What are the special New Year's Eve customs across the country?

New Year's Customs in Northeast China

The Spring Festival is the most solemn festival in China, and there are a lot of customs passed down from ancient times, and in the case of Northeast China, there are a lot of them.

In the olden days, almost all the celebrations of the New Year's Eve were centered on New Year's Eve, with the whole family dressed in new clothes. The whole family has to put on new clothes.

First of all, the whole family worships their ancestors, burns incense and candles, makes offerings, and kowtows to the three generations of gods and goddesses in order to say goodbye to the year. Subsequently, held a family dinner, the elders sat on the top, the younger generation sat in a group, to take "the whole family reunion" meaning. Fruit necessary to enrich the meal, so that people have a sense of fulfillment, a sign of the coming year, food and clothing, business prosperity.

This meal is the first taste of New Year's food, can be meat and vegetables together. Usually necessary to have braised pork, lamb stew, rice flour meat, stewed elbow strips, Yuanbao meat, south fried meatballs, four happy balls, chicken jelly, fish jelly, pork jelly, soy sauce, tempeh tofu, mustard pier, spicy mustard, fried soy sauce melon children and other New Year's Eve set of dishes.

During the meal, young and old wished each other well, pushed the glass between brothers, enjoying the joy of family. After the meal, the children will be sesame straw all over the courtyard, people walking on it, rattling, called "step on the year"; and then hung in the interior and exterior of the spring light up, shining on the four walls of the New Year's Eve paintings and spring strips, indoor and outdoor a brilliant light.

"Heaven and earth table" on the large yellow paper color printing "three places and three worlds of eighteen Buddhas" or "hundred copies" (heaven and earth gods image book), set up a big cake, honey offerings, noodles and fresh, The festival also includes offerings of big cakes, honey offerings, noodles, fresh fruit, vegetarian dishes, rice cakes, and New Year's rice, as well as red candles with gold characters and meridian incense to welcome the gods down to the world for their blessings.

In order to cherish the passing years, men, women, and children stay up all night and engage in different recreational activities, which is called "observing the New Year". Children have always been free to play, shaking the firecracker, pulling the gyro, twisting the figure of promotion, rolling dice, playing cow cards, playing the glazed trumpet, harmonica, playing shadow puppets, pointing the lanterns, playing "drip gold", "rat shit", "yellow smoke with guns". "

The old ladies sit together and play cards, mahjong, and ten hu.

Entertainment with fresh fruits, candies, dried fruit mixer, Wen Park, fried red fruits, candied begonias, etc., eat and play, enjoy, until the "reception of God".

In the middle of the night, the sound of firecrackers, the night sky. "Silver rust all over the sky, the whole street smoke thick". Families gather at the heaven and earth table to burn incense and offer vegetarian dumplings to welcome the gods.

After the ceremony, it is declared that the old year is gone and the new year is coming, which is the solemn moment of "five nights and two years". The whole family said to each other "New Year's Eve", the younger generation to the hall to the elders bowing to pay tribute to the New Year, the elders must give the underage children one by one to introduce the "New Year's Eve money".

Finally, the whole family eats a meal of vegetarian dumplings, called "Wujing Dumplings" and "Reunion Dumplings".

Only one out of a hundred dumplings has a coin in it, and it is said that the person who eats this dumpling will have a good year.

Nowadays, people in Northeast China still keep many old traditional customs for the New Year.

The Spring Festival of the Manchu

The traditional festivals of the Manchu people are basically the same as the Han Chinese, the so-called "Fenghua province, the old customs of the Manchu and Han people are different, and assimilated for a long time, and more than has been similar" ("Fengtian Tongzhi" Volume 98). But "different old customs of Manchu and Han", Manchu New Year's Day has a special flavor.

Spring Festival: before the festival to do the traditional Manchu pastries ---- saqima, posting couplets, window, hanging paper (according to the flag genus were pasted red, yellow, blue, white), Fukuji (Shenyang City, Xinmin County, Liaobin Tower Village, Liao Jia's home has printed Fukuji mahogany printing plate). Manchu people like to wear purse, before the Spring Festival Court to routinely reward Ministers and Princes "peace year after year" purse, folk also give each other. The afternoon of New Year's Eve and New Year's Day morning to sacrifice ancestors, sacrifices to heaven. New Year's Eve to receive the god, after receiving the god in the gate to put a horizontal wood to prevent the ghosts and demons to come in. New Year's Eve also hangs the door god to drive away evil spirits, which is the result of absorbing the customs of the Han Chinese, the door god is divided into about "generals door god", "Fuklu door god", "judge door god", "doll door god" and so on. Today, the Imperial Palace in Shenyang Palace collection of the Palace Gate God. New Year's Eve distribution of "God paper", followed by the younger generation of men to the family home "farewell". New Year's Eve midnight at midnight, every family ate dumplings, but also a few coins secretly put in the dumplings, those who ate the "end of the year, great luck". Firecrackers are set off to receive the gods and bid farewell to the year. New Year's Eve in the courtyard of the family erected lantern poles, picking red lights, from New Year's Eve to the first six, night and day. Palace on the 24th day of the waxing moon to hang "sky lanterns", every night on the lights, to the third day of February the following year.

