Xuzhou Spring Festival Customs

Buying New Year's goods, sweeping dust, sticking couplets, eating New Year's Eve dinner, observing the New Year's Eve, paying homage to the New Year's Eve, paying respect to the New Year's Day, lion and dragon dances, paying homage to the gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and calamities, touring the gods, betting on boats, temple fairs, touring the gongs and drums, touring the standard flags, going up to the lanterns to drink wine, and enjoying the lanterns. Traditional festival ceremonies and related customary activities are important elements of the festival, carrying the rich and colorful cultural heritage of the festival.

Ballad: Children, children, children, don't be greedy, after Lahua is the year; cook eight porridge, drink a few days, miles and miles of twenty-three; twenty-three, sugar melons sticky; twenty-four, sweeping the house; twenty-five, freezing tofu; twenty-six, go to buy meat; twenty-seven, slaughtering the rooster; twenty-eight, the noodle hair; twenty-nine, steaming steamed buns; thirty nights stay up all night; the first one to go out all over the street.

: The Spring Festival (also known as: New Year, Nianjie, Tianlaxi, Nianshou, New Year's Day, Dainian) is one of the four major traditional festivals in China, the Lunar New Year, traditionally known as the "New Year's Day", the date is set on the first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year every year.

During the Spring Festival, families hold a variety of celebratory activities, most of which focus on worshipping gods and buddhas, paying tribute to ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming the blessings of Jubilee, and praying for a good year. The activities are colorful, with strong national characteristics, cohesion of the essence of traditional Chinese culture.