Traditional customs of New Year's Day

1, New Year's Day custom in the north: the winter weather in the north is cold, and the days are short and the nights are long. Since New Year's Day, people who are slack in farming kill pigs and sheep, sit cross-legged on the heatable adobe sleeping platform, and talk about their families. They don't go out until the 15th day of the first month. Due to the cold weather, the Northeast New Year's Day diet is mainly frozen products, pickles and stews.

2. Southern New Year's Day customs: Compared with the "vulgarity" of the northern New Year's Day customs, the southern New Year's Day customs tend to be "elegant". In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, bamboo poles are tied to grass and lit on the first day of New Year's Day, which is called "Qingtian silkworm". Shaoxing uses "tea bowls" to entertain guests in the New Year, and some even add olives and kumquat, which is called "holding gold ingots".

3. Fujian New Year's Day custom: Yin Min's "spring" and "leftover". When eating during the New Year, flowers made of red paper should be inserted into the rice, commonly known as "spring rice". Spring rice is a symbol of "more than one year". In Guangdong, on New Year's Day, the elders will reward the younger generation with red envelopes or oranges, which is also a symbol of good luck and balance in the coming year.

4. New Year's Day custom in Taiwan Province Province: On New Year's Day in Taiwan Province Province, Bao Dao, the whole family, old and young, will get together for dinner and put hot pot on the table, which is called "surrounding the stove". Those who take part in the "fireplace" should taste everything on the table and drink symbolically to make the next year prosperous. On New Year's Day, compatriots in Taiwan Province Province will eat longevity dishes. The so-called long dish is actually commonly known as mustard. People in Taiwan Province Province believe that the long leaves of this vegetable symbolize longevity. Some people even add fans when cooking, which means endless life and immortality.

5. Tibetan New Year custom: In the Tibetan New Year, every household should put on "Zhuosuoqima" and insert colorful flowers made of ghee plastic on it to pray for a bumper harvest in the coming year. Women should make "Kasai", a kind of pastry made of ghee, to entertain guests. The windows should be put on new curtains, the beams and the kitchen should be dressed as Hada, and the singing and dancing herdsmen sang and danced around the bonfire, which was a festive atmosphere.