What is the folk custom of Pingtan New Year?

The folk custom of Pingtan Spring Festival is to be a child, dust off, celebrate New Year's Eve in different years. Lunar calendar1February 24th is the Lunar New Year, commonly known as "being a young man". Is to prepare for the new year. In the old society, long-term workers had little food, so they settled accounts with their hosts and went home for the New Year. Except the guys at the store. They want to take the master's bill to the door of the creditor's house to collect debts, but generally they don't charge money, just to inform them.

Collect money on the 25th. Until New Year's Eve closes, no one is allowed to call home to collect accounts after closing. From this day on, every household began to buy new year's goods, cut new clothes, kill pigs and sheep, steam rice cakes, kill chickens and ducks, buy New Year pictures, set off firecrackers and so on. Adults are busy and worried, while children are looking forward to the new year with joy. This day is also a day for people to sacrifice stoves.

Pingtan Spring Festival custom

Spring Festival is a very grand festival, and a lot of preparations must be made before it. Lunar calendar1February 23rd is a dust removal day. It is from this day to the 30th that we should choose odd days to clean the house and the outside. Tie bamboo poles with zongzi or grass and dust the ceiling and walls. Besides washing doors and windows, floors, furniture and so on. Is to have a clean Spring Festival.

The custom of posting Spring Festival couplets and hanging New Year pictures in Pingtan is similar to that in other places. Generally, Spring Festival couplets and spring paintings should be posted before New Year's Eve to welcome the arrival of the New Year. People who have new funerals this year will only post green Spring Festival couplets to show Dai Xiao.

One of the important contents of the New Year's Eve dinner is to eat it. Pingtan people call it "thirty blind breasts", and all the hosts take out the best things to make New Year's Eve dinner. The richer, the better. But it can't be made into ten dishes, it can be nine or eleven. After a family eats the New Year's Eve dinner, elders will give lucky money to unmarried children and grandchildren, which is called giving lucky money.

Then the whole family sat around. Have a heart-to-heart talk, look forward to the future, until zero, open the door and set off firecrackers to meet the god of wealth. Lights should be lit all night on New Year's Eve, and the lights will be bright and prosperous in the coming year.