New Year's Day, commonly known as the first day of the New Year, people are up early, dressed in new clothes and crowns, congratulate each other on the New Year, called "New Year's Day".

Eating dumplings called "put Yuanbao" Manchu Spring Festival fun

Tianjin

La Baili: Tianjin people called the eighth day of the month of Lunar New Year for "La Baili", there is the custom of drinking La Baili porridge. Many Tianjin people also use vinegar to soak garlic on this day, the name "Laha vinegar". Lahai vinegar" is not only the flavor of mellow, and not bad for a long time.

Stroll Niangniang Palace: Lunar New Year's Day 15 began, a variety of New Year's goods are all on the market to Niangniang Palace as the axis of the Palace of the Palace of the North Street is bustling. Boys to the Niangniang Palace, the first goal is the wind gourd, adult men here, can not forget to buy lanterns, women to come here is more "wash dolls. From the Niangniang Palace tethered back to the "doll" every year to "wash a back", which is the festival before the women must do things.

Sugar Melon Stove: Lunar New Year 23, is the day of the ascension of Zao Wang Wang, families to buy sugar melon children, until 12:00 at night to sacrifice Zao Wang Wang. After the incense is burned out, please down the stove king statue, light the fire burned, the New Year's Eve and then buy a new stove king statue, also known as the "stove king yard son" to change on, year after year, are so.

Hanging money: Hanging money is cut with colored paper into a pattern, pasted on the windows and doors of the glass and horizontal prongs, as the Spring Festival festive atmosphere of the embellishment. The stickers can only be damaged on the fifth day of the first month, otherwise it means a year of bad luck.

"broken five": Tianjin people call the fifth day of the first month "broken five". On this day, every family to eat dumplings, chopping board to chop ding dong loud, so that the neighbors hear, to show that is chopping "little man". Tianjin people attribute bad things to the "little man" body, get rid of the "little man" in order to be lucky, smooth, the fifth night firecrackers, but also the meaning of avoiding evil and avoiding disaster.

Tibetan: the Tibetan calendar year, is the Tibetan people in Tibet, the most important year, a traditional festival. The Tibetan calendar is basically the same as the lunar calendar, and the Tibetan New Year is also similar to the Spring Festival, which is now regarded as an important traditional festival by the Tibetan people.

Households have been busy since the month of Lunar New Year, twenty-seven days before, preparing for the New Year's goods.

Twenty-nine days, clean up the interior and exterior, remove smoke and dust, so that the windows are clear; men to shave their heads, women to comb and wash the braids, called the Tibetan language, "Goucai". In front of the scripture hall statue of Buddha set up "grain bucket", bucket inserted barley spike, to pray for a new year of wind and rain, a good harvest. Some also want to insert the peacock plume, or with colorful silk cloth Zha's carving plume.

In the agricultural and pastoral areas also like to use the hatha bundle a bunch of barley spike, hanging on the stove, or the top of the door on the rafters, and coated with cow hair and ghee, and prayed for animal prosperous, food abundance. Households soak barley wine, ghee or clear oil to fry a variety of fruit, the production of ghee cheese cake (made of ghee and cheese cake, the Tibetan language, called "special"), do "melt crisp" (ghee melted and made, the Tibetan language, called "Ying"), boiled cattle and cows, and the "ghee" (made of ghee, the Tibetan language, called "Ying"). "), cooking beef and mutton, and so on.

The night of the 29th, cooking nine flavors of porridge, called "Gejiao" in Tibetan.

On the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, which is called "Nangwang" in Tibetan, the housewife prepares the matches for the next morning. In this way, the first morning when you get up to build a fire, a little on the fire, a blow on the fire, symbolizing the new year, the whole family all the best.

Qiang: people in addition to the Qiang calendar year (the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar), the Spring Festival is also a grand festival, commonly known as "New Year's Eve". New Year's Eve at noon to paste the god of the door, spring couplets, the evening burning pig head, to honor the family god, eat New Year's Eve dinner, the fire of the family fire pit, burned particularly large, drink smack wine to keep the New Year's Eve; to the cock-crowing, each household firecrackers, burning incense and candles, lighting firewood, on the roof of their respective houses to worship the god of the sky, "white stone god".

