What are the interesting traditional Chinese New Year programs of different ethnic groups?

Beijing New Year's Customs Old Beijing "temple fair" "shopping factory Dian" customs Long lived in the capital of the "old Beijing" know this phrase: send a letter to the eight congee. It means that on the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar (also known as the eighth day of the Lunar New Year), the New Year will be celebrated. By the twenty-third of Lunar New Year, families start to busy. Into the twenty-third of every day have said: twenty-three sugar melon children sticky; twenty-four sweeping said; twenty-five paste window; twenty-six stewed meat; twenty-seven kill rooster; twenty-eight to the surface of the hair; twenty-nine steamed buns; thirty night to stay up all night; the first day of the New Year twisted a twist. "Sugar melon child sticky" is the past to say that on the 23rd day to sacrifice the king of the stove, buy some with malt sugar made of sugar melon, Guandong sugar for both in his ascension to the Jade Emperor to report there, ask him to more beautiful words of intent, but also to sugar sticky on the mouth of the king of the stove to prevent him from saying more heart. In Beijing, there is an old saying: "Master Zaowang ascends to heaven and says a lot of nice things". "Sweeping the room on the 24th" actually refers to sanitation. Wipe the furniture, sweep the walls and roofs, tear off the old paintings, paint the frames, stick new paintings and so on. "Twenty-five paste windows" "paste windows" is the New Year's Day to re-buy some Goryeo paper, paste the windows white and clean, and then paste the Spring Festival couplets, lucky words, window and carved with auspicious patterns of the hanging sticker (paper cutouts), the New Year's Day atmosphere will be particularly strong. The other thing is to make all the big dishes for New Year's Eve, and there is no more cooking for a few days of New Year's Eve. "Thirty nights to stay up all night" On the night of the 30th (New Year's Eve), after the family eats New Year's Eve dinner, they will have fun all night long. When the clock strikes twelve, "eating dumplings on the first day of the Lunar New Year" begins. "Dumplings on the first day of the Lunar New Year are not eaten during the day on the first day of the Lunar New Year, but are served on the night of the Lunar New Year's Eve as soon as the clock strikes midnight. "On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the younger members of the family pay their respects to their elders and wish them well. From the first day to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year is the day to visit friends and relatives to pay respect to each other, gatherings, or go out to visit the temple fair. At that time, everywhere in the street can be seen head in the red flowers of the girl, hand raised windmills of the boy, as well as hanging a large string of mountain red, hand shaking the firecrackers of the children, the New Year's days, a peace and prosperity of the scene. On New Year's Day, all the stores on the street were closed for business and rested, and only the stores selling firecrackers were open. "Dumplings on the fifth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year is called "Broken Five", and no raw rice can be cooked on that day. In the evening of this day, all the fellows who went home for New Year's Eve came back, and the shopkeeper had to eat a meal of freshly made dumplings with the fellows to show unity in the coming year. Early in the morning of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the family stores will open. Before the opening of each family, are to be hung on the door of the "opening of the market, all prosperous" couplets, the counter sounded a crisp abacus sound, intended to the next year's booming business. At this time, the "New Year's Eve" has passed, everything back to normal life. People's Day The seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar is called "People's Day", "People's Victory Festival", or "Seven Dollars". This ancient festival has a history of at least two thousand years. According to Taoism, "Heaven and earth are first born of a chicken, a dog, a pig, a sheep and a horse." Han Dongfang Shuo's "Zhanshu" said: "the first month of the year one said Zhanshi chicken, two said Zhanshi dog, three said Zhanshi pig, four said Zhanshi sheep, five said Zhanshi cattle, six said Zhanshi horse, seven said Zhanshi people, eight said Zhanshi Valley. That the seventh day of the first month if the weather is clear, is said to be auspicious, the main year in and out of the smooth, safe population, if the cloudy is a sign of disaster. Qing Dynasty, Beijing people on the seventh day of the first month of the activities of the measurement of sunshine, "people said" this day to eat spring cake (a double layer of lotus leaf cake) roll "box dishes" (sauce elbow, tripe and other cooked meat dishes), and cut the cake in the GengYuan, called "smoky day". But this custom is spreading less and less, the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty has been rare. Shunxing Shunxing is also known as Star Sacrifice. On the night of the eighth day of the first month, whether