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What are the customs of Hainan Spring Festival?

1, dust-sweeping, the busyness of years ago was mainly to get rid of the old cloth and exchange it for the new one, and dust-sweeping was one of the new customs of getting rid of the old cloth years ago. The folk proverb says, "On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, dust and sweep the house".

2. Sacrifice the kitchen god. Sacrifice the stove on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month, that is, brush the stove clean after dark, take down the old kitchen god and burn it. On the morning of New Year's Eve, put up new pictures, set wine, meat, sugar, sugar cane and rice fruit. Burn incense, light candles and set off paper cannons.

3. Happy New Year is a traditional folk custom in China, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new and express their best wishes to each other. With the development of the times, the custom of New Year greetings is constantly adding new contents and forms. Nowadays, people not only follow the old New Year greetings, but also pay New Year greetings through the Internet and telephone.

4, open the door firecrackers, Spring Festival morning, open the door, first set off firecrackers, called "open the door firecrackers". After the firecrackers, the ground is broken red, which is the so-called "full house". This is a street full of auspicious spirit and celebration.

5. Draw a chicken. China folks matched the first eight days of Xinzheng with six kinds of animals, people and valleys. The first day of the first month is the Year of the Rooster, which is an auspicious day. The method of using chickens to ward off evil spirits is to kill chickens at the door or paste chickens at the door, which is called paste chicken, and it has pinned the good wishes of the working people in our country to eliminate disasters and avoid disasters.