What are the customs of Chaoshan Spring Festival?

The customs of Chaoshan Spring Festival include posting Spring Festival couplets, having a reunion dinner and giving lucky money. Details are as follows:

1. Spring Festival couplets: In Chaoshan, every household will go out to buy Spring Festival couplets on New Year's Eve (or 29th) and stick them on both sides and above the gate. Spring Festival couplets usually contain the word "spring", which means good luck in the new year.

2. Have a reunion dinner: On New Year's Eve, in Chaoshan, every family will prepare to make the most abundant and meaningful reunion dinner in a year, and the family will be happy at night. Moreover, the incense burner representing the ancestors should be taken out of the shrine and placed on the altar, and then incense should be burned to pray, and people should be invited to eat first, and then the old and the young should bow down to show the tradition of Wande, a Chaoshan person.

3. Giving lucky money: Giving lucky money is an important part of Chaoshan Spring Festival custom. On the first day of the first month, the first thing Chaoshan people do is to worship at home. Generally, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to the elders first, and then the elders give them lucky money and say some blessings.