The custom of celebrating the Spring Festival in various places

1, Jiangsu: digging ingots. The Spring Festival customs in Jiangsu have their own characteristics. Suzhou people cooked water chestnuts in New Year's Eve meals and dug them out when eating, which is called digging ingots. Friends and relatives come and go. Put two green olives when making tea, which is called drinking Yuanbao tea. Congratulations on getting rich. Wujin people are not allowed to sweep the floor from home during the New Year, for fear of sweeping away wealth and happiness, they can only sweep from the outside to the inside. Nantong people have the custom of planting sesame stalks, holly and cypress branches at home or in front of the church, which means that life is blooming every day and the seasons are evergreen.

2. Shanxi: You can't talk on New Year's Eve. In Shanxi, there is a rule that you can't talk when you eat on New Year's Eve. The first meal of the Spring Festival is jiaozi. When cooking jiaozi, set off firecrackers. For good luck. Drive away evil. In some areas, sesame stalks are used to cook jiaozi, which means that the new year is like sesame blossoms, and the days are getting better and better. Jiaozi cooks much more, and it must be more than enough, and it is planned to be more and more every year. When eating, in addition to one bowl per person, one or two more bowls should be served to pray for prosperity.

3. Hubei: Have a reunion dinner at noon. There is a custom in Hubei that a married daughter can go back to her family for a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, but she can't spend the night at her family. In order to facilitate the daughter to go back to her husband's house after dinner, the local reunion dinner is usually finished around noon 12. There must be a plate of whole fish on the table of the reunion dinner, so there will be more than one plate every year. This dish is served last, so you can only watch it, but you can't eat it. Be sure to stay until after the third grade, or you will be scolded by your elders.

4. Jiangxi: Daughters and sons-in-law can't share the same room when they return to their parents' home. In some places in Jiangxi, married daughters take their husbands back to their parents' homes for the New Year. Couples can't sleep in the same bed or even share the same room. Only the only daughter can break through this custom, otherwise the father-in-law would rather let his son-in-law sleep on the floor than allow his daughter-in-law to share the same room. Moreover, you can only go back to your mother's family in the off-year (Lunar calendar1February 24-30), and it is not allowed after this time period, otherwise it will be considered unlucky for your mother's family.

5, Tianjin: chop villain. Tianjin people call the fifth day of the first month "Breaking Five". This day. Every household should eat jiaozi, and the chopping board should be loud so that neighbors can hear it, to show that they are chopping villains. Only by putting bad things on the villain and getting rid of the villain can we prosper in the new year. At night, firecrackers will be set off to pray for avoiding evil spirits and disasters. Tianjin also has the custom of hanging money during the Spring Festival. Hanging money is a pattern cut and engraved with colored paper and pasted on the glass and horizontal edge of doors and windows as an ornament of the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival.