What are the Spring Festival customs in Shandong?

The first meal of the Spring Festival is jiaozi. Cooking jiaozi with sesame stems means that the New Year is like sesame blossoms and the days are getting better and better. Jiaozi has to cook more, which is definitely more than enough. Jiaozi cooked, first hold a bowl of respect for heaven and earth, and then hold a bowl of respect for the kitchen god. When eating, in addition to one bowl per person, one or two bowls should be served in order to prosper the population.

Second, post Spring Festival couplets and blessings.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets is an indispensable traditional custom in the New Year. In addition to using auspicious words, I hope to have new expectations for the new year and hope to usher in good luck. Spring Festival couplets are usually written in black on a red background or in gold on a red background. In addition, all kinds of decorations are in line with the celebration and joy of the Spring Festival, adding a festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival.

Third, make roasted seeds and nuts.

This may not be strange to many friends in the north. Generally, there are fried bean skin, fried meatballs, fried lotus root, fried chicken, fried pork tenderloin, fried fish ... If you can't finish it, stew cabbage or rape and other vegetables with roasted seeds and nuts after the Chinese New Year and continue to eat them as meals, which is also the solution to roasted seeds and nuts.

Fourth, worship heaven and earth

After midnight, all the people got up to worship God. Set up a "heaven and earth building" in the courtyard of the front building. In all directions, east, west, south, north, northeast, southwest and northwest, there is a table on each side, and there is a tablet of God in the middle table. Next to the "Tiandi Building", a "sky pole" was erected and a "sky lantern" was lit, which lasted for half a month day and night.

Five, son-in-law New Year greetings

On the second day of New Year's Day, the son-in-law pays a New Year's call "legal day". According to traditional customs, on this day, the daughter will "go back to her parents' home" and the husband will pay a New Year call to her parents-in-law, which is called "Children's Day" and "Wedding Day" by the people.

"Going home" is also called "mothering". In the old society, there was a saying that "a married girl is spilled water". People think that a married daughter can't go back to her family on New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month, and going back to her family will eat her poverty. Only after the second day, can she take her husband and children back to her mother's house.