What day is Lunar New Year's Eve in Shanghai

Shanghai's New Year's Eve is the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month.

Small New Year's Eve this day, Shanghai Haining has no special customs, usually the family set up a banquet, family reunion, meaning to eat "small New Year's Eve dinner", people visit called "don't year". Before and after this day, the old alley began to bustle, generally do not use the things to take this time to throw away, adults told children to take out the garbage, do not forget to tell a word of advice, while dumping the garbage and read a "bad luck out". Because the first day of the year to the third is not sweep the floor, to the first four can sweep.

Small year is usually regarded as the beginning of the busy year, means that people start to prepare for the New Year's goods, sweeping dust, sacrificial stoves, etc., ready to clean a good year, expressing a kind of people resigned from the old to welcome the new, welcome auspicious blessings of the good wishes. The festival has a history of thousands of years in China's folklore, and is a reflection of the Chinese people's dream of having more than enough food and clothing.

New Year's Eve must eat the sugar in the stove, so diabetics are best not to eat. Jaw sugar is wheat tooth sugar, very sticky, will be made into a stick-shaped called "Guandong sugar", made into a flat round called "sugar melon". In winter, when they are left outside the house, because of the cold temperatures, they condense very tightly, with a few tiny bubbles inside, and taste beautifully crunchy and sweet. There is so much sugar in the oven that diabetics are advised to avoid it.

Prepare new clothes, hats and shoes. People usually wear a year of old clothes, but the new year must turn "line"; In addition to buying new clothes, new hats, but also buy spring couplets, buy New Year's paintings, buy "door god", posted in the door upstairs and downstairs.