What are the customs of Fuzhou New Year's Eve?

There are many traditional customs in Fuzhou during the Spring Festival. Try listing them as follows:

1. New Year's Eve is the last day of the old calendar year. It is a custom in Fuzhou to steam white rice and store it in an electric cooker for a rainy day. It is called "bad luck rice" or "New Year rice", commonly known as "rice in the coming year". The next year's New Year's Eve dinner was filled with wooden steamed rice cookers, surrounded by ten pairs of vermilion chopsticks, pasted with red paper, tied with red ropes, sprinkled with "Wuzi" (red dates, peanuts, melon seeds, longan seeds and chestnuts) and placed on the table in the main room. New Year's Eve dinner and vegetables are for the whole family, and they are eaten until the fourth day of the first month.

2. In order to welcome the Spring Festival, Fuzhou Customs began to clean up as early as mid-February, commonly known as "Diantang", also known as "dust-sweeping", sweeping every corner of the house on an auspicious day. When you arrive at the funeral home, you should keep the house clean inside and outside every day, and clean up the last batch of garbage from the house after the "New Year's Eve", which is called "sweeping bad luck". At the same time, it is called "adding money" to fill the water tank.

The custom in Fuzhou is to post Spring Festival couplets on New Year's Eve. Different from other parts of the country, there is a blank piece of paper on the Spring Festival couplets. This custom began in the early Qing Dynasty. It is said that Zhu Jian, who founded Fuzhou in the late Ming Dynasty, established the Longwu regime and was captured and martyred at the end of the year.

Before the Spring Festival, married women will go back to their parents' home to "send new year's goods (gifts)".

5, New Year's Eve, family reunion, * * * to drink New Year's Eve, is to be old. The main entrance of the house, boxes, furniture and valuables are all covered with gold and silver paper foil, which symbolizes making a fortune in the coming year. Giving children "lucky money" is a gift (red envelope) from the elders to the younger generation during the Chinese New Year. "pressing the age" and "pressing the age" are homophonic, meaning to pass the age safely. This suppression lasted from the 30th day of the first month to the 15th day.

6. The custom of observing the age is also very common in Fuzhou. The purpose of watching the elderly is to "collect the old" and "be two years old in one night and two days in the evening". In the past, I kept my watch at five o'clock until dawn, but now I usually only keep it until zero in the morning.

6. According to legend, Nian is a demon who plays tricks on people every New Year's Eve. Therefore, on New Year's Eve, every household puts up new symbols (Spring Festival couplets) and sets off firecrackers to drive away the whole year. Fuzhou also imitated the old custom of burning guns to drive away disasters in Zheng and Tang Dynasties.

7. Thirty blind days (thirty nights) are the most tense days for creditors to collect debts and debtors to avoid debts. In the past, you couldn't be in debt for the New Year, but you couldn't spend thirty nights. Debtors who live outside the city go to Shangshu Temple in the Hou Zhou Dynasty, while those who live in the city go to Chenghuang Temple to watch a play to avoid debts.