What are the Spring Festival customs in Jiangsu?

Besides posting Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year pictures, observing the New Year, dancing lions and celebrating the New Year, there are some unique customs, such as digging gold ingots.

Suzhou people cooked water chestnuts in New Year's Eve meals and dug them out when eating, which is called "digging ingots". When visiting relatives and friends, you should put two green olives in your tea, which is called "Yuanbao Tea". Congratulations on getting rich. On the morning of the first day of the New Year, Wujin people hung up their ancestors' portraits in nave, presented tea fruits and rice cakes, and the whole family took turns to pay New Year greetings, which was called "the shadow of worship". Don't let them sweep the floor from home, for fear of sweeping out "wealth" and "wishful thinking", they can only sweep from the outside to the inside.

Wuxi Wuxi is an old custom. It is necessary to open the door three times on the morning of New Year's Day. Eating shredded pork cake, jiaozi and noodles for breakfast means reunion, promotion, longevity and Changchun. On this day, we only eat leftovers on New Year's Eve, which means "more than enough". When eating, you can't cook soup and pour rice, and you can't eat porridge for fear of going out in the rain. We should also avoid asking for fire and water from our neighbors, warning against swearing, getting angry and saying unlucky things, and praying for peace and good luck all the year round.

Jiangsu culture

Jiangsu Province, referred to as "Su" for short, is the provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC), with Nanjing as its capital, located in the Yangtze River Delta and the eastern coast, with a land span of 30 45' ~ 35 08' N and16 21'~128 E. Total area 107200 square kilometers. By the end of 20021,there were 13 districts and cities and 95 counties (cities, districts) in Jiangsu province with a permanent population of 85.054 million.

In a.d. 1667, a province was established due to the partition of east and west in the south of the Yangtze River. The province is called "Jiangnan Jianghuai Yangxu Haitong and other places to undertake publicity and deployment department" and "Jiangnan Susong Changzhentai and other places to undertake publicity and deployment department", which are collectively referred to as short names. Jiangsu is one of the birthplaces of ancient civilization in China, and it is also one of the important birthplaces of "Wuyue Culture". It has multi-cultural and regional characteristics such as Wu, Jinling, Huaiyang and Chu-Han. * * * owns 13 national historical and cultural cities.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Jiangsu Province