What is the New Year's custom in Taizhou?

Taizhou New Year's Eve Customs:

One, twenty-three to send the God of the stove

This custom has been rare, the earth stove basically disappeared, all use gas stove, except for remote mountainous countryside, basically can not be found in other places, so this custom is also disappeared.

Second, 234 dusting congestion

Households dusted congestion, from the inside out, to clean the house, to welcome the arrival of the new year, this custom in the countryside is still circulating.

Three, twenty-six kill pigs cut meat

This custom is not all of Taizhou, some places are twenty-six please teacher, Linhai Daitian called twenty-six Daitian City, Wenling is twenty-six grams (go to) to catch the market and so on. This custom can still be seen, but it is rare.

Four, twenty-seven pounded mochi

This is the custom of Wenling and Sanmen. Mochi is very fragrant and delicious, this is the practice of mochi: fire, and then processed, placed in the stone mortar, manual processing, processing, put the pine flowers, and finally cut into small pieces of small pieces can be.

The rice cake here and usually said that the machine made rice cakes and supermarkets are not the same, this rice cake pounded on the table after the hand kneaded, kneaded to the solid until, Wenling inlaid cake also retained this craft, the production of a variety of shapes of small animals and so on. Used to thank the year and set up three boundaries.

Five, twenty-eight thanks to the New Year

Thanks to the New Year twenty-four start to thirty can be, in the yellow calendar to choose a suitable day, figure an auspicious. "Thank you for the year" activities are very solemn. Ceremony held in the hall, the table from two tables spliced from the eight immortal table, lit a pair of large red candles, incense burner inserted incense. Preside over the ceremony of the elders first to the ancestors kneeling, reciting words, hands together blessing, and then by the younger generation in turn kneeling salute, but also to the heaven and earth incense standing worship.

Sixth, New Year's Eve, the first day of the Lunar New Year

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, men, women and children wearing new clothes, groups of people to go to the temple to burn incense, excursions, and firecrackers. The first meal to eat cooking rice, that is, made of glutinous rice, glutinous rice on top, below the water cooking. Taking the meaning of prosperity. People meet and say congratulations, fortune, happy new year and other auspicious words. Suburban farmers in groups to the city to explore activities or visit friends and relatives.