What is the custom of Yuyao Spring Festival?

Yuyao's Chinese New Year customs include: dust removal, writing Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, taking photos of locusts, eating jiaozi, making sugar tea, praying for ancestors, performing traditional operas and dancing dragons.

First, "dust removal" means cleaning, cleaning at home or around, cleaning some utensils and so on. "Some villages often organize villagers to carry out large-scale cleaning to clean up weeds and garbage, which is' cleaning up for the New Year'."

The custom of washing "tiger's feet" on the night of the twelfth lunar month means "looking forward to health in the coming year". But now that the conditions are good, washing feet is a very common thing, so this custom has been "forgotten" by many people.

Second, "writing Spring Festival couplets" is a traditional custom that continues to this day. City Calligraphers Association organizes a group of calligraphers to write Spring Festival couplets for the citizens every year.

In the old days, Spring Festival couplets had many greetings, such as "Tianzeng Life, full of spring". Today, Spring Festival couplets still write some auspicious sentences, but the content is more novel and full of the flavor of the times, and many people will paste the word "fu" upside down.

Thirdly, "setting off firecrackers" is a very old folk custom, which means "exorcism and blessing". There are firecrackers on New Year's Eve and on the first day of the first month.

In ancient times, bamboo was directly used to burn fire in Siming Mountain area, because bamboo knots would make a "bang" when burning. For the sake of environmental protection and safety, it is suggested to set off firecrackers as little as possible.

Fourthly, Yuyao also has a kind of "sweet" customized sugar tea. It is the highest etiquette to entertain guests during the Spring Festival. Usually use brown sugar. Now that the conditions are good, use sugar. When someone goes home to pay New Year's greetings, he should be given a cup of sugar tea at the first time. I hope his New Year is as sweet as sugar.

Sugar tea in the Spring Festival includes kumquat and osmanthus. "If you don't send a cup of sugar tea, the guests will whisper in their hearts that they are not enthusiastic and don't even have a cup of sugar tea." Yang Pengfei said.