The Origin of New Year Customs in Western Guangdong

One said: According to legend, the "year example" in western Guangdong originated from the Taoist Shangyuan Festival (folk Lantern Festival). Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, northern cultural customs have gradually penetrated into western Guangdong. Their customs, combined with the local customs of celebrating harvest, praying and offering sacrifices, gradually evolved into a grand and warm folk festival, which was highly valued by the villagers.

One said: it is a comprehensive festival, such as Shangyuan Festival, temple fair, and the anniversary of the relocation of villagers' ancestors in western Guangdong.

The extended data chronology is mainly popular in Gaozhou, Huazhou, Dianbai, Maonan, Wuchuan, Xinyi, Suixi, Lianjiang, Chikan, Xiashan, Potou, Mazhang, Leizhou, Xuwen and Guangxi Beiliu. From the second day of the first month to the end of February, each village has its own calendar day with different dates, which are concentrated during the Spring Festival. Generally, the year number is one day, and some are one to three days.

Traditional annual activities include: start year, regular year and end year. Specifically, it refers to worship, worship, worship, hanging lanterns, circling the gods, setting off firecrackers and other links, and most of them are mainly sacrificial activities. There are also lion dance, dragon dance, spring bull dance, eight tones, Cantonese opera ("drama"), puppet show ("ghost play"), song and dance, zaju and banquets.