Festival customs in Hakka customs

Traditional Hakka festivals include Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, June 6th, Mid-Autumn Festival, Winter Solstice and seeing off the Kitchen God. Spring Festival is a big festival, with abundant new year's goods, mostly bacon, jiaozi, fried peanuts and so on. On the first day of the first month, you can't kill anything. You should light a lamp and say auspicious words. You should usually go back to your home for dinner. It's also the day to go back to my parents' home in the New Year. The most important entertainment in the Spring Festival is lion dancing to celebrate the New Year. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, Hakkas like to make dumplings and have a big meal. "February stove", cooking glutinous rice, killing chickens and worshipping the kitchen king, a bumper harvest in a year, a great success. Tomb-Sweeping Day in March is a traditional grave-sweeping festival. Cooking sweet glutinous rice, preparing tables and wine, visiting ancestral graves, and adding dishes at will by Hakkas can also be regarded as a festival. Dragon Boat Festival, jiaozi. On June 6th, prepare the dining tables. Mid-Autumn Festival, the second festival of the year, kills chickens, ducks and fish. Daughters, son-in-law and relatives will come back to visit the old man and have a good time. Mid-Autumn Festival, prepare fruits and moon cakes to enjoy the moon. Double Ninth Festival, go out and climb high. On the solstice of winter, eat a dumpling bigger than jiaozi, wrapped in glutinous rice flour and stuffed with fish, pork and diced radish. The day when the Kitchen God was sent away, that is, December 23rd (the lunar calendar), was also a festival. On New Year's Eve, the Hakka family stopped working, collected all the harvest of the year and had a grand reunion dinner. All the family members who work outside will come back for reunion.