One or two things about traditional customs or culture, on a personal level?

My hometown is in Hangzhou, and I'm a native of Hangzhou, so I still know a lot about Chinese New Year customs.

My mom often give me dumplings is a big custom it! Eating rice cakes, dumplings, and soup dumplings on New Year's Day is one of the customs of the Chinese people. Rice cakes are especially popular among Hangzhou residents because of their harmonic sound "nian gao", which means "rising year after year", and because they come in a wide variety of flavors. Soup dumplings, which symbolize reunion, are a traditional food for the Chinese New Year. Dumplings, on the other hand, are influenced by the northern custom of New Year's Eve.

After the introduction of Hangzhou Spring Festival food and then take a look at the Hangzhou Spring Festival customs it old times, Zhejiang Dongyang area, into the end of the year waxing, folk have a "抲年鬼" custom. "Predatory ghosts" began on the first day of the lunar month and ended on the fifteenth day of the lunar month. Because, at this time, the old year will be resigned, the new year is coming, in order to thousands of families, peace and quiet, happy new year, so to all the ghosts of the earth抲鈉, so as to avoid trouble breeding.

After the ghosts of the New Year are removed, the next step is to have fun. The old Hangzhou New Year's customary entertainment activities are roughly gongs and drums, paper kites, dragon lanterns and flower explosions. The so-called gongs and drums, also known as the annual gongs and drums, in addition to the big gongs and drums, plus crispy drums, small gongs and bamboo boards. The gongs and drums are used by merchants on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, and they are also used for other recreational activities. The gongs and drums are used to make the Spring Festival more lively and interesting.

The meaning of the dragon lantern is relatively broad, said the small it is made of paper or silk into a variety of shapes, able to burn candles to avoid the wind of the lampshade; said the big it is the first month of the fifteenth or the fifteenth of the eighth month of the Lantern Festival of the general term.

The meaning of the dragon lantern is broader, said the small it is made of paper or silk into various shapes, able to burn candles to avoid the wind lampshade; said the big it is the first month of the fifteenth or the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lanterns will be collectively referred to. Although the dragon lantern is now rare, but he is also a wider custom.

How? Everyone listened to my introduction, is not a better understanding of Hangzhou?