What are the customs of New Year's Eve?

1, watch opera

Cantonese opera, commonly known as "opera", is a necessary performance of the New Year's Day. Generally in the year before and after a few days of continuous performances, a constant stream of spectators. In addition, the lion dance class to come to the lion dance to cheer up, is also a necessary project of the annual routine day. Most of the Nenburi is a celebration of the improvement of living standards, a blessing for long-lasting good times, and a demonstration of joy and social harmony in the city and the countryside.

2, puppet theater

Commonly known as "ghost play" "ghost play" "chicken play", is the most popular in the western region of Guangdong, especially in the rural areas. Especially in the vast rural areas of the most popular folk art. The newly compiled "Maoming City Records" "Culture - Folk Art - Folk Opera" section so recorded: "Maoming region of puppetry, according to the puppet form and operation technology, divided into staff puppet theater, puppet theater and string puppet theater.

3, He Ding

Commonly known as "light the lamp". This custom exists in most villages, but there are different practices in different places, and the following is just one. When a male birth in a village, during the annual period, the villagers must be destined to place in the village (usually in front of the village temple) to point one, three lanterns (avoid even number), the lamps and should always be lighted with longevity lamps.

4, floating color

is an ancient Chinese folk art. The so-called floating color, is pushed by three to four people a length of about two meters, about one meter wide, about zero point eight meters high color table, color table floating up in the air with different shapes of the characters or animals, only by an invisible color stalks to support, as if flying in front of the people like clouds, such a clever picture is amazingly breathtaking.

5, jumping hut

Performers dressed in ancient costumes, wearing strange masks, holding axes, scythes, hoes and other props, accompanied by gongs and horns, singing and dancing, expressing the joy of the "drive away the evil, the people's peace". Every "jumping hut" performance days, attracting villagers from all over the countryside, old and young to come to see for the first time, unprecedented, become a unique landscape in rural areas in western Guangdong.