcoal stoves and new sunflower fans under the square table, and the words "spring" and "happiness" written in red paper are affixed to the fans and stoves. After the New Year's Eve, it is a birthday celebration. In the first day of junior high school, people get together, worship their parents (that is, Gong Zu's grandmother) with red and white rice cakes, and then set off firecrackers to welcome the New Year.

On New Year's Eve in Hong Kong, families will get together for a reunion dinner. Most dishes of the reunion dinner have auspicious meanings. After the reunion dinner, people usually go to the New Year's Eve market to visit the flower market. On the first day of New Year's Day, people began to formally celebrate the New Year, posting Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, dancing dragons and lions, visiting relatives and friends, and celebrating the New Year.

Macao's New Year customs are unique. "Xie Zao" is one of the most traditional China customs preserved in Macau. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people in Macao called it "Xie Zao". Macao people celebrate the New Year from the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. On New Year's Eve, watching the Spring Festival and visiting the flower market are two major events for Macao people to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Shousui is playing mahjong, watching TV, catching up and chatting; Macau holds a flower market on Lunar New Year's Eve, mostly peach blossoms, daffodils, potted bamboos and potted oranges, with strong floral fragrance, which indicates a bright future for the new year. During the Spring Festival (New Year's Day), Macao people pay attention to "benefiting the market" to show good luck. "Profit market" is a red envelope. On this day, the boss meets the employees, the elders meet the younger generation, and even the married see the unmarried. Macao people call New Year's Day the "opening year". To eat "New Year's meal", they must have laver, lettuce and carp to make money and profit.