Miao: After breakfast on the first day of the New Year, the New Year's greeting begins. The host first gives the worshipper wine to drink, and then gives him meat to eat; when he leaves, he gives the worshipper some glutinous rice and money, so as to seek good luck.

Yi: After getting up on the first day of the New Year, the first thing to do is to go to pick water, and use the new water throughout the day to wash things, cook, but not wash and dry clothes, and do not eat green vegetables.

Korean people: on the Spring Festival, people sing, dance, and go to the fields to burn fires to drive away pests; women engage in recreational activities such as jumping on see-saws and swinging on swings.

Manchu: the clan is divided into red, yellow, blue, white and other four flags people, the Spring Festival, respectively, in the door of the red, yellow, blue, white hanging flags, symbolizing the auspicious beginning of the year.

The Yao tribe: during the Spring Festival, newlyweds pay their respects to the woman's mother's family, where the father sings a song to wish his daughter and son-in-law love and harmony.

Bai people: the main activities are playing lions, dragon lanterns, stilt walkers, high rise, throwing embroidered balls, performing "Nongjiale", singing "Dabenqu" and "Blow Blow cavity" and so on.

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The Hani tribe: girls married off the year before go to a gathering in the mountains outside their village during the Spring Festival to tell each other about their newlywed lives, and other men and women are strictly forbidden to eavesdrop on them.

The Dai: various celebrations are held. Newlyweds bring gifts to their parents' homes to celebrate the New Year.

Beijing

The strongest flavor of the New Year is the most elaborate

Most old Beijing homes have Buddha shrines or statues of gods, and on New Year's Eve, the most elaborate will be set up on the Nine Halls; there are Chengtang's honey offerings, Chengtang's set of cakes, flower cakes of fresh noodles, Chengtang's fruits, Chengtang's dried fruits, flower cakes of all sizes and sizes, New Year's cake and New Year's rice, veggie dumplings (or steamed food), and veggie stir-fry vegetables (or fried food).

Shandong

New Year's dinner without talking gulp dumplings

Shandong is now not much to see the rules of worshipping the sky and sacrificing to the ancestors, but the rule that you can't talk at the New Year's dinner on the thirtieth day of the year has been preserved. The first meal of the Spring Festival is always dumplings. When the dumplings are cooked, firecrackers are fired. In order to drive away evil and seek good luck, some regions use sesame stalks to cook the dumplings, which means that the new year will be like the flowering of sesame seeds, and the days will be better and better. Dumplings to cook more, there must be a surplus, after the meal to be put on the pot of steamed bread, meant to have a surplus head. After the dumplings are cooked, a bowl is first filled to honor Heaven and Earth, and then a bowl is filled to honor Zaojun. When dining, in addition to a bowl per person, but also more than one or two bowls, intended to hope for prosperity.

Zhejiang

Farmers playing rice cake to regain the old taste

These days, Liandu District, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province, Bihu Town, Weantou Village, Yaxi Town, Xixi Village, a lot of Hangzhou and other cities in the Yangtze River Delta region, city residents drove to the experience of playing rice cake, grinding tofu flowers, deep-fried popcorn, steaming lasagna cake and other rural rural Spring Festival in Zhejiang Province folklore activities.

Guangdong

A hundred-year flower market is fragrant with the fragrance of ten thousand families

"On the evening of the 30th day of the year, I walked down the flower street, and the spring flowers were put all over the street, and the red flowers were fresh, and the yellow flowers were big, and the thousands of flowers were not to be seen. A mother laughs, a father happy, people happy flowers pretty happy ......" a authentic Cantonese nursery rhyme "line flower street", the image sung by the Guangdong families to visit the Chinese New Year flower market scene. A hundred years of flower market, a unique humanities scroll, unknowingly carrying a lively folklore complex, has become an indispensable part of the Guangdong people for the New Year. Relevant departments recently revealed that the Spring Flower Market will be declared a national intangible cultural heritage.

Taiwan

Cannon bombing of Master Coldbloodedness shakes up the New Year

There are several versions of the legend of Master Coldbloodedness, and the folklore of cannon bombing of Master Coldbloodedness has been developed to get rid of the plague and mean bombing away the poverty and loneliness of the people, and the local people believe that the more firecrackers are bombed, the more fortunate the people will be in the coming year. In the early days, there were many towns and cities in Taiwan, but Taitung was the most famous for its "Cannon Frying Hanzan Masters"

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