What are the customs of Spring Festival in Fuzhou?

Customs of Spring Festival in Fuzhou

The Spring Festival customs in Fuzhou are rich in southern Fujian flavor, and compared with the northern people's Spring Festival customs have more of their own characteristics. What are the Chinese New Year customs in Fuzhou? How do people in Fuzhou celebrate the Spring Festival? As a Fuzhou people, see so many customs you will be doubly close.

Brush the hall (sweep the room). In Fuzhou, after the 15th day of the Lunar New Year, people start to clean their houses, which is known as "brushing the brush" in Fuzhou.

Tail teeth. "The last and brightest crescent moon of the year is a unique festival for merchants. On this day, the merchants will host a banquet to entertain the employees who have worked hard for a year to show their appreciation, and give out "shoe prices" to the apprentices. The custom of giving out "New Year's goods" still continues today, especially in Taiwan.

Sacrificing the stove. Lunar month 23rd and 24th for the "sacrificial stove", is also the festival of Fuzhou sacrificial stove God. Fuzhou Zaosai have "official three people four boat five", that is, the official family Zaosai on the 23rd day of the lunar month, the people on the 24th Zaosai, the people on the 25th day of the water Zaosai. "Stove" to provide stove sugar, stove cake, according to tradition, stove sugar stove cake is sent by grandparents. There are a few nephews to send a few packages, but also add "flower face shell".

Split the year. After the festival, the Spring Festival began, and after the 25th, they began to steam rice cakes, buy new year's goods, prepare chickens, ducks, fish, meat, wine, etc., and offer sacrifices to the ancestors, the gods of heaven and earth, which is called "parting of the year".

Sending New Year's gifts. Friends and relatives give each other New Year's gifts, said "send New Year", the festive atmosphere. Daughters and sons-in-law send gifts to their parents-in-law, which is called "sending the New Year".

Specially in the daughter's first year of marriage, near the end of the Spring Festival, the daughter son-in-law to the mother's family to send the gift, married daughter with son-in-law together, to the parents to send the gift of the New Year, which has a bed of "sugar naked" (rice cake), a pair of "grass carp" or "silver carp". "Chub", a "骹柄"(pig's hoof), a red cockerel(公鸡角), and blessed oranges, etc., which indicate that daughters and son-in-laws are filial to their parents, thanking for the kindness of their upbringing, and wishing the elderly a long and healthy life. New Year's cake" means "rising year after year", and "big pond fish", "grass carp", or "silver carp" means "big fish". "Chub" means "more money every year", and "Bok Chor" means "good luck". Parents receive New Year's gifts, back to the nephew of the stove sugar stove cake, flower masks made of shell paper, rich in folk affection. Now more cash to show filial piety.

Do year (New Year's Eve). That is, the last night of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, Fuzhou is commonly known as "thirty all night asr" (thirty days of the New Year, the 29th day of the New Year), the Spring Festival officially began. The night, red candles burning high, the family happy, *** drink dinner, said to do the year. Both New Year's Eve dinner, sitting around the stove, sleepless all night, known as "keep the New Year". And then whisk hall and hall, burning red firecrackers, cooking New Year's Eve rice. "Lunar New Year's Eve rice" to wooden rice steamer containers, surrounded by inserted Zhu chopsticks ten pairs of red paper, tie red rope, sprinkle "five" (jujube, peanuts, melon seeds, cinnamon seeds, chestnuts), placed in the hall table. Home portals, boxes and cages, furniture, valuable utensils, are covered with "gold and silver paper foil", symbolizing the gold and silver treasures to overflow, a symbol of next year's fortune. Thirty all-night Asr generally have to take a bath, because the first day of the year to do less work, and can not take a bath.

Old times, thirty all-night Asr is the day of the debtor to collect debts, so it is called the New Year. In the old days, you could not spend the New Year in debt. Households living outside the city debtor ran to the Houzhou Shangshu Temple, living in the city ran to the City God Temple theater to avoid debt.

The first day of the year. Firecrackers in the morning, and then pray for the New Year, drink Tu Su (a kind of medicinal wine), the order of worship (i.e., the younger generation to the elders to pay homage to the New Year), the elders will give to the New Year's money or sweets, oranges. Some people also have to but meat (vegetarian). Breakfast mostly eat too flat (thread noodles with two eggs), to symbolize a year of peace. This day does not cook new rice, eat last night's good "New Year's Eve rice". People to meet each other to say "congratulations on wealth, family peace" and other words. This day avoid sweeping and dumping garbage, sweeping, bathing, with knives, speak bad luck, generally do not eat rice, do not go out, go to bed early at night, commonly known as "fight night light", than who slept early.

The Qing Dynasty Wu Ji-kwan "Fuzhou years of bamboo stick lyrics": "Clusters of new clothes tend to people in front of the courtesy of modest joy even; road meet **** bowed to the wealth congratulations congratulations congratulations on the new year."

The second day of the month. Fuzhou is commonly known as "son-in-law day", is the daughter son-in-law back to the bride's home to pay homage to the day, and in the woman's home to eat.

The third day of the month. Neighbors and relatives pay their respects to each other.

The fourth day of the month. The opening of the holiday, to meet the Zaojun back to see things, also known as the "Day of the God", stores are firecrackers on this day, open the door to meet the business.

Fifth. Entrance day, the old school students in this day to see the teacher, said "on the fasting door".

Chuqi. People day, Fuzhou, commonly known as "people make up life", the folk should take seven kinds of vegetables to make soup, called "seven treasures soup", the night to **** food rice cakes, boiled too plane, in order to table prolong life.

Send lights. After the seventh day to send the lamp, the streets and alleys can be seen in-laws uncle carrying sugar cane, cane hanging lanterns, to the sister in-laws to send the scene of the lamp. In Fuzhou, activities related to lanterns are generally carried out from the tenth day of the first month to the Lantern Festival. Parents give lanterns to their married daughters. The lanterns are sent by the brother-in-law, so it is called "sending lanterns by the in-laws". Spring Festival in-laws uncle (brother-in-law) to send lamps, in Fuzhou city and countryside is very popular. Send lamps that send "Ding" dialect, grandmother to nephews send lamps, is the blessing of the daughter to have children to add Ding. The mother's family sends lamps to the mother-in-law's family. Mother's family to the in-laws to send lamps, mostly by the in-laws uncle (brother-in-law) to send.