Xiamen Spring Festival customs

Wucheng County on New Year's Day with a long pole bundle of grass on, light a fire, and beat a gong and drums, known as the "Celebration of silkworms". And point lanterns on the pole, until March 3 stop. Ningbo on New Year's Day after ancestor worship to eat beans porridge. Before closing the door at night, and then in a "door cannon". Shaoxing New Year's Day to "tea bowl tea" hospitality, which should be added to the olive and kumquat, while using tea eggs hospitality, known as "holding Yuanbao".

Fujian Province

Xiamen people on New Year's Day, before going out, have to pray to the Jade Emperor, known as the "sacrifice". Early in the morning with flowers and fruits, midday sacrifice to the gods with sacrificial wine, and a bowl of spring rice. Spring rice is on the white rice inserted with red paper made of spring flowers. Min Yin "spring" and "leftover" resonance, spring rice is to take its "year after year" of good taste color. Zhangzhou on the fourth day of the year is called "picking up", in addition to burning incense in the temple, but also to prepare a box of sweets and cakes, called "recommend the box", for the hall to welcome the gods down.

Guangdong Province

Hai Feng area, the juniors to the elders to congratulate the New Year, the elders will be rewarded with red envelopes or mandarin oranges to the juniors. The Spring Festival festivals in Chaozhou include vegetable kuey teow, rotting dumplings, leavened buns, pipe-frying, and five-fruit soup. On the fourth night of the first day of the Lunar New Year, every family has to light a lamp and prepare a jar of water, which is called "Waiting for God's Water". Dongguan on the first day of the first month of sacrifice to the gods, to provide sugar on the boiled taro, called the "rich and powerful".

Jiangsu Province

Jiangning County on New Year's Day, your family in front of the door of the room stickers painted rooster. Wu County, more than on New Year's Day to the Tongyuan Temple worship Guanyin Daishi. Suzhou custom: New Year's Day early in the morning to open the door to the three firecrackers, called the "high rise three levels". Early in the morning to go out, to follow the direction specified in the yellow calendar, called the "happy God side". And to the city god, land and other temples to burn incense, must have gone through ten temples are stopped, called "burning ten temple incense. From New Year's Day to New Year's Eve, whether or not to burn huge coal in the fireplace is called "Joy Dumpling". According to the legend of Junan people, eating soup dumplings can receive the God of Fortune, so from the early morning of the first day of the New Year, the soup dumplings started to be placed, and until the Lantern Festival, there are soup dumplings to be eaten every day. Women in Wujin County cut pine and cypress branches on New Year's Day, wrap them around red silk and wear them in their hair buns, which is said to promote longevity.

Sichuan

Chengdu people do not eat on New Year's Day, because the "rice" and "criminal", homophonic, in order to avoid taboo, it is to eat dumplings or noodles to pray for family reunion, longevity. Liu Ge and other places on the seventh day of the first month "people day" but also "a small year", in addition to honoring the gods, ancestors, but also ate New Year's dinner. Chengdu people are in the western suburbs of Du Fu Cao Tang tour. Longevity County on New Year's Day, outside the door burning nine wax candles, known as "nine candles," to honor heaven and earth.

Shanxi Province

Fuping County, each clan draws portraits of their ancestors and gathers their children and grandchildren to worship on New Year's Day, and then contributes to a feast after the sacrifice, which is known as the "Festival of Sitting". On the second day of the month, the relatives and friends will give each other pasta and pork, known as "worship festival". Gao Ling County on New Year's Day, a wait until dawn that is hanging yellow paper on bamboo poles to sacrifice to the sky, known as "catching the sky god". And charcoal hanging in the door, it is said to be able to go to the plague. Shiquan County to yellow paper for money, New Year's Day colorful hanging in the door, called "Bao Gai money. Lintong County to the first five for the "Send Poor Festival", after the family cut paper people, get the door to throw away. Each person must be full that day, known as "fill five poor".

Shandong Province

Ningyang County on New Year's Day to eat wontons, known as "fill the warehouse", Huang County, Penglai area, the New Year's Day, get up early to take a picture of the virtual consumption. By the hostess holding a red candle, all corners of the home to shine again, meaning that the light to expel the darkness, and then will be years ago to flour made of all kinds of window flowers on the windowsill. When children get up, they have to climb the door hitch to play three swings, which is said to make them grow faster. Some areas to cook dumplings with sesame straw fire, meaning that the new year like sesame flowers, rising, after the meal in the pot to be put on the steamed bread, meaning that there is a "surplus head". Jiaodong's new daughter-in-law the first year to her husband's grandfather's home to pay homage, known as "Zagan". It is said that to the grandfather's home, you can put the root of Za down, there will be no divorce and early widowhood. In the old days, there is also the custom of "sending poor" on the fifth day of the month. The day of worship, to firecrackers to show that "catch five poor". Qufu in the first five to do "Wenquxing will", the fifth night, students should go to the teacher's home, to the statue of Confucius incense worship. Then by the teacher to do an essay, completed by the teacher it burned off, called "Wenquxing will".

Old Beijing

Lunar New Year's Day

Since the beginning of the month of Lunar New Year, there have been literati writing Spring Festival couplets under the eaves of marketplaces in an attempt to earn some silver for the New Year. After the sacrificial stove, the new spring couplets gradually sticky hanging, thousands of households, a new look. Some people with Zhu paper, some with red paper, only the inner court and the royal family princes and so on routinely use white paper, set with red and blue edges, not the clan shall not be unauthorized use.

Lunar New Year will be bundled up in a belly in a small apparatus, placed in the ground five feet or so, burning fire, so that the ground slightly warm, the plum blossoms will gradually put back to the white, with a cage of paper, to the market to sell, small peach, Yu Li, Yingchun can be so. In the prosperous areas, they set up mats and scaffolds to sell paintings. Women and children compete to buy, for fun.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the street sells congee fruit rows into the market. More walnuts, persimmons, jujube, chestnut, dried lingjiao rice people, shoulder basket storage, called and sold. Next, there were fat pheasants, Guandong fish, wild cats, wild rasps, preserved meat, iron bird, deep-fried noodle cake, big Buddha flower, doo light thousand sheets, and floor zhuangyuanbao. After the 10th day of the lunar month, they sell guard paintings, door gods, hanging money, gold and silver foils, ingot and yellow money, pin gold inverted you, horse burnt paper, glass mirrors, and window eyes. After the 20th, they sell sugar melons, sugar cakes, glutinous rice and bamboo cakes, Guandong sugar. Bad grass copied beans, is the 23rd to send the stove when the supply of the gods and horses. There are also selling kilns, copper and silver for porcelain bowls, the capital of the incense burner candlestick; smothered gourd, children to save money; support pots and pans, the stove used to help Cuan. To the 25th after the sale of sesame straw, pine and cypress branches, South Cangzhu for the "simmering years" of use. Lunar month, the price of all things are more expensive than the weekdays, so there is a "Lunar month, the soil and water expensive three proverb. Elderly people to this time, always want to advise the younger generation to spend money carefully, so there is "twenty-seven or eighty-eight, flat to take the product grasp" of the proverb.