Customs of Spring Festival in Xinji, Hebei Province

During the Spring Festival, Xinji has many customs. When it comes to food, there are many kinds, such as a pot, meatballs, diced Chinese chives and diced jiaozi, and meat pies. But when it comes to the indispensable dish of New Year's Eve, it is the pot.

Yipin pot, as a famous local dish in Xinji, is famous for its long history and fine production. In the past, the full name of Yipin Pot was Yuanyang meatball Yipin Pot, which had a good meaning. Coupled with the balanced combination of meat and vegetables, it is fragrant and delicious, and it has become a big dish for Xinji people in the New Year.

You can't use a broom during the Spring Festival, otherwise it will sweep your luck and break your money. If you must sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside to the inside. Until today, many places have the custom of cleaning before New Year's Eve. On New Year's Day, don't put brooms, don't take out garbage, prepare a big bucket of waste water, and don't spill it outside that day.

On the second day of New Year's Day, the married daughter goes back to her parents' house and asks her husband to go with her, so it is commonly known as "husband-welcoming day". On this day, the daughter who goes back to her parents' house must bring some gifts and red envelopes to her children and have lunch at her parents' house, but she must get back to her husband's house before dinner.

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, commonly known as "Breaking Five", it is necessary to "drive out five poverty", including "intellectual poverty, academic poverty, literary poverty, life poverty and friendship poverty". People get up at dawn, set off firecrackers and clean up. Firecrackers are set from the inside out, and as soon as they are set, they go outside the door. It is said that anything unlucky will be blown out.