Spring Festival custom in Chaoshan area

Stick couplets, door gods, set off firecrackers, eat New Year's Eve, give out lucky money and so on.

At the beginning of the new year, the first thing is to paste the door gods and couplets. On New Year's Eve (or 29th), every household goes to the streets to buy Spring Festival couplets, and those who are interested will also spread paper and splash ink to decorate the doors inside and outside the house.

The gatekeeper, it is said that Shen Tu and Lei Yu can catch ghosts.

Door couplets are developed from peach symbols. At first, people painted the portraits of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on mahogany boards and hung them on two doors. Later, the portrait was changed to "door" only.

In recent years, a traditional folk activity is to worship the god of wealth from 23:00 to 0:00 the next day. Supposedly, on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the immortals went to heaven, and all the immortals on earth went to heaven to "report their work". However, people prefer to believe that the God of Wealth still does not forget to benefit the world and send wealth to the world when the Spring Festival comes. So at this time, every family should pay homage. As a result, the midnight bell rang, firecrackers roared, and smoke curled up, as if auspicious clouds were auspicious. The cry of "God of Wealth has arrived" added a lot of excitement to this midnight.