What are the flavors of the New Year in Sichuan?

Killing the New Year Pig

In Sichuan, there is an annual pig-killing festival to kill the New Year pig and welcome the New Year. Every year in the winter month of the lunar calendar (Nong November), it comes to the peak of the killing of pigs, the villagers fed for half a year of fat pigs, are in the yard into the New Year's New Year's goods. In fact, in the Sichuan countryside are generally, kill the pig good New Year, the old people often say, out of the cut work of the children of the children to come back, quickly kill the pig in the New Year's well!

Sausage and bacon

In Sichuan, when it comes to the most New Year's food, sausage and bacon can certainly enter the top three. At the end of the year, walking along the streets of Sichuan, many people have strings of red sausages and cured bacon hanging in front of their windows, which is a great sight to see.

Lantern Festival

Every year in the Spring Festival, everyone is trying to find and create a strong flavor of the year, lanterns has been the necessary reservation of the New Year, and in Sichuan, the most famous is the Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival. Zigong Lantern Festival, renowned, as early as in the Tang and Song dynasties Zigong has the custom of New Year's viewing lanterns.

Hanging lanterns

Lanterns are a symbol of celebration for the Chinese people, and on the eve of the Spring Festival the streets and alleys are hung with red lanterns. Lanterns should be hung in pairs First of all, hanging lanterns must be in pairs, Chinese people are fond of even numbers. And whether it is hung in the door or balcony, must be 2, 6, 8 these numbers. Because as the saying goes, good things come in pairs, good fortune and longevity.

Walking in temples

Walking in temples to pray for good luck is an essential activity on New Year's Day. There are many kinds of temple fairs and related activities all over Sichuan, and the Chengdu Temple Fair is one of the largest and most lively in Sichuan. Chengdu people must participate in the Spring Festival every year, a collective family activities, temple fair has become a lot of people in Chengdu tour of the tradition of the God side.

Playing mahjong

During the Spring Festival vacation, in addition to eating, drinking, grabbing red envelopes, and dating, you must also be surrounded by the sound of "clattering, clattering, clattering, clattering, clattering, clattering, clattering, clattering, clattering, clattering, clattering, clattering" mahjong playing. Many people can hear the sound of mahjong, accompanied by tea and sweets.

Rice candy

Rice candy, one of Sichuan's New Year's snacks, is mostly handmade in rural areas and purchased directly in the city, and is made of pressed peanuts and sesame seeds and rice flowers, making it a crunchy and tasty treat that children love.

Preparing for New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is a rare meal; New Year's Eve is a long time to try on new clothes and finally buy them; New Year's Eve is a child's pockets of red and green fruit candy; New Year's Eve is a grandmother has been unable to buy a small felt hat. The New Year's shopping is the most important thing for the common people to do in the New Year!