What is the symbolism of the northern alternate year meal?

The symbolism of the northern next year's rice is that there are leftovers year after year.

It means that there is leftover rice every year, and you can't finish it all year round, and this year you can still eat the food of the past years. In order to express the meaning of year after year, of course, is a good wish, figure a lucky.

This pot of rice is generally cooked with a mixture of rice and millet, Beijing slang called "two rice", is to have yellow and white, which is called "gold and silver, gold and silver pot full of" "gold and silver rice!

In addition to the "two rice", the "two rice" is also called "gold".

What are the customs of New Year's Eve?

On New Year's Eve, red candles are lit in the center hall, kitchen and bedrooms, filling the house with red light. Children carry firecrackers on bamboo poles and set them off in the cleaned-up courtyard.

Firecrackers in addition to warding off evil spirits and drive away the shame, but also rendered the festival into a warm and prosperous atmosphere of red fire. Generally to ten o'clock light, after the birth of a person to the door to release a big firecracker, is considered to quit the year "closing gun".