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What are the Spring Festival customs in different places?

1. Jiangsu New Year's custom: Put cooked water chestnuts in the rice on New Year's Eve, and dig them out when eating, which is called "digging ingots". When friends and relatives come and go, put two green olives in the tea, which is called "ingot tea". Congratulations on making a fortune.

2. Shaanxi custom: Eating five beans, taking out five kinds of beans, such as soybeans, soybeans, mung beans, peas and Jiang Dou, the night before the Spring Festival, is a custom that has been passed down for thousands of years.

wealthy families also cook and drink, and they are well-fed and well-bred, each showing his abilities. In the rural areas of Tongchuan, the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month is called "Five Beans Day", and "barley porridge" is made for breakfast, with five kinds of beans, indicating a bumper harvest of wheat and beans this year.

3. Yunnan New Year Custom: Like the Han nationality, Yunnan should stick couplets during the Spring Festival. But the "couplets" are all kinds of patterns cut from red paper. Not only the way of "writing" is different, but also the way of pasting is unique.

On New Year's Eve, everyone in the whole family took home-made Spring Festival couplets and sang "Happy New Year's Song", which was posted for everything outside the courtyard, vegetable orchards and fields in turn. Because of singing while posting, the Spring Festival couplets of Bai people are called "song couplets".

4. Tianjin custom: Labaer. Tianjin people call it Labaer on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and they have the custom of drinking Labaer porridge. Many Tianjin people still soak garlic in vinegar on this day, named Laba vinegar.

Laba vinegar should be soaked until the first day of the Lunar New Year, and you should eat jiaozi on the first day, and you should be a vegetarian in jiaozi. You should take a vegetarian diet for one year and dip it in Laba vinegar, which will give you a special taste. "Laba vinegar" not only tastes mellow, but also does not go bad for a long time.

5. Northeastern custom: jiaozi is lucky to eat coins. Among many jiaozi, only a few coins are wrapped (now people pay attention to hygiene, so peanuts or other nuts are used instead). Whoever eats such jiaozi indicates good luck and good luck in the new year.