What are the customs in Hunan?

Changsha: giving betel nut to guests.

Xiangtan: Dancing dragon lanterns.

Yongshun, western Hunan: celebrating the New Year.

Yueyang: closing the door for a reunion dinner.

Zhuzhou: open the door cannon.

Open the door cannon: the first morning of the first day of the year, the first thing every family is scrambling to play "open the door cannon", the whole city a firecrackers, symbolizing to send the old to welcome the new and to receive the blessing, commonly known as "to receive the New Year". Playing the "door cannon" also has the practice, generally is the first small firecrackers a string, called "100 children gun"; and then put a double sound of big firecrackers, big firecrackers only three hair, meaning that can be lifted a year of plague plague obscurity, and said to receive the New Year. Requirements for three shots are loud, loud and clear sound, the most auspicious. Common belief that playing "open the door cannon" the sooner the better, symbolizing that this year, do whatever will go smoothly, such as the intention to get rich, planting people will have a bumper crop. Some places in the open door when the cannon, but also in the mouth of the words: "open the door, fire the cannon; wealth is also to, hi also to."

"Hundred miles of fish, New Year's dinner", Yueyang New Year's Eve customs in addition to killing chickens, ducks, firecrackers, posting Spring Festival couplets, on the 30th day of the waxing moon, but also ate "New Year's dinner", very rich. Twelve bowls must be fish in this dish, showing the meaning of auspicious surplus. Before the liberation, some areas with less fish, in order to have "100 miles of fish" this dish, will use wood to carve a "100 miles of fish", put in a basin, sprinkled with green onions, like a real fish in general. Yueyang people attach great importance to the New Year's Eve dinner, out of the people in the thousands of miles to home, the family waited and waited. Eat New Year's Eve dinner, to close the door, meaning not to let the treasure run away. After the meal put on a firecracker, that has eaten the New Year's dinner, people can walk around.