The Spring Festival is coming. What are the customs in your hometown? Can you share them?

The Spring Festival is the biggest festival in a year. It is the end of the old year and also carries people's deep expectations for the new year. Various rich customs are people's sense of ceremony of "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new". How much do you know about these Spring Festival customs in my hometown of Shanxi?

1. It is a traditional folk custom in Shanxi during the Spring Festival. In the traditional performance of beating iron flowers, Hua Gun was used to beat iron juice in a special double-layer flower shed, fireworks and firecrackers were used to light iron flowers, and the performance of "Dragon Crossing Flowers" was thrilling, festive and lively, expressing people's good wishes for happiness and auspiciousness. Tiehua artists inherit Shanxi culture with a little spark. When the iron flower blooms, the sky is full of color. Meteors are like waterfalls, and the interpretation can be called a boutique.

2. It's a traditional Spring Festival custom in Shanxi to have a strong fire, also called burning a strong fire. In the folk, the point of flourishing fire means flourishing and flourishing. Just as the fire was in full swing and the fire was "fine", all families, old and young, stood around the fire and roasted all around. I hope to attract money and avoid evil. Some children take out steamed bread and bake it on the fire, thinking that eating this baked steamed bread can cure the disease.

3. As soon as the cannon is opened and the bell rings, the quasi-border officially begins. Shanxi people set off firecrackers to start a carnival, and children can't help but go to bed early. At dawn, the first thing for every household in Shanxi is to set off the "opening cannon", which means opening the door and announcing the beginning of a new year. Firecrackers all over the city are ringing, symbolizing sending the old to welcome the new and receiving blessings, commonly known as "receiving the year". Everyone uses firecrackers to greet the Spring Festival, to see whose firecrackers ring loudly and for a long time, and whose fireworks are varied. All kinds of firecrackers and fireworks make the night sky colorful. I wish good luck and prosperity in the new year.

4, New Year's Eve Shanxi people have a unique emphasis on New Year's Eve. First of all, food should be abundant. Jiaozi, oil cake, chicken and fish are four must-haves. Jiaozi's delegation is round and round, with oil cake representing that the days are getting higher every year, chicken representing good luck, and fish representing more than one year. Secondly, the name of this dish is Koucai. For example, the rice cake is called Bubugao, the jiaozi is called Wanshun, the wine is called running water, the eggs are called "big ingots" and the whole fish is called "more than one year". In addition, the family must get together for dinner, and if they are not there for some reason, they should also set aside seats and put a set of tableware to reflect the significance of family reunion.

5. Steaming "annual grinding" Jinnan area is an important grain-producing area in Shanxi, with wheat as the main crop. Therefore, during the Spring Festival, the local people generally have the custom of steaming "rice cakes". At the end of each year, every household is busy rolling steamed bread into dates, ancient money, fish and other shapes, which means that the grain is abundant and the financial resources are rolling, which implies the local people's yearning for a better life.

I know so much about the Spring Festival customs in Shanxi. What are the customs in your hometown?