What is the New Year custom in Ganzhou?

1, the 24th of the twelfth lunar month is a "small year", and the New Year's Eve dinner is quite rich. It is called "Stealing Hearts Day" to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god after dinner. Most of the Hakka people in Guangdong break ground here, so it is not necessary to ask the old man to look at the orientation and timing of the house, just like the solstice in winter.

2. "New Year's Eve" is also called "New Year's Eve". On this day, Spring Festival couplets are posted at the door of every household, and small red notes are also posted on the door plaques and windows. Every household will kill chickens and ducks on this day. Going to the ancestral temple to worship your ancestors shows that you remember the great virtues of your ancestors during the Chinese New Year or the holidays. On New Year's Eve, the reunion dinner was eaten very early. It usually starts at four or five noon and lasts until dusk. The whole family ate New Year's Eve and drank wine to celebrate New Year's Eve. The children grew up and the old man celebrated the New Year.

At midnight on the first day of the first month of the first month, everyone flocked to burn incense and shoot guns to welcome the New Year, which means "grabbing spring". I think the earlier I get up, the better my luck this year. The host opened the door with fireworks and walked in the direction of "good intentions". This is called "traffic trip". Wear new clothes in the morning, worship your ancestors first, then your elders, and say "Congratulations on getting rich".

4, breakfast vegetarian (24-hour vegetarian in Wangmudu area of Xinfeng County), that is, after eating for one year, you will be healthy to avoid disasters and protect your physical and mental health. On that day, adults and children played all day, but they were not allowed to leave the house, especially children sitting on the threshold of other people's homes. Women were knitting wool on the sun bed or in their own patio, holding soles and soles, enjoying themselves and chatting. Boys play cards or "count soybeans", and children like to set off firecrackers. All the village houses look prosperous.

Generally, the "Kowloon Plate" is prepared at home from the second day of the second year, with special snacks such as dried duck, beef liver and sausage, and more peanuts, sunflower seeds and fruit plates to receive guests until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. When my in-laws visited, there were many people drinking and eating a bowl full of eggs.