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Everyone say their own New Year's hometown customs, urgent!

Beijing New Year's proverbs: "(Lunar December, that is, the waxing moon) 23 (day) sugar melon children sticky; 24 (day) sweeping room day; 25 (day) paste windows; 26 (day) stewed meat; 27 (day) kill rooster; 28 (day) to the surface of the hair; 29 (day) steamed buns; 30 (day) night to stay up a night; the first day of the New Year to twist a twist. "

Shanghai Lunar New Year's Eve for the "God of the stove" to the sky on the day, so the night of the 23rd, families to "send stove", "sacrificial stove", celebrate the New Year thus kicked off. The 25th day of the Lunar New Year is the day when the gods come down to the world. According to tradition, every family dusts and sweeps inside and outside. From the 26th to the 29th, families begin to grind flour, make dumplings and rice cakes, prepare new clothes, hats and shoes, and buy spring scrolls, New Year's paintings and "door gods". On the night of New Year's Eve, all the elders and children of each family gathered in the household and sat together under the lamplight to eat the New Year's Eve dinner, which was called "Hopscotch". After the New Year's Eve dinner, they gather around the fireplace to observe the New Year's Eve. At dawn, men, women and children put on new clothes, hats and shoes, and worship their ancestors in the hall. Then the young and the young all pay tribute to their parents, who give the children New Year's money that they have already prepared before the New Year.

Taiwan calls New Year's Eve "All Night" and "Thirty All Night," depending on the size of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar. "All night" means the end of the year. Before it gets late, families prepare offerings, such as sweet tangerines, sweet rice cakes, "spring rice (rice with paper cut-outs of the word spring inserted on it)" and "New Year's money". In addition, two sugarcane stalks with leaves and whiskers are placed behind the front door, which is called the "New Year's Cane". During the New Year's Eve dinner "around the stove", a new charcoal stove and a new sunflower fan are placed under the eight-imperial table, and the characters for "spring" and "good fortune" written on red paper are pasted on the fan and the stove. After the New Year's Eve dinner, there is the New Year's Eve vigil. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people gather young and old to worship the gods with red and white rice cakes, pay homage to Gongmao (Zu Gong Zu Ao), and then set off firecrackers to welcome the spring and receive blessings.

On New Year's Eve in Hong Kong, families eat New Year's Eve dinner together. The names of most of the dishes in the New Year's Eve dinner have auspicious meanings. After the reunion dinner, people usually go to the Lunar New Year's Eve market to visit the flower market. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people start to celebrate the New Year formally by putting up spring scrolls, New Year's paintings, dragon dances, lion dances, etc., as well as going to friends and relatives to pay their respects to the New Year.

Macao's New Year's customs have a special flavor. One of the most traditional Chinese New Year customs preserved in Macau is the "thank you to Zao" ceremony. On the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, the god of Zao is sent to Macau, which is called "thanking Zao". The New Year's Eve celebration begins on the 28th day of the Lunar New Year. On New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve vigil and the flower market are the two major events for Macanese to celebrate the old and welcome the new. The New Year's Eve celebration involves playing mahjong, watching TV and chatting about old times. Macau organizes a flower market during the Lunar New Year's Eve, with peach blossoms, daffodils, potted bamboos and potted oranges, which are a sign of good prospects for the New Year. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Macao people pay attention to the "Lai Si" to indicate good luck. "Lai Si" means red packets, which are given to bosses when they meet their employees, to elders when they meet their juniors, and even to married people when they meet their unmarried ones. Macau people on the second day of Lunar New Year called "New Year", to eat "New Year" meal, must be hairy vegetables, lettuce, carp, intended to take its wealth and road.