What are the classic customs of the Spring Festival in Guangdong?

Classic customs of the Spring Festival in Guangdong are:

1, New Year's dinner on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, walking on the streets of flowers

The New Year's dinner can be said to be the most important meal of the year. The people who work in the outside world will try to come back home for this meal. On the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, after posting the Spring Festival couplets and hanging up the lucky characters, Cantonese people will have a family reunion dinner to symbolize the reunion. There are usually some dishes with good intentions at the New Year's Eve dinner, such as fish, which symbolizes a good year's harvest, and pig's knuckles, which symbolizes a good fortune. However, the intention is not to "eat", but in the family get together and have fun.

Previously, the old man used to say: "line flower street is to get a good luck. Flowers symbolize prosperity and kumquats represent good luck." Nowadays, in addition to buying flowers and seeing them, it is also a sign of "good luck" for Cantonese people during the Chinese New Year.

2, the first day of the Lunar New Year fasting, lion dance

The first day of the Lunar New Year's midday meal must be eaten fasting, with vermicelli, bamboo, hairy vegetables, mushrooms, etc. Cooked into a pot of "Lohan Zhai", the year to eat the material are eaten this day, and then can be a big fish and meat.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, many towns will hold a lion dance 'celebration, wonderful lion dance, lively atmosphere, the New Year's flavor is particularly strong!

3, the second day of the Lunar New Year, back to his mother's home

The morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, each family will eat "Lunar New Year's dinner". "New Year's dinner" must be "raw chicken" (male rooster), meaning "angry". After eating the "New Year's dinner", married women with their husbands and children back to their parents' homes, usually carrying fried piles, oil angle, rice cakes and other New Year's snacks.

4, the third day of the New Year to stick a "red mouth" everything goes smoothly

In Guangdong, the morning of the third day of the New Year to stick a "red mouth" (forbidding the mouth), the year can be in and out of peace, do not have a quarrel with people or a variety of unfortunate disasters. And "the first sleepy gold, the second sleepy silver", the first two days of the first two days of the accumulation of garbage, must be to the third only together to clean up and pour out.

5, the fourth of the year to welcome the God of the stove

The year before the 24th of Lunar New Year to send the God of the stove to heaven, the fourth of the first month of the year to welcome the God of the stove down to earth. The fourth day of the new year is a good day to invite the gods. On this day, the gods return to earth from the heavenly realm, and as the old saying goes: "Send the gods early, receive the gods late," so send the gods early in the morning, and receive the gods in the afternoon is not too late.

6, the fifth day of the New Year to welcome the God of Wealth

"The God of Wealth, the God of Wealth!" Cantonese people worship the God of Wealth on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. According to folklore, the God of Wealth is the God of the Five Roads. The so-called five roads, referring to the east and west, south and north, meaning that all the five roads out of the door, can get wealth.

7, the sixth day of the Lunar New Year to send the God of poverty

The sixth day of the Lunar New Year for the Day of the Horse, is one of the traditional Han festivals. As the saying goes, the sixth day of the Lunar New Year seeks to throw the poor, "send the poor God" is a very characteristic of the ancient Han folk customs of the year, sent people generally hope that the old and welcome the new, send away the old poverty and hardship, to meet the new year of the traditional psychology of a better life.

8, the seventh day of the New Year, "Human Day"

Legend has it that Nuwa created the world in the first place, after making animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, goats, cows and horses, on the seventh day of the human being, so this day is the birthday of mankind. The Cantonese call it "the birthday of man". People day this day is an important day for the family to get together, the same pay attention to "people and auspicious", in the hearts of the Cantonese, the importance of this festival is no less than New Year's Eve, the beginning of the year.