What are the customs and habits of southerners during the Spring Festival?

Southerners have many customs when celebrating the New Year. Here are some common customs:

1. Post Spring Festival couplets: Before the Chinese New Year, every household will post Spring Festival couplets. There are auspicious couplets written on the Spring Festival couplets, which symbolize good luck and good wishes for the New Year.

2. Sweep away the dust and get rid of the old: Before the Chinese New Year, every household will do a general cleaning and clean the room, which means getting rid of the bad luck and unhappiness of one year and welcoming the new year.

3. Put up New Year pictures: In the south, people like to put up New Year pictures to decorate their rooms. New Year pictures are painted with auspicious patterns and animals, such as fish and bats, symbolizing happiness and good luck.

4. Eat New Year's Eve: When southerners celebrate the New Year, the whole family will get together for New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve dinner is usually colorful, with fish, shrimp, meat and other delicious food, which means reunion and harvest.

5. Shounian: On New Year's Eve, southerners will keep vigil until the New Year's bell rings. In birthday celebrations, family members play games, chat and watch programs such as the Spring Festival Evening to welcome the arrival of the New Year.

6. Setting off firecrackers: During the Chinese New Year, southerners like to set off firecrackers to drive away evil spirits and bad luck, and at the same time express their warm welcome to the New Year.

7. New Year greetings: During the New Year in China, people will extend New Year greetings to each other and their elders, relatives and friends, wishing them a happy New Year, good health and all the best.

These are some exquisite customs of southerners during the Spring Festival. Every custom implies auspiciousness and happiness, adding a festive atmosphere to the New Year.