or not people go to the temple to incense star (i.e., Shunxing), and so on the stars in the sky out of all, each family will hold a Shunxing sacrificial ceremony. Star festival, to be in the desk, stove, door, pots and other places to put a "gold lamp" (yellow lamp) and lighted, called "scattered lamps flower", there is to avoid the meaning of ominous. After the star festival, the whole family gathered together to eat a meal of Lantern Festival. Ringing the bell at the Dazhong Temple, touching the stone monkey at the Baiyunguan Temple, and stepping on stilts at the Liulichang Factory. The first thing that old Beijingers do on New Year's Day is to go shopping. Stroll in the temple fair, stroll in the factory. During the Spring Festival, there are many temples and fairs in Old Beijing, and each of them has a unique place. In the western suburbs of the Temple Fair of the Great Bell Temple, people hit the Yongle Great Bell, with the sound of the bell to meet the advent of the new year; in the Temple Fair of Baiyunguan, you can touch the stone monkeys, play the money eye, and use the entertainment to send the hope and longing for a better life in the coming year. Changsha New Year Customs "Niancailuo, out of the sky line" Changsha New Year Customs The first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar is the Spring Festival, Changsha is commonly known as the New Year. Changsha people celebrate the New Year for half a month, i.e. from the 24th day of the first lunar month to the 15th day of the first lunar month of the second year, until the Lantern Festival. This custom has lasted for thousands of years, and is basically the same as what was recorded in the Jing Chu Yearly Record of Liang in the Southern Dynasty. Lunar New Year on the 24th, commonly known as "over the small year", the family rest dinner, said "children over the New Year". Legend has it that as the "heavenly ears and eyes of the minister, the Lord of the earth's smoke and fire" Zao Wang Wang to return to heaven to report his duties, called resignation stove. In order to make him "say good things in the sky, down to the ground drop auspicious", "no need to speak nonsense, good words play the Jade Emperor", people in the day before to engage in cleaning, called "sweeping dust". Twenty-three or twenty-four night by the housewife in the pots and stoves around the candle offering stove, for its "send-off". The folk ballad says: "Quit the stove, the year has come, the sister wants flowers, the child wants cannons, the first help wants new clothes, the father wants a new hat". From this day onwards, long-time workers, craftsmen no longer door-to-door, families prepare for the New Year's goods, make tofu, kill the New Year's pig, send the New Year's festival, prepare snacks, fried dry tea, write Spring Festival couplets, tie lanterns, busy and joyful. The end of the day called New Year's Eve, or called New Year's Eve, households cut colorful paper, paste spring couplets, family reunion to get together and drink, dishes have surplus and leftovers, called eating New Year's Eve dinner. At the time of the lamp, burning incense and firecrackers, worship ancestors and family gods, called the New Year's Eve, and take the stove god sacrifice. Children in groups with lanterns in order to go to the neighbor's house, entering the door, said: "please resign from the New Year". Each family stood up to welcome, holding out snacks dry tea, the children's pockets stuffed full, some children go home after unloading pockets, and then quickly join the resignation team, a night can be one or two porcelain altar of food, and happy, and thus there is a proverb: "children look forward to New Year's Eve". New Year's Eve, Changsha, rural households in the fireplace burning a maple root and stem (or pine, chestnut and other root and stem), called "New Year's Day". Men, women and children around the stove **** words, elders to children New Year's money, the whole family eat pig's feet stewed radish, happy to sit and wait for the day, called "keep the year". The so-called "money, no money, turnip New Year's Eve". New Year's Eve, in the joy of the people at the same time, there is no lack of "home do not dare to return" of the poor, the so-called a few happy a few sad. Debtors to collect debts, craftsmen to collect money this is the deadline, the town streets, countryside, the bill collector's lanterns and torches flowing, some people can not pay the bill, copper pots of clothes may be taken, so they had to go out to hide the bill. There are also after the resignation of the New Year, with red paper writing "Hengmen Diffractive Qing" 4 Yu pasted on the door, closed the door, no one is allowed to go out, called "sealing the door of wealth". Ask the bill collectors have no choice, good people are made limerick: "poor family early to cover the door of wealth, although the debtor is difficult to enter the door. Annoyed by the businessmen to collect the bill, no money to eat the closed door. Inside the city more in the morning traveling to friends and relatives home to the hall to pay homage. Before the Qing dynasty donated to the virtual title, all the clothes on top of wear, strutting, high visibility to go everywhere