What are the customs and traditions of the Chinese New Year in Yimeng Mountain?

Entering the waxing moon basically began to busy, adults and children should buy clothes to do the clothes also began to buy a fruit, red jujubes can not be avoided.

Then 16 or so grinding wheat, hope that the surface is a little white a little fine, so that the steamed buns look good,

20 after cleaning the house began to do steamed buns, flower biscuits, rice cakes.

Previously do tofu, now basically buy,

General family relatives discussed *** with the slaughter of the pig together with a share of the food, but also like to have a set of goods (pig entrails limbs, etc.)

Lunar New Year's Day on the 23rd, for the God of the stove in the evening, every household firecrackers,*** some of the fruit plate class.

After the New Year's Eve, the family's vegetables, meat and fish are all ready.

26Noodles

28Laiba congee

29-30Meat is usually boiled, meat fried and fish fried.

After frying, we bring firecrackers and incense and make offerings to the ancestors' graves.

30Put up couplets. Put up the God of Stove and so on,

Wrapping dumplings, usually in the afternoon when the dumplings are finished, put a firecracker to show that the dumplings are finished. The leftover noodles are left on purpose to show that there will be fish in the New Year.

At 7-8 p.m. on the evening of the 30th of the year, all the dumplings are ready, and then the party begins.

The hostess prepares the offerings, and the host prepares a table of good food, including pork and fish.

All the gods and goddesses in the family are offered, and in the yard there are seats for the gods and goddesses of heaven and earth, the god of the stove, etc. Tea and wine are served in rounds.

Waiting for 12 o'clock, one person in the house to watch TV, one person outside to prepare, countdown to the firecrackers, the hostess this time to send the money posted in advance two, Yuanbao. When we have New Year's Eve dinner together, we greet each other, and the parents give the children their New Year's money.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, we prepare the clothes for the New Year's Eve ceremony. The lights stay on all night.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, dumplings are eaten all day long.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the host's uncle visits his family

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the host goes to his father-in-law's house

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the host's aunts visit his family

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the host wraps up dumplings and sets off firecrackers to send the gods back to heaven.

Visiting relatives is also not strict

On the 15th day, we set off fireworks, eat Lantern Festival, and offer incense.

After fifteen years, it's all over

And that's about it.