How people in Shanghai celebrate traditional festivals (with drawings)

From late Lunar New Year's Eve to New Year's Eve, every family has to clean up, dusting off the corners of the roof and the walls with a long-handled broom, dust and cobwebs, which is called "dusting the eaves". Because of the similarity in pronunciation between "Chen" and "Dust" in Fengxian dialect, it is also called "Dusting Chen", which means "bad luck". It is also called "Dusting Chen", which means "bad luck". At the same time, people cut their nails, cut their hair and take a bath to mark the end of the year and welcome the new.

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Sugar Soup Tea

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"Sugar Soup Tea" is usually consumed in the morning, and some people put in jujubes, and a spoonful of sugar or rock sugar. There are also people who pour hot water into the bottle in advance and drink it early tomorrow morning. If you're a Buddhist or have rules, I've heard that you have to be a vegetarian for the whole day.

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Fangcake

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In Fengxian, this is an older custom. On New Year's Day, it is necessary to make a square cake, which is white, square and sweet in the mouth. However, nowadays, people just go shopping for it for the sake of simplicity. Fewer people make it themselves.

Sacrificing Zaoshen

Sacrificing Zaoshen is a traditional custom that has been widely practiced in China. According to the old calendar, on the night of the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, every household has to "worship the stove". On this night, every family puts the image of the God of the Stove on the kitchen stove and offers good fish and meat, egg dumplings, bean sprouts, water chestnuts, etc. The God of the Stove is one of the richest and best-loved gods in Chinese folklore. Zaoshen is the most representative of Chinese folklore, the most broadly based on the popular god, sent the Chinese working people a kind of evil evil, welcome the good wishes of auspiciousness and good fortune.

Purchasing New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve

Purchasing New Year's Eve goods is the most important thing for the common people, including food, clothes, wear, use and so on and so forth. Now the major supermarkets in Fengxian will be much more crowded than usual, purchasing New Year's goods is an important preparation for the New Year. Remember when you were a kid and followed your mom and dad to buy New Year's goods?

Posting Spring Festival couplets

During the Spring Festival, no matter whether it is in the city or in the countryside, every family has to pick beautiful red Spring Festival couplets and paste them on the door to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and to increase the festive atmosphere. Some people put up spring couplets and paintings to symbolize auspiciousness. Spring Festival couplets express the good wishes of the Chinese working people to ward off evil spirits and welcome good fortune. Different Spring Festival couplets have different symbols, but they all send people's best wishes.

New Year's Eve Dinner

The New Year's Eve dinner is the most important part of the Spring Festival. In Fengxian, New Year's Eve dinner has a lot of details: meat dumplings and egg dumplings are absolutely essential on the table. Meat dumplings symbolize reunion, and egg dumplings mean wealth and prosperity. Meanwhile, the dishes eaten on this day have different names, "Changgeng choy" (spinach); "Anle choy" (bok choy); "Ruyi choy" (soybean sprouts) and so on. At the same time, water chestnuts are pre-buried in the rice and then picked out with chopsticks during the meal, which is called "digging up Yuanbao". In addition, the fish on the dinner table should not be eaten up, which means that there will be plenty of fish in the coming year.