What are the customs with Chinese New Year characteristics in Northeast China?

1, catch up with the new year collection and make new year's goods.

Before the Chinese New Year, we have to make a lot of preparations and buy a lot of things, including food, useful things, clothes, clothes, fun, supplies, dry things, fresh things, raw things and ripe things. The day with a unified name is called "New Year's Goods". Purchasing before the Chinese New Year is called "handling new year's goods".

New year's goods generally include firecrackers, couplets (Spring Festival couplets), lanterns, frozen pears and frozen persimmons. It is a rule to buy new clothes for children at home. Most people choose to go to the market to buy new year's goods in the countryside. The annual party has the largest number of participants in a year. At large parties, you should buy incense wax, paper yards, firecrackers, New Year pictures, red paper, sugar, rock tea, candy and seasonings to go home.

Step 2 eat frozen pears

Due to the cold weather in Northeast China, some fruits will have different tastes after freezing. The most common are iced pears and frozen persimmons. It is known that the purest is frozen autumn pear. There is a kind of pear in the north called Qiuli, which is sour and astringent when it is just picked, so people pick this kind of pear and put it directly under the tree and cover it with a layer of leaves. The frozen autumn pear tastes sweet and sour, and the juice is rich. Frozen pears should be thawed in water before eating. Eating this pear after New Year's Eve can relieve hangover and boredom.

3, point longevity lamp

Northeasters always light longevity lanterns on New Year's Eve, which is very bright tonight. From New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, every household should hang red lanterns. At night, don't turn off the lights, which means longevity and endless incense.

Step 4 clean the shed

After entering the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, every household should clean up. Housewives usually cover their furniture with sheets, wrap their heads with headscarves or towels, and then sweep the walls up and down with a broom. After sweeping, scrub the tables and chairs, clean the floor, and greet the New Year neatly and brightly.

China folks call it "dust sweeping" and "dust removal". Because there is a folk proverb: "If you don't sweep the dust in the twelfth lunar month, you will attract the plague in the coming year." Folklore experts say that sweeping dust not only means driving away the epidemic and praying for a healthy new year, but also means removing the "old" (dust) and promoting the new.

5. Kill pigs

"Children, children, don't cry, it is good to kill pigs in the twelfth lunar month; Don't be greedy for children, it is the year after Laba. " This nursery rhyme was once widely circulated in rural areas in Northeast China.

Killing pigs used to be a major event for farmers in Northeast China. In the twelfth lunar month, most people will kill pigs, prepare jiaozi's meat and cook for the New Year, which is called "killing pigs in the new year". At that time, most farmers built pigsty near the courtyard gate to raise pigs, some were self-sufficient and some sold money. Therefore, raising a few big fat pigs in the pigsty is regarded as one of the signs of well-off, and "being fat and big ears" is also the good wish of ordinary farmers.