Folk customs of Spring Festival in various places

Folk customs around the Spring Festival, wandering in Chaoshan area, Ningbo people preparing new year's goods, Northeast people will kill pigs.

Spring Festival is a new day to take off old cloth. Although it is arranged on the first day of the first lunar month, the activities of the Spring Festival are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. As soon as the New Year is over, people begin to be "busy with the New Year", such as offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust, buying new year's goods, putting up new year's red stickers, washing their hair and taking a bath, and decorating with lanterns and so on. All these activities have the same theme, that is, "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new".

Wandering gods in Chaoshan area is also called "Touring God Competition" and "Hosting", which is a traditional folk activity in Chaoshan area. Every Spring Festival, in chronological order, towns and villages take turns to hold folk soul wandering activities, and the scene is very lively. In western Guangdong, it is also called "Master You", "Bodhisattva You" or "Miss the World". The so-called age is "tracing back to the source and making an example every year."

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On 28th, 29th or 30th, 2008, every household posted the Year Red. Sticking New Year Red is a traditional New Year custom in China, which reflects people's customs and beliefs, adds festive atmosphere and places people's good expectations for the new year and new life.

New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, reunion dinner, etc. , especially the family dinner on New Year's Eve at the end of the year. The New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient ritual vessels at the end of the year, and it is a reunion dinner after offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors. New Year's Eve is the highlight of the year, which is not only colorful, but also very interesting.

Keeping the new year's eve is one of the activities of the old customs, and the custom of keeping the old age has a long history. The folk custom of observing the new year is mainly manifested in that every household lights a New Year's fire and gets together to keep the "New Year's fire" from going out and wait for the moment to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival