Anhui Spring Festival custom

(1) Anhui celebrates the Spring Festival, commonly known as the Spring Festival, with a strong festive atmosphere. No matter where your family is, you should go home and reunite with your relatives before New Year's Eve.

(2) New Year's Eve is the most abundant meal in a year. People in northern Anhui eat jiaozi, while people in central and southern Anhui set off firecrackers, put up Spring Festival couplets and worship their ancestors before eating. The ancestor worship ceremony is very particular. Serve first, 10 dishes, there must be chicken and fish.

(3) Before eating, the elders should wrap the money in red paper for each child, which is called "lucky money". After eating, the whole family will get together, chat while eating melon seeds, peanuts and candy, and watch CCTV's Spring Festival Gala until dawn. This is called "Shousui".

(4) After getting up early on New Year's Day, you should set off firecrackers when you open the door to worship heaven and earth. Some places are called door gods. Family members pay New Year greetings together, congratulate each other, eat dates, chestnuts, tea, eggs and longevity noodles, and then go out to pay New Year greetings to other elders.

(5) Don't sweep the floor on the first day, pour the tea into a specially prepared basin, which means don't sweep (sprinkle) money. There is generally no work on this day, so there is a saying that "thirty nights are busy and the first day is free".

PS: More Anhui customs are as follows:

Anhui Spring Festival custom 1. Eat only one meal during the Spring Festival.

In Shouxian County, on New Year's Eve, the whole family is not allowed to have breakfast and lunch, but only New Year's Eve.

To eat New Year's Eve, you must have a plate of fresh fish, but no one is allowed to eat this plate of fresh fish (meaning more than one year). You can't eat this plate of fish with chopsticks until New Year's Eve. Everyone should take a bite. Don't talk when eating New Year's Eve. Be sure to leave some rice in the bowl when eating New Year's Eve.

Cooking is not allowed on the 30th, 1st, 2nd and 3rd day of the lunar calendar, which is also a local custom in Shouxian County. So every family will cook a lot of meals on New Year's Eve, and some families try to cook as many meals as possible in the pot.

The New Year's Eve dinner is also very distinctive. After everyone eats the New Year's Eve dinner, the oldest person takes out the leftover rice and slowly cooks the crispy rice on the stove. About half an hour later, a whole pot of crispy rice was freshly baked. At this time, the old man piously put it on the rice shed with both hands (no one is allowed to eat it), which means a bumper harvest in the coming year.

Anhui Spring Festival Customs II. "Yuanbao" is placed on the threshold.

Opening the door to make a fortune, "Yuanbao" rolled in and was vividly interpreted by local people in Feixi and Lu 'an.

People who stay indoors after twelve o'clock on New Year's Eve. The local custom is that you can't open the door after closing it. Even if someone knocks at the door outside, you have to wait until the morning of New Year's Day, when you burn incense and light candles, and then open the door and shoot. During this period, some local busybodies put fake ingots on the threshold of the gate. These ingots are usually made of loess and have the same size and shape as real ingots. On the morning of New Year's Day, as soon as the host opened the door, "Yuanbao" rolled in. The layman was elated when he saw the "Yuanbao" and respectfully put it on the incense table. People who come to pay New Year greetings should say a few words of blessing. However, this "silver ingot" was not given away for nothing. After the fifteenth day of the first month, the givers will go door to door to ask for "lucky money".

Anhui Spring Festival Customs III. The New Year's Eve is eaten at noon.

In many rural areas of Dingyuan County, the methods of celebrating the New Year are different. Here, people often say that "New Year's Eve" is eaten at noon on New Year's Eve.

In many rural areas of Dingyuan County, it has always been New Year's Eve. In order to "grab the morning", many families began to paste Spring Festival couplets, set off firecrackers and eat "New Year's Eve" before 1 1 in the morning. Many businessmen are sometimes reluctant to change the "New Year's Eve" into a dinner party because of their good business. Some businessmen simply closed their business on New Year's Eve in order to catch the New Year's Eve, and the family began to prepare for the "New Year's Eve" at noon.

Anhui Spring Festival custom four, four o'clock in the morning "end the year".

In Susong, in the middle and late twelfth lunar month, the flavor of the year is getting stronger.

Susong has a folk song that children can sing from an early age. "Which day, which day, it's not windy, and it's twenty-four miles to meet the ancestors; Twenty-five, tofu; Twenty-six, chop the meat of the year; Twenty-seven, cooking; Twenty-eight, kill chickens and ducks; Twenty-nine, everything; Thirty nights, say good things, and don't swear the first day and the second day. " Susong's rice cakes are made of rice flour, steamed in a steamer, dried, soaked in water, and can be eaten in spring ploughing and transplanting. Carved in mahogany, there are ten thousand characters, happy characters, longevity characters, spring characters and blessing characters. People who have many children also carve peach blossom seals.

When it comes to eating New Year's Eve, most of Susong is the same as other parts of the country, but Susong Lake area near Donghong and Xiacang is a bit special: on the morning of New Year's Eve, firecrackers are set off at dawn, and families sit around the table to eat "New Year's Eve". The impatient family even finished the "New Year's Eve" at four o'clock.

Susong people's "off-year" is the seventh day of the first month. Off-year is very casual, and even after off-year, firecrackers are often set off at dusk. But the Lantern Festival is very grand. In the past, there was a saying that "farmers took off their bare feet after eating the meat of Yuanxiao", which meant that spring ploughing production began again.

Anhui Spring Festival Customs 5. Sacrifice your ancestors before eating.

Lujiang is there for the New Year, and you can still feel the rich local customs.

As soon as the New Year's Eve dinner was finished, the adults took their children to burn paper on their ancestral graves. Before the New Year's Eve dinner, old people with the same surname will call their children and grandchildren to the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors, which means that they will not forget their ancestors during the New Year. First, they will set a table and pour the wine. Then, they will kowtow one by one according to the size of the family. After all this, they can go home for New Year's Eve dinner.

Customs of Anhui Spring Festival VI. Reunion cake

There is a custom in Bengbu area. During the Chinese New Year, every family steamed big steamed buns, pot by pot, and put them in a basket full of food. Many years ago, when steaming steamed bread, every household steamed a foot-long Fiona Fang cake, which was called reunion cake by local people. Generally, the cake is stacked three or four times in a row, and a pair of little dragons are made of flour on it, indicating that children can become dragons. Decorate with lotus seeds, red dates, etc., meaning early birth and prosperity. Never allow children to intervene when steaming reunion cakes. After steaming, put it on your own grain depot, which also means to celebrate the harvest.

Anhui Spring Festival custom. Coins are put into flat food.

In Suzhou, people begin to prepare for the Spring Festival from the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. You also need to steam steamed bread and fry all kinds of small cakes. After the first pot of steamed bread is baked, firecrackers should be set off to worship the kitchen god. Have a reunion dinner at noon on New Year's Eve, and set off a string of firecrackers before dinner. The food is quite abundant, but you don't have to eat rice or porridge. Dinner is simple, just have some noodles or Yuanxiao. After dinner, I began to pinch flat food, and the whole family would cook it. Flat food is a vegetarian stuffing for breakfast on the first day of the lunar new year. Mainly vegetables, broken eggs, vermicelli, randomly put some coins in the bag, one yuan, ten cents, fifty cents. After eating the flat food, a family member will voluntarily "keep watch". Whoever eats a flat food with coins for breakfast on the first day of junior high school means that he is prosperous in this year. The bigger the face value of coins, the more money he earns.

In Suzhou, the New Year is held at the end of the year, and people visit relatives and friends with gifts. On the second day, the fourth day and the sixth day of the first month, the younger generation will also receive lucky money prepared in advance when they go to their elders' homes.

Anhui Spring Festival custom eight. Red candles are not allowed to go out.

In the rural areas of Fuyang, people celebrate the Lunar New Year with a traditional folk custom handed down from ancient times. From New Year's Eve to New Year's Day, two red candles are lit in the hall (living room), and some tributes, such as chicken, fish and meat, are put in the middle of the red candles. In the meantime, do not put out the red candle.

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