What are the customs of Ningde Spring Festival?

It's the New Year! It's the New Year! Every household is busy posting Spring Festival couplets, shaving their heads, making New Year's Eve dinners and setting off firecrackers ... There are too many things to do and too many "rules"! Some customs are very strange, and I am confused about them. In desperation, I'm going to ask my father who posted Spring Festival couplets.

"Wrong paste, wrong paste!" I saw my father turn the word "fu" upside down and cried anxiously. "Nothing wrong!" Dad answered slowly. "Then why do you want to post it backwards?" I'm confused. Dad explained: "It is a custom to paste the word' fu' upside down, which means' fu' is upside down!" "Oh, so that's it! What are the customs and rules for the Chinese New Year? " I asked the question again. Dad stopped what he was doing and patiently explained it to me.

It turns out that there is also the custom of setting off firecrackers in the New Year, which comes from the story of "Nian Beast". A long time ago, there was a kind of "Nian beast" that lived in the deep sea bottom for a long time. On New Year's Eve, he jumped into the sea and did evil everywhere. One year, an old man drove away the "Nian Beast" by shooting a gun, wearing red clothes and sticking red Spring Festival couplets, and it was calm. Since then, this method has spread to this day.

After listening to my father's explanation, I suddenly realized. I asked my father again, "Why do you want to get a haircut before the 27th?" "Oh, there is a folk saying,' Twenty-seven, fine scraping, twenty-eight, scraping fools! "I see! "

I asked again, "Then why did you clean up?" Dad said: "cleaning is to get rid of bad luck for a year!" This is a good sign! " "Then why are all the gifts oranges?" I don't understand. "This is because the word" orange "of oranges has the same meaning as" orange ",but" orange "and" auspicious "are very similar. Everyone sends oranges to each other for good luck during the Spring Festival! " "So that's it!" Dad added: "There is also the custom of' receiving the God of Wealth'. The fifth day of the first month is the birthday of the god of wealth. On the night before God of Wealth's birthday, every household will hold a banquet to celebrate God of Wealth's birthday. " I understand everything.

I know a lot about Chinese New Year customs today, but I think it's too superstitious! But it seems to be a kind of fun, as long as you are happy! Why not be superstitious?

Students, I have gained a lot from the custom of "Year", but I don't know what you have gained. If there is anything more novel, please tell me! I want to wish you a happy new year and all the best!