What are the customs of Anhui people on New Year's Eve?

Anhui Chinese New Year customs:

1.

The whole family is not allowed to eat breakfast and lunch on the 30th day of the New Year, only allowed to eat a New Year's Eve dinner. For the New Year's Eve dinner, there must be a plate of fresh fish, but no one is allowed to eat this plate of fresh fish (which means that there will be more than enough for every year), and only after the third day of the Lunar New Year can you eat this plate of fish with chopsticks, and everyone has to have a bite. Eat New Year's Eve dinner is not allowed to talk (meaning burying the head of great wealth), eat New Year's Eve dinner must leave some rice in the bowl of the New Year's Eve on the 30th, the first day, the second day, the third day, four days do not re-open the pot to cook, which is also a characteristic of the local New Year's Eve customs.

2. "yuanbao" placed on the threshold.

Opening the door to a big fortune, "Yuanbao" rolled in, in Feixi, Lu'an area by the local people interpretation of the living. After twelve o'clock on the night of New Year's Eve, the people who are "keeping the New Year's Eve" have closed their doors. Local custom is to close the door after the door can not be opened again, even if there are people outside knocking on the door, not until the first morning of the new year, burn incense, burning candles, and then open the door to firecrackers.

3. The New Year's dinner is eaten at noon.

In many rural villages in Dingyuan County, the New Year is celebrated in different ways. Here, what is often called the "New Year's Eve dinner" is eaten at noon on New Year's Eve. In Dingyuan County, many rural areas, has always been the New Year's Day at noon to eat New Year's Eve dinner. Many families in order to "rush early", some less than 11:00 a.m., began to paste the Spring Festival couplets, firecrackers, eat "New Year's Eve dinner".

4. Before you eat, make offerings to your ancestors.

Lujiang where the New Year, can still feel the rich local characteristics of the New Year's Eve. Lunar New Year's Eve lunch, adults will take children to the ancestral tomb to burn paper. Before the New Year's Eve dinner, the oldest person of the same family name calls his children and grandchildren to the ancestral hall to pay homage to their ancestors, meaning that they will not forget their ancestors on New Year's Day, and then they set up a table with food and wine, and then they kowtow one by one in accordance with the size of the family's generation, and after they have finished all these things, they can only go back to their respective homes to eat New Year's Eve dinner.

5. Make reunion cakes.

Bengbu region has a custom, the New Year's Day, every family steamed steamed buns, steamed pot after pot, steamed in the grain bucket. Years ago when the steamed buns will be steamed on a one-foot square cake, locals called reunion cake. The cake is usually stacked 3 three or four layers, above the flour to make a pair of small dragons, heralding the children can become a dragon into a phoenix; with lotus seeds, jujubes and other embellishments, there is an early birth of noble children, red hot meaning. Steam reunion cake, children are never allowed to intervene, steamed, to be placed on the family grain hoard, but also to celebrate the meaning of the harvest.