Taizhou's Spring Festival custom!

1. On the first day of the first lunar month, every household sticks Spring Festival couplets, puts incense tables at the door to buy cakes and fruits, presents incense sticks to the gods, and prays for peace at the age of one. Avoid sweeping the floor, pumping water, begging for fire and using needles, scissors and axes. Men, women and children, all wearing new shirts and shoes, flocked to the temple scenic spot to burn incense, visit and set off firecrackers. In the morning, we all eat zongzi, glutinous rice balls or rice cakes, which means promotion step by step, and glutinous rice balls mean reunion.

Manufacturers shut down for rest and shops closed, with the exception of a few service industries. People greet each other with congratulations, wealth, happy New Year and other auspicious words. Farmers in the suburbs flock to the city or visit relatives and friends. Young men and women pay New Year greetings to their elders. Since liberation, various cultural and sports organizations have held various competitions on the occasion of festivals to enrich the cultural life of the masses.

2. In the old society, on the 14th night of the first lunar month, every household in Huangyan City lit lamps and hung orange baskets, orange lanterns and phoenix orange lanterns with local characteristics. Every orange forest outside the city is lit with red candles. From a distance, the whole Huangyan is brightly lit. At the same time, people in Orange Township also play a variety of folk cultural activities, such as lion dance, dragon dance, flower drum and dry boat.

This custom, called "lighting", is said to have originated in the Ming Dynasty and was related to Qi Jiguang's anti-Japanese war. On the 15th night of the first month of every year, an activity of "putting on orange lights" will be held on Chengjiang outside Huangyan City. All the men, women and children in Huangyan City have left the city, and there are people watching "lights" on both sides of Chengjiang River. Temporary stalls gathered, people came and went, and it was very lively. According to the records of Huangyan County, this custom has a history of at least 1000 years.

3. "On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, dust sweeps the house". According to the folk saying, because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck.

Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of utensils, tear down bedding curtains, clean the courtyard, dust off cobwebs, dredge open channel culverts, and everywhere is filled with a happy atmosphere of cleaning and welcoming the Spring Festival.

When visiting the New Year during the Spring Festival, the elders should distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. Because "old" and "precious" are homophonic, lucky money can suppress evil spirits, and younger generations can spend their first year safely with lucky money. Lucky money can be given in public after the younger generation pays New Year's greetings, or it can be put under the child's pillow by parents when the child is asleep on New Year's Eve.