What are the customs and traditions of Shantou Shantou customs and traditions

1. Stick the god of door to stick the Spring Festival couplets.

In Shantou's Chunlian (Spring Festival), you can often see the word "Chun" (spring) on a single door or on a woven mat or a niche. The character "春" has two meanings here: one indicates that spring has returned to the earth and everything is renewed; the other is the harmonization of "春" and "存 "潮音, which expresses the good wish of having more money in the year.

2, worship ancestors.

Worshipping ancestors is to commemorate the ancestors, it is also interesting to say that the ancestors with us for the New Year, showing the traditional virtues of the Chao people prudent, filial piety first.

3, eat reunion dinner.

After the homes of families are dressed up in a new look, New Year's Eve is approaching. Usually eat hot pot, because "around the stove" has the meaning of reunion.

4, send new year's money.

In Chaoshan, only those who have not yet worked have New Year's money, and those who have worked have to give New Year's money. People believe that giving more proves that they had more income in the past year, and they also hope to have more income in the new year.