What are the Spring Festival customs around the country?

1, Jiangsu custom: put cooked water chestnuts in the New Year's Eve dinner and dig them out when eating, which is called "digging gold ingots". When friends and relatives come and go, put two green olives when making tea, which is called "drinking gold ingot tea". Congratulations on getting rich.

2. Shaanxi custom: Eating "five beans" and taking out five kinds of beans, such as soybeans, mung beans, peas and Jiang Dou, the night before the Spring Festival is a custom that has been passed down for thousands of years.

Wealthy families also cook and drink, and are good at meat dishes, showing their abilities. In Tongchuan rural areas, the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month is called "Five Beans Day", and breakfast is made with "barley porridge" and five kinds of beans, which indicates a bumper harvest of wheat and beans this year.

3. Yunnan custom: Yunnan should also post couplets like the Han nationality during the New Year. But "couplets" are all kinds of patterns cut from red paper. Not only the way of "writing" is different, but also the way of posting is unique.

On New Year's Eve, the whole family took homemade Spring Festival couplets and sang "Happy New Year's Songs", which were posted outside the courtyard, in the vegetable garden and in the fields in turn. Because of singing while pasting, the Spring Festival couplets of Bai people are called "song couplets".

4. Tianjin custom: Labaer, Tianjin people call Labaer on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and have the custom of drinking Labaer porridge. Many Tianjin people still soak garlic in vinegar on this day, which is called Laba vinegar.

Laba vinegar should be soaked on New Year's Day, jiaozi should be eaten on the first day, and jiaozi should be a vegetarian. You should be a vegetarian for a year, and dip it in Laba vinegar, which will have a unique taste. "Laba vinegar" not only tastes mellow, but also does not go bad after a long time.

5. Northeast custom: It is lucky to eat coins in jiaozi. Many jiaozi bags only contain a few coins (now people pay attention to hygiene, so they use peanuts or other nuts instead). Whoever eats this kind of jiaozi indicates good luck and good luck in the new year.