to pay homage to the New Year. Businessmen are addicted to betel nut, in and out of the house are "fragrant tea FengZhao fruit plate open, betel nut YuanBao double double to", said chewing non-stop. Businessmen who have extensive contacts, they do not personally, so that the younger generation or servant with a name card to throw congratulations, called "worship post", that is, the origin of the latter days of the New Year's tablets. On the first day of the New Year folk preoccupations, taboos are quite a lot. Some in New Year's Eve in the door at the joints of the red paper "wealth" Yu, when the eye at the paste "open the door," "on my wealth" and so on the auspicious words, open the door when the chanting, called open the door to see the joy, When you open the door, recite it aloud, so that you will see happiness and wealth at the door. Out of the sky line, look at the wind to the sky, divining the next year's harvest, that "the north (wind) main abundance, the south main failure"; cloudy and sunny, dark and rainy. In the step base and Chaiwan, a lot of firewood is piled up to harmonize more wealth. On New Year's Day, people would carry firewood to the door, meaning "entering wealth". On the first day of the year, we don't take out the garbage, we don't sweep the floor, and when we have to sweep the floor, we don't sweep the broom outward, but we sweep the floor to Chaiwan. Some readers are writing "longevity and prosperity", "grains" and other auspicious words, called "New Year's pen, great luck". The first day of the special taboo vulgarity and indecent words, that this day was scolded, to be scolded for a year. Adults always have to advise children in advance: the first day to say good things! In the event that a child misspeaks, the adults immediately explained: "children's words, no taboo". Such as accidentally broke something, to say "send send"; if the wine cup fell, to say "wine splash red ground". The second day, son-in-law to the in-laws to pay tribute to the New Year, the so-called "the first pup, the first two Lang, the first three, the first four worship neighborhood. Changsha four townships have the habit of inviting spring guests: agreed to several generations of aunt and son-in-law nephews and nephews and other friends and relatives on a certain day to get together to drink. After the eighth day, acquaintances meet and say to each other, "Please pay a late year!" To fifteen days, generally do not mention the New Year. The first month of the fifteenth, the ancient name on the Yuan Festival, also known as the Festival of Lights. Changsha proverb: "thirty nights of fire, Lantern Night lights". Lantern watching at the Lantern Festival was popular in the Tang Dynasty and even more so in the Song Dynasty. Wen Tianzuo once described the lanterns in Hengzhou: "women pouring out of the city", "viewers like a blockade", "shoulder to shoulder", "at hand", "not discernible sound and spit "The city of Changsha has a lot of lanterns made of paper. Changsha Lantern Market, more gimlet and papier-maché lanterns of various types, or hanging in the courtyard, or listed in the street. It is said that every family lights candles in the corner of the stove, every household cooks food Lanterns shrinking, children are holding colorful lanterns to play. Farmers in addition to the pigsties in the dark corner of the kennel chicken slump candle, but also in the fields by the fire, intended to get rid of insects, praying for a good harvest. Children like to point in the corner of the wall Songming, burned while singing: "Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, burned insects and ants on the sky to rest". Those who are close to their ancestors' graves also send candles to the graves, so that their ancestors can enjoy the lights on earth. More lively is to catch the temple fair, singing opera, playing lion and dragon riding bamboo horse and other spring cultural activities at this time to reach a climax, often noisy all night, so the name of the Lantern Festival. One of the most common to dance dragon lanterns, urban and rural neighborhoods, villages and villages clan temple family almost all tie "dragon". Folk believe that playing the dragon can protect the Qingji, so the "dragon" wherever, drums and music, firecrackers incessantly, more than given to the package seal. Married and childless women, often let the "dragon" around its body, or let the "dragon" in the bed to shrink into a circle, riding on a child, the name of the unicorn to send a child. Yangzhou New Year's Customs Breakfast on the first day of the New Year, Yangzhou people attach great importance to. Although Yangzhou people have to the teahouse to eat tea habits, but the first morning is the exception, people generally do not go out, to be at home with the family, eat a bowl of steaming soup dumplings. Yangzhou soup dumplings in a variety of ways, there is a kind of dumplings called "four happy dumplings", is a favorite in the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, this dumplings with four kinds of filling made of vegetables, bean paste, sesame sugar and minced meat. The taste is good, but the name of the dumplings is more important to people, because the meaning of