What are the customs and habits of celebrating the Spring Festival in different parts of China?

In Shandong, making jiaozi and frying New Year's Eve is an important annual activity. After breakfast, the female elders at home began to pack jiaozi, and the male elders began to fry the New Year's Eve. There is also a special custom here, which is to mix more noodles when wrapping jiaozi. After wrapping jiaozi, be sure to leave some noodles and knead them into an oval shape, symbolizing "great gold ingot", which means that the financial resources will be abundant in the coming year.

Anhui province

Worship ancestors, most places in Anhui are on holiday in the 24th lunar month, so it is not too late to go to the grave to worship ancestors a few days before and after the twelfth lunar month. Twenty-six, killing the pig, every household in rural areas will kill the pig on the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, and then cook rich food to entertain the villagers. Now they basically buy meat. BBK will eat BBK, steamed at home, or bought cakes on the New Year's Day, no matter what kind, you will eat one or two pieces.

Henan Province

"Twenty-three, the kitchen sacrifice officer; Twenty-four, sweeping the house; Twenty-five, grinding bean curd; Twenty-six, cut meat; Twenty-seven, kill a chicken; Twenty-eight, steamed jujube flowers; Twenty-nine, go to play wine; Thirty children, holding their noses (jiaozi); On the first day, I squatted on my hips. "

Hubei province

Tuanfeng people drink chicken soup for the first meal of the Spring Festival, symbolizing "Taiping Qingling". Among them, the main labor force also eats chicken feet, which means "grasping wealth in the New Year", and "promising young people" eats chicken wings, which means that they can fly high and their families eat chicken bones, which means "getting ahead". Zigui people eat fried Artemisia annua for the first meal, and take its homonym "Bai Hao" for good luck. Jingzhou, Shashi area, the first meal to eat eggs, meaning "true, auspicious." In case of guests, eat two half-cooked "poached eggs", and you can see the yolk through the protein, which means "gold is covered with silver, gold is covered with silver, and gold is covered with silver".

Sichuan Province

Sichuanese attach great importance to the Lunar New Year. Every household hangs lanterns, sticks up gates and writes auspicious words on granaries and livestock columns to show a bumper harvest in the coming year. Hakka towns and villages with conditions should play lantern dance in1-February. There are dragon lanterns, lion lanterns and clam lanterns, which are the custom of lanterns handed down by Sichuan people in their original places. In addition, there will be a large-scale celebration-dragon dance, which can be divided into colorful dragons, fire dragons, water dragons, disjointed dragons and Shangchuan dragons.

Yunnan Province

There is also a very important role on the dinner table of the old Kunming New Year's Eve, a complete fish. Rich people usually choose very large fish, carp and grass carp, whether braised or steamed, as long as they are intact. Eating fish in the New Year is in line with China people's good wishes for the coming year-more than a year and a rich life.

Guizhou (province)

China New Year is the Spring Festival. A few days before the festival, families brewed yellow and white rice wine and prepared delicious rice, wheat, bait and oatmeal fried noodles. The day before the festival, two lighted incense sticks and two pine branches were inserted in front of the ancestral tablet, and a small pine tree was planted in the yard, which was called a memorial to the tree god. After that, kill the chicken and cook the chicken, offering sacrifices to ancestors and pot farmers, asking them to bless the bumper harvest in the coming year and the safety of the whole family. The next day, we will have a New Year's Eve dinner with pure water, and hold horse racing, target shooting, wrestling, high jump, kicking blankets and other activities. The mountains will be full of songs and joy. On the fourth day, after the sacrifice, we should send our ancestors back.

Hunan

Taking a bath on New Year's Eve, in addition to cleaning at home, individuals should also clean well before the arrival of the new year, wash away the bad luck and unhappiness of the old year and welcome the new year with a brand-new attitude.

Guangxi

According to the unique custom of the Zhuang nationality in the Spring Festival, we should carry out activities such as picking fresh water, drinking spiritual water, dancing lions, jumping chickens and jumping spring cows. From 0: 00 on the first day, every household sets off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. On the second day of junior high school, relatives and friends exchange visits with gifts to "celebrate the New Year", light lanterns at night on the fifteenth Lantern Festival, and hold temple fairs in the sixteenth countryside.

Guangdong

In some areas, the first meal of the Spring Festival is to eat "grain for ten thousand years", that is, to prepare enough meals for the whole family for three days of the Spring Festival, which means "don't worry about eating or drinking". Before New Year's Eve, people are busy preparing all kinds of new year's goods: buying chicken, duck and fish; Add new clothes; Newly purchased furniture and appliances; Buy New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets, etc. I especially want to buy oranges, green olives and other fruits as auspicious symbols. Welcome friends and relatives. Before the Chinese New Year, men want a new haircut and women want to "pull their faces". Nowadays, most women have haircuts and beauty treatments.

