What are the customs of Chinese New Year in your hometown?

1, Chongqing has the custom of enjoying wintersweet during the Spring Festival.

Chongqing people like to put pale yellow wintersweet at home during the Spring Festival, and its petals have a fragrant taste. From the twelfth lunar month, whether you go to the flower market or on the ordinary street, you can see farmers from the suburbs carrying cages full of budding wintersweet.

There is a custom of bacon in Chongqing during the Spring Festival.

Every year1February, that is, before "Xiaoxue" and "beginning of spring", every household has to kill pigs and sheep. Except the fresh meat enough for Chinese New Year, the rest is salted with a certain proportion of spices such as pepper, star anise, cinnamon and clove. After seven to fifteen days, hang it with palm leaf rope, drip water, smoke it slowly with cypress branches, sugarcane skin, Toona sinensis skin or firewood, then hang it and smoke it slowly with fireworks.

Chongqing has the custom of catching up with the Spring Festival.

Before the Spring Festival, Chongqing people get together to buy many new year's goods, which will be used as something to entertain guests when relatives and friends come from home to pay New Year's greetings. At the market, when villagers meet, they all pay New Year greetings in the early years and send each other New Year greetings.

During the Spring Festival, Chongqing has the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets.

Spring Festival couplets evolved from "Fu Tao" in the Warring States period more than two thousand years ago. Zhu Yuanzhang once issued a decree: "public officials and scholars' homes must write several pairs of Spring Festival couplets for the New Year." Since then, Spring Festival couplets have been popularized.

Chongqing has the custom of Spring Festival.

In ancient times, observing the age has two meanings: the old man's observing the age means "resigning from the old", which means cherishing time; Young people are trying to extend the life span of their parents.

Allow children to sleep at one o'clock on New Year's Eve, let him stay with his family, and let children understand the concept of "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new" from the heart, and understand that the new year is coming, and they should grow up full of energy, health and happiness.

The origin of spring festival lucky money

The earliest lucky money appeared in the Han dynasty, also known as money-weariness or big win. In China's traditional culture, because "Sui" and "Sui" are homophonic, the line of suppressing old age can suppress evil and promote Sui. If the younger generation gets lucky money, it means that they can spend the first year safely.

lucky money

* * *, there are two kinds, one is recorded in "Yanjing Age", which is woven into a dragon shape with colored ropes and placed at the foot of the bed; The other is the most common, that is, parents wrap the money distributed to their children in red paper. The lucky money inside can be given to the younger generation in public after the New Year's greetings, or it can be quietly placed under the child's pillow on New Year's Eve while the child is asleep.

We can explain the function of lucky money from two aspects. On the one hand, elders give their children "lucky money" to suppress evil and promote good. On the other hand, the younger generation gave it to the older generation, which is a veritable lucky money. The "lucky money" given to the elderly is to suppress the old age, and the number of lucky money is also particular. In yuan, yuan is round and full. You can't give any change. If you give the elderly 99.9 yuan, it is equivalent to giving the elderly "9 feet".