these "Four Happiness Dumplings" is: "Everything is as it should be" and "Family Reunion". Similar to the "Four Happiness Dumplings", Yangzhou people in the old days also had the custom of eating "lucky eggs" on the morning of the first day of the year. Yangzhou commentary "Pi five spicy" chapter 27 there is a narrative: to the fourth day, the cold is heavier. At this time, someone shouted from afar: "Sell ----- good luck eggs!" What is a good luck egg? That is, the eggs are cooked, the eggshell painted with figures and landscapes, with red and green colors; or write some words, what "good luck and good luck", "year after year, as you wish" ...... this egg is called good luck and good luck eggs. Once upon a time, during the New Year's Eve, there were eggs for sale everywhere, and every family had to buy them. The buyers came and sent good luck on behalf of the family members. The head of the family, lying on the bed with his face turned to the sky, the woman put the lucky egg on the door of the man's heart and said something about good luck! "Good luck, good fortune, good luck"! All things go well ah! ...... and so on, and then asked the man to eat the egg, the year as expected. ...... The vendors who sold the "lucky eggs" have long since disappeared, so most people in Yangzhou today don't know what the "lucky eggs" are all about, which is a great pity. According to the description in the Yangzhou commentary, there are also figures and landscapes painted on the eggshell, so it is not so much a lost seasonal food as a lost folk craft. Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, Yangzhou area has "on the light of the round child fall lamp face" said, this is said to mean that the first month of the 13th night is on the light, on the light to eat dumplings, on the 18th night of the first month is the fall of the light, the fall of the light to eat noodles. Why this food custom? The people's explanation is that eating dumplings to symbolize "full circle", eat noodles to symbolize "smooth smooth smooth". The "dumplings" here are also known as the "Lantern Festival". Nowadays, Yangzhou people call the solid glutinous rice ball "Yuanxiao" and the glutinous rice ball with filling "Tangyuan". Not so in the old days, there is filling also called "Lantern Festival", "Zhenzhou bamboo stick lyrics quoted" said: "Lantern Festival, rolling glutinous rice flour, wrapped in cinnamon brine in the ball, so like the moon also." It seems that because "like the moon is also", Yangzhou people will be "Lantern Festival" called "dumplings". The meaning of "fullness" is also derived from eating soup dumplings. Eat noodles is in the first month of the eighteenth night of the fall of the lamp, "real state bamboo stick lyrics citation" also cloud: "eighteen said the fall of the lamp, people eat noodles, commonly known as the lamp on the lamp round son of the fall of the lamp noodle. Also home for the feast, in order to celebrate. Nineteen said to worship Tibetan images, wash away the joy, joy commonly known as hanging music, proverb: family tear hanging music, everyone looking for the whereabouts. Scholar is to attack the book, the workers are back to the restaurant, and the year to finish." This passage does not directly explain why the eighteenth day of the first month to eat noodles, but the answer is already implied: the eighteenth day of the first month, "the year to finish", from now on to "everyone looking for the whereabouts", "the scholar is to attack the book, the workers are Return to the restaurant", eat a bowl of noodles, is to wish people in the upcoming career, all things can be like eating noodles, "smooth smooth smooth". Eat dumplings or eat noodles, are Yangzhou people on the daily life of self-design and self-arrangement. It is also unique for Yangzhou people to be able to find out the meaning of auspiciousness and good fortune from the simple image of food. New Year's Wine In the first month of the year, Yangzhou people also have the custom of "inviting the spring goblet" and "making a meeting with the God of Fortune". There is a poem "Inviting Spring Goblet Wine" in Volume 5 of Generali 300 Purines, which reads: "Once the spring breeze arrives, it is prosperous, and I am too busy to make a plate of spring wine to boast of the different flavors. The spring breeze is very prosperous when it arrives, and I am busy making the spring plate full of different flavors. I am very happy to be flushed with spring colors, and I am happy to be at your home this year." The citation of this poem says it more clearly: "Yangcheng banquet is full of, before and after the New Year's Lantern Festival banquet friends and relatives, the name is: spring doom." In the "Introduction to the Bamboo Words of Zhenzhou", it is also written: "Gentlemen banquets, said 'please spring goblet'; store house banquets, said 'do the God of Wealth'." The goblet is an ancient wine container. In modern language, "Inviting the Spring Goblet" means inviting guests to a banquet during the New Year. Only in the "Introduction to the Bamboo Shoots of Zhenzhou", the people who gathered for the feast were divided into two categories, one was the gentlemen and the other was the shopkeepers, and the