What are the New Year's Eve customs in Shanxi?

Shanxi New Year's Eve customs:

1, cleaning home

Lunar New Year's Eve 24 or 25, many people began to clean their homes, sweeping all the dust in the house, and then white clay mud painting two to three times. This is a way for people to get rid of the unpleasantness of the year and to welcome the new year with a new clean home.

2, do tofu, washing clothes

The two things to be completed before the Lunar New Year's Eve, do the tofu from the Lunar New Year's Eve to be eaten around the 15th day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, before the Lunar New Year's Eve, all the clothes in the house to be washed, to welcome the new year. To show respect for the new year.

3, stick spring couplets

Lunar New Year's Eve between 28 and 29, to put the spring couplets, out of the doorway is generally "out of the door to see the joy", the roof is "head up to see the joy of the" and other spring couplets, year after year, simple and honest couplets, representing people's good news for the new year. It represents people's longing and desire for good things and happy events in the new year.

4, burning fire, firecrackers

The first day of the first month of the morning at five to six o'clock, people in their own homes in the yard piled up a pile of firewood to ignite, known as burning fire, heralding the new year red hot. Also firecrackers, firecrackers, also known as firecrackers, Chinese folk "open door firecrackers" said.

5, wash the fortune

The capital has "27 wash guilt, 28 wash sloppy" proverb. In Shanxi's traditional folklore, but also in these two days to focus on bathing, laundry, remove the bad luck of the year, ready to meet the next year's New Year, known as the "wash Fulu".