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What are the Chinese New Year customs in Guangdong?

Before New Year's Eve in Guangdong, people are busy preparing all kinds of new year's goods, buying chickens, ducks and fish, and buying new clothes. Newly bought 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.

Families who go out on New Year's Eve have to rush home for reunion. On New Year's Eve, the whole family sat around the fire and had a reunion dinner. After dinner, adults give "lucky money" to children and their parents. At night, the farmer's water tank should be full of water, the rice tank should be full of rice, and the lights can't go out, which symbolizes the good omen of "more than one year old" and "more than one year old".

Guangdong characteristics

The land area of Guangdong Province is 179800 square kilometers, accounting for about 1.87% of the national land area. Among them, the island area 1592.7 square kilometers, accounting for about 0.89% of the province's land area. There are 759 islands with a coastal area of more than 500 square meters in the province (due to historical reasons, dongsha islands is controlled by the authorities of Taiwan Province Province), ranking third in China after Zhejiang and Fujian provinces.

There are also 163 1 reef opening and dry reef. The coastline of the whole province is 3368. 1 km. According to the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea that the territorial sea, continental shelf and exclusive economic zone are under the jurisdiction of coastal countries, the total sea area of the province is 410.9 million square kilometers.

Guangdong Province is located at the southernmost tip of Chinese mainland. It borders Fujian in the east, Jiangxi and Hunan in the north, Guangxi in the west and the South China Sea in the south. The east and west sides of the Pearl River Estuary border Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions respectively, and the Leizhou Peninsula in the southwest faces Hainan Province across the Qiongzhou Strait.

The whole territory is located between 2013 ′ ~ 25 31′ north latitude and 0/09 39 ′ ~19 ′ east longitude. It starts from Chizai Island, Nanpeng Islands, Nan 'ao County in the east and reaches Liangpo Village, Jijia Town, Leizhou City in the west, with an east-west span of about 800 kilometers. It starts from Shang 'ao Village, Baishi Township, Lechang County in the north and ends at Dengloujiao, Jiaowei Township, xuwen county in the south, with a total length of about 600 kilometers.