A Brief Introduction to the Chinese New Year Customs in Zhuhai

Li's "Notes on South Vietnam: Yuan Yen" says: Pay New Year greetings on Yuan Day, set off firecrackers, fry white cakes and drink white wine. Lights are lit and fires are lit on Lunar New Year's Eve. Ten set off fireworks and five set off flower tubes. A wanderer leads his sleeve like a fragrant tube, and plays eighteen leisure for pleasure. Inside and outside the city, there are the lion dance team 100 team to which Long Luan belongs, and the men's and women's team 100 team as storytellers. They are land dragon boats with a length of more than ten feet, and the wheels rotate. Everyone is wearing robes and hats, holding flags, playing drums and dancing lanterns on them.

Notes on South Vietnam summarizes the Cantonese New Year customs in the Pearl River Delta region, including Zhuhai. Besides paying New Year greetings, setting off firecrackers, eating rice cakes and fried dumplings, family reunions, offering sacrifices to the gods and posting Spring Festival couplets. Zhuhai pays more attention to the Lantern Festival in the New Year, which is a day for dancing lions, dragons and phoenixes, decorating children and men, and marching with eight tones of gongs and drums. This is also the reason for the annual Zhuhai Lantern Festival parade.