Jiangxi

Hanghua Street, according to the customs of past dynasties, holds the annual Lunar New Year Fair every Spring Festival. The Chinese New Year's Eve flower market usually starts about ten days before the Spring Festival and ends at twelve o'clock on the 30th. New Year's Eve is the climax of the Chinese New Year's Eve flower market. The closer it is to the first day of the Lunar New Year, the more popular it is. The flower market sells flowers, oranges and handicrafts.

Fujian Province

From the 27th to 29th of the twelfth lunar month, it is the time for Guanzhong people to steam steamed bread. Every household should steam a lot of steamed bread and prepare steamed bread. There are three kinds of steamed buns: one is the "big steamed bread" that the daughter-in-law wants to bring to her family, which is shaped like a snail's shell and filled with stuffing mixed with vegetable oil, dried noodles and chopped green onion; One is a "small steamed bun" for distant relatives who don't move much, which is shaped like a water chestnut; In addition, steamed bread eaten at home is made into the shapes of various auspicious animals, such as tigers, birds and fish. Red dots will be painted on the top surface of steamed stuffed buns to symbolize good luck. These steamed buns should be eaten after the fifteenth day of the first month, and there is a custom of "not rolling noodles before the fifteenth day of the first month".

Zhejiang Province

Setting off firecrackers: In the early morning of the first day of junior high school, the first thing for every household is to set off firecrackers. The whole city is full of firecrackers, which symbolizes sending off the old and welcoming the new, and receiving blessings, commonly known as "receiving the year". It is also customary to play "opening the door". Generally, a string of small firecrackers is put first, which is called the "Hundred Zi Gun". Two firecrackers were set off again, and only three firecrackers were set off, indicating that the plague of one year can be lifted and the New Year is coming. It is the most auspicious thing to require three shots to ring, and the sound is loud and clear. The sooner the popular letters are typed, the better, which symbolizes that whatever you do casually this year will be smooth sailing, all your wishes will come true and farmers will have a bumper harvest.

Shanghai

Shanghainese will sacrifice to the city god on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, which is one of the major activities during the Spring Festival and has continued since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are two old customs that Shanghainese pay more attention to during the Spring Festival. One is to eat New Year's Eve dinner. The second is to visit the City God Temple. Shanghainese are very particular about New Year's Eve. Before entering the twelfth lunar month, they began to arrange everything, such as chicken, duck, fish, southern goods, northern goods, fruits, cakes, sweets and melon seeds. New Year's Eve dishes, fried, fried, stewed everything, color, fragrance, taste, shape perfect. Housewives show their talents, men go shopping, and the whole family is happy in the twelfth lunar month. Various auspicious languages can bring a warm atmosphere to the family.

Jiangsu Province

Suzhou people cooked water chestnuts in New Year's Eve meals and dug them out when eating, which is called "digging ingots". When visiting relatives and friends, you should put two green olives in your tea, which is called "Yuanbao Tea". Congratulations on getting rich.

Hainan

The first one is1February 24, when "bordeaux" was released. Legend has it that "Duke Zao" is a god sent by the Jade Emperor to supervise good and evil, and he reports to the Jade Emperor on this day every year. To this end, every household should use bamboo sticks or bamboo branches to clean the front, back, inside and outside, up and down of the house, and the incense burner should also be cleaned and replaced with new ashes. In the evening, wine and fruit were prepared as sacrifices to see "bordeaux" off.

Hong Kong

In recent years, few Hong Kong people put up Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures at home during the Lunar New Year. On the contrary, they posted "Prosperous Business" and "Safe Access" in some shops or homes. Even so, the original intention of posting Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures is the same as that of posting Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures. I hope everything will be smooth and safe in the coming year.

Taiwan Province Province, China

Because the ancestors of Bao residents (mostly Minnan and Hakkas) went to Taiwan Province to develop. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, compatriots in Taiwan Province Province should get dressed, provide livestock such as pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, fish and seafood at home, as well as offerings such as melons, sugar and fragrant tea, and then burn incense and set off firecrackers to see Kitchen God off, hoping that he would "speak well from heaven". From this day on, the "New Year" will begin.

Macao

On New Year's Eve, watching the Spring Festival and visiting the flower market are two major events for Macao people to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Watching New Year's Eve is playing mahjong, watching TV, catching up and chatting, and enjoying family happiness. Probably influenced by Christmas and Valentine's Day in the west, Macao people are scrambling to buy some auspicious flowers and trees to welcome the New Year, and now it has become a custom in Macao. Macau holds a flower market on Lunar New Year's Eve, mostly peach blossoms, daffodils, potted bamboos and potted oranges. Flowers are rich, wish peace and prosperity, and flowers are auspicious, which indicates a bright future in the new year. The flower market in Macao was held for three days, which brought endless comfort to Macao people who had been running around for a year.