What are the customs in Henan for the New Year?

Post Spring Festival couplets, wrap jiaozi, have a family reunion dinner and pay a New Year call.

1. Sticking Spring Festival couplets: Sticking Spring Festival couplets is an important custom in Henan for the New Year. Spring Festival couplets, also known as "door couplets" and "couplets", are two poems with neat antithesis and related meanings. They are written on paper, cloth and bamboo and pasted on doorways and doorframes.

2. Bao jiaozi: In Henan, on New Year's Eve, every family will Bao jiaozi. Jiaozi is one of the most important traditional foods in Henan during the Spring Festival. The choice of fillings is also very distinctive, including pork, leeks, tofu and so on.

3, eat reunion dinner: Henan Spring Festival reunion dinner is eaten after New Year's Eve. It was a very rich dinner, and the family would prepare all kinds of delicious food, such as braised pork, steamed fish, stewed chicken and so on. The whole family sat around and enjoyed this delicious meal to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.

4. New Year's greetings: On the first day of New Year's Day, people in Henan will pay New Year's greetings to each other. This is a traditional social custom. It will go to relatives and friends' homes to send New Year's greetings and care.