purpose of the feast was different, but the form was the same. Nowadays, people don't divide them into two categories. "Inviting the spring goblet" and "making a meeting with the God of Fortune" are all called "inviting the New Year's Eve wine". In fact, "inviting wine for the New Year Festival" is an ancient custom that has existed since the Tang Dynasty. Tao Shi, a monk of the Song Dynasty, said in Dharma Garden Jurin: "The custom of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty was that after New Year's Day, people were invited to drink wine and invited each other to meet, and this was known as the "Passing of the Wine" (Qing Jia Lu, Volume 1). (Qingjiazhu, Volume 1) Today, more than a thousand years later, the custom of "inviting New Year's Day wine" is still prevalent, especially in the countryside, people in the second day of the first month of the first friends and relatives and neighbors began to invite each other, you invite me, and then I invite you back, and have to invite each other to the eighteenth day of the first month. Yangzhou family New Year's Eve, whether sumptuous, or simple, there are a few vegetarian dishes are essential. One is pea shoots, peas, Yangzhou, also known as beans, fried on a dish of beans on the seedlings, meaning "peace and security". Secondly, there should be watercress, watercress stems are tubular, the next year's career can be "LuLuTong". The third is tofu, with tofu, the next year can be "steep rich". These are all from the dialect on the harmony and image of the will, after the people's reasonable imagination, will be attached to the good wishes. There are dishes that are not virtual wishes, but have practical significance and local characteristics, which are "ten fragrant dishes" and "Anle dishes". "Ten fragrant vegetables" is mainly salted vegetables, mixed with shredded carrots, bamboo shoots, dried bean threads, peanuts, soybeans, etc., is a simple and easy to make homemade small dishes, families have to fry. New Year's people eat a lot of meat dishes, too greasy, eat this kind of mixed fried vegetables, doubly fragrant and delicious, so the name is "ten fragrant vegetables". The raw material of "An Lei Cai" is horse tooth vegetable, also known as amaranth. Wang Zengqi also made a study of this dish, he said: "Amaranth is divided into human amaranth, horse amaranth. Human amaranth is today's amaranth, and horse amaranth is amaranth. My grandmother used to pick tender and fat amaranth in summer and dry it to make buns for New Year's Eve." Yangzhou Xishan Xiaozhi also corroborates Wang's claim, saying, "In April and May, we take amaranth and store it in pickles, called "Anle Vegetables", and then make buns with the filling at the end of the year." The horse's toothwort is an annual fleshy herb, and can be used as a medicine to treat dysentery. In the New Year, the dishes are mixed, there will inevitably be negligence. Yangzhou housewife with horse tooth vegetable buns, both flavorful food, but also to ensure the well-being of the family, which is a veritable "comfort dish. Tibetan New Year Customs Mutual respect "Cheema, three mouths a cup" Tibetan customs Tibetan New Year, sometimes a few days difference with the mainland's Spring Festival, sometimes a month difference, is the Tibetan people the biggest festival of the year, doubly valued by the Tibetan people. Into the Tibetan calendar December, Lhasa area Tibetan people began to create a new year atmosphere, made a series of preparations for the new year: every family should be soaked in pots of green tree seeds, the first day of the Tibetan new year good to grow into one or two inches of the green tree seedling for the Buddha's niche on the coffee table, in order to be in the new year in the harvest of good luck; preparation of ghee and white flour and successively fried "Kasai "' (fruit) and other offerings. Nowadays, however, more and more people in the city go directly to the street to buy ready-made green naked seedlings and kasai. However, it is a must for every family to finish their needlework and clean their houses and yards as soon as possible. In the old city and rural areas, people also use lime, white paint or tsampa powder to draw auspicious patterns, and some are painted on the front door wall scorpions to avoid evil spirits. Not only that, the night of December 29 of the Tibetan calendar, each family will eat "Gutu" to drive away ghosts. The so-called "Gutu" is the noodle lump. However, the Tibetan people eat "Gutu" in many different ways. Housewives, in the process of making "Gutu", wrap some things in some of the "Gutu" to test the temperament and luck of the family in the new year. Such as eating the sun and the moon made of flour, that the person can enjoy the highest dignity, eat to the ceramic tile that is lazy, eat to the chili pepper that the mouth as a knife, eat to the wool that people are very gentle, patient, eat to the carbon that the heart black, eat to the meat that the old and love the young, eat to the cow dung that often have good luck, and so on and so forth. In fact, the real purpose of doing so is only to add to the fun of the "Gutu Night". Tibetan people do not seem to have the tradition of New Year's Eve, so there