Hengshan Festival Custom Composition 258

The first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival, which is also called the Spring Festival in Hengshan. This ancient traditional festival, during the winter vacation, is the most grand festival celebrated by people. At that time, men, women and children will celebrate the Spring Festival with great joy.

At the end of the twelfth lunar month, people are busy buying new year's goods and "tea and rice" Well-off families prepare new year's buns, rice cakes and other foods until after the fifteenth day of the first month. Chinese New Year's meals include white bread, yellow rice buns, fried cakes, jiaozi and oil buns. The dishes are pig, sheep, chicken, vermicelli and tofu. In the old society, Spring Festival food was very different between the rich and the poor. The rich have poor taste in wine and meat, but the poor have a handful of chaff.

On the eve of the Spring Festival, the 30th anniversary is also called "the end of the month". Every household cleans the indoor and courtyard, puts up windows and couplets, and people are busy around.

"Fishing for rice" (cooked millet or rice, the same as steamed rice), the food left after eating is called "coming New Year's rice", which means auspicious and festive. After dinner, chatting with family members or playing with neighbors, be careful not to stay up late, which is called "keeping the old age". It is said that in this way, there will be no disaster and no drowsiness in the coming year.