What are the customs of the Spring Festival in Sichuan?

1, Chengdu people do not eat on New Year's Day

Because the "rice" and "criminal", homophonic, in order to avoid, it is to eat dumplings or noodles in order to pray for family reunion, longevity. Liu Ge and other places on the seventh day of the first month "people day" but also "a small year", in addition to honoring the gods, ancestors, but also ate the New Year's Eve dinner. Chengdu people are in the western suburbs of Du Fu Cao Tang tour. Longevity County on New Year's Day in front of the door burning nine wax candles, known as "nine candles" to honor heaven and earth.

2, Sichuan people love to watch the New Year "lights"

Lanterns is a traditional folk cultural activities of the Chinese people, every New Year's festival in many places have hung lanterns, the tradition of lanterns. And for the love of lively, peaceful Sichuan people, the New Year can not do without "lights", lanterns will become the Sichuan people for the New Year's indispensable "New Year's goods". For this reason, the Sichuan Lantern Festival has a long history, high level, known as "the world's first light", "China's first Lantern Festival".

3, paste the door god

Households hang colorful lanterns, paste the door god, and in the grain silo, poultry and livestock circles on the paste written in the language of good luck, in order to show that the next year's harvest auspicious. Conditional Hakka townships from the first month to February to play the lamp dance, the types of lamps are dragon lamps, lion lamps, mussel lamps, etc., which is the Sichuan people in the origin of the colorful lamps of the custom handed down to this day.

4, hold large-scale celebrations

Dragon dance, there are colorful dragons, fire dragons, water dragons, off-season dragons and and on the Sichuan dragon. After Laha is the year; Laha porridge, drink a few days, leaching and pulling twenty-three; twenty-three, sugar melon sticky; twenty-four, sweeping the house; twenty-five, paste the window; twenty-six, stewed pork; twenty-seven, slaughtering the rooster; twenty-eight, flour hair; twenty-nine, steaming steamed buns; thirty night boiled all night; the first day of the New Year twisted on the street.

5, kill the New Year pig

The past of Chengdu, every year after the winter, every family to kill the New Year pig, pickled sausage, bacon, not only the rural areas everywhere fat pigs hissing sadly, the city is also common to see a big fat and white and fat pig was disemboweled situation.