is no New Year's Eve special activities, everything is waiting for the arrival of the first day of the New Year. People usher in the Tibetan New Year in the sound of "Zaga" (now mostly played on the radio), which is a folkloric song that blesses the elderly with good fortune. "(harvest bucket), a variety of sweets in the Buddha's niche or Tibetan cabinet, the whole family changed into new clothes, sitting on the brand-new card cushion, eat with ginseng fruit, ghee, sugar, etc. to do the "auspicious rice". After the meal, the elders brought to the grain bucket, each person in turn grabbed a few grains, to the sky to indicate the sacrifice to God, and then flick a little into the mouth. At this time, the elders wish everyone "Zaxi Dele, ', the younger generation back to congratulate "I wish you good health, happiness forever. This day the family basically closed the door to get together, neighbors do not visit each other. The second day of the beginning of family and friends visit each other, congratulations on the New Year, lasted half a month. However, now Lhasa and other cities within the Tibetan New Year's Day, people also have to go out to pay tribute to the New Year. In some institutions and factories in the compound also held a reunion activities. Reunion activities we meet each other say "zaxi dele" (good luck), each other honor "chee ma" and green tree wine. Accept "Chema" should be from the "Chema bucket" within a little bit of tsampa or wheat first to the sky three times. To show respect to the sky, respect to the earth, respect to the people, and then flick a little in the mouth to eat, each other and then say "zazidler". The green naked wine can not taste a little thing. In the new year to three a cup, that is, to receive the toast cup should be dipped in the ring finger wine upward three times, also show respect to heaven and earth, and then drink a mouthful of wine, the toast to fill the cup, the toast to drink a said, so repeated three times, and finally, "under the Puda" (cheers), toast after the joyful song and dance performance has to continue until sunset. Lhasa region of the Tibetan New Year is the most characteristic, at the same time, yi kazha zhe region, linzhi region, the northern Tibetan grassland and other areas of the Tibetan New Year also has a strong regional characteristics, and the day of the festival is also successively different. Macao New Year customs "thank the stove, the market" Macao New Year customs have a special flavor Macao New Year customs, have a special flavor. One of the most traditional Chinese New Year customs preserved in Macau is the "Zao Xie" (谢灶), which means "thanking the God for the stove" (谢灶). On the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, the God of Stove is given away, which is called "thanking the God of Stove" in Macao. Macanese people give the god of the stove in accordance with Chinese tradition also use Zao sugar, said to be sugar paste the mouth of the god of the stove, so as to avoid it to the Jade Emperor to say bad words. I have seen a Santa Claus statue on the stove of a Macanese family on Flower Street in Macao, and strangely enough, the Santa Claus statue is labeled with a couplet that reads, "Good things are said in heaven, and good fortune comes to the house". Macanese New Year begins on the 28th day of the Lunar New Year, which means "easy to send" in Cantonese, and most business owners invite their employees to a "New Year's Eve dinner" at this late hour to signify good fortune and good fortune. The New Year's flavor in Macau can be truly felt from the 28th day of the Lunar New Year. On New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve vigil and the flower market are the two major events for Macau people to celebrate the old and welcome the new. The New Year's Eve is to play mahjong, watch TV, catch up on old times and chat, and *** enjoy the joy of family; probably influenced by the Western Christmas and Valentine's Day, Macau people also scramble to buy some auspicious flowers and trees to welcome the New Year at New Year's Eve, which has now become a Macau New Year's custom. Macau in the Lantern Festival organized flower market, mostly peach blossoms, daffodils, potted bamboo, potted oranges, blossoms, wishing for peace, flowers and trees signify a new year's good prospects. The flower market in Macau is held for three days, which gives endless comfort to the people of Macau who have been running around for a year. On the day of Chinese New Year, Macanese people emphasize on "Lai Si", which means red packets. On this day, bosses have to "Lai Si" when they see their employees, elders have to "Lai Si" when they see their elders, and even married people have to "Lai Si" when they see their unmarried people. "Lai Si" is purely for good luck. Macau people call the second day of the Lunar New Year "New Year's Eve". It is customary to have a "New Year" meal, which must include hairy vegetables, lettuce and carp, which is meant to bring wealth and good fortune. From the day of the "New Year", within three days Macau == civil servants are allowed to "bet" (gambling). After the "New Year", Macau returns to the traditional Chinese New Year customs until the Lantern