What is the custom in the south?

1, New Year's Eve, in addition to eating fish balls and meatballs symbolizing family reunion, chicken with the meaning of "starting chicken" and "leek" with the meaning of "long life", there are also various fried foods with local flavor, glutinous rice balls and rice cakes, especially "turtle bean paste rice cake" (a wooden mold engraved with the shape of a turtle,

2, Hubei Tuanfeng people drink chicken soup for the first meal in the Spring Festival, symbolizing "Qing Tai Ping An". Among them, the main labor force also eats chicken feet, which means "grasping wealth in the New Year", and "promising young people" eats chicken wings, which means that they can fly high and their families eat chicken bones, which means "getting ahead". For the first meal, Zigui people eat sauteed Artemisia annua with sleeves, and take its homonym "Bai Hao" for good luck.

3, ancestor worship, many areas in the south must first worship their ancestors during the New Year to express their respect for their ancestors, hoping that ancestors can bless their families in the new year, good health and all the best.

4, Jingzhou, Shashi area, the first meal to eat eggs, meaning "true and auspicious." Guests should eat two half-cooked "poached eggs", and the yolk can be seen through the protein, which means "gold is covered with silver, gold is covered with silver, and gold is covered with silver".

5. After breakfast on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, anyone who added a man in that year would send someone to the ancestral hall to clean and paint the walls of the ancestral hall. In the afternoon, people went to the ancestral temple with gifts such as gift boxes, three sacrifices, firecrackers and gold ingots. After the salute, firecrackers and some spears were set off. Every New Year's Eve afternoon, the ancestral hall is filled with incense and firecrackers continue until dusk. This custom has gradually disappeared in recent years.