What is the custom of Putian's Spring Festival?

Putian New Year custom is introduced as follows.

First of all, cleaning patrol.

Putian people will give the house a general cleaning years ago. In Puxian dialect, it is called "sweep" and "sweep all around, tidy up and see your ancestors". Sweeping the floor is usually carried out on sunny days between the tenth and twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, which indicates that the dust and filth of the old year will be swept out of the house and welcome the Spring Festival with a brand-new atmosphere.

Second, post Spring Festival couplets.

In addition to the Spring Festival couplets we usually see, Putian also has a unique white-headed Spring Festival couplets with a white forehead 10 cm above the red couplets. This custom can be traced back to the Japanese uprising in the Ming Dynasty more than 300 years ago. It is said that this move is to mourn those who died in the Japanese rebellion that year.

Third, the twenty-fifth sun

December 25th of the lunar calendar is a big day when Pu Xian customs are made public. Legend has it that the day of "God bless the people" is also a day of doing good deeds and accumulating virtue. Be sure to do good deeds on this day, and be careful not to ask for debts from others. The recipient will feel unlucky and be angry with you. You can't have a conflict with people on this day, you must end the day amicably, otherwise the next year will be very bad. Many city god temples also distribute food to the poor in the temples.

Fourth, buy new year's goods.

From/kloc-0 to February 26th, every household will make tofu, wrap jiaozi, stir-fry litchi meat, buy new year's goods and so on. Oil tofu is a necessary food for Putian people in the New Year. Delicious golden fried tofu symbolizes auspiciousness and wealth. In order to preserve it for a longer time, it is generally cooked and sprinkled with salt. The red ball is a tribute that Putian people must make on holidays. Red symbolizes prosperity, and the circle symbolizes reunion.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) New Year's Eve (30 pm)

Putian people call New Year's Eve "New Year's Eve", also called "30 years old". It is very vivid for the whole family to have dinner together. After New Year's Eve, the elders distributed lucky money.

Putian also has the idea of having a reunion dinner behind closed doors on New Year's Eve, which means not letting the enemy in. In addition, the night before New Year's Eve every year, every household will set a table of tributes at home and kill a rooster to prepare for the "resignation ceremony" after twelve o'clock (that is, New Year's Eve).

Sixth, New Year's Day.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, the door is opened to set off firecrackers, and then everyone eats a bowl of noodles, which will be filled with ingredients, such as fried eggs, fried tofu, fried peanuts, fried seaweed and so on. "Eating noodles adds one year", and eating noodles adds one year. Each person has a bowl, which means that he is one year older and wishes the whole family a long life. After eating noodles, put on new clothes and go out for a spring outing. Putian people call going out for the Spring Festival a "spring outing".

Seven, New Year's Day.

Because of the invasion of Japanese invaders in those years, the second day of the first month in Putian was called "Death Visiting Day". On this day, Putian people don't visit each other for fear of bringing bad luck to others. Now this day has become the best day for friends to get together outside.

Eight, New Year's Day.

On the third day of the third year, all families held "Welcome the New Year", which was a response to the example of "Sending the New Year" at the end of last year.

Nine, the fourth day of the lunar calendar

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there were frequent pirates along the coast of Fujian, and Xinghua people fled to the mountains one after another until the anti-Japanese hero Qi Jiguang drove them away. Ordinary people went home on the second day of February that year. On the one hand, we buried the bodies of relatives and friends killed by the Japanese pirates, on the other hand, we cleaned up the broken homes. At this time, the New Year's Day has passed, people will visit each other on the second day of February, and then they will grow old on the fourth day of February.

New year's eve

On the fifth day, just like on the first day of New Year's Day, people call on families to recall their past history, contact their neighbors' feelings and talk about their hopes for the future.

Eleven, Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival in Putian is the most lively, with a time span of one month and the largest scale in China. Putian Lantern Festival is not concentrated on the 15th day of the first month. Some villages are ten days ahead of schedule, and some are at the end of the month.

There are also differences in customs in different regions. Putian Folk Lantern Festival has activities such as Bodhisattva Parade, Lantern Parade, Brown sedan chair, knife ladder climbing, iron ball play, barefoot fire dance and so on. , with rich characteristics of Puxian. Such a grand and special Lantern Festival attracts the attention of domestic and foreign media every year.

Twelve, head teeth

On the second day of the second lunar month, it is the first day to worship the land father-in-law every year, which is called "the first tooth". The first tooth is finished, which means that the Spring Festival officially ends and the busy life of the year officially begins.