What is the Chinese New Year custom in Luoyang?

1, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the dough was set on fire in a gum pot. Toast will be baked on this day, and a "all-baked cake" and a "whole-grain cake" will be baked, one for each family member and one for those who are not at home to show the solemnity of the ritual stove. As the saying goes: "Twenty-three, sacrifice the stove, adults and children laugh." Women want flowers, children want guns, and wives want handkerchiefs and hats. "

2. After offering sacrifices to the stove, people basically stopped all kinds of production or commercial activities to prepare the necessities for the New Year, thus forming such a ballad: "Twenty-three, offering sacrifices to the stove official; Twenty-four, sweeping the house; Twenty-five, cut tofu (Luoyang old town is twenty-five dozen batter, steamed bread top skin); Twenty-six, steamed stuffed bun (Jin Meng is cutting meat, Yichuan and other places are cutting cypress branches); Twenty-seven, pulling cypress branches, also known as shaving essence (also have a plenty of chicken killing essence); Twenty-eight, go to dig sand (Geely is fried oil flowers); Twenty-nine, install incense burners (some go to play wine); New Year's Eve, applique door; On New Year's Day, I squatted on my ass. "

3. New Year's Eve: the night on the last day of the Lunar New Year. The custom of New Year's Eve originated from "banishment" in the pre-Qin period, also known as "New Year's Eve". Its original meaning is to bid farewell to the old and to welcome the new.

4. In the morning, all families put up Spring Festival couplets (it is said that "Spring Festival, Spring Festival in Changchun" is the earliest couplet written by Meng Chang, a master of Shu Middle School after the Five Dynasties) and door gods. Door gods are woodblock New Year pictures, mostly from Qinhe, but also from happy days, where there are a lot of crops and the door to everything going well. In the living room of the old man, there are auspicious words such as "Happiness is like the East China Sea, Longevity is like the South Mountain" and gods such as God of Wealth, XiShen, Lu and God of Wealth.

5. After posting Spring Festival couplets, clean the hall and courtyard. Dinner is jiaozi's "Bao Gai", cooked with noodles, also called "prequel". After dinner, the male host carried the red-hot plowshares to all families and smoked them with vinegar to eliminate the epidemic and prevent diseases. When sorting out the furnishings in the house, the tables and tables of the ancestral temple should be decorated with red cloth, and red cushions and chairs should be placed on the chairs. Burn candles before going to bed, burn incense and kowtow in front of the gods, and at the same time fire a gun every day to "soothe the nerves."