What's the difference between North and South Chinese New Year customs?

1. Off-year: North-South differences in sweeping dust by offering sacrifices to stoves: The concept and date of off-year are different in different parts of the country. Generally speaking, it is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month in the north and the 24th of the twelfth lunar month in the south. On this day, every household is busy cleaning, washing clothes, scrubbing pots and pans, thoroughly cleaning, and preparing for a clean New Year. 2. New Year's Eve: the difference between North and South: the North keeps the New Year's Eve, and the South surrounds the stove. In the south, there is a custom of surrounding the kitchen on New Year's Eve. After dinner, the family sat around the fire, eating melon seeds and watching TV. Talk about the ups and downs of the past year and the vision of the new year. In the north, on New Year's Eve, the whole family will sit around and watch the Spring Festival Gala while wrapping jiaozi. For good luck, northerners often wrap coins, sugar, peanuts, dates, chestnuts and minced meat together in New Year's jiaozi. 3, the first day: set off firecrackers to celebrate the New Year, the difference between the north and the south: the north eats jiaozi, the south makes rice cakes, and the north pays attention to eating jiaozi on the first day, which means "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, and making friends". Because the shape of jiaozi is quite like an ingot, after cooking, the pots on the table symbolize the good omen of "making a fortune in the New Year, and the ingot is rolling"; In the south, most people make rice cakes and glutinous rice balls. The new year cake is homophonic "high year", which means good luck. Tangyuan is also called "Tuanzi" and "Zi Yuan", which means "family reunion". 4, the second day: the difference between the north and the south: the north eats noodles, and the south eats the New Year's Eve "Jiaozi first day and second day", which means that noodles are smooth and the method of mixing noodles is also very particular. From the first day, jiaozi noodles must be made, and this kind of noodles must be cold soup, that is, the noodles are cooked and soaked in cold water, which is called cold soup. In the south, Guangdong, Macao and other regions have to have a New Year's Eve dinner on the second day of junior high school, especially business people. In addition to the well-meaning first dish that must be eaten at the New Year's Eve, some families will chop some barbecue and take red skin as a symbol of health. Some people will put Flammulina velutipes and lettuce together, which means "wealth" and "money everywhere". 5. The fifth day: There are many villains, welcoming the god of wealth, and the difference between the north and the south: firecrackers are set off in the north, and dividends are distributed in the south. It is called "ghost collapse" to set off firecrackers after the shops in some areas in the north open, and the bad luck in the past collapses away. In addition, during the New Year, there will be performances such as dancing yangko and walking on stilts in the north. Dragon and lion dances will be staged in the south, but no matter what kind of celebration, it is to make us have a happier and more peaceful Spring Festival! In the south, people who do business on the fifth day of the fifth year should worship God to open a shop, and big schools are for employees.