Festival, which is also a festival of fireworks and firecrackers, playing with dragons and lions, and rejoicing. Taiwan's Spring Festival Customs Taiwan's folk Spring Festival, originated in the motherland, especially the Taiwanese who speak Minnan language, New Year's Eve is more similar to the Minnan region. Taiwanese New Year's activities from the lunar calendar on December 16, the "tail tooth" began. On this day every family should worship the landlord, especially businessmen, in order to pray for the new year to get rich, always to sacrifice the body, gold paper sacrifice, and to share the offerings to colleagues to reward employees, this is called "food tail tooth". "Eating the last teeth", will be dismissed employees, the employer to the head of a chicken to indicate that next year, please look for another job. Therefore, there is a proverb in Taiwan that says, "Eat the last tooth and worry about the face, eat the first tooth and caress the mouth". Means that the last teeth meal is related to the work to stay or go. The 24th day of the lunar calendar is the people to send God ascension of the day, and the 23rd day of the lunar month in southern Fujian to send the same God of the stove. Offerings must have "sweet round" (dumplings), stick in the stove mouth, so that the God of the stove "good words to heaven, bad words to the side". On this day, there is also cleaning, all the "bad luck" in the house, so as to welcome the New Year. New Year's Eve is called "All Night" and "All Night" in Taiwan, depending on the size of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar. "All night" means the end of the year. Before it gets late, families prepare offerings, such as sweet tangerines, sweet rice cakes, "spring rice" and "New Year's money". "Spring rice is rice served with a sharp tip and paper cut-outs of the Chinese character for spring inserted into the rice. This is because "chun" and "leftovers" sound the same in Southern Min dialects, meaning "there are leftovers every year, and you can't have enough food every year". In addition, behind the front door, two sugar canes with leaves and whiskers are placed vertically, called "long year cane", to take the long and sweet, to "strengthen the family luck and good fortune" meaning. When eating New Year's Eve dinner "around the stove", a new charcoal stove and a new sunflower fan are placed under the eight-imperial table, and the words "spring" and "good fortune" written on red paper are pasted on the fan and the stove. When they gather around the stove, they have to say auspicious words, such as "Eat red dates, the year will be good! and "Eat New Year's rice, make money every year!" etc., there must be mustard on the table, called "long years of vegetables", symbolizing a long life. Some people also have "leeks" on the table, that is, "leeks" and "long" resonance, symbolizing longevity. Radish is also indispensable, Minnan called it "vegetable head", said "good luck" (good omen). There should also be chicken, which means "home", and "eating chicken to start a family" will boost the family's reputation. "Around the stove" when the vegetables are not chopped with a knife, washed and boiled with the roots, eaten without biting off, but from head to tail, slowly eat into the belly, in order to wish parents long life. After the New Year's Eve dinner is the New Year's Eve celebration. In Taiwan, the "New Year's Watch" is also called the "Night of Longevity," symbolizing the younger generation's wish for their parents' longevity. Once the "cross time" (12:00 midnight) has passed, people gather young and old to honor the gods with red and white rice cakes, pay homage to Gongma (i.e., Zu Gong Zu Mao), and then set off firecrackers to welcome spring and receive blessings. Taiwanese people celebrate New Year's Eve by making red turtle rice cakes, hair rice cakes, and vegetable rice cakes. Red turtle rice fruit in the shape of a tortoise, dyed red, on the tortoise armor seal, used to symbolize people's longevity and prolonged age. Every family uses this cake to honor the God of Heaven, who nurtures all things. If guests come to the door to pay their respects, they are invited to eat candies and sweet nuts, and say different auspicious words according to men and women, young and old. For example, children can say to the elderly, "Eat a sweet, and I wish you long life!" Between peers can say: "Eat a sweet, wish you make a lot of money!" Hong Kong New Year Customs "Lion Dance, Dragon Dance" Hong Kong New Year Customs On the eve of the New Year, families are busy for the New Year: cleaning houses, getting rid of the old, buying New Year's goods, etc. On New Year's Eve (New Year's Eve), the New Year's Day is celebrated by a large number of people, including the Chinese people. On New Year's Eve (the night of the 30th day of the Lunar New Year), it is the day of family reunion, when families have a Lunar New Year dinner together. The dishes of the New Year's dinner are usually very rich, chicken, duck, fish, meat and vegetables, all kinds of fresh wax. Most of the dishes have auspicious meanings in their names. After the Lunar New Year's dinner, people usually go to the Lunar New Year's market to buy some Lunar New Year's flowers, which adds to the atmosphere of Lunar New Year. In addition, many parents will hand out New Year's money to their children, encouraging them to behave well and to study and work hard. