What is the custom of Spring Festival in Chaoshan area?

Customs of the Spring Festival in the Chaoshan area are as follows:

1, sticking the door god, spring couplets

At the beginning of the New Year, the first thing is to stick the door god, couplets. Whenever the New Year's Day 30 (or 29), families have to go to the street to buy spring couplets, and those who have the pleasure of their own paper and ink spring, will be inside and outside the gateway to the house decorated.

2. Sending New Year's Money

Sending New Year's money is an important part of the Spring Festival custom in Chaoshan, where the elders have to share the money with their juniors, and the juniors who can earn money have to send money to their elders. The money can not be sent straight, but to be very carefully packed in a Li Shi package, or wrapped in a piece of red paper. This is commonly known as "pressure belly waist", meaning that the year from beginning to end, the waist bag will be full of solid, rich and wealthy.

3, Guandan Chunsheng (picking gift boxes)

During the Spring Festival, another characteristic folk activity in Chaoshan is "Guandan Chunsheng" (spring, a kind of three or four layers of bamboo hampers with lids, usually used in pairs, and so it is also known as "Tandan Chunsheng"). Chunseong").

4. Receiving the Gods of Fortune

The fourth day of the first month of the lunar calendar in the Chaoshan region is the day of "welcoming the gods", while the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, the year before, is the day of "sending the gods". According to legend, all the gods and goddesses would report to the Jade Emperor on this day, reporting the good and bad behavior of the earthly world during the year.

Therefore, every household welcomes the gods on the fourth day of the lunar calendar, usually offering chickens, fish, pig's head and other food, or, if the family is not rich, a plate of rice and brown sugar. Offer a plate of rice, meaning that the New Year is full of grains; a plate of brown sugar, implying that life is sweet.

5, eat seven treasures soup

Eat seven treasures soup is the old custom in Chaoshan, according to legend, in the seventh day of the first month of the year to eat seven treasures soup can be expelled from the year's evil, heal the disease. Seven Treasures Soup mainly used mustard, kale, spring vegetables, leeks, celery, garlic and thick petals and other seven kinds of vegetables made of soup food, to take the auspicious omen. Among them, celery and green onion omen smart, garlic omen calculating, mustard makes people long life.