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What is the custom of Hakka people celebrating the Spring Festival?

Hakka people celebrate the Spring Festival by buying new year's goods, sweeping away dust, posting New Year greetings, having a reunion dinner, observing the New Year, giving lucky money, paying New Year's greetings, dancing dragons and lions, worshipping gods and ancestors, praying for disaster relief, setting off firecrackers, setting off fireworks, worshiping gods, boating, temple fairs, playing gongs and drums, holding cursor flags, and putting lanterns to enjoy flowers.

Headed by the centennial festival, the Spring Festival has always been the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China. Hakka people who advocate tradition have strong feelings for Dragon House Spring Festival. Hakka people generally celebrate the Spring Festival in three stages. The first stage is1the preparation stage from February 24th to New Year's Eve, the New Year stage from the first day to the fifth day of the first month, and the afterglow stage from the sixth day to the Lantern Festival.

The annual leave begins on the 25th of February/KLOC-0. After the annual leave, farmers stop working in the fields, and those with big gongs and drums can start fighting. The sound of gongs and drums may be heard in every village. Every household began to prepare firewood, cooking oil and Chinese New Year food, and purchased pork, chickens and ducks, fried tofu, steamed rice cakes and preserved rice.