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2022 New Year's Day what customs 2022 New Year's Day customs introduction

1, New Year's Day customs have eaten dumplings, eat rice cakes, enjoy lanterns and ancestor worship, as well as firecrackers, of course, now many areas in order to protect the environment has been expressly prohibited to fireworks, the focus is on reunion.

2, New Year's Day customs and the division of the North and South, the North is popular to eat dumplings, the South is popular to eat rice cakes, every New Year's Day festival, the North will eat dumplings, New Year's Day to eat dumplings custom, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, "Quwo County Records" recorded: "two days of the system of flat food wrapped in gold, inviting son-in-law to compete for the blessing."

3, New Year's Day to eat dumplings in a variety of patterns, dumplings filled with pork, fish, sanshin, chives, beef, mutton, mushrooms, tomatoes, eggs, etc., as well as the crown dumplings, butterfly dumplings, goldfish dumplings, lace dumplings, and other forms of diversity.

4, New Year's Day to eat rice cakes prevailed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the southern region is very prevalent, the late Ming Dynasty, "Imperial Beijing Scenery" volume 2, recorded that "the early morning wash radicals, eat jujube cake, the day the annual cake".

5, rice cake and year high harmonized, has a very good meaning, but also sends people a very good hope, there is a poem called rice cake: "rice cake meaning a little deep clouds, white as silver yellow gold. Years of hope for high time to profit, pious and silent wishing to look forward to wealth."

6. In the early days, rice cakes were used to worship gods and ancestors, and then gradually developed into a household favorite.