Customs of Spring Festival in Qi 'ao Village, Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, China

Other Spring Festival customs are no different from those in the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong Province. There is a special custom among the aborigines in Qi 'ao Island: every year on the second and fourth day of the New Year's Day, parents always bring their newborns to the ancestral hall, hang lanterns with their names written on them, and then burn incense to worship their ancestors, indicating that the newborns are from Qi 'ao Island.

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Qi 'ao Ancestral Temple, located in the east of Qi 'ao Village, was built in the Song Dynasty, with a width of 9.2 meters and a depth of 5 meters, covering an area of more than 300 square meters. In the 13th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, it was destroyed by fire, and was rebuilt in Qing Dynasty, Tongzhi and 1988, thus preserving this ancient cultural and architectural heritage. The temple is dedicated to the ancestors of Kaicun and idols such as Lei Gong, Dian Mu, Fengbo and Yu Shi, which reflects the worship of ancient working people to God and natural forces.

Qi 'ao people regard the ancestral temple as the foundation of "giving birth to me and raising me". They planted banyan trees in front of the ancestral hall, praying for the younger generation to grow up like banyan trees. This banyan tree has a history of 280 years.

There is a custom in Qi 'ao Village. Every year on the second and fourth day of the Lunar New Year, parents always bring their newborns to the ancestral hall, hang lanterns with their names written on them, and then burn incense to worship their ancestors, indicating that the newborns are from Qi 'ao.

Even if overseas Chinese living in Hong Kong, Macao or foreign countries can't come back, they will entrust their relatives and friends in the village to do it for them. This custom has been passed down for thousands of years.

Qi 'ao is home to more than 3,000 compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and overseas. They are all willing to donate money to repair the ancestral temple. Every time they go back to Qi 'ao to visit relatives, they always light a wick incense and make a good wish.

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