What are the customs of Shaoguan New Year?

I am Shaoguan people. In fact, Cantonese-speaking people in Guangdong have similar customs for the Chinese New Year, and I'll tell you about the customs of Cantonese people in general for the Chinese New Year.

Before the New Year, every year on the 28th of the year, we have to "wash the dirt", and clean the house well.

Three days before the first day of the new year: 27, 28, 29 (with 30 if you start from 28, no from 27) there will be a flower market! You can go there on these days.

The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is called the "first day of the first month", the first of the new year, the beginning of spring.

On this day, people get up in the early hours of the morning to worship their ancestors and kill chickens. In the past, people also got up to burn incense, firecrackers, meaning "grab spring". Due to city regulations, this part of the festival has now been abolished in Guangzhou.

The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is traditionally the peak of the New Year's visit, people visit each other, called "New Year's greetings". When paying tribute, the elders would also give their juniors the money they had prepared in advance, which in Guangdong is called "li shi" (also known as "li shi" or "li yi"), indicating that they would bring good wishes and good luck to their juniors. On the first day of the general fasting, praying for the next year more smoothly, there is "the first day of the year to eat fasting, better than eating a year of fasting," said.

It is worth noting that folklore is the first day of the first month of the broom birthday, so avoid moving the broom, otherwise it will sweep away the good luck, attracted the "broom star". In addition, this day can not pour water out of the garbage, for fear of breaking the wealth.

The second day of the year: back to his mother's home early in the morning on the second day, the women of the family will preside over the "open pot", under the peanut oil, fried turnip cake, fried fish. Next is the "New Year's dinner", which is also the grandest meal at the beginning of the New Year. The second day of the first month of the Lunar New Year is also known as the "Auntie's Day", which is a popular day for daughters to return to their mother's home with their families. It is popular for daughters to bring their families back to their mother's house. When they go back to their mother's house, they usually bring fruits, rice cakes, mushrooms and other New Year's goods. The New Year's dinner is also very elaborate, chicken, lettuce, oysters, carp, pangolin, etc. is a must-have dish, which means "good market" and "good luck".

On the second day of the year, some suburban villages in Guangzhou still retains the custom of "release", buy live carp, with red paper over the eyes of the fish, after worshiping the gods to the river pond release. I've never heard of it in Shaoguan.

The third day of the year: red mouth day in the third of this poor day, families get up early in the morning, the first thing is to "sweep the poor", the beginning of the first day of the hoarding under the garbage swept out, means to sweep away the filth and the roots of poverty.

On this day, people usually do not go out to pay tribute to the New Year, because the third day of the first month of the New Year is "red mouth", also known as "red dog day". It is said that the red dog is the mouth of the God of anger, encountered easily cause quarrels, especially the older generation will be more concerned about this day, stay at home, so as not to meet the evil spirits. If someone visits the door, they will be treated as "poor people" and driven out. However, the concept of "red dog day" in the eyes of modern people is gradually diluted, more and more young people still go out to play as usual.

The fourth day of the new year: the God of Fortune Folklore says that the fifth day of the first month is the birthday of the God of Fortune, so after the first day of the new year, the next most important activity is to pick up the God of Fortune - in the God of Fortune's birthday comes the day before, the family organized a banquet, for the God of Fortune congratulations. As the saying goes, "send the god early, receive the god late", receive the god ceremony is generally carried out at 4 p.m. to the evening, the preparation of offerings are three animals, fruits, tea, sweets and so on. If the old year is not as good as it may be with "a bowl of water, three incense" Zaowang sacrifice, the old year developed to use chicken, duck, fish and meat worship. The first seven days of the first month of January is the "Day of the People", commonly known as the "Birthday of the People" in Cantonese. Generally on this day at breakfast, to set up a sumptuous family feast to celebrate the "people's birthday". People should eat seven kinds of vegetables (celery, mustard, spinach, green onions, garlic, etc.) made of "seven treasures soup". It is said that before the Republic of Korea, on this day, young people traveled in groups to the Flower Field and chose the most beautiful girl, the "Queen of the Day of Man," who presided over the day's activities.

The eighth day of the year: do not go home on the seventh day of the seventh do not go, the eighth day of the eighth do not return. People who go out to visit relatives and other people on the seventh day of the year cannot go home on the eighth day of the year and have to stay at their relatives' homes.

The ninth day of the ninth month of the year: Nine Emperor's Birthday To take out chickens, ducks, fish and meat to worship the Jade Emperor.

The Tenth Day of the Lunar New Year: Playing Chun Go The Eleventh Day of the Lunar New Year: Playing Stone Battles In suburban villages, children from two neighboring villages throw stones against each other on these two days, and whichever village wins means that the New Year will be a better one.

On the eleventh day of the first month, parents have to drive the children home.

The twelfth day of the month: the lighting of new lanterns The streets and alleys are filled with lanterns in every house, and in the countryside, lanterns are also lit at the ancestral halls.

Thirteen and fourteen: Have fun.

The first month of the fifteenth: to see the lanterns Cantonese people in this day to see the lanterns. In addition, the suburbs of the countryside, the birth of a male child in the old year to hang a lantern in the ancestral ancestral shrine on this day, to indicate that the ancestors to report.

Welcome to the New Year, send a big orange Welcome to the New Year, early on the first day of the morning, people get up and put on new clothes, the first thing is to worship their own family, often the younger generation first bless the elders, and then the elders and then give the younger generation to the expectations of the dawn. After breakfast, each to their own friends and relatives to pay tribute to the New Year. Proverb says: "have the intention to worship the first day of the year, two, no intention to worship the first three or four." Said is to pay tribute to the New Year the earlier the more to see its sincerity. Therefore, some people get up immediately after the New Year to relatives and friends to go, back to eat. No matter how many gifts a person brings to pay a New Year's visit, a big orange is indispensable. Big tangerine to take its harmonic "big auspicious", with more with less does not matter, but can not be an odd number. After entering the door of friends and relatives, the New Year's visitors should say different greetings to different people. To the old man said "New Year's greetings", "longevity than Nanshan Mountain", the old man will be grinning toothless grin; on the work of the people said "work well", "New Year's Progress", the listener will find it very pleasing to the ear; if it is a businessman, there is nothing more pleasing to the ear than "New Year's big profits", "Fortune and profit"; if it is a child who is studying, they hope for nothing more than the New Year's learning progress, outstanding results. If it is a child who is studying in school, what they want most is to make progress in their studies in the New Year and get outstanding results. If you send them this kind of greeting, they will be very friendly to you. Before leaving, the host will leave two large oranges in the gift from the visitor, and then take out their own large oranges to exchange, meaning to give each other good luck. There are good attainments witty new is going out to pay homage to the New Year, often only in the pants pockets on the two big orange, a New Year's Eve, the pants pockets are still loaded with two big orange unchanged. Therefore, the folk have good Attainment people called the beginning of the New Year's rituals for "change citrus movement". Guangdong Spring Festival taboos

Return to the bride's home On the second and third day of the first month, the daughters married off have taken their husbands and children back to the bride's home to pay homage to the New Year. When a daughter returns to her mother's home, she must bring a large bag of cookies and candies, which her mother distributes to her neighbors, just as she does at New Year's Eve. If there are more than one daughter at home, and these daughters do not return on the same day, then, we have to come to a sub once, the gift is quite thin, four cookies only. However, it reflects the sentiment is very strong, the real "gift is light and heavy", it expresses the girl to the townspeople of the cut longing. When the girl returns home, if there is a nephew in the family, the aunt must pay again, even though she has already given the New Year's money on the first day of the year, but this time the meaning is different. The daughter must return to her in-laws before dinner. Because the first month of the year is the beginning of the year, Guangzhou people tend to regard it as a sign of good or bad luck for the new year, so there are many "taboos" during the New Year's Eve. In terms of language, all "broken", "bad", "no", "dead", "light ", "ghost", "kill", "sick", "pain", "lose", "poor" and other unlucky words, are forbidden to say. Also taboo baby crying, because crying is "no head color", signs of disease, disaster. Therefore, even if the child has caused trouble on this day, can not beat him or scold him, so as to prevent him from crying endlessly. Behavior, end cups, plates, bowls, dishes to be extra careful, can not be broken, accidentally broken, in the water a custom has been in vain form only. Prohibition of sweeping the custom is also slowly being eliminated, because during the Spring Festival firecrackers, people come and go, the ground confetti, garbage, especially more, not to clean up indeed impede the elegance. Therefore, from the hygienic point of view, many young people are also on these traditional taboos and customs do not pay much attention to. This day the debtor is not allowed to collect debts, because people believe that this day to collect debts on both sides of the borrower and lender are inauspicious. Also taboo from other people's pockets, people believe that the first day of the first month of the pocket to let people pull out, may lead to a year are "empty" the danger. Jealous of the dead, also jealous of the funeral, because it will bring bad luck to the family. At the same time, avoid the day haircut, because people in this day, day always like to haircut with the funeral associated. This day even avoid killing, killing is believed to lead to knife disaster, military disaster, blood plague and other calamities, but now people's standard of living has improved, eat something fresh, in order to fast for the mouth and stomach, there is nothing to worry about. In terms of food and drink, medicine is strictly prohibited on this day. Otherwise, it is thought to lead to a year from the beginning to the end of the disease, take medicine constantly. The first day of the morning meal to avoid eating meat, there are several ways to say: one is this meal to eat fasting, its function is equal to a year; another is an allusion to the frugal governance, not to be wasteful.

Said so much, in fact, strictly according to the tradition of doing in fact very few people, right. In our family to a book after the sixth day of the month there is no special activity.