What are the customs of Chaoshan people during the New Year?

On the first day of the first lunar month, January is the first day of the New Year. In Chaoshan area, Chinese New Year is usually busy for four or five days. On the evening of the Spring Festival, in the streets and alleys, families put up Spring Festival couplets and decorate themselves with lanterns. Have a reunion dinner.

On the morning of the Spring Festival, adults and children take one or two pairs of raw oranges (called "Daji") to visit relatives and friends and pay a New Year call. Cultural and recreational activities during the Spring Festival include singing and dancing, camp gongs and drums, raising flags, buma dancing, dragon dancing, lion dancing and carp dancing.

The activities of "Chinese New Year" in Chaoshan area have been handed down from generation to generation and are well known. Or commemoration, or implication, or blessing, the folk customs are rich. Chaoshan people going home to reunite with relatives and friends can enhance their feelings and cohesion more than these festivals.

Expanding Information Other Festival Customs in Chaoshan: Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is commonly known as "August and a half", and the main programs are: taro to worship ancestors. There is a saying in Chaoshan: "Rivers and streams talk, and taro tastes terrible." In Yue Bai, most people will elaborate handicrafts for Yue Bai one month before the Mid-Autumn Festival, while Yue Bai's necessary items that night include the square table, "steamed stuffed bun", fragrant incense, various fruits and pies.

Yue Bai people are mainly women and children, so there is a saying that "men are under the moon, and women don't sacrifice stoves". Burn this tower. Almost every element of these programs is related to the anti-meta-history of Chaoshan people.

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