What are the customs of Putian Spring Festival in Fujian?

The customs of the Spring Festival in Putian, Fujian are as follows

1, paste Spring Festival couplets: In addition to the Spring Festival couplets we usually see, Putian also has a unique white-headed Spring Festival couplets with a white forehead of 10 cm above the red couplet. This custom can be traced back to the Japanese uprising in the Ming Dynasty more than 300 years ago. It is said that this move is to mourn those who died in the Japanese rebellion that year.

2. Buy new year's goods:1From February 26th, every household will make tofu, make red balls, stir-fry litchi meat, buy new year's goods and so on.

3. New Year's Eve (30 years old): Putian people call New Year's Eve "being old", which is also called "30 years old". It is very vivid that the whole family eats New Year's Eve together. After New Year's Eve, the elders distributed lucky money. Putian also has the idea of having a reunion dinner behind closed doors on New Year's Eve, which means not letting the enemy in.

4. New Year's Day: On the morning of New Year's Day, open the door to set off firecrackers, and then everyone will eat a bowl of noodles, which will be filled with ingredients, such as fried eggs, fried tofu, fried peanuts and fried seaweed. "Eating noodles adds one year", and eating noodles adds one year. Each person has a bowl, which means that he is one year older and wishes the whole family a long life. After eating noodles, put on new clothes and go out for a spring outing. Putian people call going out for the Spring Festival a "spring outing".

5. Lantern Festival: The Lantern Festival in Putian is the most lively, with a time span of one month and the largest scale in China. Putian Lantern Festival is not concentrated on the 15th day of the first month. Some villages are ten days ahead of schedule, and some are at the end of the month.