What are the customs of moving to Changsha, Hunan?

Before moving to a new house in Changsha, Hunan Province, we should first choose a lucky day of the Chinese zodiac, and prepare a load of live chickens before moving, usually four, six, eight and ten, and take even numbers, including rice, grain, wine, tobacco, tea, salt, sugar, Baba and cakes, and put a handful of laurel leaves and cypress branches and leaves for each gift. An abacus, a shoulder pole and a needle and thread should be prepared in the rice pole.

On the day of moving to a new house, the owner will change into a New Pants from his daughter-in-law's house. At that time, the children choose a load of chicken to walk in front, the male host chooses a load of rice to follow, and his wife, the elderly at home and other relatives carry a red-hot brazier filled with charcoal.

When entering the room, put the fire tray at the foot of the main wall in the hall, and other relatives help to fire. The host set up a table to burn incense, kill chickens and ducks to worship ancestors and gods, and the hostess should light small kerosene lamps at the four corners of each room.

Other relatives and friends helped to put red paper on each door, cut off the picked "hair cakes" and put them on the table of the Eight Immortals in the hall with Shou Touguo. All the guests who come to congratulate you should say an auspicious word after entering the door: "the new house is prosperous and the wealth is prosperous." After the host offers tea, the guests are invited to eat "cake fruit" and "longevity fruit", which means getting older as you go up.

After the owner stays in the new house, it takes an hour to go out to do business, and the oldest person in the family has to step out of the new house first, which means that the old people will go first in the future, which is in line with the laws of nature, and then the children at home can go to the new house for outdoor activities.

Guests' gifts should be registered one by one, and gifts from daughter-in-law's family should be ranked first. If there is a mirror screen, it should be hung on the main wall of the hall, and your brother should be hung next to it.

At the beginning of the celebration, the guests of the daughter's family should be seated in the main hall, and the special person will be responsible for pouring wine, offering cigarettes and offering tea, accompanied by the man of the host family. Only after all the guests in the daughter's house are seated, the other guests are seated one after another, and the host and wife toast one by one with wine in their hands to express their gratitude to the guests for coming.

After drinking for more than ten minutes, the host family sent someone to distribute the profit market one by one. The size of the profit market depends on the economic situation of the host family. After the host toasted, the guests began to pay back the money to the host, and the guests toasted each other and guessed the rules until late at night. Every room in the new house should be lit with ever-burning lamps that night, which means that the whole house is full of brightness.