What are the Spring Festival customs in Anhui?

Anhui's New Year customs include New Year greetings, beating gongs and drums, Nuo opera and so on.

1, Wuhu-no more than five yards for New Year greetings.

Wuhu people's Spring Festival includes sending stoves, New Year's Eve, celebrating the Spring Festival in Zheng Dan, welcoming the God of Wealth and other activities. In the past, Wuhu people used to worship their ancestors before New Year's Eve. If you are in the countryside, you will also send a pot of delicious food to the cows who have worked hard for a year to show comfort. Wuhu has always been a "New Year's Eve". From the first day to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, friends and relatives will visit each other to congratulate each other. When friends and relatives come to visit, housewives will make tea and take out boxes containing snacks such as jade belt cakes, longan, crisp sugar, peanuts and melon seeds.

2, Chizhou-gongs and drums dance Nuo opera.

The streets of Chizhou are full of Nuo culture, and Nuo art itself and cultural connotation are deeply rooted in people's hearts. In Yaojie Village, Mei Jie Town, in the first month, gongs and drums are loud in the ancestral hall village, and birds are singing and flowers are fragrant. After working in the fields for a year, the farmers washed the socks of Nuo dance noodles and invited the villagers who inherited the skills from the clan to give a vivid performance. This ancient folk culture, which aims at asking God to worship ancestors and exorcise evil spirits, once again exudes a long-lost vitality.

The customs of the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, with a century as the first and four seasons as the first. New Year's greeting activities are centered on offering wishes and praying for blessings, and are carried out in the form of eliminating the old, worshipping ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and praying for a bumper harvest. The content is rich and colorful, vivid and festive, and the annual flavor is rich, which embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization. During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations will be held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, the content or details of customs are also different.

Chinese New Year has a long history, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the process of inheritance and development. Many of them have been passed down to this day, such as buying new year's goods, sweeping dust, posting New Year greetings, eating New Year's Eve, celebrating New Year's Eve, dancing dragons and lions, worshipping ancestors, praying for disaster relief, worshiping gods, racing boats, temple fairs, playing gongs and drums, holding cursor flags and offering lanterns and wine. Traditional festival ceremonies and related custom activities are important contents of festival elements, bearing rich and colorful festival cultural connotations.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Anhui Province