Composition of Liuzhou New Year Cultural Customs

Every year, the first day of the first lunar month, commonly known as "Chinese New Year", is also called the Spring Festival. In the past, from the 16th day of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th day of the first lunar month, residents would spend a whole month celebrating China New Year.

After the winter solstice, residents began to buy meat or slaughter their own pigs, chickens and ducks to make bacon. They also make zongzi, Ciba, steamed rice cakes, fried oil piles, stirred rice and sugar, and make rice cakes for the New Year as gifts. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Kitchen God was sent to heaven. In the evening/before 0/2 o'clock in Kloc-0, lay people washed their hands and burned incense and bowed down to the kitchen god, praying that the kitchen god would "do good deeds in heaven and return safely". The 30th day of the twelfth lunar month is commonly known as "New Year's Eve" or "New Year's Day". Every household starts cleaning in the afternoon, which is called "sweeping the dust". Put up new door gods and couplets, and put up red papers such as "Happy New Year", "Peace throughout the year" and "All the best".

On New Year's Eve, the whole family, old and young, sit together to have a "reunion dinner" and cook more dishes, which means more than one year.

After zero o'clock, even at the beginning of the new year, every household opens the door to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Firecrackers, commonly known as "opening the door of wealth" and "receiving the god of wealth", almost stay up all night. The first day I opened the door early in the morning, and firecrackers and scraps of paper were everywhere in the street.

On the morning of New Year's Day, the elders first pay New Year's greetings to the ancestors of Xianghuotang, and then the children pay New Year's greetings to their grandparents and parents, saying some auspicious words, and the elders give the younger generation "lucky money". On the second day of New Year's Day, incense sticks are lit and ancestors are ceremoniously worshipped. The tables in the hall are filled with new year's goods, which makes relatives and friends who come to pay New Year's greetings look rich.