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people start to officially celebrate the New Year by putting up Spring Festival couplets, New Year's paintings, dragon dances, lion dances, etc., as well as going to friends and relatives to pay their respects to the New Year. In addition, there are a lot of New Year's foods, such as rice cakes, deep-fried golden-colored oil horns, fried piles, and egg scatters. There are many taboos and habits of the New Year: the first: chicken said - the old days in the New Year's Day sticker painting chicken to ward off evil spirits and pray for good luck (because the chicken harmonic auspicious (ji)); the second: the dog said - go out to pay homage to the New Year or ancestor; the third: the sheep said - "red mouth," easy to have a The first two: the dog said - "red mouth", easy to have a quarrel, should not pay homage to the New Year; Tian Sheng said, sacrificing the field; the fourth: the pig said - sacrificing the God of Wealth, the boss wants to "fire someone", not to invite him to pay homage to the God; the fifth: the cow said - broken five, can break many taboos, five-way God of Wealth said, there is the custom of "receiving the God of Wealth"; the sixth: Horse Day - the day of "sending the God of Fortune", the New Year's Eve to send the God of Fortune paper horse burned, the store began to resume business; the seventh: People's Day - people's birthday, but also the gathering to eat and drink, fireworks, firecrackers, fireworks custom, is the "fire of the day of the birth of the". The eighth: the Valley said - the stars down below, so to sacrifice the stars, temples often set up altars on this day to sacrifice the stars, receive charity; The ninth: the birth of the Master of the sky - the Jade Emperor's birthday, held a grand festival of heavenly activities; The tenth: the birth of the stone - all the mill, pestle and mortar and other stone utensils are avoided to move, burn incense to worship the stone utensils. Shanghai New Year Customs Shanghai is located in Jiangnan, therefore, Shanghai's customs and other places in Jiangnan have a lot in common. After the opening of the port of Shanghai, gradually become a river and sea, densely populated, Chinese and foreigners living in a mixed, five-party city, but also to the original customs to add new content; Shanghai customs gradually formed their own characteristics. New Year's Eve and Spring Festival New Year's Eve, also known as "New Year's Eve", refers to the last day of the year on the lunar calendar or the night of this day. -It is also called "New Year's Eve" because it refers to the last day of the lunar year or the night of this day. New Year's Eve "in addition to" word, the original meaning of removal, so New Year's Eve is also called "year in addition to". According to the old custom on the twenty-third day of the lunar month for the stove said, should be sacrificed to Zaojun. Lunar New Year on the 24th day of the lunar month, from this day until New Year's Eve, families have to clean up, purchase New Year's goods, rural areas to kill pigs and slaughter goats, grinding glutinous rice flour, making all kinds of snacks, pickling all kinds of preserved meat. In the countryside, they kill pigs and slaughter sheep, grind glutinous rice flour, make various kinds of snacks, and pickle various kinds of preserved meat. City people tend to buy some daffodils, plums, geraniums, etc. inserted in the bottle to add to the festive atmosphere. When night falls, the family reunion, eat New Year's Eve dinner, also known as reunion dinner, the table dishes are generally very sumptuous. Stay up all night, the public generally watch TV programs at home, called "New Year's Eve", when the new year's bells ringing, all of a sudden, firecrackers, to welcome the New Year. Firecrackers have been banned in the city center to ensure public safety, but the Spring Festival is celebrated in other ways. The Spring Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals for our people, and it is a time of great joy. The first day of the first month of the old calendar is the traditional New Year in China. At dawn on the first day of the first month, people are all dressed up, and the whole family pays New Year's greetings to the elders, and the peers pay New Year's greetings to each other. Elders also want to give the children to send red paper packets of New Year's money, congratulations on their increase in a year. On the afternoon of the first day, as well as the second and third days out to friends and relatives to congratulate the New Year, now advanced communications, many people are using the phone or online New Year's Eve. Nowadays, videophones have begun to enter people's lives. When you give distant friends and relatives to pay New Year's greetings, the other side of the receiver's face and face will immediately and clearly shown on the TV screen. The clear sound, high-quality picture, can let you feel with friends and relatives as if face-to-face conversation like cordiality.